The statement we’ve all been waiting for

What a day!
The only friggin good news was when my missus interrupted me droning on about Afcb's Stadium Update to inform me that one of the Yorkshire Rippers B#llocks has swollen to 5 times normal size ...he thinks it's cancer! The Joys of Mobile News Feeds! We were eating Lasagne in the Premier Inn...Magic Moments all round ! I will forever connect the two revelations and will seek to have it confirmed whether it was the left or right b#llock!
Another 40 minutes and it will all be yesterday's news ..thank the Lord!
Bill , please tell your beloved wife not to worry, its only water and will have to be drained. its not painful. My friend an ex champion jockey had the same problem. When he saddled a horse he used to get his leg over then sort out his right ball, played havoc with his minimum weight thou.
 
Disappointed by the clubs statement but not at all surprised,
I've suggested before that unfortunately there is no financial benefit in funding a new stadium, lets face it Max has bankrolled the whole journey so far and maybe he feels he's done enough, it's not a cast iron investment after all. Perhaps Max's expectation of the American investment hasn't been forthcoming. Unfortunately it's all very much AFC Bournemouth - we get to the promised land (?) and theres not quite enough in the kitty to get over the line in terms of the bits that can turn you into a bigger club. I'm lucky, I've got my season ticket but the one thing I've always wanted from this premier league adventure is a legacy, to be exact, us turned into a bigger club and we've (they've ?) missed a trick.
We've now weakened our negotiating position with Structadene which is unfortunate because I still say we should buy the ground back, albeit at a slightly inflated price, develop South and Main, fill the corners and make the best of it, at least it'll mean a few thousand more can get in and we capitalise on the potential support thats out there, todays occasional fan is tomorrows diehard !
 
People quoting clubs that grew attendances by changing ground are forgetting we’ve done that ‘crumbling terraces and pillar obscured view’ to ‘all seat great view’ that they’ve done already...and we still couldn’t fill it.

These clubs built Premier League-ready stadiums, and could go from sub-2,000 to 20,000+ attendances in a decade. If we'd done the same you could've added three to four-thousand on our Championship gates.
 
These clubs built Premier League-ready stadiums, and could go from sub-2,000 to 20,000+ attendances in a decade. If we'd done the same you could've added three to four-thousand on our Championship gates.

But did any of us expect to go from the Championship to the Premier League so quickly?
 
When people criticised the signings of Defoe, Wilshere etc on incredible wages for us the swift rebuke from many on here was if they did things that kept us in the league, even just one thing, it was worth 120m so worth it. People even justified the 8m on Grabban because he pushed the other forwards into playing well apparently and thus earned us another 120m.

That’s a good argument...I get it anyway. Jack cost us close to 4m and Defoe will cost us 10m. Our wages take out well over half our income. We have a choice with what’s left.

A)We save it for two years then start to build a ground
B)we sign players to keep us in the league.

We struggled last year. Would you rather have spent 50m on Lerma, Rico and Brooks (transfer fee, signing on fee and wages) or played the season with last years squad and half a stadium money put away to commence in 2021?

Im pretty certain Eddie as part of the operating board chose b. He can stay in this division sell Cook or Fraser for 40m potentially in the future and start to build a ground that way. Go down and we don’t need a stadium as we didn’t fill the old one to the end plus we would never have the cash to do it in a lower league.

I struggle to see why everyone can’t understand this position, it doesn’t make me happy btw...I want a bigger ground for our future I just think this is the only way.
 
When people criticised the signings of Defoe, Wilshere etc on incredible wages for us the swift rebuke from many on here was if they did things that kept us in the league, even just one thing, it was worth 120m so worth it. People even justified the 8m on Grabban because he pushed the other forwards into playing well apparently and thus earned us another 120m.

That’s a good argument...I get it anyway. Jack cost us close to 4m and Defoe will cost us 10m. Our wages take out well over half our income. We have a choice with what’s left.

A)We save it for two years then start to build a ground
B)we sign players to keep us in the league.

We struggled last year. Would you rather have spent 50m on Lerma, Rico and Brooks (transfer fee, signing on fee and wages) or played the season with last years squad and half a stadium money put away to commence in 2021?

Im pretty certain Eddie as part of the operating board chose b. He can stay in this division sell Cook or Fraser for 40m potentially in the future and start to build a ground that way. Go down and we don’t need a stadium as we didn’t fill the old one to the end plus we would never have the cash to do it in a lower league.

I struggle to see why everyone can’t understand this position, it doesn’t make me happy btw...I want a bigger ground for our future I just think this is the only way.


I often disagree with Neil, especially on match reports, but this is absolute common sense.

I'm also wary of building a big stadium with little soul. Dean Court is a "tight" ground in that we are close to the pitch and despite only being circa 11,000 we can intimidate the opposition. If we ever build something bigger, please, please make sure that doesn't change.

i'd also consider what happened at Arsenal and is apparently happening to Spurs when they build new grounds? It seems the team investment suffers, we can't afford to do that yet. Even that lot up the road went from an intimidating smaller ground to that soulless place and for a good few years suffered on the pitch. Why would we be different to this three? When we do it, lets make sure we do it right.
 
Max has just spent £10 million on buying a recording studio in London with a promise to put further Investment into it. He would appear to be unaffected by the sanctions etc.
Yes, true, so maybe all is not lost. But the scale of an investment in a new stadium and training facility dwarfs that £10M. I truly hope I'm, wrong but I can't see past the limited facts in front of us, and threats to personal wealth have to be right up there.
 
I often disagree with Neil, especially on match reports, but this is absolute common sense.

I'm also wary of building a big stadium with little soul. Dean Court is a "tight" ground in that we are close to the pitch and despite only being circa 11,000 we can intimidate the opposition. If we ever build something bigger, please, please make sure that doesn't change.

i'd also consider what happened at Arsenal and is apparently happening to Spurs when they build new grounds? It seems the team investment suffers, we can't afford to do that yet. Even that lot up the road went from an intimidating smaller ground to that soulless place and for a good few years suffered on the pitch. Why would we be different to this three? When we do it, lets make sure we do it right.

Looks like we’ll have a bit of a wait then. If Arsenal didn’t do it right when they had been in the top division for over 90 years at the point that they broke ground on their new stadium...
 
Don’t often disagree with Neil D but his recent post - “we really don’t need a new stadium if we are in the Championship” - misses the point. Unless we’re expecting to slip into League 1 or below the club urgently needs new capacity. For many games in the Championship we were unable to accommodate demand (including from visiting fans) - this even without a PR campaign to attract new supporters.

The whole conurbation will be expanding toward 500,000 over coming years - even South Dorset (Weymouth-Portland-Dorchester) will grow to 150,000. Is our club to be stuck indefinitely in the present DC with a small, aging fan base??

We should ask the Board - what can you do to seek new finance? Can you work with local business/councils/supporters to accelerate developments? What are your intentions? ... cos the latest statement tells us NOTHING.
 
Agree with DJ. If we dig down through the emotion, debate and argument about the stadium, the really puzzling thing is that the club have purchased land, obtained planning permission yet appear to have knocked the training ground on the head for the time being. That doesn't make sense to me as that would be a real asset to the club for years to come. I can't imagine the costs of updating / expanding an already constructed facility plus building a load of pitches would be that prohibitive in the big scheme of things.
 
Have just read that Cherries Trust statement. Give up the lot of you. You should be laying in to the club like no tomorrow.

Our manager and team do not deserve the pathetic morons that work behind the scenes. Get proactive as fans, not just sit there and shout "Boscombe back of the net" every other week.
Get millitant and protest.
Cabbages at the next home game seems appealing.
 
Agree with DJ. If we dig down through the emotion, debate and argument about the stadium, the really puzzling thing is that the club have purchased land, obtained planning permission yet appear to have knocked the training ground on the head for the time being. That doesn't make sense to me as that would be a real asset to the club for years to come. I can't imagine the costs of updating / expanding an already constructed facility plus building a load of pitches would be that prohibitive in the big scheme of things.
This says it all......we should be far more worried about the training pitches than the stadium
 
Have just read that Cherries Trust statement. Give up the lot of you. You should be laying in to the club like no tomorrow.

Our manager and team do not deserve the pathetic morons that work behind the scenes. Get proactive as fans, not just sit there and shout "Boscombe back of the net" every other week.
Get millitant and protest.
Cabbages at the next home game seems appealing.
Are you coming to the next home game then ?
 
I simply do not understand the idea behind not building the training ground.

It’s where the players and management spend their working week.

Every other club boasts multiple pitches, indoor facilities, state of the art this that and the other.

We have two pitches screened off from the local dog walkers...

How does that encourage new signings to join or established players to stay?

I understand perfectly the financial arguements against building a new ground.

The current finances show that the fans are of zero importance to the club. The balance sheet doesn’t need fans to step through the door with the tv revenue and investment in the squad keeps that bandwagon rolling.

So the stance the club has taken is clear.

What isn’t clear is when that stance will ever change? The reasons for not building a new ground will stand for years to come, what breaks that cycle?

Perhaps it’s when we have a squad with an average age of 23, veteran players have all moved on and the squad is no longer in transition (as could be argued now).

If that takes four or five more transfer windows (and that would be quick), we will have then received in excess of half a billion pounds in television revenue since 2015...

...somehow I think some money could have been invested in infrastructure during that time.
 
I will be interested to hear what Eddie has to say in his pre match press conference today. It's easy for Al to say that it's all the fault of Liz or Neill or Jeff etc, we don't know to what extent Howe was or was not involved in the decision making. Perhaps his comments today will give us a clue. I do however suspect it goes against his wishes, and as said, I suspect it'll mean he ends up looking at other opportunities that inevitably will arise.
 
When people criticised the signings of Defoe, Wilshere etc on incredible wages for us the swift rebuke from many on here was if they did things that kept us in the league, even just one thing, it was worth 120m so worth it. People even justified the 8m on Grabban because he pushed the other forwards into playing well apparently and thus earned us another 120m.

That’s a good argument...I get it anyway. Jack cost us close to 4m and Defoe will cost us 10m. Our wages take out well over half our income. We have a choice with what’s left.

A)We save it for two years then start to build a ground
B)we sign players to keep us in the league.

We struggled last year. Would you rather have spent 50m on Lerma, Rico and Brooks (transfer fee, signing on fee and wages) or played the season with last years squad and half a stadium money put away to commence in 2021?

Im pretty certain Eddie as part of the operating board chose b. He can stay in this division sell Cook or Fraser for 40m potentially in the future and start to build a ground that way. Go down and we don’t need a stadium as we didn’t fill the old one to the end plus we would never have the cash to do it in a lower league.

I struggle to see why everyone can’t understand this position, it doesn’t make me happy btw...I want a bigger ground for our future I just think
Lack of investment in the training ground and lack of investment in a new stadium are totally different arguments.

The former, is pivotal in our continued progression on the pitch.
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Lack of investment in the training ground and lack of investment in a new stadium are totally different arguments.

The former, is pivotal in our continued progression on the pitch.[
Why start but have no intention of finishing? Don't get the purchase of land and then stalling.
I simply do not understand the idea behind not building the training ground.

It’s where the players and management spend their working week.

Every other club boasts multiple pitches, indoor facilities, state of the art this that and the other.

We have two pitches screened off from the local dog walkers...

How does that encourage new signings to join or established players to stay?

I understand perfectly the financial arguements against building a new ground.

The current finances show that the fans are of zero importance to the club. The balance sheet doesn’t need fans to step through the door with the tv revenue and investment in the squad keeps that bandwagon rolling.

So the stance the club has taken is clear.

What isn’t clear is when that stance will ever change? The reasons for not building a new ground will stand for years to come, what breaks that cycle?

Perhaps it’s when we have a squad with an average age of 23, veteran players have all moved on and the squad is no longer in transition (as could be argued now).

If that takes four or five more transfer windows (and that would be quick), we will have then received in excess of half a billion pounds in television revenue since 2015...

...somehow I think some money could have been invested in infrastructure during that time.
Totally agree
 

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