Football Foundation

[Tiger Andy]

http://www.footballfoundation.org.uk/seeking-funding/football-stadia

May be of help in the medium to long term I think for those in the know.

or get the council to stick some MORE flood defences in...

Also massive apologies for not being around but am in the middle of moving house. Would have been there with bells on otherwise for the cleanup

[SHANDY LOVE MACHINE]

Council are not responsible for flood defences, try the Environment Agency.

The amount of comments I have heard today from people slaughtering the council for this situation. Just sheer ignorance. Just because they pay the equivalent of less than a £1 a day to the council doesn't give them the right to expect blood.

The council didn't cause it to rain, cannot stop it from raining, and virtually everything to do with what happens to that water when it hits the ground has nothing to do with the council, but other agencies who I witnessed doing a grand job around the floods today.

WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS WANT SOMEBODY TO BLAME!!!

[city supporter]

Shandy, I am not blaming Gloucester City council for the Floods...I am blaming the planners [or so called] making MP the only available place for a Stadium in 1985.

[Neil]

WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS WANT SOMEBODY TO BLAME!!!I'm not looking for someone to blame but I think we're sure going to need some help if we're going to get out of this situation. I know I've been saying it for years but we have no future at this location. How can we try to build for success on the field when this kind of thing is always looming on the horizon?

I know that the GHURC stadium scheme died with the RFC's refusal to join in but is it absolutely beyond the realms of fantasy that a more modest project can be resurrected in light of this catastrophe at Meadow Park?

The pictures of Meadow Park are flying around football sites on the internet and they certainly can't be ignored. We need to go cap in hand, ne need public money and we need to move. Lets not argue with each other about the past, lets all join together and fight for the future.

Please :)

[city supporter]

Agreed Neil.

[Pablo]

Yes well said Neil!

[SHANDY LOVE MACHINE]

Planners can only consider proposals put to them, not find sites for developers. Was it the planners who refused the schemes or the politicians? Planners get a very bad press (and mostly through ignorance), and yet are some of the most dedicated and hard working people I have ever worked with. A parallel that might ring a cord with you is some of the negativity and accusations that are laid at the door of the police by those who know little about such things.

As for public money for the football club, apart from scraps it simply isn't going to happen.

OK, that's enough. I'm sure you'll not deny me my right to defend my profession and the integrity of my employer. Rant over and energy directed at overcoming the matter in hand.:thumbsup:

[Clifty]

OK, that's enough. I'm sure you'll not deny me my right to defend my profession and the integrity of my employer. Rant over and energy directed at overcoming the matter in hand

Citizen could you put something in the paper when the time comes so that we can reach the supporters that donot have access to the Internet??

[Citizen]

Of course. When the time comes for the big clean up, send me the details and we'll do something.

[Noah]

Neil is dead right about needing to go cap in hand. We have to explore every avenue re. where help might be available. We shall continue to self-help, probably as well as any group of supporters you can think of, but we need to knock on all the doors in and out of the city from where we might get some assistance.


Once we can find out what we are doing next in terms of restoring the football ground and when, we also have a product to sell. Besides the potential that the team has to achieve this season anyone who reads this Forum can see what a special breed the Gloucester City supporter is. We've to get this message across to those who don't read the Forum.


Among so many of you for whom I feel really sorry today, I think John Davis comes most quickly to mind, and then poor Keith Butler. And I can't put aside a poignant image of dear Dave Rey struggling just a few days ago to drill holes in the areas in front of the dug outs to release those puddles of water that habitually hang about there.


It's hard not to share Neil's view of the likely recurrence of these problems whilst we are in Hempsted.

[Tiger Andy]

Likewise Shandy, I made an error there. Not really up on the complex governmental networks. Will direct my inner bile at the EA forthwith. :thumbsup:

[SHANDY LOVE MACHINE]

No problem Andy, sorry about the rant but I just get so frustrated sometimes.

[tigermatty]

As sad as it is, communal contempt for the the authorites is the one thing that will bring people together during times like this!