Garlick seems to hate the Ricoh.
Doesn't really come as a surprise, was not going to run by anyone who likes the Ricoh was it!
CBRE lady seemed to be reading prewritten script and looked shit scared.
Architect guy seemed confident.
Surprised these two were here, makes it even more depressing that noone questioned them on the FOI revalations. CBRE are the ones supposed to be sorting out the land purchase, who better to ask? Plus if it was someone not used to spinning BS and feeling nervous you've got more chance of a slip up and something being revealed that SISU would rather we didn't know.
Architect says plan is modular, 12>15>20-25k but site allows further expansion to say 30k by enlarging the envelope. Highways planning for final capacity would need granting at first stage so no hitches. Capacity upgrade would take roughly 6-9 months with that stadium "still playable".
Was there any mention of cost for expansion? I'm interested to know how much of a premium there is for doing this in stages rather than building it big enough from day 1. Also be interested to know how the expansion will be funded, will the funds for expansion be part of the initial costings with the money somehow ringfenced or are SISU going to build a small stadium and leave it up to someone else to expand it (which probably won't happen as a new owner will move us back to the Ricoh).
Someone needs to push the point at them that if we really only need a 12K stadium it shows they've destroyed the club as that would have been nowhere near big enough when they took over.
We will get input on interior decoration, what we want in the "fans zone" (And here was me thinking the whole stadium was a fans zone) in terms of which pie and pint stands we want. Kept going on about how we were never consulted about the Ricoh.
Questions were either unanswerable or drivel about wanting the tunnel to come out near the fans.
Suspected it would be this sort of thing. Frankly I have very little interest in that at this stage of things. There are things I'd like to see different to the Ricoh but in all honest most of the things are achievable at the Ricoh. It seems to me the idea is to try and highlight every tiny little thing that can be seen as a negative at the Ricoh and promise it will be different in the new ground.
Garlick claims it's her forum and the club will be invited in later , though a CCFC employee seemed to be checking names on the door, she wet to great lengths to say he has no current commercial relationship with the club. There as a fan.
She certainly was involved in a commercial relationship with the club earlier this season. Gives the impression those ties have been severed so the claim of being indpendent can be made. Did anyone ask why she was no longer in a commercial relationship with the club?
Might have different colour seats to Sky blue as apparently the players complain they can't see each other when the Ricoh is empty.
What a load of bollocks, have you ever heard any player or manager give this any mention and if it was a problem surely its very easy to fix, just cover up empty rows / blocks with a different colour. Did she mention where she got this information from if she has nothing to do with the club?
will have community features ("you know for the youngsters and um...the community") not sure what yet.
What the hell are community features? There's already stuff for the kids at the Ricoh isn't there so that's hardly a revelation. Is there even much point having anything for the community, nobody will be visiting a stadium in the middle of nowhere on non matchdays.
lots of car parking will be available. Wants consultation on other transport links.
How can they know this when they don't know where it will be? They can't know the size of the land they will buy or what green travel plan restrictions will apply.
corporate seats not behind glass, part of the action.
You've got both options at the Ricoh, will there now only be the option to be outside? That seems like a backwards step and not one all the corporate types will like.
