NEW GROUND

[Guest]

From what i heard on R.K. this morning, your proposed plan has been knocked back by the council and your man said it was a misunderstanding. if the independant people set up to look at it don't approve then surely your statement about moving back is still not true, and just a load of spin by the club to try and defuse the situation you will be in when it's given the official knock-back. i still can't see it happeneing...sorry.

[Guest]

i'm a lifetime supporter of M.F.C., and a realist.

although extremely happy about yesterdays report.

everything will be temporary built and with no sign of their ever being full planning permission.

The club will never move forward,and i fear the backers will pull out,and all will be lost.

Good luck to everybody fighting the battle.

[Guest]

To be honest I don't care, we are going home.

[Guest]

This all relates to the business plan which has been rejected yet again (by TDC and the independant surveyor)but as Ezekiel said the council have no problem with us returning and the developers financing the reinstatement of facilities to the MINIMUM requirement for conference south status for the start of next season. This will probably mean temporary stands/seating until agreements can be reached and planning permission obtained re more widespread development i.e. the 5 a side pitches, hotel, bigger permanent stands etc. At least we will be coming home although we are back to square one in terms of developing the facilities for conference national and above standards. It all makes the last 3 years seem a total waste as we would have been at Hartsdown anyway had we not bulldozed the bloody place before trying to get planning permission for schemes that were too ambitious.

 

MIKE PERRY

[Guest]

MIKE PERRY- re:- 12:12 message. thanks for your reply.just worried that we may not end up with a

fully developed stadium,even without all the other

facilities, and not regain our rightful place in the main conference league.

[MargateFan]

I also heard RK this morning - who was it said the survey was not approved?

[Guest]

Guess who - the pantomime villain himself Sandy. And our president was not even aware of this until the presenter interviewed him!

[Guest]

"just worried that we may not end up with a

fully developed stadium,even without all the other

facilities, and not regain our rightful place in the main conference league."

 

So be it. I supported this club for many years before they got in the Conference. The main thing is we will still have a club in our home town.

[margateshot]

I think the club need to make a further statement explaining exactly what is happening. It still appears that this is not set in stone. What will the ground consist of? Do the council have to approve this latest proposal? What is it exactly that they need for the full proposal to go through? It appears that the independant mediator (for a better word) has also turned the proposal down, so where do we stand now? SE is still playing things down and states he knows nothing of the recent events.

 

Supposing that we do get a ground for next season, how will we stand financially with none of the income we were expecting? We will have increased income with higher attendances and hopefully advertising, but it appears that we will need a hard fundraising drive in the summer to try and stabalise the club.

 

Please MFC give us the facts in full

[Guest]

Hands up thoses who are totally cheesed off with the never-ending lies from both sides.

 

No wonder so many people no longer care what happens to the club......

[Guest]

The statement smacks of cutching at straws to me. Hate to say it but if we have tried to pre-empt the Council by issuing this statement that they clearly knew nothing about then, well, well I wouldn't have done it!

[Guest]

I suppose there could be a sub text in that the club are trying to flush out from the Council whether they have any alternative plans lined up for HDP. The Council would be forced into either saying yes, thats fine, you have not got the full planning permission but you can put up a stadium whilst a longer term solution is found or - Well, actually MFC, we do have other plans for the site.......

[MargateFan]

I cannot see how a reinstatement of the facilities at Hartsdown, a return home for the club, and keeping Conference South status is in any way clutching at straws. There was always planning permission for this part of the development, and it would seem to me that this was not the issue that the club and council were at loggerheads over. What it says to me is that the funding partner, Mr Lever, has such confidence in the viability of our fine club that he is prepared to invest in its future, above and beyond the considerable sums he has invested to date. I would add that in Mr Lever we have someone who puts his money where his mouth is, and has been immeasurably more helpful than the council in returning us home. I would also like to concur with the judgement of Gordon Wallace this morning, in that experts in projects of the scale and complexity of the commercial development are best placed to iron out any issues that remain with that. And to finish, after listening to the council leader this morning, just because someone says something, it doesn't make it so. This has always been a game of spin and counter spin, you cannot believe everything that comes out of the media.

At the end of the day, the club has said we are going home. I cannot see that they would have placed that in the public arena if it were not so, and in that case, I am inclined to believe in them.

And I think there are many more people who care about the football club playing in their home town than there are those that do not, as the gates next season at home will prove.

[Guest]

Don't feed the trolls.

[Gate4TehWin]