Main Stand redevelopment thread

est1905 said:
Parish would not have gone this deep into the project if that were true. Jordan never even got any plans drawn up. Hell, he never even owned the ground FFS. If there were underlying issues that prevented this stand from being built Parish would know about them by now and would have scrapped the project. He is a businessman. If his choices were still with it knowing you are throwing money down the toilet or look stupid for a while, scrap it and stop wasting money he'd choose the latter. Immediately.
Jordan just detests Parish, is jealous of how far the club has come under his stewardship and looks to downplay everything Palace does since he left the club.
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Untill we get relegated, then the club pretty much resembles the club under Jordan apart from a new training ground textor paid for.
 
rikz said:
Untill we get relegated, then the club pretty much resembles the club under Jordan apart from a new training ground textor paid for.
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Textor contributed to building the academy set up. Whether he is due any repayment on that I've no idea. I doubt he put the money in out of the goodness of his heart, though. He probably rolled the dice. It sounds important from what Parish says, so fair play to Textor. And also fair play to Parish, he brought the yanks in to accelerate these type of projects and it seems to have worked.

The training ground was bought by the club early on after promotion as I recall, and of course cpfc2010 managed to reunite the club and the ground, which Jordan couldn't do. There is also the small matter of taking us out of receivership. When all that gets added up it's not exactly the same club Jordan left behind.

Which isn't to knock Jordan, or the point you are making. As a bloke, Jordan doesn't seem like my cup of tea at all. Still, he stepped up for Palace when the club was going to s***, and went into bat for the club during his tenure as far as I could tell. It's more than I've f***ing done for Palace, so I'm very happy to give him his dues.

Where I get your point is that unless the new stand gets built, what we see of the club on a match day is much the same thing we've seen for 30:years. All these years at the top table in the richest league in history, and you wouldn't know it if you'd been in a coma for the last 15 years. You'd instantly recognise Palace, in a way that supporters of lots of other clubs wouldn't.

Personally, I quite like that. I do think though that if Parish can do this new stand, he'd be entitled to look around and ask what on earth more could he realistically have done in his tenure. To have achieved it given the weight of the glass ceiling he must spend all day every day bashing his head against would be really good going.
 
TheBigToePunt said:
Textor contributed to building the academy set up. Whether he is due any repayment on that I've no idea. I doubt he put the money in out of the goodness of his heart, though. He probably rolled the dice. It sounds important from what Parish says, so fair play to Textor. And also fair play to Parish, he brought the yanks in to accelerate these type of projects and it seems to have worked.

The training ground was bought by the club early on after promotion as I recall, and of course cpfc2010 managed to reunite the club and the ground, which Jordan couldn't do. There is also the small matter of taking us out of receivership. When all that gets added up it's not exactly the same club Jordan left behind.

Which isn't to knock Jordan, or the point you are making. As a bloke, Jordan doesn't seem like my cup of tea at all. Still, he stepped up for Palace when the club was going to s***, and went into bat for the club during his tenure as far as I could tell. It's more than I've f***ing done for Palace, so I'm very happy to give him his dues.

Where I get your point is that unless the new stand gets built, what we see of the club on a match day is much the same thing we've seen for 30:years. All these years at the top table in the richest league in history, and you wouldn't know it if you'd been in a coma for the last 15 years. You'd instantly recognise Palace, in a way that supporters of lots of other clubs wouldn't.

Personally, I quite like that. I do think though that if Parish can do this new stand, he'd be entitled to look around and ask what on earth more could he realistically have done in his tenure. To have achieved it given the weight of the glass ceiling he must spend all day every day bashing his head against would be really good going.
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The Academy in Copers Cope Road was built in 2020 and formally opened in October 2021 about the same time as Textor joined Palace. Textor’s money went into the general pot but the main money to start the project, ie £20 million, came from the sale of Aaron Wan-Bissaka to ManU.
 
Norbury Old Git said:
The Academy in Copers Cope Road was built in 2020 and formally opened in October 2021 about the same time as Textor joined Palace. Textor’s money went into the general pot but the main money to start the project, ie £20 million, came from the sale of Aaron Wan-Bissaka to ManU.
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Yes, that sounds right. I vaguely recall Parish saying something about how the club could do these projects under its own steam but it would be quicker with an injection of outside money, and that he was impatient to get it all done asap.

I also recall some interview Textor gave not long after he had left, in which he essentially defended his contribution at palace. He mentioned the academy, and said something like 'I helped with that'.

What with one thing and another, I'm not sure Mr Textor did very well for himself out of his time at Palace.
 
The stadium is inexcusable now, our owners have a combined net worth of 18 billion pounds, there's no issue that amount of money can't fix.
In the same time frame Wimbledon moved to Milton Keynes, started again and built a new stadium in a just as densely populated part of london.
This is just for 1 stand aswell, the other 2 still aint fit for purpose.
 
Norbury Old Git said:
The Academy in Copers Cope Road was built in 2020 and formally opened in October 2021 about the same time as Textor joined Palace. Textor’s money went into the general pot but the main money to start the project, ie £20 million, came from the sale of Aaron Wan-Bissaka to ManU.
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Only if new shares were issued, otherwise it's a transaction between shareholders and doesn't mean new money.
 
Will the seats be heated? Will there be warm vents to keep toes and extremities toastie? I'm absolutely serious.
What about the quality of the seats? Will ALL of them be of the style that those who sit in the current Director's Box are acquainted?
Parish is on the record expressing his excitement at how much more he can charge for fans to watch from the new stand so what is he going to offer to make that worthwhile?
 
TheBigToePunt said:
Textor contributed to building the academy set up. Whether he is due any repayment on that I've no idea. I doubt he put the money in out of the goodness of his heart, though. He probably rolled the dice. It sounds important from what Parish says, so fair play to Textor. And also fair play to Parish, he brought the yanks in to accelerate these type of projects and it seems to have worked.

The training ground was bought by the club early on after promotion as I recall, and of course cpfc2010 managed to reunite the club and the ground, which Jordan couldn't do. There is also the small matter of taking us out of receivership. When all that gets added up it's not exactly the same club Jordan left behind.

Which isn't to knock Jordan, or the point you are making. As a bloke, Jordan doesn't seem like my cup of tea at all. Still, he stepped up for Palace when the club was going to s***, and went into bat for the club during his tenure as far as I could tell. It's more than I've f***ing done for Palace, so I'm very happy to give him his dues.

Where I get your point is that unless the new stand gets built, what we see of the club on a match day is much the same thing we've seen for 30:years. All these years at the top table in the richest league in history, and you wouldn't know it if you'd been in a coma for the last 15 years. You'd instantly recognise Palace, in a way that supporters of lots of other clubs wouldn't.

Personally, I quite like that. I do think though that if Parish can do this new stand, he'd be entitled to look around and ask what on earth more could he realistically have done in his tenure. To have achieved it given the weight of the glass ceiling he must spend all day every day bashing his head against would be really good going.
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SP needs to spend an afternoon in the AW wading through the rivers of piss
 
I’m hearing Steve has decided to keep two bars open after game it’s a major fund raiser to put towards kick starting the stand but it’s the same crowd that’s been doing the walk bridge at east Croydon taken 4 years still not open

As long as J Perry is not involved it may just may get going
 
rikz said:
Untill we get relegated, then the club pretty much resembles the club under Jordan apart from a new training ground textor paid for.
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Yeah that and the small matter of Palace owning Selhurst Park (which Jordan NEVER did) and not running on a £30m debt which today equates to about £100m.

Massive difference
 
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