General Wolves News

[Deutsch Wolf]

The fact it’s better than other grounds doesn’t excuse the fact that we are failing to spend on even the most basic maintenance. They can’t even paint the bollards outside the main entrance to the BW ffs. Clubs being run as tight as possible which has fuck all to do with FFP and everything to do with Fosun

Not excusing any of it, just it's silly to overstate how bad the Steve Bull is (it's pretty rubbish without needing to exaggerate things).

Like as President of the Kilman Haters Club you might say he isn't that much better than Christophe Berra was and that would be a fair point. If you said he was like Eric Young or Simon Coleman you'd clearly be being daft.

 

[b3h]

When I sat in North Bank one time I felt like I was in VIP compared to Steve Bull. I had a piss without queueing and without having 2 other blokes practically pissing on me, great stuff . I *might* still have a STH if we could have all swapped to there. Moot now, just an armchair fan.

 

[Tredman]

Not excusing any of it, just it's silly to overstate how bad the Steve Bull is (it's pretty rubbish without needing to exaggerate things).

Like as President of the Kilman Haters Club you might say he isn't that much better than Christophe Berra was and that would be a fair point. If you said he was like Eric Young or Simon Coleman you'd clearly be being daft.

I quite liked Eric Young. Only because of the head band mind.

 

[Tredman]

When I sat in North Bank one time I felt like I was in VIP compared to Steve Bull. I had a piss without queueing and without having 2 other blokes practically pissing on me, great stuff . I *might* still have a STH if we could have all swapped to there. Moot now, just an armchair fan.

I’m actually in the North Bank this week, only because I forgot to buy my seats, I’m quite looking forward tie experiencing this luxury I keep hearing about.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I quite liked Eric Young. Only because of the head band mind.

How dare you test our friendship in this way.

 

[Lycan]

How dare you test our friendship in this way.

I liked Olofinjana...

 

[Tredman]

I liked Olofinjana...

Had something about him.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

EP once called Olofinjana "the best footballer at the club" and we're still mates, so you'll have to do better/worse than that.

 

[The Saturday Boy]

I hate the Steve Bull stand now. It really is an example of how not to accommodate thousands of people. I don't understand why they don't open onto gates at half time to let people spill put onto the concourse to alleviate the crowding. They could put up some temporary fencing during the first half, take it down in the second.

 

[James]

What’s happened to the Molineux Quarter plans?

I’d imagine fosun would be hoping that they get some funding to improve the stadium out of that kitty.

 

[Kenny]

What’s happened to the Molineux Quarter plans?

Sold them in the summer

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Pie in the sky nonsense.

We can't afford to knock down the Steve Bull and lose most/all of that capacity for two seasons, so it won't happen. This even assuming the owners wanted to spend a lot of money on the club, which they don't.

 

[James]

Wasn’t the plan to re profile the lower tier over a summer & expand the stadium without demolition of the Steve Bull stand?

 

[Kenny]

Will presume their attempts to get outside investment is to cover all/part of the Stadium redevelopment.
They/Jeff will see the money that can be made from improving the stadium from outside of football.....if done properly.


Already said they won't fund it directly and they don't like the interest rates on the loans.

I can invest 10 pots of yellow/orange/gold paint.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The plan (which amounts to the kind of thing I'd write on a beer mat at 2.20pm after 5 pints) was to build behind the South Bank so that never closed and that would make up for losing the Steve Bull for ages.

We don't have space to do that behind the Steve Bull. Plus it would/will take ages to demolish let alone rebuild.

 

[James]

Cheers for the info DW & Kenny

 

[Deano]

There's never a good time to do the stand, if you're in the Premier League you don't really want to lose that capacity but if you go down the argument turns to the capacity not being required. Either way something will need doing with the stand soon as it's more than a bit shit, even if there's worse out there. The club have even gone on record in saying it doesn't provide acceptable facilities.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

They/Jeff will see the money that can be made from improving the stadium from outside of football.....if done properly.

Sort of.

The intrinsic issue from an investment point of view is that it's forever effectively worth £0. We don't own the freehold, it has a sporting covenant on it, so you can never build value. If some fruitloop decided to buy Wolves and build us a new ground (where exactly, there aren't the sites in the city, and the likes of i54 were daft ideas even before it became impossible) he'd have to do it all out his own pocket as you can't sell Molineux.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

There's never a good time to do the stand, if you're in the Premier League you don't really want to lose that capacity but if you go down the argument turns to the capacity not being required. Either way something will need doing with the stand soon as it's more than a bit shit, even if there's worse out there. The club have even gone on record in saying it doesn't provide acceptable facilities.

If you had a cold, dead heart you'd have done it in 2013. We didn't need the capacity, we were in League One and had loads of gates under 20k (and then we got good and people decided that can I just shock you, I like Wolves. Despite what I just said earlier).

Would never have happened though, Morgan was already taking flak for the perception of building the NB and watching the team get relegated (of course it isn't that simple).

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Not excusing any of it, just it's silly to overstate how bad the Steve Bull is (it's pretty rubbish without needing to exaggerate things).

Like as President of the Kilman Haters Club you might say he isn't that much better than Christophe Berra was and that would be a fair point. If you said he was like Eric Young or Simon Coleman you'd clearly be being daft.

Whilst agreeing with everything you are saying here, I'm wondering when the last time you sat in there was?