General New Stadium Plans - The Triangle - Land Deal

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The mighty Aldo said:
It really is time people started to boycott this rag of a paper.
I always thought it came across as a leaning towards the right sort of paper in accordance with their paymasters,so to see them pushing in the green/liberal direction makes me think they have another agenda
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The OM isn't really political, it's just desperate for clicks. And the stadium issue isn't political either. Portraying it as a Tory land grab is the surest way to kill it.
 
werthersoriginal said:
The OM isn't really political, it's just desperate for clicks. And the stadium issue isn't political either. Portraying it as a Tory land grab is the surest way to kill it.
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At the moment the Oxford fail have printed 4 negative letters in the last two weeks against OUFC and the new stadium before todays meeting.
No positives letters and yes they have been sent, to me that sounds bias towards OUFC
 
werthersoriginal said:
The OM isn't really political, it's just desperate for clicks. And the stadium issue isn't political either. Portraying it as a Tory land grab is the surest way to kill it.
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A mild defence of the OM - not that it's been deserved bearing in mine the tone of the letter's pages.

The back pages and general sports section have been pretty fair and balanced on the stadium issue. Liam Rice, whilst not a fan like James Roberts or a proxy fan/localish to Oxfordshire David Pritchard, has to me seemed to report fairly positively on it. It's the non-sports pages and non-sports reporters who have twisted the angle and given airtime to the enemies of this project. When Liam Rice was away on holiday, the reporting was nothing but negative.

I believe it was on an episode of T'Manor podcast where David Pritchard had to explain to his bosses that a story on Oxford City was worth running because it covered local sports coverage. The bosses saw the big numbers were for United stories so why bother with City, Banbury, Didcot, North Leigh etc? It's all about content generation and engagements. Newsquest is a click bait factory anyway. Loads of advertorials dressed up as news stories. In the age of dwindling purchases of print media, anything to draw eyes to their content to keep the commercial money rolling in has to be utilised. It's a shame to see the skilled and noble profession of journalism reduced to it, but there you go ...

Anyway, that's by the by. Let's hope they're reporting the colossal news that it's all go on negotiations between OCC, CDC and OUFC for tomorrow's paper.
 
Colin B said:
I think the first answer I'll give you is that they're still here, and still putting their money in.

When the owners first appeared there was no stadium site that had been identified and they were aware of how much work would need to be done to acquire one, and much of that work has now been done. It's a path that takes many twists and turns, with more surely to come, but I imagine they're aware of that.

The benefits are not as black and white as "stadium costs £75m, commercial development makes £100m = £25m profit" and that was never the plan. There is a benefit to owning and developing a club, with a good catchment and potential in the UK, especially one in a world famous place like Oxford.The aim is to build a sustainable football club and leave a legacy behind them for future generations.

These guys are major world stage players, and this is just one part of the jigsaw. You only have to see the word political leaders and business leaders that they mix with to realise their reach. They also genuinely like football, it's not merely business for them. I don't think leaving us in the lurch would help their profile with the powers that be in the UK. In fact I imagine having friends in high places in the UK may come in very handy once we get to the planning and consultation stage, particularly if the scheme is called in.

I meet them occasionally, when they travel over to games, but I don't know them personally beyond that. I have found them pleasant, polite, and genuinely interested and invested in our county and our club. I like and trust them, so I hope that is good enough to allay your fears.
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A bit late but thanks for the response @Colin B

Here’s to a positive outcome to todays meeting 🤞
 
I think it's a bugbear of sports journos, that when 'news' journalists muscle in on a sports based story, they're impact is often incendiary. They don't have the same interests, they are rarely interested in the proportionality of the facts at hand, often falling back on 'journalistic balance' which doesn't mean balance in any meaningful sense. It's a construct to present opposing views, stimulate ire and anger.

Add in that the Oxford Mail is chasing clicks and you have an absolute mess on this issue.
 
I remember back in the day when Brighton were looking to build a new stadium away from Withdean (?) it seemed to be constantly on the news agenda and a source of regular media attention. Same with Rotherham, Brentford and Spurs’ recent upgrade. Those all ended up with amazing new grounds we’d all be extremely happy with.
We don’t even get priority in our local news paper let alone national attention.
I do think it’s an issue deserving of much more focus and scrutiny we don’t want to end up like Bury.
Do people have contacts in TV or radio that could be used?
 
The mighty Aldo said:
Don’t want to get political but the phrase too many lefties is wrong in this instance. The media is nearly always right wing and that includes local papers.The only left wing papers are the Mirror and Guardian The BBC are now in the Governments pocket
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I won't elaborate as to not to detract from this threads purpose but that statement is just wrong.

Back on topic really hoping it's a straight forward yes 🤞
 
I dunno if I'm confident or not about today's outcome nervous tho because it's such an important stage in the clubs history

C'mon let's get two wins today please
 
There is still a real information gap when it comes to our plight, thats because its hardly hit the mainstream or local media. Some Oxford fans still don't get that we can't stay at the Kassam, so I suppose you can hardly blame the wider public for not having knowledge of our plight.

I don't think we have ever really had true coverage of what Kassam has done to the club because he has done it over such a long period, he is one of the worst owners of a football club for what he has done, stole our old ground after buying us for peanuts, barely finished the new one while naming it after himself, ran the club into the ground on and off the pitch while owning us and then selling us but keeping his unfinished stadium, even keeping his name on it to stick the knife in while charging us a fortune but doing the bare minimum upkeep and being generally obstructive every which way he can be, the whole priory situation. Now he is evicting us to turn into into flats and we still can't get much support from local media and local government to keep the club in existence.
 
The "opposition" seem to focus on Oxford United's foreign owners aims to make a profit out of this development.
I haven't noticed them mentioning the community benefits to the whole County.
I hope the hugely significant work done by the Club in the community will be emphasised at today's meeting.
I'm sure it will be.
 
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