The Exiled Robin

The reported news that a deal has been struck on the future of Ashton Vale appears to signal the end of Steve Landown's desperate fight to establish a new facility for City, and for the city.   Whilst I'm sure the club will issue a short, formal statement in due course, talking about covering all options and ensuring there are back-up plans in place, everything now points to the fact that should the Ashton Gate re-development be given a green light, it will immediately revert from being the publicly-intimated Plan B, to the preferred option.  The only option. I've suggested ever since those revised plans were first announced that the club was on the verge of giving up on Lansdown's Ashton Vale dream and the postponement of the Ashton Vale enquiry, due to start in early October, is almost certainly in no small part due to the legal costs still being racked up by the day, an outgoing that would only have increased exponentially once the hearing got underway.   ...