There has been a lot of reaction this morning to AFC Bournemouth's latest update on the stadium plans.
From disappointment to understanding, fans have been expressing their thoughts on social media.
The Cherries Trust, a supporters group for AFC Bournemouth have released a statement reacting to the news.
They said: "Today's statement from the AFC Bournemouth board has confirmed the Trust's fears that both the new stadium project and training ground development have stalled."
Here's just a sample of the reaction on Twitter this morning.
Perspective*
— Danny Thomas (@Danny11Thomas) October 4, 2018
-4th season in the prem.
-Currently 7th best team in Eng.
-Best up and coming Manager.
-“Reported” one of the hard places to play .
-A club that has improved every year on and off the pitch to sustain their position.
-Awsome ownership.
1/2 #afcb
Depressing reading for the many fans who will never see #afcb in the PL, at least not for many years
— AFCB Oldgit (@AFCBOldgit) October 4, 2018
I don’t blame the owners , if it’s not affordable it’s not affordable but at least increase the present stadium #afcb
— Nick Smith (@afcbbeachboy) October 4, 2018
I can say now that I have two kids that I cannot take to football like my Dad me when I was four years old. Fact, my kids will not be interested if they can’t go. A generation of fans will be lost and I am sad I can’t take my kids. #afcb really short sighted from the club
— andy (@andy_bag) October 4, 2018
The contradiction of the #afcb statement is that the focus is on attracting new playing talent but with League 1 training facilities and stadium and no carrot to dangle that this will soon change; this will become far more difficult in future
— Matt Callaghan (@callaghanmatt) October 4, 2018
Always got the impression a new stadium was just to scare structadene into selling us Dean Court. Buying that back and expanding/filling in the corners to make it 15k or so would be ideal #afcb
— Andy Walker (@walker_ajw) October 4, 2018
Although disappointing, I can see the clubs thinking, this is a risky time to start a huge and costly building project. Hopefully we'll at least look at expanding the Ted Mac stand as a stop-gap #afcb
— Patrick Sullivan (@sully1790) October 4, 2018
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