Steve Lansdown has challenged City's supporters to 'work together' to help the club 'achieve'.
That was the chairman's key message at the stakeholders meeting held at Ashton Gate this evening, which was attended by a crowd of approximately 300.
In his pre-event DVD, the chairman made clear his targets: Premier Side, Premier Facilities, Premier City. And in his Powerpoint presentation he said: "
"We have the ability to make Bristol City FC a Premier League side. We have the ambition and the figures show that. Our aims are clear to see, a real strategy. We will achieve.
"Let's Work Together was the music on the DVD and I didn't just choose it because it's got a nice beat, it means something. Everyone needs to work together to help us achieve."
The chairman emphasised again how important a new stadium is to the future of the football club, and hopes the entire city gets behind the project to make it happen.
"Having the Southlands part of the application turned down was a nuisance, a lack of foresight and pretty stupid," he said bluntly. "However, it's not a show-stopper.
"We were getting to a point where we needed to know that the Council was behind this, and I met with them the other day and feel very confident now.
"Let's Work Together was the music on the DVD and I didn't just choose it because it's got a nice beat, it means something."
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"There's a proper timetable with milestones to hit. We also have Ashton Gate to deal with, replacing Tesco with Sainsbury, which was quite clever I thought.
"It's important to get the planning at Ashton Gate through. We're still on track for 2012/13. A new stadium will be a brand new dawn for this club."
He continued: "I've always quoted Bristol as being the 80 per centers.
"We've had some good players in the past when I first became chairman, but...we started doing well and patting people on the back.
"The players thought they were the bee's knees. We had big-time charlies. You can't stay at 80 per cent. You have to work hard, to go for 100 per cent.
"I see it from the fans now and in the dressing room. We've turned into 100 per centers. We want to win, we see what went before and associate it now to what happened then. It's not the same. I know they want to win. They want to be in the Premier League and be number one. I want that, Gary wants that.
"Bristol didn't deserve a Premier League side. If they allow this stadium to happen, they will deserve a Premier League team in Bristol. Hopefully they'll get that. But we have to be ruthless and make sure it happens. Working hard together, that's the key to it."
The chairman also insisted he wouldn't do anything financially to put the football club in danger. "We're not doing this (spending) without knowing we have the money to do it."
Read a full blog from the Stakeholders Meeting, which includes the chairman's DVD and presentation in PDF form.
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