Can you bring us up to date with the ground redevelopments?

BRENDAN FLOOD: For me it's been really exciting getting involved at the club. Ground proposals have been the headline things and a lot of work has been going on behind the scenes to get facilities better and make it a more enjoyable day at the match.

We're working on the two main areas, one being Gawthorpe, to get the youth academy set up, which I feel is crucial as it gets us back to being home farm for creating young stars, and then when they're ready to move on, sell them and that keeps the club financially strong.

We really need the facilities to compete with Premiership clubs and aspiring Premiership clubs.

In boring development terms, Gawthorpe's the hardest part of the jigsaw because it's National Trust land. We're confident we will get all the planning permission through though.

We intend to submit planning applications for Gawthorpe and the ground and make it clear it's not one or the other, it's all of them or nothing.

If we can get some of the talent that's been here over the years and get it back in Burnley colours we'll be a prosperous club going forward.

The aim is to submit the planning application in October/November and the planning authority is working closely with the club. Hopefully we'll get approval in the early part of next year and begin the dressing room phase.

That would free up the David Fishwick (Cricket Field) stand and allow us to redevelop that and get that done for next season.

If we are unsuccessful with planning permission, is there a Plan B?

BF: My day job is gettting planning permissions. Technically speaking we've got to do it all the right way; consulting with people in every respect. Getting detailed reports for applications is something we're used to doing. I don't think we'll need a Plan B.

It's car parking issues and how the outside of the building looks are the sort of details we've got to get right, and if we do, the planning authority will go with us.

Hopefully a Plan B is not going to be needed.

It's been said the David Fishwick (Cricket Field) Stand in redveloped form will be for away supporters. Is that set in stone?

BF: We've never said it will definitely be for away fans. We desperately don't want it to be all away fans.

An expression which Steve uses is fans will suck the ball into the net and we want to try to move (away supporters) away from that.

Health and Safety issues come up, I never realised, but it's like moving an army. In thinking around the solutions to that, we think there are ways, which probably have to be dividing up the Bob Lord Stand if anything. I don't think we can get them on (the opposite) side of the ground.

Personally I would rather see them divided in the Cricket Field end. There might be some of them there but not all of them. Maybe have more on the side and the flanks. That's something we're looking at so it's not by any means the away fans' stand.

What's been done to rectify the drainage problems on the pitch over the summer?

BARRY KILBY: We're going to have to live with it for one more season.

We've got a problem down in one corner and we've got undersoil heating that's going to need some work. It's going to cost around £500,000 to £750,000, but this year we'll have to trust in the Almighty.

We've got new measures and alerts that will perhaps make us a bit smarter this year.

But it will be on our agenda soon.

We lost £100,000 from Stoke. This summer with the England v Albania game coming in we haven't been able to do anything. But we'll be seeing to that, I hope, maybe next season.

Redeveloping the ground is costing £20million, would that not be better spent on the field?

BF: It's £20m to buy a house in effect.

Something that's worth £20m for 30 years. If you spent £20m on players they've got contracts that last three years. Then if they go, the player's gone and the money's gone. Neither Barry or I want us in that position.

Is there funding in place to strengthen the squad of need be to make it a realistic promotion push?

BK: We'll see how we go. We've been lucky and I think we've done some good buisness over the summer. I think Steve's done a good job bringing in some class players.

Our minds are open. If a bargain comes up or if we can afford need to sit down with Steve and see what we can do.

BF: The bottom line is if we can get a good player for good value, that's really where we are.

Steve's very careful about who he gets that they're the right people and that they're right for this season and next season and he's realistic with the tools he's got to work with. We have been very supportive with the players we got at the end of last season and the beginning of this.

Is the money already in place for the first phase of the new redevelopment?

BF: Going back to my day job, I do town centre developments which can cost up to £200m in any one go. If you looked at the £20m spend, we would get roughly half of it from the banks and there are lots that want to get involved in the non-football revenues and finance that.

The other half would be a combination of public money (grant aid coming in) and our private contributions; the directors of Longside Properties.

The short answer is yes. We haven't envisaged that sort of spend without thinking through the finance. I'm a banker by training so that probably helps that I do know how to finance things.

Hopefully you can rely on us making sure we get the right structure for the club in every respect.

Does the club have Brendan insured?

BF: It's a very sensible question, but no. A lot of businesses have key man insurances. But we have nine other directors. It would probably cause offence to them to insure me. If somebody wants to sponsor me I'll take that!

Will BFC follow the example of Bradford City and slash ticket prices?

BK: It's the question do you want 10,000 people in paying £20 or 20,000 people paying £10? Slashing prices promotions haven't worked that well and you end up on the wrong side.

Gaining in the long run hasn't ever been bourne out.

Our season ticket revenue this year is about £1.4m. If we did that Bradford exercise would we endanger that? Would we get £1.4m, £1.6m or £1m? Experience tells me we'd get less than the £1.4m we're getting now. I'd be interested to see what Bradford's take is.

Brendan, was there one particular factor that influenced your decision to come into the football club in such a big way?

BF: I always thought I wouldn't mind getting involved in football since I became successful in what I'm doing. I found myself at football matches thinking if I was in charge this is what I'd do.I knew Barry and Ray Ingleby and Clive Holt so I'd met various directors. It was more the timing. I thought I could put the energy in at the right level.

Barry and myself are fans. If we weren't directors we'd be back in the stands watching. You know you're not always going to make the right decisions because you're a fan.

You're probably going to make one or two rash decisions.

I knew I had to be able to afford to do one or two rash things as a fan to help the club. I want to make the club successful and want to do it within a foreseeable future timescale.

I said if we're not in the Premiership in the next 10 years I'd be disappointed. The truth is, 10 years was my sort of horizon to be more permanently there.

I think it was the Birmingham City game and McSheffrey scored, it was a bit of a raggy goal, and we shouldn't really have lost. I thought if these are the ones that are going to go up, we're not far off.

You can see Steve exploding on the touchline you know he's got the passion and I thought a bit more help might do it.

* See Friday's Lancashire Telegraph for part two of the question-and-answer evening.