GLOUCESTER’S new owner has set a target of filling Kingsholm every week to ensure the club grows for the future, but stressed: “The club is not broken.”

Martin St Quinton bought the Cherry and Whites from the Walkinshaw family this month, and the former office furniture and communications businessman said he and the club’s board would ‘do everything in our power to deliver a team to be proud of’.

But getting the fans back to Kingsholm, following the years when the stadium was packed to capacity for every home match, would be key to future development of the 16,200 capacity ground.

St Quinton, who has held a 40 per cent shareholding of the club for eight years and been vice chairman for ‘seven or eight years’, sat alongside chief executive Stephen Vaughan at the ground on Monday and said: “There are a number of areas that need looking at but it is important to stress that the club is not broken.

“There are a lot of good things here. We have a very good team on the field and off the field. Stephen and his team here are a strong group, we have a very strong coaching department down at Hartpury College and a very exciting squad of players.

“It does not need major surgery to get this club to where it needs to be. What it does need is a number of small improvements across a broad spectrum.

“There are a number of big capital items that we will be looking at. We need to improve at Hartpury because we are short of space there, the pitch is often talked about and that is an area we will be looking at but we don’t need to make huge changes immediately.”

St Quinton stood in the Shed last month to watch Gloucester take on La Rochelle in the European Challenge Cup and said he understood what the faithful supporters want from him and the club.

"My goal is to fill this place every week. I have said to Stephen, if we can fill this stadium every week for the home games, we will have achieved a huge amount.

“What the people in the Shed want is they want to see a full capacity stadium, entertaining rugby and they want to see Gloucester win. That is what we will be aiming for.”

This, said the new owner, is the key to going forward along with matters such as completing the re-development of the ground or getting a new playing surface.

“It is on the agenda (to redevelop) as soon as we can fill the stadium,” said St Quinton. “Clearly, with a capacity of 16,200, until you are filling it to capacity for most games, it would be financial folly to build new stands, expanding stands or putting a roof on the Shed.

“We will consider all of those things when we get to capacity.”

Vaughan was delighted to welcome St Quinton as the new owner and chairman, and shared his vision of the future.

“We have a lot of plans and it’s all about what happens on the pitch. There are some potential capital projects but we will sit down with every member of staff at the club and continue to move the club in the right way.”