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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: Yesterday at 10:14:05
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Just out of interest I was curious what size stadium we could fit in. Havent spent a long time (as you can tell) and used MK as needed to drag in google to ensure the same zoom was kept. Yes I know access etc etc. Was just for a bit of fun. https://ibb.co/yfvyfpjKing Power is a slightly better fit, and has more seats. https://ibb.co/QDtJH3pDunno what you are talking about. The ground will clearly be hemmed in and we'll never be able to grow. With an area of our catchment size we should be more forward thinking and be looking to add an extra 72,000 seats, which will take us up to around the 80,000 mark. That is the bare minimum we would be aiming for if we had even a modicum of ambition. Our current owners will never do it though. Amateurs and chancers, the pair of them. Oh, and where is the lorry park going to fit on your drawings? You just haven't thought this through properly.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Supporters Advisory Board
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on: March 17, 2024, 06:50:47 am
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To the last five. I rather think he is assuming, as suggested. Now, tell him if he is right or wrong.
So when Derek assumes something based upon his perception of others behaviour that's OK. When someone else assumes who the dominant personalities are in the Trust based on their perception then it is legally actionable? Seems fair.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 16, 2024, 18:12:11 pm
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Its funny how you have no interest in the club and owners (despite have a large budget, media dept etc etc) regularly lying, misleading and misrepresenting information to the fans
But are hyper focused on the Trust and continue to sneer at fans who had to make a difficult decision (as a result of actions by the owners) because they entered into an agreement BUT actually cancelled that agreement so nothing actually happened !!!!
And for clarity - look at the timelines, the Trust had conversations only after the JR was actioned, nor were the Trust involved in any way shape or form regarding the land bids or their prices.
But do you think we need a new keeper?
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 15, 2024, 16:59:16 pm
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On the contrary. You enter the east stand via a secret door in Pizza Hut (it looks like a bookshelf), there is a Medivac heliport on top of the bowling alley and an emergency access tunnel under the ground to a state of the art medical centre to treat all the injured players. It’s also co owned by BUPA so is an extra revenue stream.
I’ve been working with some business associates of mine and will share the full CGI soon. If anyone is passing and could collect a soil sample and put up a wind sock it would be appreciated.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 15, 2024, 13:46:40 pm
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Nice work, honestly, couple of issues 1. There is no access to the East stand for emergency vehicles or even fans 2. I think you have nicked quite a bit of the KT/DB's land . Could you please redo coping the road directly in front of the West stand, then put a fence and then put a 14m tall warehouse right next to it. Although at the end of the day if KT wanted to put a tyre burning site or outdoor nuclear waste dump on there, plenty on here will still be looking the other way Jesus, no one is talking about literally building this there, it's for illustrative purposes to show the enormous space that would still be left there after the proposed warehouses are built. What that space will or won't be used for is about as much my business as it is yours (I.e. absolutely bugger all). The point is, there's a massive plot there that could be used by the club in the future.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 15, 2024, 07:13:40 am
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I can't believe the idea of the box park has reared its deformed head again. On top of Melly's practicalities, it's just an appalling location for a box park.
Box parks work when there's nothing else around and a lot of footfall. The stadium plateau has next to no footfall on non-match days and within a 5 minute walk there is already:
Popeyes TGI KFC Taco Bell Five Guys Wagamama Starbucks Mcdonalds Sixfields Tavern Bella Italia Pizza.Hut The Walter Tull Tenpin Costa
Hell, you could even pop into the Sainsbury cafe!
There's some variable quality there but the one thing they all have in common is they are indoors! If you are in the area and looking for something to eat on a cold, wet November day where are you going to pick? Not a box park!
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 15, 2024, 06:43:06 am
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OK and that is fine IF that plan is to scale and what is delivered. Ie: where will the fence be exactly and how much room will be left for the football club
If there were little to no spaces and just a road similar to outside the West stand and then a fence and then a 14m high warehouse, that would certainly meet most peoples definition of 'hemmed in'
Might well be goalposts moving but it ain't the Trust moving them is it ??
I believe that is called whataboutery, isn't it?
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 14, 2024, 20:10:52 pm
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Hi,
Just wondering, how many rows of parking spaces are you expecting between the back of the East stand and the large warehouse? The above diagram suggests how many? And how many does the CGI image on the NTFC East stand development document?
Dunno. That's not the point I was addressing, nor the point I was making. The wording used was "hemmed in", I pointed out you can fit a bloody great building in there. Is that the sound of goalposts moving again I can hear over the horizon...?
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 14, 2024, 18:51:29 pm
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They just can't help themselves...
It's absolute tosh as well. Here's how you can verify this for yourselves. You will need a computer to do this. This shows the proposed development plan, including which bit of the athletics track will remain with the club. 1) save a copy of this image on your computer. 2) open it in Paint 3D (this comes included with Windows) 3) click the "Magic select" button at the top. 4) drag the box that appears until it's around the bowling alley. Don't be shy, grab the whole thing, Walter Tull and all. 5) hit next 6) hit done 7) hit ctrl+c to copy the image paste the image in the gap between the stadium and the warehouse boundary. 9) don't stop there! See how many of those you can fit in the gap! (Spoiler alert: widthwise, 1, one above the other, comfortably 2 and 3 at a squeeze) I know there looks a lot of steps there but it will take you 2 minutes. I'd post the resulting image but I'd only be accused of doctoring it and I don't want to incur legal action.
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General Category / General Chat / Re: Politics
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on: March 14, 2024, 09:21:51 am
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Good on her. Give her my best wishes.
Thinking about it, putting your child into childcare all week, just to make £5 more in wages is hardly an incentive and surely is detrimental to the mother/child relationship.
Cheers. In fairness, the reason her child is at nursery wasn't about getting them out of her hair, it's that 99% of the time it's just the two of them together and she wanted them more socialised with other children and break the clinginess before they start at school. But yeah, there's a balance to be struck and it isn't all financial.
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General Category / General Chat / Re: Politics
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on: March 14, 2024, 06:51:14 am
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People drawing universal credits will ALWAYS be better off working than not. As for some drawing other benefits linked to kids, the incentive to maximise earnings isn’t always there.
Unless people are just happy to try and survive, none of the benefits are going to fund much of a life.
That first part isn't entirely true, as a good friend of ours who is hugely intelligent and has held high powered jobs in several different countries in the past has found out. She has type 1 diabetes and had a few really bad things happen in her life that sent her off the rails a bit and she started drinking heavily. The combo of diabetes and heavy drinking isn't a good one and she ended up in a cycle of hospital to rehab to release that just repeated itself over several years. Over the course of all this she lost her job and at one point found herself living in a halfway house. Then she fell pregnant. Having a baby was all she ever really wanted in life but is something she thought she could never have due to her various health issues and it sorted her out overnight; from the day she found out she was expecting she stopped drinking and smoking and several years down the line hasn't touched either since, nor has she had a single diabetic incident. Her and her child (the father wasn't involved) found themselves living in a council house on benefits. Now she's on an even keel she's far from a feckless person and was keen to get back into work, not least because she wants to set an example to her child, but for a long time found herself in the ridiculous position of not being able to afford to do so. Once you factor in the housing payments and childcare payments, the drop she would see in the reduction of benefits would mean she couldn't afford to survive. I agree, it's not enough money to provide much of a life, but something is really wrong in the system when people find themselves in this situation as it's a barrier to work. As a postscript to this, she has recently got a job. She's worse off for now but has managed to save enough money to give herself a buffer until September when her child starts at school and the childcare costs disappear.
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General Category / General Chat / Re: Town Centre
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on: March 13, 2024, 19:08:40 pm
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I maintain the council want rid of all the traditional traders so when their swanky new market is finished they can let the stalls to boutique style traders.
There's no way that job should take 18 months to complete. It's like the council have shunted them right out of the way for as long as possible to make sure they pop.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Supporters Advisory Board
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on: March 12, 2024, 22:28:27 pm
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While I was sitting there bored out of my mind this evening I found myself reading the advertising hoardings to alleviate the tedium.
While doing so I noticed that one of our sponsors is Tollers Solicitors.
I wonder if they'd be interested in adding a new facet to the match day experience by setting up a new stall next to the free soup stand, offering free legal advice to the growing list of supporters who have been threatened with legal action by our wonderful supporters trust?
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 12, 2024, 18:02:54 pm
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This is drifting into being a lock(ed) topic.... You can't do that! It's all some of us have to amuse ourselves! If you close this thread we'll team up and launch a class action suit against you. Cos that's what you do these days, apparently....
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