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I've just been asked on the private message if I was sceptical about the redevelopment.
The answer is Im delighted with it and very thankful to our local council for faciliting what was required to get the thing moving. My only reservation on proceedings was that at the end of this phase of development, we will be nowhere near to a successful challenge on and getting into the championship and maintaining our position.
A 10,000 seater stadium makes a championship club not, so what's the contingency plan for having a ground big enough to welcome 3, 4 or 5000 visiting fans from the dozen or so local clubs that easily sell that many tickets week in week out?
Its my opinion that we are being extremely shortsighted in not adding just a few 1000 more seats, making us ready for the step up, which l believe will do soon.
Given how quickly they seem to expect to complete this work (sort of, add on to existing rather than re-build) I would expect that capacity in the north & south stands could be increased reasonably quickly too when (& if ) the need arises. Suspect that the Chairman might adopt a wait and see policy after the raised expectations that were dashed by our previous 2 "high profile" managers!
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guest48
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I was stripping out the basement of the Old Sessions House on Clerkenwell Green. Where were you?
On the 4th floor of Café Saffron ,Indian restaurant in Aylesbury St working on an O2 site. We sat for 3.5 hours outside the café on Clerkenwell Green waiting for access to the job!
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betamax toploader
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;)assume = ass u (&) me You do talk some rubbish at times.
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To baldly go where no Betamax has gone before...
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guest47
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I was stripping out the basement of the Old Sessions House on Clerkenwell Green.
That's got to be a euphemism for something really disgusting.
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betamax toploader
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That's got to be a euphemism for something really disgusting.
It was pretty messy.
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To baldly go where no Betamax has gone before...
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Whitedogdo
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You have to be the most negative positive person I have come across.. You have perfected moaning about moaning.
You clearly don't know me then. ... although you do.
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Shoemaker
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You have to be the most negative positive person I have come across.. You have perfected moaning about moaning.
Stewards enquiry
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Deepcut Cobbler
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Have you reserved your box yet Shoey?
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“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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Shoemaker
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Have you reserved your box yet Shoey?
No. Never ever buy until you know what you are actually buying! If I'd have bought a pass to get into the fans village or a season ticket for the rugby league club I'd have been hugely disappointed.
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j20cobbler
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Have you reserved your box yet Shoey?
And there was me thinking that was an attempt at humour :
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Deepcut Cobbler
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And there was me thinking that was an attempt at humour : It must have been the lack of a smiley that went over his head....
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“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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The 12th Marquis of Sixfields
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Doesn't seem to be much activities over by the East, is the completion date still before next season?
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The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2023
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ajp
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Nothing's happened yet as far as I could see. Thought the roof was supposed to be off by Sat??
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lordjord
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They are going to have to get the guy with the megaphone from Extreme makeover home edition on the case. I dont see how this will be done by August?
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sbedscobb
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I believe they've gone back to the drawing board to re think the plans, as they stand we will not be in a position to get promoted out of the lower divisions and shows very poor return on a £15,000,000 investment to leave a town of 230,000 with a tiny little ground still not fit for purpose.
I just hope the experts behind this project don't serve up a shiite sandwich on a broken plate!
Time for a question and answer session.
My 1st Question, When will we developed the ground to achieve our aspirations of playing in the championship, or must we hope to be a Yeovil and fly by the bones of our arrses.
2nd.. I know as a mere fan of this club and therefore shouldn't question the proposed development, but I would love to know how the club will make money from the hotel? Is it a one off payment, a little annual rent or a decent % per rooms occupancy.
3/ Are the council overseeing the spend to make sure the Town and club get the absolute most benefit from this once in a lifetime brilliant wind fall.
4/ Am I the only one out side the loop or is there zero transparency and no one has a Scooby what's happening or proposed.
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Razor
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What's this no development? Well blow me down. If 11 years of false dawns and broken promises have taught me anything it is not to believe a word I hear about the topic of NTFC and 'development'. And to think it was all going so well when they broke that piece of grass the other week p.s. If you want to know what building a new stand looks like I suggest people take a look at a professionally run club - NCCC and the County Ground. They've got a massive f*cking crane, what looks like a a stand shape structure emerging upward from the ground and best of all very little in the way of hot air.
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« Last Edit: March 25, 2014, 14:54:02 pm by Razor »
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Dr Feelgood
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Maybe they're waiting until after the Portsmouth and Wycombe games.
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For goodness sake Doc we are NOT going down you heard it here 1st (I damn well hope that does not come back to haunt me)
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TopCat
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I was in the club shop yesterday and I asked about the East Stand roof. He seemed to think they had changed their minds and it will stay in place till the end of the season. In the meantime they will perform other works behind the East Stand. TBF he wasn't 100% that it was the case, but it sounded like a reasonable plan to me!!!
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Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible c***’... me!
CARDOZA - A clown, A fool, A charlaton. The destroyer of NTFC 1897 to 2015....ON HIS WATCH!!!!
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Shoemaker
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Maybe the council have decided that the cobblers won't need a redeveloped stadium if they plummet out of the league. You could see where there coming from. Even so I'd expect the houses to get built so its not all bad news.
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