As a result of the weather yesterday thereseemed to be zero activity on site today, just goes to show how fickle it can be. A 52 week build as is promised could extend a great deal if we have a winter as bad as last years.

Though we could always get Smithy blowing copious amounts of hot air over the site to thaw it should that happen

It will be a 52 week build , it starts next June

I noticed other clubs are quoting 48 weeks build time for their new stadia. I'd imagine the contractor will have a contingency plan to avoid having to pay late completion penalty fee's. I heard the other day that the main contractor will be announced in mid October and that building work is scheduled to start in less than 8 weeks time!

Finished just in time for the 2013 season , well phase one will be

you are very bad at maths starbug

Not come along Lukicj it's not Starbugs fault that all those extra finers and toes confuddle him. I blame the Mother, Sister, Cousin and Aunty - I mean after all that's a big job for one woman

Well I've never heard that joke before

, my maths looks as good as your spelling , bottom line is you won't play in your new stadium till 2013 , about 8/9 years after it was originally scheduled to be ready , and still 2 years from now

Keep taking the happy pills

Not at all , it will take 52 weeks to build , all depends when you actually start building

Starbug, time to come out of the closet mate. C'mon, we'll make you more than welcome.
You know you want to

Speak for yourself, I'll laugh at and deride him for being inbred

Nov 2010 is start date, so add 52 weeks to that (did you know 52 weeks is the same as one whole year) and we get Nov 2011, which is before 2012, unless your are a Fib dem and then it could be any number. Even if we start Building in June 2011, it will still be ready for June 2012, and I know Leigh's season is normally over by June, but SL carries on until September/October. So Salford even on your inability to add up will be in the stadium by 2012.

just check your counting 10 Toes, 11 toes, 12toes, you must have got confused when you started counting your 12 fingers as well.

Keep believing boys , keep believing

Does anyone know why there is one section of the land (sort of central) that doesn't appear to have been touched at all ?
It seems like a small uneven valley (if that makes sense) with vegetation still present, about 75yds by 40yds.
Has it been left for drainage or something similar ?
Apologies for being a numpty if it's actually quite obvious why it's there

Without an image of exactly where on the site you mean I can't really say, however if anyone can get an updated shot (which we desperately need BTW) I'll try and explain what was approved.

Keep digging boys , you'll get there in the end

its to stick Starbug in, but that bit needs draining before filling, got my first look last tuesday morning on way back from the airport, the missus got the wrong impression as to why i was all excited

Myself like the rest of the Leythers have been through this already
, patience children , the journey is long , but the reward is worth it

Or not in our case

[url=http://iclipseweb.salford.gov.uk/AnitePublicDocs/07524889.pdfUpdated landscape Masterplan June 10[/url

Hi Jim,
have a butchers at the updated landscape masterplan on page 1 . careful it's a 10mb document.
I'm guessing the bit you refer to is called Salteye Brook. It's basically a drainage culvert that would,ve fed into the old path of the Irwell which is being left ' on purpose ' as an environmental corridor , when matured it will also prove useful in blotting out both White Reclamations Yard and the Nimbies estate from the Stadium , and appease all the tree huggers.
There's also a partially culverted drainage channel running from the south east into the brook , which will have to be fully culverted and covered , the Stadium will sit to the South and the Retail part & Retail Car park to the North of the this channel . if you want in inside & out of this there is a 42 page Flood report published on 28th July on Page 5 of the planning site application docs.
Altold there's about 112 documents relating to the revised planning application now if anyones got time to plough through them all, worth a look now and again as you always find something unexpected like the wording " [iPotential future crossing to Metrolink Stop[/i".

Cheers Middleman, I think I understand

Well can you explain to me matey?

OK an explanation for BBC Three viewers . .

We're planning to build our new stadium between a scrap yard and two sewerage works , on the spoil heap thrown up by the naavies when they built the Ship Canal that was then used as a rubbish tip . Our winger may well disappear into a hole in the ground near the West Stand if we don't get the drainage right , and there's a 48% chance it will be under water within the next 50 years due as it's part of the Irwell valley flood plain under risk from global warming

.. Sleep tight

Drove past this morning and it looks like they are in the final stages as they are now leveling and smoothing the top surface.

Does anyone know the date when the chosen contractors are announced?, think that is the next important date.

No but construction start on the 9th of Novenber I think.

Think the tendering process is down to the final two bidders and the preferred bidder will know sometime in the next two weeks, then it's all systems go

Could there be any implications on the local funding provided for your community stadium under the CSR?

On the whole our stadium is privately funded as part of a wider business development, with the local council giving a land donation of around $2,000,000 for both us and Cas.

Hope all is well and those no good Tories don't hinder your plans!