Quote ="Khlav Kalash"Stuff clearly happing on the North Stand https://mobile.twitter.com/MinardsTrini ... 4623922178 Minnards trolling the Saints fans'" Brilliant. Vossy wasn't interested much in the new stand, though he thought it impressive. He was interested in the North terrace and how big it was and how he could imagine flat capped men in the freezing cold watching the gods of the sixties (poetic license from me). Goes to show, not everyone is obsessed with IMG points, he just loved the history both at BV and Cas.

Quote ="Khlav Kalash"Stuff clearly happing on the North Stand https://mobile.twitter.com/MinardsTrini ... 4623922178 Minnards trolling the Saints fans'" Brilliant. Vossy wasn't interested much in the new stand, though he thought it impressive. He was interested in the North terrace and how big it was and how he could imagine flat capped men in the freezing cold watching the gods of the sixties (poetic license from me). Goes to show, not everyone is obsessed with IMG points, he just loved the history both at BV and Cas.

Genuinely, what is there not to love about Vossy.

Nowt.

Vossy is an excellent commentator and everything that Uk commentators aren’t.

He has charisma but crucially has knowledge on players/their backgrounds and does his research.

Anyway, the stadium. Weren’t we supposed to have some drone photos this week?

Doesn’t appear like there’s been as much progress this week from the last lot of photos in terms of the frame going up.

There's plenty going on. The fact they are installing the office/hospitality section which is deeper than just the stand means the extent of steel work is the same, just not linear.

Correct

Who said that? It's not the club who took those, so who knows when he may fly again.

That’s good. I can only go on the photos I’ve seen a few days ago. Should really start to take shape and we can see it in the flesh at the friendly.

I’m sure I saw a post on here saying that the drone person was hoping to take some photos again late this week weather permitting. Can’t be bothered trawling though but sure I read it.

Could have been me that you are referring too! it was more of a 'plea' to see if he read on here

Once again I’m personally really disappointed at the lack of pictures and video of the stand going up … hell! If there was a subscription channel for a 24/7 camera I would subscribe…

The first thing I do each morning after waking up (here in Aus) is check for updates … if I were a conspiracy theorist I might suggest that there is an embargo on releasing pictures from the club… the only ones I’ve seen are personal uploads!



Please please … for fecks sake ….please start sharing some pictures

We get good pictures of the squad training… although we’ve no idea who currently is in that squad and who else is released.

You can tell I’m getting frustrated!!!

I've made myself a little pact of taking the dog walking on alternative routes on a weekend, by going past and all the way around the ground from the outside as I have more time on my hands, every other weekend. Weather and man flu permitting, I'll be taking that walk next Saturday, and upload some pictures

I drove past today and was surprised by the scale of it. Much bigger than I imagined.

I thought the same! It came far further back than I expected. Looks great!

I can imagine….

No wait… I have to imagine as there are no pictures!!

Your very demanding aren’t you Spook



I’m hoping we will see some photos this week and hopefully the drone person will be flying by.

I reckon it’s about 3/4 done for the initial steel, probably a couple weeks weather dependant for the crane and the steel structure be in place. Silos are there now also so masonry will be starting once the structure is completed probabaly well on target knowing how Morgan Sindall work

Comes with age!!! I used to be soooo patienticon_wink.gif

Just a random thought, If Cas get the funding that we’ve had via the same route Id expect them to try and top us with their stadium build. Their reasoning, I think will be because of the IMG grading.

I’m not concerned but just throwing it in there for discussion

Try and do are very different things.
I hope they can get their stadium but they are way behind us in that race.

The cost of building materials is going up all the time. They're a long way off starting to build. Not sure plans have been submitted yet and know how long it took for us from being heard by the planning committee.

In Halifax we were getting a new bus station, train station and pool/leisure centre. Only the bus station is going ahead the other 2 have been put on hold due to expense

Is their proposal still linked into another development? Our advantage is that we are just replacing something that was already there, in reality, and improving something that was already there. Perhaps easier to get going than something new that is dependent on other parties building other things.

As I understand it the retail park build which was going to finance Cas's new stadium fell through and Cas now want to develop their existing ground, just as we are.Not sure here,but I think the company involved with the retail park were hoping to get planning to change to commercial, and if that came about Cas were wanting the developers to pay for/contribute to the stadium rebuild/upgrade.Don't quote me on this, it's all from memory, and some of it may not be the case.Cas (and Fev) will also get the 2 mil from the council I think.

My thoughts on Cas trying to top us is that they may build a smaller grandstand in favour of developing another 2 or maybe all 3 of the other stands. They may only build the equivalent of 3 elongated bus shelters with toilets and outlets in them and 1 decent grandstand but from the outside it’ll look like a whole new stadium much the same as Salfords new stadium.

There is then an argument that they are better placed than we are for the future especially if you factor in they can regularly get 8,000 crowds