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Just spoke to someone who reckons it's fucked and in a right state?

I know a few on here are something to do with the pitch,is this true or just total random bullshit.

@MacPhlea is the man to ask.

Or Grubby, if he's still around.

There's a pic of it on the STFC Facebook from the 8th July and it looks pretty good there.

Not sure if the direct link will work: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/photo.php?fbid=225883524118167&set=a.155835867789600.33546.155824257790761&type=1&theater

I was speaking to the guys in the ticket office a couple of weeks ago, they said the pitch was fucked but I think they've fixed it now.

Can't understand why the pitch would be bad after all the shite on it last season.

Don't think it was fucked, they were just reseeding it which made it look bad for a while.

4 weeks ago there was quite a bit of worry regarding the pitch as the seeding didnt go as planned. The pitch has a few areas where it was just bare. Marcus has been working to re-seed these patches and they are currently under cover and extra fertiliser applied. Most of the pitch looks great though. It won't be perfect for next weekend but should be there for the Reading game.

Ah good news.

 Was up at the Wandsbourgh training ground most of the day watching U16's trials. The training pitches were in excellent condition. As I arrived at around 12.30 pm Paolo was just driving out with a car load. The whole squad were back training before 2.30 pm for the afternoon session which was mostly short games. Didn't see Connell there though but perhaps he was elsewhere having his medical. It was nice to see them putting in the hard work on a Saturday considering they have only just arrived back from Italy. Paolo was very vocal and was joining in most of what I saw.

WANDSBROUGH thats a new one, the weather wasnt ideal for seeding but with a watering system on place shouldnt be any excuses.

Sorry, did mean PGL Liddington !

so this is why they suddenly upped the prices? to pay for extra pitch maintenance.

Slight deviation, from pitch to ground! It's all gone quiet on the stadium plans, does anyone know anything as to why??

Are the board wanting us out of L2 before they even consider completing the stadium plans?  :sherlock:

Yes.

Watkins and Wray said getting out of this league is the number 1 priority.

No point having a 20,000 seater stadium in league 2.

Ta, figured that was probably the reason!

Wrong time to be redeveloping when you're on a downward trajectory.  Let's have the team at least pushing for the Championship before we finalise any plans.  If we try this in League 2, we'll end up hiring a consultant who will advise we build to 12,000 capacity and, at a stroke, we'll have fixed a ceiling on our ambitions for the next 40 or 50 years.

We need to be on the up before we start thinking about this again...or we'll end up with something tinpot like Oxford.

I've got an idea, why don't we only build "some" of the stands now, and the rest once we're back where we belong?  :hmmm:

Because it's not a priority.

And splitting the redevelopment would add cost, and make the project more difficult to manage.

That was sort of the plan anyway wasn't it? stand by stand. see no reason why they can't push on with it personally.

I always thought the time frame of re-development had alot to do with the current lease running out next year?

  You might not have noticed, but the economy is fucked both locally and nationally.   The current owners arrived with their plans just before the Banker's induced crash....so their ideas flew out the window.

Sorry guys, I was taking the piss, but I didn't anticipate no one catching on - probably didn't make it clear enough to be fair.

The "some" was aimed at Oxford having 3 stands using this very logic. And because they're Oxford, will remain having only 3 stands...  :beers:

Certainly Blackpool and Plymouth are 2 examples of building a stadium bit by bit at our level. Although I think the difference is that you need to have a plan to start with, no point starting to build not knowing if its going to end up as 12k or 20k.

Plus the new stadium needs to have facilities to create a revenue stream other than football which I believe are also a major part of our plans not only the capacity size.

Oh dear, I really didn't intend to start a genuine in depth discussion. Can we please remember the 80% bollocks part that attracted me to this site in the first place? (queue gay joke!!)

you are gay

If you build a 3 sided ground like Blackpool or the Pox, then you basically have to get in the Premier League to finnish it off.

Pox wont have 4 sides again unless they leave the Kassam.

A 3 sided ground is an absolute curse.

I love our stadium. If we could just build a new Stratton Bank Stand and put ALL the away fans in there I think we would have more than a decent ground for a few years.

I wonder when football grounds became stadiums....I just can't think of the CG as anything other than a Ground.

For me Reg it was when all the seats replaced terracing. Had some good times on the old Shivvy Road but times move on,

amended for you :D

Reg you should replace Mervyn King, we would all know where we stand with statements like ' the economy is fucked '.

A football ground evolves, with different stands built and rebuilt at different times in different designs. A stadium is one design all the way around.

I see what you are getting at but it's not stictly true is it?

If it was a stadium wouldn't it be called the County Stadium?

it was always Wembley Stadium Reginald, it was the quincunx of majesty, I miss it

Ah but the Empire Stadium wasn't built as a football ground, but for other usage, football just happened to be one of them.

Any examples that break that rule?