: Wed May 13, 2009 10:09 pm  

Bubba wrote:

I suppose it has helped having someone pro-active like Stephen Baines as Council Leader.

I used to work with him at Ben Shaws - he was far from pro-active
That said - he does make positive contributions down at the Town Hall.

: Wed May 13, 2009 10:19 pm  

Bubba wrote:

I think it has changed though even though there is a long way to go before we can boast a sport loving council. Who would have thought 5, 10 or 15 years ago they would have been putting £5m into the stadium? I suppose it has helped having someone pro-active like Stephen Baines as Council Leader.



Sadly you are probably right. Lets hope they dont expect a return on their cash too quickly

I think its the CEO that made this happen myself.

: Wed May 13, 2009 10:23 pm  

Bubba wrote:

Sadly you are probably right. Lets hope they dont expect a return on their cash too quickly

They should not really expect their money back, do they expect to get it back when they build a new swimming pool?
no and rightly so.

My dream is that one day some good go ahead people will ask the Council to run the Shay as a Stadium Company on a long term lease, like how Elsie Whiteley Innovation Centre is run.

We can all dream ,it may happen one day, why would a Council want to run a sports stadium in the long term is my question?
They don't make the best use of NBLC from what I can see, so how they going to run the Shay???

: Thu May 14, 2009 10:21 am  

Heard last night that the stand is runing behind schedule yet again.No surprise really not expected to now be finished Dec time, even though we had reasurance it would be finished sooner rather than later.
Not that it matters to us it should be ready for our preseason friendlies .

: Thu May 14, 2009 11:47 am  

johnny freeman fan club wrote:

even though we had reasurance it would be finished sooner rather than later.

Thats construction for you.

: Thu May 14, 2009 12:00 pm  

johnny freeman fan club wrote:

Heard last night that the stand is runing behind schedule yet again.No surprise really not expected to now be finished Dec time, even though we had reasurance it would be finished sooner rather than later.
Not that it matters to us it should be ready for our preseason friendlies .

When they decided that they didn't need to take the top part of the Stand down and rebuild (may just have been the roof), surely that should have bought them some time. God knows how they can be behind

: Thu May 14, 2009 1:20 pm  

recession on, got to streeeeeeeeeetch out the work...

: Thu May 14, 2009 3:48 pm  

Yob wrote:

When they decided that they didn't need to take the top part of the Stand down and rebuild (may just have been the roof), surely that should have bought them some time. God knows how they can be behind

Maybe they found a rare flock of old fans roosting under there?

: Thu May 14, 2009 3:48 pm  

swifty62 wrote:

recession on, got to streeeeeeeeeetch out the work...

Get some different builders in, I'm sure there's plenty of tradesmen and Labourers in the area looking for work and would be able to start tommorow

: Thu May 14, 2009 5:10 pm  

Yob wrote:

When they decided that they didn't need to take the top part of the Stand down and rebuild (may just have been the roof), surely that should have bought them some time. God knows how they can be behind

The roof work which wasnt needed in the end didnt stop the work underneath the stand progressing so this I assume made little change to the programme of works.

However, due to the change in design they have had to dig the concrete base out to install new drainage. Due to the cowboys who initally did the work all those years ago, the concrete in places is 500mm deep when it should be around 150mm deep. This has led to a great deal more work being required and until the under-ground drainage is complete, the next step cant begin.

I would have thought its as frustrating to Halls as it is anyone because a longer contract will mean greater prelims. But thats one of the disadvantages of picking up the pieces of a previously started (and bodjed) job.