Thanks : Sun Aug 02, 2009 6:25 am  

Came over from Warrington for the game last night, tbh thought we were going to get hammered so was a bit gutted that we lost, but heh that's life.

Always enjoy coming over to Leeds for the game, your fans are great, you can always have a laugh & joke no matter what the result is & its nice to wander around the cricket ground before the game.

By the way, why are there 2 big areas of the South Stand cordoned off?

Re: Thanks : Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:03 am  

Fearnhead Cross wrote:

Came over from Warrington for the game last night, tbh thought we were going to get hammered so was a bit gutted that we lost, but heh that's life.

Always enjoy coming over to Leeds for the game, your fans are great, you can always have a laugh & joke no matter what the result is & its nice to wander around the cricket ground before the game.

By the way, why are there 2 big areas of the South Stand cordoned off?

Its knackered - failed a full capacity safety test last year and needs remedial work doing on it to be fully approved again, its over-rated as an enclosure anyway.

Re: Thanks : Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:35 am  

McLaren_Field wrote:

Its knackered - failed a full capacity safety test last year and needs remedial work doing on it to be fully approved again, its over-rated as an enclosure anyway.

I thought the remedial work had already been done and at a cost of £250,000?
*these are caddick pounds of course

Re: Thanks : Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:40 am  

McLaren_Field wrote:

Its knackered - failed a full capacity safety test last year and needs remedial work doing on it to be fully approved again, its over-rated as an enclosure anyway.

Have they not got plans to knock it down & rebuild it - seem to remember reading somewhere?

: Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:41 am  

What a refreshing change from the usual 'beer throwing, foul language, car damaging' stuff we get after a game.

: Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:46 am  

(Broken) Time Bandit wrote:

What a refreshing change from the usual 'beer throwing, foul language, car damaging' stuff we get after a game.

Usually find we get that at St Helens

Re: Thanks : Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:06 am  

Fearnhead Cross wrote:

Have they not got plans to knock it down & rebuild it - seem to remember reading somewhere?

Yes there are plans to do so.

In the current economic climate and with Carnegie closing the petty cash tin and throwing away the key I think its fair to say that the new south stand, and the new north stand fo that matter, is confined to the "wouldn't it be nice" filing cabinet for the foreseeable future.

Re: Thanks : Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:09 am  

Jonesy's a Legend wrote:

I thought the remedial work had already been done and at a cost of £250,000?
*these are caddick pounds of course

I don't know.

If that is the case then we can assume that the work required was of a far more drastic nature than intimated at the end of last season - £250k doesn't go far but if they needed to spend that sort of money just to maintain a reduced capacity then it must have been pretty firked to start with - I'd guess that the reduced capacity will be with us (you) for some time to come ...

Re: Thanks : Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:34 am  

McLaren_Field wrote:

Yes there are plans to do so.

In the current economic climate and with Carnegie closing the petty cash tin and throwing away the key I think its fair to say that the new south stand, and the new north stand fo that matter, is confined to the "wouldn't it be nice" filing cabinet for the foreseeable future.

From what I can gather Caddick are currently building an extension to the Arla plant in Sturton then after then they don’t have any big contracts on the horizon so he might just fill that void with the SS redevelopment – either that or mass lay-offs??

Re: Thanks : Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:43 am  

McLaren_Field wrote:

Yes there are plans to do so.

In the current economic climate and with Carnegie closing the petty cash tin and throwing away the key I think its fair to say that the new south stand, and the new north stand fo that matter, is confined to the "wouldn't it be nice" filing cabinet for the foreseeable future.

Next to the 'Odsal Village' blueprints and the Maradona/Leeds United contract