Dylan
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Post by Dylan on Mar 5, 2024 12:47:58 GMT
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Post by Bangkok u on Mar 16, 2024 19:43:59 GMT
Plans on hold if relegated…or should i say when!
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camloyal
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Post by camloyal on Mar 16, 2024 19:49:23 GMT
Plans on hold if relegated…or should i say when! If you peg a stadium redevelopment business plan to the fortunes of the 1st team the plan is flawed.
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Post by westchestertonbear on Mar 16, 2024 20:08:16 GMT
Plans on hold if relegated…or should i say when! No chance.
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btb
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Post by btb on Mar 16, 2024 20:11:23 GMT
Plans on hold if relegated…or should i say when! Stop making things up and then stating them like they are fact
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Post by hoolaohanrahanrahan on Mar 16, 2024 20:20:10 GMT
These things don't happen at the same speed as the on pitch things do.
We've had two managers and a caretaker since we confirmed the supporters club business, we may well have two more before the next box of the drawn out formal processes and politics gets ticked.
Or in other words, one bad Monk doesn't spoil The Abbey.
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Post by Mark Peters’ Bonce of Power on Mar 16, 2024 20:55:42 GMT
Let’s not forget that redevelopment isn’t just something we want to do because modern facilities would be nice, or even just because it’s widely assumed that increased seating capacity is needed to maintain our steady growth in attendances. It’s something that’s needed because parts of the ground, especially The Habbin, are basically falling apart around us. Scrapping redevelopment plans in the event of a return to L2 would be a very short term view, uncharacteristic of the way the current board and owners have been doing things and show a complete abandonment of the long term, big picture view of what’s needed to grow the club off the pitch. Let’s be positive and imagine a scenario in which a return to L2 is followed by an immediate promotion, if being in L1 is the difference between going ahead with development or not, do we suddenly have to get the ball rolling again after putting the plans on ice for a year? What if we went straight back down again a few months after getting planning permission, do we waste the time, effort and money already invested by cancelling it again? That’s just not a sensible long-term approach which again, would be very uncharacteristic of how the club has been looking to do things in recent times. In short redevelopment being dependent on which division we are in makes no sense, it’s a long term project that will take time and no one can guarantee what division we are in year on year, but the owners can guarantee that funding is available for infrastructure improvements.
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pgtips (lurid)
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Scattered thoughts, but thoughts nonetheless
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Post by pgtips (lurid) on Mar 16, 2024 23:50:06 GMT
I am humbled. I let the musical chairs this season distract me from the long term vision. More power to it.
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Post by abbeycambridge on Mar 18, 2024 12:17:45 GMT
Didn’t we have seats in the Habbin years ago? How long ago would that have been ?
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danielcufc
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Post by danielcufc on Mar 18, 2024 12:25:08 GMT
Didn’t we have seats in the Habbin years ago? How long ago would that have been ? Yes in the 1980's in the South Habbin. Were then removed at a later date.
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Jerry1971
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Post by Jerry1971 on Mar 18, 2024 12:53:29 GMT
Didn’t we have seats in the Habbin years ago? How long ago would that have been ? Yes in the 1980's in the South Habbin. Were then removed at a later date. This was seating installed to offer away supporters a seat option for games, remembering those were the days when we were in what is now the Championship and despite football being at a very low ebb compared to now, we had frequent away sell-outs for the allotment end as it was. The seats ran in an odd formation in the area between the disused tea bar at the back of the Habbin and the half way line, and were angled diagonally with the longest run of seating toward the front and the shortest run at the back (if that makes any sense) to try to provide sightlines for those sitting down. More often than not the seats had very little use!
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imp566
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Post by imp566 on Mar 18, 2024 14:29:38 GMT
Yes in the 1980's in the South Habbin. Were then removed at a later date. This was seating installed to offer away supporters a seat option for games, remembering those were the days when we were in what is now the Championship and despite football being at a very low ebb compared to now, we had frequent away sell-outs for the allotment end as it was. The seats ran in an odd formation in the area between the disused tea bar at the back of the Habbin and the half way line, and were angled diagonally with the longest run of seating toward the front and the shortest run at the back (if that makes any sense) to try to provide sightlines for those sitting down. More often than not the seats had very little use! They were very weirdly and awkwardly laid out, by necessity to offer a sightline of all the pitch, but I can't imagine many supporters actually sitting down on them. Which sort of defeated the object of having seats available!
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Dylan
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Favourite CUFC match: CUFC v AFC Halifax 04.05.14
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Post by Dylan on Mar 20, 2024 12:27:29 GMT
The relevant part for this thread from CFU meeting.
Over half a million quid to put in a planning application!!!!
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Post by hoolaohanrahanrahan on Mar 20, 2024 12:35:00 GMT
Baksheesh!! Baksheesh!
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Post by Mike Osbourn on Mar 20, 2024 15:25:50 GMT
Welcome to my every day world!
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