The Mankover all action Thread.

Shhhhh, I'm channelling Le Tunnel. Anybody remember how that turned out ?

Tgwu wrote:

sufferedsince 68 wrote:

The odds of HP being a three sided ground for the forseable future look to me to be getting shorter by the day, the costs of reparing the outdated pile of crap must be getting ridiculous now.

But did they not signed a contact with a development company

Signing a contract and honouring it ain't quite the same thing.

Let's hope it all don't go nips up and end in court case and counter-court case with an army of lawyers on both sides rubbing their hands in glee.

Like Oldway did.*

It couldn't. Could it?



*shudder

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

Tgwu wrote:

sufferedsince 68 wrote:

The odds of HP being a three sided ground for the forseable future look to me to be getting shorter by the day, the costs of reparing the outdated pile of crap must be getting ridiculous now.

But did they not signed a contact with a development company

Signing a contract and honouring it ain't quite the same thing.

Let's hope it all don't go nips up and end in court case and counter-court case with an army of lawyers on both sides rubbing their hands in glee.

Like Oldway did.*

It couldn't. Could it?



*shudder

Eleven months have passed without any sign of rebuilding starting, and this is Village argo, so history tells us to expect the worse.

I'm fully consigned to the fact we're in for a calamitous time re the mankover. A few of the popcorn moments I fully expect to erupt sooner or later are budgets, hidden nasties, incompetence, UXB's, bats, boardroom dust-ups, material costs, world shortage of plastic seats, fracking earthquakes, corrosive sea air, wonky donkey web-cams, Brexit, face in-the-crowd lawsuits...........ad infinitum

It's all on it's way, trust me. Let's just hope there's no world popcorn shortage any time soon.

P.O.I wrote:

I'm fully consigned to the fact we're in for a calamitous time re the mankover. A few of the popcorn moments I fully expect to erupt sooner or later are budgets, hidden nasties, incompetence, UXB's, bats, boardroom dust-ups, material costs, world shortage of plastic seats, fracking earthquakes, corrosive sea air, wonky donkey web-cams, Brexit, face in-the-crowd lawsuits...........ad infinitum

It's all on it's way, trust me. Let's just hope there's no world popcorn shortage any time soon.

There is one word missing: "architects".

Good shout though.

P.O.I wrote:

I'm fully consigned to the fact we're in for a calamitous time re the mankover. A few of the popcorn moments I fully expect to erupt sooner or later are budgets, hidden nasties, incompetence, UXB's, bats, boardroom dust-ups, material costs, world shortage of plastic seats, fracking earthquakes, corrosive sea air, wonky donkey web-cams, Brexit, face in-the-crowd lawsuits...........ad infinitum

It's all on it's way, trust me. Let's just hope there's no world popcorn shortage any time soon.

Yep and the Bungo has already admitted they have found problems as they demolish. This is a calamitous done deal of epic ATD proportions
  

[quote="harvetheslayer"]

P.O.I wrote:

I'm fully consigned to the fact we're in for a calamitous time re the mankover. A few of the popcorn moments I fully expect to erupt sooner or later are budgets, hidden nasties, incompetence, UXB's, bats, boardroom dust-ups, material costs, world shortage of plastic seats, fracking earthquakes, corrosive sea air, wonky donkey web-cams, Brexit, face in-the-crowd lawsuits...........ad infinitum

It's all on it's way, trust me. Let's just hope there's no world popcorn shortage any time soon.

Yep and the Bungo has already admitted they have found problems as they demolish. This is a calamitous done deal of epic ATD proportions
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And the man responsible is?

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

P.O.I wrote:

I'm fully consigned to the fact we're in for a calamitous time re the mankover. A few of the popcorn moments I fully expect to erupt sooner or later are budgets, hidden nasties, incompetence, UXB's, bats, boardroom dust-ups, material costs, world shortage of plastic seats, fracking earthquakes, corrosive sea air, wonky donkey web-cams, Brexit, face in-the-crowd lawsuits...........ad infinitum

It's all on it's way, trust me. Let's just hope there's no world popcorn shortage any time soon.

There is one word missing: "architects".

Good shout though.

Am waiting for the daily rag to resurrect the German bomb story.

It'll be worse than brexit with a backstop of upping sticks in a huff and moving the club to East Prawle.

Well its been more or less completely stripped. Wonder what year they will attempt to put it all back together again.....

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Anybody seen any workers today?

harvetheslayer wrote:

Well its been more or less completely stripped. Wonder what year they will attempt to put it all back together again.....

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It makes me Angry of Mayfair seeing how run down and out of date that structure that again should be condemmed yet we got cheapskates in power wh are doing it up and making it out that is progress.

Of course none has been made just the bog standad removal of roof and stuff.

Went up there this morning to get my tickets for tomorrow's game and surprise surprise the broadband wasnt working in the ticket shack so they were unable to issue me tickets.
I asked is it pay on the turnstiles and she said that it was with no price increase so off I shuffled ticketless.

On my way out I glanced at the rusting structure and wondered how on earth they can build new stuff onto that.

Basket case from top to bottom.

sufferedsince 68 wrote:

Tgwu wrote:

sufferedsince 68 wrote:

The odds of HP being a three sided ground for the forseable future look to me to be getting shorter by the day, the costs of reparing the outdated pile of crap must be getting ridiculous now.

But did they not signed a contact with a development company

Extras bhey, every builder loves an extra, all the shit they uncover is probably not in the price lets hope uncle Si's got deep pockets.

Hope he’s got more money than sense for sure - you can telegraph one of the next lines ‘hit a snag, steel specialist says.......!!

Bandwagon wrote:

sufferedsince 68 wrote:

Tgwu wrote:

sufferedsince 68 wrote:

The odds of HP being a three sided ground for the forseable future look to me to be getting shorter by the day, the costs of reparing the outdated pile of crap must be getting ridiculous now.

But did they not signed a contact with a development company

Extras bhey, every builder loves an extra, all the shit they uncover is probably not in the price lets hope uncle Si's got deep pockets.

Hope he’s got more money than sense for sure - you can telegraph one of the next lines ‘hit a snag, steel specialist says.......!!

  you just know its coming

You can guarantee something is already going on, given the silence, it's deafening.
This whole thing goes right back to McCauley's days and his big fall out with the council over the tradium. The council were willing to put so much to the stadium they owned, but they expected the club to contribute too, given a whole new home for the club and nobody else. Fair enough.  PCC wouldn't pass over the freehold, but gave the club a massively long lease. McCauley got angry, wouldn't pay a penny without owning the stadium. Hence the debacle of the horseshoe take up by fans for fans which was the best that could be cobbled together with various grants. McCauley even bought Drakes Island and squatted there out of spite just to piss off the council, and that's without even going in to his recently discarded Sutton Harbour holdings' stand offs with PCC elsewhere.
Fast forward to more modern times, and a similar scenario where PCC offered Brent £5 million if he stumped up a similar sum. He also refused and bought the stadium instead.
Why is it still relevant now ?  because Brent, and maybe Hallett too now, we don't know yet, almost have it in their mind that the council have got away with something and are haunted by there possibly still being a pot of council gold that could subsidise the refurb of  what is now their private property, or even their holy grail, let them build residential housing in the park to pay for their stadium development as many other clubs have been ale to do because they're not in a park.  On it goes. On and on. I've been expecting some form of padlocked mayhem ever since Todd chucked in the keys, and what better time than a half demolished grandstand for 2020 . Maybe we're coming to it at last, or maybe Hallett will bring resolution and it all to a close and just bite the bullet. Nobody knows. There's all manner of manufactured excuses waiting to be unravelled, UXBs, stone age burial grounds, shale oil, anything. Maybe the new "fragrant" boardroom will start some suffragette movement and demand parkland housing for disadvantaged single mothers

The gist of Beezys post, in précis....

beesrus wrote:

Nobody knows.

The nobody knows thing is for reasons of politeness. This modern world doesn't take a lot of reading if you wish to.  
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Silent Si, has been very silent since the Brentmare ended usually when you get a change of ownership it comes with a rally the troops five year plan etc etc, Not a word from the silent one so far which makes me wonder whats going on at the Village club?

Tgwu wrote:

A new view from the TV Gantry

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That is the most sobering image yet - Hallett, please take an oxyacetylene to the rest, fcuks sake!!

Fans in that block best put a couple extra layers on with a nice wintry gale blowing through.  

sufferedsince 68 wrote:

Silent Si, has been very silent since the Brentmare ended usually when you get a change of ownership it comes with a rally the troops five year plan etc etc, Not a word from the silent one so far which makes me wonder whats going on at the Village club?

indeed all very quiet in fact to quiet from Silent Si the American investment company guy????? Or was in the Brentmare swindle all along got a bad feeling it’s gunna be more of the same old shit

beesrus wrote:

This whole thing goes right back to McCauley's days and his big fall out with the council over the tradium. The council were willing to put so much to the stadium they owned, but they expected the club to contribute too, given a whole new home for the club and nobody else. Fair enough.  PCC wouldn't pass over the freehold,  but gave the club a massively long lease.

Well. there's something only you knew.  Who would have believed it?

Because for many years, the suggestion that it was possible the club could buy the stadium was ridiculed by all and sundry on Pasoti.  It was a god given fact that the "covenants" to the park forbade it. I certainly never saw you contradict that stance.

I once brought up whether this covenant restriction was actually true and where was the proof etc, and was rounded on by the likes of Angry Andy, throbber et al, including the 'he who knows it all former pasoti mod' who now resides here doing much the same thing.  I was told no proof was needed, it was just 'known' - as if it was some sort of universal physical law like gravity.

In fact...  I remember the first time somebody on Pasoti posted that the council were going to sell the stadium to Stapes, the poster was ridiculed mercilessly.  He might have even been banned for trolling?  Just a few days later he was proved correct.

Shock horror....

Punchdrunk wrote:

Went up there this morning to get my tickets for tomorrow's game and surprise surprise the broadband wasnt working in the ticket shack so they were unable to issue me tickets.
I asked is it pay on the turnstiles and she said that it was with no price increase so off I shuffled ticketless.

On my way out I glanced at the rusting structure and wondered how on earth they can build new stuff onto that.

Basket case from top to bottom.

IM STILL WAITING FOR MY TICKET TOO ARRIVE!!!!