| Ground works 16:38 - Jul 11 with 8741 views | textbackup |
Mate is down there this week and the general consensus of the contractors working is that there is no chance work will be complete by the Liverpool game.
Wonder if they’ve tried to cram too much in. |  |
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| Not without precedent.... on 16:41 - Jul 11 with 6918 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Luton Town have been forced to postpone their first Premier League home fixture of the 2023-24 season after failing to guarantee that the £10 million ($13.1m) upgrade of their Kenilworth Road stadium will be completed in time. |  |
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| Ground works on 16:44 - Jul 11 with 6841 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Yeah… but what work won’t be completed. Not all of it will need to be done.
The exec lounges for example wouldn’t stop the game going ahead. |  |
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| You got a downvote for this.... on 16:52 - Jul 11 with 6698 views | Bloots |
....not enough bootlicking!!!
Sort it out. |  |
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| Not without precedent.... on 17:04 - Jul 11 with 6517 views | Dubtractor |
| Not without precedent.... on 16:41 - Jul 11 by Marshalls_Mullet |
Luton Town have been forced to postpone their first Premier League home fixture of the 2023-24 season after failing to guarantee that the £10 million ($13.1m) upgrade of their Kenilworth Road stadium will be completed in time. |
I'm secretly hoping we'll do the sake, as I'm away for the first game. |  |
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| Ground works on 17:30 - Jul 11 with 6288 views | Illinoisblue |
So long as they’ve made room to put the 527 cameras Sky apparently need for every game we should be good. |  |
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| Ground works on 17:41 - Jul 11 with 6147 views | itfc1108 |
Contractor to Mark Ashton ( whilst supping tea ) " dear oh dear oh dear, it's gonna be tight, we could do it, but it's gonna cost yer". |  | | |
| Ground works on 17:52 - Jul 11 with 6003 views | Pinewoodblue |
we already know the game on 27th July can go ahead, albeit with parts of the ground unavailable. not sure what the concern is. Do TNT need the same facilities as Sky? |  |
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| You got a downvote for this.... on 18:05 - Jul 11 with 5868 views | textbackup |
| You got a downvote for this.... on 16:52 - Jul 11 by Bloots |
....not enough bootlicking!!!
Sort it out. |
It’s only Denny, he doesn’t count | |
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| Ground works on 18:15 - Jul 11 with 5728 views | yesjohn99 |
Ground not fully open for Fortuna game. You never know. | | | |
| Not without precedent.... on 18:16 - Jul 11 with 5713 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Not without precedent.... on 17:04 - Jul 11 by Dubtractor |
I'm secretly hoping we'll do the sake, as I'm away for the first game. |
Yep, me too. |  |
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| Ground works on 18:16 - Jul 11 with 5712 views | SheffordBlue |
| Ground works on 17:52 - Jul 11 by Pinewoodblue |
we already know the game on 27th July can go ahead, albeit with parts of the ground unavailable. not sure what the concern is. Do TNT need the same facilities as Sky? |
That game doesn't need VAR (although they might want it ready by then for some testing). Think the cabling and camera positions for VAR is quite complicated. | |
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| Ground works on 18:20 - Jul 11 with 5695 views | portmanking |
Ashton won't be happy with that. He'll get more subbies in to work through the night if necessary. I'm not kidding. | | | |
| Ground works on 18:55 - Jul 11 with 5375 views | textbackup |
| Ground works on 18:20 - Jul 11 by portmanking |
Ashton won't be happy with that. He'll get more subbies in to work through the night if necessary. I'm not kidding. |
Half of the problem is there are already too many people on site, making certain jobs impossible to complete | |
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| Ground works on 19:07 - Jul 11 with 5225 views | Scuzzer |
Yeah, yeah...we all know how builders work.
Hope there are fixed price contracts in place. |  |
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| Ground works on 19:37 - Jul 11 with 5022 views | ipswichtillidie |
| Ground works on 18:20 - Jul 11 by portmanking |
Ashton won't be happy with that. He'll get more subbies in to work through the night if necessary. I'm not kidding. |
A mate of mine has been called up for the next two weekends to work on site so you’re not wrong there. NDA in place for photos etc not to be shared. |  |
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| Ground works on 19:42 - Jul 11 with 4922 views | textbackup |
| Ground works on 19:37 - Jul 11 by ipswichtillidie |
A mate of mine has been called up for the next two weekends to work on site so you’re not wrong there. NDA in place for photos etc not to be shared. |
Plenty got shared today 😂 | |
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| Ground works on 19:49 - Jul 11 with 4814 views | ipswichtillidie |
| Ground works on 19:42 - Jul 11 by textbackup |
Plenty got shared today 😂 |
I obviously haven’t asked for any pictures around the entire ground or anything like that. | |
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| Ground works on 19:55 - Jul 11 with 4735 views | Keno |
| Ground works on 17:41 - Jul 11 by itfc1108 |
Contractor to Mark Ashton ( whilst supping tea ) " dear oh dear oh dear, it's gonna be tight, we could do it, but it's gonna cost yer". |
Ashton to Contractor - well its interesting you say that, the board give me the oxygen to deal with situations like that and looking at the contract it seems that you guaranteed to have the work done and, from memory, clause 78 para 13 subsection 26 states "in the event you come into my office drinking tea claiming "it's gonna be tight, we could do it, but it's gonna cost yer" the payable to you reduces by 50% |  |
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| Ground works on 20:17 - Jul 11 with 4494 views | MattinLondon |
Tell your mate to work harder. |  | | |
| Ground works on 20:23 - Jul 11 with 4432 views | textbackup |
| Ground works on 20:17 - Jul 11 by MattinLondon |
Tell your mate to work harder. |
Must be quality being that simple | |
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| Ground works on 20:39 - Jul 11 with 4284 views | BtreeBlueBlood |
| Ground works on 17:52 - Jul 11 by Pinewoodblue |
we already know the game on 27th July can go ahead, albeit with parts of the ground unavailable. not sure what the concern is. Do TNT need the same facilities as Sky? |
Another 100 cameras |  | | |
| Ground works on 21:32 - Jul 11 with 4015 views | apnorman23 |
| Ground works on 19:42 - Jul 11 by textbackup |
Plenty got shared today 😂 |
Where we they shared? Curious as my son works down there and they aren't allowed to take any photo's | | | |
| Ground works on 21:37 - Jul 11 with 3944 views | itfcjoe |
| Ground works on 18:20 - Jul 11 by portmanking |
Ashton won't be happy with that. He'll get more subbies in to work through the night if necessary. I'm not kidding. |
That isn’t going to help when big chunk has to be redesigned |  |
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| Ground works on 21:53 - Jul 11 with 3750 views | SitfcB |
| Ground works on 18:20 - Jul 11 by portmanking |
Ashton won't be happy with that. He'll get more subbies in to work through the night if necessary. I'm not kidding. |
I was surprised to see no work being done the other weekend, and then last Sunday there was workers present. Would’ve thought work would’ve been taken place round the clock! |  |
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| Ground works on 22:27 - Jul 11 with 3511 views | stonojnr |
| Ground works on 21:53 - Jul 11 by SitfcB |
I was surprised to see no work being done the other weekend, and then last Sunday there was workers present. Would’ve thought work would’ve been taken place round the clock! |
yeah that strikes me as odd, we will have had about 100 days since last home championship league game to first home Premier league game.
why would you immediately cull best part of nearly 30 days, just under a third of the time available, or basically lets call it a month, off your build schedule by not working weekends from the start ?
I get you cant work the same people 7 days a week for weeks on end, and logistics of supplies of equipment materials, problems you encounter along the way add up, but theres loads of different people involved in this doing all manner of different work, and rule number 1 of project management is you can always waste time, you can never get time back
and if you are in a time box situation, ie the end date cant slip (though I really dont understand why the club didnt ask for an away game for the 1st match and cant believe the Prem league would have turned them down its in their interests not to have games postponed due to building works to meet their crazy documents for promoted teams)
youve got to basically do the hard graft on it from the start,or at least pay others to do it for you.
so getting to this point and suddenly thinking oh no we need another 10 days in our schedule of works, what you been doing the past two months ? | | | |
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