Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:25 am  

exileinpietown wrote:

Even if the cladding is sorted I fear that if you get really wet and windy weather then the first ten rows or so will get wet as witnessed in the first open night on 9th December. Unavoidable unfortunately and seems to happen at most modern stadia.

Please don't give them an excuse for not doing the cladding! as it looks like a half finished stadium when you see it on TV.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:49 am  

It could be the club are waiting till May to do the cladding when I think we don't have a home fixture for four weeks.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:15 pm  

jaybs wrote:

Please don't give them an excuse for not doing the cladding! as it looks like a half finished stadium when you see it on TV.

Not to me it doesn't. It looks like an individual design rather than an off the shelf 4 individual stands job.

Anyway, the cladding will only be 50% cladding, so you'll still see through it.

[Sadfish]

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:37 pm  

jaybs wrote:

Please don't give them an excuse for not doing the cladding! as it looks like a half finished stadium when you see it on TV.

This is what the original plans showed though.

Saints haven't hidden anything just that it wasn't obvious to us all as we say the 3d graphics and it showed it enclosed but the plans didn't have cladding.

The thing is, it WILL be required as the concourses are treacherous in the wetter periods, but you could say that vast areas of KR were in the same "boat".

Either way Eamonn only really needs to stop the rain coming in for it to stop the complaints I think the stadium looks fine from where I sit in the south stand, and probably looks better in the North.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:55 am  

Sadfish wrote:

Either way Eamonn only really needs to stop the rain coming in for it to stop the complaints.

Easier said than done!

I wonder when we had the fine weather if it was felt we may get away with this for this season and one less expenditure on our outgoings, when the first complaints were raised I thought it was said it would said the cladding would be soon completed?

Perhaps the chairman and his friends do not have a bottomless pocket as some may think?

[Sadfish]

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:42 am  

he is a God

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:42 am  

Sadfish wrote:

This is what the original plans showed though.

Saints haven't hidden anything just that it wasn't obvious to us all as we say the 3d graphics and it showed it enclosed but the plans didn't have cladding.

The thing is, it WILL be required as the concourses are treacherous in the wetter periods, but you could say that vast areas of KR were in the same "boat".

Either way Eamonn only really needs to stop the rain coming in for it to stop the complaints I think the stadium looks fine from where I sit in the south stand, and probably looks better in the North.

Didn't Saints commission and were therefore responsible for the 3d graphics? They were certainly using them to publicise the ground, and sell tickets. Most fans will not look at the technical plans, so it is not unfair to say that things were hidden.

I haven't been to the ground yet, but from TV, it looks lovely, I don't think there are any issues with the look of it from inside, outside is a different matter, and if there are health and safety issues with the concourse then there's a problem. As you say, there are plenty of grounds with uncovered spaces, do they have a different ground surface to avoid slips etc. as I've never known issues with slipping in these older grounds.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:36 am  

Sadfish wrote:

he is a God

That's what I find funny! was only discussing it with some die hards this morning who do not have the internet, they choked laughing!!

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:57 am  

Sadfish wrote:

Saints haven't hidden anything just that it wasn't obvious to us all as we say the 3d graphics and it showed it enclosed but the plans didn't have cladding.

The 3D graphics were promoted as the thing to see, and loads of people - including me - went to watch the presentation which included them. I watched it in the town centre. The club has misled people in this regard as the 3D graphics clearly showed an enclosed stadium and that really excited a lot of people, thinking that we could capture a serious atmosphere. Having the open sides has not only been a disappointment but they have also created an unpleasant experience at the stadium when the weather isn't warm and sunny.

[Sadfish]

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:15 pm  

jaybs wrote:

That's what I find funny! was only discussing it with some die hards this morning who do not have the internet, they choked laughing!!

My comment was about his ability to control the weather as that would probably be the only thing you will see any time soon with regards to stopping the rain in those expanded areas of the North east and west stands.

I think people who think they where misled are mad, thats what plans are for, the representation was wrong, but are we the fools for that or Saints for not making the "halo" effect more obvious, the plans are there for all to see when all said and done.

I think the club are wrong to delay/not make a decision/not liaise with the fans over the cladding issue, and if i see Eamonn i'll tell him such, last time I spoke to him the answer was that it was going to happen after the reports of the roof issue where sorted.

I would love the cladding to get finished and all round too, but not at the over expense of the clubs finances spiralling..... We don't want to be the next Bradford, and really cladding is low on the overall agenda on the grand scheme of things......