Ground Improvements - Well done GTFC

Quoted from ska face

A good source has told me that moving walkways are to be installed at the front of each stand so that early-leavers don’t linger around blocking everyone’s view.

Do they have the “Barnet” reverse gear functionality -  for when we are 3-1 down against mediocre opposition with a panicking defence when we pull one back?

Quoted from forza ivano

I really don't think it's in Andrew & Jason's nature to do Anything 'half baked'!

Didn't Debbie say in her interview that grants were becoming available next year, so it made sense to delay the major works by a year.
It all sounds very interesting if the stuff about an extension is valid. Also the poster who said about them wanting to see if the massive STH sales were a flash in the pan, sounds very 1878!

Premier League solidarity payments to the EFL are increasing and the PL wants the increase to be directed towards infrastructure projects rather than just going on increased wages for players. I'm guessing JS & AP are hoping for a structure to be put in place that will deliver the new training ground and make a new stadium viable in their heads.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Premier League solidarity payments to the EFL are increasing and the PL wants the increase to be directed towards infrastructure projects rather than just going on increased wages for players. I'm guessing JS & AP are hoping for a structure to be put in place that will deliver the new training ground and make a new stadium viable in their heads.

That's their hope and it would be great ,but I'm  sure clubs will find loopholes to chase the dream and spunk it away on player salaries .

Quoted from Mappers

That's their hope and it would be great ,but I'm  sure clubs will find loopholes to chase the dream and spunk it away on player salaries .

Loopholes should result in points deductions on this one. That money HAS to be used on infrastructure. Football is on a slippery slope, and using the EPL money wisely can start the fixing process. Losing their confidence could f#ck things up forever for ‘the likes of Grimsby’.

I have no doubt we’ll do the right thing, but someone’s bound to mess it up.

Perhaps they meant a more permanent division of the Osmond in favour of home fans?

I know money is tight but would have been nice for all toilets to be upgraded ,hot water and electric handryers .It is 2023

If they know the grants are to be available next year (is that January or the start of next season?) then they could fence the gap off between the Pontoon and Main, and start building something now. As long as the upfront costs are covered by 1878, they will get their monies back

The only things that would need a temorary home would be the announcers box, and the Match Commander/Police Box. A two storey temporary structure could easily be erected either between the Lower and Pontoon or Lower and Osmond

Quoted from Oly1987

We have room within the stadium could we not work round piece by piece? So start by building a completely new stand in the corner of the main/pontoon connecting to the pontoon, then working our way across the main stand closing off sections with the new build offsetting the lost seats while we work, with the end result being a new enclosed stand running around 3 sides of the pitch with an overall net increase in capacity?

I'm absolutely sure that many years ago Notts County rebuilt their ground in the close season. If not all the ground, I'm sure it was three of the sides.

Total guess but IF they're revamping / rebuilding the main stand it wouldn't suprise me if they extend it to the police box. That'd give us an extra couple hundred seats and providing they update the roof situation a couple hundred extra non restricted seats

It's videos like these that make me so grateful Fenty has gone. And Jason and Andrew are our owners. Their team headed by Debbie are in a different world to what we had before. That man wasted 17 years of my time and passion, I can't wait to see us fly.