New roof

Quoted from Heswall Mariner

Why on earth did this Safety Advisory Group (whoever they are) come up with a 'last minute unexpected request to replace the roof' a week before the start of the season?
Anyway full marks to the club for getting the job done within such a short timescale.

Yeah it seems like a bit of an act of sabotage to demand the repairs take place a week before the season starts.
You’d have imagined their inspection took place a while before surely ?

Quoted from grimps

Yeah it seems like a bit of an act of sabotage to demand the repairs take place a week before the season starts.
You’d have imagined their inspection took place a while before surely ?

Why does there have to be a massive conspiracy theory about it? It’s getting done so let’s just get over it. For all we know this could’ve been recommended years ago but got ‘lost’ somewhere in a mountain of paperwork

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Nobody’s looking for an angle FFS. There’s no way a professional football club should be needing to replace a full roof on a stand in the last week of preseason. Especially when they’ve had three months to prepare.

Canny move by the club....three months less wear and tear extends the life of the roof. It's almost Fentyesque in its penny watching.  

Quoted from moosey_club

Canny move by the club....three months less wear and tear extends the life of the roof. It's almost Fentyesque in its penny watching.  

It's a lovely idea but, as GTFC plan for their stands to be used for 150+ years, an extra 3 months is unlikely to impact significantly on it.

I can foresee the GTFC owner in 2173 explaining to fans that the Ponny roof was 'upgraded' in 2023 as we prepare for our first game defending the Champions League that we won in 2172.

Quoted from aldi_01

Possibly, but with that logic, Luton with their ambition should’ve redeveloped their ground in preparation for promotion last season.

It really does seem like a few fans trying to pick fault when it took a mere 4 days to complete and solve. Possibly late but given things people have heard, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they had been told something completely different by the previous owner, they’ve trusted that word and it’s not been true…

Literally a whole raft of speculation and nobody really knowing the truth, and in truth, it doesn’t really matter. It’s finished. The end.

That's not the same thing with Luton, but it's not a big deal either way. The huge turnover in staff has most likely resulted in things being overlooked or missed. The only downside is that it probably cost a lot more to do it so late in the day than it should have. Or maybe this was the work that was too late to tender so they left it for next season expecting a grace period.

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

It's a lovely idea but, as GTFC plan for their stands to be used for 150+ years, an extra 3 months is unlikely to impact significantly on it.

I can foresee the GTFC owner in 2173 explaining to fans that the Ponny roof was 'upgraded' in 2023 as we prepare for our first game defending the Champions League that we won in 2172.

That owner is Mrs Clifton, great granddaughter of club legend Harry Clifton. Harry is, of course, all time record appearance holder and the only player to have played for Town from the National League to the Champions League.

She is speaking after opening the Harry Clifton Stand, a 20,000 seat capacity stand that runs from the Osmond Stand to the Pontoon and includes dressing rooms, club offices and facilities for 5,000 'matchday experiences'.

The Main Stand is still in use and posters on the The Fishy are still suggesting that the houses that back on to the Main Stand could be bought to rebuild the stand. Some posters do accept that this plan is now looking unlikely as global warming means that those houses are now highly desirable waterfront properties valued at between 1 and 1.5 million quid each.  

Quoted from pen penfras

The huge turnover in staff has most likely resulted in things being overlooked or missed.

What difference would that make? There’s only been one Ops & Safety Manager since Nick Dale disappeared, unless you think the commercial dept or ticket office staff looked after the roof as well

Quoted from ska face

What difference would that make? There’s only been one Ops & Safety Manager since Nick Dale disappeared, unless you think the commercial dept or ticket office staff looked after the roof as well

Good to see pen returning to form, with a sly dig, after a long absence. Things were sooo much better under JSF........ (didn't have any trouble in getting a seat at B.P. under him did we?)

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

That owner is Mrs Clifton, great granddaughter of club legend Harry Clifton. Harry is, of course, all time record appearance holder and the only player to have played for Town from the National League to the Champions League.

She is speaking after opening the Harry Clifton Stand, a 20,000 seat capacity stand that runs from the Osmond Stand to the Pontoon and includes dressing rooms, club offices and facilities for 5,000 'matchday experiences'.

The Main Stand is still in use and posters on the The Fishy are still suggesting that the houses that back on to the Main Stand could be bought to rebuild the stand. Some posters do accept that this plan is now looking unlikely as global warming means that those houses are now highly desirable waterfront properties valued at between 1 and 1.5 million quid each.  

Mrs Clifton also explains that the club is doubly excited by the opening of the new stand because, at some point in January or February, The Guiness Book Of Records will officially recognise the top 2 rows in the stand as the coldest place on earth.

Quoted from forza ivano

Good to see pen returning to form, with a sly dig, after a long absence. Things were sooo much better under JSF........ (didn't have any trouble in getting a seat at B.P. under him did we?)

Exactly, true to form & not really much to say. Could you imagine the scenario if Fenty had still been running the show & told to replace the entire roof of a sold-out stand 9 days before the start of the season?

He’d be on the front of the paper waving his arms about, one of his friends or relatives would’ve ended up with the job, it would’ve been an open-air Pontoon until Christmas and the bill would’ve been tacked onto the benign debt.

Forgive me for being overly generous, but looks to me like the club’ve managed to replace the entire roof at short notice within a week using a local firm & commercial sponsor, and nobody would’ve known if not for a few posts on here. Decent job by the looks of it.