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Post by suedehead on Dec 5, 2020 8:39:07 GMT
The rumour I heard is that the council won’t sell until Stott proves he’s in it at Edgeley Park for the long haul. Stuff like this goes towards proving he is. Absolutely no idea about costs of stuff, but the current refurbishment of the CE must be costing somewhere between 100k and 500k, especially with the refurbishment of the conference stuff that is still ongoing. Hats off to Mr Stott You can probably add another zero on to those estimates.
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Post by timberwolf on Dec 5, 2020 9:03:20 GMT
I like how we don’t we much from him. Just gets things done. thats what we need. words are cheap his action are not. think for once we are all in the same mind about all these refurbs and just makes us all want to get back to EP just to do our part.
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Post by geordiehatter on Dec 5, 2020 9:08:28 GMT
I like how we don’t we much from him. Just gets things done. thats what we need. words are cheap his action are not. think for once we are all in the same mind about all these refurbs and just makes us all want to get back to EP just to do our part. Absolutely. Just unbelievable the transformation. I knew I was longing to get back to the football but I wasn't expecting to be quite so excited at the prospect of a stroll through the concourse! I've got concourse fever here.
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Post by scfc73 on Dec 5, 2020 10:26:19 GMT
Not going to lie, that’s turned me on. As concourses go it is pretty damn sexy! Can't wait for the day where we can repay all Mr. Stott's hard work & investment with some extra vociferous backing from the twelfth man.
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Post by vicar on Dec 5, 2020 12:29:15 GMT
Not going to lie, that’s turned me on. As concourses go it is pretty damn sexy! Can't wait for the day where we can repay all Mr. Stott's hard work & investment with some extra vociferous backing from the twelfth man. I can't wait to be part of it, when some kind of normality returns a flight from Alicante costs less than a train ticket to London.
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Post by stalybridgehatter on Dec 5, 2020 20:06:07 GMT
Not going to lie, that’s turned me on. As concourses go it is pretty damn sexy! Can't wait for the day where we can repay all Mr. Stott's hard work & investment with some extra vociferous backing from the twelfth man. EP will be rocking the day we can go without any restrictions!
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Post by edinburghhatter on Dec 5, 2020 20:23:55 GMT
The rumour I heard is that the council won’t sell until Stott proves he’s in it at Edgeley Park for the long haul. Stuff like this goes towards proving he is. Absolutely no idea about costs of stuff, but the current refurbishment of the CE must be costing somewhere between 100k and 500k, especially with the refurbishment of the conference stuff that is still ongoing. Hats off to Mr Stott The ownership question may turn out not to be so important, at least in the short term.
I still wonder if there is some sort of agreement in place (or being worked on) which might involve a partnership with the Council in all this. If the Council do sell EP back to County, I guess a condition could be attached re the continued use of EP as a sporting venue.
But as long as County have a watertight long-term lease specifying the rent to be paid, and that rent is forthcoming, then does it really matter who actually owns EP? It's clearly a good thing from the club's point of view to expand/enhance/replace outmoded and unprofitable facilities, and that is precisely what they have started doing.
County are clearly making a very significant investment in EP and for possibly the first time in its history, it is increasingly being seen as a valuable asset in its own right... and not simply as a crowd container, to be used every couple of weeks or so. The improvements already happening are significant and probably essential to arrest the decline suffered during almost 20 years of under-investment. But it's probably very little compared to what would be needed to make even minor improvements to areas like the Railway end and Pop side, and certainly much less than the cost of a couple of new stands in those locations. And if any meaningful stadium expansion is on the cards, then these two areas at least will need to be rebuilt. If they are, they'll be built to a much higher spec and with facilities hitherto unseen at EP. And at least some land outside the current ground will be required to do the job properly, creating an asset the town can take pride in. Which is where the council may get involved, as partners or at least enablers in a project which fits well with their own stated aims and projects for the general area.
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Post by timberwolf on Dec 6, 2020 9:31:29 GMT
The ownership question may turn out not to be so important, at least in the short term.
I still wonder if there is some sort of agreement in place (or being worked on) which might involve a partnership with the Council in all this. If the Council do sell EP back to County, I guess a condition could be attached re the continued use of EP as a sporting venue.
But as long as County have a watertight long-term lease specifying the rent to be paid, and that rent is forthcoming, then does it really matter who actually owns EP? It's clearly a good thing from the club's point of view to expand/enhance/replace outmoded and unprofitable facilities, and that is precisely what they have started doing.
If they are, they'll be built to a much higher spec and with facilities hitherto unseen at EP. And at least some land outside the current ground will be required to do the job properly, creating an asset the town can take pride in. Which is where the council may get involved, as partners or at least enablers in a project which fits well with their own stated aims and projects for the general area.
totally agree edinburgh. we need the council to be on side with mark stott now to achieve his and our aims.
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Post by desmond on Dec 7, 2020 16:24:14 GMT
Drive down range road today and could see a cherry picker alongside one of the floodlight pylons at the CE. Looked like they were completing the paint job at the top of the pylon.
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Post by BWScarf on Dec 7, 2020 17:44:40 GMT
Bit late to the party on commenting, but this looks brilliant.
I particularly enjoy that on the wall where the words to The Scarf are printed, they've put 'the scarf me (rather than 'my') father wore'. Made me laugh, that.
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Post by vicar on Dec 8, 2020 16:11:51 GMT
This is petty I know but I really liked the stickers of clubs from all over Europe, a wall for them wouldn't go amiss.
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Post by J on Dec 16, 2020 17:32:03 GMT
Just been past EP this evening and they are installing blue lights (or blue filters to the lights) in the Cheadle End. Apologies for the slightly crappy photo:
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Post by kennypowers on Dec 16, 2020 17:33:28 GMT
They look ace!
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Post by desmond on Dec 16, 2020 17:38:57 GMT
Just been past EP this evening and they are installing blue lights (or blue filters to the lights) in the Cheadle End. Apologies for the slightly crappy photo: They are a new thing in infra red type lighting, they can identify the mark you get on your forehead once you’ve had the vaccine. No mark and the stewards will swoop in their haz mat suits and eject you. Punishment is a 3 game exile at Gresty Road......
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Post by vicar on Dec 16, 2020 18:00:32 GMT
Just been past EP this evening and they are installing blue lights (or blue filters to the lights) in the Cheadle End. Apologies for the slightly crappy photo: No apology neccesary.
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