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Post by Kingswaystokie on Mar 15, 2016 18:26:57 GMT
At last nights meeting Sir Peter said £8 mill had been spent on the stadium to keep it up to standard.
Apart from a few paint jobs and new slippy floors in the bogs, plus a too loud and distorted tannoy system, does anyone know what else it was spent on ?
For £8 mill I would have expected heated seats and topless ladies delivering my ale at half time.
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Post by greenhoff74 on Mar 15, 2016 18:35:26 GMT
They've hard wired the stadium for the broadcasters and journalists so they just plug in now, comfy seats in dugouts, built the walkway under the road for supporters safety, done things with the concourses in both stands
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Post by RICH68 on Mar 15, 2016 18:40:53 GMT
Didn't they have to spend £1million (??)
on the dressing rooms to bring them upto uefa standards when we played in the europa league.
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Post by Gods on Mar 15, 2016 18:43:49 GMT
New club shop and ticket office.
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Post by Gods on Mar 15, 2016 18:44:37 GMT
The Big Screen
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Post by adamsson on Mar 15, 2016 18:44:39 GMT
Still a grotty little ground designed for the championship
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2016 18:46:13 GMT
Surely he meant 8m Italian Lira??
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Post by GreaterGlasgowstokie on Mar 15, 2016 19:02:04 GMT
Bollocks. It cost about that much to build in the first place didn't it?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2016 19:07:34 GMT
Bollocks. It cost about that much to build in the first place didn't it? 14 million if memory serves me right which was incredibly cheap compared with Bolton's ground. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2016 19:12:26 GMT
Goal line tech?
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Post by TinkerT on Mar 15, 2016 19:15:18 GMT
1 million a season on "traffic management"  |
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Post by cheshirepotter on Mar 15, 2016 19:16:30 GMT
Yes, but apart from a new tannoy system, hardwiring the press systems, the comfy seats, the walkway, the concourse work, the dressing rooms, new club shop, ticket office and new goal line tech, what has the £8M been spent on?
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Post by penkvillepotter on Mar 15, 2016 19:30:38 GMT
The best I can say for the Brit is that it's shabby.
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Post by Greenhoff is God on Mar 15, 2016 19:32:35 GMT
Ask the Romans.........they did fuck all as well  |
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Post by rawli on Mar 15, 2016 19:34:30 GMT
Yes, but apart from a new tannoy system, hardwiring the press systems, the comfy seats, the walkway, the concourse work, the dressing rooms, new club shop, ticket office and new goal line tech, what has the £8M been spent on? The aqueduct |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2016 19:39:44 GMT
Fresh air ventilation shafts in the corners.
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Post by zigazaga on Mar 15, 2016 19:50:16 GMT
8 Million!!! and they still haven't replaced those horrible yellowing translucent cladding panels.
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Post by no1972 on Mar 15, 2016 19:52:32 GMT
Why are people so quick to run down the work the club have done from the days of Div2.People are good at telling others how to spend there money but when it comes down to them putting the hands in there own pockets it's a differant question.Why should PC say the club have spent 8 million if they have not.Its the clubs and bet 365s money so why tell lies.People keep on about the TV money well our wage bill next year will be over 110 million.So let's start talking our club up not slagging the internal workings of the club off.
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Post by sportsman on Mar 15, 2016 20:03:51 GMT
Haven't the executive boxes all had a big refurbishment a bit ago?
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Post by march4 on Mar 15, 2016 20:11:25 GMT
New security cameras all round the ground
New pitch laid every season
New track around the pitch with underground cabling
Refurb of ALL the hospitality areas
Building within the main stand of a new media centre
Refurb of the club shop
New floodlights to meet TV requirements
2 banks of LED advertising hoardings
It all adds up.
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Post by jezzascfc on Mar 15, 2016 20:13:19 GMT
From the cheap seats, it is hard to see where that 8m has gone. The original stadium was a bit of an IKEA job (I could almost envisage Jez Moxey sat in his office with a diagram and accompanying instructions in twelve different languages, way too few screws to finish the job and one spare bit of wood which he had no idea what to do with!) and was always going to need some decent money spent on it to bring it up to even close to the standard required of a modern Premier League stadium.
To the chagrin of most Stokies, whilst it has clearly had some dosh spent on it behind the scenes and in a few less than obvious places, from the outside it still looks and feels a cheap flat pack ground, with two open corners providing a suitably inappropriate wind tunnel add-on for good measure.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Mar 15, 2016 20:13:23 GMT
# The media centre in the mezzanine of main stand cost £1 million or so didn't it?
# Then there is the TV studio converted from two Sky boxes at the north end of the top of the main stand.
# The rest of the sky boxes (at the top of the main stand) were given balconies a few years back.
# The barcode scanners in each turnstile and the computerised ticketing system for home and away games will have cost a few bob.
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Post by Davef on Mar 15, 2016 20:15:40 GMT
Comfy new dug out seats.
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Post by bandit on Mar 15, 2016 20:16:35 GMT
From the cheap seats, it is hard to see where that 8m has gone. The original stadium was a bit of an IKEA job (I could almost envisage Jez Moxey sat in his office with a diagram and accompanying instructions in twelve different languages, way too few screws to finish the job and one spare bit of wood which he had no idea what to do with!) and was always going to need some decent money spent on it to bring it up to even close to the standard required of a modern Premier League stadium. To the chagrin of most Stokies, whilst it has clearly had some dosh spent on it behind the scenes and in a few less than obvious places, from the outside it still looks and feels a cheap flat pack ground, with two open corners providing a suitably inappropriate wind tunnel add-on for good measure. These ones who criticise are normally the one who feck off from the club when it goes into decline. |
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Post by TheBra1n on Mar 15, 2016 20:17:07 GMT
dont forget the 2 giant generators so they can go off grid at peak demand times, they wont have been cheap
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Post by jezzascfc on Mar 15, 2016 20:18:35 GMT
From the cheap seats, it is hard to see where that 8m has gone. The original stadium was a bit of an IKEA job (I could almost envisage Jez Moxey sat in his office with a diagram and accompanying instructions in twelve different languages, way too few screws to finish the job and one spare bit of wood which he had no idea what to do with!) and was always going to need some decent money spent on it to bring it up to even close to the standard required of a modern Premier League stadium. To the chagrin of most Stokies, whilst it has clearly had some dosh spent on it behind the scenes and in a few less than obvious places, from the outside it still looks and feels a cheap flat pack ground, with two open corners providing a suitably inappropriate wind tunnel add-on for good measure. These ones who criticise are normally the one who feck off from the club when it goes into decline. Wrong target mate: 40 years a Stokie, been through thick and thin, away days in the old Div 3 etc........ I just say what I see. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2016 20:21:41 GMT
Some real bollocks on this thread
To my recollection - and its usually pretty good
it cost about £15m to open up the site for the ground and then about £15 - 16m on top of this - to build
the detailed plans by the way, I understood, were purchased from Middlesboro ( or their architect) and when asked what they'd change (having had theirs open for a while) -they said:- more dining rooms and exec boxes in the main stand So, we doubled up on the boxes from one row of 25 to two rows totallng 50 in the main stand.
the price / trade off ?
leaving the two corners open although, the footings were put in (as I understand it)
(LOOK AT MIDDLESBORO's GROUND ON TELLY TO SEE HOW OURS WOULD LOOK ACTUALLY FINISHED OFF)
There's nothing basically wrong with the ground, another road access ( from the incinerator link road) and, filling in the two open corners would not sort out,
(drawings exist for at least one corner if not both ) - to give us a 35k proper finished looking Premier league stadium.
AND All this recent stuff about a brand new stadium -- horseshit as far as I'm concerned
WE JUST NEED TO FINISH OFF THE ONE WE GOT ! and, overcome the obvious access restrictions
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Post by bandit on Mar 15, 2016 20:29:06 GMT
These ones who criticise are normally the one who feck off from the club when it goes into decline. Wrong target mate: 40 years a Stokie, been through thick and thin, away days in the old Div 3 etc........ I just say what I see. Been going to Stoke since 1961 and no way was the vic a better venue to watch Stoke than the Brit, it was dated in the 70s and for how much the ground cost compared to other over priced stadia it stands up as good value. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2016 20:30:30 GMT
Some real bollocks on this threadTo my recollection - and its usually pretty good it cost about £15m to open up the site for the ground and then about £15 - 16m on top of this - to build the detailed plans by the way, I understood, were purchased from Middlesboro ( or their architect) and when asked what they'd change (having had theirs open for a while) -they said:- more exec boxes in the main stand So, we doubled up on the boxes from one row of 25 to two rows totallng 50 in the main stand. the price / trade off ? leaving the two corners open although, the footings were put in (as I understand it) (LOOK AT MIDDLESBORO's GROUND ON TELLY TO SEE HOW OURS WOULD LOOK ACTUALLY FINISHED OFF) There's nothing basically wrong with the ground, another road access ( from the incinerator link road) and, filling in the two open corners would not sort out, (drawings exist for at least one corner if not both ) - to give us a 35k proper finished looking Premier league stadium. AND All this recent stuff about a brand new stadium -- horseshit as far as I'm concerned WE JUST NEED TO FINISH OFF THE ONE WE GOT ! and, overcome the obvious access restrictions All common sense. Good rant. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2016 20:33:05 GMT
Why are people so quick to run down the work the club have done from the days of Div2. People are good at telling others how to spend there money but when it comes down to them putting the hands in there own pockets it's a differant question.Why should PC say the club have spent 8 million if they have not.Its the clubs and bet 365s money so why tell lies.People keep on about the TV money well our wage bill next year will be over 110 million.So let's start talking our club up not slagging the internal workings of the club off. I'd say the same thing about knobbers criticising TS. It's frustrating obviously, but the blatant childish insults and abuse the guy gets is actually embarrassing and really could only come from the mouths of chavs, delinquents, and/or football fans. Were people brought up in the gutter? |
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