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martinbradleey wrote:In my opinion:
After they appoint the contractor, there is the @standstill@ period and time for the firm to get all the details sorted out. This will, I think, put us near the end of November before there are boots on the ground never mind bulldozers etc. Preliminary work involving exterior walls etc will take up most of December. Then we have the Christmas period along with the New Year and the bad weather in January, so I the it will be February before any real building work gets started. There is talk of our league season starting in February next year so I am of the opinion that we will not be able to play any of our games in the Brandywell next season. Building work of this type , I would imagine, will take more than a year to finalise so perhaps we could be starting the 2018 season in the rebuilt Brandywell. Although, come to think of it, as they are only ever going to do Phase 1, maybe we might be able to hold our Christmas 2017 party in the new stand. On a positive note, if we are to play in Maginn Park, we might see our average gate increase as there is a big untapped spectator source in Innishowen who might just come to see us play as we would be on their doorstep. I await your comments

martinbradleey wrote:In my opinion:
After they appoint the contractor, there is the @standstill@ period and time for the firm to get all the details sorted out. This will, I think, put us near the end of November before there are boots on the ground never mind bulldozers etc. Preliminary work involving exterior walls etc will take up most of December. Then we have the Christmas period along with the New Year and the bad weather in January, so I the it will be February before any real building work gets started. There is talk of our league season starting in February next year so I am of the opinion that we will not be able to play any of our games in the Brandywell next season. Building work of this type , I would imagine, will take more than a year to finalise so perhaps we could be starting the 2018 season in the rebuilt Brandywell. Although, come to think of it, as they are only ever going to do Phase 1, maybe we might be able to hold our Christmas 2017 party in the new stand. On a positive note, if we are to play in Maginn Park, we might see our average gate increase as there is a big untapped spectator source in Innishowen who might just come to see us play as we would be on their doorstep. I await your comments

martinbradleey wrote:At the minute the new stand will only consist of the central third of the full stand. This should have about 900 seats and dressing rooms etc. the two "wings" of the full stand will only be built if there is both the money and will to do so.

davy_g wrote:

martinbradleey wrote:At the minute the new stand will only consist of the central third of the full stand. This should have about 900 seats and dressing rooms etc. the two "wings" of the full stand will only be built if there is both the money and will to do so.

See the more I hear, the angrier I get. This is an absolute disgrace. And we're meant to be excited by this "news".

martinbradleey wrote:At the minute the new stand will only consist of the central third of the full stand. This should have about 900 seats and dressing rooms etc. the two "wings" of the full stand will only be built if there is both the money and will to do so. To put this in perspective, when the Southend Stand was built all those years ago, it was designated Phase 1 of an overall plan. I may be a bit pessimistic, but I personally cannot see the authorities building on the Phase 2 elements of the stand.

martinbradleey wrote:At the minute the new stand will only consist of the central third of the full stand. This should have about 900 seats and dressing rooms etc. the two "wings" of the full stand will only be built if there is both the money and will to do so. To put this in perspective, when the Southend Stand was built all those years ago, it was designated Phase 1 of an overall plan. I may be a bit pessimistic, but I personally cannot see the authorities building on the Phase 2 elements of the stand.

shauna wrote:Happy days but can someone clear up once and for all what size of stand will be getting built next year.

shauna wrote:So that will leave a total capacity of around 3,300 unless they allow standing on the rest of that lone moor road side.

fergal wrote:Wat odds wud u get if these "pre start meetings" throws up another pile of delays?

shauna wrote: Imagine the uproar there would have been in belfast if the windsor park or ravenhill redevelopments had consisted of one third of a stand being built.

shauna wrote:So that will leave a total capacity of around 3,300 unless they allow standing on the rest of that lone moor road side.

stevebradley wrote:

shauna wrote: Imagine the uproar there would have been in belfast if the windsor park or ravenhill redevelopments had consisted of one third of a stand being built.

The difference is that we just take it and put up with it.

The Derry of the 1960s that used to stand up and fight for itself sadly seems to be long gone. The city seems to have had any fight knocked out of it.

Seriously - look at the long list of sh!t we have to put up with in Derry. Roads, rail, University, Brandywell, Jobs, public investment etc etc. Yet when was the last time a proper battle or fuss was made over anything ? I don't mean people like Martina Anderson saying she'll 'Stand up for Derry' a month before an election. Compare to the 1960s when something like 15,000 people from the City formed a cavalcade up to Stormont to protest at the University decision. You wouldn't even get a tenth of that for a protest in the city now.

Derry doesn't fight for itself any more - hence it gets fcuk all. That's not going to change until the city starts to stand up for itself and kick back. That's my genuine view on it all anyway, and even just typing about it makes me cross