I am a little bit confused - with the roof now not being extended, does this mean we are keeping the roof we have or is it still being replaced?
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Leon Horn":1xjhzwqp said:I am a little bit confused - with the roof now not being extended, does this mean we are keeping the roof we have or is it still being replaced?
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Leon Horn":3afvpof1 said:MGM, in Jon Bās recent blog, he states that the roof isnāt being extended as the control room is now not going in grandstand as originally planned.
That's not correct, surely? It may not be extended for now towards the BPE, but it is being extended some 4m out towards the touchline to provide increased cover for the new seats on the Mayflower Terrace.Biggs":116rcin6 said:Yes it is a 100% new roof replacing the exact āfootprintā of the current one.
Itās just not getting the small extension required to take it to the Barn Park End/line up with the lower tier. That now happens in Phase 2, whether you think that is happening or not.
Fou rMarksGreen":15ktd5mb said:That's not correct, surely? It may not be extended for now towards the BPE, but it is being extended some 4m out towards the touchline to provide increased cover for the new seats on the Mayflower Terrace.Biggs":15ktd5mb said:Yes it is a 100% new roof replacing the exact āfootprintā of the current one.
Itās just not getting the small extension required to take it to the Barn Park End/line up with the lower tier. That now happens in Phase 2, whether you think that is happening or not.
JB's blog on 11th June confirms this. Unless things have changed again?
Neilz5419":saxeuq4h said:As far as I was aware, the original Ā£5 million loan is not enough to cover the makeover, so basically the club are now paying for the Ā£1 million roof with unbudgeted income.
The extension that was going to happen to cover the lower grandstand, has now been delayed until phase 2, that is to say the artistic hypothetical plans of phase 2, the hypothetical never going to happen phase 2 that we donāt have a plan or money for.
jimsing":1tf1renc said:Brent has said that he does not envisage phase two happening whilst he is in the Chair.
Not because he doesn't want it to happen, not because he cannot foresee us getting the money from our football exploits (remember Liverpool in the FA Cup?), but because he can foresee the money required to do it being spent on other more important things (like other income increasing projects or even the playing budget for instance?).
Seems there will always be a far more sensible use of the money required for phase two, in Brent's opinion, and I'm not going to disagree with him there. In the grand scheme of things it is very low down on the list of "things to do" at this moment in time.
When will phase two be the most important item on the PAFC agenda? When NOT doing phase two holds the football club back, which is not now or in the very near future I suggest.
When the time comes for phase two to be implemented, the plans will already be in place, thanks to James Brent.