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Buggsy61

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I sincerely hope that they are made of recyclable plastic. I understand of course that applies to what we have now, but it’s one load of waste. They also look more rigid than the soft ones we have now.
I'm old school - hate drinking beer from plastic glasses, as it just doesn't seem to taste the same, and seems to go flatter quicker but know they are never going to trust us with glass.
When the lights and music go on at my local pub on a Friday, the dickheads and the bouncers arrive, and the plastic glasses come out its my cue to go home!.
Will be doing most of my supping away from the ground.
 

Lilbaz

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Apr 1, 2005
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I'm old school - hate drinking beer from plastic glasses, as it just doesn't seem to taste the same, and seems to go flatter quicker but know they are never going to trust us with glass.
When the lights and music go on at my local pub on a Friday, the dickheads and the bouncers arrive, and the plastic glasses come out its my cue to go home!.
Will be doing most of my supping away from the ground.

Hopefully this is just for the half time rush and they have proper bars and seating areas in the stadium. If they want people to stay after games and arrive early they'll have to.
 

thekneaf

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Is this build really on track for us to be in by 1st Sept this year? I know nothing about construction, but it just looks behind where my uneducated logic would have it at this point.
 

coys200

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Top of roof arms now above south stand ring.
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DanielCHillier

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Is this build really on track for us to be in by 1st Sept this year? I know nothing about construction, but it just looks behind where my uneducated logic would have it at this point.
Hard to know exactly, but the roof is almost up and the rest of the pitch trays are all being delivered, so both of those will be complete before the end of march. Lines up pretty much with the key dates that the club have mentioned.
 

beats1

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Just be careful if you put it down or it could be a mess.
TBF its fine as long as you dont faff about with it
I sincerely hope that they are made of recyclable plastic. I understand of course that applies to what we have now, but it’s one load of waste. They also look more rigid than the soft ones we have now.
I know some are made of glass and that the bottom just has the magnet attached to let beer in
 

Saoirse

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An interesting article and a cautionary tale on the BBC today. United are desperately trying once more to improve their atmosphere after the introduction of a "singing section" failed, with the club believing it's impacting their performances. That's despite the fact that their tickets are comparatively affordable - 19 matches in the singing section in the corner cost £779, while immediately behind either goal it's actually only £589.

The problem is that they spent years upon years with prices higher than comparable teams, ever-more of the ground devoted to corporates, and anti-consumer policies such as forcing ST holders to buy cup tickets. A lot of their more traditional support left, others were too dispersed around the greatly expanded stadium, and they changed the type of fan attending the ground permanently. They're now desperate to reverse that. They've cut prices to a more affordable level, there's very few corporate-only areas left, they've got singing sections, they've tried song sheets, they're talking about instruments and guys with megaphones. None of it is working.

Once people stop going, they've stopped. Rarely do they come back, even if the reason they stopped no longer applies. You get one chance and one chance only to get this right.

All this is with a team that's still qualified for Europe every year, is in the top four, has won a European trophy - a level of success that is realistic for us. I think United are just starting to see a drop-off in demand too, especially from families who had to give up years ago - you can now buy a child ticket anywhere you like in the stadium for £13. But they're not all coming back. And that's Man United, one of the biggest and best supported clubs in the world. Our idea of a "bad few years" could be a lot worse than that. And the consequences could be much more severe. We have to get this right now.
 

TriXed

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An interesting article and a cautionary tale on the BBC today. United are desperately trying once more to improve their atmosphere after the introduction of a "singing section" failed, with the club believing it's impacting their performances. That's despite the fact that their tickets are comparatively affordable - 19 matches in the singing section in the corner cost £779, while immediately behind either goal it's actually only £589.

The problem is that they spent years upon years with prices higher than comparable teams, ever-more of the ground devoted to corporates, and anti-consumer policies such as forcing ST holders to buy cup tickets. A lot of their more traditional support left, others were too dispersed around the greatly expanded stadium, and they changed the type of fan attending the ground permanently. They're now desperate to reverse that. They've cut prices to a more affordable level, there's very few corporate-only areas left, they've got singing sections, they've tried song sheets, they're talking about instruments and guys with megaphones. None of it is working.

Once people stop going, they've stopped. Rarely do they come back, even if the reason they stopped no longer applies. You get one chance and one chance only to get this right.

All this is with a team that's still qualified for Europe every year, is in the top four, has won a European trophy - a level of success that is realistic for us. I think United are just starting to see a drop-off in demand too, especially from families who had to give up years ago - you can now buy a child ticket anywhere you like in the stadium for £13. But they're not all coming back. And that's Man United, one of the biggest and best supported clubs in the world. Our idea of a "bad few years" could be a lot worse than that. And the consequences could be much more severe. We have to get this right now.

You got to rememeber though that UTD had a backlash with the Glazier take-over, alot of core support left then... I wouldn't put it all down to prices.
 

DanielCHillier

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This seems way higher than the pictures just tweeted by Spurs.

Weird how they are always behind with their pictures.
Their pictures are always a day or two behind, probably because they are taken professionally, and then checked, possibly edited a bit and then uploaded once the photographer has sent them to the club.
 

Saoirse

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You got to rememeber though that UTD had a backlash with the Glazier take-over, alot of core support left then... I wouldn't put it all down to prices.
Not all of it for sure. A mix of prices, on-pitch decline, compulsory cup games, corporatisation, all this of course being blamed on the owners. But whatever the causes they sure aren't having much success trying to fix things.
 

mpickard2087

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Is this build really on track for us to be in by 1st Sept this year? I know nothing about construction, but it just looks behind where my uneducated logic would have it at this point.

The nuts and bolts of it (ie. The roof and sliding pitch) will have to be. Cosmetically is less of an issue, they might not have all the fitting out finished but certain areas in the stadium could have a reduced offering or even out of bounds initially. I think there is also a fairly decent chance that they may not have all the cladding completed for instance.

Also you must factor in that the no. of workers on site will almost certainly increase further for the final push to get the stadium ready to go.
 
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manic041

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Currently a meeting going on about the London Stadium with LLDC:

https://www.london.gov.uk/budget-monitoring-sub-committee-2018-03-21

We have come up a few times, when discussing West Ham’s potential naming rights deal Neale Coleman said he understands Tottenham are having some problems securing a naming rights deal.

Levy's repeatedly came out and said that the financing of the stadium is not dependent on the naming rights being secured prior to opening and i personally think that there will be a wait as we are tied in with AIA as a shirt sponsor. Usually stadium naming rights are tied in with short sponsorship and so I think once the AIA deal is up, then companies will negotiate more openly for a joint stadium/shirt sponsorship deal. Until then it's been confirmed that it will be known as the 'Tottenham Hotspur Stadium' or New White Hart Lane to the fans
 

Lilbaz

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Levy's repeatedly came out and said that the financing of the stadium is not dependent on the naming rights being secured prior to opening and i personally think that there will be a wait as we are tied in with AIA as a shirt sponsor. Usually stadium naming rights are tied in with short sponsorship and so I think once the AIA deal is up, then companies will negotiate more openly for a joint stadium/shirt sponsorship deal. Until then it's been confirmed that it will be known as the 'Tottenham Hotspur Stadium' or New White Hart Lane to the fans

We only just resigned with them last year.

http://m.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/...xtend-official-partnership-until-2022-250517/
 
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