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Robbiepope

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Aug 3, 2006
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If you look back and compare pictures on a monthly basis , the speed of the build is impressive. It will undoubtedly take a fair few months for the stadium to actually finish. It was always going to be tight and I will prefer watching us in a 90 percent whl rather than Wembley again for another full year.
 

fridgemagnet

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Jan 18, 2009
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Only 2nd person to have ended up on ignore after that eejit who suggests we should only sign black players, I put up with that two weeks and I've no idea how long he's been here but that you signed up this morning and been put on ignore before 12 hours have passed tells me you're a WUM or a negative ninny.

However to give you some slack and assume you aren't a WUM;
Just to refresh prior to 2017-2018 season we played in a stadium that was missing a corner and was a construction site and previous season was part construction site and guess what even if all the icing all the tinsel and all the toys were or are finished on time it would still have been part construction site because there's a third phase of the build still to come.

There's so many fake twitter accounts, WUM login accounts lately just wanting to bring down the whole atmos' and spread disinformation around at a time when if you are a genuine fan you should be buzzing. The transfer window is the transfer window quit worrying about what you can't control.

The fake wankers on twitter saying events have been called off, unless they give link to the club saying it then it's bullshit made up by some noddy twat.

Less pessimism FFS, incidentally if you are real and are one of those who groan at the first misplaced pass I hope the person sitting behind you leans over and punches you square in the pills!

This newfound sense of entitlement amongst certain fans has pissed me off, we've achieved nothing to entitle us to anything. Sing and back the team, if Levy deserves an earful at some point then he'll get one but only a complete set of prats would do so off the back of investing circa £600 million +/- on training facilities, player facilities, one of the most complex, political, challenging stadium builds in recent times, in the current ever changing political climate.

You'd have be a total moron not to stand up and say fair play baldy, he has his faults but if he hasn't earned a modicum of slack then you have a short memory or you're not long out of school.
 

Sid Tottenham

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Jul 1, 2015
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That has to be a windup. This isn't Greece where you could avoid rates by never finishing the building on your house, which is why none of them were ever finished.
Don’t think it’s a wind up he’s not that kinda guy but idk think it might be gossip going round but just guessing
 

SpunkyBackpack

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Dec 8, 2005
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I do, and on a regular basis. The occasional worker strolling across the camera on the north stand (sometimes having a fag). A couple of tractors shifting around sand, and that's about it. It's rare I can spot more than a dozen people over the 6 cameras. If you believe that all stops are out, that's great, I don't !!

Well they're doing more work than you clearly are, stop buggering about looking at screens all day and get down there with a hammer and some nails.

I reckon the stadium is actually ready and has been for some time, but they built a larger half ready stadium around it to make it look like it wasn't done, i heard it was to do with the fact they've been using next doors wifi or something and saves us £40 a month.
 

chrissivad

Staff
May 20, 2005
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I don't doubt the work that is going on, but still understand why the exterior of the stadium is being ignored ?

It's probably just not a priority at the moment and we have the people who would be doing that working elsewhere.

If I were you I would just check every dew days rather than daily, as it will be slow progress. Some of things like the grass going down, last of the seats and the panels shouldn't take to long once started.

There will be progress inside the stadium where we can't see, apart from when the OS post images or someone has managed to have a walk around.

I thought the reason one of the roof panels was missing is because the crane can pass materials through the gap ?

Yeah, access to the sky lounge/bar thing...
 

old spur

Member
Aug 6, 2018
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Only 2nd person to have ended up on ignore after that eejit who suggests we should only sign black players, I put up with that two weeks and I've no idea how long he's been here but that you signed up this morning and been put on ignore before 12 hours have passed tells me you're a WUM or a negative ninny.

However to give you some slack and assume you aren't a WUM;
Just to refresh prior to 2017-2018 season we played in a stadium that was missing a corner and was a construction site and previous season was part construction site and guess what even if all the icing all the tinsel and all the toys were or are finished on time it would still have been part construction site because there's a third phase of the build still to come.

There's so many fake twitter accounts, WUM login accounts lately just wanting to bring down the whole atmos' and spread disinformation around at a time when if you are a genuine fan you should be buzzing. The transfer window is the transfer window quit worrying about what you can't control.

The fake wankers on twitter saying events have been called off, unless they give link to the club saying it then it's bullshit made up by some noddy twat.

Less pessimism FFS, incidentally if you are real and are one of those who groan at the first misplaced pass I hope the person sitting behind you leans over and punches you square in the pills!

This newfound sense of entitlement amongst certain fans has pissed me off, we've achieved nothing to entitle us to anything. Sing and back the team, if Levy deserves an earful at some point then he'll get one but only a complete set of prats would do so off the back of investing circa £600 million +/- on training facilities, player facilities, one of the most complex, political, challenging stadium builds in recent times, in the current ever changing political climate.

You'd have be a total moron not to stand up and say fair play baldy, he has his faults but if he hasn't earned a modicum of slack then you have a short memory or you're not long out of school.

I don't do twatter or facemouth, and for what it's worth I don't actually believe in WUM's. People who just can't come to terms with other people's opinions love to throw names about, or even worse put them on "ignore". I am obviously far older than you and have been brought in a world where people are entitled to different opinions. I admire your faith in the club, especially your belief that the stadium is on track. As it happens I believe the stadium will probably be ready enough to play in come the Liverpool game, but the club will be a laughing stock when we appear to be performing in a building site with a pitch.
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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Aug 31, 2012
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So because I have a different opinion to you I am a WUM. Grow up mate. I look at the stadium on a daily basis, and it's progress is pedestrian to say the least. I accept that there are many things to do behind the scenes, but the claimed 3000 workers should be able to cope with all of this. If I were Levy there would be arses kicked
You can only see about 5% of the stadium.
Chill.
 

chico

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Dec 2, 2004
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Just had a look at the new stadium and it's lack of progress. Looks exactly the same as it did yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that etc etc etc.

Fella, as someone who has seen plenty of ups and downs since 1972, seen such poor players as Fenwick, Nethercott, Tremazzani and Gilberto (the only Brazilian ever that couldn't kick with either foot), seen us relegated, seen the club nearly go bust, maybe I'm an "older Spur" than you? Or maybe my memory is a little better.

Your air of negativity and gloom is staggering in all of your posts on this thread.

I don't know Levy personally, and I certainly wish ,along with nearly all on here, that we had made a couple of top quality signings this summer. BUT this is the same chairman that has bought the likes of Bale Modric Berbatov etc, has steadily built Spurs into a fine club again, culminating in the best league finishes since the early 1960's over the last 3 seasons. Most importantly he is building and NEARLY finished what is already widely regarded as one of the finest club stadiums in the world.

So what if it's not quite finished ? Rome wasn't built in a day ffs.

I've found your posts so odd I wonder whether perhaps you are a Gooner having a little wind-up on here? If not take a few chill pills and relax, if you can't , there's a club down Seven Sisters road that might be more for you?

THIS IS A FANTASTIC TIME TO BE A SPURS SUPPORTER
 

davidmatzdorf

Front Page Gadfly
Jun 7, 2004
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Right heard from someone I know who’s working, not that well to be fair, that there’s so many people on site that they’re just getting in each other’s way and if anything it’s slowing work.
Also an accident involving two cranes left one of them fucked
And lastly the reason there is one roof panel missing is that as soon as that’s in we would have to start paying business rates or something
It’s ready to be installed and when
It is we would know we are ready to rock

Bizarre as it may seem, this kind of thing is plausible. If the building hasn't been "closed in", then it can avoid having to register itself as "completed" for rating purposes. Don't even get me started on the weird land-ownership swaps that happen when housing associations need to to avoid paying VAT on development costs (HAs cannot register for VAT). You can google "golden brick" if you're bored.

I thought the reason one of the roof panels was missing is because the crane can pass materials through the gap ?

That was equally plausible a few weeks ago, but the gap is so small now that I have my doubts you could fit a crane through it.

I don't doubt the work that is going on, but still understand why the exterior of the stadium is being ignored ?

So because I have a different opinion to you I am a WUM. Grow up mate. I look at the stadium on a daily basis, and it's progress is pedestrian to say the least. I accept that there are many things to do behind the scenes, but the claimed 3000 workers should be able to cope with all of this. If I were Levy there would be arses kicked

I do, and on a regular basis. The occasional worker strolling across the camera on the north stand (sometimes having a fag). A couple of tractors shifting around sand, and that's about it. It's rare I can spot more than a dozen people over the 6 cameras. If you believe that all stops are out, that's great, I don't !!

WTF are you on? Quaaludes? Some other kind of downers? You've just popped in here after the thread has been going for nearly ten years, reading none of the background, not even the last 5-6 pages, and started moaning and wittering on interminably and repetitively about stuff you know absolutely nothing about. Well, there are a few of us here who do. There are people with direct connections with the club, there are people in the construction industry and there are people like me with nearly 40 years' experience in development.

Your opinions are demonstrably inferior to other people's. I know that's a hard concept to get your head around in the 21c., but not all opinions are created equal.

But you have "my opinion" and that's supposedly as valid as my understanding of the development industry. Uh. No.

OK, let's start.

The exterior is not a high priority at present, because the main/sole priority is to do work that is on the critical path to obtain the health and safety and building control approvals needed to host football matches. The exterior envelope was closed in some weeks ago. They can finish the "veil" later.

You won't see most of the 3,000 workers because they are inside, which is where all of the key operations are to ensure that the stadium can open on time. There will be activity in the bowl shortly to lay the turf (which is now arriving, having been grown to readiness at the training centre) and to fit the remaining seats. But nearly everything else that needs doing is indoors, so of course you can't see the activity. The external/landscape works - podium, piazza, etc. - is only essential insofar as it provides safe access and egress. So they can finish that later, too.

I'm sure that, if arses needed to be kicked, Levy ensured that they were kicked a very long time ago. Multiple times. Bruised buttocks everywhere. This is Daniel Levy we are discussing, yes?

Read the thread before you start filling it with irrelevant and inaccurate whinges. There is a pile of information here - a complete, highly tendentious history of the NDP and every kind of fan reaction to it.

The important point is about the critical path. That's always the important point in development and construction. None of the stuff you are angsting about is anywhere near the critical path.
 

worcestersauce

"I'm no optimist I'm just a prisoner of hope
Jan 23, 2006
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I don't do twatter or facemouth, and for what it's worth I don't actually believe in WUM's. People who just can't come to terms with other people's opinions love to throw names about, or even worse put them on "ignore". I am obviously far older than you and have been brought in a world where people are entitled to different opinions. I admire your faith in the club, especially your belief that the stadium is on track. As it happens I believe the stadium will probably be ready enough to play in come the Liverpool game, but the club will be a laughing stock when we appear to be performing in a building site with a pitch.
I'm no spring chicken either and I disagree with you.
 

aliyid

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Dec 28, 2004
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As somebody who’s having to miss the Liverpool game (out of the country with work) I’m desperately hoping we delay the opening and move the Liverpool game to Wembley but I can’t see it happening :cry:
 

Roynie

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Oct 2, 2007
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Bizarre as it may seem, this kind of thing is plausible. If the building hasn't been "closed in", then it can avoid having to register itself as "completed" for rating purposes. Don't even get me started on the weird land-ownership swaps that happen when housing associations need to to avoid paying VAT on development costs (HAs cannot register for VAT). You can google "golden brick" if you're bored.



That was equally plausible a few weeks ago, but the gap is so small now that I have my doubts you could fit a crane through it.







WTF are you on? Quaaludes? Some other kind of downers? You've just popped in here after the thread has been going for nearly ten years, reading none of the background, not even the last 5-6 pages, and started moaning and wittering on interminably and repetitively about stuff you know absolutely nothing about. Well, there are a few of us here who do. There are people with direct connections with the club, there are people in the construction industry and there are people like me with nearly 40 years' experience in development.

Your opinions are demonstrably inferior to other people's. I know that's a hard concept to get your head around in the 21c., but not all opinions are created equal.

But you have "my opinion" and that's supposedly as valid as my understanding of the development industry. Uh. No.

OK, let's start.

The exterior is not a high priority at present, because the main/sole priority is to do work that is on the critical path to obtain the health and safety and building control approvals needed to host football matches. The exterior envelope was closed in some weeks ago. They can finish the "veil" later.

You won't see most of the 3,000 workers because they are inside, which is where all of the key operations are to ensure that the stadium can open on time. There will be activity in the bowl shortly to lay the turf (which is now arriving, having been grown to readiness at the training centre) and to fit the remaining seats. But nearly everything else that needs doing is indoors, so of course you can't see the activity. The external/landscape works - podium, piazza, etc. - is only essential insofar as it provides safe access and egress. So they can finish that later, too.

I'm sure that, if arses needed to be kicked, Levy ensured that they were kicked a very long time ago. Multiple times. Bruised buttocks everywhere. This is Daniel Levy we are discussing, yes?

Read the thread before you start filling it with irrelevant and inaccurate whinges. There is a pile of information here - a complete, highly tendentious history of the NDP and every kind of fan reaction to it.

The important point is about the critical path. That's always the important point in development and construction. None of the stuff you are angsting about is anywhere near the critical path.

Sorry DM, having just listened to the Fawlty Towers vid., I couldn't help but read that in a John Cleese voice! Shouldn't laugh at my own jokes, but just try it and see what you think! :LOL::LOL:
 

nailsy

SC Supporter
Jul 24, 2005
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So there are 3000 workers on site and we can only fit 5000 seats a day. I think Old Spur may have a point :grumpy:

I don't do twatter or facemouth, and for what it's worth I don't actually believe in WUM's. People who just can't come to terms with other people's opinions love to throw names about, or even worse put them on "ignore". I am obviously far older than you and have been brought in a world where people are entitled to different opinions. I admire your faith in the club, especially your belief that the stadium is on track. As it happens I believe the stadium will probably be ready enough to play in come the Liverpool game, but the club will be a laughing stock when we appear to be performing in a building site with a pitch.

Just out of interest did you think we were a laughing stock during our last season at White Hart Lane when they had to knock down one corner of the stadium so that work could begin on the new ground?
 
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