Yes would be stupid not to have a contingency. But they clearly can’t be very confident. Must be a nightmare for Levy I’d guess if it’s the season could cost us £30m in lost gate receipts additional rent and lost concessions. I wonder if they can bill mace for that.
New Stadium Details And Discussions
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Robbiepope
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Dinghy
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If only they had put some kind of signage on the outside to really show that it's ours...
Shadydan
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worcestersauce
"I'm no optimist I'm just a prisoner of hope
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Bit of a contradiction in terms there mate, you have a contingency just in case something unexpected comes up, not only when you can't be very confident, if you leave it until then the chances are you've left it too late.
Reece
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It's to do with the council. We got special dispensation for such large capacities last year.
davidmatzdorf
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It was a condition of the original planning consent, when Wembley Stadium was built, that there is a maximum number of events at full capacity per year - the local people insisted upon it, to keep the disruption down to manageable levels. There can be any number of additional events at a capacity limited to 50k.
That's why last season's increased number of full-capacity events required a fresh (temporary) planning consent and why there has to be another planning application now.
slartibartfast
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Its got nothing to do with being confident. If something unforseen goes wrong, the word being 'unforseen', and the opening is delayed further then we'll need to play elsewhere.
This is being sensationalised already in the media as 'Spurs have agreed to play at Wembley for the rest of the season' when thats clearly not what has been agreed at all.
Its just being prudent.
longtimespur
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Don't let the truth spoil a good story
CoopsieDeadpool
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If we were to play 1000 more games at Wembley, according to MP's version of reality, that is 1000 days nearer to us playing at NWHL and is a good thing. After all we all want to be nearer to be playing in the new ground.
Better still make that 1 million games at Wembley and we'd be nearer still.
His reasoning is absurd, which was my point, but seems to have taken in a lot of posters going by my ratings and in particular you coopsie who had to make up your own special dick rating to add to the dogpile. This was a little unnecessary really. But I'll live.
I didn't even rate your post. I simply said I believe it was a dick thing to say.
Whether you like it or not, whether you agree with it or not, Poch's statement was absolutely spot on.
Every game (from here on in) played at Wembley is 1 game closer to being in the new stadium.
It's like climbing a mountain. You do it 1 step at a time, some of which are as painstaking as you can possibly imagine. However, you keep taking those steps and then, when you get top the top, what a feeling, what a fucking view!
Patience!
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SpursDave88
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Thing is every negative rumour about a delay has been accurate so far...would anyone be really surprised if we didn't get in NWHL this season?
thinktank
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whitesocks
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I think I'm getting this now.
Every extra season we play at Wembley is 1 season closer to being in the new stadium.
We just get nothing but good news day after day!
worcestersauce
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Not every negative rumour, there were lots of negative rumours that were wrong. The fact that something happened at a test event, about which there was absolutely no rumour, that delayed the opening doesn't make those negative rumours accurate.
gilzeantheking
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SirHarryHotspur
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It's all very frustrating when a company like Mace or subcontractors responsible for whatever is wrong cannot give an estimate of when the fault can be rectified , like taking your car to a garage and them saying could take 6 months to fix the fault but don't hold us to it.
Hoopspur
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Is that really a fact or is it just hearsay? Has no one given any dates or are we party to all the absolute detail on here? Come on, please.
