I'm glad I've had my meeting & avoided this deviation.

How did it go?

how did it go then nige ?

It went well IMO.
Put across the ideas that people put forward plus discussed the ideas they already had. They are an experienced stadia architect plus they have a good history of infrastructure design. I also met with their other stadia consultant who has world wide experience on major & minor stadia.
(Before anyone asks I will not be revielling the name of the firm, even in pm's, as they are part of a bid competition, & I hope to get somemore work out of them.)
For those interested my own experience has been as project leader for the structural & civil consultants on Leighs new stadium, lead work on Shrewsbury Towns stadium plus checking consultants for Keepmoat & various minor works on The Valley & Upton Park.

in your honest opinion do you think the club will be in a position to start the build in the summer (assuming we get planning), because it seems to me there is still a hell of a lot of work to do in what is a relativley short period, i hope i am wrong about it and just being pessamistic but i cant start holding my breath yet.

Yes.

fair enough

Sounds good. So were any dates given, i.e. when you'd find out if you had got the contract from Cas etc?

I really hope this is the light at the end of the tunnel.

Has anyone been up to the new shop / info centre up at Xscape ?
What's it like ?

It's still not open yet is it?

It opened today

i must be the only cas fan that wants an all seater haha, i think the atmosphere when we go away to the likes of the kc and jjb is awsome!!

=#40FF00That's more all the fans are together as opposed to all being sat down though.

=#0040FFExactly, at away grounds you find that all the vocal fans congregate at the back normally but that can happen in seated or standing stadiums. I'd like the option to stand up please.

Heard anything about any progress with Hicksons?
Will that impact on j32 or was that just another rumour that did the rounds?

Hicksons only impacts on its surrounding area where the Jungle is now, it has no bearing on any building work at Junc 32 Glasshoughton whatsoever.

=#0040FFNo, there was a rumour that we wouldn't be receiving the money from the company that bought the land where the stadium is now unless the Hicksons site was declared safe or something along those lines.

Money will have a massive impact on any building work at Junc 32 Glasshoughton.

So SWC, to answer your question, there hasn't been any further talk on this matter to my knowledge. Hopefully in this case it was just a rumour.

Well that's good! While they do say no news is good news I some how don't think it fit's to the scenario of building a stadium.
In all honestly to you lot, most of my bitterness to the J32 project came from fear, Thornes had been hijacked and ruined by Box and his cronies and I was scared we would A) end up in the championship after over a decade of hard graft. Or B) end up sharing with you as tenants.
I can admit some of my comments were offensive, and for that i apologise, but as i have explained i hope you could empathise with that fear.

Keep your ears to the ground chaps.... There's something big coming...

=#8040FFCas & Ponte today says there's something next Monday going in the info centre? and with the architects to be appointed "shortly" everything must be in place now to get finished off for the summer start date which has been touted by a couple of the bidding companies so far.



=#8000FFI don't think many people took what you said to heart and passed you off as a troll tbh mate, but I'm pretty sure that other then a MASSIVE bump in the road both teams will at the very least have half built stadiums by 2011, with both teams more then likely starting the 2011 season in shiny new stadiums that will be the envy of most of the league

Lets hope so.

And of course, who could forget this classic:

Thread cleaned up. Let's cut out the bickering.