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He looks a real local lad!!!!!

could do with a BBQ and a couple of hanging baskets

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You've got the biggest fence in the land, oh Salford a massive club!

Seriously, glad to see the stadium happening now, i drive opast it every night about half 6ish and they seem to be moving along quite quickly with levelling it etc. My only gripe with it (because everybody has to have atleast one) is just how close it is to the airfield, i dont know what its like for noise though!!
Anyway you know if the only flaw we can find is the airfield youre onto a winner!

See ya next year

Expect £21 standing, £24 seating IMO just to price even more fans out of the game.

I appreciate what you're saying Chico and fully agree that that is how stadia justify charging more for seats than standing. My point is that there are a lot of people calling for there to be a standing area and therefore I don't see why people who want to sit should be charged more in this particular case. This was originally billed as a 20,000 ALL SEATER stadium. Now why should those who are happy with seats be charged more than those who have asked specifically to stand (totally justifiably btw). I fully support the right for every supporter to stand up at rugby matches and if it wasn't for me having little ones I'd prefer to do so myself.

I am calling for a sensible and fair pricing policy. I would suggest that there are quite a few shed dwellers who would stand up even if the pricing was the other way round and you had to pay less for a seat!!! Further more I would suggest that quite a number of aforementioned shed dwellers would stand up in an all seater stadium

It was originally billed as a 20,000 capacity stadium [iwith[/i a standing area. Since, the details about said standing area have been sketchy at best.

There's an article in an issue of [iThe Scarlet Turkey[/i you can read online about so-called 'safe-standing' that may be of interest.

I wouldn't be too upset if the standing area happened to be cheaper than the seats; it's the accepted norm. Although I've already said I would pay equal to the cheapest seat to stand, you can bet there are others who would baulk at the suggestion.

Well its not a massive airfield and when you are surrounded with other people singing their hearts out you tend not to hear much background noise.

Is anyone able to throw any light on this for me:

Do the plans still include a link road underneath the M60 towards/from Peel Green



Or has this been scrapped ([idue to costs etc[/i), and access will be from the A57 only.

Just wondered, that's all.

Ta, Col

That's a separate scheme that feeds in to this so won't be on the planning application - it's the "Western Gateway Infrastructure Scheme". I'm pretty sure it's still happening though.

This:

Thanks Iain.

That's the image, with Brookhouse Cemetery top left and Trafford Centre bottom right, it's the configuration between those that I ([ithink[/i) I was referring to.

So this will happen in due course, until then it's A57 only hey ?

JJ as I understand the situation the link road is still to be built unless someone else knows differently and it will be called the Smithy68 Highway.

God I hope not, COCK Road, COCK Cul De Sac, COCK Avenue the choices are endless

"COCK Cul De Sac"!!!!!
check the actual French

Was very impressed as dirving home from work on Saturday around 13:30 they were still working and then again last night around 18:30 the machines were still out and grafting.

Must be on a timed job with penalties if they overun.

But all in all excellent progress that is tangible proof of progress.

[urlhttp://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?pid=1305249&id=1330519539&fbid=1488049404454[/url 4 New photos added took about 10 minutes ago, for anyone interested.

nice shots

Its advisable to take a passenger with you to take the shots as trying to drive over the bridge and take a few snaps at the same time would be very difficult I'd imagine

For the benefit of any non facebook members here's one of the pictures taken:-


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And here's a shot of what it looked like before the groundwork began in May:-

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Can't get pictures as the traffic aint been bad enough but the activety on site has ramped up considerably this week with a huge increase of the amount of plant working on site and they now appear to be laying and packing down the crushed brick aggregate.

Still none the wiser what is happening to the large elevated section in the middle of the site or to the stream that runs through a section of the land????.

Still think though that the club should be keeping fans who don't use the flyover informed of progress with plenty of pictures.

Don't suppose anyone has a plane or microlite at Barton they can strap a box brownie too and get some good shots is there ?

Showing your age there!

I drive past the site every day. They're putting some graft in them lads! It could work out quite well for me, I set off home from work at 7 oclock from Stockport somedays. I'll be able to bob in to a few games if you lot will allow a leyther a game of rugby! "sorry love, I finished work late and the traffic was murder"