Shrimpsvoices

After our great hols in Poland (beer FAR better than what we have to put up with back home, sorry), we are back and there are now new photos on the New Ground web site taken yesterday.

The thick grass is like a cosy winter coat - patchiness virtually all gone - and is getting its first cuts. Crush barriers are almost all fitted in the end stands (presumably needing painting), there is lots of first layers of tarmac on the roads and car parks, lamp posts going up on the roads, and the floodlights posts are up - they need the lighting heads fitting and then wiring. All sorts of stuff inside the Main Stand - bogs as far as you can see (!) - Amazing range of equipment being put in - fridges, water boilers, bar fittings, strange tanks in the depths of the Stand - the outside sports court areas getting tarmacced, with lights going up there - and turnstiles being built for all stands.

The air system has more tubes than London Underground !

We understand the Main Stand seating may start going in during this week.

See http://www.globearena.co.uk

Mike W.
Ian L.

More great pics, thanks.

Glad you has a good holiday but more pleased you are back-great pics yet again

Good to have you back Mike with another set of superb pics.

Pic 62 shows a patchwork quilt of brickwork on the North Terrace which seems strangely out of place when you look at all the other superb brickwork throughout the Stadium.

Wonder if it's because the North Stand as built has only a limited life expectancy before the club can make use of grants that will be available to the Community aspect of our club, at which time the North Side will undergo a major refurb and then be in keeping with the rest of its surroundings?

Mike W. wrote:After our great hols in Poland (beer FAR better than what we have to put up with back home, sorry), we are back and there are now new photos on the New Ground web site taken yesterday.

I bet your return from holiday has never been so eagerly welcomed before! Welcome back... keep those photos coming!

not much privacy in the dumping room..page13....

As always Mike, your pics and updates are very welcome.

Hope you had a good time whilst away, with the comment about the Beer it certainly sounds like it

Welcome home lads, glad to see you back safe and well and back carrying out your duties to all us piccie update fans
Great pictures as usual ta very much

Looks like a long way off being finished and how many days to go???

DMC wrote:Looks like a long way off being finished and how many days to go???

Not a long away off yes still lots to be done but looks as though most of the big jobs ave been done. Still think there will be a lot of work going on in the next couple of weeks.

Still looks as though there is a lot to do PLUS a Safety Certificate to be given.

23 days to go to the fans having their first look.

shrimpnsave wrote:not much privacy in the dumping room..page13....

That's how the Ancient Greeks and Romans used to do.

http://www.globearena.co.uk/gallery/ms_mrw_(6)-73.jpg


looking forward to a freindly sociable dump, it can get lonely in cubicles

They've started putting seats in the main stand today. The ones I can see from Needham Ave are all white! I thought they would all be red whith MFC or something spelled out in another colour.

New_Ground_Watcher wrote:They've started putting seats in the main stand today. The ones I can see from Needham Ave are all white! I thought they would all be red whith MFC or something spelled out in another colour.

Maybe they're putting the MFC ones in first?

shrimpnsave: "not much privacy in the dumping room..page13"

heysham_mfc wrote:[still lots to be done but looks as though most of the big jobs ave been done. Still think there will be a lot of work going on in the next couple of weeks.

It must be my screen but I couldn't quite make that out. Anyway, should they really be using them before they've been properly plumbed in?

Christies Child wrote:Still looks as though there is a lot to do PLUS a Safety Certificate to be given.

23 days to go to the fans having their first look.

Don't worry too much over that one. As it is new build and the relevant safety elfs have never been far away they know it has been built to standard. They won't need a "safety" game to get the certificate

Those pics, especially the ones showing the inside of the ground (frmo one stand to others) got me pretty excited
Its actually looking a lot better than the doom and gloomers were saying a couple of weeks ago, nice shiny new stadium and grass.....cant wait!!

Bit of a random thought, but where will the PA & Match Day commentary box/room be located?

scar wrote:Bit of a random thought, but where will the PA & Match Day commentary box/room be located?

The Carleton?