New stadium thread
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That will be really impressive if it works! I just hope the playing surface is good. Remember the horrors of the first matches at Wembley? As well as being not the best football stadium the turf was terrible. I remember Dawson slipping quite importantly to let in the opposition for a goal (was it v Portsmouth in an FA Cup semi?) and it really looked like the turf gave way.
Given one corner of the Park Lane pitch apparently had summer
sunlight problems at old WHL due to the stadium, God knows
how the new pitch will hold up (above or under ground) .
Hopefully they have some of those hydroponic lights to keep the turf in tip-top condition. If they have they could also grow some Sensi and open an Amsterdam style coffee shop as well as the bar, which would keep Dona happy.
Monaco's stadium used to have the same problem for the same reason: the pitch was on top of concrete.
In Monaco's case it was because the pitch was directly above the stadium car park, in Wembley's case it was mere incompetence by the designers that should have been addressed in the planning stage.
Not content with building an entire stadium, we're also building player accomodation at Spurs Lodge
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Unfortunately, that is most unlikely. The cost of building it means that it will have to be named after some foreign corporation. We're said to be looking for £20m p.a over 20 years, which reflects our current borrowing on the project and that only covers the groundworks for the hotel and housing and nothing above ground. It's a new entity and I'm not sure that calling it after the old ground is crucial.
However, Daniel Levy has striven to create a stadium that has the elements that made White Hart Lane special. It's got minimal space between the stands and the pitch, and has steeply banked stands to ensure that everyone is as close to the pitch as possible. Just as importantly, there's a clearly identifiable home end [that the club actively want to offer safe standing in] and has been shaped to aid the acoustics and to be as noisy as possible. That's what made our home such a great ground to play and watch football in and we're all hoping that could be even better in the new stadium. Without the move, our future was written........no longer.
Compared to Wembley, it's going to be a joy.
You missed an opportunity to say Thanks for that Thanks for that Brian
Going by what I've seen from the online clips, and my Key Stage 1 knowledge of structural engineering, I think the past 3 weeks have been spent digging and laying the foundations for the remainder of the stand. It's a ****ing monster, so the foundations are by far the largest and deepest of the entire stadium.
There are a couple of bird's eye clips doing the rounds (check out a guy called 'Edward' on YouTube - he puts together really decent weekly compilations of progress) that appear to show a complete oval - the East and West stands now joined to the South with the initial beams and girders. Barely above ground level, but amazing to see nonetheless.
Anyone know if the work is on schedule? Be good to know that we are likely to be there next season.
Spurcat said something (which I have subsequently heard
elsewhere) about a key milestone being that all construction
must be done so that work on the stadium roof can
begin. That milestone is allegedly sometime in January 2018.
TBF all he is doing is taking pictures from the OS.
There are much better clips out there, on a weekly basis by people who are going and filming the progress.
The reason little progress has been made on the south stand could also be because they need to construct the retractable pitch which is going under the south stand and they said that would be happening at the beginning of October.