I don't know about the gate - apart from The Bill Nicholson gates, which will be in The Tottenham Experience, but there's something going to go on the highest point of the centre of The East Stand. If you look at the glass sections of the roof to the East, there are 3 panels with mountings and non glass panelling. It looks like something's going up there and there's nothing in the plans for it........hmmmm? Click on the image for a decent view. please log in to view this image
I've just noticed that the West tray has its sand in it, whereas the central one doesn't. Will they join up the 2 trays? I'm more excited by this than the Cup Final.
Like Mrs B on a night out, they've pushed them together and it looks great.......Mmmmmmm. please log in to view this image
What happens to the tray tracks once the pitch is retracted, anyone, please. It's doing my head in because I am missing something.
Diego, The trays are stored underneath the South stand. Watch the Chris Cowlin update and you will see how it is done.
They are somehow hidden beneath the NFL pitch http://www.scx.co.uk/news/scx-to-su...9rTPjCeBbcadAt4ZqvFsN1ADR0hYFrVcaAgVREALw_wcB
So do you have to take the NFL pitch up to roll the football pitch out? Sounds like more than a 25 min job if so.
This from SCX, the manufacturer of the pitch tray and rail system in response to an interested fan asking them about it over the weekend... "I’m assuming when you say ‘runners’ you mean the rails on which the tray wheels run on! Without giving too much away.....each of the three trays run on three sets of rails, the central rail acts as the guide rail & users a similar design rail to that of tram rail; the sort of rail you sometimes see used in cities where there are trams in use ie Manchester, Sheffield & Nottingham. The outer two rails are fundamentally flat running crane rails. So the key driver for us as designers, was to achieve as near as possible, a flat running surface for the NFL pitch to be laid on. As you’re already probably thinking.....yes but what about the NFL pitch around the rails! So in these areas, of which there are nine sections (three rails per tray x 3 trays), we leave a section (approx 1 metre) of artificial NFL pitch out, then once the trays have been retracted under the South stand, we then role out a section of approx 1 metre wide NFL pitch, which then fills the gap. This system has been extensively tested & has proven to work very well. Sorry I couldn’t go in too much detail at this stage, but hope it answers your question. I look forward to hopefully seeing you at the ground one day & experiencing your amazing stadium." So, most of the pitch is permanent with the bits around the rail fitted when needed. This is in keeping with the interchangeable surface in the 'End Zone' at the stadium in New York that houses The Giants and The Jets. That seems to work fine, so this should do no different.
So in summary : 1. Not a problem 2. Go and invent some other story about why new WHL is gonna eff Spurs up big time.
Thanks for that, Brian....... but what I posted was intended as a devastatingly clever, witty play on words in two languages. There are some people (including my own dear departed sister!) who like to put up a sign saying "cave canem" - which is Latin for "beware of the dog!". I thought we ought to have a sign saying (in almost-Latin!) "cave Kanem" - which is distorted Latin for "beware of the Kane". Sorry about that! It's my sily sense of humour, and I do hope you're not put out to disover you spent time giving me a perfectly sensible answer to a perfectly daft post! I think I'll just creep away into this corner now......
My latin is all legal stuff - 'caveat emptor', 'mens rea', 'actus reus', 'ipso facto'. That sort of thang. You want my dad, Brian Snr. He was a Classics student. Speaks it like a native.
