Problems for Scarborough Athletic

Found a problem with the pitch due to drainage not being installed properly when stadium was built.
It will cost £3 million to put right! Council’s responsibility but they haven’t decided yet if they will and even if they do it will take 44 weeks, 44 weeks! Scarborough have to find somewhere to play which is acceptable to the league and are having problems.

 

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to lay a 4g pitch

 

That’s just ridiculous
You can build an entire building in central London in 44 weeks.
Not dig down 500mm & replace some pipes. Typical lazy council job estimate on price & duration

 

Yes, indeed. In that amount of time the Romans built 10 miles of Hadrian’s Wall. That lasted pretty well.

 

Let them use the MKM when we're not playing. FC will have to **** off and find somewhere else.

Annoying though. Was planning to head up there a bit next season if no City game.

 

Don't forget Scarboro's a small place with a small council, probably only got 1 bloke who knows how to dig holes, it'd take him ages...

 

44 weeks... Is it one man with a spoon to do the excavating?

 

'Hole in the Ground' by Bernard Cribbins

 

What absolute nonsense .
£3 million ?
It's probably a £1 million job that is having the usual piss take price put in place .
Just go play at Brid

 

There is a Victorian culvert under the pitch that failed and was supposed to be fixed when they built the stadium. It… wasn’t.

They have a 4G pitch ready to lay I understand. But they won’t do it until the culvert is fixed.

 

I suppose the ones who did the original work has now gone bankrupt so can't be sued. ****s.

 

The council, if they used outside contractors, are useless ****s if they didn’t check if properly.

 

They played at Brid when they had problems before. But different owners at Brid and maybe the league isn’t amenable.Brid Town did well out of it last time, they used to bring quite a few and the club bar and the chippie opposite both did a roaring trade.
Over 2,000 there yesterday for their game against Darlington.

 

There’ll be no one young who can dig and lay the pipes unless it’s on Minecraft !

 

Talking of crazy council jobs, I have a mate contracting on the Queens Gardens refurbishment, last week they hit the £25m estimate mark and have had to cancel some of the plans. They've just spent £250k on 12 granite benches as normal benches wouldn't do apparently. What a complete waste of money. Absolutely clueless.

Surely they could have spent £25m on something better than that.

 

They played at Queensgate (Bridlington Town's ground) before, but they've also got the option of playing up at Whitby Town. 20 miles away but beggars can't be choosers The only other option would be Pickering Town, but I'm not sure that's got enough seating.