We really need a sarcasm font.

I don't think Saintsfan has the mental capacity for sarcasm. She likes moaning, therefore I will take everything she says as a moan.

thats amazing!

That would be helpful, thinking of those others on the board who aren't bright enough to spot sarcasm when it slaps them in the face.

I went to the Liverpool vs Milan match on Tues night. Saw a couple of cherry pickers at the back of the ground. Where you walk at the side of tesco and turn left into the car park. I doubt they will have anything to do with adding cladding so close to the start of the season....

Until everybody hopefully forgets about it in the New Year?

Like I've said, it won't get done.

No more updates? Thought not!!

Without reading too much into the silence, I will now do the opposite and theorise that if the cash flow and profits of the business were ahead of those planned then we would already see some plans published about when and where etc. This obviously leads to the conclusion that perhaps it hasn't been as easy as they thought to turn the business round into a profit.

Having said that, I was told at the match on friday by a bloke who says he is in "the know" (nudge nudge wink wink), that the matter is still with consulting engineers as there is real doubt that the weight of any cladding plus the roof would be too much for the structural beams and that ongoing litigation was under way against the design company.

The word I got from Friday was that the money was now in place for cladding, but still no date set for the work to be done.

Although the North Stand is now sponsored so that maybe were a small percentage of the cash has been stumped up.

If the roof design cannot accept full cladding as some have said, how is it the South stand roof design is the same and is clad to the very top. I would have thought a cladded circular design would be more wind resistant than leaving huge gaps where the wind can lift the roof.

I'm not sure it's the roof that's the issue but the structure holding the roof. I'm sure the builders on here could give a more technical explanation. But I'm sure it's possible that they spent more on the South stand structure to hold the forces in place on that side.

If the supports on the rest of the stadium where cheaper for as they where estimated as having to take less force. ie only the roof and not the cladding, this may explain why the south can and the north can't take the same forces.

I only have a basic understanding though, there plenty more qualified on here as they spotted stuff like the type of cement being used as soon as they walked in the place.

Every time I see a post on this thread, which is not as often as it used to be I think the work may have started!

I can't understand the problem as the same builders have been involved with several similar projects and they are closed in or have have cladding??