Meanwhile, a planning application to install perforated aluminium cladding around perimeters of the north, west and east stands, to ensure concourses are covered “as much as is technically possible”, has also been approved by St Helens Council.

rlCheer Up Guysrl

just because you went home and reported on it doesnt make it fact, and as for gary mercer what a story to tell everyone, it missed me by inches, it landed nearer to me and I was in the stand.

rlSounds promisingrl.

Not even a little bit of wind can keep us down... for record does anybody know if Rogues was in the vacinity of Langtree Park when the 70mph wind broke? I've heard he has a wind problem!!!!

Quite right DD. 'Ming' as he was known then (Mercer) actually asked me had I got the incident on film afterwards in the dressing room. I think the potential seriousness of the incident had sunk in by then. Lucky escape me thinks. It may have landed close to Fossy as well, as back then Mercer was probably playing in the centres before switching to the second row. See somone doesnt agree with us, but not to worry, no one was actually injured and thats the main thing I suppose

Jees was it in 1990, knew it was some time back but didnt realise it was that long ago, time flies doesnt it, (like KR roof panels !!)


THE HOOF

I was one of the couple of thousand poor suckers there too on that awful night (huddled right at the very back of the Pop and still getting soaked by literally horizontal sheets of rain, the likes of which I have never seen before or since anywhere) and for the record I think Mercer was playing on the wing and the roof panel landed maybe about 20 or 30 feet away from him. A lucky escape certainly but not quite as close a shave as some may claim.

No mention of what/who was at fault for this happening.....

It does. But more gale force winds are due in overnight so personally I'll feel a whole lot more encouraged if I wake up tomorrow and no further damage has occurred!

while its no comfort to us i read in the paper that part of Epsom's grandstand roof blew away as well so it does happen to the best of us, meaning us Saints.Don't know how old the Epsom roof is.But of course the Saints stadia is our main worry at the moment.

The Epsom granstand that lost its roof was built in 2009. There seemed to be a similar problem with it: the aluminium strips peeled back and the fibgreglass layer blew all over the place.

Looking at the underside of the damaged roof in more detail, it looks as though they are short of a few cross bracings, don't know how that design got passed off in that corner. If its the same design in the other corners hope they do a risk assessment.
What we really need is a couple of years of Pigeon Plue to seal and stick everything together.

all very good on the structural stuff and weather reports.........



why insulate the bloody thing....


"woah Dave get some in'slation out o' van and stick it in 'roof thar'll keep th'eat in...."

that part of theroof is over the control room, so insulation is probably a building regulation