Quote: vastman "Interesting post.
I can’t honestly see any huge issues with the build to be honest.
The East stand offers no issues as far as I can see, it’s a flat surface with brilliant access. It’s a relatively small stand of a type that’s been built elsewhere umpteen times. It’s as close to off the shelf as you can find.
The North stand is more likely to throw up issue. We think we know what’s under there but you can’t be sure until you start. We know some of it is potentially toxic but you’d assume that’s been taken into account and is probably the reason it wasn’t flattened and replaced. All the same in it’s way the North stand will be transformed, it’s already the most popular part of the ground and now it will be more than fit for the purpose. I’ll no longer be embarrassed to take people on it.
This year on the pitch?
Let’s hope WP is a lucky coach. He has a potentially good team there but not much depth. By depth I don’t mean quality I mean resilience. If we lose a lot of experienced players we could be in bother but I suppose that applies to most teams. What Poching needs is for players like Fifita, TJ and Mason or a few others to hit real form and stay fit. That happens and the rest will follow.
That’s where it all went wrong for CC, for three seasons he got total value from his players then for a million reasons he didn’t. Poching avoids that this season we will do fine.
One final plea. Can we please take the CCup seriously for once. I know it’s a risk if you’re in the bottom part of the table but if by quarter final time we are reasonably safe then let’s go for it. This is by far the easiest route back into the hearts and minds of the Wakefield public and thus fresh supporters. I may be wrong but since 2008 we have been lacklustre to say the least as I think 2016 was a bit of a freak.
Anyway who knows, I’ll just be there shouting support.
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It is a relatively simple build so hopefully it goes with out issue and the club will have a design and build contract in place.
Generally a lot of main contractors won’t touch stadia as they are viewed as high risk schemes and do have a history of haemorrhaging money.
I’m a little surprised the contractor who is doing it has taken it on as a lot of the directors have had bad experiences with stadia in the past all be it at another company and we’re adamant they wouldn’t touch one again.
Hopefully the risk has been factored out and it goes smoothly.