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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 24, 2023 13:55:49 GMT
Luton 1v2 Crystal Palace
NottsForest 1v2 Brighton
Sheff Utd 1v0 Bournemouth
Stoke 0v0 Blackburn
Derby 3v1 Bristol Rovers
Lincoln 1v1Barnsley
Northampton 1v0 Cambridge
Shrewsbury 0v2 Port Vale
Salford 2v1 M K Dons
Boreham Wood 1v1 Woking
Gateshead 1v0 Southend
Boston 1v1 Chorley
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 22, 2023 19:31:41 GMT
Maybe when they extend the East stand the will refurbish the existing section and swap the seats to match the blue with the South Stand and add white for lettering. "The Gas" would be my preference as that is unique rather than BRFC (also Blackburn)
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 20, 2023 11:52:57 GMT
Can we name the new stand on completion, The Almost Cary Grant Stand? I'm sure he was almost a GasHead! Then, in a weird twist of fate, he would go North by Northwest to South by Southwest. That sounds like a bit of a Charade! I have a Suspicion he was Notorious for it.
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 19, 2023 17:22:26 GMT
39-year-old Adam Hinshelwood is doing an outstanding job as first team manager at Worthing and also overseeing the club’s academy. A former football league player with Brighton, Wycombe and Aldershot and England U21 international. He made the move into coaching as Manager of his local club, Selsey, either side of spells as Assistant Manager at Hastings United and Burgess Hill Town, before being appointed Worthing manager on Christmas Day 2013. Narrowly missed out on the Isthmian Division One South Play-Offs in 2014/15 before he was enticed back into the full-time ranks as Manager of Brighton’s U18s. Started the 2017/18 campaign at Hastings United, where he was also responsible for their academy, until he answered the call from Worthing that September. Rewarded with the Manager of the Season accolade as he led his team to the Isthmian League Premier title in 21/22 and won the Sussex Senior Challenge Cup in the 22/23 season. The first season playing in the National League South had Worthing finishing 4th and during 23/24 they are currently 6 points off 2nd place with 2 games in hand and progressed to the first round proper of the FA Cup for the first time since 1999. A 47.69% win percentage since winning promotion to National League South. During his time at Worthing he has developed and moved on to higher levels the likes of Fin Stevens, Kwame Poku, David Ajiboye, Jasper Pattenden, Ricky Aguiar and Harrison Male.
In South Shields first ever season at National League North level, 42-year-old Julio Arca has a 52.63% win percentage guiding the team to 2nd in the table currently. After 355 appearances in professional football and then winning six trophies, three promotions and making 120 appearances in non-league, I'm sure he will have learnt a thing or two along the way working with the likes of José Néstor Pekerman, Tony Mowbray, Mick McCarthy, Gordon Strachan, Peter Reid, Howard Wilkinson and Gareth Southgate. "I pick up good things and bad things from all managers I've worked with. There's always good and bad things. They do it in different ways and you learn from that" Arca said recently. Great knowledge, as always Pirate. Do you know what their budgets were like in comparison to the rest of the league?? As if they had a big budget for the league, then the results might have been expected. The blokes not very likeable, but I'm surprised nobody has linked us with Evans. Stevenage were 22nd in League two in March of last year, they are now flying in League One. He took Rotherham from League 2 to the championship and kept them up. Stevenage have won their last 5. I know he's not very likeable, but neither was Barton 😂. If he took us up and did a job for a year or two, would fans be bothered about his past?? I'm not sure if I would want him myself, but we seem to have been linked with a lot worse managers. Haven't they only just finished repairing the pitch since the Weeble wobbled across the pitch chasing the ref?
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 19, 2023 13:10:27 GMT
The expectation is for 16,000 . 18,000 was the ideal but unlikely to happen. So subtract the capacity of the west stand ,the new south stand and the seating in the current east stand from 16,000. Then you will get an idea of what might be planned for the east,north and cooling areas of the ground. So maybe a max of 10,000 places ? 2000 new east stand seats Current 2500 east terrace places (?) 200 cooling stand seats (?) So leaves 5300 places for the north/north east areas. So would that just mean continuing the east stand all the way around the north end and keeping existing terracing ? Seems the most straight forward way to do things. That's what I tried to do the other day and my figures were fairly similar in that I reckon it'll be around 10,000 split between the East and North. Possibly 6k and 4k respectively. With that in mind, a new East stand could be the 1k currently in place plus extending either side about the same. That leaves the decision to keep the terracing as is or to add seats here too as a two tier stand. Looking at the North, we could install either a South Stand version with or without keeping the terracing. Quite a lot of variables, looking forward to seeing the artist impressions. First draft is now available
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 17, 2023 21:50:48 GMT
Stevenage 2v0 Lincoln
Accrington 1v2 Wrexham
F G R 1v1 Grimsby
Gillingham 1v1 Salford
Harrogate 1v2 Swindon
Sutton 1v2Tranmere
Ebbsfleet 0v0 Oxford city
Woking 0v1 Oldham
York 2v1 Hartlepool
Bognor Regis 1v1 South Park
Torquay 1v3 Yeovil
Whitehawk 3v1 Lewes
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 17, 2023 21:39:31 GMT
Rebuilt and you could stick in a load of executive boxes as well . Which could double-up as hotel rooms on non-matchdays. An advantage on non-match days would be the convenience to park outside the East side, stay overnight, a crèche (and babysitting service during the evenings) and gym on site - the main USP would be the fantastic views over Bristol. Which are now mainly obscured by the new South stand
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 17, 2023 16:26:06 GMT
It may be taking time to recruit because of the complications of all the backroom staff brought in by JB.
The owner said he wanted to change that and the new manager may not want to work with a team loyal to JB and subsequently Andy Mangan.
There may be a lot of parts to this appointment and a lot of expense
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 17, 2023 14:41:43 GMT
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 17, 2023 13:37:07 GMT
Your original post is talking about casting shadows, over their houses. All I am saying is having observed for 27 years from mid day to sunset I don't believe the reason for the small structure of the SW stand has anything to do with casting shadows because even during the mornings I don't believe it does (cast a shadow over their houses). Never at any time of day is the sun behind the East stand (from a perspective of being in the ground) which is where it would need to be to cast shadows on the houses behind the West stand. It's fine if you don't agree. 27 years observing sunsets? Job or just a weird hobby? Weird hobby
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 17, 2023 12:48:37 GMT
It does rise in the East and set in the west but for the last 27 years I have sat in the East stand the sun has always been behind the houses behind the West Stand so not affected by the stand (maybe early mornings but I doubt that has much of an impact) ...mornings make up nearly half the time the sun is in the sky.... [edit for clarity] we are taking about the impact on the nearby houses at all times of day, not during afternoon/evening matches.... Your original post is talking about casting shadows, over their houses. All I am saying is having observed for 27 years from mid day to sunset I don't believe the reason for the small structure of the SW stand has anything to do with casting shadows because even during the mornings I don't believe it does (cast a shadow over their houses). Never at any time of day is the sun behind the East stand (from a perspective of being in the ground) which is where it would need to be to cast shadows on the houses behind the West stand. It's fine if you don't agree.
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 17, 2023 12:23:49 GMT
The sun rises and sets on the other side of the houses so a stand 3 times the height or more would not have had an impact on the light of the houses to the west ...the sun rises in the east and sets in the west last time I checked - so structures on the West of our ground cast a shadow towards houses/gardens on Strathmore Road... It does rise in the East and set in the west but for the last 27 years I have sat in the East stand the sun has always been behind the houses behind the West Stand so not affected by the stand (maybe early mornings but I doubt that has much of an impact)
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 17, 2023 9:21:48 GMT
Looking at the picture that corner section will most probably be redone when the redo the South Stand as I've said before it just looks odd The corner and the whole south-west section looks to have been designed to provide more seats inside a lower structure than the temporary stands - probably to make sure there were no planning issues with height/shadows. Whilst it's higher at the front it's much lower as it gets nearer the houses meaning the sunlight report raised no issues for those houses on the West side of the ground. The sun rises and sets on the other side of the houses so a stand 3 times the height or more would not have had an impact on the light of the houses to the west
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 16, 2023 12:59:53 GMT
He said although he was a gashead he felt uneasy about things so was supportive of others who wanted a site visit. just wanted to show a bit of balance I guess. He was one of the three that voted in favour of the site visit. I think Richard Eddy, Conrad the planning officer and Simone Wilding kept control and had all the answers. John Greater made that point regarding a site visit. As a self declared gashead, he would/should have known the layout and impact more than anyone on the committee. If anyone is in his constituency, I'd encourage you to ask him why he hadn't already taken a look? Anyway, the motion for the site visit was defeated 6:3, not on party lines. Once the site visit was declined, he voted in favour anyway.
I'd have to say I thought Richard Eddy did a really good job in the chair, balancing the complaints with the pragmatic need to focus on material planning matters. The 8 in favour, 1 abstention, 0 against vote is heartening, especially as 2 of the Green party cllrs voted in favour.
Although Emma Edwards brought forward the local's concerns, I thought she also adopted a more conciliatory tone of better engagement with the Club.
For anyone with the time or inclination to watch the proceedings, they are here:
I'm sure he was only in favour to make it look as though he was being professional having declared he was a Gashead
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 15, 2023 15:14:13 GMT
Approved all for, 1 abstention
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 15, 2023 15:13:41 GMT
Get in
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 15, 2023 15:08:00 GMT
* off O'Rourke
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 14, 2023 21:07:44 GMT
Mixed feelings so far … Great we are winning - but dear oh dear Marquis has missed two gilt edged chances. LT and the Pink Booted one have both hit the post. Again though we have players not wired for sound Grant and Brown don’t seem interested … Evans doing very well driving us forward.
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 14, 2023 20:10:11 GMT
Is that even a photo of the new stand, or a completely different stand constructed using concrete not pre-fabricated material? I dunno ! Just seen it on twitter 😂 Obvs not our stadium
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 14, 2023 19:51:26 GMT
Derby 1-0 after 3 mins
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