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Whalley Red · 21-11-2005, 20:47

I, for one, am disappointed at the continual delays.

In December 2003, Eric said the roof was our #1 priority and that "We expect the construction work to be carried out at the end of the season, all ready for the 2004/05 campaign".

In May, it was "we are optimistic that work will start on the covering for the clayton Terrace early in June. The structural calculations that we were waiting for are now all but complete and as soon as they are passed by the building inspector we can order the steelwork and start to lay the concrete foundations. The work has taken longer than we had initially hoped, however this is mainly down to getting the work done at the right price. The people involved with these projects have saved us thousands of pounds and it is unfair of anyone to criticise them because we haven't had things ready as quickly as we wanted. If money was no object I am sure we could have got things moving much sooner, but there is no grant funding available for Nationwide Conference clubs at the moment and so this means that the club must pay the full amount for the developments".

It can only appear that the club's primary objective is to hope that we are promoted to the Football League and that we will get the additional funding that has already been cited for the Whinney Hill side development.

If the gates are not high enough to afford such expenditures at the moment and that the very real possibility of being promoted means that it is better to wait and spend the money on wages now and receive the grants on promotion later, I wish the club would just say so. They have said the same thing about the Whinney Hill side development and we are all grown-up enough to understand such an argument. But to be repeatedly strung along like this only leads to frustration and disappointment with each delay.

21-11-2005, 20:47	#73
Whalley Red Full Member+ Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 669 Liked: 82 times Rep Power: 1653	Re: where's the roof? (merged) I, for one, am disappointed at the continual delays. In December 2003, Eric said the roof was our #1 priority and that "We expect the construction work to be carried out at the end of the season, all ready for the 2004/05 campaign". In May, it was "we are optimistic that work will start on the covering for the clayton Terrace early in June. The structural calculations that we were waiting for are now all but complete and as soon as they are passed by the building inspector we can order the steelwork and start to lay the concrete foundations. The work has taken longer than we had initially hoped, however this is mainly down to getting the work done at the right price. The people involved with these projects have saved us thousands of pounds and it is unfair of anyone to criticise them because we haven't had things ready as quickly as we wanted. If money was no object I am sure we could have got things moving much sooner, but there is no grant funding available for Nationwide Conference clubs at the moment and so this means that the club must pay the full amount for the developments". It can only appear that the club's primary objective is to hope that we are promoted to the Football League and that we will get the additional funding that has already been cited for the Whinney Hill side development. If the gates are not high enough to afford such expenditures at the moment and that the very real possibility of being promoted means that it is better to wait and spend the money on wages now and receive the grants on promotion later, I wish the club would just say so. They have said the same thing about the Whinney Hill side development and we are all grown-up enough to understand such an argument. But to be repeatedly strung along like this only leads to frustration and disappointment with each delay.