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Suprised nobody picked up on this report. They now have until Dec 31st to get it right

Accrington Stanley chiefs Heys: We'll meet ground deadline (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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oh i read it dave, but i have faith, today anyway.:D

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Thats another 500 standing spaces to find!!Bill's going to be busy;):D

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I wonder if it will be sorted "next week" :rolleyes:

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On a seperate note, how many more defenders/midfielders do we need???? For me, the problem is up front!!!!!!

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Standing or seated ? :D

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Preferably someone who's six foot when they're sitting down.

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4 years to bring the ground up to scratch, Its beyond a joke, and one of the reasons why we currently dont have flags on the clayton end.

Why do we put up with this as a fan base....

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Some of us did say similar things many months ago, but were shouted down at the time..............go figure :)

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will continue to remain a joke john, whilst the 2 Bloodsuckers remain.:rolleyes:

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extra room created either side of the coppice terrace... meaning when we play bardford, bury etc theres gunna be loads more away fans... great eh

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To be fair though, If there are 500 extra places for the likes of bradford fans, they are likely to sell them all. 500 extra places for Stanley fans and they aren't going to sell any. If it brings more money into the club then I'm quite happy for the extra capacity to be for visiting supporters.

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I don't understand where there is room either side of the Coppice end, can somebody enlighten me ? :confused:

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A few Sky Hooks may help Dave:D

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This is the little bit that made me laugh:

"Football League have been good with us so we want to do it out of respect for them"

...or do it for ourselves because we HAVE to have it done and we want to do it because its embarrassing if we cant!

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Laugh aint the word mate i'm hysterical.;)

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They seem very good at kowtowing when the **** hits the fan. It's usually the sign of desperation in weak people who believe themselves to be more intelligent and capable than they really are.

The thing is, this type of statement is very reminiscent of the things said in relation to the Inland Revenue. Just substitute the words Inland Revenue for Football League and you'll see what I mean.

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TBH there was more Oldham fans than Stanley last saturday, why coz they have a bigger fan base than us. Our normal attendance is usually about 1200 home supporters (approximately) but for some reason was down below a 1000 last week. Could be that season ticket holders didn't fancy paying the extra or basically some fans may have thought the result was a foregone conclusion and ballsed it up big style.

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No its a bloody disaster if you can't;)

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'we want to do it' but have shown no inclination thus far until we've been given a deadline.

How long until the inevitable webcall for some free labour goes out? It's a shame they've upset the ultras really :-)

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New Year's Eve? :rolleyes:

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Lurching from crisis to crisis. When will it ever end? This statement by the so-called "chief executive" is the most pathetic, mealy mouthed rubbish he's ever come out with, and there have been plenty. Some of us on here were taken to task for daring to suggest he wasn't up to the job - "Oh no, he's a mate and Stanley through and through", etc, etc. A true chief exec. should be able to bang heads together, show some dynamism, grab Ilyas by the curlies to free up some funds IN PLENTY OF TIME, do whatever it takes to avoid the toe curling situations which our crisis management lands us with time after time. It's like watching Dog Day Afternoon, or whatever that Bill Murray film was called.:(

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I think everything is in order. The control tower is nearly ready so the old one can be taken down and then the Coppice End terrace can be taken back. A few more steps = an extra few hundred capacity.
Simple isn't it? and 50 days to do it!
It's not like the weather, a lack of money, internal wranglings, or the threat of expulsion is going to hold things up............

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oh they have not a lack of money then?:confused: the rumour mill must be wrong?:eek:

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You're loosing your touch Cashy, you're supposed to be the expert on sarcasm :D

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Dog Day Afternoon was Al Pacino and John Cazale (great film). Think you're thinking of Groundhog Day. :)

Though actually, some of Dog Day Afternoon's dialogue is just as apt; "Everybody is a con man!" or "We’re hot entertainment, right?" ;)

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Aye, that's it. Thanks Shaker.

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Yep, really upset!

" Can you help clear the snow please...."
:rolleyes: i know what my answer will be this year.

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Honours degree in sarcasm at Oxford Dave, no not the uni, the pub on Oxford Road in Burnley:D

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oh go on Lee, there's a free tray of chips in it for you!

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Get stuffed you, putting me in Burnley, do i look like a friggin dingle?:rolleyes:

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No just saying you went there to teach them how to drink:rolleyes:

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:) New i had the figuer some where..:) The capacity of the crown ground at the moment officaly is 4.503 :)

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Not according to the OFFICIAL website ;)

Ground Capacity5,057 (2,000 seated)

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See, id go if they did that haha! :cool:

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Its called BENDING the truth abit :rolleyes: So like i said at the moment its 4,503 which includes 2107approx seats...:)

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Thats a diplomatic way of putting it, some might say Bare Faced Lies.;):D

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what's 'approx' seats? are some of them occasionally seats and occasionally upturned milk crates?

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Subtract one of those names @ add another n ya will be nearer to what i was alluding, the one ya subtract don't qualify as a bloodsucker to my mind, if i had said numptys though it would be accurate.;)

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counting the seats on the stadium planner on the ticket sales site Rob!! I may have miss counted or over counted thats why approx ;):).Eithere way we have more than the required amount of seating we need:confused:

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i hope nobody tells EW - he'll have a fit at all that wasted money!

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So plan A would be to remove (with the help of the ultras :rolleyes: ??) 107 seats to make a new standing area wouldn't it....

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Just to stop everyone worrying.
The plan IS to knock the breeze block wall down and add a temporary stand behind the coppice terrace (approx 5/6 extra steps)
All done in plenty of time ( fingers crossed )

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"Fingers cossed" is that the same as a wing and a prayer:D

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Just like last year. Stop worrying everyone. The tax bill will be paid in plenty of time. We have had over five years to get this sorted out. If Barnet finish in the bottom two of the league I am sure that they will put in a protest and get us thrown out if we do not have the required capacity.

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After what happened to them a few years ago, I suspect Stevenage might be happy to back any such protest after they've visited The Crown and seen the 'facilities'.

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any up date on the new steps?and when control room is dun the thats made out of wood weres the h@s there over a water tank to mmmmmmmmmmmmm h@s.

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Are you suggesting there may be a future case of legionaries disease, Grimps?

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This is Stanley, please dont give the two numpties any more ideas............lol

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redash . water = diving pool then u get the rest

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This has gone quiet recently. Has anyone been up to the ground recently to see that work is proceeding as planned and hasn't been affected by the inclement weather?

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Doubtless, the club will be asking for volunteers to help them out with last minute construction work in the final week of December. :rolleyes:

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I feel confident that it will be OK....

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RH also said that the control room would be up and running in time for "our next home match", which at that time was the Shrews game. Has this actually happened?

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How did ya write that without a sarcastic smiley Joe?:D

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Have you been on that Titanic ale, Joe? ;)

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Is it not only a temporary stand ? Would have thought it will only take a couple of days to put up some scaffolding and a few planks

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Having few days of work then Wyn:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

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Won't stop the call going out for volunteers, though. As for the work to be carried out, thought it was extra terracing at each side of the Coppice End, which seems a fair bit of work to me, especially as we're into the second week of December. :eek:

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never be done . with all this cold + snow ice . so stanley will be asking for more time off the fa and football league .

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18 days left to add the extra terracing to stop us being chucked out of the league.

I assume construction work is now at an advanced stage? :rolleyes:

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the only advanced thing i know about, is the big freeze is back end of this week.:mad:

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Good point it's getting very close to deadline and the bad spell of arctic weather is due from Thursday onwards :eek:

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Perhaps MrT could comment on this issue, whilst hes online?:)

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It wont be completed in 2010 that's for sure.

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If that's the case we kiss goodbye to the football league then - there's only so much grace they can grant us as per usual we test it to the limit or ignore the seriousness of it, whether we like it or not that is the conditions imposed when we moved up.

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well if the league was to go through football, thats one thing, if it went through incompetent ******* thats another, we will have to see.:(

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The football league aren't totally heartless. They won't expect a stand extension to be built in 2 weeks in this weather :)

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It is just unbelievable that we leap from one situation to another and still we hear nothing from the club management nor Ilyas either. Something has got to give otherwise we will be playing Conference football sooner rather than later. I seem to recall Rob Heys stating the other week that it was well under way and would be completed way before the deadline. How likely is it to happen, probably not at all. Why say things if they aren't going to happen?:dflam:

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were ya laughing as ya typed that dave?:rolleyes::D

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we had loads time to do it all . we had more let off by the leagues as well as non league to most blue prem grounds better than us would we be let in to blue prem. board have loads time to build new bloodly ground it for people to step down and new to step up. mr accy were are you now???????? still down under.

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My thoughts are those than own stanley currently are simply not bothered and would prefer the less professional amplitude of non league - easy way out to blame the football league then :rolleyes:

Like I say my suspicious mind is daring to ponder that whilst silence prevails at Asfc. But I'll be wrong of course and work has been secretly done without us knowing on the flip reverse :)

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Have you any idea why Ilyas has been so quiet?

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Probably not, but we've had four years to sort this out. How much longer can we keep testing the patience of the football league before they snap?

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Absolutely not heard a dicky bow from Ilyas and would welcome any communication least some hope to the board - at this moment I've nothing to report. Patience isnt my strong point I'm so trying as he asked months ago for us to have patience, tho I do appreciate he is busy and maybe sorting things quietly in the wings - I don't know at this moment.

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It just seems really strange that he hasn't said anything on here or in the press about his aspirations for the future of the club and fleshing out the bones of it. If he is reading this it would be great to hear from him.

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It's not the football league that will snap, it's fans of other clubs. I want to know why there are special rules for Stanley yet they didn't bend the rules at the end of last season for us and stopped us being relegated just because we were crap;)

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I'm not worryed over this issue as what is going up will take 3days to build and be functional.. The wall at the top of the coppice terrace is going to be removed and a temporary permanent stand similer to blackpools old one is going in except its standing not seating.which will take the capacity way above the required 5000mk...

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yeh but is yer source known fer telling the truth mab?:confused: n if so why the hell don't they say owt?

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Will that not take it above the current height of the Coppice End ? If so doesn't it need planning permission ?

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Something of a contradiction in terms!

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I did say in post 60 it will only take couple of days, and I have no source :)

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Lot of talk and not enough of it actioned is the major issue we have :rolleyes:

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Its a temporary type stand thats will be fixed permanetly. I would says so cashy!! i have no reason to dowt him/her :)

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In other words, yet another Mickey Mouse tinpot solution.

If only we had a wealthy businessman waiting in the wings who was ready to use his resources and acumen to advance the club and perhaps even build us a new stadium. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

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You don't want much Mr. H, do you, you have more chance of winning the lottery :confused: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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Only because of the obstinacy of those in charge at the moment!

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Yeh mean Ali Baba?:(

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As you know I'm not a Stanley fan but I like to see them doing well, but I feel sorry for all you genuine fans, seems the club use the mushroom syndrome on you, feed um with bullshine(for want of a better word) and keep um in the dark. Some one once said a weeks a long time in politics, but 4 years is pushing even the FL

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Couple of points to add to the mix.
Firstly, you don't need warm weather to knock a wall down and bolt together metal, so cold weather should not stop the work.
Secondly, as someone suggested, the work will need planning permission. Minimum time to secure that, assuming plans are already drawn, neighbours consulted, additional traffic impact assessed, etc, etc, would be 8 weeks.
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Is anyone suprised?

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No, it's wearily predictable and everyone knows it (although some won't admit it). We can only hope that Ilyas will be making his move eventually!

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I think anyone that says they are, are deluding themselves.:rolleyes:

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if its a save money . can any one help move the wall job . you get a big fat no

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Jay, I reckon you're about to find out just how it feels! ;)

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Don't think so Wyn an entirely different scenario, the real problems with a football club is money,don't think the Rovers are quite in that boat, leave that to the lies of United, Liverpool and West Ham who are in hock to the banks

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And the banks are in hock to us taxpayers (apparently). So can't we sell one of the above clubs to some Chinese chicken processor and use the proceeds to build a new ground for Stanley, please?