Work On The New Training Ground Has Started Today 11th July 2022

[rigsby]

Be amazed if anyone is turning up for the next 2 days

Probably not been paid last Friday

 

[Blues4LifeDan]

Are pulling up trees yet???

No. Jason Williams isn't there.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Been down there and got a some pics but wasn’t a lot happening, not sure if that because of the heat View attachment 21089View attachment 21090View attachment 21091

There must have been someone leaning on a shovel - and someone supervising them whilst smoking a cigarette?

 

[Holy Joe]

Do the diggers stay on site or will they be loaded up and taken away.

I suspect they'll be taken away and different ones brought in by whoever wins the contract to build the stadium

 

[blueblueblue]

I should imagine it will take a good month or so before you see any changes on site. With all the drainage required eg, they're going to dig quite a way down.

 

[Microbe]

I read somewhere, maybe on here, that the Roots Hall pitch was constructed on top of a thick layer of sea shells to aid drainage.
Any signs of people picking shells off the beach at Thorpe Bay fir the new training pitches???

 

[rigsby]

I read somewhere, maybe on here, that the Roots Hall pitch was constructed on top of a thick layer of sea shells to aid drainage.
Any signs of people picking shells off the beach at Thorpe Bay fir the new training pitches???

No shells at Thorpe Bay as the beach was imported about 20 years ago. Some girl was picking her thong when I went for swim this evening

 

[annie1954]

There must have been someone leaning on a shovel - and someone supervising them whilst smoking a cigarette?

And don’t forget the guy in hi vi’s that walks around taking pictures with his tablet

 

[Rattus Norvegicus]

I read somewhere, maybe on here, that the Roots Hall pitch was constructed on top of a thick layer of sea shells to aid drainage.
Any signs of people picking shells off the beach at Thorpe Bay fir the new training pitches???

When I was a young lad (and that was many a year ago) I was told that the "hollow" that is Roots Hall was an old rubbish tip ............ and that was a factor in a) reducing the effect of wind in the ground & b) aiding drainage.

Mind you, all of this was before Wikipaedia & all that made up stuff.

 

[Cricko]

When I was a young lad (and that was many a year ago) I was told that the "hollow" that is Roots Hall was an old rubbish tip ............ and that was a factor in a) reducing the effect of wind in the ground & b) aiding drainage.

Mind you, all of this was before Wikipaedia & all that made up stuff.

You are both right. It was once a rubbish tip but cockles were used originally when the pitch was built.
As an aside it was also an allotment during the war.

 

[Ramsdenblue]

Went past fossets field today at about 6.00pm and saw yellow JCB machinery still moving around.

 

[SeldomSeenShrimper]

Love how everyone is watching the building site half expecting it all to come to a halt any day

 

[sufc4life21]

Went past fossets field today at about 6.00pm and saw yellow JCB machinery still moving around.

Must of been ron trying to locate where he buried the warchest

 

[Mr Browns Ghost]

Genuine question. When I drive down from B&Q past Waitrose on the left and B&Q on the right the field behind B&Q belongs to marks and Spencer’s I saw works taking place there this week but nothing behind the blue Hoardings coming onto Sutton road … am I looking in the wrong place

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

You are both right. It was once a rubbish tip but cockles were used originally when the pitch was built.
As an aside it was also an allotment during the war.

I didn't think that cockles were originally used as drainage?

I thought that 'trenches' were dug across the pitch and cockle shells put in them to aid drainage prior to The Man City Cup Tie (Bert Trautman etal)? So enabling the cuptie to go ahead, yet still in a mud bath!!!

Absolutely no way would that fixture go ahead today with those Man City/Premier League Prima Donnas!!!

Rubbish did regularly appear from below the pitch causing injuries until the pitch was subsequently dug up and relayed/reseeded.

That's how I thought it went anyway.

 

[* ORM *]

No shells at Thorpe Bay as the beach was imported about 20 years ago. Some girl was picking her thong when I went for swim this evening

This is no good without pictures

 

[rigsby]

This is no good without pictures

I don’t take a phone to the beach but there all in my mind thanks

 

[annie1954]

Genuine question. When I drive down from B&Q past Waitrose on the left and B&Q on the right the field behind B&Q belongs to marks and Spencer’s I saw works taking place there this week but nothing behind the blue Hoardings coming onto Sutton road … am I looking in the wrong

Right on Sutton road roundabout there is a opening in the blue hoardings with earth along the front if you look across from there you will see the diggers in the fields

 

[The Big Dady]

Genuine question. When I drive down from B&Q past Waitrose on the left and B&Q on the right the field behind B&Q belongs to marks and Spencer’s I saw works taking place there this week but nothing behind the blue Hoardings coming onto Sutton road … am I looking in the wrong place

The diggers are on the area for the 4 training pitches behind the "Wooden Fence" marked in red on the map, the car park will be behind the "Blue Fence" marked in in blue on the map.

There is a gap between the blue hording fence and the wooden fence (shown in red) and you can see the diggers and equipment working on the new training pitches.





Looking from training pitches towards the wooden fence in the back ground



Looking from training pitches towards the wooden fence in back ground

 

[Mr Browns Ghost]

The diggers are on the area for the 4 training pitches behind the "Wooden Fence" marked in red on the map, the car park will be behind the "Blue Fence" marked in in blue on the map.

There is a gap between the blue hording fence and the wooden fence (shown in red) and you can see the diggers and equipment working on the new training pitches.

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Thanks a lot appreciated ! That confirms I just haven’t seen them ! Appreciate the clarity