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Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by ClaretTony » Fri May 31, 2019 10:39 am

The wooden away seats in the cricket field are being replaced with plastic seats and that has allowed us to extend the home section.

New seats going in Longside lower too.
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by MarkGreen » Fri May 31, 2019 10:43 am

ClaretTony wrote:New seats going in Longside lower too.
Is that the whole of the longside lower or are they just replacing a few broken/discoloured ones?

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by Bordeauxclaret » Fri May 31, 2019 10:44 am

Typical, I bet they didn’t think of all the away fans who like to whinge about wooden seats before they did this.
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by 4:20 » Fri May 31, 2019 10:45 am

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by MACCA » Fri May 31, 2019 10:46 am

ClaretTony wrote:The wooden away seats in the cricket field are being replaced with plastic seats and that has allowed us to extend the home section.

New seats going in Longside lower too.
In time for next season?

Also what about the wooden ones in the home part if the CFS?

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by ClaretTony » Fri May 31, 2019 10:47 am

MarkGreen wrote:Is that the whole of the longside lower or are they just replacing a few broken/discoloured ones?
They are using the plastic seats that were ordered should we have reached the group stage of the Europa League. I can’t see there being enough other than to replace those seats in the Longside lower than need replacing.

But switching to smaller plastic seats in the away section means we can move up the divide line.

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by MACCA » Fri May 31, 2019 10:48 am


Cheers answered my above questions to CT.
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by SGr » Fri May 31, 2019 10:51 am

Should keep them but just in the away end. That way the away support can keep getting wound up about it for absolutely no reason.
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by ClaretTony » Fri May 31, 2019 10:52 am

MACCA wrote:In time for next season?

Also what about the wooden ones in the home part if the CFS?
Work being done now. Wooden one remain in cricket field.

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by Quickenthetempo » Fri May 31, 2019 10:56 am

Good news

The divide moves so I'm not virtually sat on an away fans lap.
The whinging away fan gets less room to sit in an inferior seat.
It may look smarter on the tellybox.
More Burnley fans will get a prime view right behind the goal.

Bad news

More Burnley fans in the stand with the same number of insufficient facilities.
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by bfcmik » Fri May 31, 2019 10:57 am

ClaretTony wrote:Work being done now. Wooden one remain in cricket field.
They won't get worn out any time soon with the amount of sitting on them that gets done during matches :lol:
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by MACCA » Fri May 31, 2019 11:01 am

Quickenthetempo wrote: Bad news

More Burnley fans in the stand with the same number of insufficient facilities.
I think they'll be looking at this, if not this summer, certainly next.

As Doug said we listen and act on things the supporters say.

They've not listened to the away fans, it was a Europa league stipulation, so the order was made. It HAD to be done.

I think theres plenty of options to improve the facilities in the CFS for our fans, and I'm sure it's been put to him by many what improvements are needed .

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Fri May 31, 2019 11:02 am

Honestly can’t think of a single reason why anyone would want plastic seats over wooden. Always asked me laugh when away teams fans grumble about them.
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by ClaretTony » Fri May 31, 2019 11:03 am

bfcmik wrote:They won't get worn out any time soon with the amount of sitting on them that gets done during matches :lol:
Absolutely. So it’s disappointing that they are not installing seats in readiness for safe standing as Wolves are doing at Molineux.

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Fri May 31, 2019 11:04 am

ClaretTony wrote:Absolutely. So it’s disappointing that they are not installing seats in readiness for safe standing as Wolves are doing at Molineux.
Suspect that will come with a new dedicated stand rather than keep doing piecemeal changes.

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by TheFamilyCat » Fri May 31, 2019 11:07 am

Don’t bother with the seats, just leave it like this:
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by agreenwood » Fri May 31, 2019 11:07 am

So there’ll be wooden and plastic seats in the Cricket Field stand?

We’ll be buying in unwanted stands from other clubs soon and recreating Millmoor.

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by ClaretTony » Fri May 31, 2019 11:11 am

agreenwood wrote:So there’ll be wooden and plastic seats in the Cricket Field stand?

We’ll be buying in unwanted stands from other clubs soon and recreating Millmoor.
As long as they don’t give us the sort of leg room there was at Millmoor.

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by tim_noone » Fri May 31, 2019 11:13 am

TheFamilyCat wrote:Don’t bother with the seats, just leave it like this:
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Perfect.....and pay on the gate we'd get twice the numbers !

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by ŽižkovClaret » Fri May 31, 2019 11:14 am

Whats happening to all the old wooden ones? I'd bloody love a set on my balcony here
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by agreenwood » Fri May 31, 2019 11:14 am

The last time I was at Millmoor everything was secondary to Mo Camara impersonating a footballer.

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Fri May 31, 2019 11:16 am

ZizkovClaret wrote:Whats happening to all the old wooden ones? I'd bloody love a set on my balcony here
Was about to post similar. They should auction them off.

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by tim_noone » Fri May 31, 2019 11:17 am

ZizkovClaret wrote:Whats happening to all the old wooden ones? I'd bloody love a set on my balcony here
Being sold to Hanover.....
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by FactualFrank » Fri May 31, 2019 11:18 am

TheFamilyCat, are we playing "spot the difference".

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by Jakubs Tash » Fri May 31, 2019 11:19 am

TheFamilyCat wrote:Don’t bother with the seats, just leave it like this:
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That looks tremendous! Just stick some crush barriers in there....

Real shame about the wooden seats. I used to enjoy hearing rival fans moan and mock us about the fact the seats were wooden.

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by ClaretTony » Fri May 31, 2019 11:19 am

agreenwood wrote:The last time I was at Millmoor everything was secondary to Mo Camara impersonating a footballer.
Horrible weekend for me in more ways than one but four days after that fiasco it was announced that there would be no new contract for Stan. As for Camara, we had another year of his impersonations to come. How bad were we that day at Rotherham?

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by MACCA » Fri May 31, 2019 11:20 am

Zizkov - They're solid them things, could make some good garden furniture with those.

Although shipping fees might be a bit high!

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by ElectroClaret » Fri May 31, 2019 11:21 am

Will we be able to buy one of the old wooden seats, like we could buy squares of the Turf when
the pitch was dug up in the late Nineties? I planted that in the front garden. :D

With a bit of adapting and sanding down, etc, it could look quite classy in a corner somewhere.

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by ClaretTony » Fri May 31, 2019 11:24 am

ElectroClaret wrote:Will we be able to buy one of the old wooden seats, like we could buy squares of the Turf when
the pitch was dug up in the late Nineties? I planted that in the front garden. :D

With a bit of adapting and sanding down, etc, it could look quite classy in a corner somewhere.
Do you remember when they were knocking down the old Longside and said they would be making paperweights from the concrete to sell in the club shop? Still to arrive apparently and it’s almost 24 years since it was demolished.
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by Goobs » Fri May 31, 2019 11:32 am

ClaretTony wrote:Do you remember when they were knocking down the old Longside and said they would be making paperweights from the concrete to sell in the club shop? Still to arrive apparently and it’s almost 24 years since it was demolished.
All being hand carved into mini replicas of the Longside by a one handed blind man in the Philippines. He aims to have them finished shortly after his 60th birthday (he was 14 when he started the first one).

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by Foulthrow » Fri May 31, 2019 11:35 am

Will they ever get rid of that odd square of seats that they seem to reserve for the youth team amongst the away fans. Always looks odd. Surely they can put them somewhere better? And, surely potential for bother??

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by tim_noone » Fri May 31, 2019 11:36 am

ClaretTony wrote:Do you remember when they were knocking down the old Longside and said they would be making paperweights from the concrete to sell in the club shop? Still to arrive apparently and it’s almost 24 years since it was demolished.
Sick of people knocking the club!Got mine last week......well happy :D
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by ŽižkovClaret » Fri May 31, 2019 11:37 am

MACCA wrote:Zizkov - They're solid them things, could make some good garden furniture with those.

Although shipping fees might be a bit high!
I have ways of getting things to here, dont worry haha :lol:

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by MACCA » Fri May 31, 2019 11:40 am

ZizkovClaret wrote:I have ways of getting things to here, dont worry haha :lol:
No comment

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by randomclaret2 » Fri May 31, 2019 11:44 am

Is the chap in the Phillipines building the new Bob Lord/ CFS corner stand ?

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by ŽižkovClaret » Fri May 31, 2019 11:45 am

MACCA wrote:No comment
We used a Georgian diplomatic bag for a case of becherovka once :lol:
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by Falcon » Fri May 31, 2019 11:52 am

What's going on with the ticket office?

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by agreenwood » Fri May 31, 2019 11:53 am

ClaretTony wrote:Horrible weekend for me in more ways than one but four days after that fiasco it was announced that there would be no new contract for Stan. As for Camara, we had another year of his impersonations to come. How bad were we that day at Rotherham?
Vaguely remember it finished 0-0 and was like watching paint dry. I think I spent half the game trying to work out where they’d got their stands from. Horrible ground.

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by ClaretTony » Fri May 31, 2019 11:58 am

agreenwood wrote:Vaguely remember it finished 0-0 and was like watching paint dry. I think I spent half the game trying to work out where they’d got their stands from. Horrible ground.
Different game. The one I was thinking of was our last away game under Stan. We lost 3-0 and he pulled Camara off at half time he was that bad.

Our very next away league game was also at Rotherham, a Tuesday night and Cotterill’s first away game in charge. That was a turgid 0-0 draw.
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by ClaretTony » Fri May 31, 2019 12:00 pm

Falcon wrote:What's going on with the ticket office?
Seem to have now scrapped the plans they announced previously to enclose the area behind the shop. They are ‘improving the customer experience’ where it is now. No plans have been shown but I believe you’ll still go up the ramp and then go inside rather than damage your back at the low windows.
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by claretdj » Fri May 31, 2019 12:01 pm

Anybody who wants their wooden seat as a keepsake are welcome to collect from turf moor. :lol:

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by agreenwood » Fri May 31, 2019 12:06 pm

I think our general approach to ground improvements has been bizarre.

No doubt cheaper and less disruptive than undertaking large-scale redevelopment, but it seems short-termist and akin to putting lipstick on a pig.
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by duncandisorderly » Fri May 31, 2019 12:17 pm

ClaretTony wrote:Different game. The one I was thinking of was our last away game under Stan. We lost 3-0 and he pulled Camara off at half time he was that bad.

Our very next away league game was also at Rotherham, a Tuesday night and Cotterill’s first away game in charge. That was a turgid 0-0 draw.

Heh heh.

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by Herts Clarets » Fri May 31, 2019 12:33 pm

ClaretTony wrote:Different game. The one I was thinking of was our last away game under Stan. We lost 3-0 and he pulled Camara off at half time he was that bad.
I used to have to make do with an orange at half time when I played football..... :D
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by Tricky Trevor » Fri May 31, 2019 12:42 pm

A shame these were purchased for the EL experience. We could have gone with the safe standing ones and waited for the law change that will inevitably come.

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by Bosscat » Fri May 31, 2019 12:57 pm

Herts Clarets wrote:I used to have to make do with an orange at half time when I played football..... :D
Oldie but goodie

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by claret wizard » Fri May 31, 2019 12:59 pm

Next step on seats must be to remove the wooden ones from the home area and replace with rail-seats.

What really needs fixing is the home concourse in the cricket field. Inadequate toilets, poorly positioned kiosks and over crowding means they should look to expand the covered section and move the turnstiles to be level with JH. We might lose a few car parking space, but hey, how many Premier League grounds have as much car parking as us adjacent to the ground.

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by elwaclaret » Fri May 31, 2019 1:17 pm

Herts Clarets wrote:I used to have to make do with an orange at half time when I played football..... :D
Copyright Rodney Marsh that one Herts
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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by Spike » Fri May 31, 2019 1:22 pm

why the rush to nasty plastic?

Plastic kills dolphins!

To prove my case when was the last time you saw a dolphin in Burnley?

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Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand

Post by ClaretTony » Fri May 31, 2019 1:23 pm

Spike wrote:why the rush to nasty plastic?

Plastic kills dolphins!

To prove my case when was the last time you saw a dolphin in Burnley?
Would at least be able to play in European competition if we got there again

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