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So what's the likely timetable WHEN Falmer is APPROVED?



Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
Assuming LDC aren't going to just go away, do we start putting in place guestimates (or rather gathering quotes) or is this already done and can they delay us from forging ahead with the fine detail and money raising?

What I really want to know I guess is when do earthmovers start digging, be it for the infrastruture or the stadium itself.

I want to get pissed in the Swan the day it happens :clap2::falmer:

Please don't tell me it will take at least another year :(
 




algie

The moaning of life
Jan 8, 2006
14,713
In rehab
At least another year before work can be carried out i'm affraid.It will be a case of putting the funds.loans etc into place first.Then another one or two years for the ground to be bulit.Probably nearer two
 


Drumstick

NORTHSTANDER
Jul 19, 2003
6,958
Peacehaven
I thought it was a year to get it all ready then two years to build. Not certian tho.
 


Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
Well call ,me vindictive but I reckon we should hire a couple of f***ing great JCB's asap after the decision and just do some preliminary and noisy digging just because....it would really really piss all the nimbys off
 


Dave the OAP

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
46,762
at home
This is not Gospel:

July 07 YES
July - July 08 Send docs out to tender - arrange demolition work
July 08 July 09 Accept tender start demolition groundworks road construction
July 09 July 10 Build stadium finish off roads car parks etc

August 10 First game ALL BEING WELL and no hunny badgers found on site
 




Barrel of Fun

Abort, retry, fail
This is not Gospel:


August 10 First game ALL BEING WELL and no hunny badgers found on site


I was rather hoping that our opening match would be a gala extravaganza with juggling chimpanzees, fire eating (nude) cheerleaders, free Tequila, Katherine Jenkins (adopted for the day) belting out Sussex-by-the-Sea, face painting, balloon tweaking clowns, men on stilts, women on pogo sticks and special guest appearances from the likes of Michael Jackson, Bobby Davro, Engleburt Humperdink and Julio Iglesias. Not some run of the mill league game against Hartlepool United.
 


Dave the OAP

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
46,762
at home
I was rather hoping that our opening match would be a gala extravaganza with juggling chimpanzees, fire eating (nude) cheerleaders, free Tequila, Katherine Jenkins (adopted for the day) belting out Sussex-by-the-Sea, face painting, balloon tweaking clowns, men on stilts, women on pogo sticks and special guest appearances from the likes of Michael Jackson, Bobby Davro, Engleburt Humperdink and Julio Iglesias. Not some run of the mill league game against Hartlepool United.

I fear my friend one of those will not happen.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
 








Kent Seagull

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
2,062
Tenterden, Kent
Surely most of the contracts could have been sorted in principle before the decision?
 


Dave the OAP

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
46,762
at home
OK will you dress up as Jenkins and belt out a few warbly numbers?


No problem

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

I thought legally you have to allow 6 months to send them out and then 6 months to pick which ever one will do it....
 




Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,332
Living In a Box
Quite a while as I fear the costs will have escalated considerably from the original business plan.
 


Muzzman

Pocket Rocket
Jul 8, 2003
5,457
Here and There
I guess 3 years from the word "YES!" to us posting pictures of the finished structure and getting all excited over the first season at Falmer.
 


Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
No-one know when we can start wrecking things and making a mess then????
 




Dave the OAP

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
46,762
at home
I suggest when it is a Yes and LDC say "OK we have had enough", then that is the time to have a mass meet up at the Swan.

Not to gloat you understand, but to show the good people of Falmer that we are actually nice people who just love our sport.......

...........and then urinate in their gardens and pull up their Rose Bushes
 


Badger

NOT the Honey Badger
NSC Patron
May 8, 2007
13,117
Toronto
Give me a digger, I'll get started straight away
 


BensGrandad

New member
Jul 13, 2003
72,015
Haywards Heath
I suggest when it is a Yes and LDC say "OK we have had enough", then that is the time to have a mass meet up at the Swan.

Not to gloat you understand, but to show the good people of Falmer that we are actually nice people who just love our sport.......

...........and then urinate in their gardens and pull up their Rose Bushes

The entrance fee being that everybody must bring a goat and tether it to each garden gate with a rope or chain that is 50ft long at least.
 


Notters

Well-known member
Oct 20, 2003
24,896
Guiseley
How about we all go and sit in the beer garden (does it have one?) of the Swan with Tinnies rather than giving our hard earned dosh to the NIMBY tit that runs the place?
 




pishhead

Well-known member
Jul 9, 2003
5,248
Everywhere
How about we all go and sit in the beer garden (does it have one?) of the Swan with Tinnies rather than giving our hard earned dosh to the NIMBY tit that runs the place?

when we get falmer he will not be the landlord, he will sell up and the pub will more likely turn over to a chain pub who will realise how much money is to be made on matchdays.
 


Everest

Me
Jul 5, 2003
20,741
Southwick
This is not Gospel:

July 07 YES
July - July 08 Send docs out to tender - arrange demolition work
July 08 July 09 Accept tender start demolition groundworks road construction
July 09 July 10 Build stadium finish off roads car parks etc

August 10 First game ALL BEING WELL and no hunny badgers found on site

Fecking hell Dave, you're a bit impatient aren't you?

We get the yes on July 07, and the stadium is finished on July 10? Why the hurry?
 


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