[Misc] Spurs new stadium - will it be ready ??

[Jack Straw]

Ours looked like this, three months (April 15th), before the ramp-up events.
The pitch had been sown, a few more seats to put in, and various internal works still to do.

 

[Easy 10]

Ours looked like this, three months (April 15th), before the ramp-up events.
The pitch had been sown, a few more seats to put in, and various internal works still to do.

There was never any doubt Buckingham were going to finish the job on time and on budget, they did a great job from start to finish.

This Spurs build has been complicated by the fact that part of the old WHL encroached on the footprint of the new one, so they had to spend last season building around that part. Its also twice the size of the Amex, and they've got to install a hydraulic retractable pitch. Current PL rules do not allow clubs to start a season at one venue and then switch to another, so unless Daniel Levy can weasel his way around that, they could well be back at Wembley for 2018-19.

 

[N17]

We have 2200 workers on site 24 hours a day.

We might have to play our first few games away from home but the stadium will be ready for next season.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

We have 2200 workers on site 24 hours a day.

We might have to play our first few games away from home but the stadium will be ready for next season.

Where will those games be played, just asking incase we stay up and draw you away early.

 

[marcos3263]

Ours looked like this, three months (April 15th), before the ramp-up events.
The pitch had been sown, a few more seats to put in, and various internal works still to do.

oh god I used to love these updates, every friday logging in continually to get the photos, watching lobstercam constantly refreshing to see what has changed in the last 15 minutes. It was such a high point

 

[N17]

Where will those games be played, just asking incase we stay up and draw you away early.

You will stay up.

We will likely play our first 6 matches (or whatever the maximum permitted is) away, ie, at the home teams ground.

 

[Easy 10]

Where will those games be played, just asking incase we stay up and draw you away early.

They flip the fixtures round, eg if we were scheduled to play away at Spurs on the opening day, they'd reschedule it for the Amex instead, and we'd have the away fixture there later in the season.

(that'd play havoc with Pride, mind).

 

[Algernon]

We have 2200 workers on site 24 hours a day.

It might get done quicker if you could keep them out of the fried chicken shop across the road each night.

 

[N17]

It might get done quicker if you could keep them out of the fried chicken shop across the road each night.

You can't blame them. Have you ever tried Chick King? The best fried chicken in London (probably the UK)

 

[Algernon]

You can't blame them. Have you ever tried Chick King? The best fried chicken in London (probably the UK)

Yes,I was held up behind a dozen of them in the queue the other night. Very tasty (the chicken)

 

[N17]

Yes,I was held up behind a dozen of them in the queue the other night. Very tasty (the chicken)

Double breast and chips. £3.30. Ridiculously cheap for a ridiculously huge portion of fabulous food.

 

[hitony]

First TWO home games (two of the first four would have already been away matches).

I said "Spurs have applied to the FA to play their first 4 games next season, away from home" NOT the first 4 home games, I took it for granted that all the readers would realise 2 out of the 4 first games would be away from home

 

[Gazwag]

Seems it's not going to be ready until 2019 for their home matches

 

[Notters]

They flip the fixtures round, eg if we were scheduled to play away at Spurs on the opening day, they'd reschedule it for the Amex instead, and we'd have the away fixture there later in the season.

(that'd play havoc with Pride, mind).

It can't be as simple as that due to policing etc. As they'd end up at home the same time as Arsenal.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Should be made to play all their games away from home for the entire season. We all know they're cheats.

 

[Ernest]

Seems it's not going to be ready until 2019 for their home matches

Wembley till then

 

[Beanstalk]

They still seem to think that it will just be the Fulham game that this is for, with the opening match being Liverpool in mid-September.

Something odd is afoot at Spuds at the moment...

 

[Triggaaar]

Surely they can't play some at Wembley, and some at the new ground?

It looks like it's nowhere nearly ready.

I had a fair bit of faith that they knew what they were doing, but no, it seems that those who thought they had no chance of being ready were right.

 

[Chicken Run]

Isn’t there an NFL game there this Autumn?

 

[Driver8]

Wembley till then

Only if they play there all season. Can’t play at two home grounds in one season.