Fucking Jim White and his fake ITK...Tottenham are ‘within touching distance’ of announcing a new opening date for the new stadium:
Spurs on the brink of another major announcement regarding stadium - SpursWeb - Tottenham Hotspur News
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Probably not the correct one anyway.
“Established 1882.... open for business September 2019” 
For anyone saying that we should get docked points for having to potentially play our home games up until November/ December time I thought this might come in handy:
Brentford aim to move into new Lionel Road stadium in December 2019
Brentford aiming to move into their new ground December 2019
Brentford aim to move into new Lionel Road stadium in December 2019
Brentford aiming to move into their new ground December 2019
I've stayed away from this thread for a while as it makes me very sad. Sure it's only a stadium but to my family it means a whole lot more (as football often does) and I don't want it being a constant reminder of sad times every time they play.
To cut a long story short, the thought of seeing the boys play in the new ground has been keeping my Dad going – literally. He has a season ticket, probably shouldn't as i'm not sure he'll get to use it but he wanted to see at least one game in the new stadium. If the ground doesn't open in the next two months that's highly unlikely to happen.
His story is what Tottenham is about, what they've based their values on and is the reason three generations all follow Spurs.
What to do? Should I write to the club? I'm not expecting Levy to get his shovel out but I kinda need to get him there, to see the thing he has been dreaming of for many years...
I can see people have emailed Donna Cullen but have very little confidence anything would get past her frosty exterior.
To cut a long story short, the thought of seeing the boys play in the new ground has been keeping my Dad going – literally. He has a season ticket, probably shouldn't as i'm not sure he'll get to use it but he wanted to see at least one game in the new stadium. If the ground doesn't open in the next two months that's highly unlikely to happen.
His story is what Tottenham is about, what they've based their values on and is the reason three generations all follow Spurs.
What to do? Should I write to the club? I'm not expecting Levy to get his shovel out but I kinda need to get him there, to see the thing he has been dreaming of for many years...
I can see people have emailed Donna Cullen but have very little confidence anything would get past her frosty exterior.
Sorry to hear about your father. I hope he gets to fulfill his hopes for himself and your family as a whole. Why not try getting in touch with the club to find out. If you don't try you'll never know.
Fingers crossed he's able to get to see them and the best of luck to you & everyone involved in his circumstances. It's always hard when a loved one is battling with health.
Give the club a call I say. Hopefully it will give you a little more clarity on what your options can be
Tottenham are ‘within touching distance’ of announcing a new opening date for the new stadium:
Spurs on the brink of another major announcement regarding stadium - SpursWeb - Tottenham Hotspur News
LOL.... That's the stadium news equivalent of "work to fight for the chance to compete for big things":
Love you, gaffa. :dierpochhug:
Maybe it was these ITK cunts that needed to be #brave all along.
Really sorry to hear about your father.
There are likely to be test events coming up - although nobody will be able to give you any dates for these at present - and the first one open to the public was a Spurs u21's match. If, for example your father might like to see Spurs u21's in the new stadium (assuming its the first test event open to the public), maybe ask the club if he could be guaranteed a ticket, explaining the circumstances.
Shhhh.... Don't tell the dippers... That's local enough for us to be in collusion as part of one big over arcing conspiracy.
#PNLCADVC
ProperNorthLondonersCoalitionAgainstDipperVictimCunts
I would have liked to have seen a groveling apology for employing a cowboy contractor and a committment to reimburse the club for lost revenue.
I don't mind a rivalry etc bu signing petitions, even if it is for a laugh is so ridiculous. Not going to lie though, seeing that news regarding Brentford potentially switching stadiums halfway through a season gave me a little relief as football does have a tendency of throwing about some crazy decisions &I docked points has been in the back of my mind since we announced there would be a clash with the Man City game on the 28th
I'm also still haunted by Lasagnagate as well. Half the team shitting themselves on the pitch & the league still made us go ahead with the game. Even thinking about that morning when I switched teletext on and saw the news still gives me all sorts of shivers. Awful afternoon out on the lash as well we should never have had to play that game in my opinion. Nasty stuff
Mace says faulty wiring behind Spurs stadium delay
By Dave Rogers22 August 2018
- Exclusive: Contractor breaks silence on problems as Premier League club prepares to unveil a new opening timetable
Mace has broken its silence over its problems on Tottenham Hotspur’s late-running stadium with the firm blaming faulty wiring for the ground busting its opening deadline.
The news come as the pair met yesterday (Tuesday) morning to set out a new opening timetable after the club last week blamed “safety critical issues” for the delay.
Mace chief executive Mark Reynolds told Building the firm had discovered problems with the wiring for fire detection systems during commissioning and testing work.
He said: “Issues with critical safety systems were identified. This is linked to the fire detection contractor encountering higher than usual electrical wiring faults.”
And he said pictures showing an incomplete stadium, which have been published since news of the delay broke, were misleading. “Many of the outstanding external elements of the build are cosmetic and are not required for the stadium to open for the first football game.”
Spurs, which has been forced to go back to using Wembley stadium, its temporary home for the whole of last season, is not expected to unveil a new timetable for when the 62,000 seat ground will open until next week at the earliest.
Reynolds (pictured) added: “Follow up meetings continue to take place with trade contractors where the situation and planned timetable are being reviewed to rectify and re-test. We shall then be in a better position to outline the revised timetable for opening.”
Reynolds revealed that it only began work on the stadium’s cable net roof less than a year ago and has still not been finished. “[A cable net roof] requires all of the structure to be completed in order to begin…The roof was always scheduled as one of the last activities and is now due to be substantially complete at the end of August.”
Mace only took over the whole site last May, the day after Spurs played its last game at its historic White Hart Lane ground against Manchester United in the middle of that month.
This gave Mace just over 15 months to complete the ground with this phase of the job given over to building a 17,000-seat South stand and the erection of the roof.
Asked whether the August deadline had ever been achievable, Reynolds would only say: “We’ve always worked hard to achieve the quickest possible programme for the project. Mace and Tottenham have achieved a huge amount to date.”
Thousands of workers are still on the site with Reynolds saying that the project reached a peak workforce of 3,800 last month.
Reynolds, who revealed that he has visited the site every week since Mace took control of the old stadium last year, said the firm is carrying out the job under a construction management contract after first being appointed as construction advisor in late 2015.
He said it was the “most appropriate way to deliver the stadium” and added: “The details of our contract are confidential but are not different from an industry standard construction management contract.” This has seen Mace manage the stadium’s contractors and Reynolds added: “As such their contracts are directly held with Tottenham Hotspur.”
How the stadium looked at the beginning of May…
Reynolds declined to say how much the stadium was costing but the scheme is widely believed to have more than doubled from its estimated £400m original cost. But Reynolds said: “The figures quoted have included other works aside from the stadium itself.”
Spurs has had to cancel two test events at its ground, which will be the biggest club venue in the capital, that were due to be held this coming bank holiday Monday, as well as a game on Saturday week.
The stadium was supposed to open in time to host its inaugural Premier League game against Liverpool on 15 September but the has club admitted its game against reigning Premier League champions Manchester City at the end of October is also in doubt. An NFL game between Seattle Seahawks and Oakland Raiders scheduled for 14 October has also had to be switched to Wembley.
…and how it looked nine days ago
No harm to them but that's a lot longer than 9 days ago...
Mace says faulty wiring behind Spurs stadium delay
By Dave Rogers22 August 2018
- Exclusive: Contractor breaks silence on problems as Premier League club prepares to unveil a new opening timetable
Mace has broken its silence over its problems on Tottenham Hotspur’s late-running stadium with the firm blaming faulty wiring for the ground busting its opening deadline.
The news come as the pair met yesterday (Tuesday) morning to set out a new opening timetable after the club last week blamed “safety critical issues” for the delay.
Mace chief executive Mark Reynolds told Building the firm had discovered problems with the wiring for fire detection systems during commissioning and testing work.
He said: “Issues with critical safety systems were identified. This is linked to the fire detection contractor encountering higher than usual electrical wiring faults.”
And he said pictures showing an incomplete stadium, which have been published since news of the delay broke, were misleading. “Many of the outstanding external elements of the build are cosmetic and are not required for the stadium to open for the first football game.”
Spurs, which has been forced to go back to using Wembley stadium, its temporary home for the whole of last season, is not expected to unveil a new timetable for when the 62,000 seat ground will open until next week at the earliest.
Reynolds (pictured) added: “Follow up meetings continue to take place with trade contractors where the situation and planned timetable are being reviewed to rectify and re-test. We shall then be in a better position to outline the revised timetable for opening.”
Reynolds revealed that it only began work on the stadium’s cable net roof less than a year ago and has still not been finished. “[A cable net roof] requires all of the structure to be completed in order to begin…The roof was always scheduled as one of the last activities and is now due to be substantially complete at the end of August.”
Mace only took over the whole site last May, the day after Spurs played its last game at its historic White Hart Lane ground against Manchester United in the middle of that month.
This gave Mace just over 15 months to complete the ground with this phase of the job given over to building a 17,000-seat South stand and the erection of the roof.
Asked whether the August deadline had ever been achievable, Reynolds would only say: “We’ve always worked hard to achieve the quickest possible programme for the project. Mace and Tottenham have achieved a huge amount to date.”
Thousands of workers are still on the site with Reynolds saying that the project reached a peak workforce of 3,800 last month.
Reynolds, who revealed that he has visited the site every week since Mace took control of the old stadium last year, said the firm is carrying out the job under a construction management contract after first being appointed as construction advisor in late 2015.
He said it was the “most appropriate way to deliver the stadium” and added: “The details of our contract are confidential but are not different from an industry standard construction management contract.” This has seen Mace manage the stadium’s contractors and Reynolds added: “As such their contracts are directly held with Tottenham Hotspur.”
How the stadium looked at the beginning of May…
Reynolds declined to say how much the stadium was costing but the scheme is widely believed to have more than doubled from its estimated £400m original cost. But Reynolds said: “The figures quoted have included other works aside from the stadium itself.”
Spurs has had to cancel two test events at its ground, which will be the biggest club venue in the capital, that were due to be held this coming bank holiday Monday, as well as a game on Saturday week.
The stadium was supposed to open in time to host its inaugural Premier League game against Liverpool on 15 September but the has club admitted its game against reigning Premier League champions Manchester City at the end of October is also in doubt. An NFL game between Seattle Seahawks and Oakland Raiders scheduled for 14 October has also had to be switched to Wembley.
…and how it looked nine days ago
No harm to them but that's a lot longer than 9 days ago...
Good update, thanks. If it's just the wiring you'd like to think a specialist that has worked on a similar build would be able to give us a realistic timeframe to expect the stadium to be complete. It wouldn't surprise me to see the Man City or Chelsea game be our opener. I'd take that right now, the sooner the better