AFC Wimbledon, pienen ihmisen puolesta

[SleafordStreet]

AFC:n matsi tuli viela sopivasti telkusta taalla saarilla, joten tuli itsekin vaijyttya tuo toinen puoliaika. Kedwellin voittomaalille tosiaan ja Evansille huutonaurua

[Ares]

Nyt on vahva tuntuma tästä kaudesta. Vähintään nousukarsintoihin.

[Elmslie Ender]

Eipä Wimbledon siellä sarjakärjessä kauan ollut. Tappio Kidderminsterille vieraissa, ja Crawley ja Mansfield menivät ohi.

[Ares]

Onko tietoa miten stadion asia on edennyt ja jos sattuvat joskus nousemaan niin millä aikataululla homma on saatava säädylliselle tasolle?

[Ares]

CamU:lle 3-0 pataan. 12 ottelussa 25 pistettä

[Ares]

Nihkeä 1-1 tasapeli häntäpään Forest Greeniä vastaan. Nyt viskiä lasiin ja irkkufestareille.

e: Muutkin pupelsivat, joten edelleen 2. sijalla saldolla 8-2-3

[Ares]

Onko tietoa miten stadion asia on edennyt ja jos sattuvat joskus nousemaan niin millä aikataululla homma on saatava säädylliselle tasolle?

Loistavaa.

FIT FOR THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE

Chief Executive Erik Samuelson says what we need to do to make Kingsmeadow a League ground. That is not to say that we are going to stay here (to be continued . . .).

Good afternoon and welcome to the fans, officials and players of Forest Green Rovers.

The Football League will soon be sending clubs a self-assessment checklist to enable them to gauge their readiness for promotion. This prompted me to write an update on the status of our current situation. In short, our stadium is not far short of meeting the League’s criteria. Some things would need to be done between winning promotion and the start of the following season; we’ve not done them yet because they aren’t requirements for the Conference and they won’t be cheap.

The main improvement we will need to make is to introduce a control room to act as the centre of all safety operations. We’ll need automatic counting equipment to record the number of fans entering the stadium so that at any particular moment we will know how many people there are in each area. This isn’t as easy as it first sounds, since there isn’t a turnstile to count fans entering the Paul Strank Stand, nor is there one for the south end of the John Smith’s Stand. We will also need to install CCTV inside the stadium.

If we were to win promotion via the play-offs we would have only about 12 weeks to install a working control room, so we’ve already obtained planning permission for one, to be situated above the yellow gates that exit onto Jack Goodchild Way.

We are also obtaining quotes for installing the turnstile monitoring equipment and cameras. As part of this, earlier this week Mike Dowek (who does terrific work for the Stadium Working Group) and I visited Dagenham & Redbridge to look at what they did when they installed their control room. The assistance we got from their managing director, Steve Thompson, was invaluable and typical of the welcome we get when we go to other clubs for advice.

There are two other major things we will need to complete for Football League status to be maintained, once there. The first is to get our [capacity up to 5,000 by the end of the first season in the League. The body that advises on this is the Football Licensing Authority. Their representative visited Kingsmeadow last year and we carried out a detailed exercise to assess exactly how many fans we can fit into the stadium, area by area. The answer came out to just over 5,200, so long as we make a number of improvements, such as how we manage fans as they leave the ground. As long as we do that, and we know we can, that requirement is covered.

The final hurdle, which will be the most expensive one to get over, is to increase our covered seating to 2,000 while keeping the overall capacity above 5,000. We would need to do this by 1 May in our third season in the Football League. We already have architects’ plans for what strikes me as an expensive solution – one we might implement if we found we were staying here for the foreseeable future. But our aim is to have a new stadium, so what we need is a plan for a short-term solution that meets our needs as cheaply as possible.

For that reason we’ve asked another company to give us ideas and a cost for something to tide us over. They described the problem of keeping the capacity up while increasing the covered seating as being a bit like a Rubik’s cube – every time you try something new, everything else is affected. Nevertheless, we expect to get their first thoughts in the next couple of weeks, and then, hopefully, we’ll be ready for the day we get into the Football League – whenever that may be.

That’s an update on this stadium. In my page for the next home game, I’ll talk about where we’ve got to in our pursuit of a new stadium.

Enjoy the game.

[Ares]

98 pisteen tahdissa mennään

[Ares]

FA Cupin 4. kierroksella 23. lokakuuta Wimbledon matkaa porrasta alempana pelaavan Basingstoke Townin vieraaksi.

[Ares]

Tämän päivän ottelulehtisessä pitäisi olla juttua uudesta stadionista.

[Elmslie Ender]

Wimbledon sarjakärjessä, kun Gateshead kaatui ja Crawley hävisi Newportille.

[Ares]

Stadionkatsaus siirtyi ilmeisesti seuraavaan kotipeliin parin viikon päähän.

[Elmslie Ender]

Wimbledon meni FA Cupin 1. kierrokselle puristamalla vierasvoiton Basingstokesta 1-0. Ensimmäisen kierroksen vastustaja on sitten viime kaudella Conferencesta pudonnut Ebbsfleet United, joten aika hyvä mahdollisuus pitäisi olla selvitä eteenpäin. Peli pelataan kahden viikon päästä.

[Duhvi]

Toivottavasti nousevat sarjaporrasta ylemmäs kauden päätteeksi, löytyis sitten Fifa 12 pelistä kenties?

[Papu]

Lauantaina televisioitais sitten AFC Wimbledon-Ebbsfleet FA-cupin ottelu sportprolla. Harmi että ite on samaan aikaan ulkomailla.

[Papu]

Saturday 27 November 2010
club news
FA Cup draw


"Depending on the outcome of two replays, we have been drawn against Milton Keynes in the FA Cup 2nd round to be played on 27 November.

Most people know the way that Milton Keynes obtained their football club. It was wrong then and it is still wrong now, which makes this fixture very painful for us. However, when we entered the FA Cup we understood that this might happen and we will go about our business professionally and complete the fixture. But we would have preferred that it hadn’t happened. We have no further comment to make at the moment."

Eli MK Dons tulis vastaan seuraavalla kierroksella, mikäli jatkopaikka irtoais. Täst voi tulla mielenkiintoista...

[john white]

Saturday 27 November 2010
club news
FA Cup draw


"Depending on the outcome of two replays, we have been drawn against Milton Keynes in the FA Cup 2nd round to be played on 27 November.


Eli MK Dons tulis vastaan seuraavalla kierroksella, mikäli jatkopaikka irtoais. Täst voi tulla mielenkiintoista...

Toivotaan että toteutuu. Lauantainen peli olisi vain pitänyt hoitaa voitoksi.

[Ares]

Toivotaan että toteutuu. Lauantainen peli olisi vain pitänyt hoitaa voitoksi.

Sama. Humppaa ja hulinaa tiedossa.

[john white]

Sama. Humppaa ja hulinaa tiedossa.

Mk Dons mähli oman osansa ja meni häviämään uusintaottelunsa Stevenagea vastaan.

[Papu]

Mk Dons mähli oman osansa ja meni häviämään uusintaottelunsa Stevenagea vastaan.

Sääli sinänsä, toisaalta aina hyvä ku MK häviää.

[Papu]

Ja seuraavaks Stevenage. Sammy Moore ottelun sankarina. Tästähän voi tulla vielä kunnon tuhkimotarina.

[Ares]

Takaisin piikkipaikalle.

[Papu]

Lauantaina tulis nelonen sportprolta sitte livenä FA-cupin 2.kierroksen matsi Stevenagea vastaan.

[Ares]

Kahden viikon tauko on nyt ohi ja pojat verryttelivät selkeän 3-0 kotivoiton Eastbourne Borough:sta.

[Ares]

Puolivälin krouvi ohitettu ja kasassa 48 pistettä. Hyvältä vaikuttaa.