News for the reserve watchers among you!

The company that I am about to leave are the Project Managers on behalf of Northampton Saints Rugby Club. Anyway, on a site inspection, who walks in but none other than Rob Andrew, Director of Rugby at Newcaslte Falcons. It transpires that the Falcons wanted to see how Northampton were going about their new stadium expansion/refurbishment.

So, Kingston Park must be getting redeveloped in the near uture, so perhaps there might be some decent stands to block some of te wind out?

As an aside, my new company have just been given the go-ahead to start construction of Leicester City's new football ground. Hot on the heels of completing the Old Trafford expansion works. I won't be working on the Leicester ground which is a shame because I could have pissed in the foundations!!

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2001

Answers

Thanks for the snippet DeB. They've already submitted plans to continue the seating all the way round and bring the capacity up to 20,000. Obviously not as cut and dried as it looked Newsroom North East.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2001

20,000??? tow questions spring to mind!

Are they ever going to get anywhere near 15,000 never mind 20,000?

Why are they looking at Northampton's ground when that is only going to be a capacity of around 13,000? Mmmmmmm.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2001

Two questions even? It's Friday afternoon and the sun is shining and I'm not in a beer garden. I am in fact still at work and have the prosepct of half my evening consisting of a walk around Tesco's.

Straight to the beer aisle with the trolley!!

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2001

I don't think Newcastl's reserves should be playing on a churned up Rugby pitch , prone to gale force winds. Wouldn't it be better to biuld a reserve pitch on the new site in Longbenton and get some decent groundmen to maintain it ? Perhaps putting up a small stand for a couple of thousand spectators. Wouldn't cost very much, and a lot better to prepare the lads for playing at St James'.

-- Anonymous, June 29, 2001

Surprisingly the pitch often looks better than the one at SJP! Also the new stands tend to block some of the wind.

-- Anonymous, June 29, 2001

Do they cut the grass before the football games? If the grass is anything like the length of a normal rugby pitch, it would exactly suit wing play.

-- Anonymous, June 29, 2001

err...wouldn't suit wing play I mean.

-- Anonymous, June 29, 2001

It is a dreadful pitch, and the combination of wind and bumpy pitch make it entirely unsuitable for the Reserve team of a PL Club.
Strangely enough PM, given that it is primarily a Rugby Union pitch, the grass always seems too short even for football to me - and contributes to the bumpiness.

-- Anonymous, June 29, 2001

There's nowt worse than playing on a bumpy pitch - it's a recipe for injuries IMHO, and I've picked up many ankle strains and the like from losing my footing playing on bumpy public playing fields.

"I won't be working on the Leicester ground which is a shame because I could have pissed in the foundations!!"

Nice!

-- Anonymous, June 29, 2001