Ground improvements

[Rob_the_Saint]

'A recent Conference ground inspection instructed the club to install extra seats in the dugout, writing desks in the press box, upgrade the floodlights and install a public medical facility. The dugout and floodlights have already been upgraded and work will commence shortly on improving the press box and converting the old tea room under the main stand into a medical room.'

 

How about a wireless lan? bar service for the main stand? dvd players for the kids? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

 

Writing desks in the press box? Whatever next? I thought they just made it up in the bar afterwards.

[JKiF]

rob, you stole my thunder

poor little media types

 

 

good to see the FA have their priorities right.

[YELLOW]

Writing desks in the press box? We certainly don't have those at Canvey!!!

[AFF]

As someone who occasionally pauses to chat to the local hacks as well as that first-rate journalist from the Non League Paper, I should like to add my voice in support of the blazer from the Conference Grading Committee. The facilities in the press box at Fortress Clarence Park are somewhat basic - the under-seat heating should be upgraded, in my view, and re-upholstery would not come amiss. I suggest that Applemac lap-top thingies should also be available in addition to the existing IBM machines.

 

While we're about it, I suggest that, like Bognor Regis Town and Newport County, the club should make refreshments available at half-time. Coffee and jaffa cakes might encourage 'em to describe the play as 'pulsating' a little more often.

 

And a very fine job they do, in my opinion.

 

It's probably down to that Ridley chap. Looking after his own, no doubt. Preparing the place for the visit of Simon Barnes, perhaps. I knew that there would be changes. Keep up the good work, Ian!

[JKiF]

i suprised they dont have to be mirrored..

[AFF]

Oh, by the way. Ian. The writing desk for the fifth seat along in the front row from the Hatfield Road end. Any chance of a mahogany finish with applewood inlay, old chap?

[Rob_the_Saint]

With goose-feather quill pen and ink-pot of course. Not forgetting the rose-tinted specs.

[AFF]

No. The complimentary Mont Blancs are fine, I would imagine.

 

Don't talk to me about rose-coloured spectacles, Rob. A pair were available on E-bay, and I was out-bid by someone from the St Albans area. 'Saintsfan', he/she called him/herself. I have my suspicions.

[AFF]

Tell us more about the 'public medical facility', Rob. What will be available? An A&E Unit to replace the one that used to be available at the City Hospital? Is it just to be open on match days?

 

Who is to man it? Our qualified team of paramedics is currently the chap who used to drive the red tractor and the chap who gets £50,000 a year for taking the team-sheet from the manager to the referee one hour before kick-off, except when Carlisle play south of Manchester, isn't it?

 

Have you any idea how we are to put extra seats in the dug-out things? Will the existing seats be made smaller, or is a second tier to be introduced?

[JKiF]

canterlivered dugouts? has mr leitch been informed

[Nos]

 

AFF said:

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The facilities in the press box at Fortress Clarence Park are somewhat basic - the under-seat heating should be upgraded, in my view,......

 

Under-seat heating? There's quite enough hot air in there already. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[AFF]

In the light of the improved I.T. arrangements, air-conditioning, mini-bar, private parking etc., Nos, I think that, for the future, we should refer to the Press Box as The Media & Telecommunications Facility.

[JKiF]

does it have a weymouth "panic" button?

 

 

hahaha

stop upsetting the natives....

[Rob_the_Saint]

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AFF said:
In the light of the improved I.T. arrangements, air-conditioning, mini-bar, private parking etc., Nos, I think that, for the future, we should refer to the Press Box as The Media & Telecommunications Facility.

I prefer the Press Users' Freeloading Facility, or PUFF for short. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[AFF]

Ouch!!

 

Although it's been said before, Rob, you must have realised that reference to freeloaders would produce a response from me.

 

I know for a fact that the chap what writes the splendid reports for the Non League Paper and the first-class away match reports for the Herts Advertiser is a fully paid up season-ticket holder at Fortress Clarence Park, notwithstanding that he is entitled to a press pass. What a super chap, I hear you cry. 'Doin' It For The City', etc.

 

I believe that the chap what writes for the the St Albans Observer also chooses to pay at the gate, and he's a super chap, too.

 

I can't speak for any of the rest of the members of the Fourth Estate, because, whilst I have a view, it's none of my business. I do know that most of the rest of them enjoy the prawn sandwiches and hospitality of the board-room, however.

 

If you're looking for freeloaders, Rob, I guess that you need to look for an acronym somewhere other than in the newly christened 'Simon Barnes Media & Telecommunications Facility'.

[Rob_the_Saint]

Press Users Filanthropic Facility ?

 

I actually think the story in the paper got twisted a bit, it should have read 'more seats in the press box, and writing desks in the dug-outs'. Makes a lot more sense that way round.