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The valley pitch!!!

Wasn't it today they we're suppose to start on the pitch? Can anyone confirm if there was any activity ie jcb's lorries etc at the Valley today
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  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    Potatoe farmers have just been seen leaving with a lorry load.
  • sammy391
    sammy391 Posts: 3,779
    @SportsPitchEng: Site setup almost completed @GreenFieldsTurf Charlton AFC pitch reconstruction project http://t.co/it0aiPqu6F






    Seems that updates will most likely come from the above twitter page
  • MSE7
    MSE7 Posts: 1,345
    They will be stuffed in there is a hose pipe ban this year. Will end up with a "Supporters need to water the pitch day"

    They will all be given a pound shop watering can.
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,782
    MSE7 said:

    They will be stuffed in there is a hose pipe ban this year. Will end up with a "Supporters need to water the pitch day"

    They will all be given a pound shop watering can.

    Or a pint of john smiths..............
  • iainambler
    iainambler Posts: 963
    Interestingly enough my other half, who is ambulance crew, got a call last week to The Valley for someone who had been injured on the pitch. Guessing it was a corporate hire. She got bitten by a badass mosquito and has been on some fairly heavy antihistamines to combat the swelling and itching. Hopefully the new pitch will be considerably less of a swamp than that one was!!
  • MSE7
    MSE7 Posts: 1,345
    edited May 2014
    Every green fingered west stand allotment holder will be down with thier watering cans. me and tango will be down the royal oak drinking scrumpy
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,711
    image
  • Yann897
    Yann897 Posts: 1,530
    @SportsPitchEng: Groundbreaking at Charlton AFC in presence of groundsman Nathan and @greenfieldsport contracts manager Colin Lyons http://t.co/UDelOGB3vG

    Few updates on here.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,068
    image
  • Nug
    Nug Posts: 4,623
    Looks better already
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  • Tunwellsaddick
    Tunwellsaddick Posts: 2,452
    I thought they would be doing all of the pitch? (:
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,609
    Hope that's not going to be skipped. There are still potholes to fill.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,609
    Like it.
  • Yann897
    Yann897 Posts: 1,530
    Do you think the comms team
    Reads Charlton life after I moaned that they didn't advertise that we're getting a new pitch , if they do can we announce a few signings and Riga now please before people start buying nooses ;)

    Anyway that looks good and can't wait to see the pitch finished .
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,609
    edited May 2014
    Yann897 said:

    Do you think the comms team
    Reads Charlton life after I moaned that they didn't advertise that we're getting a new pitch , if they do can we announce a few signings and Riga now please before people start buying nooses ;)

    Anyway that looks good and can't wait to see the pitch finished .

    Nooses for sale in Club Shop by tomorrow ;0)

  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,609
    Home noose.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,192
    "get US a decent pitch" Andy!

    "Us"?

    : - )
  • dabos
    dabos Posts: 2,715
    Will be done in time for our home match against Doncaster Rotherham or Orient next season
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,954
    06.30 ! I bet that pleased the local residents.

    The first stages of work to completely reconstruct the Valley pitch got under way at 6.30am on Tuesday morning with 2,700 tonnes of soil expected to be dug away over the next week
    Read more at http://www.cafc.co.uk/index.aspx#OdkJSlXH6OU6s2SH.99
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  • LuckyReds
    LuckyReds Posts: 5,866
    Seats need repainting/replacing - looks awful in that video.

    750 lorries over 1 week? Over 100 a day? I bet the locals really do love it at the moment.
  • Yann897
    Yann897 Posts: 1,530
    LuckyReds said:

    Seats need repainting/replacing - looks awful in that video.

    750 lorries over 1 week? Over 100 a day? I bet the locals really do love it at the moment.

    They're replacing the faded seats over a 3 year process. Quite long but atleast it's getting done.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,816
    Yann897 said:

    LuckyReds said:

    Seats need repainting/replacing - looks awful in that video.

    750 lorries over 1 week? Over 100 a day? I bet the locals really do love it at the moment.

    They're replacing the faded seats over a 3 year process. Quite long but atleast it's getting done.
    The silly thing with the seat fading, is that it's the newer seats (from around 1997 onwards) that have faded badly, the original seats from 1992 still look nice and red!
  • J BLOCK
    J BLOCK Posts: 8,308

    06.30 ! I bet that pleased the local residents.

    The first stages of work to completely reconstruct the Valley pitch got under way at 6.30am on Tuesday morning with 2,700 tonnes of soil expected to be dug away over the next week
    Read more at http://www.cafc.co.uk/index.aspx#OdkJSlXH6OU6s2SH.99

    A chorus of 'Kissed Teeth' echoed around Charlton
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,559
    if the local residents were contributing to the Charlton Life Confessional Thread it would go something like.

    "Now the seasons over, we'll get a few months of peace and quiet!"

    20th May 06.30 "Doh!"
  • addix
    addix Posts: 1,183
    Maybe our pitch wasn't so bad after all...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waJo6QzAmh8
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,007
    Did he say they were giving the soil to Hackney Marshes, or they'd got it from Hackney Marshes?
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,954
    Giving to.
  • centurion
    centurion Posts: 437
    Yeah can confirm work has started. Missus was there at a work function and she texted me pictures of diggers on pitch.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,734
    Thanks for that. I thought the above video was all done on a green screen.