Greenwich Council provide the ground safety certificate which is only issued so long as the Club complies with the various pieces of legislation comprising of H&S requirements as well as planning, construction and the operational running of a sports ground.
We have an up to date Ground Safety Certificate as we comply with all the relevant legislation - including an up to date asbestos register.
The Jimmy Seed Stand is safe. The safety of this stand has never been an issue as long as I've been the supporters representative on the Safety Advisory Group - unlike for instance the East Stand!
The Jimmy Seed stand roof is made up of interlocking corrugated asbestos cement sheeting. The asbestos content of this type of roofing is approximately 5%. Left as it is, It does not constitute an issue and is not illegal. Historically the trees behind the stand have caused some issues with this roof, particularly in high winds.
A branch has previously broken off and gone through this roof. You can see the damage repair in Airman's photograph - right in the middle at the back of the roof. The real problem here is that of leaf fall blocking the gutters. The trees behind the stand belong to LBG and they are their responsibility.
The next CAFC Safety Advisory Group Meeting is on 25th May. If you have any safety concerns with regard to The Valley or match day operational concerns, then please raise them with me via PM and I will do the best I can to represent your views to the Club.
The Club do listen to safety concerns and act and react accordingly.
Perhaps you should ask why the club's chief executive seems to be telling random people on a train that the stand is becoming dangerous... and while you're at it raise Keohane's plan to use the east stand for away fans!
My predictions for us if RD still remains owner for next season
Konsa and Aribo sold for whatever we can muster in the summer to try and cover as much of next season's losses as possible
They try to get rid of Watt again because he's on a big basic and KR doesn't want him. Unfortunately Watt has burnt his bridges in English football at the level he wants to play at and the sort of money he thinks he's worth, so unless some clueless middle eastern, Indian or Chinese club come in for him, he remains, adding very little but the odd silly tweet about 'doing it for the fans'
Tex will go as we are desperate to get that well invested 12k a week of the wage book. KM will engineer a deal whereby he's sent on loan but we still end up paying half 2/3 of his wages or we pay his contract up a'la Ba and Bikey. We must have at least one of these contract terminations a season, it's a KM speciality
KR sees about £300k as his season's transfer budget and excitedly tells everyone there are some real gems out there he has his eye on. Come August 31st Karl is standing in front of Louis Mendez doing his best David Brent impression as the cameras film his reaction to deadline day. Karl lambasts the ethics and morals of other clubs, disgusted at how we did all we can, president and CEO included, but we were thwarted by the immorality of others getting who we wanted over the line. However he then finishes the interview by telling everyone that 'knows him', how excited he is at the prospect of fielding a starting XI with the average age of 22.
The starting line up next season resembles that of a Monday afternoon u23 game or better still, Kent cup fixture.
The east stand, north upper and west upper stands are closed. But in a PR brainwave we get some of that cardboard crowd you saw Arsenal use in the 90s when they were redeveloping Highbury. This is accompanied by canned crowd noise the club purchase from Fox Sports that is played over the speaker from the start of the game. The club realise it's a massive mistake when the CD gets stuck and the word 'defence' plays on loop during the home game with Luton in October
KR sacked in November with a record of 2 wins 1 draw 10 defeats as we sit 22nd. Defeat highlights include 0-2 in that Luton game. 5-0 thrashing up at Ewood park in September and throwing away a 2-0 home lead to Plymouth to lose 2-3
Poor old JJ wheeled out when O'Loughlin is appointed manager in November to tell us how much the players respect his methods and he's got th the trust of the squad.
The few remaining positivists, apologists and just happy to see footballists talk mutter irrelevant waffle like 'oh if only Chelsea would've loaned us DaSilva again, he was really good during that spell when we beat 2 teams right at the bottom of league one in the run in last year etc etc'
It's all one big continuation of complete catastrophic shite that never ends and ultimately I'm the biggest mug of all because I cannot let this prat RD drive me away from all I've ever known every Saturday, but I keep coming back for more misery.
PS the two wins if anyone cares were both in August when we beat Rotherham at home on the opening day and follow that up with a win at Shrewsbury. At this point everyone is certain this will be the season we come good.......
Just guessing of course but I think maybe Rick and Jim's views in political correctness don't meet in the middle.
Well quite, but partly for that reason I've never been to any event featuring Jim in the first place ... in fairness, I doubt if he's ever seen my stand-up routine either.
Just had a look - and yes it is. Can't actually see that comment anywhere though. Lots of political stuff. With all the false news crap thats posted these days - really need a proper link to the post and not a screen shot as it's just too easy to mock up tweets and FB posts.
Just had a look - and yes it is. Can't actually see that comment anywhere though. Lots of political stuff.
It's on the charlton unofficial Facebook group which has about 7k members, generally the posts which garner most attention are those which slag card off yet offer nothing of substance themselves.
As mentioned previously, the tread in general does susipiciously seem like a particular line trying to be spun prior to the weekend
Any planning for flats on the south stand area will take a year plus two to build. Minimum. If we go up and get the wastrels off the wages bill we will still lose £20m less a few player sales. Can't see where the benefit is for him.
Greenwich Council provide the ground safety certificate which is only issued so long as the Club complies with the various pieces of legislation comprising of H&S requirements as well as planning, construction and the operational running of a sports ground.
We have an up to date Ground Safety Certificate as we comply with all the relevant legislation - including an up to date asbestos register.
The Jimmy Seed Stand is safe. The safety of this stand has never been an issue as long as I've been the supporters representative on the Safety Advisory Group - unlike for instance the East Stand!
The Jimmy Seed stand roof is made up of interlocking corrugated asbestos cement sheeting. The asbestos content of this type of roofing is approximately 5%. Left as it is, It does not constitute an issue and is not illegal. Historically the trees behind the stand have caused some issues with this roof, particularly in high winds.
A branch has previously broken off and gone through this roof. You can see the damage repair in Airman's photograph - right in the middle at the back of the roof. The real problem here is that of leaf fall blocking the gutters. The trees behind the stand belong to LBG and they are their responsibility.
The next CAFC Safety Advisory Group Meeting is on 25th May. If you have any safety concerns with regard to The Valley or match day operational concerns, then please raise them with me via PM and I will do the best I can to represent your views to the Club.
The Club do listen to safety concerns and act and react accordingly.
out of interest what's wrong with the east stand?
The roof wasn't bolted together properly. Almost caused a postponement about 15 years ago.
I remember the game that nearly got postponed was against Sunderland.
During the match we nearly scored and half the East stand thought the ball had gone in, we all had that 3 second moment of jumping up and down before it dawned on us that we had not scored.
Before our cheering had died down, 3k mackems started singing "sit down, before your stand falls down".
This photo shows how far back the old terrace went, in comparison to the Covered End
Cheers. Strange that was never the traditional home end because of a lack of a roof (or before segregation?) Looks like it could have given the Kop and others a run for its money!
Before segregation there was no 'home end' just the Open End and the Covered End. My dad used to stand half way up the Open End about level with the west side of the penalty area.
When that end of the ground became designated for away supporters my dad would still go through the away turnstiles (as he had been doing for decades), walk through the Jimmy Seed stand, round the south east corner and on to the East Terrace.
My mum used to stand in the south east corner (prior to meeting my dad when she moved to stand with him and his family), just as well she did as they strangely built a giant floodlight pylon at the foot of the south east corner, hypothetically ruining the view for about 5,000 people (had they been there).
All before my time of course.
Only partly true.
Whilst lots of people would change ends at half time, I don't recall too many visiting fans in the covered end back in the day and was always seen as a predominantly home fans area.
Of course, Chelsea, west ham, millwall and Sheffield Wednesday fans had other ideas on occasions.
Greenwich Council provide the ground safety certificate which is only issued so long as the Club complies with the various pieces of legislation comprising of H&S requirements as well as planning, construction and the operational running of a sports ground.
We have an up to date Ground Safety Certificate as we comply with all the relevant legislation - including an up to date asbestos register.
The Jimmy Seed Stand is safe. The safety of this stand has never been an issue as long as I've been the supporters representative on the Safety Advisory Group - unlike for instance the East Stand!
The Jimmy Seed stand roof is made up of interlocking corrugated asbestos cement sheeting. The asbestos content of this type of roofing is approximately 5%. Left as it is, It does not constitute an issue and is not illegal. Historically the trees behind the stand have caused some issues with this roof, particularly in high winds.
A branch has previously broken off and gone through this roof. You can see the damage repair in Airman's photograph - right in the middle at the back of the roof. The real problem here is that of leaf fall blocking the gutters. The trees behind the stand belong to LBG and they are their responsibility.
The next CAFC Safety Advisory Group Meeting is on 25th May. If you have any safety concerns with regard to The Valley or match day operational concerns, then please raise them with me via PM and I will do the best I can to represent your views to the Club.
The Club do listen to safety concerns and act and react accordingly.
out of interest what's wrong with the east stand?
The roof wasn't bolted together properly. Almost caused a postponement about 15 years ago.
I believe it was because the sheeting overlap was about 50mm less than it should have been.
Greenwich Council provide the ground safety certificate which is only issued so long as the Club complies with the various pieces of legislation comprising of H&S requirements as well as planning, construction and the operational running of a sports ground.
We have an up to date Ground Safety Certificate as we comply with all the relevant legislation - including an up to date asbestos register.
The Jimmy Seed Stand is safe. The safety of this stand has never been an issue as long as I've been the supporters representative on the Safety Advisory Group - unlike for instance the East Stand!
The Jimmy Seed stand roof is made up of interlocking corrugated asbestos cement sheeting. The asbestos content of this type of roofing is approximately 5%. Left as it is, It does not constitute an issue and is not illegal. Historically the trees behind the stand have caused some issues with this roof, particularly in high winds.
A branch has previously broken off and gone through this roof. You can see the damage repair in Airman's photograph - right in the middle at the back of the roof. The real problem here is that of leaf fall blocking the gutters. The trees behind the stand belong to LBG and they are their responsibility.
The next CAFC Safety Advisory Group Meeting is on 25th May. If you have any safety concerns with regard to The Valley or match day operational concerns, then please raise them with me via PM and I will do the best I can to represent your views to the Club.
The Club do listen to safety concerns and act and react accordingly.
Perhaps you should ask why the club's chief executive seems to be telling random people on a train that the stand is becoming dangerous... and while you're at it raise Keohane's plan to use the east stand for away fans!
I would do, but neither of them deem the Safety Advisory Group meeting worth turning up to (unless it's the last one in January, which I wasn't invited to for some reason).
I don't want to go over old ground, concerning RD and KM, players purchases and lies etc, but there are a few interesting ground related things here
1) That the South Stand is becoming unsafe 2) Moving Away fans into the East stand 3) New Dugouts - certainly our existing ones don't reach PL standards (not that that particularly matters!)
Is there any truth in any of this from what others have heard?
Please don't say your on drugs or mad but I am prepared to give them another chance after speaking to Katrien on the train last night! She said to myself and Jon Whitfield this has been a long season and our current position in the league shows that 12 more points would of seen us fighting for play offs. Now if what Karl Robinson said about players not caring is true then you can't blame her or Roland. It's not uncommon for owners to loan money to a club one being Bournemouth and the second to my astonishment is Chelsea! Both owners are only loaning money to the club. I don't think we were ever in any danger of being relegated as there is so much s*** below us an us crying for a new owner doesn't mean the new mob will come in with good intentions. Yes they've made some disastrous decisions in management and transfers but from speaking to her next season will be a good one. I said look what £3m did when we won League 1?!? She smiled nodded and said "I know an next season we will be buying the best players in League 1" Other things discussed was moving away fans into the east stand empty blocks and giving both stands behind the goals back to home fans. In addition to this, she said their are plans to build a new south stand but this isn't in their immediate plans. She said a new construction is important as the stand is becoming unsafe. One last point on the stadium is the construction of new dug outs for 2017/18 which will ready in August. Look at Coventry & Leyton Orient be careful what you wish for an it's better to have the devil you know than the one you don't. We've got one game left so let's support Karl and the team and finish the season off. This summer will be telling on what players are bought in, kept and released. In my opinion it's time to support the club because in many ways I now look at Katrien and think f*** me she has some bollocks to take all this abuse and carry on. Up The Addicks
I don't want to go over old ground, concerning RD and KM, players purchases and lies etc, but there are a few interesting ground related things here
1) That the South Stand is becoming unsafe 2) Moving Away fans into the East stand 3) New Dugouts - certainly our existing ones don't reach PL standards (not that that particularly matters!)
Is there any truth in any of this from what others have heard?
Please don't say your on drugs or mad but I am prepared to give them another chance after speaking to Katrien on the train last night! She said to myself and Jon Whitfield this has been a long season and our current position in the league shows that 12 more points would of seen us fighting for play offs. Now if what Karl Robinson said about players not caring is true then you can't blame her or Roland. It's not uncommon for owners to loan money to a club one being Bournemouth and the second to my astonishment is Chelsea! Both owners are only loaning money to the club. I don't think we were ever in any danger of being relegated as there is so much s*** below us an us crying for a new owner doesn't mean the new mob will come in with good intentions. Yes they've made some disastrous decisions in management and transfers but from speaking to her next season will be a good one. I said look what £3m did when we won League 1?!? She smiled nodded and said "I know an next season we will be buying the best players in League 1" Other things discussed was moving away fans into the east stand empty blocks and giving both stands behind the goals back to home fans. In addition to this, she said their are plans to build a new south stand but this isn't in their immediate plans. She said a new construction is important as the stand is becoming unsafe. One last point on the stadium is the construction of new dug outs for 2017/18 which will ready in August. Look at Coventry & Leyton Orient be careful what you wish for an it's better to have the devil you know than the one you don't. We've got one game left so let's support Karl and the team and finish the season off. This summer will be telling on what players are bought in, kept and released. In my opinion it's time to support the club because in many ways I now look at Katrien and think f*** me she has some bollocks to take all this abuse and carry on. Up The Addicks
Whatever happened to the new dug outs?
I'm guessing as we seem a bit short on the coaching/assistant manager side we don't need a bigger dugout?
I don't want to go over old ground, concerning RD and KM, players purchases and lies etc, but there are a few interesting ground related things here
1) That the South Stand is becoming unsafe 2) Moving Away fans into the East stand 3) New Dugouts - certainly our existing ones don't reach PL standards (not that that particularly matters!)
Is there any truth in any of this from what others have heard?
Please don't say your on drugs or mad but I am prepared to give them another chance after speaking to Katrien on the train last night! She said to myself and Jon Whitfield this has been a long season and our current position in the league shows that 12 more points would of seen us fighting for play offs. Now if what Karl Robinson said about players not caring is true then you can't blame her or Roland. It's not uncommon for owners to loan money to a club one being Bournemouth and the second to my astonishment is Chelsea! Both owners are only loaning money to the club. I don't think we were ever in any danger of being relegated as there is so much s*** below us an us crying for a new owner doesn't mean the new mob will come in with good intentions. Yes they've made some disastrous decisions in management and transfers but from speaking to her next season will be a good one. I said look what £3m did when we won League 1?!? She smiled nodded and said "I know an next season we will be buying the best players in League 1" Other things discussed was moving away fans into the east stand empty blocks and giving both stands behind the goals back to home fans. In addition to this, she said their are plans to build a new south stand but this isn't in their immediate plans. She said a new construction is important as the stand is becoming unsafe. One last point on the stadium is the construction of new dug outs for 2017/18 which will ready in August. Look at Coventry & Leyton Orient be careful what you wish for an it's better to have the devil you know than the one you don't. We've got one game left so let's support Karl and the team and finish the season off. This summer will be telling on what players are bought in, kept and released. In my opinion it's time to support the club because in many ways I now look at Katrien and think f*** me she has some bollocks to take all this abuse and carry on. Up The Addicks
Whatever happened to the new dug outs?
See my timeline for the dug outs project plan on page three...... (and people thought I was joking!)
Mr Keohane couldn't possibly handle project managing more than one thing at a time and he's far too busy with assessing the depth of the hole they've dug at the training ground. There is no way anyone else in the building can project manage some new dugouts. So they'll have to wait 25 years for the training ground works to finish.
Mr Keohane couldn't possibly handle project managing more than one thing at a time and he's far too busy with assessing the depth of the hole they've dug at the training ground. There is no way anyone else in the building can project manage some new dugouts. So they'll have to wait 25 years for the training ground works to finish.
I think we need to get the dugout project back on track. Whoever was in charge of the hexagonal netting last year should be made lead for this now.
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Konsa and Aribo sold for whatever we can muster in the summer to try and cover as much of next season's losses as possible
They try to get rid of Watt again because he's on a big basic and KR doesn't want him. Unfortunately Watt has burnt his bridges in English football at the level he wants to play at and the sort of money he thinks he's worth, so unless some clueless middle eastern, Indian or Chinese club come in for him, he remains, adding very little but the odd silly tweet about 'doing it for the fans'
Tex will go as we are desperate to get that well invested 12k a week of the wage book. KM will engineer a deal whereby he's sent on loan but we still end up paying half 2/3 of his wages or we pay his contract up a'la Ba and Bikey. We must have at least one of these contract terminations a season, it's a KM speciality
KR sees about £300k as his season's transfer budget and excitedly tells everyone there are some real gems out there he has his eye on. Come August 31st Karl is standing in front of Louis Mendez doing his best David Brent impression as the cameras film his reaction to deadline day. Karl lambasts the ethics and morals of other clubs, disgusted at how we did all we can, president and CEO included, but we were thwarted by the immorality of others getting who we wanted over the line. However he then finishes the interview by telling everyone that 'knows him', how excited he is at the prospect of fielding a starting XI with the average age of 22.
The starting line up next season resembles that of a Monday afternoon u23 game or better still, Kent cup fixture.
The east stand, north upper and west upper stands are closed. But in a PR brainwave we get some of that cardboard crowd you saw Arsenal use in the 90s when they were redeveloping Highbury. This is accompanied by canned crowd noise the club purchase from Fox Sports that is played over the speaker from the start of the game. The club realise it's a massive mistake when the CD gets stuck and the word 'defence' plays on loop during the home game with Luton in October
KR sacked in November with a record of 2 wins 1 draw 10 defeats as we sit 22nd. Defeat highlights include 0-2 in that Luton game. 5-0 thrashing up at Ewood park in September and throwing away a 2-0 home lead to Plymouth to lose 2-3
Poor old JJ wheeled out when O'Loughlin is appointed manager in November to tell us how much the players respect his methods and he's got th the trust of the squad.
The few remaining positivists, apologists and just happy to see footballists talk mutter irrelevant waffle like 'oh if only Chelsea would've loaned us DaSilva again, he was really good during that spell when we beat 2 teams right at the bottom of league one in the run in last year etc etc'
It's all one big continuation of complete catastrophic shite that never ends and ultimately I'm the biggest mug of all because I cannot let this prat RD drive me away from all I've ever known every Saturday, but I keep coming back for more misery.
PS the two wins if anyone cares were both in August when we beat Rotherham at home on the opening day and follow that up with a win at Shrewsbury. At this point everyone is certain this will be the season we come good.......
What's jims issue with airman?
As mentioned previously, the tread in general does susipiciously seem like a particular line trying to be spun prior to the weekend
For what it's worth - and assuming the stuff on Facebook has any validity - it looks like they're not thinking of selling. Certainly not in 2017-18.
During the match we nearly scored and half the East stand thought the ball had gone in, we all had that 3 second moment of jumping up and down before it dawned on us that we had not scored.
Before our cheering had died down, 3k mackems started singing "sit down, before your stand falls down".
That chant did make me laugh
But shouldn't that read " ...the happy smiling KIDDY'S face" ?
I've rarely seen more than one lonely youngster occupying that wonderful Disney World, SE7 ....
Whilst lots of people would change ends at half time, I don't recall too many visiting fans in the covered end back in the day and was always seen as a predominantly home fans area.
Of course, Chelsea, west ham, millwall and Sheffield Wednesday fans had other ideas on occasions.
I'm guessing as we seem a bit short on the coaching/assistant manager side we don't need a bigger dugout?
See my timeline for the dug outs project plan on page three...... (and people thought I was joking!)