Crawley's New Stand

[tktufc91]

Anyone seen their new build. Took them a few weeks to construct and it looks s**t. Seriously, a club with the funds they have with the possibility of League 1 football on the horizion next season, this is the best they could do?

Although probably more costly and a longer build time, Bristows Bench is going to look amazing and really make our little ground look complete.

This just makes Crawley's ground look even more tinpot. Here's a video with the stand in the back ground. The number of pillars in the way of the playing area are shocking!!

http://www.crawleytownfc.com/page/Lates ... 32,00.html

[ferrarilover]

I'm on m'phone, anyone help me out?

Matt.

[Glostergull]

I'm on m'phone, anyone help me out?

Matt.

Carefull Matt or you will have Trojan accusing you of screwing up the thread

On another note. I saw a piece on their new stand last week and they were talking about adding the ball netting at the rear of the stand. I wonder if it is a proper new stand or a temporary structure to get them through the next few months. I agree it doesn't look very good and when you listen to the guy on the video he gives the impression they may not need it after a while. as if they almost don't expect to stay in the league.
It makes me feel really really proud that we have a brand new proper stand with decent facitilies to make Plainmoor look like a really good league standard stadium rather than a ramshackle non league ground. it's been long overdue.

[ferrarilover]

This is absolutely indicative of the difference between the two clubs. CTFC are shooting for the moon, aiming to get as high as possible as fast as possible. Those in charge know, they must know because it is impossible for them not to know, that the club is doomed to failure. It's not some 'we hate Crawley' tirade. It's not wishful thinking and it most certainly isn't, as the majority of CTFC fans will tell you, jealousy. It is, to use Brucie's favourite phrase, plain fact that Crawley Town FC will faulter, they will collapse and go broke and end up back where they came from. You know it, I know it, everyone who knows anything knows it. Therefore, they needn't build anything nice, or lasting or what not, because they will be AFC Crawley 5 years from now, and then they won't need a stand, they'll only have 6 fans turn up to watch them play against the Dog and Duck at the local park.
There are a couple of ways to approach almost everything in life, slow and steady or balls on the table. Crawley have chosen the latter. They will live fast and loose, in the manner of dearly departed George, they'll leave a beautiful, if deeply unpopular corpse.
What Torquay United are doing is looking to the future, because we are firmly of the opinion that supporting a good L2/not brilliant L1 club for 50 years is infinitely preferable to jumping on the bandwagon of a Championship club for one season before being liquidated.
Good luck to Crawley (in a limited sense), well done you for managing to, somehow, convince a clearly senile group of local people with more money then they know what to do with to blow it all on a venture which they know will see all their hard earned (or not, as is most likely) vanish into the hands of the tax man and the pockets of the administrators.

A word of warning, however: be careful who you upset on the way up, because these people will soon be seeing you on the way back down.

Matt.

[Aussie]

What utter sh1te!

[Richinns]

What utter sh1te!

The stand or what Matt said?

[Aussie]

The stand or what Matt said?

Couldn`t possibly say mate! o:)

[Colorado Gull]

The new stand looks absolutley terrible!

[Colorado Gull]

Here's a different view of the stand, it's basically Bristol Rovers' tent but red!

[Richinns]

I always thought that the circus was in town when it comes to Crawley Town - now they have a stand to match that! A perfect fit if you ask me.

[Dave]

Thats what it is, a tent, can be taken down quicker than they built it, personaly past caring about them, as a club they will act on and off the field just as they like, until some one stops them or they go bust.

If Crawley are happy as a club with the way thing's are going then best of luck to them.

[ferrarilover]

Is it a trick of the camera, or does the roof only giver the rear half of the seats? (that's the entirety of the seats in the rearward rows, not the rearward half of each seat in every row, obviously)
Not that it matters, from the looks of it, one gust of wind will blow it off anyway.

Matt.

[usagullmichigan]

Thats where our old grandstand went!

[happytorq]

Is it a trick of the camera, or does the roof only giver the rear half of the seats? (that's the entirety of the seats in the rearward rows, not the rearward half of each seat in every row, obviously)
Not that it matters, from the looks of it, one gust of wind will blow it off anyway.

Matt.

Nah, it covers all of them - you can tell by the stanchions being level with the row of seats further forward. They'll be fine if the rain comes straight down or from behind - if anything less than a 90 degree angle with the pitch, though, they're getting wet.

[cambgull]

That's the same with most grounds, to be fair.