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  1. I think they have really played this. The new stadium capacity is about half their original plan as priced & started in 2020. They've built some very prominent storage/lock up type things in front of the social club for the training gear. I think they've altered the original scheme to create more of a training complex (with @ 800 seats) than a football stadium. (Then pleaded to get back to Hampden after deliberately building it too small).

  2. I've seen this quoted about Dundee Utd a number of times down the years since they won that championship but I never heard it said at the time. I've a recollection one of their ex-players corrected this one time saying there were actually 17 or 20 players involved across the season.

  3. Seen that more than a few times down the years when somebody limps on because all the subs have been used. Worst one from a Morton point of view was Kevin Finlayson at Broadwood one night years back hobbling up and down the touchline for the last 25 minutes. From the little he could do he should have gone off regardless.

  4. I admit that was badly worded. The basic point stands. I saw documents for pricing while homeworking in summer 2020, so thats the tender period & covid didn't stop that. QPFC then appointed a builder within months, (they were on site in autumn 2020). QPFC then fell out with them, went legal, changed design & found another builder. The tender documents had this down for delivery in @ a year & it wasn't a complex build. Building sites have now been reopened (with safeguards) for @ 3 years. They've had plenty of time to sort this since Covid had sites closed.

  5. Their main delay wasn't Covid. They appointed a builder in autumn 2020 or so when sites had reopened (with precautions). Work started before a dispute arose between QPFC & the builder. That went to arbitration where I understand QPFC lost. Later they revised their plans & appointed another builder & they still haven't finished. Covid had nothing to do with it.

  6. They built the original stadium many,  many years back to cement their then already fading if not gone position in the Scottish game. Later they contributed bugger all to the complete rebuild, moved out for a 7 figure fee (× 5), squandered the money,  made a balls up of the rebuild next door & have just waltzed back in again. What' s wrong, it's our old home!!  Can someone pkease tell them it was previously rebuilt by others after being utterly derelict under their watch & in any case they sold it, Jesus wept.

  7. 5 hours ago, Toby said:
    5 hours ago, Drew Busby's Moustache said:

    Back in the day .... Morton had quite a close relationship with Newcastle through Freddy Fletcher.

    Now that would catch the eye.

    Still nice to be able to say I saw Arsenal with David Rocastle, Michael Thomas & Perry Groves, (never mind their defence),Watford with John Barnes & Maurice Johnson, Newcastle with Paul Gascoigne, and a few more...all at Cappielow (back in the day), but nice to remember.

  8. That's a possibility. Did you know the Lesser Hampden scheme that building work started on after Covid (before being halted) had something like twice the capacity of the current scheme. I'll check the figures, I priced elements of the original lesser hampden work in 2020 & probably still have drawings saved somewhere. It is possible that the capacity for the scheme they are actually (finally, maybe) finishing was cut based on getting a sympathetic hearing should it suit them  to move back into the bigger stadium.

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