Another day and nothing from the Blue Room on the Copland Stand impasse.
I was asked by a buddy to look again at this award-winning output from the Man Who Imagines Billionaires.
Dear reader, I do it so you don’t have to.
Perhaps, somewhere in the Fitba Multiverse, this piece has already generated several letters before action on behalf of young Mr Bisgrove.
However, I’m sure the world-class legal team at the Daily Radar will have forensically analysed every sentence before publishing.
It is pretty clear that a blame game is being played apropos the excrement exhibition currently on display at the Copland Stand.
It’s at times like this that a paper trail can be very useful.
For example, I would be fascinated to know if Mr Bisgrove had, say, minutes of a dignified conclave in which he flagged up his concerns about the wisdom of the Copland project.
That’s the sort of thing that a stellar journalist like Mr Jackson should be contacting him about.
Like most projects that go awry, the lack of preparation is often a key factor.
To that end, I was told today that the chap who had been hired as project manager by Sevco was engaged only two days a week.
Now, I’m sure that this cannot be the case.
Meanwhile, I understand that some within the Sevco High Command think that a cap-in-hand approach to the SFA is now appropriate.
Clearly, the Transcendental Chairman is just the chap to front up such a supplicatory move as the basket of assets seeks some rental accommodation.
All I’ve got at this stage are questions:
As per the club statement on June 20th, there is a delay due to the late arrival of materials from Asia.
What materials?
How long is the delay?
If that is the only problem, why not issue a new date for the grand reopening of the stadium John Brown played for?
The search for an alternative venue is, to an extent, the distracting Shiny Thing.
Indeed, the main question should be about why there is no appropriate date for the resumption of Ibrox as a stadium open to the public.
The logical conclusion to draw from the absence of any answer to that question is that there is a substantial problem in the Copland Stand that is yet to be addressed.
Loving all this unrest among the ibrox hordes, regarding the lack of genuine journalistic investigation and exposure, I for one am delighted, as far as I’m concerned they can keep it that way, similar to glorious events in 2012, a largely uninformed fanbase, imbued I’ll admit, with an unwillingness to accept the reality of that time, had to sit quietly bemused, and watch as their beloved club slipped into liquidation, knowledge is power, lack of, can prove deadly.
The SFA cannot say NO to the rangers and both parties know it. If it were in England the team not able to facilitate their fixtures would get fined millions.
The SFA know they are the only alternative and the rangers know if they were turned down it would make a mockery of SFA governance in this country. The rangers could sink the ship.
The rangers board would have been planning this project way ahead of time and included in that Plan would have been things on a critical path like the big bit of steel. Absolutely no doubt. They are stalling on something much bigger.
So instead of making wads of cash each home game they will be paying to play, fekin hilarious…
Great point re 48 hours to get delivery of steel. My best mate lives in Wales. You will never hear a more patriotic gentleman in your life. He supports Swansea and Celtic as his mother was born in the gorbals. I’ve had the pleasure of taking him to many games.
His main argument re the steel is that local ( to him) Port Talbot are fighting for theirs lives to save their steel plants. The Rangers story has been in the papers most days. Indeed, Port Talbot have phone and OFFERED Sevco a deal. They did not receive a return phone call.
The Welsh are not happy especially since they were offering a 10% discount to the Chinese price plus the savings a transport and delivery.
Something certainly doesn’t smell right. Even the Sevconians know it.
I know the asbestos rumour is very compelling given the era of its construction, but so is the idea that the Copland Road stand has simply gone to RAAC and ruin…..
It’s like Christmas everyday with Castle Greyskull and the 12 year old club being the art of giving ☘️😎☘️
Will the ‘new, improved’ stadium require a new safety certificate from Glasgow City Council? If I were a betting man, I’d wager that once the ‘materials’ have arrived and have been duly installed, any further delays will be laid at the feet of the Council.
Hampden will cost a fortune to lay a new pitch at short notice,The Ibrox pitch would only require about 30 feet from the touch line from one side to the other, a lot cheaper and would mean playing infront of the the baying hoardes.so why do they want to move out?
Strangely enough you can buy any quality and quantity of steel in the UK currently with 48 hours delivery…how odd?
I have learned from experience that when building work goes awry and you are facing serious delays which impinge upon other plans you have to throw money at it. However, if you have no money……
Another thing is why can’t they just play with one stand closed, saves paying daily/weekly for a redundant crane?
I’m not an expert but I’ve read elsewhere that the majority of costs are associated with logistics of moving the crane and getting in place. Yes there will be a daily rate for use of the crane but this is much less than the cost of moving and re-moving it. Much like in the old days of printing where the majority of cost was in set up and calibrating of equipment, it was then relatively inexpensive to run off as many copies as needed. Removing the crane would at a stroke double the cost as would involve two more movements, once out the stadium and once back in. So with every penny a prisoner at the money pit, have to assume that the costs outweigh any revenue gained from games played to a 3/4 full stadium.
Soon as I read “Shiny Thing,” I thought of Cat from Red Dwarf. “This MY Shiny Thing and you can’t have it!!”