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Post by Alasdair on Mar 10, 2008 23:47:43 GMT
The Pikes will not be promoted this season due to an FA backtrack on ground grading requirements. Pickering were told earlier in the season that they would only need to install a temporary fencing on the cricket pitch side and update the outside toilet facilities.
The Pikes have learnt that they need at least 150 seats in one stand. Both Pickering's stands hold currently 100 seats (the 200, interestingly, being enough total capacity for promotiong).
All at the club are obviously dissapointed but strive to meet the targets set earlier in the season and hope to make the required improvements next season for promotion.
The club have also launched an appeal but this is unlikely to have any impact.
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Post by Hammy on Mar 11, 2008 21:52:55 GMT
Well, thats put a fecking huge downer on my already Shyte day.
I hope they at least refund the application fee. Why do we need 150 seated stand? What on earth is wrong with the two we've got? Mill Lane is one of the best ground in the league facility wise.
The FA are a bunch of Stephen Hunts, to use some rhyming slang.
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Post by Hammy on Mar 12, 2008 16:56:39 GMT
Wait a minute, does anyone know if Glapwell or Armthorpe do either? Along with Selby, they are the other teams who have applied.
Selby, with a grand total of about 30 seats in their ground obviously cannot go up, but I'm not sure about the others.
But I do repeat, this is a idiotic decision by the FA. How many teams at this level do actually have a 150 seated stadium? Are there any teams currently in the Unibond that don't; that we can use as a precedent to back up our appeal?
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Post by Mike on Mar 13, 2008 16:25:07 GMT
How many teams at this level do actually have a 150 seated stadium? Are there any teams currently in the Unibond that don't; that we can use as a precedent to back up our appeal? St. Helens will be a bout the only side that do. Knowsley Road holds about 12,000. But thats going to be about it. One assumes Arnolds new ground will be fine, but thats not ready until next year. I'm pretty sure Carlton only have one small stand. |
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Post by Mike on Mar 13, 2008 16:41:32 GMT
What constutues 'a stand'? If we have two, 100 seater stands, is it not beyond the relms of possibility to put two fingers up to the FA, connect the two said stands with a wall/piece of string and claim it to be one big and complete stand holding 200 people...?
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Post by Pee-Tee-Eff-See on Mar 13, 2008 20:11:49 GMT
How much would it cost to knock out the side of the Gazette Stand and put in another 50 seats behind the goal..
Extend the roof and put in a concrete base, then bingo !!.
I would guess that that could be done for around £6500, which surely is not beyond the means of the Club, it's sponsors, the Council etc.
On another point, Harrogae railway got their seats from the Old Ayresome Park at Middlesborough
when they first applied , to make ground improvements.
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Post by zico10 on Mar 14, 2008 8:21:45 GMT
The decision from the FA seems crazy but I have to say that the "150 seats in one stand" rule is not something new that has been introduced this year, it has been in place for a while. Apparently the club were told by an fa official that it would not be a problem having 100 seats in two seperate stands but the club got nothing in writing which is where the problem is now.
Previous years I think the rules must have been bent as there is no way car;tons ground is better equipped than ours.
From a players point of view it is hugely dissapointing but all we can do now is try and push on and finish as high as we can.
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Post by Mike on Mar 18, 2008 3:05:57 GMT
Ok, so this has got me mad. And to cap it all I'll probably get banned from the league forum. The Official Pikes Thread the idiots |
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Post by rascal on Mar 18, 2008 16:31:56 GMT
i was shocked to hear that you lot can not be promoted as youre quite a decent side. youre better than maltby main, south normanton, glasshoughten, nostell. long eaton utd, mickleover sports, armthorpe but not arnold town. you lot deseve promotion from this leauge just like us (arnold town).
if you lot are denied any thing elts then the ncel and the fa are against you
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Post by Mike on Apr 19, 2008 20:40:03 GMT
Oh, if it makes anyone feel better, the FA have, in there great wisdom, decided that the ground at Selby is better than Mill Lane and will allow them to be considered for promotion.
Hurray for the FA
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Post by Hammy on Apr 22, 2008 13:31:06 GMT
Oh, if it makes anyone feel better, the FA have, in there great wisdom, decided that the ground at Selby is better than Mill Lane and will allow them to be considered for promotion. Hurray for the FA How the feck is that the case? Selby don't even have one seated stand, unless they're planning huge scale improvements. I really don't understand the logic that seems to be in place here. |
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