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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by Holkerbird » Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:28 am

The permanent toilets on the main stand side only have two cubicles and three urinals for the gents and the ladies have two cubicles. There's the toilet for disabled people but I don't think that is sufficient for the stand. The porta loos were used by quite a few fans.
However it is up to those funding to decide if more need to be put in place.

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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by spirit of 1990 » Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:39 am

Holkerbird wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:28 am The permanent toilets on the main stand side only have two cubicles and three urinals for the gents and the ladies have two cubicles. There's the toilet for disabled people but I don't think that is sufficient for the stand. The porta loos were used by quite a few fans.
However it is up to those funding to decide if more need to be put in place.
There’s toilets on the other end of the main stand as well Elaine. On the pop side there’s a wall and a porta-loo five miles away from the HSE 😁
Like I said earlier, the porta-loos by the West Terrace were beyond repair anyway so they couldn’t be used even if they were left.
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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by Fazered » Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:25 pm

I hate to criticise your efforts but having finally made pies available (yee Haa wooo hooo) the 3 pies I have bought so far have varied from luke warm to cold. Please don't stop selling pies but can you please look at this. I do appreciate all your efforts :D
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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by JammyBluebird » Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:54 pm

Fazered wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:25 pm I hate to criticise your efforts but having finally made pies available (yee Haa wooo hooo) the 3 pies I have bought so far have varied from luke warm to cold. Please don't stop selling pies but can you please look at this. I do appreciate all your efforts :D
Think this as simple as turning the pie warmer on earlier and putting the pies in earlier

More of a query for the club than Ground Maintenance team :skill:

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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by spirit of 1990 » Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:56 pm

Fazered wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:25 pm I hate to criticise your efforts but having finally made pies available (yee Haa wooo hooo) the 3 pies I have bought so far have varied from luke warm to cold. Please don't stop selling pies but can you please look at this. I do appreciate all your efforts :D
That’s fine mate, I’ve just been told by someone else as well. I think it was because someone didn’t know how to set the thermostat correctly. We’ll check it out on Sunday just to make sure it’s right for over Christmas.
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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by Fazered » Thu Dec 20, 2018 6:53 pm

Great thanks
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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by saltcellar » Thu Dec 20, 2018 9:38 pm

Holkerbird wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:28 am The permanent toilets on the main stand side only have two cubicles and three urinals for the gents and the ladies have two cubicles. There's the toilet for disabled people but I don't think that is sufficient for the stand. The porta loos were used by quite a few fans.
However it is up to those funding to decide if more need to be put in place.
Those gents toilets don't have any drying facilities for your hands Elaine.
Hand Dryer's are cheap enough to buy.

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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by Holkerbird » Fri Dec 21, 2018 4:38 am

spirit of 1990 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:39 am
Holkerbird wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:28 am The permanent toilets on the main stand side only have two cubicles and three urinals for the gents and the ladies have two cubicles. There's the toilet for disabled people but I don't think that is sufficient for the stand. The porta loos were used by quite a few fans.
However it is up to those funding to decide if more need to be put in place.
There’s toilets on the other end of the main stand as well Elaine. On the pop side there’s a wall and a porta-loo five miles away from the HSE 😁
Like I said earlier, the porta-loos by the West Terrace were beyond repair anyway so they couldn’t be used even if they were left.
Having cleaned all the bloody things in the past I know where the toilets are situated Ian. :roll: Due to segregation--most of which isn't necessary--the toilets at the far end of the stand are off limits to the home fans mostly. so my point still remains. I suppose with 500 fans attending games it won't matter anyway. Just go before leaving home and slap a Tena on just in case. Problem solved. I'm just thankful I don't need to use any of them. :scarf:

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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by Lightflood » Fri Dec 21, 2018 12:28 pm

Segregation is advised by the Police after the Macclesfield game a couple of seasons ago,when none segregation issues led to the present situation

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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by Holkerbird » Fri Dec 21, 2018 3:14 pm

Lightflood wrote: ↑Fri Dec 21, 2018 12:28 pm Segregation is advised by the Police after the Macclesfield game a couple of seasons ago,when none segregation issues led to the present situation
Segregation in the stand consists of the width of the steps between the two blocks---apart from serious segregation when there's a two rope strand separating us. Wrexham. It has been like that before the Macclesfield game.

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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by spirit of 1990 » Sun Dec 23, 2018 7:01 pm

JammyBluebird wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:54 pm
Fazered wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:25 pm I hate to criticise your efforts but having finally made pies available (yee Haa wooo hooo) the 3 pies I have bought so far have varied from luke warm to cold. Please don't stop selling pies but can you please look at this. I do appreciate all your efforts :D
Think this as simple as turning the pie warmer on earlier and putting the pies in earlier

More of a query for the club than Ground Maintenance team :skill:
Think you’re right mate, the pie warmer was on a low setting! We turned it up so the pies should be warm from now on...

Another good turnout today and quite a few tidying up jobs out of the way for the Christmas fixtures.
We also got around to blanking off that big hole in the corporate area where the wind was blowing through the void of the false ceiling and roof.

Thanks to the Bob In Cafe once again for the breakfast buns and to everyone who gave up their Sunday morning this close to Christmas.
We didn't underestimate them, we just didn't think they were that good.

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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by spirit of 1990 » Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:21 am

Thank you very very much to the gentleman and his good lady (who use the forum but wishes to remain anonymous) who gave me £50 to go into the maintenance pot at yesterday’s game.

They live away and can’t get to most games so used that as their excuse to give us a % of what the tickets would’ve cost them.

What a fantastic gesture - it’s greatly appreciated and it’ll be spent carefully. Thank you.
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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by capman » Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:29 am

That’s Great of them to do it
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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by whitty1969 » Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:52 pm

There is another visit planned for this Sunday. Meet at the club at 9am
This is your chance to help the club
Everyone is welcome. There are jobs for everyone.
The maintenance area under the main stand needs a major tidy, there are outstanding painting and Electrical jobs.
Get yourself down.....

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Re: Ground Maintenance Area

Post by spirit of 1990 » Thu Jan 03, 2019 6:34 pm

whitty1969 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:52 pm There is another visit planned for this Sunday. Meet at the club at 9am
This is your chance to help the club
Everyone is welcome. There are jobs for everyone.
The maintenance area under the main stand needs a major tidy, there are outstanding painting and Electrical jobs.
Get yourself down.....
As Neil mentions, the GMA needs a really good sort out.
One of the things we’ve noticed since we’ve been back is that quite a few tools have gone missing, the main one being a virtually brand new concrete breaker (just on the off chance, if anyone reading this knows someone who borrowed it, can you please remind them where it lives)
There are smaller items as well, some that perhaps someone on here could help with if you no longer use them at home.
We’re desperate for some extension leads, the sort that are on spools.
If anyone has any tools at home they no longer use (electric or hand) we’d be more than grateful if you could donate them to the GMA. We’d rather not spend donated money on these things as the money would be much better used buying materials but we’re probably going to have to in the coming months, especially some of the things that we’ve been using that are bordering on unsafe (extension cables, electric drills, grinders, but we’ll take anything)

Everything is now under lock and key again - as we used to have it so nothing should go missing from now on.
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