Re: Stadium and other issues : Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:17 pm  

REDWHITEANDBLUE wrote:

Apparently copper is going to shoot in price it's thenew investment after gold

I best get rid of those tulip bulbs then.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:47 pm  

Seen these on twitter, presumably they are photos of what's in the East Stand.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:14 pm  

By all accounts the previous owners naively paid Morgan Sindall the full amount early in the build and now it seems MS did what builders do once they get their money. Cut corners and do stuff on the cheap!

Matt Ellis is now having to get MS to front up and fix the problems at their expense

[PopTart]

Re: Stadium and other issues : Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:09 pm  

The Avenger wrote:

By all accounts the previous owners naively paid Morgan Sindall the full amount early in the build and now it seems MS did what builders do once they get their money. Cut corners and do stuff on the cheap!

Matt Ellis is now having to get MS to front up and fix the problems at their expense

That's just not true.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:42 pm  

The Avenger wrote:

By all accounts the previous owners naively paid Morgan Sindall the full amount early in the build and now it seems MS did what builders do once they get their money. Cut corners and do stuff on the cheap!

Matt Ellis is now having to get MS to front up and fix the problems at their expense

I can’t imagine that the full amount was paid early in the build. That would be a strange move. There would usually be a percentage held back I’d imagine on completion.

That said, there’s been a catalogue of cuts and downgrades on the north, east, hospitality and outside area I think as well as what appears to be an abandonment for the refurbishment of 2 floor gym, cafe and class rooms in the south east. Added to that the electrical supply issues and the now water supply issues it’s honestly run far from expected.

Hopefully this is the last of the issues.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:18 am  

PopTart wrote:

That's just not true.

Is it not?

Re: Stadium and other issues : Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:03 am  

The Avenger wrote:

Is it not?

I can't speak with 100% knowledge of this situation, but have being involved in project managing the supply of goods and services to builds of similar and larger size/complexity for around 35 years and dealt with Morgan Sindall for the last 10 and in all cases, there are agreed timescales and milestones when funds are released/withheld and not once has full payment been made "up front" on any of those projects

Re: Stadium and other issues : Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:49 am  

The Avenger wrote:

By all accounts the previous owners naively paid Morgan Sindall the full amount early in the build and now it seems MS did what builders do once they get their money. Cut corners and do stuff on the cheap!

Matt Ellis is now having to get MS to front up and fix the problems at their expense

You are just insulting the building trade I was in it all my life and spent many a day 12 hours out of the house working for 8 hours pay like many more million in the building trade Crap used to happen (any one can and did have a of day) but was all ways put right ..No if the country was run by the kind of people I have met in the trade with the pride in there work and work satisfaction it would not be in the state it I now They are the low life who take there money ,and ours and do nothing but fill there own pockets

Re: Stadium and other issues : Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:43 am  

alegend wrote:

You are just insulting the building trade I was in it all my life and spent many a day 12 hours out of the house working for 8 hours pay like many more million in the building trade Crap used to happen (any one can and did have a of day) but was all ways put right ..No if the country was run by the kind of people I have met in the trade with the pride in there work and work satisfaction it would not be in the state it I now They are the low life who take there money ,and ours and do nothing but fill there own pockets

I certainly wasn’t including all builders and certainly not genuine honest tradesmen!
I should have put ‘some builders’

Re: Stadium and other issues : Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:53 am  

From what I've heard ME is seriously disappointed with the standard/quality of a lot of the work in the new stand and with the electrical and now water issues, it looks as though Morgan Sindall have now got some serious 'snagging' to do... https://wakefieldtrinity.com/doncaster- ... statement/

From what I've heard ME is seriously disappointed with the standard/quality of a lot of the work in the new stand and with the electrical and now water issues, it looks as though Morgan Sindall have now got some serious 'snagging' to do... https://wakefieldtrinity.com/doncaster- ... statement/