Surely the timescale would now preclude Welling from promotion to the conference despite the teams excellent form purely because the ground would not be up to standard by the time they are inspected for the next season. I may be a little cynical but this may suit the owners who have not exactly pushed the boat out to the excellent Aidy Pennock to support the push for promotion. I fear that no lights may result in the loss of Wellings biggest asset with Aidy looking for a club which match his ambition and ability and I fear that at the moment that is not Welling United!

Sorry but absolute ******* shambles!!

Weeks and Weeks and all we get it THIS??

I heard 40k... no surprise its now 60k!

2 months to sort the auction and we offer signed shirts?? I could have spent a day and begged for decent prizes like a holiday, a years car lease, a season ticket, a days pampering at a health spa, A new PC System, Shopping vouchers, etc etc

All i can say is if the Hobbins screw this then we must organise demonstrations and organise a supporters trust to raise the cash to take over....

IF they sort then fine but this cannot help team morale at all.

Still chuckling at MarkX's "its all in hand!!"

PS have heard that John Moules is on our side trying to get us an extention to the deadline BUT nothings sorted or guaranteed.

In short, to the hobbins, this just smacks of welling off the pitch as i have long said...

Poor Administration, No Ideas, Cutting Corners and too damn little too late all the time.

No offence to Barry Wallis but get your finger out  and sort some DECENT jaw dropping prizes. Yellow Pages, Google and shanksies pony for a couple of days should pay dividends.....

josh wrote:

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Surely the timescale would now preclude Welling from promotion to the conference despite the teams excellent form purely because the ground would not be up to standard by the time they are inspected for the next season. I may be a little cynical but this may suit the owners who have not exactly pushed the boat out to the excellent Aidy Pennock to support the push for promotion. I fear that no lights may result in the loss of Wellings biggest asset with Aidy looking for a club which match his ambition and ability and I fear that at the moment that is not Welling United!

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Lets not let this affect the players. Let them do the business then address the off field stuff.
I agree that it may suit the owners but... everyone will be aware of that so lets all concentrate on winning the league.To the players, keep it going lads as im sure all will be ok IN THE END

Its still in the hands of the players and it would be gutting to let this affect them and then the lights go in in time!

-- Edited by JgFc at 01:45, 2007-01-31

Has anyone purchased a brick as yet?

Stop ****ING BEING SO NEGATIVE ABOUT EVERYTHING

Yet again you are gainst the club

Yet again you want the club to fail

Yet again you are misinformed

Yet again you are speculating

We are top of the league and still in the trophy

All very pathetic

Why don't you find out the real anwser when you go to the games - Mmmmmmmmm!!!!

'Why don't you find out the real anwser when you go to the games'

Two observations on this comment.

1) I assume the relevant news to which you are referring would be found in the home match programme and not by word of mouth. This leaves out those who either don't want/can't afford to buy a programme and those of us who see Park View Road a lot less frequently than they see the team (possibly only me on the latter).

2) What is the point in paying to have an official website hosted if the 'real answer' to one of the more pressing issues is not available on that (as is inferred by the above). It is updated pretty frequently and thus time lag surely cannot be the reason. There are after all a few supporters dotted around the country\globe after all.

Taken from the News Shopper web site.

Welling United - Floodlight latestBy Tim Ashton

IT IS going to cost around £50,000 for Welling United to rebuild their floodlights after last year's storm battered Park View Road.

The gale-force winds in November brought down the pylon in the south west corner of the ground.

In the aftermath a structural engineer recommended the other pylons, erected in the 1960s, should also be replaced.

The lack of floodlights has forced home matches to kick-off early and the FA Trophy replay against Tamworth this week had to be played at Gravesend & Northfleet.

However, while it may appear little rebuilding work has been done at Park View Road, Welling's backroom staff are having to play the waiting game.

Club secretary Barry Hobbins said: "We have collected three quotes from contractors and sent them to the Football Foundation.

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"They decide which one to go for and then will give us a grant towards the cost which will probably be around 50 per cent.

"Only when we get their response can we tell the contractors to go ahead and order the lights."

He added: "I don't think the work on the ground is too lengthy as the basic equipment is still there in terms of the wiring, it just about re-righting the towers.

"But it is the ordering and waiting for delivery which takes the time. "We're in mid-stream where people think we're doing nothing whereas we're sitting diddling our thumbs having to wait."

Team manager Adrian Pennock is desperate to get back home as his team, currently top of the Nationwide Conference South table, enter a critical phase in their push for promotion.

He said: "We need to get our floodlights sorted out but I fully appreciate the problems the club is facing.

"We want to play at Park View Road because it is a bit of a fortress. We've had 18 games at home and won 12 of them."

Hobbins added: "In the long term, the storm was probably a blessing in disguise in as much as sooner or later we've had to face this situation.

"Fortunately it happened when no one was in the ground and there were no problems apart from tearing some of the turf up, otherwise it could have had serious repercussions."

10:39am today


I've no doubt certain people will knock it,But it's an official statement in print.
Can't ask for much more than that as far as I'm concerned. But then, I just go along and cheer them on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



PolosDad 

Come on now Mark don't be shy who are the infamous dynamic duo to whom you refer?

I have some comment on the recent posts but await a response from you Mark. 

 

Clear and concise statement from JgFc.  You have made your position very clear but then anyone who actually read and thought about your posts, particularly this season, would know that anyway. 

It doesn't accord with the initial anonymous accusations made by Mark or his subsequent comments which lead one to believe there are 2 people that his comments apply to.  Could it be that you are not his target or has he got it all wrong?

everytime an idea is made we seem to pick holes and slag off.
what ever it is get behind it its our club support it even if there are flaws or you dont agree

Mark

If you are digging at me I can't respond unless you say so.

Do the decent thing either put your head above the parapet or retreat I care not which.

As a bog standard fan it depresses me that we can't all get behind the Club and it's efforts at riasing money for the floodlights. Whatever you may think of the Hobbins' the floodlights will (hopefully) be there a long time after they have gone and if people really want to support the long term future of Welling then we should support the fundriasing efforts. If we don't get promoted because our ground isn't up to scratch then all those who could have helped out but didn't should take a long hard look at themselves and work out whether they genuinely are supporting Welling United.

I certainly have and seen the bricks in the wall so far Stafford.

Right leaving Mark who has seen all the posts and obviously has no intention of making other than accusations against unnamed individuals, lets get back to the thread and my promised comment.

I bumped into Barrie on Wednesday and we had a chat about several issues, including the floodlight situation. We had what I considered to be a frank discussion about the areas I raised at the start of the thread which covered the extent of the damage, the £60,000 estimated cost and any impact the delay might have in terms of 1 April, and my view that the Club needs to be more proactive which in turn would negate much of the speculation which periodically appears on this and other forums.

The situation regarding the current position on the floodlights was pretty much that posted by Southcoaster, hence I felt no need to post further. The 3 points not included were that

• He didn’t know where the £60.000 quoted in the email came from but I would hazard a guess that it was picked up from the original item on the site posted before any estimates were received.
• He also said that the Conference were aware of our plight and that the 1st of April was not expected to be an issue but that this was not an excuse to do nothing and that we needed to get the work done asap.
• He would be getting something in the press but deadlines meant that this would be next week.

As all who have read this thread know an article which clarifies the current position regarding the floodlights (and in doing so addresses my first 2 comments on the email’s content) appeared on the News Shopper website yesterday and will I believe will appear in next week’s issue. I happened to have to go to PVR on another matter this lunchtime and again saw Barrie and I said well done on getting out the information which makes fans and News Shopper readers (who include businesses who could, having read the article, buy bricks) fully aware of the Club’s position.

Outside of this thread but also pertinent to my discussion with Barrie on Wednesday is that we also discussed the Welling United v Worcester City drama and this was the source of the substance of the posting I made in that thread on Wednesday night.