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Even switching the game to the Friday night would be a problem.

Firstly, there's an NFL game scheduled the week before, on Sunday 20th. To have to remove all branding, pitch markings, etc, plus altering the stadium configuration from NFL mode to football mode, and then back again the day after would be pretty expensive and a major operation.

Secondly, there's Champions League fixtures scheduled for the Tuesday and Wednesday prior to that. The chances of both us and Man City both being scheduled on the Tuesday are slim, but not out of the question. It all depends on the draw, but wouldn't be something UEFA would allow us to change.

We're absolutely fucked. Only hope is that the stadium does get sorted to a stage where they can at least host the necessary test events soon, and then play the game in our new stadium. Failing that, there's no way the Premier League won't dock us points. They'd have to for failing to fulfill a fixture. Could be the difference between us being in the Champions League or not next season.
 
Joe Clash said:
They wouldn’t have tested the fire systems for the first time last week. It’s just not credible. Maybe a cable or a node got crushed in the interim, but you don’t just cable and second fix an enormous build like that and just hope it works when you press the button.
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With any complicated system there would have been weeks of testing of various parts of it, but its quite common for a few bits of it not to be properly working, but the guys at ground level thinking 'I can fix this' and sometimes the fix works and sometimes it doesn't.

At some stage though when a number of attempts at various fixes don't work, someone says 'Houston we have a problem' ........ and that means it gets reported all the way up to the top that there is a major problem - which is what the club says happened the other day.

Almost certainly on the reports before from the specialist sub contractor to Mace it would have said 'Fire detection and suppression systems undergoing testing', and the report might have even be 'colour coded' amber (ie beware might be an issue but if there is one its expected it can be fixed), but nobody is going to make a decision until its certain the problem cannot be fixed - on big complex projects there will be a few of those where everyone holds their breath and sometimes the problem gets fixed.

Problem now is that the specialist sub contractor needs to identify what is causing the fault - is it a poor specification, is it the implementation (eg pipes or cables or various devices being put in incorrectly) or software controlling it being incorrectly written - or even has a workman put a few bolt holes in the installation by mistake ....or whatever else it is.

So how long it will take to identify the problem is anyones guess - and how long to fix it is another - it might require a relaying of cables or pipework in places which are not very accessible for example.

So agreed, they won't have pressed the button and said 'oops its not working', but its now down to the specialist sub contractor to find and fix the problem which won't necessarily be easy.

Look on the bright side though - it was always said the stadium would be safe but incomplete for the first game, a month or two extra will allow the stadium to be a little more complete when it opens than it would have been for the Liverpool game - not complete but looking a whole lot better
 
I highly doubt we’ll be able to use Twickenham - I think I remember Chelsea wanting to use it for their season/s away from Stamford Bridge and their enquiry was point blanked refused. They don’t want football played there.
 
Tottenham Sean said:
Agreed a lot of what a club is is the fans, but equally its where they are from. Why do you think we dig Woolwich out so much? Why do you think MK Dons are despised so much?
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Well, MK Dons rejected and abandoned their fans. In the context of 1913, I would imagine Woolwich was a similar thing. But it's not a similar thing when Woolwich moved a couple blocks over to the Emirates, and it's not a similar thing when we move a stone's throw down the High Road. So there's a line in there somewhere. West Ham are on one side of the line in the soulless non-football ground of the Olympic Stadium, but would it be different if it had been renovated properly?

Just as a hypothetical, if the club were able to buy up enough land down around Seven Sisters where the public transit links are better and you could perhaps build a stadium with more seats, would that be too far?
 
Nutter-Naylor said:
The Taxpayers Athletics Stadium or the Bowl of Silence it is then....
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You are presuming that everyone will just go along with us playing on THREE different grounds in one season. Unlikely.

Also - it's not even certain (or likely honestly) that the new stadium will be ready for next fixture either! So we would have to switch back to Wembley again!
 
New approach. Each home game in a different stadium until NWHL is ready. Why have Cardiff and Liverpool at Wembley. BORING. Let's get creative, Daniel!

Fulham: Wembley
Liverpool: Stadium MK
Cardiff: Celtic Park
Man City: Millennium Stadium

Then just in case:
Chelsea: The Coliseum in Los Angeles
Southampton: The Bernabeu
Burnley: The cow pasture outside of my dentist's office

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I suspect the game will be moved. I can't imagine the league setting a precedent allowing a team to use three stadiums in one year. It is too ridiculous. If that is the case, just say early so fans don't waste more money. Just do things right this time. If it is going to be a stretch by November just say that. Funnily enough if we told the league prior to the season this was going to happen they would not have allowed us to play in two stadiums.
 
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