You know the old saying "You can't polish a turd"?

[Pogue Mahone]

It looks like the whole thing has been covered in canvas, so rentakill, or Walt and Jesse, can go in and do their stuff.

 

[Triggaaar]

 

[Everest]

It's a marquee right?

It's not quite finished in that photo.
Here's an artist's impression of what it will be like.

 

[wellquickwoody]

What is the point in paying millions to cover up rusting corrugated metal sheeting with glorified plasterboard?

'Cladding' according to Mr Parish via Twitter. 'Mutton dressed as' I replied.

 

[Norman Potting]

It's not quite finished in that photo.
Here's an artist's impression of what it will be like.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

What a white elephant. What is the point in paying millions to cover up rusting corrugated metal sheeting with glorified plasterboard?

So that they can sing 'Clad all over'?

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

It's not quite finished in that photo.
Here's an artist's impression of what it will be like.

Excellent work!

 

[edna krabappel]

It's not quite finished in that photo.
Here's an artist's impression of what it will be like.

Oh I say!

 

[Triggaaar]

It's not quite finished in that photo.
Here's an artist's impression of what it will be like.

 

[Triggaaar]

Maybe there's more to be done to it, but on that photo alone, I can't help wondering why they've bothered. It still looks like a hovel. Just a different coloured hovel.

Sorry for the stupid questions: where did you get the photo from? Is this there plan, and when will it be done?

 

[edna krabappel]

Sorry for the stupid questions: where did you get the photo from? Is this there plan, and when will it be done?

Stole it off some random Palace fan's Twitter feed.

I just think it's bizarre. Everyone knows, even Crystal Palace themselves, that Selhurst Park is, in the main, a festering, decrepit heap. It's never going to get any better unless they completely demolish the shanty-town main stand and the Black Hole of Calcutta on the other side and start again. But someone on the board seems to think that- perhaps because they're in the Premier League- that it's important to dress it up a bit for the sake of appearances. As far as I know, this is entirely cosmetic. They're not replacing their filthy, disgusting toilets, or dirty, rusting, broken seats in the stand. They're not bothering to install a few lights inside the concourses to make them vaguely habitable, or to perhaps have a couple more turnstiles so that people aren't all crowded like animals through the same few entrances. They're just...sticking a bit of cladding on. It would be like us going up during the Withdean years and thinking "Gosh, we don't want to look like complete peasants- best stick a few patio tables and pot plants round the back of the North Stand, that'll fool 'em".

You can put lipstick on a pig....

 

[Triggaaar]

Stole it

You give police officers a bad name.

But someone on the board seems to think that- perhaps because they're in the Premier League- that it's important to dress it up a bit for the sake of appearances. As far as I know, this is entirely cosmetic. They're not replacing their filthy, disgusting toilets, or dirty, rusting, broken seats in the stand. They're not bothering to install a few lights inside the concourses to make them vaguely habitable, or to perhaps have a couple more turnstiles so that people aren't all crowded like animals through the same few entrances. They're just...sticking a bit of cladding on.

So this is actually going to happen is it?

You can put lipstick on a pig....

Oh Edna, you worry me.

 

[theboybilly]

It's a shithole in a shithole of a town, but at least it's a bit better than trying to stand up on a muddy slagheap behind each goal like we did all those years ago. Just a bit.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

It's not quite finished in that photo.
Here's an artist's impression of what it will be like.

Thanks for that, it's made my day!

 

[Guinness Boy]

It's not quite finished in that photo.
Here's an artist's impression of what it will be like.

*applauds*

 

[edna krabappel]

So this is actually going to happen is it?

Yeah, that's what they're doing now. Sticking some white cladding on the (previously blue) main stand. Looks amazing, doesn't it? Massive improvement

 

[W.C.]

As already said, surely that isn't finished? Surely?

It looks like the covering they put around scaffolding.

If it is. What a waste of money.

 

[Triggaaar]

Yeah, that's what they're doing now. Sticking some white cladding on the (previously blue) main stand. Looks amazing, doesn't it? Massive improvement

I can't believe this isn't a wind up. Is there an estimate on how much it will cost?

They've been talking about re-building for years, we've seen those fanciful designs. So now they've got the money from promotion (I still haven't worked out how they got promoted, but they did), surely now is the time to rebuild. Properly. Phase one should involve nothing more than a box of matches.

 

[brightonrock]

Phase one should involve nothing more than a box of matches.

That's unlikely to a problem in Croydon.

 

[edna krabappel]

I can't believe this isn't a wind up. Is there an estimate on how much it will cost?

A quick search suggests the cladding will be about £200k.

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