Reply With QuoteThey announced early doors that the contracts would be local.Originally Posted by Bridieeater
Surely this is a positive story, not one to be questioned.
Most business is conducted not only on price but more generally who you know and trust.
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Cool your beans, I just said it was a coincidence. I didn’t suggest for a moment that the folk that cleared Milnes sent out the blue, already knew they were getting the contracts.
Is Mr. Donald in the Masons?
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They announced early doors that the contracts would be local.
Surely this is a positive story, not one to be questioned.
Most business is conducted not only on price but more generally who you know and trust.
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I see from this that they have now started a 'charity' whose sole aim seems to be to 'oppose fückin athin' west of Aberdeen. Would suggest they're expecting to lose their appeal (along with all the old biddies' banky contents) and are preparing to campaign against whatever the next thing that happens to come along will be.
They're accepting donations for that ana. How noble.
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No, it's worse than that, the're asking for donations for the NKS campaign, but saying to pay it to the WEA account (without making it clear this is a different entity).
They're preparing to lose in court, and not have the funds to cover it, and thereby winding up NKS, and keeping the funds they've latterly garnered with the WEA. They really are W.A.N.K.S.
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Their address is a business park in Westhill, did they object to that being built too?
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Not really, it's all one and the same thing and it is a private company limited by guarantee:
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As per my other response, this is not correct. NKS / WAEPAL are the same company.
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Strange, originally they were separate.
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Summary of the latest Kingsford survey results: https://www.whatastramash.com/home/2018/12/12/new-survey-fans-fears
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AFC Heritage site's memory for i'day:
" 𝟕𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐝𝐬. 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐬' 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 '𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥" 𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐁 𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐎
A vast plan for a magnificently-enlarged football stadium at Pittodrie may mature in the near-distant, rather than the far-distant, future if controls are relaxed as a result of the General Election. Mr William Mitchell, chairman, and his colleagues on the Aberdeen F.C. directorate, have in the past few days been re-examining the blueprint that is designed to give the North football ground and football amenities equal to, and in some respects better than, the best in Scotland. The project, boldly conceived with an eye to the trend in Association football developments, will, when followed through, invest Aberdeen and the whole of the North with new importance in the football world. This stadium is going to accommodate a crowd of between 60,000 and 70,000 people,perhaps nearer 70,000 than 60,000. And if the ambition of the chairman himself is fulfilled, every single member of such a crowd will be able to come to Pittodrie and watch the game sheltered from the unkindest elements.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐬 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝 Something has been said in these columns before about the constructional plans. Briefly, it is intended to raise the elevation of the terracing along its entire length, on the gasworks side, and opposite the present main stand. The ground has been acquired. Work can commence the moment control on building and materials is relaxed. The whole of this new elevation will be covered in such a way that persons standing at the highest point at the back would enjoy as good a view of the field as persons at the lowest point. As the cover will be superimposed beyond the lower part of the terracing the crowd nearest the touchline will be offered equal protection in bad weather. There is already cover for the crowd who assemble at the King Street end, and the Pittodrie plan envisages a similar amenity for the sea-end terracing, the entire spectating section will thus be covered. As the signs in football are of increasing interest, with adherents being attracted from sections of the public not previously largely represented at the Association game, the scheme just outlined, ambitious through it may be, shows foresight and enterprise on the part of the Aberdeen Club directorate.
𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐧 A new measure of attention from the Scottish football world will be focused on Aberdeen, and a new interest will be stimulated amongst the sporting public in the wide surrounding area which already bestows a considerable practical support to the club. In return, it is the intention of those who administer Pittodrie's affairs to build a reputation for both team and stadium, and so establish, on behalf of the entire North, a special Aberdeen imprint on Association football in Scotland. This cannot be a short-term policy. Nevertheless, the policy is, this moment, in operation, quietly and judiciously. Some of the moves are necessarily on the Pittodrie secret list. In due course the general picture will emerge. Meantime Mr Wm. Mitchell sums it up: "It is my ambition to see a stadium at Pittodrie where the entire crowd will be under cover and comfortably accommodated, and to maintain a team that will not only be worthy of that stadium, but of the excellent support we now enjoy, and the increasing support we hope to enjoy."
𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 : Aberdeen Press and Journal Monday 23rd January, 1950
Time to resurrect these plans rather than move to Mossat East, I think.
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