Lights go out at HKR

[flyingking]

Some unexpected stadium redevelopment at Craven Park

Who needs Albert Kelly for a length of the field effort when you can employ an incompetent builder as his replacement

[Hullfan]

Absolute amateurs 

[Oliver Clothesoff]

Presume it’s fell onto the pitch, which will damage that. I can’t imagine putting a floodlight back up would be the easiest job in the world. 

Will the ground be ready for the start of the season?

[The Daddy]

Amateur hour

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Might as well pull down the rest of it as well. 

[Old Frightful]

Anybody remember the Hull KR v Huddersfield night game from a few years back live on Sky with Steve Ganson reffing?

A floodlight failed and Ganson stopped the game bringing the match commissioner on the pitch." What's going on?" asked Mr Gnason. "Looks like one of the floodlights has failed and we can't get it back working" came the reply.

"Alright lads, let's carry on but try and not play in that corner" said our hero.

Had this catastrophic event occurred during a live match, I wonder how many claims Neil Hudgell's ambulance chasing company would have received.

I would hope that some questions would be asked, even though it's around thirty years ago that the stadium was built. When you build a floodlight pylon that will be surrounded by hundreds or even thousands of spectators, surely you make absolutely certain that the base it's concreted in is twice the size and depth it needs to be.

I would hope that the remaining standing three pylons are now dismantled and rebuilt for safety's sake.

 

 

[The Future is League]

1 hour ago, flyingking said:

Some unexpected stadium redevelopment at Craven Park

Who needs Albert Kelly for a length of the field effort when you can employ an incompetent builder as his replacement

Some might say that the lights haven't been on at the club for a few years

[deluded pom?]

'Lucky wind was going other way would of been brown bread me’

Loving this bit of hybrid cockney/east Hull speak. Poor journalism again though. It’s NOT the KCOM stadium.

[JohnM]

They are in good company:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bradford_timeline/12284506205

https://www.footballgroundguide.com/old-grounds-and-stands/leeds_road_huddersfield.htm

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/wrecked-floodlight-pylon-blown-down-by-the-gale-is-viewed-news-photo/809724804

https://www.ebbsfleetunited.co.uk/match-preview-floods-floodlights-and-fingers-crossed-football/

[Ullman]

10 hours ago, Old Frightful said:

Anybody remember the Hull KR v Huddersfield night game from a few years back live on Sky with Steve Ganson reffing?

A floodlight failed and Ganson stopped the game bringing the match commissioner on the pitch." What's going on?" asked Mr Gnason. "Looks like one of the floodlights has failed and we can't get it back working" came the reply.

"Alright lads, let's carry on but try and not play in that corner" said our hero.

"Not a problem, sir" came back the reply.

[stevereed100]

12 hours ago, flyingking said:

Some unexpected stadium redevelopment at Craven Park

Who needs Albert Kelly for a length of the field effort when you can employ an incompetent builder as his replacement

As with Kelly,they fell short of the try line.

Pylon the sarcasm.

[Ullman]

10 hours ago, The Daddy said:

Amateur hour

Wonky Pylon's Falling Circus

[stevereed100]

10 hours ago, The Future is League said:

Some might say that the lights haven't been on at the club for a few years

For a team supposedly playing in the dark we haven't done too bad.

Now watch us go with what will clearly be the most solidly rooted lights in Super League,just like the fans I hear you say.

[HKRBob]

If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear, does it make a sound?

If a pylon falls at Craven Park and an FC fan gets wind (pun intended) of it, it appears a lot of noise is made!

[deluded pom?]

50 minutes ago, stevereed100 said:

Now watch us go with what will clearly be the most solidly rooted lights in Super League,just like the fans I hear you say.

Errr..no you don't.

[deluded pom?]

50 minutes ago, HKRBob said:

If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear, does it make a sound?

If a pylon falls at Craven Park and an FC fan gets wind (pun intended) of it, it appears a lot of noise is made!

Is flyingking from west Hull? Methinks not.

[HKRBob]

28 minutes ago, deluded pom? said:

Is flyingking from west Hull? Methinks not.

The OP's location doesn't really have any relevance to my post does it?

We have a thread that seems to have more than half of its posters and the bulk of its posts from FC fans. I'd say that's making a noise about it, but if i'm wrong and you aren't making a noise than please do so more quietly .

 

[yanto]

12 hours ago, Old Frightful said:

, surely you make absolutely certain that the base it's concreted in is twice the size and depth it needs to be.

 

 

Looks to me from that picture its the actual pylon that has failed not the foundation.

I bet you were a chippy** who always blamed us steel fixers* and concrete men* for everything

 

* Foundation construction guys

** Carpenters who are never wrong 

 

[Ullman]

4 hours ago, HKRBob said:

If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear, does it make a sound?

If a pylon falls at Craven Park and an FC fan gets wind (pun intended) of it, it appears a lot of noise is made!

When the round up days are over

And your floodlight's fallen over

 

[HKRBob]

6 minutes ago, Ullman said:

When the round up days are over

And your floodlight's fallen over

 

I wouldn't mind but it's one of the new bits of the ground...

I suppose we should have requested the hurricane force pylons as the wind tunnel that the ground creates clearly is too much for conventional building materials!

[Ullman]

12 minutes ago, HKRBob said:

I wouldn't mind but it's one of the new bits of the ground...

I suppose we should have requested the hurricane force pylons as the wind tunnel that the ground creates clearly is too much for conventional building materials!

I hope the leylandii at that end of the ground are still OK. They're the only shelter. 

[graveyard johnny]

this is the  stuff of Subbuteo as kids  and billy the fish - knocking the floodlights over on to the Subbuteo pitch with your knee cos you were losing was a great tactic

[John Rhino]

Why do people making official statements have to talk absolute boll****  "A pylon has been compromised"

It was blown down. Do they think it makes them sound educated/clever/official?

 

[stevereed100]

It was compromised...just like Hull FC with their never ending run of defeats and unbelievable injury list...well, I for one didn't believe it. We will seek the advice of Hull fans on the construction of our floodlights when their players show an ability to be FIT for purpose!

Rovers are in the spotlight,publicity is publicity especially out of season.

[deluded pom?]

8 minutes ago, stevereed100 said:

It was compromised...just like Hull FC with their never ending run of defeats and unbelievable injury list...well, I for one didn't believe it. We will seek the advice of Hull fans on the construction of our floodlights when their players show an ability to be FIT for purpose!

Rovers are in the spotlight,publicity is publicity especially out of season.