Turkish Delight

There appeared to be a block of away supporters in the back of the Main Stand last night (the phone lights brought them to my attention).

I went last night and just to seal my position as a hopeless sentimentalist, I enjoyed being there. We bought the tickets last Thursday while watching the first leg. By the end of the game it felt like a possible dead rubber, but I think I was partly fuelled by the news about Jules. It had got me thinking how much I missed being a part of it, how I hadn't seen or communicated with her (and a bunch of other "football friends") for ages, mostly because I no longer go to the games and don't see people at the football anymore. Beforehand we went to the Nav and saw my lad and a couple of his friends, then bumped into an old friend we both used to work with and hadn't seen for ages. At the game we were back in the Upper TE, hadn't climbed those steps in a while, and sat next to some bloke I'd never met before but we chatted through the game about the team, the way we'd set up, being a Forest fan, and all that usual football chatter. Yeah we lost, but I've seen us lose a lot of games over the years, it's no big deal. It felt good being at a game. I could have done without those ticket prices and Fothers doing a high volume quiz in the build up at the Big Shed, but it was a nice reminder of what I love about being a Forest fan and how little a lot of stuff we get agitated about actually matters.

Think those were the premium seats for the players' families?

Christ, not just the seats but the metal is all wrecked too. That’s 10s of thousands to put right, and quickly.

I get the police can hardly steam in but you’d hope there would have been some controlled arrests as the shitheads left, it would have been all covered on CCTV.

And hopefully their club has to foot the bill.

£10ks? Have a day off. What you making the replacements seats from, teak?

500 seats(?), £20 each fitted gets you to £10k.

All the metal rails need replacing too, it’s a niche market and needs doing quickly. It will be thousands.

500? Behave. Where did you learn to count, Munto Finance?

Metalworking is pretty common round these parts, it's basically cutting and drilling then some paint.

Also you need to get to £20k.

There are other pictures which show the damage to a larger extent.

So what is your estimate of the cost?

Derry had 80 seats damaged in 2019 and it cost £2000 to replace them. So could easily be around the £20000 for this.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-49890018

More photos? More damage?? Great Scot, it's worse than we thought!

It's clearly a full knock down and rebuild job, £14m.

Other pictures? Do me a favour. Where did you etc.

I've had a count, looks like 120-150 seats damaged, so £5000?

Slow friday?

Did you factor in inflation?

True, but Seven and Nazimon are shithouse quantity surveyors.

Seats at £20, no way. Mine was £70...