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Davidwarren
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  • Davidwarren
    Davidwarren Posts: 12
    Davidwarren said:
    1st December 1992 players have a training session on the new pitch 
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 7,121
    Getting the ground ready really did go down to the wire.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,432

    Lunch break when we were working on the ground the week before and what it looked like at that point. Any lifers in there? 


     


  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 16,134
    4 days before and half the covered end seats weren't even in, never realised it was that tight - getting the safety cert must've been down to the wire.

    Is that Scott Minto in the pic eating lunch in the JS stand?
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 7,121
    edited December 2025
    Elthamaddick said:
    4 days before and half the covered end seats weren't even in, never realised it was that tight - getting the safety cert must've been down to the wire.

    Is that Scott Minto in the pic eating lunch in the JS stand?
    I don't think so (although I see the resemblance).
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,690

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,690
    Great photos Perry, might nick them for the museum.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,432
    Henry Irving said:
    Great photos Perry, might nick them for the museum.
    I will see if I can dig out the originals and pass them on, mate. 
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 8,522
    Algarveaddick said:

    Lunch break when we were working on the ground the week before and what it looked like at that point. Any lifers in there? 


     


    My dad is in the top one on the left 

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,690

  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,826
    When the oak was a proper pub with separate bars
  • Henry Irving
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  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,468
    Lovely to see Scott Minto helping out


  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 7,121
    edited December 2025
    As above, pretty certain that isn't Minto. 

    Below is Minto for the first game back - clearly older than the young lad in the picture.

    I'd also suggest 1. Minto wouldn't have been painting the ground 2. he wouldn't be eating chicken drumsticks and chips a few days before a game and 3. he wouldn't have entertained a shell suit like that...


  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 8,522
    SporadicAddick said:
    As above, pretty certain that isn't Minto. 

    Below is Minto for the first game back - clearly older than the young lad in the picture.

    I'd also suggest 1. Minto wouldn't have been painting the ground 2. he wouldn't be eating chicken drumsticks and chips a few days before a game and 3. he wouldn't have entertained a shell suit like that...


    its 100% not Minto and i'm pretty sure nobody thought it was - really 

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