New Seats At Daisy Hill
Tue 10th February 2015 | Daisy Hill | By Ian Templeman
Visitors to Daisy Hill can soon look forward to sitting more comfortably when taking in action at New Sirs.
Within the space of the next few months, the club will be installing eye-catching yellow plastic seats in the stand behind the goal at the club house end, which have been acquired after being used during the 2012 London Olympics.
In the aftermath of the Games, a variety of fixtures and fittings have been made available for use by other sports clubs across the country, and as Daisy Hill Secretary Bob Naylor explained, the club were first made aware of the opportunity to get the seats a few months ago.
“We were alerted to the fact that the seats were available after receiving a note from League Secretary John Deal, so we decided to investigate”, said Bob.
“At that stage you didn’t know exactly how many you would get or if you were successful, you just had to put in a request for certain lots.
“I submitted the application online, and a few weeks later we were told we had been successful and that we had been allocated 150 seats. It was then down to us to arrange the transport to pick them up from London, and bring them up to the ground.
“We arranged for a courier to collect them, and when he got to our ground with the seats it turned out that we had been given slightly more than we expected, there were 196 in total.
“The only problem is that we will have to look at a couple of options to install the seats. The existing ones aren’t suitable for safely securing them at our ground in their present state, which we couldn’t have known at the time we applied.
“The seats are designed to be secured on vertical brackets, whereas we need to install them on horizontal brackets, so we can either get the existing brackets modified or get new ones made. I’ve spoken to a couple of suppliers, and it looks like getting new ones will be the best option.
“It’s a pity because if it wasn’t for that, we could have had them installed within a matter of weeks.
“But we will start work on getting everything we need, and if the seats are not in place by the end of this season, they will certainly be ready for use by the start of the new season”.
New Seats At Daisy Hill
Tue 10th February 2015 | Daisy Hill
By Ian Templeman
Visitors to Daisy Hill can soon look forward to sitting more comfortably when taking in action at New Sirs.
Within the space of the next few months, the club will be installing eye-catching yellow plastic seats in the stand behind the goal at the club house end, which have been acquired after being used during the 2012 London Olympics.
In the aftermath of the Games, a variety of fixtures and fittings have been made available for use by other sports clubs across the country, and as Daisy Hill Secretary Bob Naylor explained, the club were first made aware of the opportunity to get the seats a few months ago.
“We were alerted to the fact that the seats were available after receiving a note from League Secretary John Deal, so we decided to investigate”, said Bob.
“At that stage you didn’t know exactly how many you would get or if you were successful, you just had to put in a request for certain lots.
“I submitted the application online, and a few weeks later we were told we had been successful and that we had been allocated 150 seats. It was then down to us to arrange the transport to pick them up from London, and bring them up to the ground.
“We arranged for a courier to collect them, and when he got to our ground with the seats it turned out that we had been given slightly more than we expected, there were 196 in total.
“The only problem is that we will have to look at a couple of options to install the seats. The existing ones aren’t suitable for safely securing them at our ground in their present state, which we couldn’t have known at the time we applied.
“The seats are designed to be secured on vertical brackets, whereas we need to install them on horizontal brackets, so we can either get the existing brackets modified or get new ones made. I’ve spoken to a couple of suppliers, and it looks like getting new ones will be the best option.
“It’s a pity because if it wasn’t for that, we could have had them installed within a matter of weeks.
“But we will start work on getting everything we need, and if the seats are not in place by the end of this season, they will certainly be ready for use by the start of the new season”.
