‘Club running the stadium off a generator’

[Brett]

Its costing us a fortune to put on matches with a generator but sure we will be entitled to compensation for it

 

[Johnny on the spot]

Legend has it, Donald Love is still in a service cupboard with his hands clamped tightly around a leaking pipe.

The Luurve Generator .

 

[Be Here Now]

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[TexasMackem]

Pretty sure the stadium is supplied by a single incoming point of supply, an 11kV loop-in from a passing main around the perimeter of Sheepfolds to an integrated substation near the main entrance. So yes, it's plausible that the cable could have been cut but the fact that the generator is there implies that a backfeed wasn't possible. So the problem was probably at the substation.

Its costing us a fortune to put on matches with a generator but sure we will be entitled to compensation for it

The club won't pay anything directly other than their normal bills as its up to NPG to provide a supply as part of their licensing conditions. But yes, it's very expensive. Running a diesel generator of that size long-term is the last thing they want to be doing. Especially, as I believe, they don't own generators, they're rented from contractors.

 

[Father Jack Hackett]

That’s nowt. Someone forgot to put 50p into Michael Beale until the 85th minute on Saturday

I wish they hadn’t after the final whistle before he faced the cameras

 

[Bud The Horse]

Running

I’ve seen this mentioned a few times. Surely this isn’t true? Sadly it wouldn’t come as a massive shock if it is.

Honestly what a bunch of utter charlatans we have running us.

Running off a generator would be less cost effective, or the other way around..

 

[Julio Mackemo]

Northern Power grid went through a cable that's why, not the clubs fault.

KLD was driving the digger I heard

 

[JOEJA]

I worked in the industry with part of the role to organise gennys etc when things like this happened. Not unusual to have them hooked up this long. We would also get security to sit and watch it 24/7. They would forget to check the fuel gauge and it would cut out. At least whoever are in charge have nailed that part of operation

 

[Luckytinkle86]

its not, im sorting the gas and electric

 

[Dadsarmy73]

Is it not just that KLD hasn’t paid the leccy bill?

 

[forever changes]

This, from a family member that works for Northern Power Grid

Are they mags ?

 

[Luckytinkle86]

its not man, ive got the bills, when kld first took over it was though for a couple of months, they do have a generator incase of emergency as well

 

[Football Dinosaur]

There was also apparently something like a three month lead time on the replacement parts.


No. It took out the Hilton when it happened as well. The problem is that the stadium has far greater power requirements, not least because of the floodlights. So while the Hilton was back online the next day, the stadium needs the generator until the substation is repaired.

Supply doesn't work like that though.eother they're both off or both on.

 

[Frasmotic]

I worked in the industry with part of the role to organise gennys etc when things like this happened. Not unusual to have them hooked up this long. We would also get security to sit and watch it 24/7. They would forget to check the fuel gauge and it would cut out. At least whoever are in charge have nailed that part of operation

So they had one job and

 

[Cjg5x]

Has someone made a joke yet about the baliffs coming and switching the meter to pay as you go?

 

[FootballMR]

Here we go. Something else to attempt to bash the club. Fuck sake man ….

Next Newcastle fans will say it’s been fueled by the tears of fans from the past 3 weeks

 

[JOEJA]

So they had one job and

To be fair it was foreign students sitting in a car doing tha coursework

 

[Fulwellmackem]

The transformer has blew up, and can’t get a replacement. The club is running on gensets

 

[attamatter]

Take the piss as much as you like but face facts the OP is not far off . The owner is a prick and we are getting took for a ride

 

[Lord Potts]

I worked in the industry with part of the role to organise gennys etc when things like this happened. Not unusual to have them hooked up this long. We would also get security to sit and watch it 24/7. They would forget to check the fuel gauge and it would cut out. At least whoever are in charge have nailed that part of operation

I can vouch for that . Our estate was on a generator for about 3 weeks. The initial power cuts were annoying enough until they brought in the generator but when we had another cut a few days later it was pretty obvious that the daft beggars had allowed it to run dry.

I was amazed that they allowed their operatives to play around with a thing like high voltage electricity.