A TUESDAY NIGHT IN WESTON DID THE TRICK!
A grim night in Weston provided the unlikely inspiration for Maidstone’s new North Stand.
The £750,000 terrace, housing 1,768 fans, will be used for the first time when United face Sutton at the Gallagher on Tuesday night.
It’s taken just over two months to build and raises ground capacity to 4,200.
There were cheaper options but co-owners Terry Casey and Oliver Ash wanted to give supporters a stand to be of building works and has another year in the South proud of. praised the work of manager and then built but we didn’t
Mr Casey said: “It is quite Jay Saunders as United try to have that sort of luxury. an achievement and each survive their first season in “We’re delighted to be at time I’ve walked around it, the National League. this level but it’s come at a I’ve thought how imposing He said: “The biggest cost in all departments. it is and how impressive it impact of the whole lot is “Jay’s been put under is. It just enhances the whole we haven’t been able to put pressure because he hasn’t stadium. money into the playing had the budget that all other
“We had other options but budget. clubs have got in this league what we’re building here is “It’s that juggling that’s – but I still wouldn’t do something that’s going to really difficult so to get that anything differently.” last. balance right where you Mr Casey has resisted
“Everything we do here build the infrastructure, calls to increase the playing is for longevity where we which is so crucial to the budget – but they’ve not can see 3-5 years ahead and way we’ve done everything, come from Saunders! there’s nothing we’ve done and just try and get enough He said: “My wife, Rose, that we would want to rip out money on the pitch so that has said ‘give Jay some more or take down. we survive. money, I hate losing, I hate
“We’d seen this stand down “I’m not sure whether drawing’ but it would be so at Weston-super-Mare on a we’ve put enough money easy to give the money to wet Tuesday evening. on the pitch to survive but Carlos Kickaball and then
“It was the feature of the we’ve done fantastically you never see them again. whole ground and we just to £ 200,000 and we just didn’t well because nobody “Bill Williams (chief wanted to know who’d built have that sort of money left really expected the level of executive) doesn’t put me
in the budget.” competition to be the way it under pressure and Jay it.“We did a bit of research, is.“You just have to look at
The concourse will be doesn’t. they came up with some developed in time, with “Jay’s run businesses in the drawings, which made it United looking at new Lincoln and Sutton playing past himself and knows the quite irresistible really. changing rooms and Arsenal in the FA Cup. pressure on the pound.
“It wasn’t the cheapest academy classrooms. “These are serious “He works with what option, not by a long way, Mr Casey says the playing full-time professional sides he’s got and he’s done and, in fact, it was probably budget has suffered we’re playing against. magnificently with the one of the most expensive because of the latest round “We could have done with budget he’s got.”