yet another ground to disappear

parmopooly · **Posted:** Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:21 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 483949.stm

I don't think I'll go to many (if any) away games regularly in future.
I want to go to a town, where there are pubs etc, not a retail park on the edge of town with a park and ride, in a stadium where you will get flung out for standing up and singing,blah blah blah.
I'm starting to hate football.

Edit - -football in this country.

I might start going to matches abroad where there will be proper atmosphere and passion, before eventually the sterilisation of their own football takes place

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22659

Foreign grounds are a funny one. Its only the Brits who feel the need to travel the length of the autovia to watch a match. I went to Valencia v Real Madrid a year or two back and there were about 40/50 Madrid fans there.

Now the local derby in Buenos Aires is quite a different and fairly frightening affair.

threepintwonder · **Posted:** Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:13 am

you just have to look at the echo chamber they can,t even attract their own fans,so southend will probably be the same acres of empty seats

chessington · **Posted:** Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:19 pm

and Chesterfield have been granted planning today, tragic banghead

Please, please pools don't ever move to a 'flat pack' ground.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37273

WITH OUR COUNCILLORS MAKING THE DECISION :evil:

..... we'll all be long gone. :roll:

Loid Haw-Haw of Sussex · **Posted:** Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:01 pm

Snowy wrote:

WITH OUR COUNCILLORS MAKING THE DECISION :evil:

..... we'll all be long gone. :roll:

Do you think it will just blow away one day with old age

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:14 pm

Sussex07 wrote:

Snowy wrote:

WITH OUR COUNCILLORS MAKING THE DECISION :evil:

..... we'll all be long gone. :roll:

Do you think it will just blow away one day with old age

I know some of the lads who worked on The White Elephant Arena when it was getting built. rolfl

I also know some of the "money-saving" that went on in the design. rolfl

There are tents that might stand longer than darlow's mausoleum.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:11 pm

Sussex07 wrote:

Do you think it will just blow away one day with old age

Your Lad must be Fuming with you spending your time on here when you could be splashing your spuff allover his back!!!! confised

I bet you two argue all the time about you posting on The Bunker....our Lass is the same with me!!!! confised

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:17 pm

I love Roots Hall a proper footy ground, with a seaside style cafe in the away end! Atmosphere, character the lot.

I would be delighted if Pools were the last club in Great Britain to move to a soulless history free concrete and breeze block stadium surrounded by a retail park.

Why do these clubs need to move, it's not as if Southend are going to become a major force in the game is it? They might do well in the second tier based on home form playing at a proper footy ground though.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:41 pm

exactly. Teams like Colchester will simply hand the initiative to the bigger clubs who are used to playing in such stadia. The unfamiliarity of the new setting doesn't help the smaller clubs, and the lads who used to stand in the same spots together for years and getting the singing going will all be split up, and as a result the new grounds don't tend to have that same intensity of atmosphere.

The number of new grounds built now is beyond belief!!! They all look the same, I hate them!!!!

More clubs should attempt to follow the example of Crewe, Notts County or Mansfield, and at least try and do something with their old ground, which at least gives a sense of a place they can still call home

Jonny · **Posted:** Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:12 am

The old grounds are always the best - Tranmere is another one that is decent......

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37273

Sussex07 wrote:

Snowy wrote:

WITH OUR COUNCILLORS MAKING THE DECISION :evil:

..... we'll all be long gone. :roll:

Do you think it will just blow away one day with old age

Yours won't make old age ..........rumour has it that in five years time it'll be converted to a giant effluent tank for the local straw chewers....... in fact it'll be doing what it's always been doing, it'll be full of shite, but at least this time it'll be full :laugh:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37273

New grounds... :roll:

the bastard offspring of developers ambition and clubs own conceit. Soulless concrete and breeze block exercise yards, the sporting equivalent of a multi story car park, functional with a state of the art players entrance... and as for the fans :roll:

Funny how some people get really 'aroused' at the prospect of all that sort of thing...look at Loidland, a place still in denial, where grown 'men' still believe having a carvery counts for something and can't really understand why nice facilities don't qualify for extra points in the league. :roll:

Loid Haw-Haw of Sussex · **Posted:** Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:43 am

MutleyRules wrote:

Sussex07 wrote:

Do you think it will just blow away one day with old age

Your Lad must be Fuming with you spending your time on here when you could be splashing your spuff allover his back!!!! confised

I bet you two argue all the time about you posting on The Bunker....our Lass is the same with me!!!! confised

Bet a tender love song for you mutley is Sheena is a punk rocker confised

ronaldo · **Joined:** Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:53 pm **Posts:** 861

Its called progress, but in terms of atmosphere and sense of occasion it isnt, whether it be a new ground , new pub or shopping centre, they are usually soulless and lacking the character of what went before.

Just pleased I travelled in the late 70's amd the 80's and saw most grounds as they had been for best part of 50 years.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:35 pm

That is one shite ground that like....I'd be gutted if I was a Scunny fan!!!! :evil:

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:01 pm

To be fair Glanford Park looks like it was cobbled together in half an hour.
And what's more, for a "new" ground to have so few parking amenities is almost criminal.

yet another ground to disappear

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