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Yarmouth 2:31 Sat Jan 7
The shambles of our new ground

1st trip to the new ground last night and I can honestly say that I've never been so disappointed watching our club in my life before.

Fuck all to do with the result, we've been stuffed out of sight many times before in my lifetime, but everything to do with the ground and the set up.

It's like going to a pop concert without the buzz.

Inside the ground is fucking rubbish, sterile, no atmosphere, everybody is too spaced out from each other in the ground - I've never seen a football stadium with some much space between each supporter - it's like going to one of the new cinema centres, all plush seats and expensive bullshit but no 'feel'.

The fact that the game is live on two massive screens is the absolute reason why this stadium will never work as a football stadium - you can't see the game properly from the stands because its so far away, so you find yourself watching it on the screen opposite your end - fucking pathetic.

We have got this badly wrong, very badly wrong, and it does have an effect on the pitch. The players have no ownership of the game because the supporters aren't close enough to shout at them and buck they're ideas up.

They can 'hide' on the pitch and trudge down a tunnel that is so far from the supporters they don't connect to them.

The owners should find a method to bring the supporters close to the sidelines, turn it into a rectangle around the pitch like any other stadium, not an oval like a fucking cricket ground - where you watch the batsman and stumps on a big screen..

Hydraulic 'sliding' seats that cover the running track or whatever it takes but if keep the distance we currently have between the pitch and the fans and it'll be fucked up forever more.

Billic is stranded some 40 fucking yards from his bench and his staff standing alone seemingly miles from anything in the technical area. There's no connection between any of them. No camaraderie.

Of course, it's the same for the away team, but they play here once a season, we play every other week and it's really shows.

Our players aren't good enough to reach a top 8 spot, but add in the sterile effect of this stadium
and we're fucked lads.

And on top of everything else - why change our fucking badge - retain some heritage in our club for fucks sake.

A fucking shambles driven by money motivated mugs who dare to call us customers. We're fans, supporters, people who love this club, not Saturday afternoon shoppers.

Northern Sold 2:33 Sat Jan 7
Re: The shambles of our new ground

Yeah but Yarmouth apparently it was rocking v Chelsea reserves in the cup....

Oh and calling the ground a shambles will REALLY upset Gavros... it's his little baby

Yarmouth 2:37 Sat Jan 7
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Point taken Northern, and I think you'll always get an odd game like that to get everybody up for it, but success is driven by consistency and I honestly feel with a ground like this and the set up of it we won't produce anything.

Billic reminded me of watching a local Sunday morning pub league game at the local park, 22 players playing with 1 or 2 people watching from the sideline!

HNY bud

Gavros 2:39 Sat Jan 7
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Stop crying you tarts.

Northern Sold 2:41 Sat Jan 7
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No one's crying Gav-BOAT baby.... they are all just realising what a fucking cesspit the place is... oh and You're Welcome...

Fifth Column 2:45 Sat Jan 7
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I was in 113 last night and last 20 mins was actually a laugh as everyone stopped watching the match and just blocked the stairs, sung and wound up the stewards. Singing You're support is ####ing shit at City. City fans then gesturing around while rest of stadium as if to say They're all shit too.

Anyway, I was thinking surely the mountable lower tier seating could be rectangular at least along the east and west sides so right by the pitch. In order to have a decent rake you may then need to have some form of deck between upper and lower tiers like there is at south stand now. But surely you could come up with use for that. At least then lower tier experience would be good. I'm Sth in east stand upper and it's utter shit so experience in upper tier can't get any worse.

Crassus 2:48 Sat Jan 7
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Roof mate - think roof and rain

J.Riddle 2:52 Sat Jan 7
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OK apart from................

Like being at a pop concert without the buzz.

The sterile atmosphere,

Everybody spaced out from each other in the ground

Two massive pathetic screens

Not being able to see the game properly from the stands because its so far away,

Players hiding on the pitch

The Oval shaped cricket ground

Demountable seats

Billic being stranded some 40 yards from his bench

No camaraderie.

Our players not being good enough

The sterile stadium

Changing our badge

Being treated as Saturday afternoon shoppers.

WHAT HAVE THE OWNERS EVER DONE FOR US?

Fifth Column 2:53 Sat Jan 7
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Crassus you just need some long sticks and an Rd of tarpaulin.

Seriously though you must be able to do some sort of botch job on the roof too.

Admiral Lard 2:53 Sat Jan 7
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Half way through the season and this is your first game??

we have 20,000 new fans, according to some, who have shown far greater commitments to the club

Texas Iron 2:53 Sat Jan 7
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I said so years ago when I saw the plans...

Sadly you all laughed and said it will take us to the next level...

Well has it...???

Texas Iron 2:53 Sat Jan 7
Re: The shambles of our new ground

I said so years ago when I saw the plans...

Sadly you all laughed and said it will take us to the next level...

Well has it...???

Fifth Column 2:54 Sat Jan 7
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An acre of tarpaulin.

Stupid phone.

jimbo2. 2:54 Sat Jan 7
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Yea of course the Boleyn Ground was a magnificent stadium in a wonderful area, where you could get food & drink in seconds & with nice clean toilets!

Raymond Reddington 2:54 Sat Jan 7
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Can't bring the seating any closer to the pitch without extending the roof apparently

Takashi Miike 2:58 Sat Jan 7
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you are correct yarmouth, it is a shithole that needs to be demolished

Mike Oxsaw 3:00 Sat Jan 7
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Can't lower the pitch due to nuclear contamination of the site, too, if I recall.

Fifth Column 3:03 Sat Jan 7
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Admiral... is turning up and sitting in silence commitment to the Club? I'm not sure. The sths sitting around me give their tickets away most weeks. Different people Every week in those seats acting like they're at the theatre. I wouldn't call them committed. I hate it. My kids who were sths at UP are bored by it. Still enjoy away matches. Point is, having a load of newbie sths is only good if they actively support the team or income goes towards building a stronger team. Neither appears to be happening.

Any Old Iron 3:03 Sat Jan 7
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Yarmouth, most of your comments are on the mark. Sadly a minority of us warned of this outcome years ago but found ourselves being mocked as DRUIDS by some halfwits, who seem to have gone strangely quiet in the last few months.

I've always been very vocal at games, but at this place I find myself pretty much mute because you feel a bit of nob shouting encouragement/abuse at players who are never closer than 60 yards away. After all they're never going to hear you from that distance are they, and I think it's this that is inhibiting most of our supporters. In fact we're more like an audience now than a ground full of fans, and it's going to kill the club.

One thing that isn't going to happen though is a reconfiguration of the arena. The only way to make it work as a football stadium would be by losing the track, knocking down half the stadium and putting up new stands. But the owners wouldn't allow that to happen, so we're stuck with it for years to come unless a multi-billionaire pitches up and decides to build us a proper ground somewhere else.

Takashi Miike 3:03 Sat Jan 7
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hahaha, football's answer to Chernobyl

Full Claret Jacket 3:03 Sat Jan 7
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Yes it's an awful design for football, yes the LLDC have cut corners and made appalling decisions about the conversion which no doubt Brady used against them to get peppercorn rent.
One of the most expensive stadiums to build and one of the plainest and poorest executed ones. Who thought curved sides were a good idea? My guess it's because of the design and size of the roof. Everything looks temporary and cheap. Bit like our club.

It will fall apart within 30 years anyway and need major works. Of that I have little doubt. Whoever takes it on (as the government will need to wash their hands of it) will need to have deep pockets to sort it out properly. The stadium will be a money pit as it can't be used for much and Athletics generates fuck all.

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