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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2016 21:08:23 GMT
Our ground/stadium is a fucking embarrassment.
There is no way our players enjoy playing in that stadium,with the wind and rain blowing through like it does it wouldn't go a miss in the twatting conference.
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Post by werrington on Feb 6, 2016 21:24:39 GMT
Large parts of the ground were effectively roofless today. Premier league my arse. Etihad stadium I'm not defending it but cmon
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Post by scfcwebby on Feb 6, 2016 21:56:45 GMT
Not taking into account the capacity, look at league 1 Doncasters ground!
It looked complete, concourses were adequately sized, only 1 cubicle to take a shit in but other than that it is a smack in the Face of reality of how small time our ground is!
It looks run down and shabby from the outside and lower league from the inside! Really really need to fill in corners and extend or relocate and start again!
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Post by stokeson on Feb 6, 2016 22:04:45 GMT
Are we really blaming the stadium .Really? no prawn sandwich in catering next.
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Post by norman conquest on Feb 6, 2016 22:09:20 GMT
summat like this would do, b and h albion not this
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Post by kidsgroveboxxy on Feb 6, 2016 22:12:26 GMT
Fuck me, are we now all pandering to the Premier League ethos of mollycoddling the players? What ever happened to blokes playing football? The result was shit, but you can't blame the stadium for that! I would love to see some of our players taking on a non league side like Kidsgrove Athletic at their ground. Whats next OP? Air conditioning, no games if there is drizzle or better yet, lets play when the players deem the conditions fit! There's excuses and then there's stupid excuses.
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Post by Clem Fandango on Feb 6, 2016 22:14:47 GMT
Did the weather really affect our ability to get a shot at goal? or was it our faffing around with the ball that was the issue?
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Post by sportsman on Feb 6, 2016 22:21:26 GMT
Like I said, let the hierarchy at stoke ask the players we have now if it's helps and suits us to have hurricane Charlie blowing through every home game.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2016 22:24:35 GMT
Did the weather really affect our ability to get a shot at goal? or was it our faffing around with the ball that was the issue? No it doesn't. But the ground is an absolute shit hole.
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Post by iplayinthehole on Feb 6, 2016 22:31:52 GMT
I've had a leak on my seat now going back to the Watford game at home. I sit on row 25 of the DPD stand and every time it rains I have to spend 5 minutes wiping it dry and have to sit with a drip smacking me on my bonce every 2 seconds for 90 minutes. Twice I've contacted the club and twice I've been fobbed off by our Supporters liaison officer, Anthony Emmerson. At times this club couldn't give two hoots about their supporters. That's... really funny! Sorry mate
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Post by stokeson on Feb 6, 2016 22:37:09 GMT
Have any of you lot noticed man city lost in the rain at the etiad. Do they need a better ground or to play better?
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Post by SamB_SCFC on Feb 6, 2016 22:41:51 GMT
Get a grip for God's sake. This was just one of those games where the wind was blowing at such an angle that it got right under the roof and quite a way into the stands. I sit row 22 in the Boothen End and have done for 15 years and I never get any rain there, today I was getting a light spray in the face. Just one of those days and the roof would have had to overhang to the half way line today to prevent it getting in.
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Post by a.d.faye.god on Feb 6, 2016 22:58:15 GMT
Get a grip for God's sake. This was just one of those games where the wind was blowing at such an angle that it got right under the roof and quite a way into the stands. I sit row 22 in the Boothen End and have done for 15 years and I never get any rain there, today I was getting a light spray in the face. Just one of those days and the roof would have had to overhang to the half way line today to prevent it getting in. You're right about the spray, but I was on row 28 with my hood up because of the leaks. I could see at least five above us. The stadium is looking really tired and shit now, and the concourses are still a joke
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2016 23:06:31 GMT
Free pac a macs all round that should do the trick....
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Post by mrred on Feb 6, 2016 23:07:31 GMT
Our stadium is a fucking dump. MK Dons' stadium highlighted just how much of a fucking embarrassment it is. Not just the stadium, the barren amount of fuck all there is around it.
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Post by kidsgroveboxxy on Feb 6, 2016 23:18:57 GMT
Did the weather really affect our ability to get a shot at goal? or was it our faffing around with the ball that was the issue? No it doesn't. But the ground is an absolute shit hole. I suppose Vale Park is the Ritz then?
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Post by kidsgroveboxxy on Feb 6, 2016 23:21:43 GMT
Like I said, let the hierarchy at stoke ask the players we have now if it's helps and suits us to have hurricane Charlie blowing through every home game. Are you taking the piss? Do you want a blanket and a hot cup of Bovril with your season ticket?
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Post by kidsgroveboxxy on Feb 6, 2016 23:27:29 GMT
Our ground/stadium is a fucking embarrassment. There is no way our players enjoy playing in that stadium,with the wind and rain blowing through like it does it wouldn't go a miss in the twatting conference. And yet if Stoke spent the money on infrastructure rather than players, you'd be one of the first to moan! 'Ohh we need a foward, ooohh we need a decent keeper' 'Fucking Stoke spending the money on a few seats rather then the team' 'waffle waffle waffle' Were you there in the late 90's???
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Post by fentonstokie1 on Feb 7, 2016 0:25:06 GMT
Our ground/stadium is a fucking embarrassment. There is no way our players enjoy playing in that stadium,with the wind and rain blowing through like it does it wouldn't go a miss in the twatting conference. And yet if Stoke spent the money on infrastructure rather than players, you'd be one of the first to moan! 'Ohh we need a foward, ooohh we need a decent keeper' 'Fucking Stoke spending the money on a few seats rather then the team' 'waffle waffle waffle' Were you there in the late 90's??? We are paying customers mate and we put up with piss poor facilities because we are fans, if the Brit was a hotel and was relying on repeat bookings it would have closed long ago. The weather contributed massively to that shambles today and it would not cost a fortune to sort it out.
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Post by pinoypotter on Feb 7, 2016 3:47:02 GMT
www.fourfourtwo.com/features/brief-history-football-groundsSome interesting points and opinions from the author in the above link. -Clubs not improving facilities because fans keep coming anyway. -A Stadium is the completed structure, if not it's a Ground. Don't suppose a new sponsor would be impressed with "The ??????? Ground" though!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2016 4:13:32 GMT
Our ground/stadium is a fucking embarrassment. There is no way our players enjoy playing in that stadium,with the wind and rain blowing through like it does it wouldn't go a miss in the twatting conference. And yet if Stoke spent the money on infrastructure rather than players, you'd be one of the first to moan! 'Ohh we need a foward, ooohh we need a decent keeper' 'Fucking Stoke spending the money on a few seats rather then the team' 'waffle waffle waffle' Were you there in the late 90's??? Don't talk so stupid mate. Our club is in the best financial state that it has ever been in,spending a bit of money to improve our facilities would be fuck all to the Coates family. What have the late 90's got to do with anything????
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Post by no1972 on Feb 7, 2016 9:14:28 GMT
The stadium was built when most of you on here would not entertain Stoke,and if we got relagated you would again leave,is this going to be I did not renew my season ticket because I got wet ,we really have become soft.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2016 9:27:29 GMT
The stadium was built when most of you on here would not entertain Stoke,and if we got relagated you would again leave,is this going to be I did not renew my season ticket because I got wet ,we really have become soft. What a ridiculous assumption.
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Post by heathen on Feb 7, 2016 9:27:42 GMT
There are dedicated Stokies who would die of hypothermia as long as they were watching Stoke win but some of the poor sods I saw yesterday were completely saturated before half time. They were cold, wet, and treated to a very poor display. No one can imagine that they will have gone home and said, "When can I do that again?" Yesterday was a sell out so once again we have managed to put off the maximum number of people. There's no point in telling them they should cheer more. It's the most inhospitable ground in the premier league and unless we do something about it and the "football" on display people will stay home and watch the television instead.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Feb 7, 2016 9:44:05 GMT
I'm sorry to say but yesterday illustrated what an absolute shithole the place is. Yes it was extreme weather but you had people who normally don’t go down at half time and the concourses were overcrowded and not safe. The pathway down from Block 26 was like an ice rink and I saw two or three people go arse over twat. Non slip surface my arse. In this litigious age the club are soon going to find themselves faced with a massive claim.
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Post by robwahlmann on Feb 7, 2016 9:46:41 GMT
Our stadium is more of an advantage than the opposite, but it would certainly be a better place to watch football if the corners had been filled in!
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Post by no1972 on Feb 7, 2016 9:50:50 GMT
The stadium was built when most of you on here would not entertain Stoke,and if we got relagated you would again leave,is this going to be I did not renew my season ticket because I got wet ,we really have become soft. What a ridiculous assumption. Why history backs my assumption,I was lucky to be around in the 70s and I was close to the club then,the club spent top whack on players,the city had full employment and the people still did not support the team on a regular bacis,maybe it was because we had a big open end and it rained some match days,we have 15000 never say die fans no more take the first 10 rows out and give the ground back to the Stoke fans not the premiership fans.
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Post by broadwayroundabout on Feb 7, 2016 9:58:18 GMT
Free pac a macs all round that should do the trick.... They give them out at man city and Arsenal - that being imo the best stadium in the country - so all this is bollocks about improving the ground, some folk would still get wet no matter what, unless it had a roof, and even then someone would get wet as one of the posters has said "he has a leak on the back of his seat", must be some kind of pre game ritual? Increase in ticket prices for ground improvements, no ta, not for me, free advice, it's raining put a friggin coat on...........btw, said from row 8
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Post by Davef on Feb 7, 2016 9:58:33 GMT
I'm sorry to say but yesterday illustrated what an absolute shithole the place is. Yes it was extreme weather but you had people who normally don’t go down at half time and the concourses were overcrowded and not safe. The pathway down from Block 26 was like an ice rink and I saw two or three people go arse over twat. Non slip surface my arse. In this litigious age the club are soon going to find themselves faced with a massive claim. I've said this before, but I often wonder what Coates, Scholes and our other representatives think when they're sitting in the directors' boxes at other grounds and view the surroundings in comparison to their own stadium. They can't feel any genuine sense of pride in it compared to places like Sunderland, West Brom, Derby, Swansea, Norwich and Southampton. Or maybe they don't care.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2016 10:00:58 GMT
What a ridiculous assumption. Why history backs my assumption,I was lucky to be around in the 70s and I was close to the club then,the club spent top whack on players,the city had full employment and the people still did not support the team on a regular bacis,maybe it was because we had a big open end and it rained some match days,we have 15000 never say die fans no more take the first 10 rows out and give the ground back to the Stoke fans not the premiership fans. Your post was a ridiculous assumption because you were suggesting that the people on this thread who are moaning about our ground and it's facilities aren't fans who have been around for a while,or that we would jump ship if we ever got relegated. How you can come to that conclusion when you don't know anything about the people commenting I don't know.
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