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Post by bayernoatcake on Feb 2, 2022 9:26:26 GMT
Talking of the pitch, it has looked awful this season.
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Post by BristolMick on Feb 2, 2022 9:45:05 GMT
Would have been good to have seen mention of a ‘safe’ standing area.
Not that standing at football is unsafe unless the stadium is all seats like now!
BM
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Post by dutchstokie on Feb 2, 2022 10:36:54 GMT
Why do we need 2 emergency exits? 1, yes, totally understandable. And keep it near the tunnel. I don't recall many other premier league grounds, with far bigger crowds having 2 when i went on my travels to them. We have a shit ground. It was awful when the plans were announced, it was shit on the opening day, and it's shit now 25 years later. Everything done on the cheap and it shows. One reason for having two (or even more) exits, especially in grounds which are totally enclosed bowls - which ours possibly will be one day - is that when opened (not during games) they allow more air circulation which benefits the pitch. Just as most clubs in the top two divisions have portable lights to help the grass growth, air circulation should be encouraged for the same reason. THey could hire me.....Im particularly good at 'air circulation' |
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Post by Northy on Feb 2, 2022 11:09:04 GMT
One reason for having two (or even more) exits, especially in grounds which are totally enclosed bowls - which ours possibly will be one day - is that when opened (not during games) they allow more air circulation which benefits the pitch. Just as most clubs in the top two divisions have portable lights to help the grass growth, air circulation should be encouraged for the same reason. THey could hire me.....Im particularly good at 'air circulation' Yep, we heard you constantly talk out of your aris  |
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Post by waddosnavy on Feb 2, 2022 11:41:02 GMT
We all welcome any improvements for the fans, to what we all know was a badly designed stadium with very poor transport links.
However, what rankles me is driving past on non match days and see an empty, desolate place. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the local Council put taxpayers funding into what was deemed 'The Community Stadium' where little or no community events have taken place. OK if you have some serious money its possible to hold a corporate type of function there, but what about the local community?
It wouldn't have taken a lot of thought to hold numerous activities at the Stadium.
A few ideas come to mind, I'm sure there are many more:
a. Had one of the concourses been wider and without support pillows - sprint lanes for indoor training (as at Easter Road) + somewhere a gym for local use.
b. With better transport links, requiring few car parking spaces, space for various outdoor sports pitches (netball, basketball, soccer etc).
c. Lunch clubs for local pensioners
d. Youth Clubs
e. There must be many social type clubs around Stoke who could hold evening talks and meetings. i.e Allotment Association - maybe they could forge a close link with the club and design/maintain a memorial garden adjacent to the Stan Matthews statue for departed Stokies.
f. Indoor bowls
g. Cinema Club
h. A cafe/bar - for not only weekday visitors to the Store & ticket office, but what about a sign on the canal to attract the holiday barge fraternity, or those on long canal walks/bike rides.
It is of course only a vision, and Stoke City has been blind for far too long.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2022 12:24:56 GMT
Do other clubs sell amazing things in their shops? What we need to do most of all is a total revamp of our online presence and social media team we are way behind even smaller clubs. We need to capitalise on all aspects of social media. Apparently so The Man U oven mitten, the Leicester player bobble heads, the Ipswich Town dart board. We're a laughing stock apparently. The talk of the club merchandise world. |
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Post by dutchstokie on Feb 2, 2022 12:41:06 GMT
Do other clubs sell amazing things in their shops? What we need to do most of all is a total revamp of our online presence and social media team we are way behind even smaller clubs. We need to capitalise on all aspects of social media. Apparently so The Man U oven mitten, the Leicester player bobble heads, the Ipswich Town dart board. We're a laughing stock apparently. The talk of the club merchandise world. I will admit to buying the Stoke Car Mats when I was last over.....dont know what possesed me to, but they fell apart at the stitching around the edges after 2 months and just started to unravel..... Not my best Stoke purchase !  |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Feb 2, 2022 12:41:34 GMT
We all welcome any improvements for the fans, to what we all know was a badly designed stadium with very poor transport links. However, what rankles me is driving past on non match days and see an empty, desolate place. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the local Council put taxpayers funding into what was deemed 'The Community Stadium' where little or no community events have taken place. OK if you have some serious money its possible to hold a corporate type of function there, but what about the local community? It wouldn't have taken a lot of thought to hold numerous activities at the Stadium. A few ideas come to mind, I'm sure there are many more: a. Had one of the concourses been wider and without support pillows - sprint lanes for indoor training (as at Easter Road) + somewhere a gym for local use. b. With better transport links, requiring few car parking spaces, space for various outdoor sports pitches (netball, basketball, soccer etc). c. Lunch clubs for local pensioners d. Youth Clubs e. There must be many social type clubs around Stoke who could hold evening talks and meetings. i.e Allotment Association - maybe they could forge a close link with the club and design/maintain a memorial garden adjacent to the Stan Matthews statue for departed Stokies. f. Indoor bowls g. Cinema Club h. A cafe/bar - for not only weekday visitors to the Store & ticket office, but what about a sign on the canal to attract the holiday barge fraternity, or those on long canal walks/bike rides. It is of course only a vision, and Stoke City has been blind for far too long. Some of the proposed changes to Delilah's appear to be designed with non match day "events" in mind. Hopefully if/when another corner is developed a cafe/bar for both match day and non match day use could be provided as part of the facilities. As to your other ideas, they seem to have merit. If I were you I would try to get the Supporters' council on board to help persuade the club of their merits. Like you I feel there is a lot more the club could do to make ours a true "community stadium." |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2022 12:43:37 GMT
My lad had the gnome. Pretty good actually, until club footed father broke it playing football.
I tried to get out of it, but was placed well in the dog house...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2022 12:47:08 GMT
Do other clubs sell amazing things in their shops? What we need to do most of all is a total revamp of our online presence and social media team we are way behind even smaller clubs. We need to capitalise on all aspects of social media. This. We have been in the Premier League too long and have come out of it lucky that we are still a big club in this area and that our “rivals” perhaps got worse. However, children/teens have a lot more distractions nowadays than they did even when I was in high school. I don’t understand why we don’t promote age-related content online to keep/get youth interested. Even if it was something like “first 10 people between the ages of x and y to answer all these stoke-related questions right get 2 free tickets”. Then make the trivia questions fun and a little bit of work, something they’d have to look into Stoke for. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2022 12:49:01 GMT
Apparently so The Man U oven mitten, the Leicester player bobble heads, the Ipswich Town dart board. We're a laughing stock apparently. The talk of the club merchandise world. I will admit to buying the Stoke Car Mats when I was last over.....dont know what possesed me to, but they fell apart at the stitching around the edges after 2 months and just started to unravel..... Not my best Stoke purchase ! My ex gf years ago had a pair of the Stoke City knickers. This is back in the Vic days. I think they lasted about an hour, looked like had been stitched together by a 6 year old in Laos. I quite liked them though...for about 10 mins. |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Feb 2, 2022 12:54:44 GMT
I will admit to buying the Stoke Car Mats when I was last over.....dont know what possesed me to, but they fell apart at the stitching around the edges after 2 months and just started to unravel..... Not my best Stoke purchase ! My ex gf years ago had a pair of the Stoke City knickers. This is back in the Vic days. I think they lasted about an hour, looked like had been stitched together by a 6 year old in Laos. I quite liked them though...for about 10 mins. Be fair, not many ladies knickers would withstand a serious, full on, onslaught from your teeth!  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2022 13:05:19 GMT
My ex gf years ago had a pair of the Stoke City knickers. This is back in the Vic days. I think they lasted about an hour, looked like had been stitched together by a 6 year old in Laos. I quite liked them though...for about 10 mins. Be fair, not many ladies knickers would withstand a serious, full on, onslaught from your teeth! Fair point Fornie. If only she'd been wearing them at the time |
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Post by danceswithclams on Feb 2, 2022 16:43:51 GMT
One reason for having two (or even more) exits, especially in grounds which are totally enclosed bowls - which ours possibly will be one day - is that when opened (not during games) they allow more air circulation which benefits the pitch. Just as most clubs in the top two divisions have portable lights to help the grass growth, air circulation should be encouraged for the same reason. THey could hire me.....Im particularly good at 'air circulation' I'm surprised they don't already employ you to irrigate the playing surface with your water cannons  |
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Post by Caerwrangonpotter on Feb 2, 2022 16:46:25 GMT
Do other clubs sell amazing things in their shops? What we need to do most of all is a total revamp of our online presence and social media team we are way behind even smaller clubs. We need to capitalise on all aspects of social media. Apparently so The Man U oven mitten, the Leicester player bobble heads, the Ipswich Town dart board. We're a laughing stock apparently. The talk of the club merchandise world. One day they will return....   |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2022 16:46:33 GMT
Apparently so The Man U oven mitten, the Leicester player bobble heads, the Ipswich Town dart board. We're a laughing stock apparently. The talk of the club merchandise world. I will admit to buying the Stoke Car Mats when I was last over.....dont know what possesed me to, but they fell apart at the stitching around the edges after 2 months and just started to unravel..... Not my best Stoke purchase ! Falling apart after a couple of weeks of purchase seems to be something that happens to the playing staff as well 😂 |
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Post by sportsman on Feb 2, 2022 16:55:08 GMT
Talking of the pitch, it has looked awful this season. Yes and I don't get why it does. In the Premier league it looked mint all season. What is there to cut back on? Cutting back on the electric bill for the lighting rigs they pull out at night? What is the difference in maintaining a football pitch from the Premier league to the championship? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2022 16:55:51 GMT
So basically because you think the merchandise osn,'t to your liking -being an originalember of the football league is totally irrelevant. Nothing you have suggested makes it worth doing apart from the fact it would look nicer. i don't know anyone who buys anything from the club shop anymore apart from parents buying their kids a strip. The rest of it is utter dogshit. That's just a fact. it's a missed trick. A club that makes an effort everywhere, is more likely to gain fans, have a positivity around the place, and make money. and if you don't think we can capitalise on being a founder member of the league, you're mad. It'd be one of the first things i'd be promoting, along with items, or clothing that people would be happy spending money on. everything i have suggested would make it better, and more likely to make more money than in its current state. I bought one of those 1972 tops for my Grandad at Christmas, who loved it. Well thought out memorabilia is a great addition to a club. Stoke have a large, loyal fan base for a small city, I’m sure they could think of other ways to improve their connection with it. One thing I loved as a kid was the Stoke City manager game. It wasn’t very good, but it felt more personal than the standard Championship manager. I’m sure they are expensive to develop now, but cheap Stoke phone apps with mini games on probably wouldn’t be. |
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Post by mickstupp on Feb 2, 2022 16:56:18 GMT
Surely it’s time to bring back the “I’m a rooster booster” wigs?
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Post by danceswithclams on Feb 2, 2022 16:59:07 GMT
Talking of the pitch, it has looked awful this season. Yes and I don't get why it does. In the Premier league it looked mint all season. What is there to cut back on? Cutting back on the electric bill for the lighting rigs they pull out at night? What is the difference in maintaining a football pitch from the Premier league to the championship? The pitch we had in the Premier League was a high earner and in order to stay in keeping with FFP, we had to move it along. What we have now may not be the best but it isn't costing us a fortune in wages. This is the reality of the markets we're now shopping in. |
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Post by J-Roar on Feb 2, 2022 19:19:13 GMT
Yes and I don't get why it does. In the Premier league it looked mint all season. What is there to cut back on? Cutting back on the electric bill for the lighting rigs they pull out at night? What is the difference in maintaining a football pitch from the Premier league to the championship? The pitch we had in the Premier League was a high earner and in order to stay in keeping with FFP, we had to move it along. What we have now may not be the best but it isn't costing us a fortune in wages. This is the reality of the markets we're now shopping in. All the shit we've had on it since relegation hasn't done the trick has it? |
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Post by boskampsflaps on Feb 2, 2022 19:26:03 GMT
Would have been good to have seen mention of a ‘safe’ standing area. Not that standing at football is unsafe unless the stadium is all seats like now! BM Didn't Coates say he wasn't up for it a while ago or has he changed his mind since? |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Feb 2, 2022 19:44:46 GMT
Would have been good to have seen mention of a ‘safe’ standing area. Not that standing at football is unsafe unless the stadium is all seats like now! BM Didn't Coates say he wasn't up for it a while ago or has he changed his mind since? Surely safe standing is safer than standing behind a load of seats with people sat down? |
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Post by prestwichpotter on Feb 2, 2022 19:47:51 GMT
Yes and I don't get why it does. In the Premier league it looked mint all season. What is there to cut back on? Cutting back on the electric bill for the lighting rigs they pull out at night? What is the difference in maintaining a football pitch from the Premier league to the championship? The pitch we had in the Premier League was a high earner and in order to stay in keeping with FFP, we had to move it along. What we have now may not be the best but it isn't costing us a fortune in wages. This is the reality of the markets we're now shopping in. Wasn’t our groundsman headhunted by the FA (?) as well, maybe we’ve not replaced him properly? |
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Post by AlbertTatlock on Feb 2, 2022 19:48:44 GMT
Hopefully they will paint the white girders Red, the moss and rust on them won't show up as much. Thank fuck there's no mention of a standing area. Gouranga.  |
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Post by J-Roar on Feb 2, 2022 19:53:21 GMT
Hopefully they will paint the white girders Red, the moss and rust on them won't show up as much. Thank fuck there's no mention of a standing area. Gouranga. Why? If some people want to stand why not let them? |
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Post by Billy the kid on Feb 2, 2022 21:54:29 GMT
We all welcome any improvements for the fans, to what we all know was a badly designed stadium with very poor transport links. However, what rankles me is driving past on non match days and see an empty, desolate place. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the local Council put taxpayers funding into what was deemed 'The Community Stadium' where little or no community events have taken place. OK if you have some serious money its possible to hold a corporate type of function there, but what about the local community? It wouldn't have taken a lot of thought to hold numerous activities at the Stadium. A few ideas come to mind, I'm sure there are many more: a. Had one of the concourses been wider and without support pillows - sprint lanes for indoor training (as at Easter Road) + somewhere a gym for local use. b. With better transport links, requiring few car parking spaces, space for various outdoor sports pitches (netball, basketball, soccer etc). c. Lunch clubs for local pensioners d. Youth Clubs e. There must be many social type clubs around Stoke who could hold evening talks and meetings. i.e Allotment Association - maybe they could forge a close link with the club and design/maintain a memorial garden adjacent to the Stan Matthews statue for departed Stokies. f. Indoor bowls g. Cinema Club h. A cafe/bar - for not only weekday visitors to the Store & ticket office, but what about a sign on the canal to attract the holiday barge fraternity, or those on long canal walks/bike rides. It is of course only a vision, and Stoke City has been blind for far too long. Not wanting to piss in your chips, but here goes, A few ideas come to mind, I'm sure there are many more: a. Had one of the concourses been wider and without support pillows - sprint lanes for indoor training (as at Easter Road) + somewhere a gym for local use. -Never going to be financially viable, we used to have computer fairs back in the day, but as you say its not built for that. b. With better transport links, requiring few car parking spaces, space for various outdoor sports pitches (netball, basketball, soccer etc). -Again its miles away from anywehere, and the power league have that already built in and a lot cheaper than SCFC could do it, to make it financially viable. c. Lunch clubs for local pensioners -At this point, you do realise we are talking about a stadium that is miles away from anywhere, and really expensive to run, this isnt a fucking church hall that are happy for a donation of a fiver and away you go, bingo is at 1. d. Youth Clubs -erm just no this is getting silly now, completly not viable financially, there is a load of venues throughout the city that are in walking distance that serve that very same purpose. e. There must be many social type clubs around Stoke who could hold evening talks and meetings. i.e Allotment Association - maybe they could forge a close link with the club and design/maintain a memorial garden adjacent to the Stan Matthews statue for departed Stokies. -erm compost Jim and his three mates, wouls nedd Geoff and his 3 mates from the pigion racing society to join in, and they would need about 300 more just to break even financially, or they could go the local pub. f. Indoor bowls - REALLY? g. Cinema Club - why dont we considder the west midlands railway spotters club too? or the wrexham snail racing club? h. A cafe/bar - for not only weekday visitors to the Store & ticket office, but what about a sign on the canal to attract the holiday barge fraternity, or those on long canal walks/bike rides. -Literally the only thing you have suggested that would or could make any significant head way. My local club Mansfield have a venue open 7 days called sandys bar, granted it closer to the town centre, but could be quite a querky trucker stop just off the A50 on week days. lets face it no onw really walks the canals (too poor a foot fall) to make it viable. |
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Post by J-Roar on Feb 2, 2022 22:14:04 GMT
We all welcome any improvements for the fans, to what we all know was a badly designed stadium with very poor transport links. However, what rankles me is driving past on non match days and see an empty, desolate place. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the local Council put taxpayers funding into what was deemed 'The Community Stadium' where little or no community events have taken place. OK if you have some serious money its possible to hold a corporate type of function there, but what about the local community? It wouldn't have taken a lot of thought to hold numerous activities at the Stadium. A few ideas come to mind, I'm sure there are many more: a. Had one of the concourses been wider and without support pillows - sprint lanes for indoor training (as at Easter Road) + somewhere a gym for local use. b. With better transport links, requiring few car parking spaces, space for various outdoor sports pitches (netball, basketball, soccer etc). c. Lunch clubs for local pensioners d. Youth Clubs e. There must be many social type clubs around Stoke who could hold evening talks and meetings. i.e Allotment Association - maybe they could forge a close link with the club and design/maintain a memorial garden adjacent to the Stan Matthews statue for departed Stokies. f. Indoor bowls g. Cinema Club h. A cafe/bar - for not only weekday visitors to the Store & ticket office, but what about a sign on the canal to attract the holiday barge fraternity, or those on long canal walks/bike rides. It is of course only a vision, and Stoke City has been blind for far too long. Not wanting to piss in your chips, but here goes, A few ideas come to mind, I'm sure there are many more: a. Had one of the concourses been wider and without support pillows - sprint lanes for indoor training (as at Easter Road) + somewhere a gym for local use. -Never going to be financially viable, we used to have computer fairs back in the day, but as you say its not built for that. b. With better transport links, requiring few car parking spaces, space for various outdoor sports pitches (netball, basketball, soccer etc). -Again its miles away from anywehere, and the power league have that already built in and a lot cheaper than SCFC could do it, to make it financially viable. c. Lunch clubs for local pensioners -At this point, you do realise we are talking about a stadium that is miles away from anywhere, and really expensive to run, this isnt a fucking church hall that are happy for a donation of a fiver and away you go, bingo is at 1. d. Youth Clubs -erm just no this is getting silly now, completly not viable financially, there is a load of venues throughout the city that are in walking distance that serve that very same purpose. e. There must be many social type clubs around Stoke who could hold evening talks and meetings. i.e Allotment Association - maybe they could forge a close link with the club and design/maintain a memorial garden adjacent to the Stan Matthews statue for departed Stokies. -erm compost Jim and his three mates, wouls nedd Geoff and his 3 mates from the pigion racing society to join in, and they would need about 300 more just to break even financially, or they could go the local pub. f. Indoor bowls - REALLY? g. Cinema Club - why dont we considder the west midlands railway spotters club too? or the wrexham snail racing club? h. A cafe/bar - for not only weekday visitors to the Store & ticket office, but what about a sign on the canal to attract the holiday barge fraternity, or those on long canal walks/bike rides. -Literally the only thing you have suggested that would or could make any significant head way. My local club Mansfield have a venue open 7 days called sandys bar, granted it closer to the town centre, but could be quite a querky trucker stop just off the A50 on week days. lets face it no onw really walks the canals (too poor a foot fall) to make it viable. I think you pissed on his chips there |
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Post by stokemark on Feb 2, 2022 22:21:33 GMT
I will admit to buying the Stoke Car Mats when I was last over.....dont know what possesed me to, but they fell apart at the stitching around the edges after 2 months and just started to unravel..... Not my best Stoke purchase ! My ex gf years ago had a pair of the Stoke City knickers. This is back in the Vic days. I think they lasted about an hour, looked like had been stitched together by a 6 year old in Laos. I quite liked them though...for about 10 mins. I bought my Mrs a pair back as a present. The day we first played Vale at home 1989 - she went to our best friends wedding - I went to Stoke so they were something of a apology. And apology they truly were - as referenced a vile silky nylon white with red trim and the words proudly printed on them ‘I Scored at Stoke City’ I kid you not |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2022 22:24:40 GMT
My ex gf years ago had a pair of the Stoke City knickers. This is back in the Vic days. I think they lasted about an hour, looked like had been stitched together by a 6 year old in Laos. I quite liked them though...for about 10 mins. I bought my Mrs a pair back as a present. The day we first played Vale at home 1989 - she went to our best friends wedding - I went to Stoke so they were something of a apology. And apology they truly were - as referenced a vile silky nylon white with red trim and the words proudly printed on them ‘I Scored at Stoke City’ I kid you not That was them 😃. I remember Paul Gherkin the club shop lad telling me what massive sellers they were. At the same time we had the American football shirts that sold out, bless Gherkin he saved me the last one. They were quite nice. I was about 16 and thought looking like Nik Kershaw was cool to be fair though |
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