Stadium of No Lights!

Occasionally after a match we would stop and look back at the stadium when they were on, when driving home along lizard lane at Whitburn. Would love them to return.

 

This, great idea marra, let's get a petition up.
Agree with @Huds0n, think they were used a short while ago?

 

I don’t know anyone who remembers the stadium when it was new who didn’t think that the lights were a positive and gave a sense of pride. This was our stadium and our lights and you could see them far and wide.
Maybe too much nostalgia but they were a statement to Sunderland supporters and a statement to anyone visiting. I’d love to find out if the new ownership would consider getting them up and running again in whichever form that may be

 

They should have a list a mile long of improvements to the SoL and whole match day experience. Hopefully a bit of consultation and fan engagement will be forthcoming for when we are eventually allowed back.

 

I remember the top of the west stand being lit up with alternate red and white lights when the stadium first opened. It always looked fantastic on a night looking across from the other side of the river and did give you a sense of pride

 

I seem to recall that when The Stadium first opened ALL the floodlights were on every night, at least during the Season.
Nial explained that as it was The Stadium of Light it was to be lit up.

But after a few years it was explained that it was too expensive a luxury.

 

Be a waste of time mate, they know they're there and don't use them.

 

remember being there the night they were first switched on, from inside the ground you could hardly see them and they were only really effective with low cloud cover...sure i heard tales that pilots complained about them as they were in the flight path.

would rather see the 'football echo man' back somewhere, on the bus back from the town when i was a bairn you soon got used to looking for him at pennywell and finding out if the lads had won/drew/lost.

 

Agree but for special occasions they should make some effort

 

I'm sure that was when Donald and co turned up.

 

love this mate and I agree. My mates and I would finish our kick about, then sit on the grass as the summer night closed in. Little look up towards the Stadium and there they were. A symbol of the light bursting out of the pit. The 90s and especially the mid to late 90s were a class time for someone in their mid teens, music, culture, fashion all at its peak and a brand new state of the art stadium. For me, pure nostalgia mate.

 

https://rokerreport.sbnation.com/20...-investing-in-state-of-the-art-pitch-lighting

 

He should just wait for the police auction...

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/n...found-drugs-farm-bishop-auckland-town-centre/