I used to remember coming out the away end up that alleyway where you got everything hoyed at you. Always baffled me where they found half bricks in the stands
The fans make a club imo. I remember going up to visit family and a look at the sol getting built. Lovely stadium and we had to move on with the times. But how sad I felt to lose roker park is another thing. Times were changing. Office jobs with clean hands and shìte banter were replacing grafters down pits and in shipyards. Real men who didn't cry like fannies but got on with life and let go on a Saturday with booze and hopefully a matchday win to save kicking the cat Moaning about a fooking PA system etc. FFS get a grip. Lets just win games and celebrate no more Jack chodwell ffs
I remember being at the Odsal Stadium when Bradford City moved there. Windier that Dalton Park and freezing. John Hendrie tore us a new one. Fast as **** he was
People I knew there used to say it was a lovely old ground and talked about drinking in what must have been that social club. Cricket ground next door is still there.
I don't have a problem with it because when I go to the game I'm there to sit on a plastic seat and watch the footy and I'm not really bothered about anything else. Having said that I've been slightly disappointed with a general lack of minor improvements at the stadium on match days and otherwise. Wouldn't mind a bit more pizzazz, halftime entertainment and suchlike. I often think that getting some local bands on at halftime would be a canny idea, wouldn't cost much.
I'm still looking for the hand driers in the back of the Fulwell, then again they would have needed an actual toilet to put one in, not a length of guttering where the wall joined the floor that no one ever attempted to hit. Those wrestler burgers were ****ing gourmet compared to what we get served now, Roker Park was a **** hole in the end but I still loved it and really miss it, made friends for life in that place, people I see at the games still now, Feel for the younger generation that have missed out on it
I never have an issue hearing stuff. But I understand how difficult it is to sort out. Having had 8 different systems for short times, this is due to trying them out in the shop, then playing live in a room full of people, the difference is huge. Guaranteed every seat in the house hears that PA when the stadium has half a dozen people in! Only way to change it is to monitor it during games and see where the issues are. Could be speakers, cables, crossovers, mixers etc. etc. there are hundreds of things which could cause the problem. Old Trafford was ****e a couple of years ago when I went.
That was first ever away game , when they beat us in the second round of the FA Cup. That was some introduction to away games. I couldn't get enough after that
It was a struggle to see against the mags from the southern end (row 11 seat 16/17). Had to bend under the “wall”. Not sure how you fix that though. You drop the scoreboard it blocks those at the back of the stand. Only way I think would be to stick it in 2 of the corners
Hands dried on yer trousers or back of your mates coat January in just a football shirt and maybe a tracksuit top if the wind and ice was whipping in off the North sea. Cockney away supporters dressed like a north pole expedition, stood still apart from maybe shaking body parts to get the blood flowing
it's not just a pa system though is it like you say it so small but not been sorted, so if the can't sort the small things out how are the going to manage to sort the big things out it's all little daft stuff that's hasn't been done that makes a massive difference and it's taking abit of care of the stadium, touch of paint in some areas sorting the roof out that's leaking, daft little stuff that's would make a massive difference
If you Google it you'll find it was during a visit to a Roker Park night match that Michael Flatley got the idea for Riverdance. Apparently the entire Fulwell End was stamping their feet during half time ... ... everyone was desperately trying to get some feeling back and got carried away with the beat from the half time music
I was there but I was in the seats watching and laughing with my dad. **** nars how they let the daft gets back on their buses.
But the big things are getting sorted. Don't you remember where we've been under the chuckle brothers to where we are now ?
