it will always be Portman Road to me regardless of who sponsored it. Just like my seat is in Churchmans stand which hasnt offically been Churchmans for many years. It will bring us in extra cash and nobody will use the offical name so go for it!
****ing hell spanish & weighty, you're like 2 teenages in denial that you have actually fallen for each other!
no Dave the factory closed in the 80s I think and has since been demolished. The stand was renamed when it was upgraded and is now the Sir Alf Ramsey stand.
as lancs has said Churchmans are no longer and the stand has been renamed (twice in fact) and its current name is much more worthy but cant get away from calling it Churchmans.
I must admit, however much the stand renaming is worthy of a true gentleman and hero to us guys, for me it will always be churchmans. Thats why will it really matter if they rename the ground, we will still call it portman road, its just sentiment getting in the way of making easy money.
Who cares if some mug wants to give us money for stand sponsorship. That goes for ME too, call it what you will but give us the filthy lucre. Amen to it always being Portman Road. I ****ing hate out of town stadia, a big no to that tramp's cock of an idea. The council should be on their knobbly knees to el Presidenté Evans thanking him for the huge contribution in terms of rent, footfall etc. that he brings to the town centre, instead of trying to financially **** the club over, the ****ers
That would be quite funny to see.....spanish & wcp standing next to each other, from behind anyway....! A hatchet needs to be buried here.....not in each others head either...!
I can't decide on this one. It will always be portman road but then again Portman Road is just the road name, it's not as if the stadium as actually named and related to the team or the local area. I think it may increase our standing if we got it sponsered by a local company fitting with our roots and heritage but this is unlikely, I would imagine it would be a big corporate company or the Marcus Evans Arena!! If it brings more money into the club then great after all like I said it is just a name but we have to be careful not to loose our identity. For me this was one of the biggest problems we've had when ME first came in and especially when Keane came that we lost our identity and when it also went wrong on the pitch where we have in the past relied on our standing in the game and our heritage that was no longer there and under PJ I feel we are only just starting to rebuild this. Like I say in an ideal world it would be great if the stadium was sponsered by a local company. But I agree with Supers, I feel it will be the Marcus Evans Stadium, I feel he has always had this in mind. This is as a way to put more money into the club but also a way of getting his name more out there, the reason I believe he came to the club for, not to make money out of the club as such but to advertise his own company and get connections.
We could always build a new purpose built stadium on the old Tooks site in Whitton! Just off the A14, easy access!
I never like these out of town stadiums. There's nothing quite like looking back at history books and seeing how the ground looked 30, 50, 100 years before and there's nothing like visiting a ground somewhere like Charlton deep in an area of Georgian terrace. You can't get much better access for the people of Ipswich than the present location. Growing up just a stone's throw away - the buzz of hearing a cheer on a Saturday afternoon from the ground and later walking down the felixtowe Road, down Bishop's Hill and past the docks to get to the ground. If I'd had to catch two busses to the other side of Town to something resembling the Ricoh I'm not sure I would've got any buzz at all. Living in Yorkshire now I have to say that there is no access problem, you have three routes in from the A14 and can easily park as far away as Henley Road and be at the ground in fifteen minutes. if you put the ground where you're suggesting Warky you're encouraging all the traffic to take the same exit and coming from anywhere in the Town use the Norwich Road and it'd be rammed so that site would be really bad news. There is masses of room for Portman Road to expand in all four directions in its current location.
Agree with Lancs, the current site is the best. Easy rail links, easy bus links, not a long walk from any area of town. good for local pubs, food etc before and after the match. The only good thing about the old bakery site is access to the a14. No other links, nowhere to go before and after, not even great access to the rest of town as Norwich Road is often gridlocked.
While i love the history (there you go budgies) and the feel of Portman Rd, I wouldn't be against a move. I would say the old sugar beet factory site on sproughton road would be ideal, good road links, the trainline runs right behind it so you could have a station there. it would help policing as well because most fans could just get straight to the game. Everything smacks of that site being ideal, you could make it a multi purpose arena to get the extra revenue even during the season! plus you can tell the council to get ****ed!
ok, its on a smaller scale but colchester's ground is awful. it has no soul. a more comparative club coventry are the same. obviously it doesn't help that its half empty all the time but sometimes i get the feeling these new stadia aren't conceived with that much care or attention to those who will be filling it every other week, the fans. definitely helps to be centrally located though - like st mary's, which i really like, even if it does look like a flat-pack stadium. doubt you, like us, would ever need to move anyway - plenty of room around each ground to increase capacity.
Yeah aside from the roads running behind the Sir Alf and Britannia stands You'll be filling in sections of carrot road once you get relegated
