Proper support despite the safc board

[Montysoptician]

it's was totally off until the preston and mags game and he's been totally **** for years

I can hear the teams announced an hour before kick off and then again at kick off, the public service and birthday announcements, the "Grand in your hand" numbers at half time, I'm not doubting you at all Marcus but for the last two years I thought the PA had been sorted.

 

[The Norton Cat]

When I went it was just a giant quarry and you stood or sat on the slag heaps around the sides , god knows where they went to the toilet

Ha! When was that?

 

[Magnus]

I can here the teams announced an hour before kick off and then again at kick off, the public service and birthday announcements, the "Grand in your hand" numbers at half time, I'm not doubting you at all Marcus but for the last two years I thought the PA had been sorted.

it really hasn't in my bit it's awful

 

[rooch 3]

Ha! When was that?

I’m the seventies when I used to go to Scunthorpe away games.

 

[Smug in Boots]

Have you ever been to Halifax’s

I was a Wigan mudslider ...

... so perhaps a little too uncouth for those who depend on team announcements, hand driers and a big screen for vital messages.

 

[Magnus]

I'm assuming by your spelling that you're pissed and confused, I'm responding exactly as I see fit.

You're coming across as a moaner with a grudge ...

... tbf you're not on your own.

I didn't say you should stop going but, if you think the SOL is such a death trap, you'd be crazy going in.

I was a Wigan mudslider ...

... so perhaps a little too uncouth for those who depend on team announcements, hand driers and a big screen for vital messages.

hahahaha another good one

 

[Smug in Boots]

One thing we all seem to forget is this, After cm and sd left, we still cut back on staffing levels, the ticket office was out sourced, the staff in the shop were put on part time hours.
Then when fans started shouting it fell on deaf ears.
The catering was **** and still is to be honest.
We have had investment at the AOL, lots of new glass offices, a lift that works, but not at the SOL other than a few local contractors doing up the top floor rooms.
The E ticket system is ****e, if fact if you lot knew how many times this ****s up in different areas you would be shocked.
If we don't invest in the SOL the complaints will just get bigger and louder.

It'll all be done as time goes by, we're still way ahead of most clubs.

 

[rooch 3]

Ha! When was that?

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[Row 3]

One thing we all seem to forget is this, After cm and sd left, we still cut back on staffing levels, the ticket office was out sourced, the staff in the shop were put on part time hours.
Then when fans started shouting it fell on deaf ears.
The catering was **** and still is to be honest.
We have had investment at the AOL, lots of new glass offices, a lift that works, but not at the SOL other than a few local contractors doing up the top floor rooms.
The E ticket system is ****e, if fact if you lot knew how many times this ****s up in different areas you would be shocked.
If we don't invest in the SOL the complaints will just get bigger and louder.

Don't know about the rest but you might have a point about the etickets Bob. Mine only works 50% of the time at best.

 

[The Norton Cat]

I’m the seventies when I used to go to Scunthorpe away games.

Must have improved a little bit by the time I went. Pity, that sounds good!

 

[rooch 3]

There was three of us in that whole end in 1975. I think the new Shay got built not long after that.

 

[rooch 3]

Christ! I’ve been to some ****e grounds following Scunny

 

[Smug in Boots]

Christ! I’ve been to some ****e grounds following Scunny

I went to Bradford Park Avenue, for a night match, with Mansfield ...

... what an experience for a thirteen year old who'd gone on his own

 

[Nig]

I've never had a problem hearing announcements and there's a massive screen for emergency issues, not to mention all the stewards and police. If there's an emergency the players would leave the field, the gates would open and no one would have a problem with vacating the stadium if directed by the stewards.

No one died at Roker Park and all we had was a scoreboard with planks of wood.

And great pies and Bovril

 

[rooch 3]

To clarify when I moved to different jobs whoever I made mates with I would go to some matches with them depending on where we were playing. Other wise I would get the Donny supporters bus to Roker or the SOL. Just writing this brings back loads of memories, some of today’s fans can never have again. My age group were very lucky, but todays fans have never had it so good and they don’t realise it. You actually stood on terraces in a foot of snow with no roof which was the norm.

 

[The Norton Cat]

I went to Bradford Park Avenue, for a night match, with Mansfield ...

... what an experience for a thirteen year old who'd gone on his own

I assume the old ground not the one they're currently at? Would have loved to have gone there. I lived round the corner from it for a bit. Did actually play there once, but long after the ground had gone. There was a little sports centre there. Now a gym I think.

 

[rooch 3]

I went to Bradford Park Avenue, for a night match, with Mansfield ...

... what an experience for a thirteen year old who'd gone on his own

Aye, Mansfield v Scunny or was it Mansfield v Sunderland around 1977/78 not sure but we won.

 

[Nig]

To clarify when I moved to different jobs whoever I made mates with I would go to some matches with them depending on where we were playing. Other wise I would get the Donny supporters bus to Roker or the SOL. Just writing this brings back loads of memories, some of today’s fans can never have again. My age group were very lucky, but todays fans have never had it so good and they don’t realise it. You actually stood on terraces in a foot of snow with no roof which was the norm.

But it was connection with the fans.
An atmosphere.
A soul.
As opposed to
Ar soul at sid james park now

 

[Saf]

Love a bit of that. Climbing up between people's houses is a bit of a laugh.
One of my favourites was Chesterfield's old Saltergate. That was worth a visit just to see how terrible the bogs were!

I remember visiting Rotherham’s old ground in the 90’s for a 3rd round cup tie. It had two single toilets for however many thousand we had there.

People were pissing anywhere and everywhere. I even seen some guy just pissing where he stood in the stand. The good old days

 

[Smug in Boots]

I assume the old ground not the one they're currently at? Would have loved to have gone there. I lived round the corner from it for a bit. Did actually play there once, but long after the ground had gone. There was a little sports centre there. Now a gym I think.

Yes mate, the old ground was like a Victorian theatre, quite Gothic. It had a social club attached where they had a whippet racing circuit inside, a massive hat rack for all the cloth caps and Freddie Trueman behind the bar