Without being too biased - Page 12

SAFC 2012 · 2nd August 2012, 03:46 AM

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Originally Posted by crabshack

Yeah the sports direct is probably the ugliest stadium ive ever seen. Just look at our stadium, it just oozes class and really is a bit special. FTM 9-1

SAFC 2012 · 2nd August 2012, 03:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ItsAgueroooooo

Yes it has. Nice try though. Also was home to the most dramatic game in Premier League history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEL8OnhG0-c
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SAFC 2012 · 2nd August 2012, 03:54 AM

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Originally Posted by wonderkid

nice to see the stadium of shite at the olympics wait its not is it

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Originally Posted by voodoo ray

I used to sit in the Gallowgate (still don't know what its new name is) and the leg room was always a problem. Moved into Level 7 last season to take the child and the difference is amazing. Also the difference in view from level 7 along the touch line as opposed to behind the goal is huge.

On a side note has anyone ever wanted to sit with the away fans at a home game to hear your fans when you score ?.....No, just me then.

Id love to, the noise when stoke and west brom etc score is deafening so id love to hear it when sunderland score for example against city on new years day

buxton · 2nd August 2012, 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Poon

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...adiums/page/20

The author of that tripe is a self confessed mackem, a bitter one at that, with little or no perspective on what it means to be impartial.

Why not go for that websites latest evaluation.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...-season/page/2

A load of badly written bollocks as well.

Randy Savage · 2nd August 2012, 07:00 AM

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Originally Posted by voodoo ray

As is the atmosphere at most grounds these days. The view from inside is good, the aspect towards the ground because of how it is situated must be unique.

I'm surprised the Reebok features so highly. from outside it looks great, from inside it the modern medium to small stadium and it's in a naff place.

I've been on trains coming across the Tyne with many away fans, even fans going to Sunderland and they are always impressed by the way our ground appears.

Our ground?! I thought you said you were just a general NE football fan?

Andy™ · 2nd August 2012, 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Randy Savage

Our ground?! I thought you said you were just a general NE football fan?

The sad mag has been outed.

Randy Savage · 2nd August 2012, 09:50 AM

In the end of the day, both sets of fans will consider their ground the best.

My personal opinion, with my red and white specs off, is as follows:

views/sightlines - SSOL
legroom - SSOL
concourses - SDA
ease of access into and around the stadium - SSOL
'uniqueness' - SDA
location - SDA
design/aesthetic appeal - entirely subjective. Two sides of the SSOL are nowt more than functional, but the west stand main entrance betters anything up the road in my humble opinion.

molthemackem · 2nd August 2012, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by GRABS

I was sitting in the galogate end today at the sports direct and it really made me appritiate the quality and layout of the sol. Not only is the sda lop sided with 2 modern ends that are too bid and too far away from the pitch but the smaller stands are dark and tired. How they can call it the stadium of shite is beyond me

I saw Super kev and SNQ score great goals while sitting in the GG. I also watched Gary Rowell and Marco put the scum to the sword from there too. Another highlight was Hereford Utds draw there with me dad. Great days...

AnyOBrien · 2nd August 2012, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Randy Savage

In the end of the day, both sets of fans will consider their ground the best.

My personal opinion, with my red and white specs off, is as follows:

views/sightlines - SSOL - cos it's smaller and closer to the pitch. If you closed our level 7 then it would have similar views, but we'd lose 12000 seats
legroom - SSOL - fewer seats
concourses - SDA - hate our concourses in the cheap end
ease of access into and around the stadium - SSOL
'uniqueness' - SDA
location - SDA
design/aesthetic appeal - entirely subjective. Two sides of the SSOL are nowt more than functional, but the west stand main entrance betters anything up the road in my humble opinion.

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Randy Savage · 2nd August 2012, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by AnyOBrien

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My point re. sightlines was made based on the games on Sunday. When the action went to the other end, the people in the row in front, who weren't particularly tall, seemed to obscure my view a shade more than at our place.

Maybe it was just the bit I was sat in.