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SoL rated in top 100 grounds

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sid84763 said:
For some reason it has not included all your replies. On the Elland Rd, Goodison, they are not better. Goodison I can't sit down cos the seats are shit and they do not sell beer at half time, so you are incorrect.
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Who wants to sit down like?
 

Shouldn't sit down at football grounds unless your too owld. Expensive tickets and no alcohol being served isn't what this is about, it's about the ground.
 
James said:
Nope, you're spot on, much prefer visiting those stadiums to the identikit ones you've listed below.

Our ground is average as they come, it's bland as hell and scruffy out the outside. I wish they'd spend a bit of money just cleaning it so it looks white again, take a bit of pride in our home. We should celebrate our history far more than we do as well, statues, renaming the stands, decorate the concourses with pictures etc.

Our attendances are great, the fans are mostly great but the stadium is nothing to write home about.
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Agree with all of this.

The ground could be a lot better and made to feel like a home rather than a functional stadium. Its not even twenty years old but it feels weary already. The pink seats means you can barely make out the ha'way the lads or the club crest, the concourses are dreary and as you say the exterior and surroundings are shabby and lacking in history.

All that could be rectified for the price of a Will Buckley
 
Did they list their criteria? Goodison and Hotch Potch being high up in the list suggests having seats you cant see from get you extra points. Know why another poster mentions QPR its tightly packed to the pitch but its piss poor in many seats for the view, with those near the tv gantry having a seriously restricted view. Bramall Lane is good if you like character and atmosphere, though building the Kop with huge pillars spoils the view!
 
durhamredandwhite said:
Just me who prefers the goodisons, villa parks, elland roads? Love looking at old photos, roker included.

Late 90s early 2000s was almost like there was only one way to make a stadium, SOL, St Mary's, darlo, Boro, Derby, Leicester etc etc.
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Except that the likes of Bolton, Huddersfield, Millwall and Wigan did it another way.
 
nelford_safc said:
On a serious note do you think it's been built to last 100 years or will some of the younger fans see a new stadium in their lifetimes?
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The location of it means it would probably be redeveloped .

The Sheepfolds End said:
91st is quite high.

Its a bog standard, late 20th century stadium. Built on the cheap, poorly maintained, inside and out, and only the west stand is anything to write home about. Very few celebrations of an illustrious past in the way of statues or images of former heroes make it soulless when the supporters arent there.

The novelty has well and truly worn off for me. I wish Roker could have been redeveloped with a 38-42k capacity.



Villa Park is a fantastic football ground. The best in the country IMO. Their mediocre fanbase dont deserve it
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Your right like. I do like it but it's nowt to shout about. It's just one in a series of identikit flat pack stadiums.
 
I know I'm biased but our ground is far better than some of the similar stadiums built around the same time.

The SOL stands out from the likes of pride park, riverside and britannia. maybe its due to being the biggest so just seems better.
 
The SoL is streets ahead of Boro and Stoke. Derby , Leicester, Soton are a bit identikit but better than the first 2. St James and Elland Rd are lopsided, pretty poor adaptations of old grounds.
 
It's basically the same without the premier concourse. I read Leicester have built there's So an upper tier can be built on like ours. (If demand is there with continues prem football I imagine)
 
James said:
Nope, you're spot on, much prefer visiting those stadiums to the identikit ones you've listed below.

Our ground is average as they come, it's bland as hell and scruffy out the outside. I wish they'd spend a bit of money just cleaning it so it looks white again, take a bit of pride in our home. We should celebrate our history far more than we do as well, statues, renaming the stands, decorate the concourses with pictures etc.

Our attendances are great, the fans are mostly great but the stadium is nothing to write home about.
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Agree it's needs cleaning and tidying up...but to say it's nothing to write home about is garbage.
I loved roker, but it was a right tip at the end.
A lot of clubs would love a her ground.
I remember first home game at sol, couldn't believe we had a great stadium at last.
 
Toot said:
Agree it's needs cleaning and tidying up...but to say it's nothing to write home about is garbage.
I loved roker, but it was a right tip at the end.
A lot of clubs would love a her ground.
I remember first home game at sol, couldn't believe we had a great stadium at last.
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That was 17 years ago and not many other new grounds had been built. Novelty
 
The inside of ours is pretty dire, concourses boring and the supposed VIP areas apart from the main foyer are cheap and nasty decor and fixtures, I suppose when you flirt with being a championship club then this is put into perspective.
 
This f***ing list is upside down
We're going to Europe with the Ullevael Stadion
And the Dortmund's going down.
 
We overrate the Sol. The East and South Stands look like that Darlington stadium from the outside, the stand names are shite, the concourses are shite and jokes aside, the pink seats are embarrassing.

It could be more than it is.
 
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