Joined: Aug 24 2005 Posts: 15807 Location: East Hull
Fc Til I Die 316 wrote:i believe it is as they have half decent stands on all sides at least. its a shame for the city to have such a dissapointing ground...hopefully your new stand will kick start a full re-development of your ground. your east stand extention was aweful...they could have made it all seater over there but the lack of further stands and space would have meant the overall attendances decreasing due to the seating taking up more room than standing as it is now
East Stand extension all-seater? How would that work when the rest of the stand is terracing?
You're wrong about it not been an SL-standard ground. If it wasn't we would not have been promoted in 2006, and would not have got a franchise in 2008.
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Joined: Jan 10 2007 Posts: 6766 Location: Stalking Jerry Langford
Fc Til I Die 316 wrote:i believe it is as they have half decent stands on all sides at least. its a shame for the city to have such a dissapointing ground...hopefully your new stand will kick start a full re-development of your ground. your east stand extention was aweful...they could have made it all seater over there but the lack of further stands and space would have meant the overall attendances decreasing due to the seating taking up more room than standing as it is now
Why would we want the East Stand to become all-seats?
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Joined: Jan 15 2007 Posts: 11924 Location: Secret Hill Top Lair. V.2
hull2524 wrote:even your own reporter said it could finish up the worst ground in sl unless major work was done, you should never have left the old craven park,
Apart from the fact it was falling down.
The new ground I'll admit was a terrible cheapo effort from the off, you only have to look at the Galpharm which is only about four years younger than CP to see what a wasted opportunity it was. Not that we should have built a twenty five thousand all seater stadium, but we should have come up with something better than a wind tunnel with a swamp in the middle.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
pmh.......yea but it was still a great ground in its heyday,great playing pitch,but as you say it did need updating, great times though eh,even as a fc fan a lot of my memories are still of the old boulevard and craven park..........but times move on
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Joined: Jan 15 2007 Posts: 11924 Location: Secret Hill Top Lair. V.2
hull2524 wrote:pmh.......yea but it was still a great ground in its heyday,great playing pitch,but as you say it did need updating, great times though eh,even as a fc fan a lot of my memories are still of the old boulevard and craven park..........but times move on
It would have been nice to renovate the old ground but i suppose the deal offered at the time looked too good to turn down. It probably was until the people managing it made a complete knackers of it.
Had a real reminder of old CP at The Willows t'other week. You could upgrade from the terrace to the seats for five quid. Not seen that since old CP.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
to true, used to go to the greyhounds there as well,seen sum classic matches there, i have come out of the old craven park singing and sooooooooooo happy, other times crying and looking for the nearest bus to jump in front of lol, but you gotta take the rough with the smooth, heres hoping for a cracking match this weekend,
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Joined: Jan 15 2007 Posts: 11924 Location: Secret Hill Top Lair. V.2
I used to know a lass who trained and raced greyhounds, she used to reckon some of the other trainers stuck ginger up the greyhound's Iestyn to make them run faster. Not sure that was true mind you.
Couldn't care less if it's the worst game ever, as long as we beat you horrible people!
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
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