Dylan
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Post by Dylan on Jun 3, 2024 20:37:36 GMT
Is my memory playing tricks on me, but when we opened the South Stand, wasn't the pitch moved that way for the first season? View AttachmentView AttachmentSecond photo makes it clear that once the pitch is moved south when the new NRE is built, the Main Stand will also have to be replaced should be extended beyond the current blocks F and G.
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Post by mike_CUFC on Jun 4, 2024 10:27:03 GMT
Crikey I'd forgotten we had actually moved the pitch for that season, must have blocked that from my mind.
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Post by Jerry1971 on Jun 4, 2024 11:50:25 GMT
Is my memory playing tricks on me, but when we opened the South Stand, wasn't the pitch moved that way for the first season? View AttachmentView AttachmentI remember that well. As C Block regulars we had the letter (it was 2003!) to visit the stand to choose alternative seats given the change of sightlines with the pitch being moved. We went a row forward and slightly to the left, and were rewarded with an awful season which led to relegation out of the football league. Thankfully the pitch moved back for the start of the conference campaign, we went back to our old seats and we've been there ever since. The moral of this story is please, never move the pitch again.... BAD OMEN! Actually, moving it as much as we did last time was down to the proposed new NRE which looked like it would happen then, but of course never did, if we were to move it now (which the CUSP minutes suggest we won't) we could get away with a pitch sited more centrally giving an equal gap at both ends, at least until wholescale redevelopment commences.
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Post by camloyal on Jun 4, 2024 11:53:36 GMT
I'd be pretty annoyed to get an ST in the south stand with the gap as large as it is currently. And equal split would feel equitable
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Post by btb on Jun 4, 2024 11:55:42 GMT
I'd be pretty annoyed to get an ST in the south stand with the gap as large as it is currently. And equal split would feel equitable Why would you be annoyed? It’s been like that for the last 20 years.
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Dylan
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Post by Dylan on Jun 4, 2024 11:56:27 GMT
Yes, I'm relieved on a personal level that the pitch is staying put this season: I did not cough up nearly 500 sovs to expect to have my view of the south goal blocked by post!
Having said that, it is a shame for the new fans that they have such a gap to the pitch. Having said 'having said that' I recall from my one time in the South Stand (many moons ago) that the view actually wasn't too bad even with the gap.
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Post by Matt Phillips on Jun 4, 2024 12:00:22 GMT
When I think of that pitch move, All I have visions of is John Ruddy letting in goal after goal in my first season as a season ticket holder (Admittedly not a lot his actual fault) and it feeling like he was in absolute no mans land out there..
Steve Thompson, John Howard, Administration..Cracking first year for a season ticket. At least the bacon roll was award winning back then!
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Post by camloyal on Jun 4, 2024 12:06:24 GMT
I'd be pretty annoyed to get an ST in the south stand with the gap as large as it is currently. And equal split would feel equitable Why would you be annoyed? It’s been like that for the last 20 years. But the south stand hasn't had home fans in it. Away fans having to watch football from a far is one thing but paying for a 23 game ticket to do it is another. Granted annoyed isn't right word, more that I might expect a concession given home fans are now going in there.
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Post by Andrewlang on Jun 4, 2024 12:10:19 GMT
Yeah, I think I'd be a bit annoyed if they decided to move the pitch after putting ST's up for sale, even as a Habbinite.
I'd be keen to know how many of the fans in the south stand are 'new' fans (or new season ticket holders) and how many have migrated from elsewhere.
I doubt we'll ever be told, but I'd find the breakdown quite interesting.
Andrew
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Post by mike_CUFC on Jun 4, 2024 12:31:15 GMT
I'd argue the view is far better from the South Stand than from the NRE (not the reason I moved mind), being higher up you definitely get a better view, but from the NRE it always made me chuckle when people would shout 'shoot' when our player was barely in their half. I know we were desperate to score last season but the ball definitely looked closer to the goal view wise because the goal looked further up the pitch because of the huge grass area behind it.
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Post by Jerry1971 on Jun 4, 2024 12:37:31 GMT
Yeah, I think I'd be a bit annoyed if they decided to move the pitch after putting ST's up for sale, even as a Habbinite. I'd be keen to know how many of the fans in the south stand are 'new' fans (or new season ticket holders) and how many have migrated from elsewhere. I doubt we'll ever be told, but I'd find the breakdown quite interesting. Andrew It is a good question Andrew. I would hope (and also think) that a lot of the new South Stand folks are re-locators and that new STH's taking up seats there will be those who've been often enough to understand the make up of the stadium. Then again, perhaps we read far too much into this, having visited the London Stadium last season to watch a West Ham game I was glad we were in the lower tier, even then it was further away from the pitch (by quite some way) than the South Stand is at The Abbey. Not sure I'd fancy the upper tier at all there.
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Post by milesfenton on Jun 4, 2024 12:44:47 GMT
I assume the gap could be used for half time entertainment one way or another, local kids' teams having kickabouts in small goals etc like has been done before. If that's the case then the gap could be turned into a bit of a positive.
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Post by pgtips (lurid) on Jun 4, 2024 14:07:45 GMT
I'm sure a lot of us go to matches for the half-time entertainment.
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Post by milesfenton on Jun 4, 2024 14:12:21 GMT
I'm sure a lot of us go to matches for the half-time entertainment. I took my daughter to MK Dons away (please don't report me to anyone). The half time mascot race was easily her favourite part of the day - might have been mine too!
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Post by Tom Shaw's Fist of Rage on Jun 26, 2024 13:59:54 GMT
For the next meeting can you ask why the club didn't announce the Andrew and Morrison deals/triggered options and just put it in the retained list like we already knew?
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