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Cardiff City 2009-2010 season

Fair play to Chops for playing with diarrhea. As stated above, good to see ricky and mcnaughts back on the pitch. :cool:

I have to say though... what was going through the heads of the designers of the stadium? Luckily i am near the back and keep dry but as far as i can tell if you sit within 20 rows of the pitch you get wet, simple as.:facepalm:
 
Clint Iguana said:
Fair play to Chops for playing with diarrhea. As stated above, good to see ricky and mcnaughts back on the pitch. :cool:

I have to say though... what was going through the heads of the designers of the stadium? Luckily i am near the back and keep dry but as far as i can tell if you sit within 20 rows of the pitch you get wet, simple as.:facepalm:
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I saw the match at Eastlands on tv.

Nearly everyone got wet.
 
Clint Iguana said:
Fair play to Chops for playing with diarrhea. As stated above, good to see ricky and mcnaughts back on the pitch. :cool:

I have to say though... what was going through the heads of the designers of the stadium? Luckily i am near the back and keep dry but as far as i can tell if you sit within 20 rows of the pitch you get wet, simple as.:facepalm:
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Did he make any good runs ?
 
Yeh that's a nice print, but I prefer the previous one, of NP. Am changing jobs in Jan and have dropped some broad hints that that would make a nice leaving present "for someone".

Yesterday was the first time I have been down since the NP grandstand came down and I found the sight of the hulking Bob Bank and the remnants of the Canton very melancholy. Seeing the Bob from that perspective reminded me how huge it was right until its end, and of the enormity of it before it had seats on it. As a young boy on it it seemed to me to go on for ever. I loved that place.

Someone described CCS v NP to me yesterday as "everything's better but nothing's as good", I like CCS though and it is noisier than I thought

Burkey was great, Riccy too, I thought Preston were more Dead End than North End, very limited and seemingly happy just to frustrate us, break the play up and all that stuff. Ideal, we needed a win and scrapped it out.

4 hour drive home but happy all the way, we'll be alright boys
 
am i not allowed to? did you not notice me compliment the ninian park piece? or are you deliberately ignoring the nice things i say?
 
strung_out said:
what's that? a print of the outside of an outer city furniture warehouse or something?
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It may look like a furniture warehouse, but its our furniture warehouse. Remind me again where you are playing home games these days?
 
strung_out said:
a shithole in north bristol!
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I can see why you were so scathing of our new facilities!!
 
i know our ground is shit. i was more making a comment on the identi-kit stadiums that are around nowadays. for sure, i'd rather be where you lot are at the moment, but give me a proper ground like ninian park or our old eastville stadium anyday!
 
strung_out said:
i know our ground is shit. i was more making a comment on the identi-kit stadiums that are around nowadays. for sure, i'd rather be where you lot are at the moment, but give me a proper ground like ninian park or our old eastville stadium anyday!
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I think that most normal football supporters would agree with you there.
 
strung_out said:
i know our ground is shit. i was more making a comment on the identi-kit stadiums that are around nowadays. for sure, i'd rather be where you lot are at the moment, but give me a proper ground like ninian park or our old eastville stadium anyday!
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Well you are in the fortunate position of supporting a crap team so you can still stand to watch them. Unfortunately we didn't have that choice. If we had stayed at Ninian Park this season we would have seen ground capacity reduced to 8,000 as we had to give up the standing areas. Of course what Ridsdale should have done was screw us royally and get us relegated so we wouldn't have to go to the expense of a new stadium and we could have continued to enjoy wednesday evening fixtures at Port Vale and trips to Southend in the middle of january. What a shambles the man is, can't get anything right. We want basement division footabll, sod all this larking around at the top of the championship business.
 
you know as well as i do that's not what i meant. i just think it's a shame that not much imagination goes into building football stadiums nowadays. all these soulless bowls are just depressing. i've been to southampton, cardiff, leicester and reading in recent seasons and can't say i've enjoyed the actual stadium experience at any of them. once (if) the work starts on our new ground, at least it'll have four sides.
 
strung_out said:
you know as well as i do that's not what i meant. i just think it's a shame that not much imagination goes into building football stadiums nowadays. all these soulless bowls are just depressing. i've been to southampton, cardiff, leicester and reading in recent seasons and can't say i've enjoyed the actual stadium experience at any of them. once (if) the work starts on our new ground, at least it'll have four sides.
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Are Bristol City and Bath Rugby moving in as well then?
 
no! do you get what i mean though? my comment up there honestly wasn't a pop at you lot for the sake of it, i just hate the way all these new stadiums look. if the work on our new ground actually starts, i'm glad it'll have 4 sides, a bit of variation in the architecture, plenty of use (as student flats, hotel, restaurant etc)

it's supposed to look like this, though the funding seems to be more of an issue every month...

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strung_out said:
no! do you get what i mean though? my comment up there honestly wasn't a pop at you lot for the sake of it, i just hate the way all these new stadiums look. if the work on our new ground actually starts, i'm glad it'll have 4 sides, a bit of variation in the architecture, plenty of use (as student flats, hotel, restaurant etc)

it's supposed to look like this, though the funding seems to be more of an issue every month...

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To be fair look what we were originally promised.

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At the end of the day clubs like ours can't afford to spunk money away on architects wet dreams. Ours may not win any awards, but its functional and it didn't cost a fortune. Stadium design is a bit like car design, put the same parameters into the computer and the same design comes out the other end. C values and bums on seats for a fixed price determine what your stadium looks like. I wouldn't mind betting that if your stadium ever gets built it wont look a million miles away from ours.
 
possibly, though if work starts (planning permission granted a couple of years ago, work due to start once they find the money...), i'm fairly sure it will look similar to that pic up there. i understand the problem that a load of clubs have, but it seems like the 'brief' for a load of architects is to make small bowls you can fit 20-30,000 into.

i think the problem i have with a lot of new stadiums, is that they look like they're made out of metal sheeting and plastic rather than bricks and mortar. i'm hoping that ours will avoid that because 30% of the stadium will house flats and another 30% will be a hotel. as it goes, your stadium was pleasant enough when i went there with some great organisation. i guess it's just a shame that the character is being lost with so many club's stadiums because i have great memories of visiting ninian park when i was 11 many years ago.
 
Mmmmmmmm... praise

Boothroyd suspended... who will start.. Uthutututu or Ross?

.... me thinx Jones will stick with Chops, although i think Ross should get a go up front with Ututhu and leave Chops on the bench for a change.

Interesting ten minute interview with DJ on bbc site
 
Clint Iguana said:
Mmmmmmmm... praise

Boothroyd suspended... who will start.. Uthutututu or Ross?

.... me thinx Jones will stick with Chops, although i think Ross should get a go with Ututhu and Chops on the bench for a change.

Interesting ten minute interview with DJ on bbc site
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think it'll be a 5 man midfield.

with either Ross wide or playing in the hole behind Chops.

could work!
 
How can you have 4-4-2 with 5 in the middle?!
Don't be silly. We all know that DJ doesn't know of any other formation than 4-4-2.

Anyone else going up?

I'm being pesimistic as to how good a game it will be to watch but this is football and hope is never completely dead.
 
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