Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:21 pm  

The optimist wrote:

Mingle? There are pubs in the vasinity where if you fancy meeting up pre/post drink

Not the same as mingling inside the ground, though, is it?

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:33 pm  

True but wouldn't you already have had a discussion with the people you mingle with to find out where they will be situated in the ground so then you can decide where your going to be situated?

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:55 am  

Would have thought there will be a fair few doing what the people I go to the games with will doo.

IE meet up in Eccles and grab a cab between them, 5 of you in a blackcab from the rank in Eccles will cost a lot less than buses and i'm pretty sure that the black cab lads will soon suss that if they hang around at 10:00 pm on a Friday near the ground on game days they will get return fairs. Cheap beer in Wethers or the old Finn McCouls with good company is much more prefereable than look warm cans of pi$$ squeezed (only half of it mind) out into plastic pots that we've all had to put up with over recent years at the Willows.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:00 am  

Salford red all over wrote:

Good post Mike
I think you sum up the match day experience very well, basically inside the ground you will be situated in one stand only unable to "Mingle" and as for drinking well there will be no supporters club type bar so you drink inside a breeze block concourse or maybe out on the terrace like at Wire.

I think people will drink elsewhere and just rock up to the staduim a few mins before kick off, then drift off straight after the match, to there own locals/homes.

Unless of coarse people decide for instance to head into Eccles. (fraggle rock)

Went to the England Wales game at Leigh a few weeks ago and went for drinks in the Leigh East club house which is exactly what we need, I know I've said it before but I'm amazed that Eccles aren't marketing thier place as a pre match venue for supporters, pretty certain that with a seasons worth of added income in the bank they might be able to invest in some better facilities, hell there might even be a big name international player who is involved in the club willing to invest some of his hard earned in a good cause to do it earlier, the best thing with Eccles is the short cut under the motorway through Brookhouse to the games.

Failing that thing the Airport social club will turn into a regular pre match venue for many, spoken to a couple of people who've been in and they both said it was a decent enough place for a pint.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:37 am  

The optimist wrote:

Mingle? There are pubs in the vasinity where if you fancy meeting up pre/post drink
When I went to the willows club after a match on a standard night it wasn't exactly hammered with people.

The bar @ barton airport, the rock hotel or the unicorn or even the con club type pub near the roundabout gives you plenty of mingling options, I suspect it will take a few weeks to figure out where the best places are

Personally looking at the front of the stadium I feel its probably the best looking approach to a ground, all lit up, glowing and dominates the sky line will certainly lift the hairs on the back of the neck.

As for in the ground personally I can't wait till we are all pinned in one or two ends always use to annoy the bajeebers out of me when people use to disappear at half the for a beer and never come back. Definite atmosphere killer.

Like I've said its all about adapting and making this experience a positive one

Bobby what the f*ck has most of that post to do with fans mingling at the ground ? lots of Reds fans have people they go to the game with and then meet people they know but generally only know them through being Salford fans. Thats the mingling bit.

But I guess your idea is looking at the outside facias and keeping tabs on your flock !

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:43 am  

The optimist wrote:

always use to annoy the bajeebers out of me when people use to disappear at half the for a beer and never come back.

I was going to say can you blame them but I think that one might just might be wasted on you.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:47 am  

Other people rule the roost these days and rightly so as hell or high water they get there to watch salford week in week out unlike me at present doesnt.

I believe in that kind terrace etiquette.

I'll probably see what the plan is where everyone is going then decide who and where to go but gone are the days I could dig my heels in and dictate where we drink.

Anyway its all about adapting to change and not being scared of new ways, I'm excited about moving I will have to meet new challenges like making kickoff as I work longer than I ever have but I'm not going to have a winge about it ill just find the best / quickest way there.

its sad but I do feel that some reds WANT the club to fail and the stadium to fail why I don't know but its far from the spirit of 2003 when the fans and club worked together to keep us full time and bring us back from the edge.

perhaps the spirit of salford rugby has finally flipped over and won't be happy till its destroyed itself.

we will see...

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 21, 2011 2:00 am  

Diavolo Rosso wrote:

I couldn't help but feel though that getting to the stadium this way makes it feel very isolated coming from the rest of Salford, it pretty much feels like an out of town stadium even though it isn't really if you look at where the nearest communities are.

Salford may have faced a similar issue when they moved to The Willows. In 1901, there wasn't much around it at all in the way of roads or life and was very much on the developed edge of West Salford (bar the odd manor house and Salford Royal). Yet as generations of supporters who remember the old ground pass, this becomes a non-issue. I might write something for the heritage blog about this.

Diavolo Rosso wrote:

The fact there hasn't been any consultation with the fans

There has actually. Oh sorry mate, I thought that said consolation.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:32 am  

The optimist wrote:

Other people rule the roost these days and rightly so as hell or high water they get there to watch salford week in week out unlike me at present doesnt.

The optimist wrote:

I'll probably see what the plan is where everyone is going then decide who and where to go but gone are the days I could dig my heels in and dictate where we drink.

Blimey, I never realised you used to be some sort of terrace general...

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:28 am  

just been to the ground
the scoreboard is up in the North stand
the lounges ate called
Barton
Irlam
Cadishead

and the ground looks great