| Owls not impressed with the school end on 11:37 - Jan 27 with 2518 views | TeddeRs |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 10:53 - Jan 27 by connell10 |
Having called all Wednesday fans moaning Northerns , I actually found the fans of theirs I spoke to , were very nice indeed. |
And pretty much all of them cheered and clapped 7 year old Albie for his penalty in front of them at half-time. Of course, that is as it should be - but sadly doesn't always happen.
So, thanks to the Owls fans for that. |  | |  |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 12:08 - Jan 27 with 2414 views | Juzzie |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 11:37 - Jan 27 by TeddeRs |
And pretty much all of them cheered and clapped 7 year old Albie for his penalty in front of them at half-time. Of course, that is as it should be - but sadly doesn't always happen.
So, thanks to the Owls fans for that. |
Shows that real world and online are two completely different universes. |  | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 12:12 - Jan 27 with 2404 views | kensalriser |
If there were more restricted view seats available at other grounds I'd probably go to see QPR play away more often. |  |
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| Owls not impressed with the school end on 12:29 - Jan 27 with 2315 views | TheChef |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 09:30 - Jan 27 by Ned_Kennedys |
All well and good but what do you think the owners can do to improve the lack of space and lack of legroom at Loftus Road with the current infrastructure?
New ground would be the only option. |
DIG DOWN!!!!!! |  |
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| Owls not impressed with the school end on 13:13 - Jan 27 with 2182 views | Northernr |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 10:53 - Jan 27 by connell10 |
Having called all Wednesday fans moaning Northerns , I actually found the fans of theirs I spoke to , were very nice indeed. |
The vast majority of fans we come across on our travels are very similar. They enjoy following their team around, like a pint, don't take it too seriously. They're always keen to know how we're doing and vice versa.
Apart from Leeds. They're all cnts. |  | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 13:51 - Jan 27 with 2086 views | Boston |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 23:17 - Jan 26 by LongsufferingR |
I take it they haven't been to Portsmouth or Luton yet. |
...or come to that the Annie Rd at Anfield. Always get tickets toward the front, if you're further back under the stand, the minute those in front stand up the pitch virtually disappears. It's like watching a game through a letter box. | |
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| Owls not impressed with the school end on 14:16 - Jan 27 with 1989 views | Juzzie |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 13:13 - Jan 27 by Northernr |
The vast majority of fans we come across on our travels are very similar. They enjoy following their team around, like a pint, don't take it too seriously. They're always keen to know how we're doing and vice versa.
Apart from Leeds. They're all cnts. |
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling around the world in my time and 99% of the people I've come across are friendly, generous and just want to live their life. Enjoy being with their family, do their job, enjoy their pastimes. Except when I went to Leeds once, they were all cnts.
Yet we are all brainwashed to hate each other.
Sorry, didn't want to digress and get political but I think it's in context.
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| Owls not impressed with the school end on 14:30 - Jan 27 with 1950 views | stowmarketrange |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 13:51 - Jan 27 by Boston |
...or come to that the Annie Rd at Anfield. Always get tickets toward the front, if you're further back under the stand, the minute those in front stand up the pitch virtually disappears. It's like watching a game through a letter box. |
I’m not sure if it’s the same now that they’ve redeveloped that stand.It doesn’t seem to be as low down as the old one did. |  | | |
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| Owls not impressed with the school end on 14:57 - Jan 27 with 1901 views | Benny_the_Ball |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 00:09 - Jan 27 by Northernr |
I'd excuse Sheff Wed fans for not knowing this but the "business lounge" is actually a TV studio that we were mandated to install for Sky when we were in the Premier League. Obviously Sky don't give a sht about us now we're in the division below so it sits there empty every week and the club quite rightly monetises that where they can be renting it out as an exec box. The seats behind it are no longer sold.
TBH it feels like a matter of time before something happens in that stand. It's not fit for purpose. But I'm certainly not taking any abuse, criticism or anything else about our away end from the club that charges £40 to go in the literal death trap that is still the Leppings Lane end, dealing with the world's cntiest stewards on the way in for good measure.
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And a club that advertised the Bristol City score during that match. |  | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 15:00 - Jan 27 with 1896 views | Boston |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 14:30 - Jan 27 by stowmarketrange |
I’m not sure if it’s the same now that they’ve redeveloped that stand.It doesn’t seem to be as low down as the old one did. |
Maybe, not been there for 15 years. | |
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| Owls not impressed with the school end on 15:07 - Jan 27 with 1875 views | flynnbo |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 10:32 - Jan 27 by Northernr |
Never forgiven them for what happened to Dave Thomas at the promotion match. |
Yep and my partner at the time and my mum were confronted on the way out. Cowards like the Cardiff fans at the play off final. |  | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 15:36 - Jan 27 with 1786 views | stowmarketrange |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 15:07 - Jan 27 by flynnbo |
Yep and my partner at the time and my mum were confronted on the way out. Cowards like the Cardiff fans at the play off final. |
And don’t forget that some of their cowards attacked our fans inside the ground at ko time too. | | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 17:18 - Jan 27 with 1628 views | NewYorkRanger |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 11:20 - Jan 27 by LongsufferingR |
Just a thought. If we dug down beneath the School End and lowered that stand 15 feet or so, the box would no longer be in the way. Problem solved.
Wouldn't help those in the lower tier much to be fair though. |
pitch would be on a hell of a slope though eh? |  |
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| Owls not impressed with the school end on 17:59 - Jan 27 with 1556 views | Northernr |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 11:20 - Jan 27 by LongsufferingR |
Just a thought. If we dug down beneath the School End and lowered that stand 15 feet or so, the box would no longer be in the way. Problem solved.
Wouldn't help those in the lower tier much to be fair though. |
That would basically be the view you got from the front half dozen rows of the away end at Upton Park.
Remember a jobsworth steward insisting we all had to sit down there or we'd be ejected. I told him in that case he may as well throw us out because when I sat down my head was three feet below pitch level and staring at a concrete wall. | | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 18:15 - Jan 27 with 1496 views | elnombre |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 23:17 - Jan 26 by LongsufferingR |
I take it they haven't been to Portsmouth or Luton yet. |
Or enjoyed the hobbit cavern reserved for away fans at Old Trafford. | | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 18:48 - Jan 27 with 1428 views | stowmarketrange |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 17:59 - Jan 27 by Northernr |
That would basically be the view you got from the front half dozen rows of the away end at Upton Park.
Remember a jobsworth steward insisting we all had to sit down there or we'd be ejected. I told him in that case he may as well throw us out because when I sat down my head was three feet below pitch level and staring at a concrete wall. |
The old terrace behind the goal at Everton was just as bad.Luckily we never seemed to take enough there for it to be a problem. | | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 19:02 - Jan 27 with 1370 views | loftboy |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 18:48 - Jan 27 by stowmarketrange |
The old terrace behind the goal at Everton was just as bad.Luckily we never seemed to take enough there for it to be a problem. |
I always sat in the seats above the terracing. |  |
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| Owls not impressed with the school end on 19:04 - Jan 27 with 1359 views | stowmarketrange |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 19:02 - Jan 27 by loftboy |
I always sat in the seats above the terracing. |
Rich bastard. | | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 19:40 - Jan 27 with 1277 views | Hastings_Hoops |
That restricted view seat is absolute tosh… we didn’t sell any seats in the corners. I was coincidentally looking to see whether they had been sold and they hadn’t, so it’s an attention seeker.
Move on. Nothing to see (so to speak). |  | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 20:02 - Jan 27 with 1204 views | M40R |
Wow, the minutes are a cracking read. Thanks for posting it.
I loved the reference to "vomitories" in the section on Millwall fan behaviour and can tell you it does not mean what you might think. | | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 20:10 - Jan 27 with 1182 views | M40R |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 10:06 - Jan 27 by stainrods_elbow |
Thanks for reclarifying the historical picture, Northern. Oddly, I don't remember this being part of any club publicity when we went up, and I can find nothing about it online to refresh my memory. I think technically the requirements that 'mandated' this ill-positioned monstrosity come from the Premier League (albeit with Sky as their arguable overlords), but that's perhaps a tad pedantic.
Personally, once we were back in the Champ, I'd have taken it down again and reopened up all the away seats just to avoid this kind of shitty PR. It's irksome in such a small ground like ours we're constantly shaving off bits of ground capacity for one reason and another - the latest being the blocked-off front rows of the lower School End.
I guess this one will run and run until we rebuild or move on. |
I remember vividly the new TV lounge bouncing up and down during the half time pundit sessions - watched on catch up by me of course - when we were one up at home to Chelsea in our first Prem season. Ray Wilkins remarked on it and looked very worried. | | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 21:34 - Jan 27 with 1046 views | Trellick |
Couldn't the "business lounge" and the TV gantry be moved on top of the SB stand? |  | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 23:43 - Jan 27 with 891 views | Northernr |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 21:34 - Jan 27 by Trellick |
Couldn't the "business lounge" and the TV gantry be moved on top of the SB stand? |
20 years ago I heard they were worried about hanging the Alfred McAlpine sponsorship boards from that roof because it was in such a fcking state. I'm amazed we've even been able to extend the gantry and put that studio there as it is. | | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 09:43 - Jan 28 with 597 views | robith |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 20:02 - Jan 27 by M40R |
Wow, the minutes are a cracking read. Thanks for posting it.
I loved the reference to "vomitories" in the section on Millwall fan behaviour and can tell you it does not mean what you might think. |
every day is a school day! |  | | |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 12:39 - Jan 28 with 493 views | slmrstid |
| Owls not impressed with the school end on 23:43 - Jan 27 by Northernr |
20 years ago I heard they were worried about hanging the Alfred McAlpine sponsorship boards from that roof because it was in such a fcking state. I'm amazed we've even been able to extend the gantry and put that studio there as it is. |
I have long maintained that the building of a jumbotron TV screen on top of the School End without the entire stand falling down on top of itself is one of the engineering marvels of our lifetime. It should have TV programmes made about it. |  | | |
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