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If they returned the paddocks to how they were and got rid of those stupid exec boxes, it would increase our capacity quite a bit. I used to have a season ticket near the dugouts half way back. It was great there and the atmosphere really good.
According to my old football grounds of great Britain book, the current one was built in 1972, so that would be the old one. Looks pretty similar on the face of it. Don't think I've seen footage of the old one before. Most old videos tend to be from the mid 70s onwards
According to my old football grounds of great Britain book, the current one was built in 1972, so that would be the old one. Looks pretty similar on the face of it. Don't think I've seen footage of the old one before. Most old videos tend to be from the mid 70s onwards
72' it was. As mentioned before, only been in the Ellerslie twice in my life, the day it opened and the evening Routledge ripped Reading a new one when we won 4-1(?) I'd say the newer stand has a third higher capacity than the old one.
If they returned the paddocks to how they were and got rid of those stupid exec boxes, it would increase our capacity quite a bit. I used to have a season ticket near the dugouts half way back. It was great there and the atmosphere really good.
That will never happen. Take away the executive boxes and you take away the only other income stream the stadium has other than matchday ticket sales. If you did that, it wouldn't bring back that many seats anyway, 1500-2000 tops.
72' it was. As mentioned before, only been in the Ellerslie twice in my life, the day it opened and the evening Routledge ripped Reading a new one when we won 4-1(?) I'd say the newer stand has a third higher capacity than the old one.
I was playing that season & so my memory could be way out, but wasn't it p*ssing it down with rain & we lost at home to Oxford?
We definitely lost on the day that the SA Road stand was opened as well!
72' it was. As mentioned before, only been in the Ellerslie twice in my life, the day it opened and the evening Routledge ripped Reading a new one when we won 4-1(?) I'd say the newer stand has a third higher capacity than the old one.
I’ve only ever been in there a handful of times myself, last time Blackburn at home October ‘19! It was weird watching from that side like it was all back to front!
Legend has it that the old wooden Ellerslie stand was moved from the old Park Royal ground . The teams came out from separate tunnels from the changing rooms . And I think that’s right that we played Oxford when the new one opened in 72. Had a season ticket there with my grandad for years.
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