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Northyorksblade said:
Unjustified arrogance??? Oh for fuck's sake, I'm not a pig!! Have you been in the away end at Bradford? Disgusting toilets, no lights, paper or paper towels. One tiny kiosk with a queue a mile long for a coffee at half time.
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It was the home end until this season, it's not as if it's some pit that we dump away fans in. I don't recall any City fans bleating about it, then again we are used to Accy & Daggers. :)

It's was built in the mid-80's and it is a bog standard lower league small stand, the geography means that it has to be narrow, there is no space to build a larger stand at that end of the ground, it's a perfectly adequate stand from which to view, it keeps the rain off you, what more do you want? You want heated toilet seats and padded loo roll? Then go to hotel battyboy, not a football ground..............

Good luck for the rest of the season, but should the worst happen and you go down, I'd give up on football if I were you, Accy's away "stand" will finish you off.

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are you complaining theres only 1 stauncheon blocking the view ?
or that the seats were facing the pitch

hate to point it out but theres a few of those on our kop , he said quietly
 
Nor were ours, there was another seat to the left of me too, which was further restricted by the poles/speakers/floodlights.

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Don't get me wrong, I've been to plenty of "interesting" lower league grounds, but it's annoying when you pay Category A prices with absolutely no mention of a view restricted by supporting pillars/posts etc.
 
cooperblade said:
No it isn't. Our seats weren't marked as restricted view.
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:D Oh give over love, I've already told you, it's bog standard lower league football stand with FOC restricted views, if it didn't have pillars the roof would fall on your head! I paid £72 for this view in the LC final, that was not marked as a restricted view either.

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I've always sat in that end as an away fan, so I don't know how you say it was the home end until this season. And my view was the same as Cooperblade, except I think I was one stanchion further along, meaning you're forever moving from side to side. Harrogate Town's toilet and coffee facilities are better than Bradford City's, so a drop in leagues wouldn't bother me.
 
Northyorksblade said:
I've always sat in that end as an away fan, so I don't know how you say it was the home end until this season.
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Do you think I made it up for fun? :confused: Historically that has always been the home end, "The Bradford End", when that (new) stand was erected it was still the home end, then, for a few seasons it became used for away fans, before reverting back to the home use in about 2009 (I think). Last season only about 200/300 of the "yoof" occupied it, so with bigger attendances in L1 expected, it's now gone back to away fans alongside the usual away section in the adjacent Midland Rd stand, where the views are clear and the leg room superb!
 
saltaire bantam said:
It was the home end until this season, it's not as if it's some pit that we dump away fans in. I don't recall any City fans bleating about it, then again we are used to Accy & Daggers. :)

It's was built in the mid-80's and it is a bog standard lower league small stand, the geography means that it has to be narrow, there is no space to build a larger stand at that end of the ground, it's a perfectly adequate stand from which to view, it keeps the rain off you, what more do you want? You want heated toilet seats and padded loo roll? Then go to hotel battyboy, not a football ground..............

Good luck for the rest of the season, but should the worst happen and you go down, I'd give up on football if I were you, Accy's away "stand" will finish you off.

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That wasnt the away end I was in, we were up on the stand to the right of this with an excellent view. The facilities however were as shite as the kop at The lane and the beer was served straight from warm cans.... Mmmm classy.
 
JohnDenver said:
I might ask for a restricted view discount as I spend half my games peeking out through the gaps in my fingers.
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:D

Early days, your team was fine, better than us, until the final 18 yards..............

I don't know what the moaning is about, I've watched plenty of games from that stand without problems and I don't have a face like a hammerhead shark.
 
saltaire bantam said:
Do you think I made it up for fun? :confused: Historically that has always been the home end, "The Bradford End", when that (new) stand was erected it was still the home end, then, for a few seasons it became used for away fans, before reverting back to the home use in about 2009 (I think). Last season only about 200/300 of the "yoof" occupied it, so with bigger attendances in L1 expected, it's now gone back to away fans alongside the usual away section in the adjacent Midland Rd stand, where the views are clear and the leg room superb!
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Of course not, I was just saying that's where I have always sat as an away fan! Is all!
 



I forgot.............that stand is so bad that the 250 ST holders in it from last season presented a petition to the club asking to be allowed to stay in it. Tbh it looked good, the bottom tier was covered in Bradford supporters clubs flags with fans just in the upper section, they made a good noise and enjoyed themselves, it's got good acoustics.

Not that I am suggesting that you should have made some noise or owt.......................:)
 
saltaire bantam said:
It was the home end until this season, it's not as if it's some pit that we dump away fans in. I don't recall any City fans bleating about it, then again we are used to Accy & Daggers. :)

It's was built in the mid-80's and it is a bog standard lower league small stand, the geography means that it has to be narrow, there is no space to build a larger stand at that end of the ground, it's a perfectly adequate stand from which to view, it keeps the rain off you, what more do you want? You want heated toilet seats and padded loo roll? Then go to hotel battyboy, not a football ground..............

Good luck for the rest of the season, but should the worst happen and you go down, I'd give up on football if I were you, Accy's away "stand" will finish you off.

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Saltaire why do you call nyblade a battyboy? why use Jamaican derogatory homophobic slang to insult him with?
 
Never mind. Well done on your start to the season anyway. Great season you had last year and i will be happy if you do what you achieved with Lee Mills and Beagrie in 1999. But please lose to us at the lane....
 
I know the one..mean looking, dressed in white..i recall a great cartoon by a bloke named the pie in city gent 15 yrs ago..it depicted the scene at a league cup tie between leeds and city at helland road and it was very funny.....showing their idiot fans up for what too many of them are.
 
saltaire bantam said:
:D Oh give over love, I've already told you, it's bog standard lower league football stand with FOC restricted views, if it didn't have pillars the roof would fall on your head! I paid £72 for this view in the LC final, that was not marked as a restricted view either.

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Got to say the everest windows stadium at Valley Parade is the most cobbled together ground I've been to. Two brand mew massive stands with a filled in corner (which was closed), part of a massive stand which didnt go the full way along to the end of the pitch, followed by a floodlight pylon, the Ryanair terrace and police boxes, a two tier cheapo subbbuteo stand sponsored by an American TV show from the '80's and then what I would consider a decent main stand stand befitting the club.

There doesn't appear to be anything around the ground - no pubs, no t shirt/scarf sellers, no burger vans, just run down streets which you'd imagine that the Yorkshire ripper used to drive along.

You would've thought that the two new stands would've been built to fit in with the main stand where I was sat and also building up the stand behind the goal as well
 
Everest? :eek: Please.....it is the (more upmarket) Coral Windows stadium.

Yes, the ground is bizarre, but, all the better for it IMO in a world of McBowls. It'll never be completed to a more normal appearance for many reasons and it's already of a sufficient capacity. The ground was perfect for us before we got into the PL, we are historically wank, so we have never built a large latent support who come back in good times, that ground was normal and held about 16k, was pretty near always full and crackled with atmosphere, it was the same as it is now but without the kop and main stand upper tiers, so 3 matching stands and the offices joining the main stand with the ground appearing "enclosed". The small stand cannot be enlarged, it's not possible.

After the fire our chairman had wanted to take the opportunity to move the ground to Shipley (North Bradford, a nice monied area adjoining the Aire Valley commuter route), this was not popular. But he was a visionary and has been proven to be right. The City changed rapidly and white flight took hold, but the ground can't move and now it is stuck in an area where it's fans left long, long ago, it's quite sad but that's reason there is little entertainment around the ground, it's a dead area apart from home games and certainly no pub could turn a buck around there. Most fans will drink either in the centre of their own suburbs, whereas as little as 20 years ago, the area would be rammed around VP on match days, in my day, the Islamic school at the top of VP was the Belle Vue pub with match day strippers!

I think you have the best ground in L1, followed Wolves then Preston.
 
Imagine what Swiss would have thought of the old Midland Road Stand Salty....
 
saltaire bantam said:
Everest? :eek: Please.....it is the (more upmarket) Coral Windows stadium.

Yes, the ground is bizarre, but, all the better for it IMO in a world of McBowls. It'll never be completed to a more normal appearance for many reasons and it's already of a sufficient capacity. The ground was perfect for us before we got into the PL, we are historically wank, so we have never built a large latent support who come back in good times, that ground was normal and held about 16k, was pretty near always full and crackled with atmosphere, it was the same as it is now but without the kop and main stand upper tiers, so 3 matching stands and the offices joining the main stand with the ground appearing "enclosed". The small stand cannot be enlarged, it's not possible.

After the fire our chairman had wanted to take the opportunity to move the ground to Shipley (North Bradford, a nice monied area adjoining the Aire Valley commuter route), this was not popular. But he was a visionary and has been proven to be right. The City changed rapidly and white flight took hold, but the ground can't move and now it is stuck in an area where it's fans left long, long ago, it's quite sad but that's reason there is little entertainment around the ground, it's a dead area apart from home games and certainly no pub could turn a buck around there. Most fans will drink either in the centre of their own suburbs, whereas as little as 20 years ago, the area would be rammed around VP on match days, in my day, the Islamic school at the top of VP was the Belle Vue pub with match day strippers!

I think you have the best ground in L1, followed Wolves then Preston.
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Don't get me wrong it has, ahem, character and apart from the small stand behind the goal and the end of the main stand its an interesting looking ground. The two larger two tiered stands are huge! But it seems nobody wanted to sit at the back of the main stand, so I'm guessing the view is crap.

So would Bradford fans now be looking to move? Seems strange to build such huge stands when a move would actually be justified.

Good luck this season, if you keep Wells you'll do well, but can't see it.
 



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