I genuinely don’t get why they are always shocked that independent observers don’t rate The Swill but BDTBL is always well thought of.
Survey after survey rates Bramall Lane as one of the best in the Championship in terms of facilities, atmosphere and aesthetics. It looks a modern but traditional stadium, especially on the inside. It’s pleasing on the eye. It looks great on telly.
The atmosphere at the Lane can be electric, most matches it’s just good. Away fans enjoy it.
The Swill is what it is. Delapidated. Rundown. Poor facilities compared to many and especially the Lane.
The Swill has a poor atmosphere. That’s not my judgement, it’s their own. They’re always wanting to improve it, whether that be by manufactured rather than spontaneous songs/chants they devise on Porktalk, or by that loathsome ‘band’ ( who freeload on the back of Leeds Rhino’s and England)
That many shades of blue adorn their ‘stadium’ I actually think that along the way the actual shade of blue that is their colour has been lost. I think the various contractors send the YTS lad down to B&Q and tell him to come back with the nearest thing he can find to a flake of rust blue paint that’s fell off.
Almost ten per cent of their seats can’t be used. The reason being their concourses aren’t adequate to cope with the number of actual seats they have. IMO this has always been a problem for them. They’ve been allowed to have more attendees in their ground than the actual facilities can feesibly support. Now SAG won’t dare allow that to continue.
At the Lane the issue is not whether we can support numbers with actual infrastrucure, but SAG netting off areas where they feel a certain element of our support will let us down. IMO with good reason, we unfortunately do have a minority who always let us down.
Bramall Lane is one of the best and most liked grounds in the Championship. The survey got it about right regarding that but the reasons given I’m not sure about. The rest of the survey is a bit hit and miss especially Elland Rd at number one and The Swill being as high as eleventh.
