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on September 1st this year i complete 30 years as a blues fan and my first ever live game. It will be a sad day when we leave the hall and i just hope we don't end up with 4,000 fans in a 20,000 stadium.

can't we keep the hall for reserve and youth games(like Derby did for a bit), do we really need another supermarket in the town.
 
First went to roots hall when it was brand spanking new in the early 50s. Little did i know that i would live to see them go to another new stadium. Will miss it a great deal,fond memories, and some not so fond.
 
I know that having a new stadium will bring in much needed revenue and can push us towards being able to compete with the likes of Palace, Wolves, Coventry etc in the Championship, and yes I will have a season ticket there as soon as they go on sale BUT I feel like the club that I love is nearing the end of its life.

I love being a supporter of my local "small" club, where we have an old but beutifully retro stadium that is big enough for most of the games that are played there.

Its perfect (in my view) location, with a couple of decent pubs within easy reach.

The fact that when we do get drawn against a premiership team in a cup it's a major event and if we then beat them it's national headline news! (Thanks Freddy;) )

Yes, maybe someday we might even reach the giddy heights of the Premiership but we will only ever, at best, be a Derby County! Now some might say that that is better than being what we are but I don't know that it is.

I certainly would not like to be a Derby fan right now, and all they have to look forward to is yo yoing between the Championship and the Premiership (if they are lucky) in a reasonably nice, but souless stadium stuck on a retail park.

So at the moment I feel mixed emotions and can't really go along with the mass exitement of the majority of Zoners!

For me it will be a very sad day when we leave the "Home of Essex Football"

The one, the only ROOTS HALL!!:cry: :cry:
 
RootsHallRush2 said:
I know that having a new stadium will bring in much needed revenue and can push us towards being able to compete with the likes of Palace, Wolves, Coventry etc in the Championship, and yes I will have a season ticket there as soon as they go on sale BUT I feel like the club that I love is nearing the end of its life.

I love being a supporter of my local "small" club, where we have an old but beutifully retro stadium that is big enough for most of the games that are played there.

Its perfect (in my view) location, with a couple of decent pubs within easy reach.

The fact that when we do get drawn against a premiership team in a cup it's a major event and if we then beat them it's national headline news! (Thanks Freddy;) )

Yes, maybe someday we might even reach the giddy heights of the Premiership but we will only ever, at best, be a Derby County! Now some might say that that is better than being what we are but I don't know that it is.

I certainly would not like to be a Derby fan right now, and all they have to look forward to is yo yoing between the Championship and the Premiership (if they are lucky) in a reasonably nice, but souless stadium stuck on a retail park.

So at the moment I feel mixed emotions and can't really go along with the mass exitement of the majority of Zoners!

For me it will be a very sad day when we leave the "Home of Essex Football"

The one, the only ROOTS HALL!!:cry: :cry:
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I wholeheartedly concur. I know a couple of Derby fans who say you can't win. You either try to aim for the top and either fail, go bankrupt and endure painful seasons of loss after loss or succeed and lose your soul to the money men. But can you rest on your laurels either?

Its very tricky. I've seen so many diehard Gooners at work move to being fairweather fans due to the lack of atmosphere at the Emirates, or an inability to get a ticket (something I doubt we'll have a problem with for a fair while yet).

All I do know is that I for one won't miss the **** weak Roots Hall tea...
 
RootsHallRush2 said:
I know that having a new stadium will bring in much needed revenue and can push us towards being able to compete with the likes of Palace, Wolves, Coventry etc in the Championship, and yes I will have a season ticket there as soon as they go on sale BUT I feel like the club that I love is nearing the end of its life.

I love being a supporter of my local "small" club, where we have an old but beutifully retro stadium that is big enough for most of the games that are played there.

Its perfect (in my view) location, with a couple of decent pubs within easy reach.

The fact that when we do get drawn against a premiership team in a cup it's a major event and if we then beat them it's national headline news! (Thanks Freddy;) )

Yes, maybe someday we might even reach the giddy heights of the Premiership but we will only ever, at best, be a Derby County! Now some might say that that is better than being what we are but I don't know that it is.

I certainly would not like to be a Derby fan right now, and all they have to look forward to is yo yoing between the Championship and the Premiership (if they are lucky) in a reasonably nice, but souless stadium stuck on a retail park.

So at the moment I feel mixed emotions and can't really go along with the mass exitement of the majority of Zoners!

For me it will be a very sad day when we leave the "Home of Essex Football"

The one, the only ROOTS HALL!!:cry: :cry:
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Indeed its difficult nowadays because the balance from the top to the bottom is so screwed and unless you have alot of money its very hard to establish yourself at the top level, but I would rather we were trying to compete in the Championship than be stuck in the bottom half of League Two and unfortunately for us to do that we need a new ground.
 
A lot of how much you think the new ground will be good / bad also comes down to the pre / post match experience. I for one think the pint and banter before and after in The Spread is 50% of the days enjoyment. Drinking a pint of John Smiths in a plastic cup at a squeaky clean barren new concrete bar (if its anything like many other newer stadia) won't be the same, even if the banter is. I think it's time to start the "campaign for real ale at FF" here and now...

Onwards and upwards though
 
I would be more than happy to yo yo between the Prem and The championship.. Im fairly happy doing that between the Champ, and League 1.. For the last 4 seasons nearly every game has been vital, For promotions, trying to avoid relegation and scrapping for a play off place.. Imagine being a Palace fan where from mid season if all fairly ZZZZ
 
SARF said:
I would be more than happy to yo yo between the Prem and The championship.. Im fairly happy doing that between the Champ, and League 1.. For the last 4 seasons nearly every game has been vital, For promotions, trying to avoid relegation and scrapping for a play off place.. Imagine being a Palace fan where from mid season if all fairly ZZZZ
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That is true but imagine only having one 1 game all season!?!:omygod:
 
turkishm said:
First went to roots hall when it was brand spanking new in the early 50s. Little did i know that i would live to see them go to another new stadium. Will miss it a great deal,fond memories, and some not so fond.
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Don't count your chickens. You may get run over tomorrow:winking:
 
Will miss the hall no doubt, so much of my time/effort/energy all focused on being there, twenty five years, seeing the changes- west stand being seated, thus moving to the north bank, then bugger me they put seats in everywhere, someone must remember the chant of 'we dont want your phukin seats' being slightly impressed with the south stand then realising only the first three rows have 'good views', trying the east stand now and again but then realising when the sun is out you can see fek all, wolves at home in 87 what a night, beating spurs at home in the league cup, the webby era, fat judas building a team good enough to get to the prem only to leave for brum, fat judas then returning with brum and getting thrashed, the tilly era etc etc etc love the place? I sometimes wished I could live there
 
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