Which part of Roots Hall did you first sit /stand in...

[David Essex]

Not sure if it was my first game but i recall going to see southend v stoke pre season friendly circa 72 after stoke had beaten chelsea in the league cup....thousands turned out to see gordon banks....who never played !!! 2-0 up at half time eventually lost 4-2 went with my dad and a neighbour and he,s son always stood in the south bank ...with a flask of hot soup at half time ..... we then played stoke circa 94/95 a game that was to see a repeat scoreline if im not mistaken ....sadly just a few months before my father passed away .....

 

[Cricko]

Wherever we could find a place to "bunk in" which was mainly the South Bank..First sat in the old East stand on the wooden benches ...I remember well when the first seats were installed ..I spent a few days there sticking the gold transfer numbers on the back of the seats..:o

Now The West, but over the years have been in every part of the ground for some period of time ..

 

[BaileytheQuitter]

West stand, with my dad and his Plymouth supporting mate. Was a particuarly cold game vs Plymouth in 2001/2002 season i think it was. Lost 1-0. Only about 3,700 fans.

But strangely i loved it.

I dont know how.

I dont know why.

But since then Southend have come more and more into my life.

UTB!

 

[shrimperian]

Not sure if it was my first game but i recall going to see southend v stoke pre season friendly circa 72 after stoke had beaten chelsea in the league cup....thousands turned out to see gordon banks....who never played !!! 2-0 up at half time eventually lost 4-2 went with my dad and a neighbour and he,s son always stood in the south bank ...with a flask of hot soup at half time ..... we then played stoke circa 94/95 a game that was to see a repeat scoreline if im not mistaken ....sadly just a few months before my father passed away .....

That was actually Arthur Rowley's Testimonial. Gordon Banks was in his famous car crash a week or so before and so couldnt play. If my (fading) memory serves me correctly, John Farmer played in goal for Stoke.

My first experience of watching my heroes was from the East greens as a very small child. Whenever I smell pipe tobacco, it always reminds me of those days! As soon as I could be let of the leash, about 7 I think, I graduated to the North Paddock and then we discovered a door behind the turnstiles that came out into the famous North Bank!! I remember my first stint up at the back (not the very back, that was for murderers and rapists I thought) but a couple of steps behind the middle crush barrier. When Knees Up Mother Brown started and they pushed from the back, it was amazing! The kid in front of me went flying but in those days we just got up and started dancing around!! Happy days indeed!!

We thought our team were world beaters and I can hardly remember us losing at home but the memory plays tricks because we were not really that good. We often scored 4 or 5 goals at home though and it was brilliant playing under floodlights nearly every game.

 

[seves]

NORTH BANK 1979 V Plymouth, won 4-1. Just wish it could of been 10 months earlier for the Liverpool game! Ooh how I miss the North Bank!!

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

it was brilliant playing under floodlights nearly every game.

Not if your name was Harry Threadgold, from what I've read in A Century United

 

[DoDTS]

First with my dad I used spend all the game running up and down the North Bank terraces.

At 12 when I started to go by myself I used to stand in the Paddock in front of the East seats, changing ends at half time depending what way we were kicking. They used to have a gate which they would shut when the players came out but left open for the rest of the game so you could change.

 

[SUFC_Al]

First home hame was in the West Stand and I could just see over the wall. We went in the North Bank a few times then settled in the East Blues for many seasons. Have been in current West Stand seats since 1991!

 

[Jam_Man]

As a 9 or 10 year old was taken into the East stand but as soon as I started going at 18 went into the north bank for a while, then back into the East.

 

[cockles is back]

exeter city 85-86 season in the west stand with my dear dad

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

North Bank, 1990-91 season, was when my lifelong love-affair with SUFC began...

:)

 

[Flaiming Moe]

My Dad took me and my brother to our first football match in March 1987.

It was a Friday Night and we beat Tranmere Rovers 3-0.

Dad took us in the North Bank so we could stand with his mates and their kids.

 

[Benfleet A1]

West Stand with my reluctant aunt.

 

[Wessex]

East stand paddock closest to the North bank

 

[southend_utd_fan]

North Bank, We won 5-3 vs Bournemouth. :cool:

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

North Bank, We won 5-3 vs Bournemouth. :cool:

Were you in with the away fans then?
Only 5-3 game v Bournemouth was the classic in 1998 (therefore South Stand was built & housed home fans, therefore North Bank was away only).

Unless (just thought of this as I type) it was one of the games where they gave schoolkids half of the north?

 

[southend_utd_fan]

Unless (just thought of this as I type) it was one of the games where they gave schoolkids half of the north?

Yep, School's had free ticket's for that game, for half of the North Bank.

 

[Rayleigh boy]

north bank - bus from Rayleigh from about aged 11 - went alone or with a mate or two - no adults required in those days ....

can't remember first game but can remember Brentwood and kings lyn season of FA cup big scores.....

the Pak was home and the long white coats were the fashion -

big crowd towards the end of the season if we were pushing up the table ...

 

[ldnfatso]

I went in the East Paddock when i first came to RH. My dad also paid the 50p extra to to go up into the seats. That was living!!!:hilarious:
Later on when i went on my own i went in the North Bank or occasionally in the West Stand(where we walked from one end to the other at half time depending on what end we was shooting to.
Of late i've gone in the front row of the South Upper and got a decent seat.

 

[Shoebury Shrimper]

East Stand Paddock (standing in front of the seats) with my dad watched A certain mr cadette score four on his debut from there.

oh happy days