Russybcool wrote:
Alby39 wrote:
Phew!
Lucky to get away with one there but we worked hard and did our best and our best was enough and that's all we can ask for...
I must say, I thought that the handball pen was a pen but I'll have to se it again... either way, nice to see us shithousing a point for once.
Their fans were hilarious. Like, seriously the funniest and most fun bunch I've ever encountered. If they weren't 15 year old trying to be 40, they were 40 year old trying to to be 15 year old... my highlights were taking the piss out of them and laughing along with their shit chants and pointing... which seemed to annoy them more. I offered one, by hand signal, a drink after the game, which he of course mistook for a blowie. Bet he was disappointed. He wasn't my type. I don't go for knock off Stone Island in a guy myself
Honestly a load of fun, though.
Our club could learn so so much from that ground in how to run our ground... for a new build it felt like a football ground... every time I see these types it makes me more and more embarrassed about ours tbh... and even more flabbergasted at those that defend it.
1. Pride Park was open in 1997 well before MK Dons were a twinkle in Winky's eye. I think you can safely say it is not a new ground, modern yes, but new I don't think so.
2. I don't get what you mean by this point of being embarrassed by our ground. Do you mean the amount of people in it? Do you mean the comfort? The fact that they had one steward per 10 people? If you could please elaborate as I am a little confused. However, I can tell you for nothing for 26k attendance only the stand by us were making any kind of noise is fucking appalling IMO. I think it is no different to our ground having one set of fans that actually can be arsed to make noise. The more I go to these "bigger clubs" grounds the more I feel that we are no different to them in terms of who actually makes noise. I know they were probably frustrated, but I really thought the atmosphere was crap to be honest.
Wasn't referring to the noise whatsoever. As it goes, thought their atmosphere was "okay".. not great, their goal celebration was embarrassing. Considering they were giving it for 15 minutes leading up, felt like a pre season friendly celebration.
I'm talking more what it looks like. More character. More feeling of an actual football stadium. You walk around ours when the football isn't on and it feels like what it is, a multi purpose stadium and not a football stadium. Very little signage. Very little to showcase its MK Dons that play there. Pride Park had it all. Old pictures in poster form all around the exterior of the ground of former players, memorable moments, seas9ns gone by. The board we have at the top of the Cowshed? They had similar outside their gate. About 8 burger vans, statues of legends etc. Ours is quite simply a big bowl with some black marble brickwork and an MK Dons badge plastered on the building in each corner..Once you get into the ground there's very little character. Very few quirks to make it feel like ours. Go to many other grounds and it's full of imagery of their club. Their proud moments. Ours is simple, plain black, round and characterless.
But at least we have padded seats.
Any ground put up in the last 30 years that, as mentioned, is built for comfort, better safety and practicality after the Taylor Report is a new build. Leicester, Derby, Middlesbrough, MK Dons, Southampton, Reading, Doncaster, Hull, Emirates, WHL..
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