If 'Yes', should I re-visit the Goldstone?

[portlock seagull]

Sure I'm not alone, but ever since that final day I've never been back to the Goldstone. I just wanted to leave memories as they were until I knew we were back in Brighton and Hove for good. It's been a lot longer than I thought but it's become a personal superstition. And also becoming a serious pain in the arse given a best mate lives round the corner and I have to close my eyes in his kitchen and pull up / let the wife drive the last 100 yards so I don't see the old NE terrace. I welled up last Saturday as I saw the church at the bottom of Newtown/ Fonthill Roads round the back of the South Stand and my wife told me to stop living in the past. But it's our past. Not hers. I kinda feel that a final decision is the exocism I've been waiting for and I can finally move forward.

Do you think I should let ghosts rest after tomorrow? Is anyone else in the same boat as me?

 

[Yorkie]

Yes, get it out of your system.

We parked our car by Hove Park when we went on the Seagulls Special to Cardiff. There were 5 of us standing looking for a minute or so before we got on the train. It somehow got us into the right mood for the day, as if we knew something special was going to happen.

 

[Superphil]

When the start laying the foundations at Falmer, I might consider driving past the Goldstone, but I doubt if I'll ever go onto the site.

 

[fosters headband]

I have never put a foot on the land again and never will until we run out for the first game in our own ground.
I have even driven the wife to DFS Tunbridge Wells to keep up my promise to myself.
The wife thinks I am mad

 

[Lady Bracknell]

I still won't go near the Goldstone. In fact I won't even look at what is there now! So I shan't be doing differently even if we get a "Yes" tomorrow. I've not set eyes on the site since walking away back to Hove Station after the last game and want to remember it as it was.

 

[British Bulldog]

I've been there many times, Shopped in all the shops and eaten in Burger King! It was a bit of a downer the first time I went there but you soon get used to it.

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

Me.

NEVER.

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

I still won't go near the Goldstone. In fact I won't even look at what is there now! So I shan't be doing differently even if we get a "Yes" tomorrow. I've not set eyes on the site since walking away back to Hove Station after the last game and want to remember it as it was.

I will go nowhere near it. If it means a 10 mile detour, then detour it is, sod the greens.

 

[HAMPSHIRE DAVE]

Excluding a few Women on here,95% OF THE OPPOSITE SEX DON'T UNDERSTAND
FOOTBALL!!
(That's done it now!)
HAMPSHIRE DAVE

 

[SW17]

You'll be tempting fate. Weren't you saying the other week that with all the toing and froing that you'll never be sure when to finally celebrate Give it a year or three mate!!!!!

 

[dougdeep]

I've been there many times, Shopped in all the shops and eaten in Burger King! It was a bit of a downer the first time I went there but you soon get used to it.

But we don't want to get used to it.

 

[bristolseagull]

I have never put a foot on the land again and never will until we run out for the first game in our own ground.
I have even driven the wife to DFS Tunbridge Wells to keep up my promise to myself.
The wife thinks I am mad

f***ing hell,

get over it mate...............

 

[JJ McClure]

Once Falmer is real thing and not just a picture, then I might just might go back. Not that there is a lot to tempt me there in the first place. Sofa shop, got one thanks, fast food, no ta, D D Dixons, piss right off, and Toys a f***ing rus.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

I'm the same as most of the above.
There was once talk of a statue at the Goldstone. If/when, we get our new stadium (that means when it's actually built), I think there should be a symbolic pilgramage from the Goldstone to falmer, via Withdean.

I would then be happy for a fitting monumnet at the Goldstone to commemorate the many years and the many thousands of Sussex men, woman & children who will forever hold that place as somehwere special.

 

[portlock seagull]

Why is it that no statue has ever been placed at the Goldstone?

 

[beorhthelm]

nope, never going to set foot there. unless its for an impromtu game of footy on the newly green painted tarmac

 

[Easy 10]

Sure I'm not alone, but ever since that final day I've never been back to the Goldstone. I just wanted to leave memories as they were until I knew we were back in Brighton and Hove for good. It's been a lot longer than I thought but it's become a personal superstition. And also becoming a serious pain in the arse given a best mate lives round the corner and I have to close my eyes in his kitchen and pull up / let the wife drive the last 100 yards so I don't see the old NE terrace. I welled up last Saturday as I saw the church at the bottom of Newtown/ Fonthill Roads round the back of the South Stand and my wife told me to stop living in the past. But it's our past. Not hers. I kinda feel that a final decision is the exocism I've been waiting for and I can finally move forward.

Do you think I should let ghosts rest after tomorrow? Is anyone else in the same boat as me?

If you do go, can you get me a bog-standard scart lead and an "all in one" remote control (no more than £20) from Comets please.

Ta.

 

[BensGrandad]

I still won't go near the Goldstone. In fact I won't even look at what is there now! So I shan't be doing differently even if we get a "Yes" tomorrow. I've not set eyes on the site since walking away back to Hove Station after the last game and want to remember it as it was.

I am the same and have decreed that the next time I go past there will be in one of Harty's Limos and me being in a box for my final journey.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Why is it that no statue has ever been placed at the Goldstone?

I think it was because Albion supporters could not bear to go & visit a statue to remind them of something lost, it'd be like rubbing your nose in it.

Once we have Falmer we will have a home again.

:falmerspi

 

[Wienergull]

Have driven past many times, but have never set foot on the hallowed ground since and don't think I ever will, regardless of the Falmer verdict.