[Albion] Two new stadiums next year

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

I've done Roker but not SoL. Everton and Sunderland top of my list for next season. No doubt they'll now be Monday night or when I'm on holiday!

Ditto on all counts.

Roker Park was FREEZING the day I went in 1977. We won 2-0.

Looking forward to SoL and Everton's new ground next season.

Need to start planning - when are the fixtures out?

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

I saw us play at the stadium of light in the early noughties. Zamora was sent off. We lost.

Edit: oh and I seem to recall @The Clown of Pevensey Bay was ver ver drunk.

I somehow got home to Carlisle and woke up the next morning still in my shoes.

I’ve been there twice. The other game was England v Turkey in a European qualifier the previous year.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

I have seen them at SoL. It was a midweek game, some Albion player was badly injured.

League Cup game?

 

[MattBackHome]

Yeah Everton away nailed on

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I went to the SOL in 2004. It’s an identikit stadium, think Reading or Leicester, with red seats.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

League Cup game?

Possibly. Can’t remember.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Ditto on all counts.

Roker Park was FREEZING the day I went in 1977. We won 2-0.

Looking forward to SoL and Everton's new ground next season.

Need to start planning - when are the fixtures out?

I got SOAKED. Not just a little - proper North Sea sideways rain with no roof on the small, terraced away end. We lost and their goal was a mile offside.

Set my tinny drinking personal best on the way home though so not all was lost.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

… but it's bound to be an away match at either Everton, Sunderland or Bournemouth (likely to be my first shot at Tier 1)

Ditto, I already got a few things booked for next year, if I make one of these three, I’ll probably settle for that.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

I went to the SOL in 2004. It’s an identikit stadium, think Reading or Leicester, with red seats.

Capacity of SoL : 49,000
Capacity of Reading : 24,000

 

[PeterT]

I got SOAKED. Not just a little - proper North Sea sideways rain with no roof on the small, terraced away end. We lost and their goal was a mile offside.

Set my tinny drinking personal best on the way home though so not all was lost.

That small terraced away end used to be twice as big but I think there was a safety issue and half of it had to be removed

Dramatic location though:

Edit - the safety reason referred to was that the terrace was basically held up by Meccano:

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

Ditto on all counts.

Roker Park was FREEZING the day I went in 1977. We won 2-0.

Looking forward to SoL and Everton's new ground next season.

Need to start planning - when are the fixtures out?

I was at the Roker Park match, Steve Piper scored one of the goals if I remember correctly.
The Sunderland fans were proper ****s after the game, spitting at, and attacking, the Albion following on the way back to the station.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Even if I don't make the away game, I'm going to the Rugby match against Australia at Everton's ground in November.

Which apart from ticking off a new ground will give me the opportunity to saunter past the "No Alcohol Beyond This Point" signs while holding 4 pints.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Capacity of SoL : 49,000
Capacity of Reading : 24,000

I didn’t say how many seats. It just looks very similar, with no features.

 

[Wardy's twin]

The Mrs has just announced that she has booked a holiday for us in October.

Very nice of her, but I'm already concerned about what fixture(s) I'm going to have to miss.
Hoping it's a home match against Villa or Burnley, but it's bound to be an away match at either Everton, Sunderland or Bournemouth (likely to be my first shot at Tier 1)

did you not point out that the international break would be a good time to take a holiday....

 

[A1X]

So I'm guessing they must have been one of the 3 who got relegated the year we got promoted to PL in 2017 as we missed playing them since 2004?

Hull, Middlesbrough and Sunderland were the relegated teams that year

Crikey what a grim list of towns that is

 

[Uh_huh_him]

did you not point out that the international break would be a good time to take a holiday....

Didn't even know she was thinking about it.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

International break is 6th to 17th October.
Hopefully those dates were in her diary when she booked the holiday

Nope 19th - 26th - She's a teacher so has to be half-term.

Possible it could be 3 matches I guess.

 

[PeterT]

Nope 19th - 26th - She's a teacher so has to be half-term.

Possible it could be 3 matches I guess.

They will be plugging that into the fixtures database as we speak …..

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

Our line up from our only visit to Stadium of Light. Flew up to Newcastle for this game

 

[AnotherArch]

I was at the Roker Park match, Steve Piper scored one of the goals if I remember correctly.
The Sunderland fans were proper ****s after the game, spitting at, and attacking, the Albion following on the way back to the station.

And we went top of the league that afternoon, for the first time in our history in the second tier. I was sat next to 'Tug' Winstanley's mum!