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Post by amberballs on Mar 20, 2018 14:43:18 GMT
Having a clearout and came across a trip down memory lane. I didn't even know this existed! Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2018 17:32:20 GMT
I remember that being handed out on a supporters coach to some fa cup game might have been Sheffield United or maybe Reading.
The plans were for a ground on the old allotments off sandling road. This was pre the talk of the ill fated Woodcut Farm development
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Post by jdl on Mar 20, 2018 21:11:12 GMT
SOCCER pitch!!! Why an oval? Hardly a good FOOTBALL stadium design. It says "line of existing terracing" at one place, does that mean there was a stadium already there??? I don't remember anything like that.
Great for Tim though - right next to the Flower Pot!
I have no memory at all of this plan, but then new plans seemed to emerge every few months at the time. The only one, other than Woodcut, I remember clearly was just before the railway bridge on the A20, heading towards Aylesford. There used to be a market garden (?) on the right of the road and it was planned to put a stadium there - or it might have been the other side of the road, where the houses are now. Either way, the thing I remember most was the hooligan-proof footpath that was planned between the site and Barming station, where the 'football specials' would unload.
I lived in Barming at the time, and the thought of that sleepy little station, in the middle of nowhere (not even a footpath or street lights on Hermitage Lane then) becoming a football fans station was just too bizarre to comprehend!
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Post by rollingstone on Mar 24, 2018 7:38:06 GMT
SOCCER pitch!!! Why an oval? Hardly a good FOOTBALL stadium design. It says "line of existing terracing" at one place, does that mean there was a stadium already there??? I don't remember anything like that. Great for Tim though - right next to the Flower Pot! I have no memory at all of this plan, but then new plans seemed to emerge every few months at the time. The only one, other than Woodcut, I remember clearly was just before the railway bridge on the A20, heading towards Aylesford. There used to be a market garden (?) on the right of the road and it was planned to put a stadium there - or it might have been the other side of the road, where the houses are now. Either way, the thing I remember most was the hooligan-proof footpath that was planned between the site and Barming station, where the 'football specials' would unload. I lived in Barming at the time, and the thought of that sleepy little station, in the middle of nowhere (not even a footpath or street lights on Hermitage Lane then) becoming a football fans station was just too bizarre to comprehend! yes, i remember the Barming idea, i was about 13/14 at the time and recall my geography teacher in school talking about it and saying how it would bring money into the town and so on.
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Post by Bernie on Mar 24, 2018 8:32:17 GMT
The word soccer comes from the British term "Association Football". I don't know why people become so violently aggressive about a word, just because our American cousins adopted it. If millions of American kids enjoy playing "soccer", that can only be good for the sport.
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Post by headstone on Mar 24, 2018 9:51:23 GMT
If only one American would stop enjoying Twitter, that could only be good for the world!
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Post by daveu on Mar 24, 2018 13:41:31 GMT
The word soccer comes from the British term "Association Football". I don't know why people become so violently aggressive about a word, just because our American cousins adopted it. If millions of American kids enjoy playing "soccer", that can only be good for the sport. I think the main objection is that Americans use the term because they've hijacked "football" to describe a sport that is primarily played with the hands, and is actually more akin to rugby.
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Post by gromley on Mar 24, 2018 13:49:13 GMT
Rugby Football, surely?
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Post by jdl on Mar 24, 2018 14:41:54 GMT
Near where I used to live in Surrey there was a ground used by Esher Rugby Club - with a totally confusing sign outside that said "Esher Football Club"!!
But then I guess that's Surrey for you...
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Post by Tstone on Mar 24, 2018 21:31:40 GMT
There used to be a football ground somewhere in the south-east called The Athletic Ground. Never known any athletic meetings being held there but they did hold the odd greyhound race meeting. Now if I could only remember where. JDL?
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Post by jdl on Mar 24, 2018 21:39:38 GMT
There used to be a football ground somewhere in the south-east called The Athletic Ground. Never known any athletic meetings being held there but they did hold the odd greyhound race meeting. Now if I could only remember where. JDL? Why ask me? I'm still puzzling as to why when I got off the tube at West Ham I couldn't find the ground!
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Post by La femme de Vic Jobson on Mar 25, 2018 19:56:23 GMT
Having a clearout and came across a trip down memory lane. I didn't even know this existed! I hadn't heard about it at all, until turning up at Watling Street to hear Alan Goodrich say the plan was dead. Which was something of a blow. Apparently the locals hated the idea of having a ground there.
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Post by rockstar on Mar 25, 2018 20:18:24 GMT
As this thread is about stadium plans, when will we see plans for the new stand on riverside?
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Post by jdl on Mar 25, 2018 21:08:04 GMT
As this thread is about stadium plans, when will we see plans for the new stand on riverside? Yes, funny how it was a hot topic when we were in the play-offs, but no one mentions it now...
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Post by Bernie on Mar 26, 2018 6:21:44 GMT
Having a clearout and came across a trip down memory lane. I didn't even know this existed! Apparently the locals hated the idea of having a ground there. Rightly or wrongly, football had a terrible reputation at the time. Nowadays, offer them a stadium or blocks of flats and it would be a lot closer thing.
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