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Post by desmond on Jun 1, 2024 11:13:24 GMT
Have they paid a fee? Did he costa lot? Can their new star buck the trend of below par signings? I’ve filtered through some of his you tube highlights and he seems to grind a few defenders down rather than roast them.
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Post by malc on Jun 1, 2024 11:34:31 GMT
I'm not really one for dumping on other people's towns (unless it's Stoke or Burnley) but the number of sets of fans who tell us Stockport's a shithole is quite remarkable. They must live in a very different Grimsby, Gillingham, Crewe, Hartlepool, etc. to the one I've been to... Lots of older grounds tend to be in the poorer areas of the towns. Doubt many fans see much more than the area around the ground especially those who get dropped off close by the coaches. There are good and bad areas of most towns, but i have yet to find a decent part of luton and i have been there many times not just to kenilworth road. Actually barrow could find worse places in the town to put a football ground in and you,d have to travel wide in this country to find a medium to large city that has no closed shops, rough sleepers and an air of decay about them. Nearly every single city on this Planet including the beautiful cities have neighbourhoods you wouldn't want to be alone in especially after the sun goes down.
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Post by vicar on Jun 1, 2024 12:22:28 GMT
I'm not really one for dumping on other people's towns (unless it's Stoke or Burnley) but the number of sets of fans who tell us Stockport's a shithole is quite remarkable. They must live in a very different Grimsby, Gillingham, Crewe, Hartlepool, etc. to the one I've been to... Lots of older grounds tend to be in the poorer areas of the towns. Doubt many fans see much more than the area around the ground especially those who get dropped off close by the coaches. There are good and bad areas of most towns, but i have yet to find a decent part of luton and i have been there many times not just to kenilworth road. Actually barrow could find worse places in the town to put a football ground in and you,d have to travel wide in this country to find a medium to large city that has no closed shops, rough sleepers and an air of decay about them. That's just it, Stockport is actually a really good place to live but if you only see Castle Street you wouldn't think so and most fans don't see much more, when we played Notts at home we met some in the Angel on the market and they were saying how good the town is, it all depends on what they see, however most football fans would sing it's a shit hole even if the ground was in Bramhall and they'd come from Oldham, Stoke or Luton.
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Post by stockytwo on Jun 1, 2024 15:45:05 GMT
Aye, would suspect most away fans never really see anything east of the A6
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Post by herbiedumplings on Jun 1, 2024 16:39:09 GMT
Aye, would suspect most away fans never really see anything east of the A6 Or north of the motorway. That Heaton Moor’s well rough!
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Post by timberwolf on Jun 2, 2024 7:10:26 GMT
Lots of older grounds tend to be in the poorer areas of the towns. Doubt many fans see much more than the area around the ground especially those who get dropped off close by the coaches. There are good and bad areas of most towns, but i have yet to find a decent part of luton and i have been there many times not just to kenilworth road. Actually barrow could find worse places in the town to put a football ground in and you,d have to travel wide in this country to find a medium to large city that has no closed shops, rough sleepers and an air of decay about them. Nearly every single city on this Planet including the beautiful cities have neighbourhoods you wouldn't want to be alone in especially after the sun goes down. True, but you cannot say things are either getting or looking better here which is what the majority of us are interested in.
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Post by vicar on Jun 2, 2024 7:38:55 GMT
Nearly every single city on this Planet including the beautiful cities have neighbourhoods you wouldn't want to be alone in especially after the sun goes down. True, but you cannot say things are either getting or looking better here which is what the majority of us are interested in. If by "here" you mean Stockport it's getting and looking loads better.
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Post by timberwolf on Jun 2, 2024 8:12:49 GMT
Must be one of the few places that actually is. Mirror image of its football team. I,ll have to have a look round the town as its something i haven,t done for years.
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Post by vicar on Jun 2, 2024 10:36:31 GMT
Must be one of the few places that actually is. Mirror image of its football team. I,ll have to have a look round the town as its something i haven,t done for years. You can't fail to notice the difference coming out of the station on the town centre side then check out the bus station and underbank all massively improved.
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Jun 2, 2024 10:44:25 GMT
Must be one of the few places that actually is. Mirror image of its football team. I,ll have to have a look round the town as its something i haven,t done for years. You can't fail to notice the difference coming out of the station on the town centre side then check out the bus station and underbank all massively improved. Town looks great at night when you come off the motorway. Through the viaduct with up lighters and then turning right on to the A6 to see the Plaza in all its glory. Cracking stuff.
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Post by CB1883 on Jun 2, 2024 11:47:14 GMT
Must be one of the few places that actually is. Mirror image of its football team. I,ll have to have a look round the town as its something i haven,t done for years. You can't fail to notice the difference coming out of the station on the town centre side then check out the bus station and underbank all massively improved. The town has improved a lot over the last decade. The market, Underbank and around the station all a lot better than they were. Foodie Friday shows how much potential the area has. Put events on and people will attend.
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Post by desmond on Jun 2, 2024 12:52:07 GMT
You can't fail to notice the difference coming out of the station on the town centre side then check out the bus station and underbank all massively improved. Town looks great at night when you come off the motorway. Through the viaduct with up lighters and then turning right on to the A6 to see the Plaza in all its glory. Cracking stuff. Got to love how someone even risked life and limb to plant all of the greenery on the front of the viaduct 😀 In all seriousness though the work being done in and around the town is great to see, even better that some of seems to grate with many of the doom mongers on social media.
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Post by CB1883 on Jun 2, 2024 14:24:34 GMT
Town looks great at night when you come off the motorway. Through the viaduct with up lighters and then turning right on to the A6 to see the Plaza in all its glory. Cracking stuff. Got to love how someone even risked life and limb to plant all of the greenery on the front of the viaduct 😀 In all seriousness though the work being done in and around the town is great to see, even better that some of seems to grate with many of the doom mongers on social media. Baffling isn’t it when you see moaning about progression and improvements. No pleasing some people.
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Post by herbiedumplings on Jun 2, 2024 14:46:59 GMT
Got to love how someone even risked life and limb to plant all of the greenery on the front of the viaduct 😀 In all seriousness though the work being done in and around the town is great to see, even better that some of seems to grate with many of the doom mongers on social media. Baffling isn’t it when you see moaning about progression and improvements. No pleasing some people. Based on my trip to work, the buddleia’s nothing like as bad as it is on the viaducts in Castlefield/Old Trafford. I’m more bothered about the joints being more root than mortar than how everything looks TBH…
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Post by palmersears on Jun 2, 2024 14:48:14 GMT
I'm sure I saw reports from Network Rail earlier in the year that they'll need to shut the viaduct for a prolonged period at some point in the not to distant future to undertake substantial repair work on it.
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