Worst ground and best ground you've seen City play at

[Dommotyger]

My worst would be between gresley and racing club warwick maybe team bath's old one and best would be either dorchester, weymouth, woking or watford when wealdstone shared it although sh*t atmosphere!

anyone else have any..............

[Neil]

Best and worst for me is Sittingbourne!

[bobcarolgees]

Worst is Trowbridge, had a stand behind the goal that literally was being shared by cattle. Looked like a set from a infants school nativity.

Salisburys old ground runs a close second with its tin stand and playground behind one of the goals. However the lack of security fencing and thus free entry prevents it from being top.

Best grounds would be Stevenage, Rushden and Dorchester.

[DRAKEY]

I cant stand Corby's ground

[DCM]

Not sure about worse ground, though have seen a few that were different. I recall lour trip to Minehead in the FAC when on one side of the pitch was the Stand, Bar and dressing room and on the other was a kiddies play ground with swings and slides. That was a bit different. It was the game that we travelled down in a rather ancient coach which arrived at the sea side and decided never to move again. I recall driving back along the motorway and seeing one of Eamonns low loaders going the other way with the mini bus on the top to go and rescue both the team and the coach.

Many year ago, mid 70’s I guess, when we first moved to Glos, I used to walk through the woods from our house outside Mitcheldean to watch Cinderford play in the Midland Combination. Several times I can remember going into one of the covered standing areas, particularly the one to the left of the Stand, to get out of the wind or rain only to find the tell tail signs of it being used also as a B and B for a passing herd of sheep.

Does anybody else remember a pre season away at Cinderford many years ago when we played the match on the school pitch across the road rather than on the Causeway.

Best ground I have seen us play on has to be Ashton Gate in the Glos Cup a few years ago.

[t-towel]

Worst has to be anything with a running track, you're so far away it just kills all the atmosphere stone dead. Of those we've played at the old Team Bath ground had probably the worst facilities, but Newport County's might just edge it for sheer misery.

The ground I most enjoyed us going to was Stevenage Borough - it just seemed to have good views from the terracing, although it might've partly been because of the sunshine.

Brockworth was always a good field to go to though...

[SHANDY LOVE MACHINE]

Mile Oak Rovers - they took the goalnets down at full time because it was a public park, with the obligatory playground behind one of the goals.

This was a competitive game, not a pre-season friendly

[Don Caster]

Obvious....Whaddon Road, an open sewer.

Best ground....Meadow Park or Horton Road

[RegCubit]

Worst definitely Whaddon Road, the seats in the stand were just planks of wood with a bum shape chiseled out.

Quite liked Odd Downs little ground. £3 to get in, which included a good little programme, not a bad club house.

[Philip Grace]

I would have put Odd Down as one of the worst grounds visited, though I admit there was a conviviality in the club house mainly due to eighty per cent of the people there being Gloucester supporters.

[bobcarolgees]

I remember Yeading being like that as well

[spandau_wirral]

Watched Gloucester City Youth away at Stratford Town, that was pretty grim. Massive nuclear factory or something behind one goal, the scariest canal behind the other, and just pretty grim! The two times i went there it was the darkest, wettest winter nights.

Best would be Filbert Street, when the City Youth played there against Leicester City in the Midland Floodlit Youth Cup Final, we lost 3-0. Also got to go on the pitch and have a little kick of the ball. Lovely stuff!

[Neil]

Isn't Stratford supposed to be a tourist's haven??!!!

[spandau_wirral]

Its a bard place, very different from any Midsummer Night Dream i may have had, more like a winters tale.

The match itself was much ado about nothing.

[SHANDY LOVE MACHINE]

Stratford in London, not Warks?

[spandau_wirral]

The Warwickshire version

[Noah]

Its a bard place, very different from any Midsummer Night Dream i may have had, more like a winters tale.

The match itself was much ado about nothing.

Zounds ! Not just Shakespeare who’s all mellifluous and honey-tongued. Now I properly realise why the Wirral is the posh part of Liverpool.

Leek Town felt a dangerous place to be, next to the factory with all those fumes coming from the chimney.

[IJD]

Dulwich Hamlet wasn't a great place to go

[Simon]

Stamford was pretty bad I thought, however the town itself is probably the nicest place we go to all season. Those stupid kids who ran around every nut and cranny of that place really cheesed me off though.
Northwood is a hell hole, I really feel bad for the pour souls that call that their Home stadium, on the upside the Burgers are like tasting heaven. Talk about an Oxymoron!
Can't really say any others to be honest, Cinderford's isn't the best but it is respectable.

[Darran]

Rocester was pretty bad, although not many on here wouldve experienced it.

[spandau_wirral]

Salisbury's old ground was, well not much. A little stand on one side (no seats just benches), bit of a covered terrace on either side of that, then the rest just open to the elements.

Then the clubhouse was in a massive pavillion which included the changing rooms (i think), which eventually burnt down.

[Noah]

[QUOTE=Simon;1054]Talk about an Oxymoron!
QUOTE]


Yes, let's. You must open up a Forum for Eng. Lit. students, Neil.

In the dim and distant, my mum used to wash my football kit in Oxydol - the Daz of its day. Yes, Goughie, I'm talking of the green and red quarters we wore at Widden Street Juniors. It was worn by some famous players : you, me, Dougie Foxwell et al (can't remember his surname)

To get this thread back to where it should be, I strongly recommend a book called "The History of Non-League Football Grounds" by Kerry Miller. It has some glorious pictures of rusting, corrugated stands and places you would not willingly pee in, the length and breadth of the country. Many of course we have visited.

And then, on page 70, Neil, there is a "very rare photograph of Gloucester City's Longlevens ground in the mid-1950s".

It also shows, in full colour, the pavillion at Salisbury - which was, apparently, a listed building !

[Philip Grace]

Another book that reminds you of how dire some facilities are is 'Dugouts' by David Bauckham.

There are photographs of rusty dugouts, barely propped up dugouts, some that would have passed as Hitler's bunker and some that you wheel away after the match. A surprising number are slap bang in front of the only bit of covered accommadation.

A book that is both interesting and amusing.

[Neil]

Yes, let's. You must open up a Forum for Eng. Lit. students, Neil. Wouldn't that come under English Language rather than English Literature??

[Pablo]

This is the website I use to see non-league football grounds and it also featured the 'Dugouts' book mentioned above. Just click on ground guides down the side. Gloucester City's entry isn't very big though...

http://www.pyramidpassion.co.uk/html/dugouts_book.html

[Noah]

Wouldn't that come under English Language rather than English Literature??

You're splitting hairs, webmeister - something I don't do any more. The Spandau Belly Dancer was in Eng. Lit., but Simon was perhaps on the next shelf, as you imply. Don't know really : how good would Shakespeare (Lit)have been without the words (Lang) ? The pictures weren't his strength really.

Anyway, do you want a scan of the pic of the old Longlevens ground ?

[Neil]

Does anyone know what he just said cos I ain't got the foggiest :D

[Cyclops]

You need language so that it can become literature.

[Simon]

Technically, the word 'Oxymoron' is a word connected with English Literature as it describes a couplet of words. However as it is Language, it could be classed in to both..... ;)

Now..........back on topic!

Looking on that Pyramid Passion site, fantastic site by the way, have any of you noticed the Fantastic engineering work at Teversal F.C. I won't say what it is, but it is flippin hilarious :D

http://www.pyramidpassion.co.uk/html/teversal_.html

[Pablo]

have any of you noticed the Fantastic engineering work at Teversal F.C.

Looks a bit like the C & G Stand :)

[Noah]

I won't say what it is, but it is flippin hilarious :D

http://www.pyramidpassion.co.uk/html/teversal_.html

Isn't that lovely ? I hope they get a fee for carrying the advert.

[MARTYR RICH]

Worst - Rothwell
Best - Stevange

Iam back... :)

[TigerMark]

Rothwell aint that bad, it had swings for when the football got boring :D

[Noah]

You'd have loved that place up on the Staffs / Derbys border, Rich. They had daffodils there, growing inside the ground. Rocester it was, with a babbling brook running just outside and a fantastic nineteenth century factory or workhouse adjacent. Yeh, one of my favourites - but we are not likely to go there again.