Austadiums Forum

Easter Road.

I was lucky enough to watch a game at AT&T Park in San Francisco during a recent work trip. Definitely the most comfortable stadium I've been to!

Good photos of Easter Rd. I really like the way its been developed by Hibs. The North and South Stands remind me a lot of the North Stand of WIN Stadium in Wollongong

Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street.

To be honest, the atmosphere was a bit lacking until after tea, which was when one of the photo's was taken. Not the easiest place to get to either, the closest train station doesn't get a regular service, the one train that would have got us there before play was woefully lacking capacity.


The building on the far right is actually a health club / gym. The stand I was in is a temporary job they bring in for internationals.


Tea time entertainment in the stand


My view of Ryan Harris' two wickets in two balls on the morning of Day 4

Cheers for the photos.

It's in a bit of a weird spot isn't it? Like on the outskirts of Newcastle?

Rob wrote:Cheers for the photos.

It's in a bit of a weird spot isn't it? Like on the outskirts of Newcastle?

Chester-le-Street is not the largest town around that area. Its 18km from Newcastle, 10.5 from Durham and 17 km from Sunderland.
Durham CCC had to build a new ground as a condition of moving up from minor county level to the County Championship.

How far is that time-wise from each town?

It's funny how cricket across the world almost always follows a state/province/county system. So you get weird results like tiny little towns hosting top level teams and big cities just down the road not even represented, or at best grossly underrepresented. Not just in England either, it's every major cricketing nation.

Beer snake out of tea cups?

Simmo79 wrote:How far is that time-wise from each town?

If there's one thing I've learned in the last seven years about travel in this country, is that travel time estimates are only accurate when you're cycling or walking. Took us over an hour to do the trip from the Toon to the ground, but we had to go on the train past Chester-le-Street to Durham, then join the massive queue for the shuttle bus from there, as the aforementioned earlier train was packed in tighter than I'd ever seen, and I commuted on the tube in London for 4 years.

Prestonfield, home of Linlithgow Rose. Or The Gallant Rosey Posey as the fans call them.
No photos of what is the most impressive ground I've ever been in* as my iphone ran out of memory.

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So what's the distinction between senior and junior football in Scotland?

Simmo79 wrote:So what's the distinction between senior and junior football in Scotland?

Not an age thing, its all open age. The juniors have their own association. There is not the same pyramid as is traditional in most European countries, there is no promotion / relegation between the juniors & seniors, although that is a long term aim of the SFA. The SJFA and most of the clubs affiliated to it are happy where they are. In the case of Linlithgow, the club is successful both on and off field, so why risk that by moving up to the seniors and playing away in the Borders or Galloway in front of next to no one?

Images of the Prestonfield here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp4dwSV-LLM

Ibrox for the Rugby 7s. Great seats, back fecking row of the upper tier. No one in the corporate boxes behind us though, which was a little odd I thought.







And the huge queue for beer (unchilled Heineken) in the really rubbish concourse at the back with the worst smelling toilets I've experienced since before they built the Legends Stand over the old outer at Princes Park.

It looks like the distance between the 22 and the goal-line is the same as between the halfway line and the 22 ie/ there's no way a full size rugby field could fit on Ipox's pitch