When are we likely to get definitive stadium news?

[No2]

Something I noticed in the Everton Chelsea game was the crowd looked a lot younger than ours. I've thought this before, could be just me of course. 

 

 

[Barrington Womble]

16 hours ago, an tha said:

I disagree....the atmosphere has lost its edge, it has lost some of the grit, the rawness it had.

 

Even going back to 2005 - the ground was shaking at that semi v Chelsea - the Barcelona semi whilst still good was just not at same level noise and passion wise.

 

Even the 2014 run in - the games were louder, more raucous than more recent ones where we have been going for it like last season.

 

For me it is down to Anfield having a more diverse crowd in now - it has diluted the atmosphere a little.

 

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. The only thing I think is we're just amlittle bit too focussed on singing songs that a fella in the pub with a guitar plays. We don't really seem to be making any new songs in the ground. We have some truly awful songs now. 

24 minutes ago, No2 said:

Something I noticed in the Everton Chelsea game was the crowd looked a lot younger than ours. I've thought this before, could be just me of course. 

 

 

I do think we're an old crowd, we've barely had any new STs since the kop was seated, and those who got STs had been on the waiting list since the 90s, which makes them far from young too. Our gang are pretty much all happy to skip a game with the slightest excuse to give one of the kids a chance to go. 

[an tha]

@Barrington Womble  yeah we will have to agree to disagree.....i really feel that Anfield is a lot 'nicer' than it used to be and not as intimidating, as loud and as raw as it used to be.

 

I agree with you about that Jamie Webster lad though - good luck to him, he has done well out of it all - but i am not a fan of him/his stuff myself.

[an tha]

2 hours ago, No2 said:

Something I noticed in the Everton Chelsea game was the crowd looked a lot younger than ours. I've thought this before, could be just me of course. 

 

 

They definitely have more of the "lads" in ground than we do.

[Barrington Womble]

2 hours ago, an tha said:

@Barrington Womble  yeah we will have to agree to disagree.....i really feel that Anfield is a lot 'nicer' than it used to be and not as intimidating, as loud and as raw as it used to be.

 

I agree with you about that Jamie Webster lad though - good luck to him, he has done well out of it all - but i am not a fan of him/his stuff myself.

Deffo good luck to him. But it's not just him, there's barely a bar within a mile radius of the ground who don't have their own Webster. And they're all at it trying to make up songs to their shit backing tapes. 

[an tha]

1 hour ago, Barrington Womble said:

Deffo good luck to him. But it's not just him, there's barely a bar within a mile radius of the ground who don't have their own Webster. And they're all at it trying to make up songs to their shit backing tapes. 

Yeah....i am not a fan at all.

 

One game last season a mate convinced me to meet him in that TIA...I am old school and usually go in places like The Cabbage....but i went and there was one of this fellers on with the guitar - i couldn't stick it for more than 5 mins, made excuses and left.

[Original202]

The guitar thing reminds me of that scene in the Inbetweeners film: “Oh no, why’s there always some cunt with a guitar?”

 

 

Can’t really be doing with it myself either. I’ve no beef with Webster but it’s overload now.

[Barrington Womble]

1 hour ago, an tha said:

Yeah....i am not a fan at all.

 

One game last season a mate convinced me to meet him in that TIA...I am old school and usually go in places like The Cabbage....but i went and there was one of this fellers on with the guitar - i couldn't stick it for more than 5 mins, made excuses and left.

The cabbage was an old haunt of mine. We've been going the halfway house for years now and that's where he started - in fact even when he was at TIA he'd do the halfie after the game. But to begin with he was just a lad doing the Saturday night entertainment. The Liverpool stuff came later. We didn't pay much attention as we'd drink in the other side of the bar. But then eventually he got that popular, they had to sneak him into the pub! Fair play to the kid, but it does my head in. 

[dockers_strike]

1st piece of the forward roof goes on.

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Does anyone know whether our building site is unionised?

[dockers_strike]

Latest video update.

 

 

[dockers_strike]

2nd main roof span lifted into place.

 

 

[dockers_strike]

3rd roof span lifted in place and terracing added.

 

 

[Bjornebye]

On 20/08/2022 at 21:13, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Does anyone know whether our building site is unionised?

Yeah. Confederation of Norwegian Trade Unions. 

[Red74]

Can’t wait to find out I’m 15,876 on the waiting list for all our finals again and seeing our middle aged wools / foreigners making their LFC debut at our jamborees. 

[Anubis]

8 hours ago, dockers_strike said:

3rd roof span lifted in place and terracing added.

 

 

A transfer deadline day stadium update. How very Everton…

[dockers_strike]

6 hours ago, Anubis said:

A transfer deadline day stadium update. How very Everton…

Eh? It's a Paul Frost video, not the club's.

[dockers_strike]

Latest update on the ARE development. Bit of a longer one with no sound for me for the first part.

 

I love Anfield. Even after all these years of going the place, it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, going through the turnstile, half killing myself climbing all the steps in the SKD Upper to get to my seat then seeing the pitch and stands filling up.

 

It may not be the most asthetic looking stadium. It's been built piecemeal so isnt some 'look at me' architect's statement about good they are because they come up with some outlandish design.

 

It's about us, not some nounce like that Meis fella the shite signed up for theirs.

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I've not seen any protests over the ARE project. Does anyone know if this is true?

 

[Harry Squatter]

[dockers_strike]

4 hours ago, Harry Squatter said:

Awesome picture and the stand isnt half built.

 

In other sobering news, Inter and AC Milan has decided to completely knock down the Guiseppe Meazza stadium and build a completely new modern one instead. Going to cost them a billion quid even at today's estimate.

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

It's a shame the Kop is landlocked in terms of building a new stand because it looks lost now. 

[lifetime fan]

6 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

Awesome picture and the stand isnt half built.

 

In other sobering news, Inter and AC Milan has decided to completely knock down the Guiseppe Meazza stadium and build a completely new modern one instead. Going to cost them a billion quid even at today's estimate.

 

Such a pity. You’d have hoped they could redevelop such a culturally iconic stadium. But I remember reading an article explaining the pitch there would always be shit because the design of the stands/roof meant it got so little sunlight. 

[Chip Butty]

The ground whilst iconic, is very tired and worn inside and to revamp it would cost more than to just level it and start again. They have enough land anyway to do whatever they want, though I believe a reduction on the capacity is definitely in the cards.  

[lifetime fan]

4 minutes ago, Chip Butty said:

The ground whilst iconic, is very tired and worn inside and to revamp it would cost more than to just level it and start again. They have enough land anyway to do whatever they want, though I believe a reduction on the capacity is definitely in the cards.  

Yeah I get the reasoning behind it. Just find the thought of replacing an iconic stadium with another indentikit shit bowl thoroughly depressing.