Portsmouth and Fratton Park

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Was the bell ringing neanderthal there?

TNBA

TTF

 

[maresfield seagull]

yes

 

[Prodigal Son]

It was a shit ground, but its what the pompey fans deserve! no need to bring it up to modern standards, it wont match the rest of the city or any of their fans

The ground, its facilities and the pompey fans all compliment the standard of football that Portsmouff play - shite!

 

[Seagulljohn]

To me the biggest problem with fratton park, besides the small seats, run down stands, fans, etc etc is the pitch.

Yes the grass looked nice(I'm a golf course manager by the way, so I know grass) but did anyone notice how curved the pitch was ? The middle was about two foot higher the the sides !

 

[mona]

First season in a hundred years we've had a better ground than them ( even if a more inaccessible location), I reckon after making them endure Withdean a couple of times a bit of humility could be in order.

NSC Rule = Every other city and stadium is now a shithole.

Didn't see any trouble yesterday. In the past a brawl was inevitable at Fratton Park.

 

[ferring seagull]

To me the biggest problem with fratton park, besides the small seats, run down stands, fans, etc etc is the pitch.

Yes the grass looked nice(I'm a golf course manager by the way, so I know grass) but did anyone notice how curved the pitch was ? The middle was about two foot higher the the sides !

Don't know about two feet but that has been the norm on soccer stadia since time immemoria - something to do with water running off I believe, though not certain it applies in any state of the art pitch like the Amex which has, no doubt, perfect drainage.

 

[Seagulljohn]

Don't know about two feet but that has been the norm on soccer stadia since time immemoria - something to do with water running off I believe, though not certain it applies in any state of the art pitch like the Amex which has, no doubt, perfect drainage.

There's having a slope for drainage and there's having a fratton slope for skiing down !

Fair point, but will all the modern ways of drainage improvements in the last 15 years or so, there shouldn't be any need for that amount of slope.

But then you would have to spend money on it.

Even withdean wasn't that bad.

 

[DanielT]

did anyone notice how curved the pitch was ? The middle was about two foot higher the the sides !

Oh thank goodness for that, i thought my eyes were playing optical illusion tricks on me when I looked at the white lines!

 

[Goring Gull]

You can't beat a trip to Fratton park though

 

[Commander]

There is a slope on the Amex pitch as well, look at it from pitch level from either the West or East and you can clearly see it.

 

[CAPTAIN GREALISH]

You can't beat a trip to Fratton park though

just like the old days

 

[westsussexmackem]

I hate it. Been there twice to watch Sunderland and don't want to go there again if I can help it, horrible run down facilities and just generally looks a shit ground.

That painted wall just behind the away end though

 

[clarkey]

I hate it. Been there twice to watch Sunderland and don't want to go there again if I can help it, horrible run down facilities and just generally looks a shit ground.

That painted wall just behind the away end though

Like a warzone round the back of that stand

 

[KNC]

I couldn't f***ing believe it!!!! There was NO ONE in the toilets, asking if we minded them mopping. What IS football coming to?
I do hear that the broccoli was cooked to perfection, in the corporate, though.
AZURE take note.

 

[Giraffe]

I'm not saying I didn't enjoy it and yes I still like the old ground feel but Christ they really have done so little to improve it. The terraces are crumbling, the toliets are about 100 years old. The only sign I found of any modernisation was the barcode reading turnstiles. Just highlighted to me how far we have come and how far backwards they are still going.

 

[BHAMAN]

and......they've only got one hose!

 

[Aquilaugh]

Christ that was a throw back to the 80s. What a shithole that grou d really is. The club is on a huge downward spiral which can only be halted with a new ground. Desperate facilities.

Are you going to say this about every old ground now that the Amex has been built ? Short memory I think.

 

[G_PFC]

Yes, our ground is sh it and so's our current team... but I'm 35 & I ain't seen any other football team south of London win a major honour in my lifetime than Pompey!

When Cotterill gets the sack we'll be back amongst the mix, maybe making a run for the play offs. Our squad is small, but full of Premier League experience and with a competent manager in charge we could, and should, be beating most of the nP Championship teams.

And Portsmouth a sh it hole? Some parts are, but go down to Gunwharf or Old Portsmouth. Some great pubs and views. Our seafront ain't that bad either. Wait to you visit NPC clubs in the midlands and the north!

Your fans made a lot of noise, on a par with Leeds last season. Fair play to you, you've been through a lot of sh it the last 20 years or so.

See you all back at Fratton for the Play Off semis, and be thankful you played us in August rather than a dismal February evening. Oh and bring alco-gel (no soap or hot water that I've ever found at FP) and pray you don't need to take a sh it.

 

[southstandandy]

Yeah - the toilets were grim to be polite. Basically the floor was slightly angled and all the piss slid down to one cormer - nearly as bad as Millmoor in the old days.

The other thing I noticed when watching the highlights last night is what a shit camera angle Pompey have - can't they raise their camera gantry a bit - there's no perspective at all. I had a better view of our goal from our end than even the camera portrayed.

 

[G_PFC]

There is an upper gantry - when we in the Premier League the main camera was there plus lots of others dotted round the ground. Now were sh it no-one gives a fu ck so they just put one camera just above the dugouts! Drove me mad last season too.