Anyone else not going to Famler until it's finished?

[7oaksgull]

As I no longer live locally and have no need to pass by the site I have not yet seen the stadium. Whilst I will continue to view the webcam and eagerly await every new photo I have decided that I will not visit Falmer until I attend the first match.

Like everyone else I am terribly excited about our new home. However, comments on here about how much more impressive it is when you see it for real has led me to think that the first game there, which already will be a pretty emotional day, will be even more amazing for me if it coincides with the first time I actually set eyes on the stadium.

Just wondered if anyone else has yet to see it and is thinking the same way?

 

[Gwylan]

I can see the roof of the stand from my front door step so I can scarcely avoid seeing it.

Just makes me more excited about going to games there.

 

[Easy 10]

I've been about 5 or 6 times over the last 18 months, and it just gets better and better. Last week, with the arch completed, was just breathtaking. I'm finding the whole process fascinating to watch, and its giving me a real appreciation of the "nuts and bolts" of how the stadium fits together. Personally I wouldn't want to miss that, I LOVE gonig there and seeing it all coming together, makes me feel more a part of it. And I don't think it'll detract one iota on the day I finally go there for the first match.

 

[fatbadger]

Although I would love to see it as it is being built, the 468 miles between me and it obviate against it. So I, too, will see it for the first time when I attend it for the first time. Whether that adds to the excitement, or makes no difference, or even lessens it, is of no moment. I'll be bursting, and that's that!

 

[Everest]

It's not that impressive, you know.

 

[Mellotron]

I can understand your thinking 7oaks. You will be utterly overwhelmed if you don't see it in the flesh until the opening day. You can't get a feel for the sheer SIZE and scope of it (particularly the arch(es)) without going there.

I'd just be worried for you that you might pass out or something.

 

[Billy the Fish]

I'm finding the whole process fascinating to watch, and its giving me a real appreciation of the "nuts and bolts" of how the stadium fits together. .

Same for me. It's a bit like watching an episode of Megastructures on Discovery, but really a really long episode

 

[Brovion]

I can see where 7oaks is coming from, but watching it being built is half the fun. It's a bit like when you were a child waiting for Christmas and watching the decorations going up everywhere. My only concession to 'surprise' is not using the webcam but waiting until Friday to see the latest developments.

The thing I can't decide is whether to go to a ramp-up event or not. Part of me can't wait to go there, but part of me wants to wait until a 'proper' match. Indeed I almost hope there isn't a separate Opening Ceremony as such (with a match against some glamour team) and that the first game at the fully ramped-up stadium is our first home league fixture of 2011-12.

Hopefully the decision will be taken out of my hands and the ramp-up events will be STHs only, or people who went to Orient in the JPT.

 

[Mellotron]

Andy Naylor said in yesterday's Argus QUIZ time that Brighton's first game there WILL be a friendly against a TOP Prem side. Not definitely Man City though.

 

[hitony]

If we lived locally, I am sure we would watch it grow on a weekly basis, this not being case I think we will see it for the first timewhen the first game takes place.

Must be honest, everytime we go to Brighton i do often think about going out to Falmer, but in a way i think i want to see it for it's first time in all it's glory, that said when it is near to finished i would be surprisd if Sky Sports or the like did not do a feature on it.

 

[The Wizard]

We go their before every home game on the way to the Withers.

 

[Easy 10]

As an existing STH, I'm intending to go on the 'hard hat day' to select my season ticket seat, so its likely my first actual experience of the completed stadium will be when the place is basically empty anyway. Presumably we'll be allowed a little tour as well I hope.

The prospect of doing that is frankly every bit as exciting to me as going to the first game. I'm going to be quite literally pissing the bed the night before.

 

[DerbyGull]

I rarely look at pics or webcam. Mainly because i like to see progress. Look at it every day/week you won't see much, i look at it every few months.
I've only ever been to the site before they had laid a brick. And i was forced to drive by on a visit at xmas because ppl in the car wanted to see. I might turn up midsummer, next christmas, and the following summer before the BIG DAY!

 

[wellquickwoody]

I have been up to the site 3 or 4 times and it really does move you emotionally. But......I will not go to any 'ramp up' events when they happen, or pre opening tours. I want to get the full impact of the opening game there by taking in the noise, colour and smells of what will hopefully be a 'big' match in our first home game of the 11/12 season.

 

[clippedgull]

Famler?

I'd like to hold out until the first game, but I know I won't!

 

[Garage_Doors]

I can see the roof of the stand from my front door step so I can scarcely avoid seeing it.

Just makes me more excited about going to games there.

Is is an eyesore ?

I pass it twice a day so difficult not to see the progress. and still follow the webcam

 

[Dizzle.]

Ive been there, truly amazing sight

 

[Knotty]

I'm going to be quite literally pissing the bed the night before.

Mrs Easy will be most impressed with that!

 

[Easy 10]

Meh.
She's used to it.

 

[Danny-Boy]

Andy Naylor said in yesterday's Argus QUIZ time that Brighton's first game there WILL be a friendly against a TOP Prem side. Not definitely Man City though.

Be Palace by then...in my dreams