[Albion] Didn't feel right.

[Official Old Man]

All our normal adverts gone. Pre-match build up gone. GOSBTS played before teams came out and not faded. Big screen different (teams?). Whilst I cant say exactly what it was, it was lots of small differences that made the Euro game different to our normal games. I didn't get the tingle I expected when the teams came out.
Even every mention of American Express (with the exeption of the new signs cleverly installed under the roofs) were removed.
The whole evening just seemed wrong.

 

[Hamilton]

The big screen graphics are awful. No teams, and when the subs came up you could barely see the names such was the size of the font.

 

[Change at Barnham]

I felt like that after the West Ham game too, I wonder why that was?
And on that occasion I didn't return home soaked at midnight.

 

[kevo]

The big screen graphics are awful. No teams, and when the subs came up you could barely see the names such was the size of the font.

Why were there no line-ups? Is that a Uefa diktat? Bizarre.

 

[brighton_tom]

Why were the front few rows of the north also covered?

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

All our normal adverts gone. Pre-match build up gone. GOSBTS played before teams came out and not faded. Big screen different (teams?). Whilst I cant say exactly what it was, it was lots of small differences that made the Euro game different to our normal games. I didn't get the tingle I expected when the teams came out.
Even every mention of American Express (with the exeption of the new signs cleverly installed under the roofs) were removed.
The whole evening just seemed wrong.

You like familiar adverts ?

Need to add ‘losing’ to your list….for the moment anyway.

 

[el punal]

Why were the front few rows of the north also covered?

To stop all the naughty rascals from the Norf running onto the pitch and doing Zorba’s dance.

 

[el punal]

Well I suppose now we know what to expect for future Euro games, hopefully many more.

 

[Bozza]

Add "Jason Steele wearing an outfield shirt" to the list...

[Albion] - Jason Steele in hyper turq

I'm led to believe that yesterday morning our Estonian-man-in-charge decided that none of our keeper shirts could be worn for various colour clash reasons, so the club dug out an old hyper turq shirt, got it printed up, and that's what Jason Steele had to wear.

www.northstandchat.com

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

On the plus side, the Europa League anthem was well rousing.

I worked out that the last time my Dad and i went to a match together and we won was in February 2017. And that's quite a lot of games. So in that sense it all felt very normal

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The cider was the wrong shade of orange.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I liked the different BALL.

Until it turned out our players can't kick this one straight.

 

[nwgull]

Why were front 4 rows of N and S covered? The ad boards behind the goals were no bigger than normal, were they??

The usual team listings on the big screen would've been useful to know how many yellow cards they'd accumulated throughout the 90 mins as well! It was 7 apparenty - didn't UEFA used to dish out fines for that many?

 

[Official Old Man]

Why were the front few rows of the north also covered?

So that the adverts on the screens around the pitch stand out better for TV. Advertising is more important than the game and fans. I think that was the problem, as fans we were second to all the comercialism.
Incidently, what happened to the 200 away F&F seats in the Upper East for which our STH where moved. I was next to this block and it was all Albion

 

[Gazwag]

It almost felt we had gone back a decade thanks to the uefa dinosaur rules dictating how a home team can set the ground up

 

[Cheshire Cat]

It's supposed to be different.

It's supposed to be the biggest game in our history.

 

[Baldrick]

All our normal adverts gone. Pre-match build up gone. GOSBTS played before teams came out and not faded. Big screen different (teams?). Whilst I cant say exactly what it was, it was lots of small differences that made the Euro game different to our normal games. I didn't get the tingle I expected when the teams came out.
Even every mention of American Express (with the exeption of the new signs cleverly installed under the roofs) were removed.
The whole evening just seemed wrong.

I felt the same. Very sterile as if each team playing in the Europa Legaue have to the same bland advertising boards and screen displays. The Europa anthem was very unininspiring. Players just walked out onto the pitch with 3 mascots dressed in the Eurpopa league kit. All formulaic and no club specific individuality allowed.

 

[Commander]

All our normal adverts gone. Pre-match build up gone. GOSBTS played before teams came out and not faded. Big screen different (teams?). Whilst I cant say exactly what it was, it was lots of small differences that made the Euro game different to our normal games. I didn't get the tingle I expected when the teams came out.
Even every mention of American Express (with the exeption of the new signs cleverly installed under the roofs) were removed.
The whole evening just seemed wrong.

New. Not wrong. Get used to it (hopefully).

 

[HeaviestTed]

The massive sign was well shit - I want to see who gets yellows etc and they stopped the timer at 45 mins so no idea how many minutes into extra time it was.

PBOBE OUT

 

[fly high]

The massive sign was well shit - I want to see who gets yellows etc and they stopped the timer at 45 mins so no idea how many minutes into extra time it was.

PBOBE OUT

Timer always stops on 45 and 90 but usually we have the clock time so can work out when whistle should blow. Pain, I had to keep checking my watch.