| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? 23:49 - Jul 25 with 5762 views | Matt_Netherlands |
I’m not talking about standing on milk crates in the 60s, I’m talking the last 15 years or so, before the old girl got a long overdue facelift….
A couple to get us started:
The lack of traffic and being and being able to get from the edge of town to the town centre in about 10 minutes even at 2pm on a saturday
The wheel out tunnel with the track covers
Queues for the bars / kiosks being non existent 10 minutes into half time
Being able to move seats easily if you had an idiot near you or just fancied a better view
Seagulls flying over the pitch and threatening to land
The death trap photographer pits
The stadium having about 8,000 people in ten minutes before kick off, leavjng ha wondering if it would fill up any more
Never running out of pies.
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| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 00:07 - Jul 26 with 4259 views | urbanpenguin |
I stood on a milk crate in the late 80s. |  | | |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 00:49 - Jul 26 with 4228 views | judespiveyg |
Resting my arm on the seat to my right.
Parking at the ground.
Being able to go to whichever away fixtures I wanted.
The old PA guy.
No electronic advertising boards. [Post edited 26 Jul 2024 0:50]
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| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 02:54 - Jul 26 with 4106 views | Illinoisblue |
Lambo buying pints for fans instead of having any clue how to manage a football club. |  |
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| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 03:00 - Jul 26 with 4108 views | SE1blue |
Spontaneity. Going to a midweek game last minute because you don’t want to watch crap reality TV, then celebrating a jammy 1-0 win by going to the pub, before you go to a club because a last minute winner over Rotherham deserves a full night out. Waking up late for work with a hoarse voice and wondering if everyone can smell the whiskey and doner kebab oozing from your skin because you over-celebrated Town moving up to 14th in the league.
Oh and I miss the gallows humour about some of our players. [Post edited 26 Jul 2024 3:00]
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| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 06:53 - Jul 26 with 3894 views | Pendejo |
Nothing that is specifically attached to banter era, nothing.
Many of those points were true since the end of the Robson years with few exceptional years in between.
So I guess the sartorial mess that was Milne standing on the platform tolerating verbose drunken Town fans before escaping to first class. He was a nice guy but his hands were tied, then wrapped with duct tape by the Mafia Don. |  |
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| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 07:03 - Jul 26 with 3843 views | homer_123 |
Mings....Cresswell.....Bajner. |  |
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| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 07:13 - Jul 26 with 3808 views | flykickingbybgunn |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 07:03 - Jul 26 by homer_123 |
Mings....Cresswell.....Bajner. |
Not being able to just turn up and walk through a turnstile and go anywhere to sit. Or before that walk all the way around the ground before choosing where to stand. |  | | |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 07:14 - Jul 26 with 3803 views | Churchman |
Recent times:
Walking round the football ground three times with my dad before the game
Watching Jim going bananas from the dugout and the players shifting to the other side of the pitch
Counting how many floodlight bulbs weren’t working
The decrepit corrugated stuff surrounding the old practice pitch
The progress of moss growing on roofs
Back in the day:
The St John Ambulance stretcher blokes. One little one, one big one. Didn’t pay to get injured
Standing on the terrace
Shefki’s celebration
Churchman’s sh£thouse
Those alphabet numbers they used to put half time scores under. They were usually wrong, if done at all
The little blue disabled cars (invacars, made illegal in 2003) next to the pitch at Churchmans end. [Post edited 26 Jul 2024 8:57]
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| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 07:54 - Jul 26 with 3651 views | Bluespeed225 |
The view from lower north of the paintwork peeling on the staircase entrance to J Block middle west! Through the Evans era it would get worse every week! Team that with the puddle from the sprinkler hydrant along the west stand touch line! Years of it leaking, ball goes in, ball boy got soaked! Which brings us to ball team, the sheer lack of interest shown! A good idea was the barrier in front of the bar under J Block. Filtered people in one end, got your pre poured pint, out the other end, easy. More recently, Ewing made to fight through the north stand lower from one end to the other to get to block 4! |  | | |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 09:11 - Jul 26 with 3426 views | MillsTash |
Leon Best
Oil Hawkins
Stern John
Keenan Bennetts
Paul Digby |  | | |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 09:11 - Jul 26 with 3422 views | Basuco |
Waking up on a Saturday on an away game day, sitting drinking the morning cup of tea and deciding to go to the game and pay on the gate. |  | | |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 09:15 - Jul 26 with 3366 views | Rozz |
I already miss being able to get seats together. A few times last season I could only manage to get two in the same row, about 8 seats apart. |  | | |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 09:16 - Jul 26 with 3348 views | Metal_Hacker |
The Hope |  |
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| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 09:19 - Jul 26 with 3336 views | _clive_baker_ |
Can't remember who it was against but in some of that pre McKenna league 1 dross I genuinely sat and counted the number of away fans once. Can't say I'll miss it, but won't be doing that for Newcastle or United. |  | | |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 09:24 - Jul 26 with 3281 views | Freddies_Ears |
No gloryhunters whinging they can't get tickets | | | |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 09:24 - Jul 26 with 3284 views | Basuco |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 09:19 - Jul 26 by _clive_baker_ |
Can't remember who it was against but in some of that pre McKenna league 1 dross I genuinely sat and counted the number of away fans once. Can't say I'll miss it, but won't be doing that for Newcastle or United. |
Mrs B and her sister used to play I Spy during the Roy Keane era as the football was so boring, They definitely won't miss that. | | | |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 09:30 - Jul 26 with 3251 views | BrentwoodBlagger2 |
Bit earlier I know, but in the 70's & 80's being in the North Stand and seeing the large group of town fans charging across the car park behind the Sporting Farmer towards the North Stand 10 minutes before kick off, livening up the away fans and the atmosphere. Usually the Chantry, Whitton and Gainsborough boys. | | | |
| Bluefish on the forum and…. on 09:40 - Jul 26 with 3171 views | Bloots |
….the tree growing out of the Churchman’s roof. |  |
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| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 09:40 - Jul 26 with 3173 views | Guthrum |
I have to concur with what most other people are saying, the ease of getting tickets, being able to just turn up (even late) and still buy on the gate.
Perhaps, also, the very rarity of success made one savour it more. |  |
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| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 09:48 - Jul 26 with 3104 views | Swansea_Blue |
As others have said, the spontaneity of just deciding to turn up and not worrying about queues. Oh, and actually being able to get a ticket! |  |
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| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 09:50 - Jul 26 with 3093 views | Matt_Netherlands |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 09:11 - Jul 26 by Basuco |
Waking up on a Saturday on an away game day, sitting drinking the morning cup of tea and deciding to go to the game and pay on the gate. |
100%!
(Although part of than spontaneity dies with age as well….) | | | |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 09:55 - Jul 26 with 3029 views | _clive_baker_ |
Don't worry everyone, give it 5 years and we'll have all of that back again and the premier league circus will be but a distant memories for the fans and franchise owners alike, as they head off to pastures new.
Yours,
Nelly. | | | |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 10:04 - Jul 26 with 2969 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Two blokes walking on and off the pitch before kick off and at half time with an agricultural sprinkler and a length of fireman's hose, in the vain hope that one sprinkler in the centre circle might, one day, it might reach both penalty areas. |  |
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| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 10:08 - Jul 26 with 2943 views | _clive_baker_ |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 10:04 - Jul 26 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Two blokes walking on and off the pitch before kick off and at half time with an agricultural sprinkler and a length of fireman's hose, in the vain hope that one sprinkler in the centre circle might, one day, it might reach both penalty areas. |
On that note, the most impressive change under Gamechanger has to be the sprinklers that appear from nowhere out of the grass and then disappear again. The sort of sorcery you don't expect at little old Ipswich. | | | |
| What will you miss about ‘Banter Era’ Portman Road? on 10:08 - Jul 26 with 2934 views | jasondozzell |
Kiosk running out of hot chocolate and other things despite Marcus Evans supposedly being a business guru genius and that tannoy announcement saying 'Marcus Evans: the intelligence behind world leading business' or something like that.
Deciding to go to an away game on the day.
Frank Nouble and CLACK.
Le coach est parti
Jewell watching the DVD
Bilel Mohsni
The launch of the 12/13 kit in a farmyard with Josh Carson |  | | |
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