Mk away 08:56 - Feb 26 with 2305 views | lunatic1988 | Third time visiting stadium MK, worst away game and never gets no better. What a soulless place for football. Liquidate MK dons |  | | |  |
Mk away on 09:01 - Feb 26 with 2258 views | 3_5_2 | I take your point but would love to have a ground like that at PR With a better pitch |  |
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Mk away on 09:05 - Feb 26 with 2231 views | Vaughan8 | I'm sure there was thread about how great the ground is yesterday. I'm not sure it was a p!SS take either. Very soulless and very empty. Haven't been for a while but parking used to be shocking too. Hopefully it's a bit better now. |  | |  |
Mk away on 09:39 - Feb 26 with 2117 views | billlm | Agree soulless place, good outside infrastructure, concourse inside very concrete very poor, Only thing was the service food and beers was fairly quick considering how many town fans there, |  | |  |
Mk away on 09:53 - Feb 26 with 2078 views | Guthrum |
Mk away on 09:05 - Feb 26 by Vaughan8 | I'm sure there was thread about how great the ground is yesterday. I'm not sure it was a p!SS take either. Very soulless and very empty. Haven't been for a while but parking used to be shocking too. Hopefully it's a bit better now. |
The emptiness doesn't help, but I actually think it's one of the nicer new concrete bowl style grounds. |  |
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Mk away on 10:18 - Feb 26 with 2024 views | norfsufblue |
Mk away on 09:53 - Feb 26 by Guthrum | The emptiness doesn't help, but I actually think it's one of the nicer new concrete bowl style grounds. |
Agree, best of the concrete bowls but not got a patch of the character of Portman Road.... we are very lucky to have a stadium in the middle(ish) of town , nr the train station and plenty of space round it to develop into as itseems will happen.... I don't want to erase our history |  | |  |
Mk away on 10:42 - Feb 26 with 1930 views | lunatic1988 |
Mk away on 09:01 - Feb 26 by 3_5_2 | I take your point but would love to have a ground like that at PR With a better pitch |
You must be joking? Hasn’t got a patch on Portman road. Another bowl stadium with no personality |  | |  |
Mk away on 11:05 - Feb 26 with 1871 views | DJR | I'm not that fussed by it, but it does have the advantage that its layout fosters the whole stand singing the same song. [Post edited 26 Feb 2023 11:06]
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Mk away on 11:37 - Feb 26 with 1794 views | bournemouthblue |
Mk away on 10:18 - Feb 26 by norfsufblue | Agree, best of the concrete bowls but not got a patch of the character of Portman Road.... we are very lucky to have a stadium in the middle(ish) of town , nr the train station and plenty of space round it to develop into as itseems will happen.... I don't want to erase our history |
It's interesting that a few clubs seem to be moving away from the identikit bowl type grounds and going for a more traditional ground layout such as Brighton and Brentford as an example If you ever did go down the bowl route, you have to have a Kop end factored in, a bit like Spurs on a smaller scale |  |
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Mk away on 12:48 - Feb 26 with 1677 views | Pendejo |
Mk away on 10:42 - Feb 26 by lunatic1988 | You must be joking? Hasn’t got a patch on Portman road. Another bowl stadium with no personality |
The seat I had at MK yesterday - padded, lots of legroom V Where I usually sit in Cobbold MK comes out on top. The only problem being the seat numbers so poorly positioned. Geezer in front of us had a discussion with another fella about sitting in ticketed seat as both had same number, just one was clearly in the wrong row. Second time MK, second nervy 1-0 win. I like Stadium MK with its idiosyncratic stand to our right, what makes it soulless is a club with no real history (unlike Fleetwood, Accrington, Barrow etc) and consequently lack of proper organically grown support. Much as I love PR, I'd take Stadium MK template upgrade to 40,000, with up to 10,000 built in for the away fans,. |  |
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Mk away on 13:00 - Feb 26 with 1633 views | ArnieM |
Mk away on 09:01 - Feb 26 by 3_5_2 | I take your point but would love to have a ground like that at PR With a better pitch |
Was saying this to my friend yesterday, that if their stadium was ours, we’d fill it to the rafters , and I’d reckon the atmosphere would be brilliant. Not sure how big MKD is , but it’s one of the nicer “ soulless “ bowl stadiums I think. . |  |
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Mk away on 13:40 - Feb 26 with 1561 views | GeoffSentence | I liked the stadium. Didn't like the setting. Basically one of those sht commercial estates. |  |
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Mk away on 21:14 - Feb 26 with 1250 views | 3_5_2 |
Mk away on 10:42 - Feb 26 by lunatic1988 | You must be joking? Hasn’t got a patch on Portman road. Another bowl stadium with no personality |
No its my view PR has lots of history but 30,000 in MK would make more noise than PR. Pride park will be noisy and decent |  |
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Mk away on 21:41 - Feb 26 with 1167 views | PioneerBlue | Absolutely soulless place. Made worse by the lack of home fan following. I would never swap it for PR but from a pure spectator view you have to credit several things; Viewing positions all around Leg room Ingress and egress Behind stand space Hate the surround stadium set up and the food chain outlets albeit ok after game if you book weeks in advance. Nothing shouts lack of community more than a Golden Arches in your immediate stadium eye line, where are the mobile/ local food outlets? Good to see even with all that space for bars, they couldn’t serve a few beers easily to a few thousand away supporters. [Post edited 26 Feb 2023 22:41]
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Mk away on 21:52 - Feb 26 with 1132 views | mrfixit426 |
Mk away on 12:48 - Feb 26 by Pendejo | The seat I had at MK yesterday - padded, lots of legroom V Where I usually sit in Cobbold MK comes out on top. The only problem being the seat numbers so poorly positioned. Geezer in front of us had a discussion with another fella about sitting in ticketed seat as both had same number, just one was clearly in the wrong row. Second time MK, second nervy 1-0 win. I like Stadium MK with its idiosyncratic stand to our right, what makes it soulless is a club with no real history (unlike Fleetwood, Accrington, Barrow etc) and consequently lack of proper organically grown support. Much as I love PR, I'd take Stadium MK template upgrade to 40,000, with up to 10,000 built in for the away fans,. |
Totally agree with this. Was sitting having a chat with my mate before the cup final this afternoon, and I said it was the lack of history which kills it. That place has no soul (not that I believe in such things). However, it's a great arena to watch "stuff." P.S. Was it me or did their pre-match promo video seem to go on for about half an hour....? |  | |  |
Mk away on 22:00 - Feb 26 with 1105 views | buoyant |
Mk away on 09:01 - Feb 26 by 3_5_2 | I take your point but would love to have a ground like that at PR With a better pitch |
Is it because you could pop into IKEA at half time for a nice bit of flat pack? |  |
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Mk away on 22:29 - Feb 26 with 1025 views | 3_5_2 |
Mk away on 22:00 - Feb 26 by buoyant | Is it because you could pop into IKEA at half time for a nice bit of flat pack? |
as opposed to popping next door to ? Offices, kfc etc |  |
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