The matchday experience

Ranked from worst to best - I'm not going to tell you where Barnsley rank, find out yourself!

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/ranked-matchday-experience-all-92-english-league-stadiums

 

Disappointed we didn't come lower, i don't want us pandering to the prawn sandwich brigade.

 

So oakwell is below Accrington Stanley in his list?

How very "teams like Barnsley" ish

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Wait til you get to the last page and see who came 2nd....

 

Yep and 3rd.

 

Oh dear..

 

I felt physically sick.

 

The first two have built their stadiums well, enclosed in the corners so they don't lose any of the atmosphere and the crowds on top of the players

Ours is like playing on that field from Kes, its that open "it's basterd freesin' "tha reyt Billy"

 

To be fair, Oakwell is pretty wnak.

 

Leeds at 20 is a joke, when I went I paid like £36 to sit behind a huge pillar and couldn't see half of pitch, doesn't seem a good match day to me....

Also Newcastle at 6 is stupid........ My dad paid a fortune for tickets which were double booked meaning I sat in stairwell on the back row on the steepest stand known to man, I needed binoculars I was that far from the pitch

 

I'd say we are about right. Years of neglect have left the stadium a bit threadbare and the club seems to have little or no interest in creating a match day experience anything above the very basic.

 

The match day experience for me is the 90 mins of play on the pitch.

 

Get pop up bars going. Invest in a supporters club. Provide some nice food. Spruce the ground up. Learn from clubs like Leicester or Brighton ( on a much more shoestring budget). It's not that hard. Wallsall for example provide a great match day experience with a smaller income than ours.

 

The conclusion I come to from that is that he's a West Brom fan who's still excited from his trip to Bramhall Lane when the match got abandoned, because Warnock told his players to feign injury. Keith Curle ran around kicking people trying to get sent off, quite literally.

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Woah, woah woah Jim. I could think of a thousand reasons why that wouldn't work or we don't need it. Instead I'll say why don't you dip your hand in your pocket? Do you want the club to go bankrupt or summat? Discussion over.

 

I know crazy talk. I will chip in a fiver though.

 

this is exactly what should be happening.

as well as supporting barnsley me and our lass also follow cas tigers and the matchday at cas is miles ahead of any football match..We usually turn up about half an hour or so before kick off to have a couple of pints but hundreds more are there long before us.There is a beer tent with a DJ on,fans from both clubs intermingle and many are well oiled,but the difference is there isnt any bother,it really is just old fashioned banter.
Along with the beer tent there is a bar inside and now there are four new real ale bars around the ground selling hand pulled ales.There are burger vans,fish and chips,ice cream vans,a stall selling merchandise,plus the usual stuff like half time draws.
many times throughout the season they have 'turns' on,so far this year we've had a queen tribute and a robbie williams tribute.
you can watch the game with a pint in your hand,they even sell 3 pint pitchers so people dont have to keep traipsin' back to the bar..
players make a point of walking the entire perimiter of the field after the match,shaking hands,having selfies took etc,far more approachable than any footballer.
there are just as many women there as blokes and you even still see people carry small stools and beer crates so the smaller kids can see over the hordings.
all in all the football league should follow suit but this will never happen because some pillocks cant behave especially when they've had a pint down them.

 

Back of Worsborough high that field int it if I remember, with Wombwell woods in the background

 

As much as it pains me to say it Sheff United's is pretty good, it's a ground I like going to, great location just outside the city centre as well.

No idea why Hillsboroughs so high, the grounds awful, particularly the away end where the concourse is far too small & it feels like a death trap. My experience of it was been desperate for a piss all second half because I didn't want to deal with how overcrowded it was at half time.

I like ones near town centres or old school ones in between terraced houses like Rochdale & Grimsby where as I hate modern grounds in the middle of nowhere like Derby, Middlesbrough & Doncaster.

Big fan of grounds like Newcastle & Huddersfield as well as Sheff United that are only a few minutes walk from the City centre.

I'd hate that Brighton ground, 6 miles from the centre. Rubbish

 

The match day experienced stopped being about the 90 minutes on the pitch when sky got involved. Pre sky we paid a fair amount to watch a game of football: we now pay hyper inflated prices to pay players hyper inflated wages.