Highfield Rd (2 Viewers)

[PurpleBin]

WT 2 mostly. Never had a season ticket back then though.

Pre game used to be the Brewer and Baker!

 

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[Monners]

At HR I used all parts - but Sky Blue terrace for my season ticket (block 8). Used to like standing there back in the day as you could move up and down the pitch side

 

[JWC]

When I had a season ticket i sat in the west terrace, row H, seat 110. Loved it, still miss it.

 

[Happy_Martian]

So it seems most still prefer Highfield Rd including me. So where did we all used to sit/stand?
Season ticket in the West Terrace for me. Bang in the middle of the goal-Seat 90 row P which was far enough back under the West Stand above incase it started lashing down.
Which of you old duffers had your blanket and flask in the Main Stand then? :emoji_smiley:

Me and my Nan were in the West Terrace, S 90 and 91. And we always used to curse that someone 5 rows in front of us used to stand all game so we had to as well

 

[lifeskyblue]

On the kop for two seasons with my stool before we reached Div 1. One season in M&B. Then West Stand with dad till I went to uni. Still miss walking up to the ground (we used to park at the old Gulson rd hospital). And how my dad used to put with my unrealistic expectations...when we approached the turnstiles. Happy happy days.


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[scottccfc]

Season ticket in the west terrace and east stand, used to sit infront of the away fans as a ball boy

 

[Rusty Trombone]

Started off with a season ticket in the West Terrace, kids price was something like £37.50 in 1985, then moved to the East Stand when it opened. Just looked out my old ticket for 98/99, was that when it opened? Cost was £342 in the Comtel East Stand,block E9, row 19, seat 20. Prices seem cheap now by comparison.

 

[HerneBayGaz]

On the kop for two seasons with my stool before we reached Div 1. One season in M&B. Then West Stand with dad till I went to uni. Still miss walking up to the ground (we used to park at the old Gulson rd hospital). And how my dad used to put with my unrealistic expectations...when we approached the turnstiles. Happy happy days.


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Nice story

Are you the one that I still see standing on a stool?

 

[Houchens Head]

Nice story

Are you the one that I still see standing on a stool?

I quite often step on a stool in my local park when dirty dog owners don't pick up after their pets!

 

[HerneBayGaz]

I quite often step on a stool in my local park when dirty dog owners don't pick up after their pets!

Sorry I will try to be more considerate in the future. Poo bags don't come cheap!!

 

[Old Warwickshire lad]

Front of cop as a nipper,West end in 70s.
Back to cop when I got to old to be a hooligan.
Spent many happy years just to left of scoreboard,leaning on the same rail each week( territorial creature of habit).
Then into sky blue stand till we left.

 

[SkyBlueSid]

I used to stand at the wall in the Covered End (as it was then) from 1963. Then when the West Stand was built I got a season ticket in the 4th row right behind the goal, which I had every season until we left HR. I used to love it there, especially for night matches.

 

[ajsccfc]

As we lived two streets away, we'd usually wander up and be allowed to just go in for free for the second half, one time got to sit practically where the ballboys are. They didn't give a fuck about security in the 90s did they?

 

[Adge]

Me and my Nan were in the West Terrace, S 90 and 91. And we always used to curse that someone 5 rows in front of us used to stand all game so we had to as well

Borussia Dortmund aswell wasn’t it?

 

[Happy_Martian]

Borussia Dortmund aswell wasn’t it?

I may have worn that shirt a few times

 

[Adge]

I may have worn that shirt a few times

Now I know who you are!

 

[Liquid Gold]

If I remember right the west terrace started at 1 by the away fans then 4/5 were both behind the goals one to each side. I was in block 5 somewhere in the middle.

 

[Happy_Martian]

If I remember right the west terrace started at 1 by the away fans then 4/5 were both behind the goals one to each side. I was in block 5 somewhere in the middle.

Can't say the blocks but seat 90 was just inside the left goal post.

 

[PurpleBin]

If I remember right the west terrace started at 1 by the away fans then 4/5 were both behind the goals one to each side. I was in block 5 somewhere in the middle.

Yeah that's right. If you were in WT1 you could pretty much have a conversation with away fans in the lower tier if they sold it out!

 

[mcflappers]

only ever went to one game at highfield road (bearing in mind i was 14 when they moved the the ricoh!) it was a 1-0 win against leicester back in the 98-99 season ... all i remember is i sat in the mcdonalds stand behind a pole.... so i couldnt see much and there were adults in front of me (i was 8), seen as i was my first ever match.. i turned to my grandad and said "when do i start to hear the men talking".... to which anyone who heard had a little laugh i seem to remember...

 

[Hobo]

First game on a stool on the Spion Kop. Then several years later, in front of the main stand in those sunken seats by the track.

When I got serious West Stand. Then West Terrace or West End. Towards the end Sky Blues Stand as near the half way line as I could get and near the back.

It wasn't the best of grounds acoustically until they developed the East Stand (old Spion Kop).

Good ground in the end.

 

[Hobo]

Front of cop as a nipper,West end in 70s.
Back to cop when I got to old to be a hooligan.
Spent many happy years just to left of scoreboard,leaning on the same rail each week( territorial creature of habit).
Then into sky blue stand till we left.

Kop ffs

 

[clint van damme]

Sat in several different areas over the years but to the left hand side of the goal in the West terrace ( block 5?), in the last few years before we left

 

[LastGarrison]

Was also a WT5 lad.

Our junior tickets (got in on them till at least our early 20’s) were always for somewhere else but as you came down the stairs in WT5 there was a little cut off to the right that we always used to stand in.

Don’t think I once ever sat in the terrace.

 

[Sick Boy]

Started off with a season ticket in the West Terrace, kids price was something like £37.50 in 1985, then moved to the East Stand when it opened. Just looked out my old ticket for 98/99, was that when it opened? Cost was £342 in the Comtel East Stand,block E9, row 19, seat 20. Prices seem cheap now by comparison.

The East Stand opened around 94/95, I think

 

[ajsccfc]

You're right, it was ready for the start of that season

Following the 'Taylor Report’ in 1990 City, with almost 18,000 seats out of a capacity of 26,000, were well placed to meet the report’s recommendations that all top division grounds should be all-seater by August 1994. The Sky Blues were founder members of the Premiership in 1992 and in the summer of 1993, work commenced on the new East Stand and the team played its home games to a three-sided stadium for one season whilst the new stand rose from the wreck of the flattened Kop

The History of Highfield Road - by Coventry City Club Historian Jim Brown - News - Coventry City