Nope. Don't miss it at all, not for a single second.
I am and always have been though a 'move on' kind of guy.
Same with everything. I had a job for 20 years and they then closed the place down and we all got made redundant.
People were walking around in a daze, shocked and some in floods of tears. I just shook a few hands, got in my car and looked towards a new adventure. Didn't miss any of it.
Have never missed HR at all. I constantly changed seats and stands and stood on the Kop and then the West End.
The ground was constantly changing, the main stand and then the Kop and then the west stand and then the M&B stand. Went from standing to all seating in open, to roofes being added. It was constantly changing and evolving.
Had it stayed exactly the same for say 25-30 years I might have felt more affinity with it, but I am the type who just accepts stuff, doesn't look back and moves along.
I like the Ricoh a lot, but if we were to leave there and go somewhere else I don't think I would particularly miss it at all.
HR for the most part was just as soulless as the Ricoh. Some of the views were very poor and we didn't exactly pull up any trees there for many, many years.
Again, if I had been part of the Sky Blue Revolution then maybe I would have felt a bit different, but my first experience of Highfield Road was 3 relegation battle seasons in the late 60's.
I drive past now and don't feel anything at all and just see it as houses with no nostalgic feel at all.
Guess it must just be me.
Interesting question.What league do you think we would be in if that was still our home ?
That's exactly how I see it, the constant in my childhood, my very best memories.I think a big part of the nostalgia for me is that it's so intrinsically linked to my childhood. As with most memories as a kid it's very rose tinted and misty eyed, but in a way it was one of the constants during my formative years. Even though I look back now and remember how grubby it was once you got inside...
I agree, I like the Ricoh as a stadium, I hate the fact it belongs to another sporting club, I am incredulous how we got to this point.I actually like the Ricoh and its soulless because of the 8-9k crowds in a crap Division of football. Now premier league or top end of the championship getting 25-30k crowds against villa and Midlands teams but also occasional years of Man U Arsenal and Liverpool and beating them once in a while. The place would be rocking and has been before. Some great atmospheres and games at the Ricoh. It's just not fit for purpose in league 1-2.
I even enjoy the match day experience of the walk up and grab a Starbucks then walk under the train line. I enjoy it but when you watch cov v oldham with 8k it isn't as good.
I do miss HR of course and still get sad when I drive past but Ricoh was the and is the better stadium for the future in mind but clearly not with wasps owning it and us in league 2 playing morecombe. It's wrong.
Nope. Don't miss it at all, not for a single second.
I am and always have been though a 'move on' kind of guy.
Same with everything. I had a job for 20 years and they then closed the place down and we all got made redundant.
People were walking around in a daze, shocked and some in floods of tears. I just shook a few hands, got in my car and looked towards a new adventure. Didn't miss any of it.
Have never missed HR at all. I constantly changed seats and stands and stood on the Kop and then the West End.
The ground was constantly changing, the main stand and then the Kop and then the west stand and then the M&B stand. Went from standing to all seating in open, to roofes being added. It was constantly changing and evolving.
Had it stayed exactly the same for say 25-30 years I might have felt more affinity with it, but I am the type who just accepts stuff, doesn't look back and moves along.
I like the Ricoh a lot, but if we were to leave there and go somewhere else I don't think I would particularly miss it at all.
HR for the most part was just as soulless as the Ricoh. Some of the views were very poor and we didn't exactly pull up any trees there for many, many years.
Again, if I had been part of the Sky Blue Revolution then maybe I would have felt a bit different, but my first experience of Highfield Road was 3 relegation battle seasons in the late 60's.
I drive past now and don't feel anything at all and just see it as houses with no nostalgic feel at all.
Guess it must just be me.
Must confess, I prefer walking up to the Ricoh.I'd prefer to be there still. No idea how much of it would have fallen apart!
Was always better walking up to there than it is the Ricoh, finding a random parking spot ages away and swaggering up to the ground.
I agree with all that, Shmmeee.The final day was great, I imagine the old days of the 60s were great.
But for me HR is shitty side streets with no parking for miles, taking ages to get out through a dodgy as fuck area of the city, pillars in front of your view, no chance of ever getting a drink or a pie at HT, tiny seats and usually an atmosphere like a library.
In hindsight it was a bad move, but it wasn't supposed to be, spectacular mismanagementI kind of miss it, however I only went for about 8 years so not as much as a lot of people.
Having said that it was a poor move selling HR and moving to the Ricoh.
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Took my young son upto the site of HIghfield rd as he'd never been to the ground, Have to sayLoved Highfield Road and loved the Ricoh when we first moved in. In a way I'm like Otis as you have to move on,but nobody can take away memories can they. Stood on the Spion Kop as a kid with my dad,and then in my teenage years went in the West End with my mates. I go up where the ground used to be now and again,and just see flats and houses,and so nothing there to remind me that was where our ground stood.
I tend to think of the great games and players I saw more than the stadium,so with that mindset it helps me to just move on.
Yeah, I remember the Kop days as a little kid, sat my my dad's shoulders vividly and have warm memories of that.Loved Highfield Road and loved the Ricoh when we first moved in. In a way I'm like Otis as you have to move on,but nobody can take away memories can they. Stood on the Spion Kop as a kid with my dad,and then in my teenage years went in the West End with my mates. I go up where the ground used to be now and again,and just see flats and houses,and so nothing there to remind me that was where our ground stood.
I tend to think of the great games and players I saw more than the stadium,so with that mindset it helps me to just move on.
Ah but Would you rebuild it with the spion kop complete with crows nest and toxic bogs,I've always said if I became a billionaire and bought City I would buy all them flats, knock them down and rebuild Highfield Rd! Wouldn't give two fucks if there was nothing left for players.
Of course it HR2 would have a 60,000 capacity!
Yes the club should do this but the fans should not need asking for a Wembley final. Sky blue should be wall to wall in our area.Ccfc should try to instigate something like this for wembley
it wouldn't be the same without them!Ah but Would you rebuild it with the spion kop complete with crows nest and toxic bogs,
Or the east stand.
Hindsight's a wonderful thing !Interesting question.
Assuming we still owned the statidum I think Championship.
That would've given us a platform for future investment and then who knows where we would've been.
People blame SISU for the club today and rightly so. However this all started off when we sold HR.
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