Highfield road (1 Viewer)

[ScottShearerFanClub]

Very much off topic, this type of thread has probably been up loads.

Has anyone been back there in recent years since houses have been there. Whats it like? Any memorials or such?

Couldnt find pictures anywhere.

 

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[Kuklinski]

It's like any other new housing development, new houses and flats. It's worth driving to see if you are a distance away.

 

[ajsccfc]

Short of walking round to take a picture:

They've kept it to a similar kind of design as a stadium, with the housing all surrounding the green in the middle which is roughly where the centre of the pitch was.

 

[ScottShearerFanClub]

Thanks! I cant even imagine it there, thought i'd be able too. No memorial or plaque?

 

[ajsccfc]

There might be something in the green, not sure though.

 

[Cobi Jones's Dreads]

Disgrace really if there is no mention of Coventry City somewhere. :jerkit:

 

[sw88]

ajsccfc, I never knew the bit about the layout! Only ever driven around the outside (Swan Lane etc) and just assumed that behind those apartments (sounds much nicer than flats ) were more houses and more apartments!! I think the only piece of memorabilia willbe the 'Highfield Road' road sign on, well Highfield Road. Why would the property developer be bothered about wuat was there before the housing estate?? They were too bothered when they were getting the land when the ground was there!!

Funnily enough i wad only looking at the framed photo in my room today of HR reminising how much of a nice stadium it was and how it served us well. Still today it would be better than some of the grounds we get to experience going to (and would put some Prem grounds to shame aswell I reckon).

PUSB

 

[ScottShearerFanClub]

Tell me about it. Years of history. Nothing to show for it

 

[CovScott88]

It's really strange seeing it like that. I'm feeling a little nostalgic!

 

[ScottShearerFanClub]

I wonder what stand that would be where the picture is taken. would be good if there was a similar shot from inside the ground back in the day.

 

[ajsccfc]

That shot would be more or less the perspective of the old Sky Blue stand, nearer to the East Stand side.

 

[TheSnoz]

I was there a few weeks ago. No memorial that I could see. A real shame. The council have no real sense of history in Coventry. It will probably take a public campaign to shift them to put a marker or plaque up there.
All hypothetical but we should never have moved from that central location. Houses could have been bought around the ground to allow proper redevelopment of a modern stadium. People could walk there fairly easily from town. The money that was spent on clearing up the Ricoh site - millions - could have been used to buy up property etc.

 

[ScottShearerFanClub]

Agree 100%. I always wonder why we couldnt have developed it as man united developed old trafford, by no means cheap though considerably cheaper than the ricoh and the process involved

 

[coundonskyblue]

Agree 100%. I always wonder why we couldnt have developed it as man united developed old trafford, by no means cheap though considerably cheaper than the ricoh and the process involved

There were proposals around 1996/97 time to replace the M&B stand with a huge 10,000 seater stand and also to build a sports complex on the other side of Thackhall st on the old car park. Some of the local councillors complained though and it was dropped.

 

[ScottShearerFanClub]

Whats to complain about.

 

[bamalamafizzfazz]

It's funny how everyone in the country wants new stadiums and when they have them they say I wish we stayed where we were.

 

[Macca]

HR was a fairly modern stadium post 1994. My dream is a billionaire buying us up buying all those houses, knocking em down and rebuilding the ground there. Part of my feelings for the club died when we moved, only natural I suppose

 

[coundonskyblue]

Whats to complain about.

Some of the residents were moaning about the sunlight onto their gardens being blocked by the new stand.

Also I have a programme from the last game of the 94/95 season in which Bryan Richardson is talking about a new stand being built the following year in the corner of the West stand & Main stand. Dont suppose anyone knows why that didnt go ahead?

 

[Cov 4 Prem]

Take me home, Highfield road. :guitar2:

 

[Cobi Jones's Dreads]

take me home, highfield road. :guitar2:

this ...

 

[TheParsonsHose]

The only thing I miss about it was the fact it was our home and at some point we owned it. The facitlites were shite and it was a really tired old ground but had I have known we were not going to own our stadium by now...........I would have stayed warts and all.

 

[SkyblueSavage]

We should have re-developed. Simple as!!

 

[TheParsonsHose]

The troubles were already with us...... two mortgages, excessive spending and renting our own ground paved the way for what we have today.

 

[Skybluemilf]

The lack of a plaque at least saves the local Chavs/yobbo's from defacing it i suppose.
Miss the atmosphere at good old Highfield Rd

 

[Tommy Pitera]

A souless flat pack stadium will never replace a ground full of history and memories. Footballs not been the same since we left HR. Left almost all my passion for the game at HR.

 

[Skybluemilf]

At least those of us that spent many happy times at Highfield Road have experienced this type of atmosphere and memories, it's the young ones i feel sorry for that will never experience what we did.

 

[sky_blue_up_north]

When I was a kid I remember walking to the ground from Holbrooks to watch the West Stand been built sat there all day, crazy really I guess, but I really felt part of the club. I have never felt that at the Ricoh. Never had the same feelings. Yes its a better laid out ground, see anywhere you seat. But you still q for ages for drinks at half time, and the prices in the ground are crazy gave up buying stuff ages ago. In short Highfield Road was the soul of Coventry City, the Ricoh is soulless.

 

[Changeyourface]

How about a sign saying "This used to be the home of Coventry City Football Club before they sold their soul and moved to Bedworth"

 

[NuneatonSkyBlue]

The Ricoh is soulless.

It's the young ones i feel sorry for that will never experience what we did.
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What you are experiencing there is change!

Im only 20 so i don't have all of the memories that some of you have about HR but i do have some, and yes even at the tender age of 14 i was sad when we left HR. But in another 100 or so years times when the ricoh is old and another move is on the cards these same comments will be made. The problem is nothing has happened at the ricoh that creates them memories, there have been no relegations, promotions, cup shocks, etc... but in time there will be. We probably won't be around to see them all but they will happen.

Everything new is souless to begin with but it takes time to make it your own. And when you only visit the place around 25 times a season, with the memories of old still fresh in the mind, then its going to take along time to warm to the new complex we now find ourselves calling home.

 

[skybluesben]

I remember going to highfield road when i was younger, i miss it, it was old but it gave us some history, now the ricoh is just like every other stadium tbh.