As for the poster slating the away facilities, people in glass house shouldn't throw stones etc., the facilities at Roots Hall are equally as bad, with access to the disabled toilets down a flight of stairs! The bogs are awful too and the food outlet a joke, but I doubt you've been in there.
Don't get me wrong, I am as mortified as you that the lights went out and it is highly embarrassing, but in 40 years of watching the Shots, its the first time I can recall it happening in a league game. I take from the scathing comments we are receiving the lights at Roots Hall have never failed before?
That used to be the home end , so yes some of of have
I can't recall a game abandoned at RH for Floodlight failure (in the last 40 years anyway) , I do recall the floodlights failing a couple of times, but I seem to remember the Essex electricians being able to fix things. Also in one game the floodlights were of sufficient quality to allow the game to progress despite partial floodlight failure.
We did have an "its off, no its on" situation a few years ago, an F A Cup replay where the game was postponed due to fog but unpostponed a few minutes later
In that instance our Chairman was able to fix the weather , its a shame he was unable to help with mere electrics this time
Personally, I feel a number of the comments regarding the facilities etc at Aldershot are unfair, it is an old ground, which to be honest, when we used to visit the previous football club which played there, was one of the smaller stadiums and considering they went bust I doubt if they had money to spend on facilities
The new club have only been going 20 years and , no doubt, are finding the money equally tight .
We , on this board , a the first to slate the premiers*** clubs for talking down to us, lets remember that there are a lot of clubs in the lower leagues now who have been Isthmian , or even lower in the past 30 years and , to be fair (Creepy excepted) have done well to get league status, when better funded clubs still haven't (Canvey and Chelmsford are two local ones who spring to mind) .
We are in the bottom division for a reason, we have been crap for several years, lets show some manners to those who had dreams to be in this division and done well to achieve it (Creepy excepted)
That said I was seriously ***** off on boxing day, so I can't begin to imagine how those who actually went felt and the injustice of the bookings, suspensions etc wouldn't help
