New Stadium Pictures

[londonblue]

Does anyone remember the computer generated image of the new stadium that was shown about a year or so ago? I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find it.

 

[east stand drummer boy]

It is on google images some where!

 

[Sandbach Shrimper]

Yeah type in Southend United on google images it's there somewhere.

 

[Guest]

http://robinmichel.co.uk/sufc/pics/fossettsground.jpg

 

[Javea Shrimper]

Stadium Pics

WS

 

[east stand drummer boy]

Is it just me or do you think that the design will change again and not look anything as classy to save money?

 

[Javea Shrimper]

Oh ... yeah, it's probably just you ...

WS

 

[east stand drummer boy]

CHEERS it is just i have an incling that the club are going to take the cheap road! with not the great satdium you can in that pic!

Is that the only pic available?

 

[Javea Shrimper]

Yep ...

WS

 

[chadded]

Quote[/b] (Javea Shrimper @ May 02 2004,11:55)]Yep ...

WS

Looks quality, but a score says that the grass on the outside of the stadium won't be there!

Also, can we move the floodlights from Roots Hall to the new stadium please, cos they are traditional, proper floodlights.

 

[footymad13]

See what you mean Chadded although im not sure it would be feasible and the cost, also wud it really look in place in a brand new stadium.

Id like to see the Frank Walton Clock taken and perhaps name the stadium New Roots Hall ?

 

[The Artful Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (chadded @ May 02 2004,14:47)]Also, can we move the floodlights from Roots Hall to the new stadium please, cos they are traditional, proper floodlights.  

yeah I'm with you there, can't beat seeing the floodlights looming up from behind a load of houses.
I understand, dunno if true, that when Brizzle Rivers left thier old stadium one of the floodlights was left. Bit of art.
I hate those built in lights housed in the roof.

 

[BluePartridge]

As long as there aren't no obscuring pillars I'm happy.

 

[Nestudas]

and we really mustn't forget to take the 1st class scoreboard with us

 

[chadded]

Quote[/b] (footymad13 @ May 02 2004,15:26)]See what you mean Chadded although im not sure it would be feasible and the cost, also wud it really look in place in a brand new stadium.

Id like to see the Frank Walton Clock taken and perhaps name the stadium New Roots Hall ?

Maybe, but its only a load of metal being moved about a mile across Southend. If they can dismantle Concorde and ship half of it to Scotland and send the other half in the post, four floodlights shouldn't be a problem!

And I for one hope that the new stadium is called Fossetts Farm. Roots Hall Stadium is I think, built on, amongst other things, Roots Hall. Although to be honest, so long we don't sell the naming rights to a company with a silly name, I don't care.

 

[ShrimperJim]

Quote[/b] (chadded @ May 02 2004,16:52)]

Quote[/b] (footymad13 @ May 02 2004,15:26)]See what you mean Chadded although im not sure it would be feasible and the cost, also wud it really look in place in a brand new stadium.

Id like to see the Frank Walton Clock taken and perhaps name the stadium New Roots Hall ?

Maybe, but its only a load of metal being moved about a mile across Southend. If they can dismantle Concorde and ship half of it to Scotland and send the other half in the post, four floodlights shouldn't be a problem!  

And I for one hope that the new stadium is called Fossetts Farm. Roots Hall Stadium is I think, built on, amongst other things, Roots Hall. Although to be honest, so long we don't sell the naming rights to a company with a silly name, I don't care.  

The Martin Dawn Arena

 

[Surrey Blue]

i think selling the name will be inevitable unfortunatley.

Maybe that should be a whole new thread.....

 

[chadded]

Quote[/b] (ShrimperJim @ May 02 2004,17:29)]The Martin Dawn Arena  

Exactly.

Who in their right mind would call a football stadium an Arena? It beggars belief, it really does.  

 

  

 

 

 

[Javea Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (footymad13 @ May 02 2004,15:26)]... perhaps name the stadium New Roots Hall ?

The Broomfield Stadium

in honour of Sid Broomfield, who also single-handedly built Roots Hall ...

Roots Hall is a footballing monument, fianced by a then considerable £74,000 raised in the 50s by Southend's supporters' club. Sid Broomfield, now 75, was working on the farm belonging to Southend's chairman, Alderman H H Smith. "He came up to me one day, and he said Sid: 'I've got a little job for you'".

The job was to transform, single-handedly at first, a huge, stinking rubbish dump into a football ground. Broomfield dug out 30 feet of sand, finding such things as cookers, bike frames and mattresses underneath. He names the few men who mucked in: "My brother Ken, brother-in-law Arthur, Peter Starkey, Henry Turnage, Ernie Bibby, and his mate Fred, Chango Wayland...Just a few men with heart"

Southend's players were paid 3s 6d an hour in the close season to work on the ground, marshalled by the goalkeeper, Harry Threadgold. The stadium finally opened in 1955, but it took Broomfield until 1962 to lay, block by concrete block, the 72 step South Bank terrace. "It was hard work" he says. "But I did enjoy it. The club was friendly, like a family. The supporters deserve great credit for financing it."

WS

 

[Shoebury Shrimper]

The New Hall sounds ok, But a link to the original fans who got the money together for roots hall for me is the only way to go,

But if a company wants to sponsor the stadium what price would we get for there name being ournew stadium name.

How about surrounding it with water and calling it the Adventure Island Stadium. A cool £1.000,000 should buy that honour.

Bruce Shrimpsteen

Born to Shrimp.