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Tue Dec 31, 2013 10:40 am
A proper football ground and was my second home, my old man stuck me on the bob bank at 5 and I grew up on there meeting some top people along the way, I felt invincible in ninian park
Tue Dec 31, 2013 12:18 pm
Some really great photos there, and memories we can always go back to in our thoughts of that great place.
Tue Dec 31, 2013 1:42 pm
i love the old pics coming up..should do it once a month Annis.
if im honest i miss Ninian Park more than the blue, it became a different club almost over night when we moved and i felt we had been re branded then.
Tue Dec 31, 2013 3:21 pm

A collection of some of my pics from the last season at NP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxuev0c3Oo0
Tue Dec 31, 2013 3:41 pm
Rita Pidsdale wrote:Everytime I see Ninian Park I feel gutted, not so much because of the times I had there, but because I had photos of my kids in an empty ground in the dugouts, in the tunnel and sitting in my seat. I have lost the disc with the photos on, I think I inadvertently threw them out
My vivid memories are my dad taking me down in the 70's, missing the early goal against CZ, losing 3-2 to Weymouth and 'the' Leeds game.
Can you imagine losing to Weymouth nowadays ! There would be a virtual world mass suicide.
A pitch invasion when we are 1-0 down against Wokingham, national news again

Puts Tans "boo" into perspective
Tue Dec 31, 2013 6:49 pm
Great photo's & memories from one of the last real football grounds. On a personal note for me the soul had been ripped out of Ninian Park in 1977 when the old wooden Grange End was ripped down to be replaced with a shocking open terrace that for several years was'nt used at all & the ground lost a lot of the acoustics.After spending my childhood perched on the fence of the old boys enclosure near the front of the Grange watching some wicked tear ups with the midland clubs to Robin Fridays close up antics on the pitch there was so many great moments but it never felt the same for me after 77.
Tue Dec 31, 2013 8:35 pm
For those that remember the old Grange end it was like the soul had been ripped out of the ground when it went away.
Wed Jan 01, 2014 6:44 am
Welshman in CA wrote:For those that remember the old Grange end it was like the soul had been ripped out of the ground when it went away.
^^This.
Some of those photos brought a tear to my eye.
I only had one year in the new stadium before moving to Africa for work so have very few recent memories of the new stadium... I'm not even sure if I could bear it with everything that is going on but the old girl will forever be in our souls.
Wed Jan 01, 2014 10:06 am
lethal's shooting boot wrote:Great photo's & memories from one of the last real football grounds. On a personal note for me the soul had been ripped out of Ninian Park in 1977 when the old wooden Grange End was ripped down to be replaced with a shocking open terrace that for several years was'nt used at all & the ground lost a lot of the acoustics.After spending my childhood perched on the fence of the old boys enclosure near the front of the Grange watching some wicked tear ups with the midland clubs to Robin Fridays close up antics on the pitch there was so many great moments but it never felt the same for me after 77.
same ,remember being in there and we were losing 6-0 to sheff utd,and everyone chucked their scarves in a pile in the middle of the stand and lit them on fire.then Cardiff scored and everyone wastrying to get their scarves back.

funny as f*ck
Wed Jan 01, 2014 10:08 am
soulofthesea wrote:bluecityblue wrote:When was the grandstand roof extended? I can't remember the old grange end roof, not sure about the grandstand though.
grandstand roof extended early 91 or 92 i think
If the question is about when it changed from being just the small covered block in the middle, to the full length of the pitch, then that was around the mid 70's. Unless I've misunderstood the question.
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