20 replies to this topic

[shakerandy]

Club & Ground Name

Rochdale, Spotland Stadium.

How Easy Was It To Find?

Piece of p**s. From my house, turn left at the end of the street onto Rochdale Old Road. Head down the road for eight minutes until you reach the cemetery inn. Park up and walk down Sandy Lane.

10/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?

Theres a small car park at the ground but its easier just to park up one of the many side streets around the football ground.

8/10

View. Pillar In The Way?

Great stand, probably the best stand in the ground. It dwarfs all the others really and looks a bit out of place. The view is superb, running the entire length along the side of the pitch.

10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)

A large number of seats whenever I have gone with Bury are quite frankly filthy. Covered in dust or bird crap. Maybe this is because that the vast majority of teams who visit Spotland only take about 500 in a stand that holds about 4,000. Where as we normally fill at least 75% of it all the time. Theres enough leg room and the roof covers the entire stand.

7/10

Toilets.

Not bad, better than the majority of clubs in this league who let you have a piss whilst looking up at the stars!

8/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)

The pies are good, thats one good thing about dale and they are quite reasonably priced. The queues are crap though, what with there being one kiosk under the stand open for normally 2,500+ away fans when I go.

7/10

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere

Home fans atmosphere is pretty dire to be honest. The ground is that sparsely populated that you wouldn't think it is a local derby game. The Sandy Lane end tries their hardest with a group of about 40 or so fans to try and create an atmosphere but the majority of the time its with a camp rendition of "Dale, Dale". I'm guessing thats to do with some infatuation with TV's own Dale Winton.

The other end behind the goals might as well not even bother.

The away end is good for creating noise though.

6/10

Stewards, Policing

Not bad, most of the time though they are a bit over friendly with chucking people out for standing up.

6/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?

There's a few pubs, but try the cracking chippy facing the away end. You won't go far wrong with that place.

7/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?

8/10

Shaker.

Edited by shakerandy, 29 October 2004 - 09:45 PM.

[BlueSmudge]

I was in the home end here as a neutral, so some of these wont all apply.

Club & Ground Name Spotland, Rochdale AFC

How Easy Was It To Find? Very easy. East Lancs and motorway all the way there and well signposted right away.

10/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit? Loads of parking, mostly free

10/10

View. Pillar In The Way? I was in the home end, but there were no pillars in the away end at all, new stand along the side of the pitch.

10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc) All four sides had a roof. Dont know about legroom, I was on the terrace and there was plenty of room there!

8/10

Toilets. Clean enough, Ive seen worse at Goodison!

8/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues) Didnt have any, but pie and peas seemed to be the local delicacy! Only one food stall in the home end, wasnt a big crowd on though, so it wasnt too bad.

/10

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere The Dale fans were pretty loud on this occasion, even before they scored. The Orient fans were almost silent second half, but a small number made a fair bit of noise first half. The away end looks like it can create a good atmosphere, especially if a team brings large numbers.

9/10

Stewards, Policing Both seemed decent and friendly enough, looked like fans were allowed to mix without too much trouble and the stewards were helpful.

10/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground? Couple of pubs and chippies nearby. Further up the road (since I kept on driving!) there was a couple of small retail type parks. Not too much really.

6/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves? Nice little ground with a very relaxed atmosphere, great prices too! Only £6 to stand!

9/10

[Lord Football]

Club & Ground Name

Rochdale, Spotland Stadium.

How Easy Was It To Find?

Simple, I email Will Maxwell, he sends me remarkably good directions.

9/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?

No complaints, parked about 200 yards from the ground in a cul-de-sac

10/10

View. Pillar In The Way?

I hadn't been away from many a year and was very surprised at the standard of accommodation at Spotland. So good in fact a couple of Dale fans joined us.
10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)

Average really, what I would expect.

7/10

Toilets.

Clean. Working. All that counts really.

8/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)

Looked like they did great pies, unfortunately when I got to the head of the queue they had sold out (not help by my Yorkie Brother In Law eating five)

na

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere

A point kept Dale in the League, so they were quite mouthy. It was our last away game and the fancy dress brigade was in full force. A good laugh really. However, I can imagine it is dire midweek in January.

6/10

Stewards, Policing

Never saw a copper, stewards were sensible with the Dale fans in our area (ie only removed them). Horrid programme seller in orange tent.

6/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?

Dunno, timed to perfection, arrived at 2.45
na

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?

For a ground in this League and for a club that hasn't had to worry about going higher, it is not bad

8/10

[Orient]

Blummin heck, if its THAT good, why the hell are they up north?

[RoversJenny]

Club & Ground Name
Rochdale, Spotland Stadium.

How Easy Was It To Find?
Very easy
10/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?
Had to park quite a way from the ground on some side street somewhere, but it was due to getting there quite late, volume of traffic going down the M62 on an evening is very heavy! there were plenty of places to park though.
8/10

View. Pillar In The Way?
View was fine, having the whole stand means you can pick and chose where you want to sit in order to get optimum view depending on which way you are shooting.
10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)
Seats were a bit grubby. I spent the match in much discomfort due to having a chest infection and it being freezing cold sat at one end of the stand near the open corner, the roof keeps you dry, but it doesnt keep you warm!
7/10

Toilets.
Average
7/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)
Due to being Ill i didnt eat anything.
NA

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere
They were loud when they were winning, thats about it really. Away end has grwat acoustics.
7/10

Stewards, Policing
No problems with them at our end, not that i saw anyway, a few dale fans got removed for big knobs though.
7/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?
arrived too late to notice
NA

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?
One of the best traditional grounds in the football league
9/10

[Rocky_Latic]

Club & Ground Name
Rochdale, Spotland Stadium.

How Easy Was It To Find?
Be a bit silly if I go lost
10/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?
Never needed to park, just jump on a bus. However looking around the area there isnt many places to park bar some side streets.

6/10

View. Pillar In The Way?
View was great, went near the top as the view seemed to get better the further up you went.
10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)
Decent
7/10

Toilets.
It was pre season so they were clean.
9/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)
Queue was far to long to bother with, Dale pies in years gone by are famous for one reason and one reason only. There gorgeous. You can get pea's in the Sandy lane with it

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere
Dale despite having sod all to cheer about in 30 odd years do get behind their side, better than grounds with 7,000 home fans that i've been too in the past. It can be really good when it needs to be - I.e Rushden in the playoff.
8/10

Stewards, Policing
Bit OTT for a friendly with not many there - Stewards are jobsworths at Dale, I know one or two of them unfortunately.
5/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?
Apart from the one's a short distance in town there's not really many to choose from. There's the pub on the corner near the away end, but as Shaker says. You cant go wrong with the chippy near the away end.

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?
When you think of Rochdale FC you'd think they'd play in a run down cowshed, but that's exactly the opposite. Brilliant facilities by league 2 standards and wouldnt be ashamed in league 1. My second home after Boundary Park.
9/10

[BlueSmudge]

Pictures.

[NCFC Kim]

Club & Ground Name

Rochdale, Spotland Stadium.

How Easy Was It To Find?

Not too difficult came into towards Manchester on M62 (In what must be one of the most scenic journeys to a football game in the UK) and soon found signs pointing us in the direction of Spotland.

9/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?

We parked up on one of the side streets without any trouble at all.

8/10

View. Pillar In The Way?

Great view from the centre of the stand, no obstuctions at all.

10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)

Plenty of Leg room

10/10

Toilets.

I've seen a hell of a lot worse!!

8/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)

I didn't try anything inside Spotland itself. No visitor to Rochdale should leave before visiting the chip shop on Wilbutts Lane which has undoubtadly has some of the nicest fish and chips I've ever tasted on my footballing travels. Every football club should have one.

7/10

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere

To say they were 3-0 up inside the first twenty minutes of the game in our most recent visit, the atmosphere wasn't that good. The occasional shouts of 'Rochdale' and the obligitory 'Easy' chants (we know, there's no need to tell us by making yourselves look incredibly daft!) there wasn't much in the way of an atmosphere at all.

Away fans can make a decent noice but shouldn't be expected to when you're 3-0 down after 20 minutes and have one shot on target throughout the entire match.

6/10

Stewards, Policing

No problems at all.

8/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?

On all of my three visits we haven't arrived with enough time to go to the pub beforehand but no visit to Rochdale shouldn't be complete without a visit to the pre-mentioned chip shop opposite the away stand.

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?

A lovely little ground, a good away end and a friendly group of supporters. One of my favourite destinations in League Two.

9/10

[chrissmith]

Might as well start doing some of these.

Club & Ground Name

Rochdale, Spotland Stadium.

How Easy Was It To Find?

We had the coach driver that has got us lost a fair few times but didn't this time so therefore...

9/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?

Coach parked right near away entrance and then had to move after everyone had got off, was allowed back in the same area after the game.

8/10

View. Pillar In The Way?

Great view compared to a lot of the other grounds. Near Half way line, decent way up and no pillars = .

10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)

Easily enough leg room, fairly comfortable as well.

9/10

Toilets.

Good facilities and a decent amount of space to move around(unlike ours!)

8/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)

Didn't have anything inside the ground with the chippy being outside, didn't seem to be that much option however.

N/A

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere

Crap, one stand started a chant every 15 minutes or so but that was about it, despite our lack of numbers the stand allowed us to make a fair bit of noise when we could be bothered.

6/10

Stewards, Policing
One of our fans got kicked out for swearing which seems harsh, also the previous year we had a line of about 15 of them sitting in front of us, seem to want to make it look like there doing a job

4/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?

A pub right near the ground but the chippy would get this high marks just on it's own!

8/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?

8/10

[LOFC Till I Die]

Club, Ground name
Rochdale, Spotland

How easy was it to find?
Really easy, I had a feeling that are instructions may have been wrong until I saw street signs.
8/10

Car Parking. Was it near? Was it free? Was it well policed/lit?
A few streets away. It was free and it was in the middle of a street so someone would of seen something
7/10

View. Pillar in the way?
Great view. We where in a stand on our own (probably the best stand from 4) Loads of room in the stand
8/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)
Lots of leg room, which is good for my long legs. And a roof
7/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)
I tryed the chippy outside and I still think the one at Boston is better
6/10

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere
Home fans couldn't be heard and we weren't much better but we made a bit of noise
5/10

[b]Stewards, Policing[b]
Threw one of our fans out for shouting abuse at the ref and home fans and a large number watched us for the whole match trying to find an excuse to throw us out
4/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?[b]
Ratcliffe Arms next to the ground, so we watched Man United v Aston Villa in their
7/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?[b]
7/10

[DakarSCFC]

Club & Ground Name

Rochdale, Spotland Stadium.

How Easy Was It To Find?

Easy enough although we didn't see one signpost, good job we got directions off the internet beforehand. Shame about the traffic, obviously couldn't handle the travelling Stockport army.

8/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?

Just parked on one of the really near side streets.

10/10

View. Pillar In The Way?

Perfect view and on the half way line too. No obstacles and a great way to watch Rochdale get hammered!

10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)

It was fine, nothing special. A roof which was definitely needed to prevent us getting soaked.

7/10

Toilets.

Didn't use! Don't trust the toilets at football grounds

N/A

Catering (Quality, price, queues)

Didn't eat inside the ground, but as you leave the away stand there is a chippy which had the most amazing chips! Yum!

7/10

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere

The home fans didn't really do much but we probably outnumbered them. They might have sung, but we didn't hear it! The away end was perfect for a good atmosphere and we didn't stop singing throughout.

7/10

Stewards, Policing

Didn't cause a problem.

7/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?

As above, the Chippy was amazing. There is a pub down the road and if you want to trick your missus, it's called 'The Church'

7/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?

8/10

[The Grim Woody]

Club & Ground Name

Rochdale, Spotland Stadium.

How Easy Was It To Find?

I live 15 mins away so i naturally know where it is however with the diversions and road closures i am amazed anyone from Stockport found it.
6/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?

Excellent street parking for a quick getaway, knowing Dales councils love of traffic wardens i am amazed they havent prohibited it yet.
10/10



View. Pillar In The Way?

Perfect view

10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)

Its decent enough, 8/10



Toilets.

Adequate and clean

8/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)

Great pies however a can of lager poured into a plastic cup for 2:50...behave.
6/10

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere

They need to sack that standing strip off and move them into the seating behind the other goal. Not loud enough.
6/10

Stewards, Policing

Mithered alot

5/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?
Went into Studds bar which had County fans in and they werent harrassed which was pleasant. Do Not under any circumstances drink lager in there its vile, the smooth was fine though.

7/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?

8/10

Woody

[shakerstef]

Club & Ground Name

Rochdale, Spotland Stadium.

How Easy Was It To Find?

well i did the sponsored walk with other bury fans from gigg lane to spotland stadium, took me 2 hours to walk there like but was ok as i got there for 1.30
10/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?

N/A


View. Pillar In The Way?

no pillars in the away stamd

10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)

its ok the seat i was on was pretty dirty as it hadn't been used since probably last february when bury last visited

4/10

Toilets.

good

9/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)

very large ques didn't bother getting anything considering the bury fans were having a party under the stands at haif time as we were 2-1 up
3/10

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere

well atmosphere from away fans awesome as all the bury fans were all together and there was around 2,000 of us dale need to close one of there small stands and move them behind the goal, that would create a better atmosphere
5/10

Stewards, Policing

for some reason they were recording just the bury fans on a video camera all game, tried being heavy handed (with police re-inforcement) when we scored and the bury players come over to celebrate with the fans, mind you that always happens at dale

2/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?
most pubs were closed on the way to the ground due to police intellinge telling them to close up as it was a local derby

0/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?

5/10

Edited by shakerstef, 07 November 2006 - 12:27 AM.

[Gulliball]

Club & Ground Name

Rochdale, Spotland Stadium.

How Easy Was It To Find?

One of the more easy grounds to find. Only two miles from the junction and that's one long straight road.

10/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?

The nearest I have ever parked in my life to a football ground. We were running late, and only arrived in Rochdale about half-an-hour before the game, but parked about 10 metres away from one of the stands and had to walk half a stand's length to the away end.

11/10

View. Pillar In The Way?

Perfect view and on the half way line. No obstacles and a great view.

10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)

It was fine, seated with good leg-room.

9/10

Toilets.

Excellent. Very similar to the ones at Old Trafford in terms of size and layout. We didn't take very many, but they could easily cope with a big crowd and they were clean.

10/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)

Had a cup of tea, which was alright. Not really enough to judge the whole thing on, but they didn't seem to have a vast selection of food left when I got there.

7/10

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere

Home fans were quite quiet. We started out with constant singing, but the performance of our team soon put pay to that, and we all left in abject misery.

7/10

Stewards, Policing

Made everyone sit down, which is their job fair enough, but there weren't even a hundred of us there, and they even made the back row sit down. I prefer stewards to do as little as possible, unless they have to. We weren't going to start a riot. There were less than 100 of us in a stand that holds thousands, no oppostion fans, and no-ones view to block, so I don't think they really needed to step in. That said, I've seen worse and they weren't rude ir aggressive when they asked us to sit down.

7/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?

The Chippy was amazing. We arrived there with half-an-hour to go and were starving. It's 10 metres away from the away end, was delicious and very reasonably priced. Didn't have time for a pub unfortunately.

9/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?

9/10

One of the better grounds, and does fantastically well on the specific points listed above.

[wrexhamred]

Club & Ground Name

Rochdale, Spotland Stadium.

How Easy Was It To Find?

Quite well signposted

7/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?

Parked in a cal-der-sac 2 minutes walk away, however missed start of game looking for place, even though we did arrive at rochdale at 10 to 3.

7/10

View. Pillar In The Way?

Fantastic view
10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)
Average

7/10

Toilets.

Horrible

2/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)

Didn't have

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere

Very quiet
4/10

Stewards, Policing

Stewards were terrible, chucked people for standing up at the back row, coudn't do anything!

0/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?

Arrived to late

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?

Better than average

7/10

[blackfriars-bull]

Club & Ground Name Spotland, Rochdale AFC

How Easy Was It To Find? Didnt drive and was a night game so wasnt really looking, seemed quite straight forward.

8/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit? We parked on the side of sandy lane but there was a car park right next to the ground

7/10

View. Pillar In The Way? No none at all we had the best stand in the stadium along the side of the pitch and had a great view.
10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc) Good seats with plenty of leg room but we stood most of the match despite the stewards best efforts to make us sit down, as i said its the best stand in the ground so it had a roof and all that.
8/10

Toilets. didnt use them

n/a

Catering (Quality, price, queues) No ques at all considering herefords small following on a tuesday night, prices seemed reasonable.
8/10

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere: Home fans were good as they sang from both ends behind the goal which made a good atmosphere, acoustics in away end was very good and we made a decent amount of noise.

8/10

Stewards, Policing: the stewards were ok but kept asking us to sit down as most grounds do, it p@sses me off when some nob in a big stupid jacket comes keeps harassing you to sit down when you have just paid a lot of money to get in and when you try and create an atmosphere they do there up most to stop you, t@ats (this isnt a moan about rochdale stewards just in general). There was no police.

6/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground? didnt go into any pubs but there was a good chippy outside the away end.

7/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves? Nice ground with a good mix of seats and terracing, good atmosphere, a good away day!

8/10

[Lord HatterDave]

Club & Ground Name

Rochdale, Spotland Stadium.

How Easy Was It To Find?

Came on the coach... Driver seemed to know his way. Looked like it was follow signs to Manchester (M62) then go from there

8/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?

Coach was able to park right near the ground

9/10

View. Pillar In The Way?

Pretty decent view, can't complain
My only concern would be that the top few rows would be difficult to see if the ball went above the height of the stand

8/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)

Pretty decent again

Ample leg room, stood all match despite not being allowed to

7/10

Toilets.

N/A

Catering (Quality, price, queues)

Pretty decent pie, for £2.50 can't be picky. Guess the food has to be pretty decent with a chippy across the road

8/10

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere

Home fans were absolute shite, didn't sing til the 80th minute

Away fans were immesne as we always are. Even sticking us on the halfway line, 60 yards away from the home fans couldn't stop us

Home Fans: 1/10
Away Fans: 8/10

Stewards, Policing

Not bad, most of the time though they are a bit over friendly with chucking people out for standing up.

6/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?

Was in the Church before the game, not a bad pub. Had a laugh about the Cemetrey Pub being on Bury Road

9/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?

if they could get decent fans 9/10

7/10

Hades

[Millerman]

How Easy Was It To Find?
Fairly easy I assume. My mate didn't moan much.

10/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?
Plenty of street parking but we arrived late so had a job finding.

6/10

View. Pillar In The Way?
Great view, no supporting pillars. I prefer being on the side sometimes.

8/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)
Low roof which is good for atmosphere, fairly good leg room.

8/10

Toilets
Better than most in this league.

8/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)
Fairly gash. No prices boards, not much hot food.

5/10

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere
Two sets of home fans try singing so they're competing in a way. Didn't sound that good.

Our fans were good in the 1st half, then we went 4 down and just come out with the usual shit.

6/10

Stewards, Policing
Didn't really notice. I've heard they kick people out for standing but they didn't seem arsed.

7/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?
We set off late and arrived with about 10 minutes to go so just went straight in. From past visits there's a nice chippy and a few pubs nearby.

8/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?
7/10

[bertieshrimp89]

Club & Ground Name

Rochdale, Spotland Stadium.

How Easy Was It To Find?

Quite easy, signposted well

8/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?

There are a lot of streets to park on

8/10

View. Pillar In The Way?

The best stand in the ground by far, don't understand why they gave it to away fans, though.

10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)

The seats were OK, as was the leg room and it had a roof

8/10

Toilets.

Good, they are built insde the stand and a lot of them too!

8/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)

I didn't have anything but I heard a lot of moaning from fellow fans that they had run out of pies!

5/10

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere

Not the best I've seen. We outsung them and they only really sung when they scored.

6/10

Stewards, Policing

Quite good but didn't really enforce the standing up rule.

7/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?

A lot of pubs near the ground, didn't go in any but the ones I saw looked good.

8/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?

7/10

Edited by bertieshrimp89, 12 September 2010 - 01:36 PM.

[TheCodfather]

Club & Ground Name Spotland, Rochdale AFC

How Easy Was It To Find? Pretty easy although I took a wrong turn and went down a cobbled street (thought my suspension was going to break) and a little girl about 5 years old and her brother about 4 were ripping weeds out of the road and chucking them at my car.
9/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit? Lot's of street parking although one half of it is restricted with cones. Asked a local who advised me to park as far away as possible to avoid trouble with Rochdale fans
9/10

View. Pillar In The Way? Pretty good
9/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc) Not bad in the seats
8/10

Toilets. Although modernish they stank
5/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues) Didn't use
N/A

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere Pretty rubbish. A few Rochdale fans on terrace did a bit. We tried our best
6/10

Stewards, Policing Stewards rubbish. Saw one of our fans chucked out for sitting on the fence by the pitch. He was clearly having a joke but the stewards had no sense of humour and chucked him out. Heard a few of our fans had got chucked out by the end. Then at the end of the match I believe some Rochdale fans started attacking one of our taxi minibuses outside the pub. They were waiting for our fans to come back. One of our fans was getting on the bus when they attacked him, there was 6 of our fans and at least 10 of them and one Rochdale fan pulled out a stanley knife .... our fans managed to drive away quickly as the windows on the bus were being thumped. Luckily none of our fans were hurt.
3/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground? The Ratcliffe bar was dead so we went in the Church Inn which was a rough pub but cheap enough
6/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves? OK ground but their stewards and some of their fans need sorting out
7/10

[Scumarmy.]

Club & Ground Name Spotland, Rochdale AFC

Match Rochdale 1-4 Milton Keynes Dons

How Easy Was It To Find? Followed the crowd from the station, easy. 9/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit? N/A

View. Pillar In The Way? Good 8/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc) Not bad
8/10

Toilets. N/A

Catering (Quality, price, queues) Didn't use
N/A

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere Away end easy to create an atmosphere in due to the low roof. Home fans were silent all match but they were losing the match pretty early on and at 1-4 down it was hardly surprising there was no noise.

Stewards, Policing Fine 8/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground? Went in a pub near the ground, decent enough. Nice chip shop across the road.
6/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The
Ground Deserves? 7/10