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This was the entrance, from the road. The building behind is the main stand, which includes the dressing rooms underneath.
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I was in town for the ice hockey on Wednesday 21st, they were to be at home on the Saturday.
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First glimpse, having gone round to the rear of the back of the stand, was this grass banking.
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There is a fence around the ground, behind the track.
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To our left we see the side of the stand.
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Before we go up there we are going to head round the ground in the other direction, anti-clockwise.
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As we start to move round we see our first full view of the large stand.
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On the banking we would be a long way from the action, but a decent view nonetheless.
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Here we are directly behind the goal.
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Beyond the next bend is a field, part of the ground, but not marked out with a pitch. There is some sort of warning sign, in the club colours, nailed to a tree, but I have no idea what it says!
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Now we look down the far side, a lovely stretch of old fashioned terrace. Look to the right and you will see a bit of their new all-weather pitch.
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Here we look across that. It is railed off...
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And has a section of modern, uncovered terrace too.
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Here we are back on the old terrace.
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In the middle of it is a tunnel that leads through to the new pitch.
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From this part of the old terrace we look over to the stand.
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Then go through the tunnel to look at the hard standing by the all-weather pitch, in front of the buildings here.
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We're now back through the small tunnel, and on the terrace, heading towards the other grass banked curve, where we can also see a scoreboard clock, with advertising hoardings.
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From this corner we look over to the main stand, partially obscured by a disused hammer cage.
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From the same spot we look back at the old terrace.
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This is the scoreboard clock.
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Having walked past that we carry on round the last bend, towards the stand.
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Despite crumbling a little it still looks impressive.
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The steps up to it have a chain across it, with some sort of sign on it. I don't know if this means it is condemned or what, but I choose to ignore it.
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The stand has wooden palnk seating.
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This is the view over the pitch from it.
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To our left we look back at the 'scoreboard curve'.
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And from the back rows we glance over to our right, where we began our tour.
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Still turning to our right we see the whole of the that end.
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Another angle, looking down.
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One of the dugouts, down at the front.
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Here we see the stand from out on the pitch.
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Behind the stand itself, as we head out, is the club bar/restaurant.
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Shame I don't drink anymore, as the beer is very reasonably priced, less than a pound!
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Now outside the ground I spot the sign for the restaurant.
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2 comments:
A friend of mine lives just across the river from the stadium, we went to a game there last spring. Cracking main stand, and not a bad view from other parts of the ground...
Blimey! Small world! I liked both grounds, unsually for me, as I'm not a fan of running track ones. But I did love the SK Chrudim wooden stand.
So where are you from then Iain? Was that your only experience of Czech football?
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