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Mrs Doyle
April 28, 2019, 9:36pm
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They always looked great when it rained or snowed.  
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There'll be a nostalgic twinge for me. Looking up at them for the last time as the teams come out, reminiscing about past glory, imagining the sights, the sounds that those old metal structures have witnessed....

But then Town will play shite and I'll just go home in a bad mood.


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The two games I remember the most under the the old floodlights was Town 2-1 Everton and Town 7-2 Darlington.


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The two games I remember the most under the the old floodlights was Town 2-1 Everton and Town 7-2 Darlington.


The Fulham game wasn't too bad as well  



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Tranmere this season, with the rain blowing across them...  
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I’m with Rancido on this, the whole floodlight nostalgia is a fuss over nothing. They’re not iconic at all, every ground has them. Blundell Park is a relic and needs replacing pronto. Onwards and upwards I reckon. I’ve been to hundreds of games a BP over the years, probably 50% of them awful, and I’ll not shed a tear when/if it’s gone. All I care about is the club surviving, and ultimately reaching its potential. It can’t do that at Blundell Park. I’ll not miss the floodlights as I’ve never really looked at them before!
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The BP floodlights might not be iconic in themselves but were iconic to football grounds in general.
Since first going to away games in the early 70's nothing more filled us with a sense of expectation and excitement than our first glimpse of the tall floodlights as the train pulled into whatever town we were playing at.
I think the only time it bit us in the bottom was at Wigan when homing in on the ground, pub by pub using the floodlight pylons as a 70's sat nav we ended up at the illegitimate rugby ground instead of Springfield Park. Not the first or last to do that in Wigan by all accounts either.
To this day I still crane my neck for a glimpse of them when I know I am passing certain grounds.
Last year I was flying to Manchester Airport and the route took us over the coast just North of Ingoldmells, as clear as day you could see the shadow of one of the floodlight pylons across the top of the Main Stand, and that was from 30,000 feet up.
They are sadly few and far between now and sadly missed by myself.
LED's can fcuk right off.
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I’m with Rancido on this, the whole floodlight nostalgia is a fuss over nothing. They’re not iconic at all, every ground has them. Blundell Park is a relic and needs replacing pronto. Onwards and upwards I reckon. I’ve been to hundreds of games a BP over the years, probably 50% of them awful, and I’ll not shed a tear when/if it’s gone. All I care about is the club surviving, and ultimately reaching its potential. It can’t do that at Blundell Park. I’ll not miss the floodlights as I’ve never really looked at them before!


Exactly this.
Floodlights iconic??
A new stadium is essential to the future of the club & all efforts should be made to ensure this.
Why worry about a set of pylons???



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The BP floodlights might not be iconic in themselves but were iconic to football grounds in general.
Since first going to away games in the early 70's nothing more filled us with a sense of expectation and excitement than our first glimpse of the tall floodlights as the train pulled into whatever town we were playing at.
I think the only time it bit us in the bottom was at Wigan when homing in on the ground, pub by pub using the floodlight pylons as a 70's sat nav we ended up at the illegitimate rugby ground instead of Springfield Park. Not the first or last to do that in Wigan by all accounts either.
To this day I still crane my neck for a glimpse of them when I know I am passing certain grounds.
Last year I was flying to Manchester Airport and the route took us over the coast just North of Ingoldmells, as clear as day you could see the shadow of one of the floodlight pylons across the top of the Main Stand, and that was from 30,000 feet up.
They are sadly few and far between now and sadly missed by myself.
LED's can fcuk right off.



Didn't happen.



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Have the club indicated what they are going to provide regarding new floodlights. Please ,please,please GTFC don't give us lights similar to that bunch down the A180, they look like something bodge it and scarper built.
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