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Ossett Albion
Saturday 21st July - Ossett Albion 1-5 Hallam
Name - Queens Terrace
Stadium Accessibility - Decent M1 Junction 40, straight past Ossett Town FC and 1 mile down the road
Parking - Big car-park shared with the cricket side, mainly mud and concrete
The Area - Pleasant, nice place is Ossett and a better area than most in West Yorkshire
Outside The Ground - Cricket pitch, player & official car-park, behind one goal - woods.
Capacity - 3,000+
Inside The Ground - Lovely, on entrance is the clubhouse to the left and the three step open terrace along to the right. Behind the near goal, a deep terrace with scattered crush barriers and the back covered and the front open. The far main stand is open terracing with more scattered crush barriers with around 250 seats on three rows. The far goal is ramshackle of roofs and around 40 poles holding it up, small and all covered.
View - I like standing and I stood on three sides of the ground, on the main popular terrace for 30 minutes, the open side for about 70 minutes worth and the ramshackle for 20 minutes. It was good and the views were decent from all sides
Atmosphere created, home fans - Very little, the odd cursing of goals and otherwise silence from the 38 fans inside the ground
Atmosphere created - away fans - Around 15 fans made the trip and saw a decent game, a few were loud and boisterous
Food - Didn't have but heard WW3 was going to start after a Hallam fan asked for soup!
Name - Queens Terrace
Stadium Accessibility - Decent M1 Junction 40, straight past Ossett Town FC and 1 mile down the road
Parking - Big car-park shared with the cricket side, mainly mud and concrete
The Area - Pleasant, nice place is Ossett and a better area than most in West Yorkshire
Outside The Ground - Cricket pitch, player & official car-park, behind one goal - woods.
Capacity - 3,000+
Inside The Ground - Lovely, on entrance is the clubhouse to the left and the three step open terrace along to the right. Behind the near goal, a deep terrace with scattered crush barriers and the back covered and the front open. The far main stand is open terracing with more scattered crush barriers with around 250 seats on three rows. The far goal is ramshackle of roofs and around 40 poles holding it up, small and all covered.
View - I like standing and I stood on three sides of the ground, on the main popular terrace for 30 minutes, the open side for about 70 minutes worth and the ramshackle for 20 minutes. It was good and the views were decent from all sides
Atmosphere created, home fans - Very little, the odd cursing of goals and otherwise silence from the 38 fans inside the ground
Atmosphere created - away fans - Around 15 fans made the trip and saw a decent game, a few were loud and boisterous
Food - Didn't have but heard WW3 was going to start after a Hallam fan asked for soup!
Nelson F.C - Victoria Park
Saturday 18th August - Nelson F.C 0-2 Hallam FC
Name - Victoria Park
Stadium Accessibility - Fantastic, M60 to Junction 18, M66, A56, M65 to Junction 13, just to the side of the M65 in a small valley
Parking - Street parking mainly
The Area - The M65 within touching distance other than pleasant and better than most of the standard
Outside the Ground, small cul-de-sac and an industrial estate, other than that woodland
Capacity - 3,000 minimum, possibility of making it 6,000+ with redevelopment
Inside The Ground - Average, small turnstile block with room for a massive stand behind either end with the clubhouse at the far end, a row of terraced houses down the left seperated by a fence, hard standing at this site, on the far side a stand, wooden with 20 poles with seating to the middle and standing to the sides. It was 10 yards from the pitch.
View - I like standing and I stood for 90 minutes, in the pouring rain, slight shelter by the overhang of the dug-out block.
Atmosphere created, home fans - Non existent, -10 out of 10
Atmosphere created - away fans - Around 10 made the journey and the odd Come on Hallam boomed across the ground.
Other Points - Constant rain and Hallam did well to beat Nelson against 13 men and 1 woman who was an assistant referee
Name - Victoria Park
Stadium Accessibility - Fantastic, M60 to Junction 18, M66, A56, M65 to Junction 13, just to the side of the M65 in a small valley
Parking - Street parking mainly
The Area - The M65 within touching distance other than pleasant and better than most of the standard
Outside the Ground, small cul-de-sac and an industrial estate, other than that woodland
Capacity - 3,000 minimum, possibility of making it 6,000+ with redevelopment
Inside The Ground - Average, small turnstile block with room for a massive stand behind either end with the clubhouse at the far end, a row of terraced houses down the left seperated by a fence, hard standing at this site, on the far side a stand, wooden with 20 poles with seating to the middle and standing to the sides. It was 10 yards from the pitch.
View - I like standing and I stood for 90 minutes, in the pouring rain, slight shelter by the overhang of the dug-out block.
Atmosphere created, home fans - Non existent, -10 out of 10
Atmosphere created - away fans - Around 10 made the journey and the odd Come on Hallam boomed across the ground.
Other Points - Constant rain and Hallam did well to beat Nelson against 13 men and 1 woman who was an assistant referee
