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Milmoor no more

AFKABartram
AFKABartram Posts: 58,169
edited May 2008 in Other Football and Sports
Rotherham have announced they are going to have to leave Millmoor and share the Don Valley Athletics stadium in Sheffield, asstaying there isn't financially viable.

A ground i never managed to get to. Can't think of many worse places to play than an open athletics stadium

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  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    Mate Milmore in the rain when the steel works was open was a true shit pit !

    shame though looks very bleak for them.
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    Thats terrible news for them.
    I did make it to this ground a few seasons back when we played Huddersfield in the morning and John Robinson scored a cracker,we then went off to watch Rotherham v Brighton..or the second half anyway.
  • Ledge
    Ledge Posts: 7,179
    don't count postie you can't have that one.

    never been to millmoor so that is a shame. another club lurching from one crisis to another every year it seems.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,876
    Couldn't think of anywhere more soulless then Don Valley
  • Tavern
    Tavern Posts: 7,692
    went there a couple of time,thats a real shame,hope things work out for them
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,512
    Saw Rotherham at Bradford this season. Seemed a decent side who had a chance of promotion if not for the points deduction.

    Can't see how they can survive, let alone thrive, at an athletics track in another city.

    Haven't forgiven them for taking "our" title in '81, mind.
  • Glass half empty
    Glass half empty Posts: 2,084
    have had quite a few days out at milmoor, one of my old pals played for them for 2 seasons. crappy old ground but in a loveable sort of way. the changing rooms were portacabins under the main stand, sound familiar?
  • ISawLeaburnScore
    ISawLeaburnScore Posts: 9,780
    edited May 2008
    Terrible news, 2 administrations in 2 years, they are in HUGE trouble to even make the start of the season after...

    Don Valley is a joke for a prospective football stadium... Withdean Mk II just more modern... really fear for them that they will just disintegrate

    Well done to the Booth family, they should be locked away
  • scruffle
    scruffle Posts: 2,293
    edited May 2008
    real shame, but don valley not quite as souless as you may think, its banked all the way round so will keep atleast a little noise in, its also only bout ten min drive from milmoor, it could be worse they could of sold up and filed for bankrupcy and leave the town with no football team.

    shame cos there's alot a heart in south yorks
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    saw phil miss a penalty there,hungry and wet and wearing my lois black cords ,took the service station to the cleaners on way there with about 20 cakes in my jacket.

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