North Stand big (ish) screen in corner is no more

[Legion]

It's annoying as you can't watch a replay of something that has just happened, something I've become used to since over the last few years.

Same for me.

[Phil from the upper holte]

For 45 quid in the upper trinity or witton they should get little tvs next to the seat if they can't see the Holte screen.

And a Thai girl serving food and drinks.

I'd buy that for a dollar!

[Leighton]

FFS, was there a problem with not being able to watch the big screen for the 100 plus years before it was there?

Some football fans these days expect nothing but 5-star pampering. Watch the action on the pitch, thats what you pay your money for. 

It's not 'pampering', it's match atomsphere related - that and information / replays.

FFS, what timewarp are you in man ?

Jesus, there was me thinking that it was the game taking place on the pitch and a passionate crowd that created an atmosphere. If I would have known that it was a jumbo screen I would have not bothered pestering my brother if he could take me along with him to a Villa match back in 1986. I should have asked him to take me to watch Karate Kid Part 2 and Crocodile Dundee at the Cannon Cinema in Walsall instead.

[Shrek]

I sit in In K4 and like the new scoreboard because I can actually see it, whereas I could only see the big screen when sitting down!

[TimTheVillain]

FFS, was there a problem with not being able to watch the big screen for the 100 plus years before it was there?

Some football fans these days expect nothing but 5-star pampering. Watch the action on the pitch, thats what you pay your money for. 

It's not 'pampering', it's match atomsphere related - that and information / replays.

FFS, what timewarp are you in man ?

Jesus, there was me thinking that it was the game taking place on the pitch and a passionate crowd that created an atmosphere. If I would have known that it was a jumbo screen I would have not bothered pestering my brother if he could take me along with him to a Villa match back in 1986. I should have asked him to take me to watch Karate Kid Part 2 and Crocodile Dundee at the Cannon Cinema in Walsall instead.

Maybe you should have done.

The screen doesn't create the atmosphere to my knowledge, it's inanimate - it is not atmospheric per se.

It DID however provide information ( various) and filled what is now a very ugly gap between the North Stand and the Witton Lane very adequately.

[Mac]

Goodbye Giant Screen
May you ever grow in our hearts.
You had the scores displayed in lights
From England's furthest parts
You showed them to the Holte End,
The goals from every single game.
Now you belong to heaven,
and the stars spell out your name.

And it seems to me you lived your life
like a candle in the wind, never fading
with the sunset when the rain set in.
And your scoreliness will be displayed here,
along England’s greenest hills;
Your lightbulbs burned out long before your legend ever will.

You missed your vocation

[saunders_heroes]

The respective thread on villatalk:

http://www.villatalk.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=64075

What a bunch of prats

They're all too frightened to say anything that might upset Randy over there.

I wonder if they'd be so forgiving if it was Doug who took down the big screen and replaced it with the type of scoreboard we had 30 years ago?

[TimTheVillain]

The respective thread on villatalk:

http://www.villatalk.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=64075

What a bunch of prats

They're all too frightened to say anything that might upset Randy over there.

I wonder if they'd be so forgiving if it was Doug who took down the big screen and replaced it with the type of scoreboard we had 30 years ago?

Correct on both counts.

The demographics relating to those who frequent that forum are somewhat different to this one to be honest though.

[pauliewalnuts]

The respective thread on villatalk:

http://www.villatalk.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=64075

What a bunch of prats

They're all too frightened to say anything that might upset Randy over there.

I wonder if they'd be so forgiving if it was Doug who took down the big screen and replaced it with the type of scoreboard we had 30 years ago?

Correct on both counts.

The demographics relating to those who frequent that forum are somewhat different to this one to be honest though.

Of course.

They're all wailing children moderated by red ink wielding, power crazed nazis.

We're all free thinking libertine intellectuals, in a hippy paradise.

[TimTheVillain]

The respective thread on villatalk:

http://www.villatalk.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=64075

What a bunch of prats

They're all too frightened to say anything that might upset Randy over there.

I wonder if they'd be so forgiving if it was Doug who took down the big screen and replaced it with the type of scoreboard we had 30 years ago?

Correct on both counts.

The demographics relating to those who frequent that forum are somewhat different to this one to be honest though.

Of course.

They're all wailing children moderated by red ink wielding, power crazed nazis.

We're all free thinking libertine intellectuals, in a hippy paradise.

Yep, you can see the virtual chalk being thrown by the moderators at those whose minds are proving hard to manipulate.

H&V is the place, the cool place where dudes hang out and talk merrily away about such impracticalities as the 'mystery of the missing screen' without childish commentary.

[Guy M]

FFS, was there a problem with not being able to watch the big screen for the 100 plus years before it was there?

Some football fans these days expect nothing but 5-star pampering. Watch the action on the pitch, thats what you pay your money for.

I'm with you on this one, Leighton.

When my brother and his mates finally took their seats next to me in the Upper Trinity (A1) last Sunday, the first thing he commented on was the missing screen. I told him it would make no difference. By the end of the game, the only difference it might have made was to the amount of time he spent using the 3G capabilities of his poxy Blackberry to know what the scores were in the other games and what his friends were saying they were doing on Facebook.

I on the other hand really enjoyed the lack of replays and watching the match in the good old-fashioned manner to which I used to be accustomed, instead of having those around me taking a second look and confirming what they knew all along Andy Gray style.

I'd be perfectly happy if they took the other screen away too to be honest.

[Leighton]

Old Trafford. Biggest stadium in the league. No screen... Bet that really pisses the Prawn sandwich brigade off.

[TimTheVillain]

Old Trafford. Biggest stadium in the league. No screen... Bet that really pisses the Prawn sandwich brigade off.

Big time I should imagine.

No wonder they haven't sold their ST's this season ;-)

[olaftab]

Just like to point out that the view of the screen from the Witton Upper is excellent.

You mean the other screen, one that we ( in the Trinity) can't see at all ?

Yes that is what I assume  Pete3206 meant and I am there as well. The screen looks perfect from Witton End Upper!

[Marlon's Hairy Wood]

The removal of the screen also disappoints me, I don't see a reason for it?