Stadium leaves lot to be desired
The reality to me as a Shrewsbury Town supporter of having a new stadium built in a field in what was countryside up to two years ago is coming home.
I cannot park near the ground for love nor money; I have a choice of a muddy unlit field or a park some miles away.
Up to this year going to the match was a family event. Park in Abbey Foregate, drink in a pub, wife and girls off to town shopping, all return after the match and off we went. Not now.
I now have to get dropped off, with no convenient place - the Charles Darwin is the closest. That's OK in summer, what about the winter?
I now read the ground has been given a full operating licence. Why when there are so many issues?
Alas profits must come first again, but issues like no street lighting must be addressed, together with the outrageous system of getting into the ground.
Also, if you are travelling east along Oteley Road while a game is on you are blinded by the lighting system at the new ground.
If Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council had any bottle it would have insisted on the old site being redeveloped, as many of the genuine fans wanted if only the club had listened.
Sorry, but there is one fan here who, despite the novelty factor of the stadium, will not be buying a season ticket until all the issues are sorted.
Barrie Davies, Shrewsbury
