Also from the outside you would struggle to know it was a football ground, let alone MK Dons ground. Didn't see a MK Dons badge anywhere!
It wasn't a bad ground, infact very representative of Milton Keynes in general. Nothing actually wrong with it, just has a very manufactured feel to it.
I actually thought Stadium:mk was bloody terrible.
We didn't even know it was the stadium as we approached. Looked more like a multi-storey car park.
Liked the internal layout when we first got in (open concourse), but half time showed how horribly impractical it was. No pints allowed on the concourse meant that the bar areas were closed off, which really didn't work.
Nipped into one of the bars for a pint at HT and stood like a sardine in a tin for about 5 mins. After getting nowhere and seeing numerous pints spilled as people tried to move from the bar, we gave up and moved to the next bar, hoping it would be better.
In fact, the next bar was so rammed, they weren't letting any more people in. Fans tried to force their way in, stewards tried to stop them, and the partition ended up being toppled over. Disaster.
And we didn't even sell out the full allocation.
Location was awful too, though can't really complain about that as a Cov fan!
Needs finishing, i.e seats in upper tier, glass in windows instead of boarded up, generally tidying up on the outside and the surrounding areas (small mounds of earth all over the place).
They need more kiosks, could only see two food kiosks in the whole away end.
More signs, club logos etc, from the outside it was difficult to tell what it is.
Drove round for 20 minutes looking for a car park, before dumping it in the industrial estate. Strange that none of them factory units were allowing people to park in them for £5.
Also has to be the only ground I've been to with no burger van outside!
Basic design of the stadium was good though, sort these small problems out and it would rival the Ricoh. Although they need to get a casino in there!
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