In the past three decades, Rotherham United's Football League history has been pretty much even, yo-yoing between the league's bottom three Divisions with the 1990's mostly seeing themselves in what is now known as League's One and Two.
The Millers potted history would tell us that it was their former club Rotherham County who first moved to their former home Millmoor in 1907. The ground had been their year's previous and during the 1890's was used by the Sheffield Association. In 1925 the Rotherham side dissolved, merged with another local side Rotherham Town to former the football club we now know as Rotherham United FC.
Skipping forward to the present time, or at least to the beginning of the Millennium. Rotherham's promotion into Division 1 under Ronnie Moore gave them a new lease of life. They stayed at this level for four years until the relegation axe finally fell.
Relegation into Division 2 began a slippery slope for the South Yorkshire side those support would have found difficult to gather, owing to the two Sheffield sides only around the corner.
The Millers potted history would tell us that it was their former club Rotherham County who first moved to their former home Millmoor in 1907. The ground had been their year's previous and during the 1890's was used by the Sheffield Association. In 1925 the Rotherham side dissolved, merged with another local side Rotherham Town to former the football club we now know as Rotherham United FC.
Skipping forward to the present time, or at least to the beginning of the Millennium. Rotherham's promotion into Division 1 under Ronnie Moore gave them a new lease of life. They stayed at this level for four years until the relegation axe finally fell.
Relegation into Division 2 began a slippery slope for the South Yorkshire side those support would have found difficult to gather, owing to the two Sheffield sides only around the corner.
Millmoor - Taken on Friday, 21st July 2017.
Financial restraints forced the club to leave Millmoor in 2008. It was a brave but much needed move for Rotherham. The supporters weren't too happy to move into Sheffield and play at the Don Valley stadium, an Athletics track which had originally been built for the World Student Games, but they knew this would only be temporary.
It hadn't been long (before they opted to move away from Millmoor), that they took the decision to demolish the main stand and in it's place erect a purpose built grand stand. Sadly for the club and it's supporters the stand was never finished.
Millmoor still stands to this day. It is understood that the lease dictates that a sports stadium can only be built on the land - so no immediate possibility of housing or a supermarket is expected to be built in the near future.
There move to Don Valley was short lived and in 2012 moved to their current home, the New York Stadium which is only a stone's throw away from Millmoor. They should spend more happier times there.
I have visited the New York Stadium five times now, most recently was on Friday as my beloved Sheffield United played out a 2-1 victory in a friendly. I had parked just up the road from Millmoor and each time you pass there is a distant reminder of what was once and old fashioned stadium. It was compact and despite a capacity of just over 8,000 held a decent atmosphere.
My father always called it the land that time forgot, and he was right. Up until the beginning of building a new stand the stadium looked the same as it ever did since he first visited during 1950's. It was clear by the time they left that the entire stadium needed a face lift and maybe had they brought the main stand back somewhat, they could have had an opportunity to extend the stadium.
However a move was always likely and whilst Millmoor stands as a graveyard, they have never looked back since.
It hadn't been long (before they opted to move away from Millmoor), that they took the decision to demolish the main stand and in it's place erect a purpose built grand stand. Sadly for the club and it's supporters the stand was never finished.
Millmoor still stands to this day. It is understood that the lease dictates that a sports stadium can only be built on the land - so no immediate possibility of housing or a supermarket is expected to be built in the near future.
There move to Don Valley was short lived and in 2012 moved to their current home, the New York Stadium which is only a stone's throw away from Millmoor. They should spend more happier times there.
I have visited the New York Stadium five times now, most recently was on Friday as my beloved Sheffield United played out a 2-1 victory in a friendly. I had parked just up the road from Millmoor and each time you pass there is a distant reminder of what was once and old fashioned stadium. It was compact and despite a capacity of just over 8,000 held a decent atmosphere.
My father always called it the land that time forgot, and he was right. Up until the beginning of building a new stand the stadium looked the same as it ever did since he first visited during 1950's. It was clear by the time they left that the entire stadium needed a face lift and maybe had they brought the main stand back somewhat, they could have had an opportunity to extend the stadium.
However a move was always likely and whilst Millmoor stands as a graveyard, they have never looked back since.