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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 10:35:57 GMT
Sinclair's goal against Gateshead. It changed the dynamic of our season.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 10:54:42 GMT
For me it was the draw against the odds at Eastleigh. Down to ten men for so long (and nine later on), a wonder strike from a local lad, 1,500+ Gasheads singing all night, the players going up to the crowd at the end. That was the night we became one. The night the players saw what we could do and what we were about. The night Ellis returned to the club. The first night Darrell Clarke's Barmy Army was sung.
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Post by faggotygas on May 21, 2015 14:02:51 GMT
Absolute sacrilege. Without Sinclair we would never have been in the chase for the title, and so Lines would never have come (why would he if we were chasing for 5th?) Game after game, in the middle of the season, he carried the team on his back. From the Blackthorn I might not have seen the dimensions, but I did feel the tempo and the atmosphere lift every time he harried a midfielder or played a give-and-go. For me, despite the injury, he was player of the season, because without him there would have been no Wembley Had Puddy not thrown the ball into his own net there wouldn't have been a capacity home crowd against FGR or Wembley, and we would be around half a million quid poorer He should ask for a bonus. Unfortunately he would be taking the money under false pretences, as he didn't throw the ball into his own net, he was fouled but the referee did not see the foul.
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Post by wsmjohn on May 21, 2015 19:46:34 GMT
Eastleigh away was the turning point, the fans and players were one. We nearly won the game with only 9 men in the five minutes but 1-1 was massive with Midlenhall sent off, 1,000 GAS roaring the the team on in the middle of the week, bl++dy amazing.
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Post by irishrover on May 21, 2015 20:09:19 GMT
I have a relatively small but significant moment that might have factored into things a bit; Ellis Harrison's equaliser versus Halifax. A game in which we were pretty awful but turned in around in the last 15 minutes and Harrisons goal was truly superb and a massive moment in his resurrection as a player. Given that he scored pretty important goals for us down the stretch and probably one of the most important goals in the whole history of the club I think that was a much bigger moment than it may have seemed at the time.
Another weird one was the 0-0 Wrexham away game - terrible football match but it could all have gone south very quickly when we lost Mildenhall and LDV to injury very quickly and had to put McChrystal in goal. To hang on for a draw and do a brilliant job protecting the makeshift must have been great for morale. Helped that Wrexham appeared to be complete bobbins and lack the single braincell it took to think that testing our goalie might be a decent shout but nevertheless stuff like that makes a difference.
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Post by irishrover on May 21, 2015 20:12:28 GMT
Absolute sacrilege. Without Sinclair we would never have been in the chase for the title, and so Lines would never have come (why would he if we were chasing for 5th?) Game after game, in the middle of the season, he carried the team on his back. From the Blackthorn I might not have seen the dimensions, but I did feel the tempo and the atmosphere lift every time he harried a midfielder or played a give-and-go. For me, despite the injury, he was player of the season, because without him there would have been no Wembley Had Puddy not thrown the ball into his own net there wouldn't have been a capacity home crowd against FGR or Wembley, and we would be around half a million quid poorer He should ask for a bonus. Is that actually true? I've always thought there must be some kind of correcting mechanism that makes you financially better off winning the league than going up via the playoffs or is it just a tradeoff for the torture?
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 20:58:03 GMT
Had Puddy not thrown the ball into his own net there wouldn't have been a capacity home crowd against FGR or Wembley, and we would be around half a million quid poorer He should ask for a bonus. Unfortunately he would be taking the money under false pretences, as he didn't throw the ball into his own net, he was fouled but the referee did not see the foul. I know, I was just messing around. I think the referee saw exactly what happened, but that's allowed in the Conference. Another reason for Grimsby to feel hard done by, had we won that we would have won the League, Grimsby turned Barnet over twice in the regular season, so there's no reason to think that they wouldn't have done it again last Sunday.
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Post by Bridgeman on May 21, 2015 20:58:56 GMT
I have a relatively small but significant moment that might have factored into things a bit; Ellis Harrison's equaliser versus Halifax. A game in which we were pretty awful but turned in around in the last 15 minutes and Harrisons goal was truly superb and a massive moment in his resurrection as a player. Given that he scored pretty important goals for us down the stretch and probably one of the most important goals in the whole history of the club I think that was a much bigger moment than it may have seemed at the time. Another weird one was the 0-0 Wrexham away game - terrible football match but it could all have gone south very quickly when we lost Mildenhall and LDV to injury very quickly and had to put McChrystal in goal. To hang on for a draw and do a brilliant job protecting the makeshift must have been great for morale. Helped that Wrexham appeared to be complete bobbins and lack the single braincell it took to think that testing our goalie might be a decent shout but nevertheless stuff like that makes a difference. The Wrexham game was slightly wierd in as much as many of you know I live in South Wales but drove over to Bristol to travel up with others. As is usual the regular abusive Welsh songs were being sung (I didn't join in of course, my children and grandchildren being completely Welsh born and bred) but part way through the match there were various taps on my shoulder by fans sat around me none of whom I knew apologising for what they had been singing, how about that then !
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 21:04:59 GMT
Had Puddy not thrown the ball into his own net there wouldn't have been a capacity home crowd against FGR or Wembley, and we would be around half a million quid poorer He should ask for a bonus. Is that actually true? I've always thought there must be some kind of correcting mechanism that makes you financially better off winning the league than going up via the playoffs or is it just a tradeoff for the torture? How would that work? Rovers got 50% of the receipts from their own fans last Sunday, the Conference would need to post Barnet a cheque for around £600k (fag packet calculation, 30,000 x £40 average net of VAT after allowing for people in Club Wembley etc, = £1.2m divided by 2), , but if the final was FGR Vs Eastleigh they would have owed Barnet about a tenner.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on May 21, 2015 23:07:07 GMT
I have a relatively small but significant moment that might have factored into things a bit; Ellis Harrison's equaliser versus Halifax. A game in which we were pretty awful but turned in around in the last 15 minutes and Harrisons goal was truly superb and a massive moment in his resurrection as a player. Given that he scored pretty important goals for us down the stretch and probably one of the most important goals in the whole history of the club I think that was a much bigger moment than it may have seemed at the time. Another weird one was the 0-0 Wrexham away game - terrible football match but it could all have gone south very quickly when we lost Mildenhall and LDV to injury very quickly and had to put McChrystal in goal. To hang on for a draw and do a brilliant job protecting the makeshift must have been great for morale. Helped that Wrexham appeared to be complete bobbins and lack the single braincell it took to think that testing our goalie might be a decent shout but nevertheless stuff like that makes a difference. The Wrexham game was slightly wierd in as much as many of you know I live in South Wales but drove over to Bristol to travel up with others. As is usual the regular abusive Welsh songs were being sung (I didn't join in of course, my children and grandchildren being completely Welsh born and bred) but part way through the match there were various taps on my shoulder by fans sat around me none of whom I knew apologising for what they had been singing, how about that then ! It's not what you know, it's who you know, Bridget! *knowing wink!*
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Post by faggotygas on May 22, 2015 7:21:46 GMT
Unfortunately he would be taking the money under false pretences, as he didn't throw the ball into his own net, he was fouled but the referee did not see the foul. I know, I was just messing around. I think the referee saw exactly what happened, but that's allowed in the Conference. Another reason for Grimsby to feel hard done by, had we won that we would have won the League, Grimsby turned Barnet over twice in the regular season, so there's no reason to think that they wouldn't have done it again last Sunday. True. Barnet seemed fragile in the last third of the season too, I don't know how well they would have handled the playoffs.
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Post by irishrover on May 22, 2015 12:03:38 GMT
Is that actually true? I've always thought there must be some kind of correcting mechanism that makes you financially better off winning the league than going up via the playoffs or is it just a tradeoff for the torture? How would that work? Rovers got 50% of the receipts from their own fans last Sunday, the Conference would need to post Barnet a cheque for around £600k (fag packet calculation, 30,000 x £40 average net of VAT after allowing for people in Club Wembley etc, = £1.2m divided by 2), , but if the final was FGR Vs Eastleigh they would have owed Barnet about a tenner. Not sure, just some form of adjusted prize money was what I had in mind. It seems a slightly perverse incentive though I suppose you are trading guaranteed promotion against potential promotion.
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