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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Jan 28, 2016 20:27:21 GMT
...which won't be filled with many victories!
A curious and charming place, nonetheless.
Friendly, and cheap (compared to beer prices in Bris) we are exposed to elements in away terrace that's basically a scaffold!
I remember my first time.....a few Gas came in fancy dress and I was in awe at two female Flintstones! I think it was the 2-1 defeat Boco/Lee Molyneux show, where our players were booed off at half time, only to be cheered off at full time for valiant effort (!).
I also remember Muzzy tearing apart a right back, only for him to be cynically hacked down late on in match causing a sending off..
Lets hope for game on and safe journey, Gas..
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Post by Bridgeman on Jan 28, 2016 21:26:32 GMT
I wonder if there any about who attended an Accrington Stanley away match in their previous league history ?  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2016 21:29:27 GMT
I wonder if there any about who attended an Accrington Stanley match in their previous league history ? My only visit so far was during our previous league history  |
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Post by biggsy on Jan 28, 2016 22:22:13 GMT
I wonder if there any about who attended an Accrington Stanley away match in their previous league history ? an old Shthead maybe as I believe they played them in the cup in the '50s. I dont think we ever played them in their previous life as they were always in the old Third division North and i cant recall any cup games |
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Post by Bridgeman on Jan 28, 2016 23:37:54 GMT
I wonder if there any about who attended an Accrington Stanley away match in their previous league history ? an old Shthead maybe as I believe they played them in the cup in the '50s. I dont think we ever played them in their previous life as they were always in the old Third division North and i cant recall any cup games Excellent point, I hadn't thought of that  |
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Post by kwoodgas on Jan 29, 2016 0:22:57 GMT
...which won't be filled with many victories! A curious and charming place, nonetheless. Friendly, and cheap (compared to beer prices in Bris) we are exposed to elements in away terrace that's basically a scaffold! I remember my first time.....a few Gas came in fancy dress and I was in awe at two female Flintstones! I think it was the 2-1 defeat Boco/Lee Molyneux show, where our players were booed off at half time, only to be cheered off at full time for valiant effort (!). I also remember Muzzy tearing apart a right back, only for him to be cynically hacked down late on in match causing a sending off.. Lets hope for game on and safe journey, Gas.. If im remembering old forum posts correctI believe Rex has a cracking story about Accrington away!! |
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Post by Mrs V Smegma on Jan 29, 2016 3:49:58 GMT
Went there in 2007 for an evening game in March I think. I was working in Birmingham that week and continued up the M6. I remember it being a friendly place but a ground that felt distinctly non-league. Had an enjoyable pint with the locals and some travelling gasheads in a pub near the ground. We took the lead and they scored right at the death. The ref then showed Stuart Campbell red for an offence that only he saw. A disappointing end to a disappointing game, but arguably a better result than we normally get against them. Time we turned the tables on them with a scabby 1-0 win. The Accy fans I spoke to felt that they had got into the league a few years too soon but were enjoying the ride. Fair play to them for punching well above their weight and sustaining league football against all the odds.
This game is also the smallest crowd i can remember being part of for a Rovers league match - about 1300 I think.
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Post by harrybuckle on Jan 29, 2016 8:29:44 GMT
I was there too on a cold Tues evening in March 2007 the start of our play off promotion push only 1300 there as Liverpool were home in European game and many Stanley fans preferred watching the Reds on tv so we were told. Stuart Nicholson on the bench. Recall Lescott breaking clear when we were one up and hit the post. Stanley had a late free kick to score a very late equaliser with Campbell sent off for his first foul. Gutted on long journey back.
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Post by GasMacc1 on Jan 29, 2016 9:08:28 GMT
Went there in 2007 for an evening game in March I think. The ref then showed Stuart Campbell red for an offence that only he saw. That was my first visit to Stanley, Mrs S. It's less than an hour's drive from Macclesfield, so I arrived in good time to have a wander round outside the ground. Of course, it's much improved now, with a roof over the previously uncovered home "Ultras" end... I remember thinking that my wardrobe was only slightly smaller than their club store. Apart from the goals, there's only one bit of play I remember. It was a crisp, frosty night, so the surface was firm, but with a good covering of short grass. The away terrace is very close to the pitch and you feel as though you are in amongst the players. In the first half Rovers were attacking the away end. Stuart Campbell had the ball in space, 30 years out and could see that Sammy Igoe was well positioned to run up the Rovers' right. Campbell flighted the ball diagonally forward, but you sensed that the arc of the ball would make its first bounce land only a few feet from the goal-iine, out wide; surely, its momentum would take it out of play before Igoe got near it? But no! Campbell had put so much back spin on the ball that it seemed to freeze, before rolling softly back into the path of the scampering Igoe. It would be nice to finish the story with the goal action that resulted, but I don't think Sammy made much of the beautiful set-up! Our goal came after 58 minutes, at the extremely open, far-end. It seemed a long way distant. Following some head-tennis, I think with Rickie Lambert, Walker jumped imperceptibly and nutted the ball over the line from about three inches. Stuart Campbell's sending off was born of frustration at conceding the free-kick from which Stanley scored the equaliser. The ref was wrong, but that ill-discipline, I felt, marked the end of our promotion hopes for that season... Ah yes, the 2006-7 season. The names trip off the tongue; Phillips, Carruthers, Elliott, Disley, Lambert, Walker, Oji. Oji?? Sam Oji played five games for us in 2007 on loan from Birmingham, and was in the Rovers team that day at Accrington. They who also serve. |
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Post by davehuddscousin on Jan 29, 2016 16:38:43 GMT
I went in autumn 2003. Long journey in the Supporters Club bus, freezing cold, but a couple of pints in the Crown bar and very cheap chip butty got me in thge mood. Started well Alex Henshall scored after 5 minutes, then we managed to lose and give Stanley their first home win of the season! Didn't realise the significance of it at the time, but of course if we'd come away with the point we should have we wouldn't have been relegated!
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Post by davehuddscousin on Jan 29, 2016 16:39:04 GMT
sorry I meant 2013 - damn typos!
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Post by irishrover on Jan 29, 2016 17:14:02 GMT
I have no good memories of Accrington away. Have been 3 times and all 3 times we haven't just been bad, we've been embarrassing. They all kind of merge in my mind into a single meta-disaster of everything that had gone wrong at Rovers over the years. Saw the worst atmosphere I've ever seen among Rovers away fans when I genuinely thought someone was going punch Paul Buckle as he walked off (the tunnel at Accrington is next to the away end).
Absolutely no offence to them. Of all the minnows in this part of the world they are the ones with the most soul. Their set-up isn't just non-league - it's sub Conference. The idea that they have managed to avoid footballing gravity for so long is remarkable because while they do have some money backing them they're not really a rich man's plaything in quite the same way that the other small clubs made good up here are (Fleetwood, Morecambe, AFC Fylde to follow). I like Accrington itself and their fans understandably relish their minnow status. To the extent that when our fans started to singing the usual pointless and boring generic put down songs ('s**t ground, no fans etc) they just found it funny. They know all of that, they revel in it and instead of being a put down it just sounded utterly pathetic - as in 'if that's the case what the f**k are we doing here? Who the hell do we think we are exactly?.....'
In 2 out of the 3 games I've been to there I was so disillusioned with what was happening on the pitch I took advantage of the fact that it is an open away end to watch the park football going on behind the back of the stand - much better entertainment than either Buckle or Mcghee's version of Rovers managed to provide and more professional too.
I am hoping that I finally get a non-s**t Accington based memory tomorrow because I really do associate that ground with nothing but abject footballing misery. I don't normally agree with the 'this game shows how far we've fallen' brigade but those games really did show that.
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Post by Gas Since 1957 on Jan 29, 2016 18:25:13 GMT
an old Shthead maybe as I believe they played them in the cup in the '50s. I dont think we ever played them in their previous life as they were always in the old Third division North and i cant recall any cup games Excellent point, I hadn't thought of that We played the old team in the FA Cup in 1929 and 1933 according to the OS - I'm guessing not too many forum users saw those games! The remaining 9 games have all been in the 4th tier.  |
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Post by DudeLebowski on Jan 29, 2016 18:43:40 GMT
Went a couple of years ago, 2013 I think it was?? Awful game (for us) quickly went 2-0 down, Anyinsah got one back right after halftime but it faded out to another miserable Buckle defeat. Fortunately I was on a Blackpool weekender so we headed back there to continue the p**s up.
I also recall Muzzy Carayol almost being cut in half by an horrendous 'tackle' late in the game that almost sparked a mini gas riot! Straight red was obviously dished out.
One to forget.
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Post by GasMacc1 on Jan 29, 2016 19:23:02 GMT
Went a couple of years ago, 2013 I think it was?? Awful game (for us) quickly went 2-0 down, Anyinsah got one back right after halftime but it faded out to another miserable Buckle defeat. Fortunately I was on a Blackpool weekender so we headed back there to continue the p**s up. I also recall Muzzy Carayol almost being cut in half by an horrendous 'tackle' late in the game that almost sparked a mini gas riot! Straight red was obviously dished out. One to forget. It was 5th November 2011, Dude. The incident was horrendous because the Accrington player made no attempt to go for the ball, but moved deliberately to kick out at full force into Muzzy's legs, after he had pushed the ball past him and was starting to accelerate away. One of the worst fouls I have ever seen. The player in question was Peter Murphy. That's right - he's the one who scored against us for Accrington in the 90th minute at the Memorial Stadium 27 months later, in the season we dropped out of the League. In my view, he should still have been serving a suspension for the foul on Carayol. I remember how their goalkeeper (Bettinelli) celebrated that goal wildly in front of the Blackthorn and - with the Accrington coaching staff - continued to mock the Rovers fans. I'm not buying any of this cute, little Accy Stanley stuff - I would love it if we could beat them tomorrow! |
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Post by Rex on Jan 29, 2016 20:23:47 GMT
I didn't cover myself in glory on my one and only visit to Stanley. We conceded a late, late goal- actually I can't even remember if it was an equaliser or whether we lost 1-0- it was a night game and it would have been our first ever visit to that ground. Anyway, when we conceded, one youngish Rovers fan got quite upset and swore a bit, a steward- in my opinion- over reacted and told him he was being ejected from the ground, and the lad seemed quite upset about this. The late goal had pissed me off so I was walking past this incident heading for the exit and made a comment to the steward that I thought he was being over the top, you will have to take my word for it that I said it with no swearing and not in an aggressive way. The steward replied with 'It's nothing to do with you sonny, keep walking'. I'm afraid his comment did make me swear and act in an aggressive way and he called for assistance from some other stewards who came over to eject me- which was a bit daft as there was about 30 seconds left.
I apologise to anyone who witnessed me behaving like a fool that night, but in my defence the steward started behaving like one first!
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Post by csssmooth on Jan 29, 2016 20:35:32 GMT
I have no good memories of Accrington away. Have been 3 times and all 3 times we haven't just been bad, we've been embarrassing. They all kind of merge in my mind into a single meta-disaster of everything that had gone wrong at Rovers over the years. Saw the worst atmosphere I've ever seen among Rovers away fans when I genuinely thought someone was going punch Paul Buckle as he walked off (the tunnel at Accrington is next to the away end). Absolutely no offence to them. Of all the minnows in this part of the world they are the ones with the most soul. Their set-up isn't just non-league - it's sub Conference. The idea that they have managed to avoid footballing gravity for so long is remarkable because while they do have some money backing them they're not really a rich man's plaything in quite the same way that the other small clubs made good up here are (Fleetwood, Morecambe, AFC Fylde to follow). I like Accrington itself and their fans understandably relish their minnow status. To the extent that when our fans started to singing the usual pointless and boring generic put down songs ('s*** ground, no fans etc) they just found it funny. They know all of that, they revel in it and instead of being a put down it just sounded utterly pathetic - as in 'if that's the case what the f are we doing here? Who the hell do we think we are exactly?.....' In 2 out of the 3 games I've been to there I was so disillusioned with what was happening on the pitch I took advantage of the fact that it is an open away end to watch the park football going on behind the back of the stand - much better entertainment than either Buckle or Mcghee's version of Rovers managed to provide and more professional too. I am hoping that I finally get a non-s*** Accington based memory tomorrow because I really do associate that ground with nothing but abject footballing misery. I don't normally agree with the 'this game shows how far we've fallen' brigade but those games really did show that. I was going to write my feelings on Accrington but this just about says it all for me. |
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Post by csssmooth on Jan 29, 2016 20:42:37 GMT
I didn't cover myself in glory on my one and only visit to Stanley. We conceded a late, late goal- actually I can't even remember if it was an equaliser or whether we lost 1-0- it was a night game and it would have been our first ever visit to that ground. Anyway, when we conceded, one youngish Rovers fan got quite upset and swore a bit, a steward- in my opinion- over reacted and told him he was being ejected from the ground, and the lad seemed quite upset about this. The late goal had pissed me off so I was walking past this incident heading for the exit and made a comment to the steward that I thought he was being over the top, you will have to take my word for it that I said it with no swearing and not in an aggressive way. The steward replied with 'It's nothing to do with you sonny, keep walking'. I'm afraid his comment did make me swear and act in an aggressive way and he called for assistance from some other stewards who came over to eject me- which was a bit daft as there was about 30 seconds left. I apologise to anyone who witnessed me behaving like a fool that night, but in my defence the steward started behaving like one first! It was 1 all, and as I remember on that occasion the stewards had had their hands full with this one particular really hammered lad in our end who had himself a fine time winding them up, reaching it's crescendo when he leant over the hoardings and gave the Accrington player taking a throw in a slap, well more of a love tap, round the back of the head. This probably accounts for their lack of patience later in the game |
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Post by Rex on Jan 29, 2016 20:44:44 GMT
I didn't cover myself in glory on my one and only visit to Stanley. We conceded a late, late goal- actually I can't even remember if it was an equaliser or whether we lost 1-0- it was a night game and it would have been our first ever visit to that ground. Anyway, when we conceded, one youngish Rovers fan got quite upset and swore a bit, a steward- in my opinion- over reacted and told him he was being ejected from the ground, and the lad seemed quite upset about this. The late goal had pissed me off so I was walking past this incident heading for the exit and made a comment to the steward that I thought he was being over the top, you will have to take my word for it that I said it with no swearing and not in an aggressive way. The steward replied with 'It's nothing to do with you sonny, keep walking'. I'm afraid his comment did make me swear and act in an aggressive way and he called for assistance from some other stewards who came over to eject me- which was a bit daft as there was about 30 seconds left. I apologise to anyone who witnessed me behaving like a fool that night, but in my defence the steward started behaving like one first! It was 1 all, and as I remember on that occasion the stewards had had their hands full with this one particular really hammered lad in our end who had himself a fine time winding them up, reaching it's crescendo when he leant over the hoardings and gave the Accrington player taking a throw in a slap, well more of a love tap, round the back of the head. This probably accounts for their lack of patience later in the gameYep, sometimes football fans behave like dicks- as I did on that particular night- stewarding cannot be an easy job on those occasions. |
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