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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Apr 7, 2016 16:36:56 GMT
....some horror stories about play offs methinks may grab some recollections?
For me, I've been twice. Once old, once new. Old ground was host of amazing scenes in our 1989/90 promotion season amongst the 1-0 down, 2-1 campaign. Definitely Christian McClean right in front of us equalised.....then the second brought some fans (me included!) onto the pitch celebrating deliriously! Amazing! Especially as we weren't playing that well for most of the match. Also remember a Steve Yates 'roaster' from about 40yards (he hardly ever shot!) and hit the bar..
The new visit was around 10years ago, where we were convincingly beaten 2/3-0 and wholly forgettable. Was it where Agogo was brought down by keeps, tried to stay on his feet, but kindof went down in installments and ref waved play on.. Boooo!
Let's hope we can bring back 3precious points and safe journey, Gas.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2016 17:24:16 GMT
Just no!
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Post by gasheadpirate on Apr 7, 2016 17:35:56 GMT
Freezing cold game over the Christmas period about eight or nine years ago. A boring 0-0 draw and could not feel my hands or feet. Saw the statue of Walter Tull, the first black officer in the British Army who died in WW1 who played for Spurs and Northampton. He received vile racial abuse from Bristol City fans when playing for Spurs.....
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Post by Igitur on Apr 7, 2016 18:01:41 GMT
It's funny how you find certain grounds unpleasant. I've never enjoyed going to Northampton. I have no ill feeling towards the team and I like the colour of the strip, but for some reason I don't enjoy the trip.
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Post by DudeLebowski on Apr 7, 2016 20:06:49 GMT
Watched us comfortably dispatch them 3-1 in the first leg of you know what game! Was on holiday for the second leg, had the news of a 3-0 defeat delivered by my uncles. Cue 11 year old me burst into tears. Just, awful.
Visited Six Fields on two occasions, a 0-0 in December 2008 where we battered them but just couldn't force the ball over the line.
Second occasion was a Tuesday night game, around 2011/2012? We wore green and black quarters I believe. Anyway I drove, even though I was up at 5am for work the next morning. We were 3-0 down in less than 20mins. Myself and a mate left after 65mins, total horror show. Craig Stanley may have scored a consolation. I was rather pi##ed off.
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Post by Rex on Apr 7, 2016 21:49:24 GMT
That play off game. Awful performance, they really did a number on us, yet one of the strangest/funniest away days I have ever had. After the game there was a fair amount of trouble, and our mini bus was parked by a pub which happened to be full of Northamptons 'boys'. They realised we were Rovers and told us to get on our way, or suffer the consequences. At the time not everyone had made it back to the mini bus(and we had two kids with us) , so one forumer, who I won't name, lets just call him Reg, stood his ground, and said that we weren't after any trouble, but there was no way we were leaving without our mates, and as soon as they got back, we would be on our way. They really did take some convincing, but in the end agreed to let us wait for our mates, who, after what seemed an age turned up. By now we were stuck in traffic leaving the estate by the ground, and other Northampton fans had realised we were Rovers and were banging on the windows and taunting us. This seemed to upset 'Reg' who eventually could take no more, who opened the door of the mini bus, jumped out and, in a very forthright manner, gave the Northamptons fans a piece of his mind. This was all in full view of the previous Northampton fans, who Reg had done such a fine job of convincing we didn't want any trouble, who then assumed we obviously DID want trouble, and they headed for our mini bus, which was still stuck in traffic. We screamed at the driver to get his foot down, so he pulled out of the traffic and headed in the opposite direction- we ended up by Coventry! We drowned our sorrows with some beer the driver kindly donated, it was vile stuff, we were trying to work out the strength of it, then realised the name of it was 8.8 - named after it's strength- you had to be there really, but it was funny at the time. I do remember a good performance at the old ground- I think in the promotion- or maybe play off - season, where Christian Maclean shinned in a winner
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Post by kentgas on Apr 7, 2016 22:01:35 GMT
Was in the promotion season I think. Christian got the equaliser and Ollie got a screamer to win it for us 2-1. Bizarre 3 sided ground which was shared with NCCC.
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Post by mjhgas on Apr 7, 2016 22:08:12 GMT
Was in the promotion season I think. Christian got the equaliser and Ollie got a screamer to win it for us 2-1. Bizarre 3 sided ground which was shared with NCCC. Good memory! It was in our run of six 2-1 wins on the trot!
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Post by csssmooth on Apr 7, 2016 23:19:49 GMT
Least favourite away game ever, I knew when it went from 3-0 to 3-1 at home it wasn't going to be plain sailing at their place. Then it seemed like the pitch was surrounded by 10 ball boys and ball girls on each side who returned the ball within seconds of it going out, then as soon as they were 2-0 up they all freaking disappeared and all our players had to run round retrieving their own throw ins. I freaking hate Northampton, much more than Wycombe, maybe not as the sheet, but as much as I hate going to Accrington Stanley. But I'd be very happy to share a league with them next season
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Post by bignose on Apr 8, 2016 0:16:57 GMT
Hehehe!! Funny reading other teams' perspective on previous matches you were at yourself, eh?! The "Duracell" ballboys particularly tickled me, as I think I remember our manager saying before the match that they had specifically been training up the ballboys that week to get a move on!!! hahaha!! Apologies for the "trouble" experienced previously. We seem to be down to only about 10-15 uncouth youths at present, as I think we are successfully managing to breed them out through natural selection!! Good luck for the rest of the season, and hopefully see you in League 1 next year!
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Post by thecuregalore94 on Apr 8, 2016 12:45:28 GMT
Went about 7/8 years ago and can't remember the score for an unremarkable game. I THINK somebody called Torres scored for North.T, but I am remember the real highlight of the game for me was when some kids in a shopping trolley went down the hill behind the stand opposite us, flying out halfway down after an unfortunate bobble and catapulting down the remainder of the decline like ragdolls.
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Post by badbloodash on Apr 8, 2016 14:45:37 GMT
Was in the promotion season I think. Christian got the equaliser and Ollie got a screamer to win it for us 2-1. Bizarre 3 sided ground which was shared with NCCC. More remarkable that Andy Rees had already been sent off at 1-1 I thought we'd done well then we got a corner as Ollie was about to take it Mike mallet shouted to him the s**t are only drawing with that Ollie took a short corner screamed for the ball back cut inside and hit a screamer into the top corner absolute bedlam Remember 7 of us in paddys mark 1 cortina that day as another driver let us down pretty sure that car did about a thousand miles that week as I'm sure we played away Monday somewhere and Wigan on the weds or Thursday those were the days I miss the most although I don't know if my missus would agree also went to the playoff game was working in the midlands and went and got tickets for the home stand before the game in the bar it was ok but after the game they thought they would have us over there were twelve us us and when we stood our ground they bottled it horrible fans and a horrible ground glad I can't go tomorrow
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Post by markczgas on Apr 8, 2016 15:54:59 GMT
Was in the promotion season I think. Christian got the equaliser and Ollie got a screamer to win it for us 2-1. Bizarre 3 sided ground which was shared with NCCC. I was also there -a pretty dull game from what I remember where The Gas didn't do much all game, BUT Ollie's winner was a beauty. I travelled down from Nottingham (where I was living at the time) with a neighbour who was a Northampton fan. he said "we can go in the home end behind the goal and if you want to celebrate a Rovers goal you'll be all right " ! So we did and true to his word on celebrating the Rovers goals with a cheer - I got absolutely no abuse. Happy Days !
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Post by buktaboy on Apr 8, 2016 18:38:00 GMT
1981, League Cup 2nd leg. We'd lost at Eastville 2-1 a couple of weeks earlier. Couldn't believe the ground when we turned up, three sides and then acres of cricket pitch, with the pavilion far off in the gloom. Lost 3-0 or 3-1 I think. My only highlight was walking back on the terrace just after half time with a steaming hot cuppa and volleying the ball back into play without spilling a drop lol.
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Post by The Concept on Apr 8, 2016 19:32:53 GMT
Only been once. Probably the coldest I ever been at a football ground.
Also the worst leg room at any ground I've been to, which means the seats are pointless and you may as well stand up all game. The complete opposite a few miles down the road at MK where the have the most comfortable seats, with the best leg room ... it's the little things, especially when the game is crap!
Lost 1-0. Season before relegation? Eliot Richards was unlucky with several long range shots, then Akinfenwa grabs a last minute winner with what seemed their only effort on goal.
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Post by kingswood Polak on Apr 9, 2016 12:23:39 GMT
That play off game. Awful performance, they really did a number on us, yet one of the strangest/funniest away days I have ever had. After the game there was a fair amount of trouble, and our mini bus was parked by a pub which happened to be full of Northamptons 'boys'. They realised we were Rovers and told us to get on our way, or suffer the consequences. At the time not everyone had made it back to the mini bus(and we had two kids with us) , so one forumer, who I won't name, lets just call him Reg, stood his ground, and said that we weren't after any trouble, but there was no way we were leaving without our mates, and as soon as they got back, we would be on our way. They really did take some convincing, but in the end agreed to let us wait for our mates, who, after what seemed an age turned up. By now we were stuck in traffic leaving the estate by the ground, and other Northampton fans had realised we were Rovers and were banging on the windows and taunting us. This seemed to upset 'Reg' who eventually could take no more, who opened the door of the mini bus, jumped out and, in a very forthright manner, gave the Northamptons fans a piece of his mind. This was all in full view of the previous Northampton fans, who Reg had done such a fine job of convincing we didn't want any trouble, who then assumed we obviously DID want trouble, and they headed for our mini bus, which was still stuck in traffic. We screamed at the driver to get his foot down, so he pulled out of the traffic and headed in the opposite direction- we ended up by Coventry! We drowned our sorrows with some beer the driver kindly donated, it was vile stuff, we were trying to work out the strength of it, then realised the name of it was 8.8 - named after it's strength- you had to be there really, but it was funny at the time. I do remember a good performance at the old ground- I think in the promotion- or maybe play off - season, where Christian Maclean shinned in a winner What a great anecdote fella. It's good to read such memories. There always seems to be a Reg around lol. I've been caught up in a few situations very much akin to this and also have been the peacemaker when the opposite happened and it was us that were the home support me & a friend actually stood in front of a Cardiff fan, who had been drinking in the Vic from early hours. Everything was just fine and peaceful until he stood up to go to the game and had to run the gauntlet. I am guessing here but had to be before the millennium or could have even been the home fixture of the 99/2000 capitulation. Now I know what awaited me in Cardiff that season, I wonder if I would have done the same ! No, of course I would. I don't see anything brave about having a pop at a lone fan. I really enjoy reading the stories that come up like this. Thanks
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Post by kingswood Polak on Apr 9, 2016 12:30:01 GMT
Least favourite away game ever, I knew when it went from 3-0 to 3-1 at home it wasn't going to be plain sailing at their place. Then it seemed like the pitch was surrounded by 10 ball boys and ball girls on each side who returned the ball within seconds of it going out, then as soon as they were 2-0 up they all freaking disappeared and all our players had to run round retrieving their own throw ins. I freaking hate Northampton, much more than Wycombe, maybe not as the sheet, but as much as I hate going to Accrington Stanley. But I'd be very happy to share a league with them next season I am so glad you said that as I was shocked at the lack of ball boys too. It's one of those games that I really wish I could erase from memory. I make no bones about it, I am a very poor loser. I hate the it's not winning. It the taking part mentality and I am not good company after such a loss. I was very close to not going to Wembley last season. I had been on the losing side every time I had been there and the only time, prior to the Grimsby game, that we won, I was blue lighted into hospital. I was so happy we won that 07 game but it really stings that I missed it. I even had a daft feeling that we won because I was not there. At least the victory V Grimsby has put that one to bed
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Post by a more piratey game on Apr 9, 2016 13:09:35 GMT
a fairly recent one....
In-form Rovers slip up at in-form Northampton As you probably know, it’s in the middle of nowhere but like being in America, with added roundabouts and much smaller stadia. But there are the chain restaurants, and the parking lots, and the difficulties of walking between all of them, and all the convenience you want. It is maybe ironic, though, that the home of the Cobblers lacks soul.
It was cold, with a persistent fog of rain, but we sat down in our good-view seats, and waited for the rest of the crowd to arrive from the stadium bars and walkways in the couple of minutes before kick-off.
Rovers fielded our solid goalie Mildenhall, our solid back 4 anchored by McChrystal and Captain Parkes, a more unpredictable midfield of Nobbie Norburn, O’Toole, Anyanswers and (wannabe full-back) Woodards, and a couple of little kids at the front in Richards and Hitchcocks. The bench, like the team, was suffering from injuries, with our impact players Brunt, The German and Clarkson (and maybe even Clucas) recently adding to the already significant strain on the treatment table. They had only 3 players I recognised – the unmissable Fattifenwa, the big targetman Platt, and Clark Carlisle who has the Gulliver role of the Brainiest Man in Football. My mate, who doesn’t come to football very often, saw Fattifenwa and said ‘he looks like the black Gareth Chilcott’, which I thought was fair. He’s got the mobility of a Welsh Dresser, but he’s a proven goalscorer and I think he’s a clever as well as skilful player, who uses his size very effectively indeed without getting pinged (the sort-of opposite of Matty Harrold). It was a lively start, with us bossing the game for the first 15 minutes, then them for 15 minutes, and then us for the last 15 of the half. There weren’t many good chances, but there were several shots, and, surprisingly, Town’s main attack seemed to be to put their big lumps around Mildenhall and then put crosses, corners and throws from their Rory Delap bloke onto the goal-line. I was surprised at that – they are a top-4 side, who have won their last 6 at home, and I’m guessing that its a general tactic since Mildenhall isn’t the sort of newbie who might be easily intimidated so that you’d do it specially for him. It seemed to me to show up their limitations.
Our limitation, however, seemed to be that we wanted to pump long high balls through to our little young blokes at the front. It seemed a very strange tactic, borne of a shortage of ideas, but it meant that lazy Elliot Richards did more running than I’ve ever seen him do before. It didn’t do any good, but it was good to see. The first half was entertaining stuff overall, though, and going in at honours-even didn’t seem too unfair. The crowd was small at 4,077, but their lot sang a bit (‘la la la la Cobblers’), while the Gas were unusually quiet. I don’t think I heard an Irene all night.
I got the last pie in the shop though, a chicken balti, which proved that (contrary to popular rumour) Fattifenwa hadn’t eaten all of them, and it helped ward off the sharpening cold. Elliot Richards had a fine shot fairly early in the second half, which drew a fine save from their solid keeper, and the game followed a similar pattern to the first half, though with more space opening up as legs tired. Harrison came on for Hitchcocks, who hadn’t made much of an impression, and immediately added a bit of zip to the game.
We, however, were waiting for the last 5 minutes when Wardy’s Bristol Rovers have proved themselves to be at their peak. Except for this time, they didn’t. The game was ‘there for the pinching’, as a bloke near me said, when the Cobblers got another ball into the box and scrambled it in off one of their tall heads. Rovers were proper pissed off, and it got a bit handbags for a second, but they stayed cool and held out for time.
As often this season, we lacked punch up front, with Richards and Hitchcocks looking an ill-matched couple. O’Toole had looked the classiest player on the pitch, but had been unable to impose himself on the game for long periods. Their MOTM was Clark Carlisle, which I couldn’t see, but I suppose it showed that our defence kept them quiet for much of the match, while their defence looked great against our poor strikeforce.
We hadn’t lacked effort, though, and the players got well-deserved applause from the Gasheads at the end. They hadn’t looked like a promotion side, and on the balance of play we definitely shaded it, but we didn’t look worth the win. Neither did they but, like in America, coming second is nowhere.
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Post by gashead1979 on Apr 9, 2016 13:11:48 GMT
I think we are all in agreement that we owe them a good tonking, if not this season hopefully next?!
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Post by PessimistGas on Apr 9, 2016 13:36:13 GMT
Watched us comfortably dispatch them 3-1 in the first leg of you know what game! Was on holiday for the second leg, had the news of a 3-0 defeat delivered by my uncles. Cue 11 year old me burst into tears. Just, awful. Visited Six Fields on two occasions, a 0-0 in December 2008 where we battered them but just couldn't force the ball over the line. Second occasion was a Tuesday night game, around 2011/2012? We wore green and black quarters I believe. Anyway I drove, even though I was up at 5am for work the next morning. We were 3-0 down in less than 20mins. Myself and a mate left after 65mins, total horror show. Craig Stanley may have scored a consolation. I was rather pi##ed off. Listened to the playoff away leg on Radio Bristol and cried. That was brutal.
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