2003/04

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Stormo

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Bit of a mixed bag this season. Overall disappointment though.
Highlight includes the fa cup semi v Milwall. Only we could blow that opportunity.
Results were mixed in the league. Finishing third. I actually think we did well to finish third after the players who left in the summer. Play off heartache v Palace though.

Shite like Whitley, Breen and Robinson came in. Out went Phillips (£3m!!!) Schwarz, Reyna, Thome, McCann, Sorensen, Craddock, Kilbane and Gray.
 


Can remember John Oster having an ok season

Absolutely shite pens from mcateer and Whitley against palace after Neil Shipperly committing gbh On poom
 
Stormo said:
Bit of a mixed bag this season. Overall disappointment though.
Highlight includes the fa cup semi v Milwall. Only we could blow that opportunity.
Results were mixed in the league. Finishing third. I actually think we did well to finish third after the players who left in the summer. Play off heartache v Palace though.

Shite like Whitley, Breen and Robinson came in. Out went Phillips (£3m!!!) Schwarz, Reyna, Thome, McCann, Sorensen, Craddock, Kilbane and Gray.
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It really wasn't an opportunity. It was a blessing in disguise.


Cheating bastards.

We were awful really.
 
Kyle had a brilliant season. It was poignant that we had a cup run in the year Stokoe died, but that Millwall game was rank.

Other than that, I thought we were crap. Dull football. Team of cloggers (minus maybe Arca).

The Palace second leg was awful - aye, their goal was a foul, but we had the whole of extra time versus 10 men and looked like we were playing for penalties. And up stepped Whitley.

Shout out too for us playing a game in the National Hockey Stadium. I think a few days after the cup semi. Kudos to anyone who went to Milton Keynes.
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I wouldn’t say a blessing, I still would’ve liked a little trip to Cardiff for the final. Aye we would’ve been hammered like off a rampant Man Utd.
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We almost certainly would have been hammered and in all honesty, I don’t think Europe would have been great either - we’d have probably lost in the qualifying round, and aye, ok, some lads on here would have had a pissed up continental away trip, but there’d have been about 20,000 fans at the SOL home game.
 
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Me and a mate skived off school to go to that and the away Palace semi. Had GCSE exams the week after n all 😂
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Awful trip Palace too. It’s bad enough travelling to it from another part of London, never mind the north east. Poom had a nightmare match - I think a 20 tonne whale would have slipped under him that night.
 
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Kyle had a brilliant season. It was poignant that we had a cup run in the year Stokoe died, but that Millwall game was rank.

Other than that, I thought we were crap. Dull football. Team of cloggers (minus maybe Arca).

The Palace second leg was awful - aye, their goal was a foul, but we had the whole of extra time versus 10 men and looked like we were playing for penalties. And up stepped Whitley.

Shout out too for us playing a game in the National Hockey Stadium. I think a few days after the cup semi. Kudos to anyone who went to Milton Keynes.

We almost certainly would have been hammered and in all honesty, I don’t think Europe would have been great either - we’d have probably lost in the qualifying round, and aye, ok, some lads on here would have had a pissed up continental away trip, but there’d have been about 20,000 fans at the SOL home game.
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That Whitley penalty is one of the worst things I’ve seen in football. Ever.
 
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Yeah the penalty summed him up. Absolute shite. If he was half decent I could maybe understand taking a penalty like that but he was oblivious to it.
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From memory, I can’t remember what other options we had, but McCarthy should not have had him in the five takers. He looked like a beaten man as he walked up, it was so obvious he was going to miss. At least just welly the f***ing ball. I’d have rather he’d have smashed a window in the Black Cats bar than the pathetic little tap he tried.
 
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From memory, I can’t remember what other options we had, but McCarthy should not have had him in the five takers. He looked like a beaten man as he walked up, it was so obvious he was going to miss. At least just welly the f***ing ball. I’d have rather he’d have smashed a window in the Black Cats bar than the pathetic little tap he tried.
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Penalty Shoot-Out: OSTER (missed) 0-0; Johnson 0-1; SMITH 1-1; Freedman 1-2; BABB 2-2; Shipperley 2-3; ROBINSON 3-3; Popovic 3-4; BREEN 4-4; Derry (saved) 4-4; McATEER (saved) 4-4; Routledge (saved) 4-4; WHITLEY (saved) 4-4; Hughes 4-5.

McCartney, Williams, Poom and Kyle never took one.
 
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Penalty Shoot-Out: OSTER (missed) 0-0; Johnson 0-1; SMITH 1-1; Freedman 1-2; BABB 2-2; Shipperley 2-3; ROBINSON 3-3; Popovic 3-4; BREEN 4-4; Derry (saved) 4-4; McATEER (saved) 4-4; Routledge (saved) 4-4; WHITLEY (saved) 4-4; Hughes 4-5.

McCartney, Williams, Poom and Kyle never took one.
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Cheers. My mistake then, it went beyond 5 takers. McAteer’s penalty was crap too. The place went mad when Routledge missed.
 
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