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Years following the lads

53 for me.

So many good times. Made some lifelong friends in this time. Even miserable performances have been followed by great evenings.

Looking forward to continental drinking with the lads next season.
 

Barney Mackem 13 said:
What are we all upto years wise following the lads? I do appreciate that some may have just joined the journey and that is cool. We are all chosen at different times of our lives...

Was just wondering

42 years for me, and just to add, I never thought I would ever see Europe. I thought the Reid years were great, this is something different
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First game was 1990. At home to Leeds. I can still see the green of the grass under the floodlights. It was like nothing I’d ever seen. Me and my Dad. I’d pestered the life out of him to take me to a game since the World Cup that year.

My second game not long after I can remember Peter Davenport going through on goal and missing. The fella next to me looked at me and said “How’d he miss that son”. I thought this is great, grown men speak to me now like I’m one of them (I was 9!).

It’s been magic. Through the good and bad.
 
Dun Scathach said:
First game was 1990. At home to Leeds. I can still see the green of the grass under the floodlights. It was like nothing I’d ever seen. Me and my Dad. I’d pestered the life out of him to take me to a game since the World Cup that year.

My second game not long after I can remember Peter Davenport going through on goal and missing. The fella next to me looked at me and said “How’d he miss that son”. I thought this is great, grown men speak to me now like I’m one of them (I was 9!).

It’s been magic. Through the good and bad.
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I went to my my first night match and if I remember right I was on my own vs QPR, after the cup win. Of course we got pumped 0-3, but I'll never forget seeing the grass of Roker Park under the lights.
 
Barney Mackem 13 said:
What are we all upto years wise following the lads? I do appreciate that some may have just joined the journey and that is cool. We are all chosen at different times of our lives...

Was just wondering

42 years for me, and just to add, I never thought I would ever see Europe. I thought the Reid years were great, this is something different
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42 years for me too. First game was Notts county at the end of the 83/84 season.
 
I'm 53. First game had all three Grays - Martin, Phil, and Michael. We lost. Buxton was in charge. Only watched it on the telly as the shared house I was in was empty and I had nothing else to do. I then joined a local band as a drummer, Reid took over as manager, the lads took me to a game and the rest they say is hisory. Never looked back.
 
dred73 said:
I can only remember my uncles sad face on the way out.
What did you think of the 64 team?
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Regarding the '64 promotion, it is the only one to compare with this one for excitement in my pre-adolescent heart! The team was a culmination of years of assembling, with Monty and the entire back five being almost ever-present all season, along with Mulhall, Crossan, Usher, Sharkey and Herd. Martin Harvey had taken over from Stan Anderson part-way through, so they were carrying Captain Charlie round the pitch!
The Board managed to blow it the moment we were back in the top flight, of course, selecting a side with a debutante 16-yr-old, 5ft 6in goalie in the opening game! But it was just like this season in promising big things to come.
I remember after that first game going for a pee and the old gadgees in the stinking urinals moaning about how useless Don Kitchenbrand was and how much they missed Shack.
 
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