All the play-off games

Quoted from Squinter

Last time they where in the top division they were playing against us !!

Another that we could regard as a similar-sized club back in my youth, reach the prem - like Bournemouth. They've a new stadium, 20k, that will be full every week and they are now a size of club that we can never aspire to be without a new ground. Here's a nostaglia trip from when we were at the same level with similar crowds etc
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIc8c9H4R2A[/url]

See this on BBC Sport app.

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Quoted from GollyGTFC

Freddie Woodman obviously not as good as his dad at saving penalties at Wembley.

Went to the Bromley v Notts County game. Andy Woodman seems to have got Bromley going again. They played some nice stuff and should have won by more.

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

Another that we could regard as a similar-sized club back in my youth, reach the prem - like Bournemouth. They've a new stadium, 20k, that will be full every week and they are now a size of club that we can never aspire to be without a new ground. Here's a nostaglia trip from when we were at the same level with similar crowds etc
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIc8c9H4R2A[/url]

I was at that game - remember the Lew Chatterley and Dave Worthington strikes. Not sure how Clive Wigginton gets mistaken for Phil Hubbard though. Alan Gauden - what a gem for £5000.

Quoted from Teestogreen

I was at that game - remember the Lew Chatterley and Dave Worthington strikes. Not sure how Clive Wigginton gets mistaken for Phil Hubbard though. Alan Gauden - what a gem for £5000.

I don't think I was. It was a pre-Christmas game - mother would have insisted we all went shopping. I remember getting into a right strop one time when my mum insisted on us going shopping instead on the day of a Scunny game - in turn I insisted on putting my scarf out of the window even though we weren't going to the game and she kept telling me to pull it in. My Dad was going for the quiet life...

Interesting looking at the packed Osmond - I checked the attendance it was 8,934 so not that many for the old, nearly all terracing, BP - then I twigged - in those days everyone changed ends at half time - the Pontoon and half the Barrat would have been empty

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Another that we could regard as a similar-sized club back in my youth, reach the prem - like Bournemouth. They've a new stadium, 20k, that will be full every week and they are now a size of club that we can never aspire to be without a new ground. Here's a nostaglia trip from when we were at the same level with similar crowds etc
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIc8c9H4R2A[/url]


Thanks for sharing this.

I would have been 2 at the time, I’d have been living in Duke street, that third goal was just stunning, my first ever game watching Town was in 1976.

That was my first season as a regular at BP. Remember that Chatterley goal like it was yesterday.

Thought it would always be like that.

Quoted from cmackenzie4

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Another that we could regard as a similar-sized club back in my youth, reach the prem - like Bournemouth. They've a new stadium, 20k, that will be full every week and they are now a size of club that we can never aspire to be without a new ground. Here's a nostaglia trip from when we were at the same level with similar crowds etc
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIc8c9H4R2A[/url]


Thanks for sharing this.

I would have been 2 at the time, I’d have been living in Duke street, that third goal was just stunning, my first ever game watching Town was in 1976.

You don’t even have to go back as far as the 70s. From 2000 up to our first non-league relegation in 2010, their average attendance was a fraction over 500 larger than ours. We spent the first three seasons in the league above them, and five below them in total, so I’d argue it evens out. Particularly when you consider we only finished in the top half of any division in one of those seasons.

Brentford are exceptional by the way, let’s not make light of their achievement. What they have done is not easy. But anyone who says that this club can never aspire to be anything more than a League One also ran is wrong in my opinion. Granted, we’d all love to be a League One also ran right now, but there are many chapters to this club’s history, and future, and we should never unduly write ourselves off.

Next up.....Blackpool v Lincoln.

I'll be watching, come on Blackpool.

Quoted from Poojah

You don’t even have to go back as far as the 70s. From 2000 up to our first non-league relegation in 2010, their average attendance was a fraction over 500 larger than ours. We spent the first three seasons in the league above them, and five below them in total, so I’d argue it evens out. Particularly when you consider we only finished in the top half of any division in one of those seasons.

Brentford are exceptional by the way, let’s not make light of their achievement. What they have done is not easy. But anyone who says that this club can never aspire to be anything more than a League One also ran is wrong in my opinion. Granted, we’d all love to be a League One also ran right now, but there are many chapters to this club’s history, and future, and we should never unduly write ourselves off.

Interesting - if you account for the larger away followings at GP (I'm sure they would have been) it would be even closer or parity.

With the combination of the Premiership cash plus the stadium they have now made a quantum leap - which medium-sized London clubs have been able to do when they have improved or moved stadium. Going back to the late 70s early 80s you could argue that Town were as big as Fulham, Millwall and Charlton! Ok so we had 3 exceptional seasons on the trot, but none of those clubs would have averaged 11k at home in Division 3 apart from in a promotion season.