Best Barratt Stand memories

Quoted from NorfolkImp

Good thread this gents .... reckon I might do a similar one on our board re: Clanford End.  

Then maybe we could do a joint GTFC / LCFC one: Best Fox Street Memories - take overs at the Old Show Ground...

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

Then maybe we could do a joint GTFC / LCFC one: Best Fox Street Memories - take overs at the Old Show Ground...

..... can only remember a couple, one in early 81' after Hobbo had scored a last minute winner (or so we thought?) and Imps fans invaded the pitch. The teams went off for 5 mins until order was restored, and when they came back out the ref played a good 8-10 mins extra resulting in an equaliser, although there were hardly any home fans left in the ground to celebrate?

The only other time was Xmas 86' just after Gary Lund had put us 1-0 up ..... to this day no-one knows if it was Grimsby or Scunny fans in the stairwell up to the old Cantilever Stand?

Btw: There is a tale re: The Lincs Cup Final of 1975 doing the rounds, which was played a day after we'd just missed out on promotion by goal average. This Board isn't really the place to tell it though!
  

Quoted from NorfolkImp

Btw: There is a tale re: The Lincs Cup Final of 1975 doing the rounds, which was played a day after we'd just missed out on promotion by goal average. This Board isn't really the place to tell it though!
  

what happened?

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When I first started watching thr Mariners I stood next to my Dad unless there was a big crowd, then I stood in the boys paddock,

One of the best memories was when Dave Worthington came back to play against us and Kicked Dave Boylen so hard he went up in the air and landed in a heap,

One wag shouted out  " you big bully "  Worthy just turned round and gave us all a big grin.

Can you remember that tackle OLDFOOTBALLER ?

Quoted from NorfolkImp

..... can only remember a couple, one in early 81' after Hobbo had scored a last minute winner (or so we thought?) and Imps fans invaded the pitch. The teams went off for 5 mins until order was restored, and when they came back out the ref played a good 8-10 mins extra resulting in an equaliser, although there were hardly any home fans left in the ground to celebrate?

The only other time was Xmas 86' just after Gary Lund had put us 1-0 up ..... to this day no-one knows if it was Grimsby or Scunny fans in the stairwell up to the old Cantilever Stand?

Btw: There is a tale re: The Lincs Cup Final of 1975 doing the rounds, which was played a day after we'd just missed out on promotion by goal average. This Board isn't really the place to tell it though!
  

Thought you were older than that AI - weren't you at the 1976 game in the Taylor 4th div championship season? Lincoln fans took over both side stands, the Fox Street ended up being Grimsby and Lincoln fans. With Town being a division above, some Town lads felt excluded from the big local derby party so they turned up anyway. Maybe the original intention was join the Lincoln fans against the Scunny fans but it ended up with Lincoln and Town fans kicking off in the Fox Street. I was in the Donny Road with a Scunny supporting friend watching. Lincoln won 2-0, John Ward must have scored - he got buckets of goals that season.

Stood at front of the Barratt as a 12 year old that night against Exeter in 1972, couldn't see naff all and probably didn't realise what was really going on. Was a regular on Beacholme holiday camp as my parents owned a van there, my mate lived up North Sea Lane and his dad took us. It was my 1st Town game. Went to the doctors next day who said i would grow out of it- still waiting.

My cousin leaping up to celebrate a goal that never was v QPR (i think) and splitting his head open on a low girder at the back of the stand it didnt knock any sense into him either cos his other team is Liverpool?????????My first game was in there against Brentford 79/80 and we won 5-1 with me stood on a milkcrate like others have said the atmosphere since has seldom been anywhere near and only twice WBA (Ivano) and the Gillingham game a couple of seasons ago has the Findus ever done itself justice.

YES...,that league cup win against Everton..the next round draw against Wolves..what an incredible atmosphere that rickerty old wooden stand had, & YES we used to sing in there !!I can't recall ever witnessing any trouble in the old Barratts Stand.Incidently, where does the name Barratts come from ?

Named after a local Alderman i think, so was the Osmond

My first season ticket was for the Boys Paddock at the end of the Barratt Stand. It cost a fiver.

I used to go regularly in there before that with my dad, who was a regular in the Barratt. My overwhelming memory of that place, apart from the obvious (Everton, Wolves, Exeter, Sheffield United etc) was the bloke who used to stand down the front towards the Pontoon End and used to shout: "You're bloody riubbish number 3!" every week at every number 3 irrespective of whether they were rubbish or not. An ace running joke that used to have everyone falling about.