First ever Town game?

Quoted from promotion plaice

I was there........the other replay I went to in that era was the Wolves replay at the Baseball ground.

That was one of the first away games I went to when I started going fairly regularly. I also went to Wolves when we drew 1 all but I think it was Clive Wiggington who scored an own goal and gave away a penalty when we lost at The Baseball Ground.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Town 3 Exeter 0. Last game of the 71/72 season.

Glory hunter ! 😉

Quoted from Teestogreen

The second replay was at filbert street and we queued for ages, to the extent that we hadn't got in,  when the roar of a goal went up - knew it was Southampton - Alan Ball I think.

Was that the one where is was thick snow all the way there but Leicester had that balloon pitch protector

My dad took me to my 1st game 63 years ago,

No idea who we were playing or the score,

We most likely lost as we had to seek re election at the end of the season

BUT

The following season we got promoted under Allenby Chilton,

I was hooked and I could see why my dad wanted me to be part of the football family,

Exeter home 1972, but did not go to a match on my own (I was always with my old man) till I moved to Staffordshire then, I think it would have been Burnley, Port Vale or Chester away (at Moss Rose Macclesfield) would have to check the dates to work it out, just remember a few drives on my own in the mid/late 80s when as young married bloke I rarely had spare money for such treats.

Correction, first game on my own was Stoke City away in a cup replay one night in 86/7 season we got hammered and I think Kev Moore got his jaw broke or something early on.

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Correction, first game on my own was Stoke City away in a cup replay one night in 86/7 season we got hammered and I think Kev Moore got his jaw broke or something early on.

Lee Pratt was in goal for Town and a couple of us got free tickets from him cos we went to the same school.Went on Bernard`s bus think it was 5 or 6-1

Mid 90s. 3-1 win against Sunderland. I think Forrester Livvo with the goals

Quoted from supertown

Was that the one where is was thick snow all the way there but Leicester had that balloon pitch protector

Got knocked off my motorbike in a blizzard on the way back from that one.
I can still remember the terror sliding  backwards into a ditch pinned under my bike as my helmet broke the ice.
Two Town lads saved me, they luckily saw the back wheel of my bike and pulled me out.
I never saw them again, never got chance to thank them.
I ended up in Nottingham hospital and my mangled up Yamaha DT175 was taken to Melton Mowbray.

Quoted from Kris2

Don't remember the exact date sometime in the early to mid 90's, opponents were blue I think at least in my mind. We lost and quite badly I think something like 1:4 rings a bell? or 2:4. I mainly remember the game because my Dad had to explain the backpass rule that was making it's way into the game after Crichton picked up a back pass leading to a free kick in our box.

Even though we lost I still enjoyed it and asked my dad to start bringing me regularly. He had wanted to before apparently but my mum insisted I was too young or something lol.

So after some asking and some research with the database I think I have it figured out that I'm probably mixing games together. My first game was 03 Oct 1992 against Peterborough, it was a 1:3 home loss and my auntie and cousins were down from Peterborough so sat in the away end since my auntie is a huge supporter of the posh. I apparently didn't start getting taken to games regularly until probably the season after which is why I have this memory of Paul Crichton since he's the first goalie I can recall, not sure if the backpass happened in that Peterborough game, if it was somebody else who did it or I'm remembering a different game and just mixing them up.