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Cloudy
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Don't think it was Ferneux that made that decision, but Carr and Ramsden. They thought that the acoustics were better in the Osmond stand.


Always thought it was Lyons' idea,?
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In all my years watching Town that was probably the only game that we lost that I really enjoyed.


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Quoted from Cloudy


Always thought it was Lyons' idea,?


We had been talking about having the home fans in the Osmond for a while before that game,

The thought was if a hundred or so away fans can out shout the home fans of 2,000+ because of the shape of the roof we should change ends, It did not last long as the fans wanted to return to the Ponny.

I was sat with the wife at the back of the Osmond and although it was an exciting game it was bloody freezing, The pitch which was normal in those days was very poor don't you think ?


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What Les said. Every time Tony Ford got the ball I thought we would score.
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My grandad is 88 and doesn't really remember much these days, but does remember the Town teams of the 40's and always says he used to stand in the Cleethorpes end, or behind the Cleethorpes goal when he was a kid. I'm assuming he's referring to he Osmond or whatever it was called back then...was there a time back then our home fans were in that stand? Or is that pre-segregation?


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Quoted from sam gy
My grandad is 88 and doesn't really remember much these days, but does remember the Town teams of the 40's and always says he used to stand in the Cleethorpes end, or behind the Cleethorpes goal. I'm assuming he's referring to he Osmond or whatever it was called back then...was there a time back then our home fans were in that stand? Or is that pre-segregation?


Town fans stood in the main part of the Osmond behind the goal when the away followings were sparse as I recall 70s and 80s? The away fans would stand in the cage between the osmond and main and be seated in the top of the osmond.
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Town fans stood in the main part of the Osmond behind the goal when the away followings were sparse as I recall 70s and 80s? The away fans would stand in the cage between the osmond and main and be seated in the top of the osmond.


and prior to that the number of away fans was very limited and it was common for Town fans to change ends at half time depending on which way we were kicking. There was little or no segregation at that time
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Town fans stood in the main part of the Osmond behind the goal when the away followings were sparse as I recall 70s and 80s? The away fans would stand in the cage between the osmond and main and be seated in the top of the osmond.


I've got it in my head that my first game I was stood at the Osmond end (left of the goal). That was the Donny game in August 1971 that ended 4-3. Might be a false memory, but don't think it was the Pontoon even though that was clearly the home end then. (And no smartalecs, I'm not from Donny!)


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There was seating at the back of the osmond and standing at the front at some point
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Quoted from sam gy
My grandad is 88 and doesn't really remember much these days, but does remember the Town teams of the 40's and always says he used to stand in the Cleethorpes end, or behind the Cleethorpes goal when he was a kid. I'm assuming he's referring to he Osmond or whatever it was called back then...was there a time back then our home fans were in that stand? Or is that pre-segregation?


There was no segregation in the 50's and early 60's to the best of my memory,

I can not remember when segregation came in Sam.


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