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| December 13, 2021, 11:47am |
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Lovely stuff. All those a million times better than 'All x aren't we' etc
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| psgmariner |
| December 13, 2021, 12:28pm |
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I didn't understand this line:
"With the initials KK where else could he come from but Scunthorpe"
Kevin Keegan (although not from Scunny)?
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| White_shorts |
| December 13, 2021, 3:55pm |
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Saw this posted on a football grounds page on facebook (maybe Ian posts on here) https://www.facebook.com/groups/844940199360108/permalink/1259946774526113/How great does the old ground look? I didn't get to my first Town game until 95 so missed out on the old girl looking like this. Just looks "right" with the whole ground enclosed, even if 3 corners were uncovered. Wish we'd made the corners seated and put a roof on instead of getting rid of them entirely. Ahh nostalgia for a time I never saw!
It doesn't look great at all. A wooden Main Stand with an orchard of roof supports and an upper Findus tier that only covers half the length of the pitch. With the open terraces, BP was slightly less of an embarrassment than it is now. Messrs Stockwood and Pettit, if you are reading this, please drag the club into the 21st century by building a stadium like Doncaster's Keepmoat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mchi80cteI |
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| ska face |
| December 13, 2021, 4:21pm |
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The Keepmoat and all other indentikit, flat-packed non-descript, soulless grounds should be kept as far away from a community institution like GTFC as possible.
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| Civvy at last |
| December 13, 2021, 4:38pm |
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I didn't understand this line:
"With the initials KK where else could he come from but Scunthorpe"
Kevin Keegan (although not from Scunny)?
Kevin Killmore ?? |
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| SouthLakesMariner |
| December 13, 2021, 9:06pm |
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I might be wrong but didn’t the “We only sing when we’re fishing” start the night we beat Everton? I was behind the Osman goal that night and clearly recall Everton fans start the chant you only sing when you’re fishing and we immediately adopted it.
Memory is a funny thing so might be a load of balderdash but that’s how I recall things. Personally used to like “we will follow the Grimsby over land &sea”.
Your memory of that night is the same as mine. Everton sung it to taunt us and we fired it back after Mick Brolley’s brace. I had this conversation with a friend a couple of months back, I’m pretty sure we’d never sung it before that night but it quickly became our anthem. |
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| December 13, 2021, 9:25pm |
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It doesn't look great at all. A wooden Main Stand, a low Osmond roof that obscures the view from the back and an upper Findus tier that only covers half the length of the pitch. With terraces, post 1982 BP was slightly less of an embarrassment than it is now. Messrs Stockwood and Pettit, if you are reading this, please drag the club into the 21st century by building a stadium like Doncaster's Keepmoat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mchi80cteIEasy peasy - set fire to BP - claim on the insurance - get found out as an arsonist go to jail & hey ho a brand new stadium rises for the ashes.
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| Grim up north |
| December 13, 2021, 9:39pm |
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I found Donny’s Keepmoat one of the most boring designed new stadiums Ive been in, mainly due to all sides being of equal size. For me you need one home stand to be bigger than the rest to help generate a volume of noise.
On the other note , Grimsby I oh was a loud popular chant in the day and still popular with Pompey. Also anyone remember the jock guy who used to yell …now give me a GGGGGGG, RRRRRR and so on until he got to ….and what have you f…….. got !
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| Teestogreen |
| December 13, 2021, 9:46pm |
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Your memory of that night is the same as mine. Everton sung it to taunt us and we fired it back after Mick Brolley’s brace. I had this conversation with a friend a couple of months back, I’m pretty sure we’d never sung it before that night but it quickly became our anthem.
Well I was in the main stand that night with a group of friends of one of the fringe players - think George fed the selected players champagne before entering the arena. Anyhow, first half was fantastic - when Brian Kidd scored second half - nervous times - but they saw it out. Brilliant win - then Wolves - same again for me in the Main Stand. Other than that -was always a Barrett stander UTM |
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| Lincoln Mariner 56 |
| December 14, 2021, 12:00am |
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Well I was in the main stand that night with a group of friends of one of the fringe players - think George fed the selected players champagne before entering the arena.
Anyhow, first half was fantastic - when Brian Kidd scored second half - nervous times - but they saw it out.
Brilliant win - then Wolves - same again for me in the Main Stand.
Other than that -was always a Barrett stander
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Hate to spoil your spell in the main stand but I think you will find Kidd put Everton 1-0 ahead quite early in the first half but Brolly got his brace before half time so we were made to endure a nervous second half. |
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