Biggest mistake/regret following Town ?

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Mine was the mistake of going to the Cheltenham home game at BP in November.

Long story short I got picked out wrongly by Comsec agents and missed some of the match as I was escorted by the stewards like a criminal in front of the home fans to stadium manager Nick Dale.

Worst experience I've had in over 40 years of following Town and I've had a few.

  

Not going to our 6-0 away win at Boston, to go with a Baggies mate and watch West Brom play out a goalless draw at Scunny

Quoted from promotion plaice

Idea taken off another forum:

Mine was the mistake of going to the Cheltenham home game at BP in November.

Long story short I got picked out wrongly by Comsec agents and missed some of the match as I was escorted by the stewards like a criminal in front of the home fans to stadium manager Nick Dale.

Worst experience I've had in over 40 years of following Town and I've had a few.
  

I hope you told Nick Dale to intercourse off.

Quoted from arryarryarry

I hope you told Nick Dale to intercourse off.

if he did, I doubt he was the first

Quoted from arryarryarry

I hope you told Nick Dale to intercourse off.

To be fair to Nick Dale he promised me I would be kept updated by him about the incident as the club were going to take it further.

I've heard nothing and this all happened well before the pandemic.

Probably getting a kicking at Burnley in the semi final.
Was living in Burnley at the time and got into home end with a couple of lads from my local at the time.
Anyway word got out I was town and after second goal went in got a pasting for my troubles and spent 3 nights in the hospital.

Lesson learnt don’t go into inbreeds home end and celebrate without thinking

Defo not going to the Liverpool game despite having a ticket. It was peeing it down, I had a bad day at work and decided to give it a miss as we were obviously going to lose anyway.

DoH!

Got to be either the long coach journey to Cardiff for the playoff final to watch us basically give Cheltenham promotion or Nuneaton away on the tuesday before FA trophy final to watch our players not really giving a toss and trying not to get injured and just give nuneaton 3 points

Quoted from promotion plaice

Idea taken off another forum:

Mine was the mistake of going to the Cheltenham home game at BP in November.

Long story short I got picked out wrongly by Comsec agents and missed some of the match as I was escorted by the stewards like a criminal in front of the home fans to stadium manager Nick Dale.

Worst experience I've had in over 40 years of following Town and I've had a few.

  

What was you supposed to have done!

Losing on penalties against Bristol Rovers at Wembley........then having to see all the Gas celebrating.......
I knew JPP would miss........

Not going to the 2nd leg of the Burnley semi-final as I didn't feel very well on the day.

Either that or having to watch that shower of excrement performance at Burton that afternoon. I know we'd still have gone down had we won but most of the players that day didn't give a excrement.

I think the 2004-2005 I bought my girlfriend at the time a season ticket... What a nightmare that was.

Going to watch Tues away match at Charlton,only to arrive at ground to find it was Weds night match,still had a nice night/day in London,to make matters worse we lost 4-1 I think ,car broke down on way home.Spent 2 hours on hard shoulder of A1 waiting for A.A.

Encouraging my Exile children to follow Town and start going to games just as wheels were coming off at the end of Lawrences management. So much dross they have suffered and so little success.  

Probably getting a kicking at Burnley in the semi final.
Was living in Burnley at the time and got into home end with a couple of lads from my local at the time.
Anyway word got out I was town and after second goal went in got a pasting for my troubles and spent 3 nights in the hospital.

Lesson learnt don’t go into inbreeds home end and celebrate without thinking

Explains a lot Keith   LOL
Stay safe mate

Quoted from Davec

What was you supposed to have done!

Let's put it this way a similar think happened to a Hull fan....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49312316

My biggest regret was going to Braintree when we lost  5-0

Never felt so low following town before and gleefully since.

Missing the game at Wembley when we beat Northampton Town 24/05/1998, I got married on the 23rd May (day before) and was on honeymoon in Ambleside, I did get to watch the game though in a pub full of friendly Northampton fans, the atmosphere at Wembley sounded fantastic that day, I really regret missing that game.

Quoted from cmackenzie4

Missing the game at Wembley when we beat Northampton Town 24/05/1998, I got married on the 23rd May (day before) and was on honeymoon in Ambleside, I did get to watch the game though in a pub full of friendly Northampton fans, the atmosphere at Wembley sounded fantastic that day, I really regret missing that game.

Guessing the marriage didn't last then?

I was dating a lass who was a 7th day Adventist.  I took her back to Gy for  the weekend.  They have their sabbath on a Saturday, so my idea was to drop her off and go to the game.  She didn't wanna be alone, so I went with her.  I think we won 6-3. I can't remember who it was against. Gutted but lesson learnt.

Quoted from Mayaman

I was dating a lass who was a 7th day Adventist.  I took her back to Gy for  the weekend.  They have their sabbath on a Saturday, so my idea was to drop her off and go to the game.  She didn't wanna be alone, so I went with her.  I think we won 6-3. I can't remember who it was against. Gutted but lesson learnt.

Wimbledon? Micky Boulding and Alan Pouton hat tricks. Certainly the only Town 6-3 I can remember, there may have been more.

Deciding to go to game rather than stay in the pubs on the day Halifax pumped us in the conference and Toto got abused.

Buying the 03/04 home and away shirts.

Quoted from grimsby pete

My biggest regret was going to Braintree when we lost  5-0

Never felt so low following town before and gleefully since.

I also regretted going when we drew 0-0 year of play off win,probably worse game of football on worse pitch I have ever witnessed.

Quoted from psgmariner

Deciding to go to game rather than stay in the pubs on the day Halifax pumped us in the conference and Toto got abused.

We got to go to Dirty Dicks though

Quoted from Poojah

Wimbledon? Micky Boulding and Alan Pouton hat tricks. Certainly the only Town 6-3 I can remember, there may have been more.

I can remember us beating Cardiff 6-3 at home too. 84/85 season. It was the last time we played Cardiff I think.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

Guessing the marriage didn't last then?

Still married James, 22 years mate.  

My Mate is a Halifax fan and we wind each other up. We were due to go to the home game that season but I had a bit of a cold and just didn't fancy the 3 hour round trip so we binned it off.

He just switched his phone off when we won 7-0 , Id have love to have had that 90 minutes followed by the hour and half ripping it out of him.

Quoted from Poojah

Wimbledon? Micky Boulding and Alan Pouton hat tricks. Certainly the only Town 6-3 I can remember, there may have been more.

Wimbledon was 6-2. The only 6-3 I can remember was at Watford and we lost!

Quoted from promotion plaice

To be fair to Nick Dale he promised me I would be kept updated by him about the incident as the club were going to take it further.

I've heard nothing and this all happened well before the pandemic.

From what I understand from talking to the ladies in the shop after this happened and was posted on here, the Club did formally complain to the EFL about COMSEC! And tell COMSEC that they was not welcome.

Issues with COMSEC were common at lots of grounds last season where the Club had no say over how they behave or single out supporters whom are apparently illegally data scouting! Looking into this it’s all about the EFL and COMSEC trying to protect the betting markets for their sponsors by banning all rival organisations, by saying that this is a licensed activity, where the EFL is the licensing body!!

The way the retro shirt market has gone recently my only regret is not buying up loads of shirts in the end of season sale over the last 40yrs and storing them away to sell now.

Everything else that happens is just the life of a football fan so no regrets, the highs replace lows and the lows replace highs.

Calm down soft lad. xx

I’d say travelling to Dagenham to see us get walloped, or that horrific 5-0 at Braintree.

Stupidly took an ex to the spurs home game, essentially ignored her all game as she was sat behind me, when we scored I whacked her, purely accidentally as she didn’t jump up, unlike the rest of us.

Then the pitch invasion...very frosty drive back to uni (Lincoln) and then apparently going on the lash wasn’t the right thing either...wish I’d never arsed myself to take her now.

Travelling down to the Plymouth game and it got called off this season. Never wanted to cry so much

Mine was having 50p text alerts when we got battered at Hartlepool.

I also had Danny Boshell as first goal scorer in the final against the Franchise. £10 at 25/1, I'll never forgive him for missing that penalty

Cardiff away 1976.
Went on a 50cc, 30mph sit up and beg moped.
Set off at midnight on the Friday and got to Ninian Park at twenty to three.
Town lost 2-0, brought it back on the train, slept for the best part of two days and couldn't sit right for a week.

Wearing my Town shirt in Menorca the morning after Hartlepool put 8 past us

Quoted from Youngy

Mine was having 50p text alerts when we got battered at Hartlepool.

My favourite so far.

I was working behind the bar at Millfields that night. A bloke kept coming to the bar and telling me Hartlepool had just scored. Obviously after the third or fourth time I assumed he was just winding me up.

Quoted from Youngy

I also had Danny Boshell as first goal scorer in the final against the Franchise. £10 at 25/1, I'll never forgive him for missing that penalty

I had either a fiver or tenner on Omar Bogle to score three or more, was around 25/1 if I recall right, at home to Barnet in 2016.  Marcus Bignot's first game in charge too I think.  Felt pretty confident when he had 2 to his name before half-time, frustrated most of the second half and then he got an injury time penalty....

Quoted from Youngy

Mine was having 50p text alerts when we got battered at Hartlepool.

I also had Danny Boshell as first goal scorer in the final against the Franchise. £10 at 25/1, I'll never forgive him for missing that penalty

I've never been more sure that a player was going to miss a penalty as I was right then.

My biggeat regret following Town is seeing every one of the five defeats at Wembley and Cardiff and none of the 3 Wembley wins.

Being even second hand associated with the pond life kicking off at the BLM protests on Saturday.

Anytime I’ve seen us play Cheltenham especially in Cardiff

The 5-0 braintree defeat for me 16th birthday. Or judging the signing of Jon Nolan before he’d kicked a ball for us. How wrong i was

Quoted from Ipswin

Wearing my Town shirt in Menorca the morning after Hartlepool put 8 past us

I did the same not far away in Majorca down the Magaluf strip. Why did we do that?

Any visit to Newport.

Going to see Town lose against Cheltenham in Cardiff - I had decided to not go Provence in a villa with my new wife and friends for a week....because I didn't want to miss the promotion party.  

Also, not even realising we were playing Liverpool away when we won - I turned on the radio just as Jevons scored.  Doh!

I was too ill to go down to Braintree for the PO semi-final  

No regrets from me, so many memories, during my time following town, some good, some bad, would not have it any other way.

UTMM

Quoted from monkeyboy

Probably getting a kicking at Burnley in the semi final.
Was living in Burnley at the time and got into home end with a couple of lads from my local at the time.
Anyway word got out I was town and after second goal went in got a pasting for my troubles and spent 3 nights in the hospital.

Lesson learnt don’t go into inbreeds home end and celebrate without thinking

Sorry to hear that.

There's no excuse for violence only as a last resort and only if the means justify the ends.

Hope them numptys get their comeuppance one day.

Quoted from Les Brechin

I can remember us beating Cardiff 6-3 at home too. 84/85 season. It was the last time we played Cardiff I think.

Didn’t we lose to them away in the FA Cup a couple of seasons ago?

Quoted from immariner

I've never been more sure that a player was going to miss a penalty as I was right then.

My biggeat regret following Town is seeing every one of the five defeats at Wembley and Cardiff and none of the 3 Wembley wins.

You sure know how to pick ‘em!! If you fell into a bucket of t#ts......

Quoted from Heisenberg

Didn’t we lose to them away in the FA Cup a couple of seasons ago?

Did we?

If we did then that game must have been completely erased from my memory!

Quoted from Les Brechin

Did we?

If we did then that game must have been completely erased from my memory!

Now I've said it, I do not know where I've got that from!  Apologies, it looks like I've got that all wrong.

Probably wasting time and money going to the FA Trophy against Halifax on the back of promotion euphoria. Watched a team go through the motions after gaining promotion for PH and having no desire to do anything else for the club or fans.

A close second would be attending Tommy Forecast's home debut against Crewe and third convincing my family to go watch town on a cold boxing day to see them get hammered. My younger cousins  never had anything to do with GTFC again.

We got drawn away to them a few years ago when Slade was in charge of them, but we lost to Shrewsbury in a replay

Quoted from The_Laughing_Mariner

We got drawn away to them a few years ago when Slade was in charge of them, but we lost to Shrewsbury in a replay

Ah, right then.  I knew there was something in it.  I still got it wrong though!

Quoted from Poojah

Wimbledon? Micky Boulding and Alan Pouton hat tricks. Certainly the only Town 6-3 I can remember, there may have been more.

Yeah.  I thought that but when I checked head to head it wasn't there Cheers

Quoted from Kris2

Probably wasting time and money going to the FA Trophy against Halifax on the back of promotion euphoria. Watched a team go through the motions after gaining promotion for PH and having no desire to do anything else for the club or fans.

Strangely we enjoyed it, the pressure was off. Had a couple of beers in The Torch (party atmosphere) with the Town fans and then went in early to watch underdogs Morpeth beat Hereford in the FA Vase.
The FA put a load of things on, had my photo taken with the FA Cup for free.
Even the coach braking down on the way back just outside Leicester didn't spoil the day, we'd won the big one a week earlier  

I enjoyed the Trophy final...I mean, I guess that’s what happens after a team have been on the lash for a week.

I don’t think a single town fan there was truly arsed. We just had a party at Wembley, especially after the tension of the previous week, and euphoria.

Burton was arguably a mistake but it was one of those odd situations, we were always gonna go down and deserved to but I felt compelled to be at the game where it would happen. intercourse knows why. To this day I’ve never watched it back...I always said I would once we returned to the league but I haven’t.

I don’t fully regret it but it was flipping horrible that day...

Quoted from aldi_01

I enjoyed the Trophy final...I mean, I guess that’s what happens after a team have been on the lash for a week.

I don’t think a single town fan there was truly arsed. We just had a party at Wembley, especially after the tension of the previous week, and euphoria.

Burton was arguably a mistake but it was one of those odd situations, we were always gonna go down and deserved to but I felt compelled to be at the game where it would happen. intercourse knows why. To this day I’ve never watched it back...I always said I would once we returned to the league but I haven’t.

I don’t fully regret it but it was flipping horrible that day...

I thought the trophy final was excrement for its atmosphere tbh. I expected a big party atmosphere but just didnt seen to happen. But ah well, we did the one we wanted week earlier

That trophy final was pants.  I only live 45 mins away on the tube and even I regretted going.

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Encouraging my Exile children to follow Town and start going to games just as wheels were coming off at the end of Lawrences management. So much dross they have suffered and so little success.  

Listening to the old man and despite being a exile starting following Town just as the wheels were coming off at the end of the Lawrences management. SO much dross I have suffered and so little success  

Of course, the whole point of supporting Town ( and I am sure the same opinion of supporters of almost all football clubs in the UK outside the big clubs) is that it is about the misery and faint glimmer of hope that keeps us going.

I can honestly say I've never regretted anything following Town over the last 50 years- it's my team and I'll follow through thick and thin!