fatbloke no1 Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 Was thinking yesterday how much rangers fans where like we where in old third division. Every away game we took big numbers and took towns over,pubs used to be main focal points,regularly they where given just to us, loads of cans,bottles on way.was top days out also plenty of teams gave us home end,think when we got promoted at Exeter we had 3 sides of ground. Like I said rangers set memory's rolling back,top lads and lasses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Daz Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 Remember one particular weekender, but think it was a cup match at Southampton, all ticket. Me and a mate were in Travellers on a Friday night, found out a coach was half empty, stopping off at Bournemouth, and would we make numbers up for the P up, even though we didn't have tickets. Both agreed, and knew it was going to be one of those weekends when the coach started heading into Northampton instead of Southampton, "nah then yer daft **** we're gunna Southampton" Anyway, managed to cop lucky, cos we pulled up at a hotel in Winchester, I'd gone for a lucky pre match dump, returned to the bar to find everyone brandishing tickets, and my mate had got one for me. Turns out it was the team hotel, but my memory tells me it was Jack Charlton gave out the tickets, but this was after he left the club. Anyone else there?, was it Big Jack or Wilkinson who handed out the tickets. Anyway, turned out to be a reyt weekender, chap ended up in Poole Harbour on Sunday afternoon one of the most comical highlights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatbloke no1 Posted July 31, 2017 Author Share Posted July 31, 2017 14 minutes ago, daztheowl said: Remember one particular weekender, but think it was a cup match at Southampton, all ticket. Me and a mate were in Travellers on a Friday night, found out a coach was half empty, stopping off at Bournemouth, and would we make numbers up for the P up, even though we didn't have tickets. Both agreed, and knew it was going to be one of those weekends when the coach started heading into Northampton instead of Southampton, "nah then yer daft **** we're gunna Southampton" Anyway, managed to cop lucky, cos we pulled up at a hotel in Winchester, I'd gone for a lucky pre match dump, returned to the bar to find everyone brandishing tickets, and my mate had got one for me. Turns out it was the team hotel, but my memory tells me it was Jack Charlton gave out the tickets, but this was after he left the club. Anyone else there?, was it Big Jack or Wilkinson who handed out the tickets. Anyway, turned out to be a reyt weekender, chap ended up in Poole Harbour on Sunday afternoon one of the most comical highlights. Remember big jack giving us loads of tickets at Luton when we where banned, to give to lads in Boozer's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Daz Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 5 hours ago, fatbloke no1 said: Remember big jack giving us loads of tickets at Luton when we where banned, to give to lads in Boozer's Can't recall that one, what was the ban for.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
888 Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 1 hour ago, daztheowl said: Can't recall that one, what was the ban for.? Oldham at a Guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sham67 Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 4 minutes ago, 888 said: Oldham at a Guess The games we were banned for Oldham were Swansea, Grimsby, Derby and Bristol Rovers. Went to everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatbloke no1 Posted July 31, 2017 Author Share Posted July 31, 2017 2 hours ago, daztheowl said: Can't recall that one, what was the ban for.? They banned all away fans that season, think was after Millwall riot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eightace Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 That's why there are the threads about how good their fans are. They come down in numbers to play little old Wednesday. They have the same big club big city mentality we do when we play small fry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 I went to an away match at Southend away on a Tuesday night! It was called off when we got there. Big Jack came out to comiserate and to tell us not to cause trouble on the way back. Anyone there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanharper Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 8 hours ago, daztheowl said: Remember one particular weekender, but think it was a cup match at Southampton, all ticket. Me and a mate were in Travellers on a Friday night, found out a coach was half empty, stopping off at Bournemouth, and would we make numbers up for the P up, even though we didn't have tickets. Both agreed, and knew it was going to be one of those weekends when the coach started heading into Northampton instead of Southampton, "nah then yer daft **** we're gunna Southampton" Anyway, managed to cop lucky, cos we pulled up at a hotel in Winchester, I'd gone for a lucky pre match dump, returned to the bar to find everyone brandishing tickets, and my mate had got one for me. Turns out it was the team hotel, but my memory tells me it was Jack Charlton gave out the tickets, but this was after he left the club. Anyone else there?, was it Big Jack or Wilkinson who handed out the tickets. Anyway, turned out to be a reyt weekender, chap ended up in Poole Harbour on Sunday afternoon one of the most comical highlights. It wasn't the cup match at Southampton, because that was midweek. We never played them when Jack was manager. Maybe one the league games after we got promoted to the old first division? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Daz Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 3 minutes ago, alanharper said: It wasn't the cup match at Southampton, because that was midweek. We never played them when Jack was manager. Maybe one the league games after we got promoted to the old first division? Cheers Al, adds to my little mystery, bugged me for years, all I remember is my mate saying it was Big Jack. Was definitely a weekend though, I remember we'd been out supping all night, then went off to a hotel for breakfast. I think about 20 had booked into the hotel and 2 - 300 Wednesdayites turned up for free breakfast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PortlandOwl Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 Gate getting kicked down...at Chesterfield from memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhForAnotherShez Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 1 hour ago, Warnocchio said: I went to an away match at Southend away on a Tuesday night! It was called off when we got there. Big Jack came out to comiserate and to tell us not to cause trouble on the way back. Anyone there? Yep. Also a night match at Plymouth with late postponement - didn't lose though !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 3 minutes ago, OhForAnotherShez said: Yep. Also a night match at Plymouth with late postponement - didn't lose though !! Didn't make it there thank God. Was already in London on a national express when Gillingham away was cancelled on new years day 1978 I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickswfc Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 25 minutes ago, Eightace said: That's why there are the threads about how good their fans are. They come down in numbers to play little old Wednesday. They have the same big club big city mentality we do when we play small fry. That's not true though is it. Nor is the comparison to third division away days. Yes if it was a league or cup game and we gave a team the north and allowed them our boozers ie. where our fans would be out in usual numbers, they'd be a comparison. But it wasn't. It was a meaningless friendly match where the result didn't matter and most of our fans saw it for what it was, a preseason warm-up. Rangers numbers and noise was very good yes, I'm not disputing that. But personally I find it much more weird than impressive that they'd choose to put on such a cup final show for a fixture such as this. Videos of them in a pub singing about Lee Rigby, this Union Bear stuff, the banner in 2012 congratulating William and Kate on their baby, running on a pitch for a friendly goal - I just find it all very odd. Anyway my point is unless they join the EFL or we somehow meet in Europe a comparison between the two fans can't be done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plonk Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 3 minutes ago, Warnocchio said: Didn't make it there thank God. Was already in London on a national express when Gillingham away was cancelled on new years day 1978 I think Remember that one well. Had a party New Year's Eve. Got to bed around four, got up at eight to go to gillingham. Think there were seven or eight of us in an escort van. Got to the ground before finding out it was off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 Just now, Plonk said: Remember that one well. Had a party New Year's Eve. Got to bed around four, got up at eight to go to gillingham. Think there were seven or eight of us in an escort van. Got to the ground before finding out it was off. We just gone past the houses of parliament for some reason. No M25 or phones then. It was on the radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike312 Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 Remember travelling to one ground sat on an up-side-down bucket in a Bedford cf. Can't remember who's ground it was but it had the back of a supermarket in one corner sticking right out. The fastest I ever ran that day to avoid a kicking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essix Blue Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 3 minutes ago, mike312 said: Remember travelling to one ground sat on an up-side-down bucket in a Bedford cf. Can't remember who's ground it was but it had the back of a supermarket in one corner sticking right out. The fastest I ever ran that day to avoid a kicking. Notts County? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costello 77 Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 2 minutes ago, mike312 said: Remember travelling to one ground sat on an up-side-down bucket in a Bedford cf. Can't remember who's ground it was but it had the back of a supermarket in one corner sticking right out. The fastest I ever ran that day to avoid a kicking. You'd want the bucket the other way up at Millwall, Leeds and Cardiff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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