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Wednesday 0 Colchester 3 - 7th August 2004


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21 hours ago, Paolo Coopio said:

Was a really hot day that day too. I remember being sat at front of kop in the sun. 

 

Awful depressing match and result, but it shows you can't judge a season on the opening match. 

 

Not to draw a parallel, but didn't those from across the city have a bad first match in their promotion season in L1? Sometimes a game like that can be turned into a positive...eventually. 

Think they lost the first 4 but finished with 100 points. 

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We had a couple of gens in that team - Whelan, JP, Maclean. Brunt was still a bit and hit and miss.

 

Think it was just one of those seasons where we were almost destined to go up and do so in dramatic fashion.

 

We weren't brilliant, but we hung on in there and had a knack of turning up when mattered.

 

The 2011/2012 team was on a different level though. That was about as good a team as you could get at that level, certainly for a direct, robust style. Tbf, you had four or five very good teams that season - us, Charlton, Dem Blades, Huddersfield and so on.

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21 hours ago, Bulldog said:

We didn't, we won 3 out of the last 12 and scraped over the line.

We lost our final game at home to Bristol City who would have overtaken us if we hadn't have won at Hull in the previous game.

 

Yeah, the Bristol game didn't really matter though given as you say, we'd secured our place the previous weekend. We might have approached in differently if we'd needed a result.

 

The loss of MacLean and Lucas to injury had a major impact on our poor results in March and April.

 

Really enjoyed most of that season, Sturrock got a tune out of Turner's good scouting, MacLean almost guaranteed to get a return from the pre-match bet from the old Ladbrokes behind the Kop and some top away days, especially the Brentford semi-final. 

 

Just hope it doesn't take us a season to get ourselves in shape at that level like it has done that past two times we have been down there. 

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