One Of The Best Atmospheres In Oakwell

Your first paragraph is absolutely spot on.
The positivity on the pitch and amongst the fans meant beating Walsall home and away plus Millwall, at Wembley, was never in doubt.
All three games just seemed like exhibition matches where we could have just carried on scoring if we really wanted to.

 

Yeah we were head and shoulders above in that promotion run in..
Took 5k to Wigan on that final day.. struggling to get over 1k away these days..
That tells it's own story..

 

You can't compare the Wigan game, we needed a result to make the play offs. Let's see if we need one in Blackpool and how many we take..

Away followings been excellent, we wouldn't have took nearly a thousand to Carlisle in 2016 on a Tuesday night. 2016 was also our worst average attendance in the last 16 seasons.

 

What a game that was! Didn't Tom Bradshaw say that one of the main reasons he signed for us was the atmosphere that day?

 

What a beautiful glorious day it was too. Warm, sunny, full house, you almost forget we went 1-0 down and looked a bit shaky as Scowen got skinned a couple of times by their left winger, Wildschutt? Until, I suspect, he was kicked hard enough to discourage any further such incursions.

Will Grigg not on fire very long and the rest, as they say, went down in history.

Let’s just hope we can light a spark today and conjure up some momentum, confidence and belief as we did back then.

 

Going to Wembley for the Millwall game was bizarre. I was 100% convinced we would win. No doubts at all. We were unbelievable them last 4 games of that season.

 

Do you think the current team woukd beat Ritchie's 2006 promotion winners?

 

Nearly 20 years ago

Ritchie had some very good players in that team inherited by wavy Davey the answer is a resounding No