Claim to fame ????

Me too

Watched from the Sion Kop for the Grimsby game when we beat them 2-1 and won promotion from the 4th division and the Newport County game when we won 4-1 and I think Glavin got a hattrick. Last game of the 80/81 promotion season.

 

I've also sat in every one of the new stands

Ponty, old terrace north and south, East Stand upper and lower and north stand.

 

me too

every part of the old ground including west stand upper and lower both north and south, all the stands in the new ground including the exec suite.. although I've still to watch a game from that stand in the corner..... will have to get that sorted !!!

 

Re: Claim to fame ???? nt

 

No

But I can claim to have watched a game from every side at Watford's ground.

 

Used to do that at every game!

Back in the late 60s and early 70s.

I remember a match against Rotherham when I walked round to the kop to find my schoolmates who were Rotherham fans (I went to Wath Grammar). Me and my dad were stood near the players tunnel, so I walked to the Ponty end, then through the Brewery stand to the Kop. At half time, all the Reds fans walked from the Ponty end to the Kop and the Rotherham fans went the other way. There was no trouble, just a bit of good-humoured banter.

 

25 yarder - Wrexham - 2-2 - on telly?? nt

 

RE: Used to do that at every game!

I remember when we used to stand in the Ponty when we were kicking towards it then go round to the top corner of the Brewery Stand or The Paddock as it was then for the second half! Used to have to run like stink to get there if we lost the toss!!!

 

Did anyone else stand on one of the little piles of bricks at the front of the old Paddock so they could see over the barrier?

 

Sunderland at home, when the coppers set the dogs on a fan

I was in with the Sunderland lot on the Kop, had travelled up from Uni with a Sunderland supporter. We were 4 nil up, their centre half Andy Melville had a shocker, and one or two Mackems decided to get onto the pitch to give him what for, one got his arm nearly ragged off by a police dog. Ahhh, the good old days...

 

Yep

Stood in Ponty for years, but used to "switch" to North end of Brewery Stand at HT occasionally. Stood on Spion Kop for a Friday night game v Exeter during the promo season in 80/81.

Stood both sides of the West Stand Lower, and sat both sides since it went seating. Has a ST in the West Upper during the Prem. Had ST's in both Upper and Lower East Stand, and regularly sit in the Ponty these days.

Oh, and watched a few games in the 99/00 season from the Noth Stand (QPR & Norwich spring to mind).

Sad, nomadic tw@t that I am!

 

Loads of times

I've even done everyone at the same match.

 

How many sizes and colours of pants have you worn while watching the reds? nt

 

Only part of the ground I've never watched a game from is the old kop and the new North Stand. Watched games from every other area, including the old office where Keith Borret (sp) sat when he was the announcer. Welcome Stand, the lot.

 

All except ponty end which seems a bit odd.

When I went to reserve matches sat in West Stand, the few times I went as a kid I stood (or rather went to sleep) in the West stand.

Saw us beat Oldham 2-0 from the Spion kop in the promotion season (match before Bradford) and seen a couple of more recent games in North Stand.

My regular haunt being the East Stand, I don't think I've ever actually been in the Ponty end.

T

 

I used to walk around the ground when I was a nipper

Before they closed the gates on the kop, Millwall or Leeds fans that rioted Ithink. it was great cos the footy in the early seventies wasn't much to behold.

 

RE: How many sizes and colours of pants have you worn while watching the reds? nt

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Mostly big black ones !!!!! fortunately no writing on the front !!!!</p>

 

RE: I used to walk around the ground when I was a nipper

You sometimes had to squeeze through the railings between the West stand and Ponty because they used to stop you at the gate higher up.

 

RE: I used to walk around the ground when I was a nipper

They used to open the gates (onto the street) after half time and people would wander in for a gander.</p>

 

Was that the game towards the end of the season that Viv Anderson was in charge?

I think I remember some of the football we played in that game was excellent and I think if he you look back that was really the start of the era of good passing football that eventually lead to promotion.