Here's one for the older lads

Been sorting through some old photos and I found this from the first match under Clarkie, Brian Joicey taking a penalty against Halifax in front of the old "slag heap" stand.



You can just about make out the ball being saved before Brian knocked in the rebound.

 

I was there !

 

Brian scored a hat trick that day in our 4-2 win (Alan Little got our other goal). Sadly, they were to be his last goals for us.
The scorers that day for Halifax were Derek Bell (the number 11 in the photo) who we signed two months later and Peter Burke, who we'd sold to Halifax earlier that year.

 

I was there too. It was only my second ever game and at half time we were behind in Clarke's first game. Great second half and I was hooked. Big thanks to Brian Joicey!

 

What's with "the old slag heap stand" Spion Kop to give it its correct name.

 

blimey didn't he score from then until the York game ?

 

Nope, sadly not. I think it also meant he ended his career on 99 league goals, but old age and insanity may be playing tricks on my mind so I might have got that wrong.

 

have you got any more pics like that, its good to look back at oakwell in its former days.

 

I was there as well. Would have been stood to the right in the corner section.

 

I seem to remember that his career was curtailed due to a complication after he'd received a kick in the kidney.

 

Great times then, lots of memories of drinking in the club in the corner.

 

I was there Some great fashion shots we must have been rough buggers in them days though there must be nigh on a dozen coppers in that picture!

 

My 1st Barnsley game was this, and the rest is 38 years of watching the reds

 

Brilliant, was there that day. As I recall Clarkey played Brian defensively. Interviewed after the match Joicey said 'not bad for a centre half' when asked about his goals.

 

I was there too. It was a couple of weeks before my wedding, and my future father-in-law and myself were decorating our new house (you didn't tend to live 'over the brush' in those days). Anyway, I sneaked off to the match without telling him where I was going but, overcome with guilt, left well before the end and didn't know we'd won until I read that night's Green 'Un. One other point - where are all the other Barnsley players?

 

Ahh the memories, standing on top of that Spion Kop at half time and watching the match going on over the other side on the old Co-op sports pitches. It never occurred to me at the time how dangerous it was standing right up there. Obviously with not many present you just had to watch your step but what happened when that end was full? How did those at the back manage to stay up there without falling down the bank?

You can see in this shot that segregation was in place that day, but it wasn't always so. As many others will tell you, it was quite common for both sets of fans to change ends at half time. Something must have happened to stop that, but I can't remember what it was.

 

I wasn't there that day, not sure where I was though.

I remember my first match , going with my Dad to us v Donny. We stood on the kop and the rival fans were lobbing lumps of shale at each other. Happy days.
Like the big fat guy at the top of the kop with a little boy.

 

Yes that was the official name but we always called it "the slag-heap".....

My dad kept a cutting from a sunday newspaper back in the 1960s with a picture of the slag-heap with 2 blokes (one was my dad) and a copper the only 3 people there.

 

I've got a few, I'll post them tonight if I can find them.

 

I was wondering that as well, the Halifax players aren't exactly ready to rush into the box either....