How many years you been watching the reds?

Season 36 for me !! God I feel old - do you get a free season ticket for your 40th 'birthday' ?

 

Pah, Johnny come lately!

1st match in 1967 - do the maths, I'm too old to.....

 

Lol - I was lucky though - just hit the good times. Clarke etc - not been a bad 36 years to support the reds

 

Since 88. Lot of games

 

30 years. I'm so old it's awful!

 

Only since the early 90's for me. Only came occasionally as a young un. Parents had neither the inclination or the funds to take me to more.

My first season ticket was when I was 19 after relegation to what's now league one. I had just started working full time after not finishing uni and expected us to have a promotion push. Just after I bought it the administration / Hodges era began, I ended up putting my name on a seat (i think it's still there, I changed seats years back and i don't have a ST anymore due to my shifts at work), my name on a brick, buying a club reds bond, wondering if the club would exist.

I met and had a conversation with Sean Lewis when renewing the following season. A lovely tale of financial injection, squad building and promotions (2 of them) he told.

Times are a bit better now

 

Started watching the Reds in 1965 when I was 9 years old - in the days of Johnnie Steele, smell of Woodbines in the Old Brewery Stand, fans walking from one end to t'other at half time.

We were at or near the bottom of Division 4 then, I think. Things have changed a little, but some fans are still moaners!!

 

I came in the late 90's with my dad to a few games when his mate with st wasn't going. First game I remember clearly is the play off final at wembley.

Got my first ST for the 2004/2005 and season and had one untill I went to uni in 09.

This season is my first ST since the 08/09 season.

Can't wait.

 

Since 94 but 1st season ticket was 96/97 season! great time to have a 1st season ticket

 

used to play alot on Friday night alot beat Port vale 2 nil in 1968 in first game, Football League Review excellent supplement in programme . The days of Ironside Murphy Loyden and Evans . Staying in the now not looked forward to a new season with as much anticipation in a long time.

 

First game was v Blackburn Nov 85

 

1968 for me

My late Father bought me my first season ticket the following year (1969/70) and I've had one ever since. Flipping heck, forty five years! All those years and I still know bugger all! Oh for being a teenager again and knowing everything(!)

 

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94 was when I started to attend oakwell at the tender age of 4 (don would be turning in his grave) but didnt really gain any real interest until the season before the premier league.

 

Re: 1968 for me

When i first started you just went to the reserves til your dad said you were old enough so i saw our reserves beat man u 6 5 with some of the players killed at Munich. My 1st first team game was at the back end of '58/59 season.

 

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1966 for me,although my dad told me he took me to the Everton cup tie around 1964.

 

Re: 1968 for me

1946 - Norman Rimmington in goal!!

 

Re: 1968 for me

35th season for me, I used to tag along with my brother who was at big school. but he'd ditch me to be with his mates. Probably because I was harder than him, cleverer, funnier and better looking too. Started going on my own, still do. Though me and ark104 might become football buddies. Not gay ones mind.

 

35th year???

Pah! Tha nowt but a glory hunting, ankle biter!
Hope everything's okay with you & yours, mate, especially your Mum.

 

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Very impressive!! Geraldinho Wainwright from London Tykes clocked 70 seasons couple of years back. Still travels up for games. Jason Shackell said "very impressive" too.

 

Re: 35th year???

I was!! That's why I started going, I was one of Clarkie's school recruits even though they never visited Market Street!!

Mam's not bad thanks mate, they seem to have steadied her troubles a bit. Mrs C is threatening me and Gustaw with haircuts. She's serious. We were holding out quite well, but it's looking a bit every man for himself now. He won't have one unless I do and she's bought it. It's times like these you find out who your friends are.