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Post by vicar on Mar 12, 2023 14:04:05 GMT
I don’t think anyone doubts we had some City and United fans attend on Friday nights but to if you believed all the City fans who said they came along we’d have had crowds close to capacity. Think a lot of that crap from city fans came well after the time some watched both clubs. Doubt they were the ones that attended anyway and at the time non city watchers did not give a damn about those who did go to main road on a saturday at EP on a friday night. Our fans have not changed that much, but you cannot compare the city ones of the mid 60,s to the ones when we played them never mind the present day lot. Nearly every City and United fan in Stockport has been to County at some point and nearly every County fan has been to City and United, it's not bailing anyone out, it' just taking a game in, I know a couple of reds who have been to a few games this season when it's not clashed with their games, only City fans ever made a thing out of it.
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Post by sk8ballboy on Mar 12, 2023 20:45:45 GMT
I reckon 92/3 was the last regular year, not later than the season after anyway. Crowds went up but we were also doing well so it’s hard to say really. You’ll need someone much older than me to say when Fridays started Yeah from memory I'd say 92/93 was the last season we regularly played at home on a Friday night. There definitely wasn't many, if any, Friday night games in 93/94, although we did play Reading on a Thursday night but that was down to a ridiculous fixture backlog. The pitch took a hammering during the pitch invasion after the QPR game and we had to squeeze the games in before the last weekend of the season. QPR was frozen....did we really damage it? I vaguely recall it was Reading with the backlog but stand to be corrected
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Post by hedleyverity on Mar 13, 2023 5:54:51 GMT
Yeah from memory I'd say 92/93 was the last season we regularly played at home on a Friday night. There definitely wasn't many, if any, Friday night games in 93/94, although we did play Reading on a Thursday night but that was down to a ridiculous fixture backlog. The pitch took a hammering during the pitch invasion after the QPR game and we had to squeeze the games in before the last weekend of the season. QPR was frozen....did we really damage it? I vaguely recall it was Reading with the backlog but stand to be corrected Talk at the time was that the drainage was knackered in the rebuilding of the pop side
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Post by gibbo on Mar 13, 2023 8:34:23 GMT
Yeah from memory I'd say 92/93 was the last season we regularly played at home on a Friday night. There definitely wasn't many, if any, Friday night games in 93/94, although we did play Reading on a Thursday night but that was down to a ridiculous fixture backlog. We played Plymouth on a Friday night about December 93, remember it as sat in the revamped Popside with seats (there was a thread discussing this a couple of weeks back so fresh in my memory). Remember an odd Friday nighter for Sky in the Championship days, then a couple for Premier Sport in 1st Season of Conference. There was Accrington one Friday (when their defender scored a screamer) and then Crewe 4-3 under Jim in the admin season. Can't think of many other non-TV games purposely moved to a Friday?
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Post by suedehead on Mar 13, 2023 8:37:33 GMT
Yeah from memory I'd say 92/93 was the last season we regularly played at home on a Friday night. There definitely wasn't many, if any, Friday night games in 93/94, although we did play Reading on a Thursday night but that was down to a ridiculous fixture backlog. We played Plymouth on a Friday night about December 93, remember it as sat in the revamped Popside with seats (there was a thread discussing this a couple of weeks back so fresh in my memory). Remember an odd Friday nighter for Sky in the Championship days, then a couple for Premier Sport in 1st Season of Conference. There was Accrington one Friday (when their defender scored a screamer) and then Crewe 4-3 under Jim in the admin season. Can't think of many other non-TV games purposely moved to a Friday? That Plymouth match was my first ever County game. We played Macc at home in 2008 on a Friday night too.
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Post by Imposter on Mar 13, 2023 8:39:33 GMT
Yeah from memory I'd say 92/93 was the last season we regularly played at home on a Friday night. There definitely wasn't many, if any, Friday night games in 93/94, although we did play Reading on a Thursday night but that was down to a ridiculous fixture backlog. We played Plymouth on a Friday night about December 93, remember it as sat in the revamped Popside with seats (there was a thread discussing this a couple of weeks back so fresh in my memory). Remember an odd Friday nighter for Sky in the Championship days, then a couple for Premier Sport in 1st Season of Conference. There was Accrington one Friday (when their defender scored a screamer) and then Crewe 4-3 under Jim in the admin season. Can't think of many other non-TV games purposely moved to a Friday? If we were at home the Saturday before Christmas (say the 17th or 18th or 20th of December or somesuch), we used to not infrequently move those games to Friday night.
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Post by atmosphere on Mar 13, 2023 11:01:51 GMT
We played Plymouth on a Friday night about December 93, remember it as sat in the revamped Popside with seats (there was a thread discussing this a couple of weeks back so fresh in my memory). Remember an odd Friday nighter for Sky in the Championship days, then a couple for Premier Sport in 1st Season of Conference. There was Accrington one Friday (when their defender scored a screamer) and then Crewe 4-3 under Jim in the admin season. Can't think of many other non-TV games purposely moved to a Friday? That Plymouth match was my first ever County game. We played Macc at home in 2008 on a Friday night too. Oldham home 08/09 season after promotion, 3-1 win after going an early goal down. Oldham were top or near the top at the time.
Macc the season before was a Friday night as you say but I have a feeling it was a Good Friday so was probably pencilled in for some point on the Friday anyway as I recall a game on the Easter Monday.
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Post by gibbo on Mar 13, 2023 11:05:07 GMT
Macc the season before was a Friday night but I have a feeling it was a Good Friday so was probably pencilled in for some point on the Friday anyway.
Think there was also Alty in NLN on a Good Friday.
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Post by DaveLong79 on Mar 13, 2023 20:28:05 GMT
Yeah from memory I'd say 92/93 was the last season we regularly played at home on a Friday night. There definitely wasn't many, if any, Friday night games in 93/94, although we did play Reading on a Thursday night but that was down to a ridiculous fixture backlog. The pitch took a hammering during the pitch invasion after the QPR game and we had to squeeze the games in before the last weekend of the season. QPR was frozen....did we really damage it? I vaguely recall it was Reading with the backlog but stand to be corrected I remember the Railway End half being particularly bad even months after, that's where the majority of fans congregated after the game so I don't imagine we did the pitch any favours! QPR was frozen....did we really damage it? I vaguely recall it was Reading with the backlog but stand to be corrected Talk at the time was that the drainage was knackered in the rebuilding of the pop side I was putting two and two together, but you could well be right.
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Post by sk8ballboy on Mar 13, 2023 22:32:17 GMT
We played Plymouth on a Friday night about December 93, remember it as sat in the revamped Popside with seats (there was a thread discussing this a couple of weeks back so fresh in my memory). Remember an odd Friday nighter for Sky in the Championship days, then a couple for Premier Sport in 1st Season of Conference. There was Accrington one Friday (when their defender scored a screamer) and then Crewe 4-3 under Jim in the admin season. Can't think of many other non-TV games purposely moved to a Friday? That Plymouth match was my first ever County game. We played Macc at home in 2008 on a Friday night too. Plymouth had a good following that night. Their keeper was destined for bigger things but was killed in a motorcycle crash a few years later. www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/19/alan-nicholls-maverick-goalkeeper-plymouth
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Post by ldjh79 on Mar 13, 2023 23:08:03 GMT
I do remember Alan Nichols for them, and if I'm not mistaken their keeper later on Luke McCormick who ended up in trouble made his Plymouth debut against us. Did Bruce Grobbelaar ever play for them at EP? My only visit to Plymouth was that 4-3 Francis hat-trick and they had some unknown never heard of keeper in goal.
They had a really nice green and black stripe kit in 90s
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Post by hedleyverity on Mar 14, 2023 4:58:19 GMT
I do remember Alan Nichols for them, and if I'm not mistaken their keeper later on Luke McCormick who ended up in trouble made his Plymouth debut against us. Did Bruce Grobbelaar ever play for them at EP? My only visit to Plymouth was that 4-3 Francis hat-trick and they had some unknown never heard of keeper in goal. They had a really nice green and black stripe kit in 90s Grobbelar was in goal in the famous post cup of tea game which got things going in 96/7
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Post by houldsworthhatter on Mar 14, 2023 7:08:38 GMT
I do remember Alan Nichols for them, and if I'm not mistaken their keeper later on Luke McCormick who ended up in trouble made his Plymouth debut against us. Did Bruce Grobbelaar ever play for them at EP? My only visit to Plymouth was that 4-3 Francis hat-trick and they had some unknown never heard of keeper in goal. They had a really nice green and black stripe kit in 90s Yes that Luke McCormick killed a family including a child or 2 whilst drink Driving didn’t he? Didn’t go down for long and came back playing. Edit: killed 2 children and went down for less than 4 years.
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Post by houldsworthhatter on Mar 14, 2023 7:11:24 GMT
I do remember Alan Nichols for them, and if I'm not mistaken their keeper later on Luke McCormick who ended up in trouble made his Plymouth debut against us. Did Bruce Grobbelaar ever play for them at EP? My only visit to Plymouth was that 4-3 Francis hat-trick and they had some unknown never heard of keeper in goal. They had a really nice green and black stripe kit in 90s Bruce Grobelaar played in the match that gave us our first win and kickstarted 96-97. We won 3-1 Jim got 2 and Alun the other 😁
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Post by sk8ballboy on Mar 14, 2023 15:59:09 GMT
I do remember Alan Nichols for them, and if I'm not mistaken their keeper later on Luke McCormick who ended up in trouble made his Plymouth debut against us. Did Bruce Grobbelaar ever play for them at EP? My only visit to Plymouth was that 4-3 Francis hat-trick and they had some unknown never heard of keeper in goal. They had a really nice green and black stripe kit in 90s Yeah, I did that 4-3 also. Mike Flynn debut and I think we went home via Torquay and a police escort back out...!!
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