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Post by des on Apr 17, 2024 12:03:41 GMT
When a team wins promotion (or the title!) people always look back at 5 important games that were key moments.
Obviously every point picked up along the way has got us to where we are, but which 5 games (not including Morecambe H or Notts A) would you choose if you were writing a piece.
I’m doing one myself for the website, here’s the 5 I’ve gone for:
Crawley H 3-3 (last minute equaliser which felt huge at the time, and preceded the 12 game winning run)
Wrexham H 5-0 (a big early punch landed on a promotion rival)
Walsall H 3-1 (really important win after a fortnight off following the Mansfield defeat where we looked dead on our feet on New Year’s Day)
Gillingham A 0-0 (three days after the 4-0 at Tranmere, a superb defensive display, and a real “come onnn” bond between the players and fans that night
MK Dons H 5-0 (the moment everyone seemed to believe we’re gonna do this)
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Post by stockytwo on Apr 17, 2024 12:06:39 GMT
Yep, nailed it, i'd agree with all of them.
The Gillingham 0-0 was huge. We desperately needed something after a couple of woefull defensive displays.
I'd probablly just add the Newport match to that. An injury time winner just to get back to winning ways gives you that feeling of "well it's just our year this year".
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Post by Lee on Apr 17, 2024 12:07:32 GMT
Newport 1-0 at home has to be one of the biggest IMO. Maddens last minute strike.
If we don't nick that game then the confidence, at that point, would have remained low. One of the biggest IMO.
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Post by m14hatter on Apr 17, 2024 12:16:23 GMT
MK away and Wrexham at home in the first run. Think those wins gave us the confidence that we could beat anyone on our day.
MK and Newport at home in this latest run. Newport for the first win in five and the manner of it and then MK for beating a rival.
Then I think it’s a toss up between Donny away or Notts at home. Donny felt like a massive performance and gave us some more breathing room at the time. Notts were doing a lot better and looked like a genuine rival at the time of that game and Challinor got it tactically spot on.
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Post by David Schofield on Apr 17, 2024 12:21:59 GMT
When a team wins promotion (or the title!) people always look back at 5 important games that were key moments. Obviously every point picked up along the way has got us to where we are, but which 5 games (not including Morecambe H or Notts A) would you choose if you were writing a piece. I’m doing one myself for the website, here’s the 5 I’ve gone for: Crawley H 3-3 (last minute equaliser which felt huge at the time, and preceded the 12 game winning run) Wrexham H 5-0 (a big early punch landed on a promotion rival) Walsall H 3-1 (really important win after a fortnight off following the Mansfield defeat where we looked dead on our feet on New Year’s Day) Gillingham A 0-0 (three days after the 4-0 at Tranmere, a superb defensive display, and a real “come onnn” bond between the players and fans that night MK Dons H 5-0 (the moment everyone seemed to believe we’re gonna do this) Agree with all of them but MK Dons away was the big one for me. They were very good and we had to be absolutely brilliant to beat them… which had seemed incredibly unlikely up until that point in the season… but wow, what a performance |
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Post by atmosphere on Apr 17, 2024 12:26:02 GMT
Wimbledon a 2-1
Wrexham h 5 0
Walsall h 3 1
Newport h 1 0
MK Dons 5 0
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Post by atmosphere on Apr 17, 2024 12:27:20 GMT
Challinor was mince meat on here at HT at Wimbledon. Then the mega run started
Nobody thought the 3 3 with Crawley was a good result at the time the week before either. Most thought they'd be relegation doomed.
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Post by gibbo on Apr 17, 2024 12:43:00 GMT
Challinor was mince meat on here at HT at Wimbledon. Then the mega run started Nobody thought the 3 3 with Crawley was a good result at the time the week before either. Most thought they'd be relegation doomed. Yeah this place was mental from the Crawley game to Half Time at Wimbledon. I though Crawley generally was a good performance though, Sarce at his best, first time we really saw the best of Barry and still probably Powell's best performance of the season. |
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Post by HTC on Apr 17, 2024 12:47:56 GMT
Wrexham 5-0, albeit I was away and missed it.
Christmas Notts 2-1 as we seemed to all realise about half hour after getting home that what we’d seen wasn’t a jammy win, but tactical rope a dope cleverness from DC that he hadn’t really shown previously
Doncaster 5-1, everyone who was there seemed to say it was one of the most dominant away performances they’d seen
Newport 1-0 as you felt confidence surge for the run in after a ropey few weeks.
MK Dons 5-0 with the we’ve definitely got this feel.
Shame to miss the Sutton 8-0 out, as I doubt most of us will ever see 8 again, but it just felt too routine.
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Apr 17, 2024 12:54:06 GMT
I've said to you elsewhere Des but for me it's hands down Wimbledon away. Half time 0-1 down and even I was wavering on Challinor a touch. Came back out smashed them 2-1 and then won the next 11. That was the start of our season for me, much more than the Crawley game.
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Post by palmersears on Apr 17, 2024 13:03:36 GMT
Wimbledon away was by far the most important. That second 45 minutes was the catalyst for everything that followed across the course of the season.
Wrexham was the first home game where you got a sense we were going to potentially be something special. Helped of course by comical opposition.
Notts County at home. As others have said, first time you felt DC had come of age and transitioned from a good manager to an excellent one. Tactical masterclass, repeated again in a similar fashion last night.
Doncaster away. That was the point for me, standing there having watched us tear them apart without getting out of second gear, that I knew, deep down, we'd be going up.
MK Dons. Big game, on TV, had to dig in for the first 20 minutes, then blew them away. A performance of champions.
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Post by sherbertdab on Apr 17, 2024 13:21:41 GMT
Yep, nailed it, i'd agree with all of them. The Gillingham 0-0 was huge. We desperately needed something after a couple of woefull defensive displays. I'd probablly just add the Newport match to that. An injury time winner just to get back to winning ways gives you that feeling of "well it's just our year this year". All the above plus Frazer driving down in his Morris Marina from his sick bed and defensive excellence returned. |
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Post by philtheglass on Apr 17, 2024 13:33:57 GMT
Looking at the table, its staggering, how one minute we were in danger of being overtaken by MK Dons & next thing we've opened up a 15 point gap on them, but there have been so many big moments this season its difficult narrowing it down to 5 games. The obvious ones have been mentioned, but then you remember the Hinchliffe save from Cook at Bradford to keep it at nil nil & i'm sure we can list at least another half a dozen where we perhaps rode our luck, but who cares, its all academic now.
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Post by malc on Apr 17, 2024 15:55:14 GMT
Glad you picked up on the Walsall at home win. For me, that was the win that made me think that it might just be on. They were in very good form at the time and we still had Mansfield in our rear view mirrors. That win summed up the resilience and togetherness these players had to do something special. It was the day I started to dare to believe.
As a personal thing you might like. At 0-0 against MK, I decided I needed a lucky shirt. Going through my collection I came across the one from the season we were sponsored by SMBC. I put it on. It did the trick. I then wore it whilst watching every subsequent game. It was ridiculously hot here yesterday and I started to watch without a shirt. The Mrs said at 0-0, "where's your lucky shirt?" I quickly dashed upstairs, put it on and 15 minutes later, we were 3-0 up!!
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Post by timberwolf on Apr 18, 2024 8:24:50 GMT
Looking at the table, its staggering, how one minute we were in danger of being overtaken by MK Dons & next thing we've opened up a 15 point gap on them, but there have been so many big moments this season its difficult narrowing it down to 5 games. The obvious ones have been mentioned, but then you remember the Hinchliffe save from Cook at Bradford to keep it at nil nil & i'm sure we can list at least another half a dozen where we perhaps rode our luck, but who cares, its all academic now.
Agree, but think our home win against MK was the big changer to our fortunes and if they had scored in the first 30 minutes when they bossed the game our season might be looking a bit different now. You need some things to go your way when you are champions and needed that after all the injuries we suffered from pre season onwards. |
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