Generous penalty

[Ferrite]

Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg wrote:

Don’t think he was. The player that stood out was Chris Taylor who Cliff got sent off against.

Just looked and the attendance was 7,600 for an early January game too.

No, looking it up he was with them in 2009. I think he played a game in goal there too!

Chris Taylor is still drifting around the lower leagues, might have learned to stand up by now but we still remember!

It was a cracking atmosphere though, I think our goal was a Gregan OG, remember a huge roar when that went in. Oldham brought plenty that day but must have been around 5,000 home fans in.

[Ferrite]

The Taylor-on-Taylor foul just before Byrne’s red is even worse than I remembered:

Cleveland can’t really complain for his second yellow but of course he should never have got the first one.

The fouls on Murphy are so obvious it’s just laughable.

[Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg]

Great to see highlights of that game. Comical decision to let that first challenge go in Murphy but never mind.

Can’t remember if Oldham brought the full 2,100 as it looks like we had the Cluggy corner.

We really was spoilt during the 00’s.

[Ferrite]

Definitely not much room in that away end, amazing really to see that sort of crowd from a 2021 point of view.

The highlights are interesting but the voice over is a bit sniffy!

Looking back, you wonder whether that injustice was crucial for driving the team on to further heights that season because both teams’ form went in completely different directions after that game. They only won 7 of their last 20 games; we won 12 out of our remaining 19!

[Iron-awe]

It was a fantastic season wasn’t it with many memorable games and some cracking football in brilliant atmospheres. If only……

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Ferrite

[Ferrite]

After a famously slow start too.

What’s interesting about that 06/07 side is that it was nowhere near as free-flowing as the 08/09 side with Hayes & Hooper up front. That first promotion-winning team had more steel about it, a superb defence and in Sharp a player who took almost every chance which Keogh & Cleveland sent his way. It was an incredibly efficient team, not sure we thrashed anyone that season but we just kept grinding out wins.

[BigLeftToe]

Forest away was a definite thrashing. Good memories!

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[Ferrite]

I’d forgotten that was the same season! What a day out that was.

[Iron-awe]

Beating Carlisle 3-0 on the final day, Torps last outing and the ground rising to applaud him off the pitch for the last time when substituted, plus the Carlisle fans staying behind at the end to generously applaud our Champions as they paraded the League One Trophy round the pitch. Just a wonderful season for us all to enjoy.

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[Ferrite]

And yet I bet most of us spent all season waiting for the wheels to fall off and everything to go wrong!

[BigLeftToe]

I think in Adkins first game in charge when Crozzer tucked away that penalty in injury time, you could smell something special was brewing that season!

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