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Topics: 11100% – Keith Hill and the players he has brought in deserve our support.
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Most teams from the national league north would outnumber us. I’d say fill it with Oldham the club is on the bones of its arse.
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Topics: 11Their local derby with Rochdale – they’ll have thought this might not come around anytime soon.
But I agree this match is the one to forget Swann for 90 minutes and think Keith and the 11
players out there and get down to the ground. This for me is the match which could kick start something; fingers crossed for 3/4 more players in by Monday and work all week on winning the game.15 users thanked author for this post.
Need to get another forward into the building. Plus a CB if humanly possible!
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Will you be there Roaming?
No bollox to that UTI99 got far better things to do now. We’ve been driven away by poor offerings on and off the pitch.
As BA stated ‘I ain’t no fool’
Used to love football, completely fallen out with it but definitely helped on the way this last few seasons. Friends have stopped going so don’t even get a catch up.
3 of us have stopped. One was going in the 60’s. Myself started late 70’s.
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Are there any fans out there who remember Midland League football?
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For sure I’d now rather go watch a local outfit. Think it’s more in it to watch one of our local semi Pro teams.
BA!! Never watch the A-Team. I’m sure he stated something along those lines.
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Trying to figure out who BA is? Best I can come up with is BA Robertson or Bryan Adams
It’s Baracus you crazy fool!!!!
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I can remember Scunthorpe reserves playing in the Midland League
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One should never take for granted the option of supporting your chosen footy team and going to watch them on match days.. rain snow or blow through good times and bad, yes its always better whilst winning and competing at the toppa which ever league your club is in.
I followed Scunny home and away for years pre 2000 before left UK shores .. i can honestly say after 22 years away there are very few things i miss in Blighty..but going to watch the Iron is most definately one of them along with family , friends and proper fish n chips from a proper chippy (Scunny had plenty back then) , 7 hour time difference is a pain and thank the lord for tinternet so i can keep up to speed and watch “live” on line when available…i get my Scunny shirts sent over every year via a mate but IMO none of this compares to being at the ground and all that goes into a day at the footy , pre match pint , shitty pie n bovril at half time and the banter with the lads.only my opinion ans each to their own thats what makes the world go around.
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One should never take for granted the option of supporting your chosen footy team and going to watch them on match days.. rain snow or blow through good times and bad, yes its always better whilst winning and competing at the toppa which ever league your club is in.
I followed Scunny home and away for years pre 2000 before left UK shores .. i can honestly say after 22 years away there are very few things i miss in Blighty..but going to watch the Iron is most definately one of them along with family , friends and proper fish n chips from a proper chippy (Scunny had plenty back then) , 7 hour time difference is a pain and thank the lord for tinternet so i can keep up to speed and watch “live” on line when available…i get my Scunny shirts sent over every year via a mate but IMO none of this compares to being at the ground and all that goes into a day at the footy , pre match pint , shitty pie n bovril at half time and the banter with the lads.only my opinion ans each to their own thats what makes the world go around.
Yes Ironfromafar I have supported them since 1951 when they joined League 3N, and also used to go to the reserve teams home matches when the 1st team were away, it used to have a set of letters on a billboard for half time scores, a guy used to hang numers on it. I used to get the Ubeique bus (excuse spelling) from Ashby, go to the game after a couple of bread buns from a shop near Britannia corner, and bus home after the game, games were enjoyable then with teams having five forwards, I also used to sit up and watch computer updates till 03-00 hrs in the morning in places like Borneo, Java, Egypt, West Papua etc, there were no i-follower those days and I even used to plan my home leave soas to see as many games as possible, but gave my season ticket up at the start of this season after being fed up watching a team under Cox, it must also have driven many Iron fans from attending GP.
I would think that the total cost was about 2d bus, 3d footy and a penny for 2 hot bread buns, a bit different nowadays, but just a bit of good news for you pal, you are certainly not missing much wherevewr you are, even saying that I never miss an i-follower game when ever they show them.
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I used to follow away games on BBC Ceefax.
Still probably one of the most exciting ways to follow a game.
The screen would update every thirty seconds or so, and if anyone in your division had scored it would revert back to top of the page!
Then you had to scroll down to see if it was us, while hoping it wasn’t the opposition.Exciting times.
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The BBC match day page is an improvement on ceefax. But I have come to dread the text coming up “Scunthorpe have won a corner”.
For the last 3 years it is almost guaranteed to be followed one minute later by “opposition team name have scored”.
Memories of the Donny Road end getting excited with “ooh it’s a corner”, now it’s something to be very worried about!
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As a side issue is it just my hearing starting to go but did I detect a ” WHOOSH ” coming from the DRE on Tuesday night midway through the second half as we punted another ball aimlessly upfield? Brought back memories of dear old John Bramhall and his legendary clearances upfield, the WHOOSH chant stayed with him during his entire time with us.
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John Bramhall Whooosh yes that’s when it seemed to be exciting going to a match. Sums it up if that’s as exciting as it’s getting at the moment when the crowd are thrilled by an aimless punt up the field.
Suppose a cheer when a goal goes in are hard to come bye so anything is worthy of a noise.
My favorite time was when we beat Leeds in the FA cup. Mike Lester he was great that night.
Dull boring football has been on the menu for far too long now.
GP used to have a decent atmosphere when the corner was in full chant, those days are long gone as everyone spends more time on there mobiles than watching the match. But understandable!!
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Part of the non excitement, putting aside our dreadful results, is that you can watch higher quality football on TV virtually every day, and sometimes all day, of the year.
Apart from highlights at the weekend or on one midweek night, the only way to watch live football was to go to the ground. Used to look forward to it for days before the game.
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‘Ooh it’s a corner!’. I remember a teacher saying that before I started going to the OSG regularly. Never did hear it myself, must have died out, but his rendition didn’t do it any favours!
Also, “In the net! In the net! In the net!”
This as our man took the corner kick.
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I remember being in Fox street end, Obviously no away supporter’s, anyway had a brand new pair of mitre trainers on.
Ran across the pitch at full time only for someone to stand on my undone lace which more or less ripped the trainer off my foot.
My Old man wasn’t best pleased when i met up with him on the DRE.Always thought Steve Baines was Magnum PI’s brother. Stupid twat LOL
Alan Boxall. Wasn’t it him that one hell of a throw? Guess it may of only been the only attribute LOL
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Wasn’t Boxall the teacher and only signed part time, or was that someone else?
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It was Mick Atkin the teacher.
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One of the earliest exponents of the long throw and using it to great effeect, Ian Hutchinson of Chelsea. Caused mayhem in the Leeds penalty area back in the FA Cup replay from 1970, causing so much havoc it allowed Dave Webb to head the Chelsea winner. Popular win that as I recall, the Chelsea flair team beating the ” Leeds Revie Machine “.
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