http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkfvJp5awJc

1 hour ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Agree with this 100% the dell had character, none of these new stadiums hold a candle to their predecessors. 

It's true. And to be honest by the time we're talking about here (early 1990s) a lot of the endearing eccentricities in some longstanding grounds had been ironed out. Many cricket grounds and to a degree rugby still retain the higgedly-piggledy charm that football grounds lost

I guess we're talking about the difference between  "ground" and a "stadium".

Spot on.  On a smaller scale you get that that at non league grounds, those that havent decided they need to go all modern.  Chorley is a great ground.  There are a few in the EFL like Cambridge, Carlisle, Macclesfield that retain a charm and long may they continue in their current form.  Losing Griffin Park is a sad day.

Give me a Hillsborough over a new bowl stadium any day of the week. 

Leicester, Middlesbrough, Stoke, Swansea, Southampton, Doncaster, Derby etc.

They all look the same to me, besides differing capacities and the colour of the seats. At least ours is unique.

Villa and goodison are old grounds

Theyre shit

Baseball ground...couldnt see the pitch

Im sad spurs went and highbury too, but lets be honest there were and are some shitholes

5 minutes ago, Casino said:

Villa and goodison are old grounds

Theyre shit

Baseball ground...couldnt see the pitch

Im sad spurs went and highbury too, but lets be honest there were and are some shitholes

Shit yes 

however you can’t beat moody places like them

villa after the semi final being an example, old gaffs don’t get policed the same backstreets etc 

Aye, Villa was moody after that semi. I took our Kath who lived in Coventry, parked about 10 minute away. She had to remind me afterwards, fronting to up to a couple of villa lads with only her as back up, wasn't the brightest thing she has seen me done

 

Villa park, goodison, Maine road, St. Andrews to name a few, all places you had to watch your back 

18 minutes ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Villa park, goodison, Maine road, St. Andrews to name a few, all places you had to watch your back 

The Victoria Ground, Stoke has to fall in to that category too. 

Most definitely 

For me, Boro & Millwall were the scariest of the old grounds.

Of the new grounds, Sunderland is the only one that might be better than the old ground.....nearer to the town centre , not as freezing cold & originally at least, good seats behind the goal. West Ham, Arsenal ,Shrewsbury & Scunthorpe ( & almost certainly Spurs )are much worse.

 

Which one of you lot is in this video?

Iceman special on here 

Goal difference what stopped us going up automatically that season?

was it Grimsby

3 minutes ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Goal difference what stopped us going up automatically that season?

was it Grimsby

Yes. 
We finished about 10 points above tranmere that season. 
Didn’t turn up in final, summed up with comstive’s late chance. 
we were too confident going into that final. 

2 minutes ago, BoltonBoy80 said:

Yes. 
We finished about 10 points above tranmere that season. 
Didn’t turn up in final, summed up with comstive’s late chance. 
we were too confident going into that final. 

Like 1999 Ipswich finished 10 above us sheepshanks was moaning like fuck 

but we didn’t turn up against Watford 

Not one of my posts but just spotted it on YouTube. 

Bolton v Southampton in 97/98. Bob Taylor's debut for us and SKD in Southampton's ranks

 

8 minutes ago, paulhanley said:

Not one of my posts but just spotted it on YouTube. 

Bolton v Southampton in 97/98. Bob Taylor's debut for us and SKD in Southampton's ranks

 

Think this was slap bang in the middle of something like no win in 14/15 games 

Fascinating to see Super Kev’s Reebok debut. 

One of several games I look back on that season where we dropped points, when just one more would’ve been enough. 

That game, Blake missing clean through at Blackburn when 2-1 down (only for them to go straight down the pitch and get a third), Blake missing an open goal in a 0-0 draw at Leicester, the goal that never was vs. Everton obviously, Giallanza at Chelsea etc. 
Not meaning to pin so much on Blakey mind. He also scored some crucial goals that season.

I vividly recall Franz Carr looking lively in one game. Must’ve been that one.

1 hour ago, paulhanley said:

Not one of my posts but just spotted it on YouTube. 

Bolton v Southampton in 97/98. Bob Taylor's debut for us and SKD in Southampton's ranks

 

I always remember these MOTD highlights because my driving instructor pops up at half time drinking his Thermos tea

I'm sure someone else on here must've had him, proper dirty old perv in a sid james sort of way, a funny guy but he reckoned he dabbled with pretty much every female he taught

Some proper goals (and pitches) on this.

1 hour ago, paulhanley said:

Not one of my posts but just spotted it on YouTube. 

Bolton v Southampton in 97/98. Bob Taylor's debut for us and SKD in Southampton's ranks

 

How frustrating to watch was that even now!

2 minutes ago, Marc505 said:

Some proper goals (and pitches) on this.

Bet he was a nightmare for defenders 

proper powerful 

1 minute ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Bet he was a nightmare for defenders 

proper powerful 

Terrorised some of those defenders, most thrown to the floor!

How much would a Blake be worth nowadays?? 
 

you look at the likes of assombalonga and he’s like a poor mans blake and he cost what 15m or summat daft was it?