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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2014 20:21:49 GMT 1
Saturday's match brings back memories of an abandoned game in the 90s, can't remember the year but Mickey Brown played and the rain was so bad they gave up at halftime. Weird thing was it hadn't even been raining before kick off. I've never been wetter at a football match, what's the worst weather you've watched town play in?
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Post by colehamshrew on Nov 20, 2014 20:30:14 GMT 1
I remember this. I got so wet that my jeans were still damp from the rain when i had driven back to Shrewsbury.
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Post by jamo on Nov 20, 2014 21:21:56 GMT 1
Accrington Stanley. Open terrace and torrential rain, match made in heaven
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Post by bertymax on Nov 20, 2014 21:29:27 GMT 1
Brighton away 2000, lost 4-1 at shrek got sent off, monsoon rain on an open temp seating stand, remember having to wring my hat at half time.
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Post by atcham jack on Nov 20, 2014 22:03:09 GMT 1
definitely wet on Saturday, hopefully nothing too heavy
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Post by Valerioch on Nov 20, 2014 22:53:23 GMT 1
Macclesfield away March 2012 year we went up
1,300 Town fans on the open terrace. It rained non stop from 6pm. We won, and that night you really felt it was our year
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Nov 20, 2014 23:31:41 GMT 1
Wettest for me was the aforementioned Exeter & Brighton games. Also not yet mentioned was around 1990 at Northampton. Think I was still wet by the time I got home to Shropshire from all of them, and from Brighton that's a damn long time...................
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Post by Shrew_Down_Under on Nov 20, 2014 23:34:03 GMT 1
Macclesfield away March 2012 year we went up 1,300 Town fans on the open terrace. It rained non stop from 6pm. We won, and that night you really felt it was our year Remember it well. Absolutely p**sed it down. Most miserable I've ever been at a game we won!
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Nov 20, 2014 23:34:29 GMT 1
Also remember setting off on a Chris Smith coach to Rhyl for a Welsh Cup game - lashing it down all the way and knowing there was little cover we were not looking forward to having to get out and get in the ground. Just as we pulled up the floodlights were turned off - match postponed (thankfully). Went back the following week and the game was played on a pitch white over with frost. Think that is the coldest I've ever been at a Town game.
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Post by davycrockett on Nov 21, 2014 9:43:15 GMT 1
Macclesfield away March 2012 year we went up 1,300 Town fans on the open terrace. It rained non stop from 6pm. We won, and that night you really felt it was our year Remember it well. Absolutely p**sed it down. Most miserable I've ever been at a game we won! Oh it wasn't that bad...... from the stand
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Post by Uncle_Monkey on Nov 21, 2014 10:10:30 GMT 1
Carlisle away on a Tuesday night a few years back, the year they went up as champions.
I had been to their ground a couple of times previously and we had always been forced to go in the stand rather than the open terrace, which was closed off. So as I walked from the car in the hammering rain I wasn't too worried. This time though the covered stand was "shut" (or at least the away fans section of it was although I noticed teh home fans were allowed in ok) and we were forced onto the open terrace. I'm still not sure whether Carlisle were just being bloody obtuse or not.
The match though was one of THE great battling performances I've seen from a pretty limited Town team. We got a draw (1-1 I think) but it was like Rorke's Drift for 90 minutes.
The rain was lashing and incessant and the duffel coat I was wearing took 3 days to dry out and smelled like a wet labrador.
That combined with the shambolic time when Carlisle (Carliar?) called a Tuesday night game off at very short notice due to a frozen pitch make them one of my least favourite clubs. Mind you I had thought I was hard done by until I spoke to a fellow Salopian who had travelled up to the game all tyhe way from London.
So even I am confused as to why I have already made arrangements to go up there on Tuesday February 10th.
Carlise. Tuesday night. February. What could possibly go wrong?
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Nov 21, 2014 10:28:57 GMT 1
Carlisle away on a Tuesday night a few years back, the year they went up as champions. I had been to their ground a couple of times previously and we had always been forced to go in the stand rather than the open terrace, which was closed off. So as I walked from the car in the hammering rain I wasn't too worried. This time though the covered stand was "shut" (or at least the away fans section of it was although I noticed teh home fans were allowed in ok) and we were forced onto the open terrace. I'm still not sure whether Carlisle were just being bloody obtuse or not. The match though was one of THE great battling performances I've seen from a pretty limited Town team. We got a draw (1-1 I think) but it was like Rorke's Drift for 90 minutes.
The rain was lashing and incessant and the duffel coat I was wearing took 3 days to dry out and smelled like a wet labrador. That combined with the shambolic time when Carlisle (Carliar?) called a Tuesday night game off at very short notice due to a frozen pitch make them one of my least favourite clubs. Mind you I had thought I was hard done by until I spoke to a fellow Salopian who had travelled up to the game all tyhe way from London. So even I am confused as to why I have already made arrangements to go up there on Tuesday February 10th. Carlise. Tuesday night. February. What could possibly go wrong? Was that the game where someone (Ben Herd??) got sent off for 'nothing' ? The red card was rescinded on appeal, so we put out a great battling performance with only 10 men also
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Post by pughywasfree on Nov 21, 2014 10:40:20 GMT 1
Macclesfield away March 2012 year we went up 1,300 Town fans on the open terrace. It rained non stop from 6pm. We won, and that night you really felt it was our year that was a great game with a great atmosphere. drenched by the end of it but one of my best memories following town.
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Post by bobbytheblock19er on Nov 21, 2014 11:18:26 GMT 1
That game in the 90,s the as before my time but the wettest I've been was at exeter in the conference on a Tuesday night ! Light drizzle prior to kick off , decided to brave it in the terrace and it lashed down for the whole game . Stewards would not let us upgrade to the seats until about 70 minutes ! Town lost aswell 3-2 I think! I remember joe hart being on the bench for the first time . This was a night to forget .
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Post by mikeinsheff on Nov 21, 2014 11:24:35 GMT 1
Remember a couple at Darlo. One where we were in the ground and Browny came over to tell us it was off and another where I could hardly see the game as it was snowing so heavily. I was convinced the latter would be called but they played on and it cleared second half. Pretty sure we won and Griff scored - ? Anyone recall.
Also at the s**thole Field Mill where it threw it down and we got battered 4-0. I recall a particularly drunk and obnoxious individual (taxi driver) shouting his mouth off even more so than usual.
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Post by scooter on Nov 21, 2014 12:19:29 GMT 1
Exeter is the only time I can remember being at a match that was abandoned - I am sure it was raining all day so we went in the stand. Also went in the little old stand at Mansfield on the wet Friday night mentioned above
got soaked at least twice at Macc, including a rare away win the season we got relegated to the conference
other memorable soakings are Northampton away at the old County Ground (early 90's ?) and back in early 80's I recall a Boxing Day game at Hillsborough when we were put in a small section of the Kop before it was covered, it was freezing cold and wet, just horrible. Still cold and wet when we got off the coach, I remember we went straignt up to the Sheraz to warm up with a curry
Forecast for tomorrow has improved, now saying the rain will pass over before the game, but might leave buying a ticket until we get there
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Post by atcham jack on Nov 21, 2014 12:24:34 GMT 1
Beware, the Grecians have just re signed on loan 29 yr old m/f Ryan Harley from Swindon Town. He played for grecians from 2008/11 scoring 32 goals in 144 appearances. he has only played 57 games since summer 2011. to be fair he was a key player in the Grecian back to back promo runs.
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Post by Slackbladder on Nov 21, 2014 13:07:48 GMT 1
Many of those games mentioned bring back memories of getting soaked rather than the games themselves. That day at Exeter is still the wettest I have ever been watching football and it was no surprise when it was called off. I remember having to keep wiping the inside of the car windows most of the way home because of the steam the three of us were producing.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2014 13:13:23 GMT 1
Remember the Macclesfield & Mansfield ones, the Mansfield one in particular was a very depressing experience.
Also remember a game at Chesterfield in the Simpson era where it hammered it down for about 10 minute spell only, me and a mate were stood behind the goal whilst the rest of our minibus were in the seats under cover and took great delight at the sudden downpour.
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on Nov 21, 2014 13:16:10 GMT 1
Mansfield away is the wettest i have ever been.
Wet through to my clothes at something like 7pm, then listening to them sing "one man went to mow" for about 80 minutes while we got absolutely battered.
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Post by bertymax on Nov 21, 2014 13:39:31 GMT 1
Remember the Macclesfield & Mansfield ones, the Mansfield one in particular was a very depressing experience. Also remember a game at Chesterfield in the Simpson era where it hammered it down for about 10 minute spell only, me and a mate were stood behind the goal whilst the rest of our minibus were in the seats under cover and took great delight at the sudden downpour. Oh yea, Remember that, funny, my one abiding memory from that game was the Chesterfield fan wearing the lime green shirt on the terrace to our right which generated much ridicule from town fans.
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Post by AlisonS on Nov 21, 2014 13:57:18 GMT 1
Brighton / Mansfield / Oxford (0-6 on a Tuesday night in April) all ghastly - weather, match and result; Macclesfield possibly wettest - but who cares on the way to promotion out of Lg 2. Darlo, I recall queuing at the turnstile under the rain dripping off the tin roof, with my money in my hand .......and it was off, as it always seemed to be there however much you checked beforehand / en route.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2014 15:41:52 GMT 1
The away games at Macclesfield and Accrington immediately spring to mind as does the soaking I got walking home from Boundary Park last season.
However the worst of my soakings have come from watching my local team in the mid Wales league over 40 odd years. Now that was dedication! Fortunately many of the clubs in the league have now got some sort of covered standing/seating although it still depends on which way the wind is blowing!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2014 17:22:42 GMT 1
It's not weather related but I was watched a match which was delayed due to a swarm of killer bees in Belize...
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Post by lenny on Nov 21, 2014 19:45:14 GMT 1
Macclesfield away March 2012 year we went up 1,300 Town fans on the open terrace. It rained non stop from 6pm. We won, and that night you really felt it was our year Remember it well. Absolutely p**sed it down. Most miserable I've ever been at a game we won! They sold out of food so quickly as well, just Bovril and ready salted crisps left after about 10 minutes. Still probably my favourite ever away game, up there with Coventry and Port Vale that season.
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Post by davycrockett on Nov 21, 2014 20:59:12 GMT 1
Hopefully the rain will have past and we an enjoy our 7th league win on the bounce... All the above memories were making me a little concerned www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2649808 If the link doesn't work dry except for showers around 2 but dry again by 3 and 13 deg.
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Post by Bob Rickerton on Nov 21, 2014 22:23:53 GMT 1
Accrington Stanley. Open terrace and torrential rain, match made in heaven Don't know for sure if you're referring to the same match as me, but I remember in the 2008-09 season getting absolutely drenched on a Tuesday night in Accrington. It was absolutely chucking it down from the moment we got there, so we stayed in the pub until pretty much the second before kick-off hoping it would stop. It didn't matter as we were soaked to the bone within 5 minutes, by which point we were already 2-0 down. A pretty miserable night, with an absolute stinker of a performance from Michael Jackson at the back (whatever happened to him?) Also remember the game at their place just before Christmas the season before being about as cold as I've ever been at a Town game. Fortunately we had something to cheer that afternoon as we came from behind to win 2-1 - what an afternoon that was!
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Post by eggyshrew on Nov 21, 2014 23:08:31 GMT 1
Bristol Rovers in the Auto windscreen was freezing and very windy and 1 of the coldest i felt ever.
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Post by markglasgow on Nov 21, 2014 23:30:52 GMT 1
Macclesfield away March 2012 year we went up 1,300 Town fans on the open terrace. It rained non stop from 6pm. We won, and that night you really felt it was our year Remember it well. Absolutely p**sed it down. Most miserable I've ever been at a game we won! Cracking night! It involved a strange encounter with a pub landlord from Paisley and ended with a great Iron Maiden tribute band in a pub next to my hotel. Macclesfield. Who knew!
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Nov 21, 2014 23:36:40 GMT 1
Bristol Rovers in the Auto windscreen was freezing and very windy and 1 of the coldest i felt ever. Indeed - but at least there was something to keep your mind off the cold that night as we battled well to get to Wembley for the very first time.
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