eastwoodsdustman
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I don't think we need to go down that hole again. The councils behaviour and attitude towards the club has been well documented since and was clearly the major factor in the move's away.
when was the darkest era for the club? (9 Viewers)
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The watchmaker
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I deserve to get poop emoji'ed to oblivion for this but... I quite enjoyed 2011/12. We'd been circling round the drain for a while by that point and sure, Doncaster was a bit of a chocker but a huge chunk of the team were local lads who looked promising and ran their @rses off which gave a little hope for the future. Of course none of them went on to do anything with their careers (bar Callum Wilson/maybe Cyrus Christie) but I didn't know that at the time...
I remember the weather being pretty good, and there was plenty of space in the stadium to spread yourself out, no queues, personal toilet block if needed... and we'd decide by that point that Sisu and Ken Doolally were the villains and there was a weirdly 'nice' atmosphere from we few who remained, just politely clapping the team cricket style rather than constant b!tching, booing and anger I recall in other seasons. We even gave Richard Keogh a standing ovation for getting sent off in the game we got relegated in which...
Worst moment - Marlon King. 'Oh, we are Millwall now and have no values.' Never felt so detached from the club, then the move to Northampton. At that point it felt over and it wasn't til Robins that it really started again. Some dark days in the prem too.
robbiethemole
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With his silly fucking baseball cap on
Cally Fedora
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For me it was when we were playing at Sixfields, and started the season with a points deduction. Everything was wrong even though it wasn’t technically our lowest league position. That and any game v Preston!!
Gint11
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When Venus took us away to Oxford and wet were 4-0 down first half. New depths of low that was.I can pinpoint it to a specific game. That was the night I realised we would be playing in League 2 the following season.
Bury 2-1 Coventry City
Resurgent Bury hold on for victory over rock-bottom Coventry to take another step away from the League One drop zone.www.bbc.co.uk
Flying Fokker
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The second coming.
No mate the dirty rat London bastards are clearly the major factor……council were and probably still are cunts but the rot started the minute they tried to fuck everybody over
Sick Boy
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Let’s not forget the £1.2m rent the council enjoyed taking out of the club.
AOM
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Yeah, I remember thinking of other options if we were to go out of business.
Couldn't ever support another team (particularly Coventry United), but maybe would just go and watch Sphinx games to get a local football fix. Mad times
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AOM
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Didn't that one guy call out Robins on the phone in saying he was a Sisu puppet or something?
SleepyGinger
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Funny reflecting on all this, how bad it actually was and at the same time there’s another thread going where people are moaning that we aren’t spending 2/3 million on a back up right back.
MusicDating
Euro 2016 Prediction League Champion!!
My boy's first away day. We both learned a lot of new swear words that day
Fergusons_Beard
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Fan in fighting was awful.
I’ll never forget getting dogs abuse from the hill just trying to watch my club at Sixfields.
I’ll never forget fans calling for and celebrating going Into administration.
I’ll also never forget that feeling when we were relegated to the last tier either.
Thank goodness it’s all turned around now and we consign all of that shit to History.
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I’ll never forget getting dogs abuse from the hill just trying to watch my club at Sixfields.
I’ll never forget fans calling for and celebrating going Into administration.
I’ll also never forget that feeling when we were relegated to the last tier either.
Thank goodness it’s all turned around now and we consign all of that shit to History.
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edgy
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McCormick was at fault for most things wrong with the club in this era.
Suprised he's allowed to show his face around the club these days.
WestEndAgro
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When David O'Day joined Skybluestalk
NortonSkyBlue
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I started watching in 67 and let’s be honest many highlights but many more lowlights. Some have said the spells at Northampton and Birmingham but for me seeing the Wasps signs up in our ground and us having to beg for a sniff of anything in a stadium built for us, changing in away dressing room, our own fans turning into traitors watching Wasps(however it was achieved) and seeing the ground full for some of their games whilst we scraped our barrel to get 8000 to watch us. This was a nadir of epic proportions that drain my love for my team and my city.
It still hasn’t left me but thank god Robins came back and we owe him more than we can ever repay.
It still hasn’t left me but thank god Robins came back and we owe him more than we can ever repay.
NortonSkyBlue
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Who is McCormack?
It’s almost as if we didn’t sign up to them terms to start with
Liquid Gold
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It was really the whole era from Ranson (the prick) resigning to L2 promotion that was grim.
If I had to take one particular game it would be one of the following three:
Newport at home in L2 - A tiny club turning up in the league and beating us acting like it was their cup final
Yeovil away in L2 - early in that season there was no connection between the fans themselves let alone the team. We just spent the entire game arguing in that away game end.
FGR at home in L2 - fans arguing with players on the pitch. A tiny tiny club beating us with about 10 fans in the away end and a total of about 3000 in the arena.
So for me I guess it was the start of that L2 season. It seemed like we weren’t going to offer much of a fight in going back up and the checkatrade was a last hurrah before the club faded away. Wasps there giving it the biggun whenever they could and an unhelpful council made it look like there was no legitimate way back.
If I had to take one particular game it would be one of the following three:
Newport at home in L2 - A tiny club turning up in the league and beating us acting like it was their cup final
Yeovil away in L2 - early in that season there was no connection between the fans themselves let alone the team. We just spent the entire game arguing in that away game end.
FGR at home in L2 - fans arguing with players on the pitch. A tiny tiny club beating us with about 10 fans in the away end and a total of about 3000 in the arena.
So for me I guess it was the start of that L2 season. It seemed like we weren’t going to offer much of a fight in going back up and the checkatrade was a last hurrah before the club faded away. Wasps there giving it the biggun whenever they could and an unhelpful council made it look like there was no legitimate way back.
Sky Blue Goblin
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I’d argue when we first left the arena, just been relegated the year before lost robins. Went to six fields once as I got a free ticket. Place was a morgue.
Liquid Gold
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It’s almost as if the choice wasn’t sign up to those terms or go bust.It’s almost as if we didn’t sign up to them terms to start with
If I had a gun to your head and told you to sign your house over to me are you gonna walk off and say “fair enough, I signed the deed”?
Course you fucking wouldn’t.
play_in_skyblue_stripes
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Sisu were to blame. Full documentation in judicial judgement on SISU action to bankrupt ACL, the organisation that had the Ricoh.
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We had a choice….but handed over free rein to the bastards to set those terms to start with…..we loaded the fucking gun for them
fernandopartridge
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Agreed, I'd say roughly December 2016 to April 2017 was the darkest period, the first crack of dawn came on 2nd April 2017.
Broken Hearted Sky Blue
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Selective memory
Liquid Gold
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Oh no. Won’t anybody think of poor ACL.
Honestly who gives a shit if they tried to put them out of business.
Liquid Gold
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The council and McGinnety(sp) set those terms.
Skyblue Bangkok
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It was Sisu who took us into administrative,who didn't buy their share of the ground when they could have . That's what Hedge Funds like to do.
Fergusons_Beard
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Fergusons_Beard
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That or you one of the Trust wankers
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