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Sky Blue Wozza

Sky Blue Wozza

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1. Notts CountyL2 PO Semi-Final (A)

Don’t think I’ve ever been as nervous before a game as this. Huge amount riding on it and was convinced we’d stuff it up. Played with a swagger on that balmy night and was adamant we’d stroll the final afterwards. Also thought Bayliss would play for England one day.

2. Brentford/ Championship (St Andrew’s)

First season back in the Championship behind closed doors at Brum. Maybe an dd choice, buy we played so well that day. Pressed an excellent team and ground out a win that gave us/ me confidence that we’d survive that season.

3. Middlesbrough/ Championship PO Semi-Final (A)

What a performance. Pre-match atmosphere screamed ‘Boro win to me, but we nullified it and something else. Every player a hero. Robins got it spot on. Don’t think I’ve ever celebrated a goal so much as Hamer’s (aside from Torp at Wembley, but that doesn’t count)

Honourable mentions:

Celebrating in the face of that ballboy at Wolves. Bristol City comeback win at home in 21/22. Wycombe away at Christmas time 19/20.
 
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SBT

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Obviously some incredible individual performances and days out, but actually winning the damn league in 2019/20 was something I honestly never thought I’d see us do, at any level. A phenomenal achievement that sadly doesn’t loom as large in the memory because of the circumstances. But I’ll never forget that team.
 
Offhegoes

Offhegoes

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1) Notts Country (a) - League 2 Play Off Semi Final
Such a brave attacking performance. We got a little lucky with the disallowed goal for Country in the 2nd half, but we looked miles above Notts, and McNulty's goal was a thing of beauty.

2) Stoke (h) - FA Cup 3rd Round
League 2 team beating a struggling Premier League team that lead to Mark Hughes being sacked. It was the manner of the perfomance though. We cut through them numerous times playing good football. Not a typical giantkilling.

3) Wolves (a) - FA Cup Quarter Finals
The 2 goals in injury time was magical of course, but it was the whole performance, playing swift passing football, and creating chance after chance against the fancied Premier League team. I remember O'Neil's pre-match interview on ITV where it was assumned his team were going to Wembley. I remember thinking, don't understimate Mark Robins or this Cov team
 
1nilandwe...

1nilandwe...

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I'll add mine, for what it's worth.

1 - 0 vs Ipswich in the title winning season. I couldn't watch it due to other commitments and remember being really nervous in the build-up. I was convinced that our good run was going to come to an end and we'd up slipping away. Call me pesimistic. I remember getting the notification that Godden had scored pretty early come through on my phone and just being stunned. It was almost like I couldn't believe that we had a good team, capable of winning the league. It felt so alien after 30 years of mediocrity.

4 - 1 vs Fulham in the Championship. Another game that I had almost written off as a defeat. I think Fulham were comfortably top of the league at the time and I was just hoping for a decent performance. And then we took them to the cleaners and fully deserved to thump them. When the fourth goal went in I remember just laughing my head off. Surreal.

2 - 3 vs Wolves FA Cup Quarter Final. Played magnificently that day and Wolves were lucky to still be in it going into extra time, but what happened then was just astonishing. Watching Wright's goal in real-time, it felt like slow motion. And I can't tell you how many times I watched it back with Ally McCoist's commentary and listened to Clive and Oggy doing it too.
 
DannyThomas_1981

DannyThomas_1981

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All of the above but the Premiership play off final for me.
I was close to tears walking into Wembley for that game given how far we had previously fallen into L2.
Hamer's goal at Wembley was the most emotional goal for me in 40 years - for all kinds of reasons.
It was not to be but 100% epic and meant far more to me than the Premiership years.
 
Evo1883

Evo1883

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1nilandwe... said:
I'll add mine, for what it's worth.

1 - 0 vs Ipswich in the title winning season. I couldn't watch it due to other commitments and remember being really nervous in the build-up. I was convinced that our good run was going to come to an end and we'd up slipping away. Call me pesimistic. I remember getting the notification that Godden had scored pretty early come through on my phone and just being stunned. It was almost like I couldn't believe that we had a good team, capable of winning the league. It felt so alien after 30 years of mediocrity.

4 - 1 vs Fulham in the Championship. Another game that I had almost written off as a defeat. I think Fulham were comfortably top of the league at the time and I was just hoping for a decent performance. And then we took them to the cleaners and fully deserved to thump them. When the fourth goal went in I remember just laughing my head off. Surreal.

2 - 3 vs Wolves FA Cup Quarter Final. Played magnificently that day and Wolves were lucky to still be in it going into extra time, but what happened then was just astonishing. Watching Wright's goal in real-time, it felt like slow motion. And I can't tell you how many times I watched it back with Ally McCoist's commentary and listened to Clive and Oggy doing it too.
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The Ipswich game was one of the best feelings I'd had in my supporting life upto that point after a match , I knew we would be promoted
 
mmttww

mmttww

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Exeter - Playoff Final
Actually got a hug from my Dad. Mind blown!

Wolves - FA Cup
Lifted the city like I've never seen in my lifetime.

Oxford - Haji's winner
Screamed so hard that I nearly blacked out.
 
covcity4life

covcity4life

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1) chekcatrade trophy - never thought I'd see us win silverware in my lifetime and it was the start of the journey

2) L2 playoff final. Everyone talks about playoff being best way to get promoted and they ain't wrong

3) notes country playoff semi second leg. I just expected a loss as we don't win these sort of games. But mark robins changed that for us.
 
LastGarrison

LastGarrison

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Checkatrade Trophy for me.

Kind of pails into insignificance somewhat after the last few years but considering how shit that season had been, the looming relegation and the utter shite we’d been subject to over the past 16/17 years, to see us walking out at Wembley, surrounded by all my mates, after missing out not going to Wembley in ‘87, and then going on to see us win was literally a dream come true.
 
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cstring82

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Checkatrade Trophy final, first trophy and trip to Wembley for me.

Wolves away last season, so many emotions that day and looked like the Prem team.

Bristol City home win when Maatsen was sent off and the delight of coming back to win with ten men.
 
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Potbellypig

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LastGarrison said:
Checkatrade Trophy for me.

Kind of pails into insignificance somewhat after the last few years but considering how shit that season had been, the looming relegation and the utter shite we’d been subject to over the past 16/17 years, to see us walking out at Wembley, surrounded by all my mates, after missing out not going to Wembley in ‘87, and then going on to see us win was literally a dream come true.
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Completely agree. Obviously what's happened after changes thoughts now, but at the time it was like us winning the world cup final.
 
Skybluecol

Skybluecol

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This is ridiculously hard for a top 3....couldn't you say top 10 !!

1. Notts County away - massively nervous on the way to the game and what a game it was!!
2. Middlesbrough away - I really didn't believe deep down that we'd be able to beat them after the 1st leg draw, that last 10 mins felt like a lifetime
3. Wolves away - knowing we were going to Wembley again and I'd be taking my 4 year old son with me to his 1st Wembley visit

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Birmingham away (when we played at St Andrews) - step lads switched allegiance from Manure to Cov that night at 11 & 8 years old....father-in-law never been happier with me!
Fulham 4-1 at home - felt we were really onto something after that performance
beating Oxford at Wembley but couldn't be there as my daughter was born and my Wembley ticket in my car (was hoping we'd be discharged early) - watched 1st 30mins on my phone at hospital then rushed home, dropped off wife and daughter and went to watch rest of the match at the Hawkes Mill
 
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Super Graham Withey

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Boro away in the second leg of the play off semi for me. A proper high stakes game away from home that we were meant to lose. A cracking atmosphere-30,000 Boro fans and 1,900 diehard City fans crammed in the corner. And we won-with a side which included Fadz, Kelly, Godden, Allen etc. All downhill from there really..
 
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Skybluekyle

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It has to be the Notts County away playoff semi-final number one for me. We had just be done by them away the month or so before, performed quite poorly in the first leg and they had their "roar us to Wembley" shirts on.

We absolutely blew them away first half, and then their aimless long ball started to reap some dividends in the second half, got a bit of luck but football definitely won that night rather than that c**t Nolan's version of football.

I think what sets this apart from the Boro away game was that I think if we failed to go straight up we would have festered in League Two and possibly went out of business. I always thought we would win the final once we beat Notts County.
 
AngryAnt

AngryAnt

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Checkatrade final, walking up to Wembley for the first time in my life and seeing the sea of sky blue. Even though we had already been relegated, first time I've ever seen us win a trophy and actually felt that we were going to win all day.

Wilsons goal against Blackburn, felt that was the moment we were going to actually do it (which in turn led to the middlesboro win and wembley)

As someone else said, that minute when Torp scored, never felt like that before in my life. Random people hugging each other and falling over. Coupled with the whole second half, when O'hares goal went in and you could see United were dead on their feet.
 
clint van damme

clint van damme

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Checkatrade, Notts County and beating Forest first game back at the Ricoh.

Knew the club was on the way back after County and there was a togetherness around the club that shit owners, another exile and Covid couldn't break.

That was done by a smarmy seed salesman and I fear I'll never see it again.
 
skybluecam

skybluecam

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Checkatrade final - first time I'd actually felt positive about the club

Playoff semi final second leg - genuinely believed we were going to reach the prem after winning that

Wolves away - because the cup run has to be in there and the Man Utd game still frustrates me

Honorable mention to beating Preston 3-2 in the JPT back in his first spell
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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Impossible to pick just 3 really but for me all come in the FA Cup.

1. Torp’s ‘ghost’ goal at Wembley. The best feeling I’ve had at any football match in my life, doesn’t matter it got chalked off, that minute of celebration can’t be beaten.

2. Wright’s winner at Molineux.

3. Beating top flight Stoke as a League 2 club. Robins commented that it reminded the football world we existed, and I have to agree.

So yes, two of these were barely half a year ago. The man deserved more time and he 100% deserves a statue in the city for what he did to almost single handedly rebuild this club into what it is now.

Doug will do well to note that the crowds we enjoy now come from 7.5 years of hard work getting things right. It takes much less time to chuck away.
 
SIR ERNIE

SIR ERNIE

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Brighton Sky Blue said:
Impossible to pick just 3 really but for me all come in the FA Cup.

1. Torp’s ‘ghost’ goal at Wembley. The best feeling I’ve had at any football match in my life, doesn’t matter it got chalked off, that minute of celebration can’t be beaten.

2. Wright’s winner at Molineux.

3. Beating top flight Stoke as a League 2 club. Robins commented that it reminded the football world we existed, and I have to agree.

So yes, two of these were barely half a year ago. The man deserved more time and he 100% deserves a statue in the city for what he did to almost single handedly rebuild this club into what it is now.

Doug will do well to note that the crowds we enjoy now come from 7.5 years of hard work getting things right. It takes much less time to chuck away.
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Agree with your top 2, think I'd have Hamer's Boro play off goal as no.3
 
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