when was the darkest era for the club? (1 Viewer)

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eastwoodsdustman

eastwoodsdustman

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Travs said:
I stood a couple of rows behind the guys from GMK..... Texas Holdem, Knowl, etc.

Used to get the train down.... then stop in that pub (Thomas Beckett?) which was between the station and the rugby ground. Tried to make the best of it but it wasn't particularly fun (particularly when the train was cancelled for a rail replacement bus service!)
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I'm still in touch with one of the GMK lads and travel to games with him regularly and he still speaks to the others from time to time i believe.
There's a fair few that went to sixfields that still go home and away every week. Unsurprisingly you tend to recognise eachother with so few there.
 
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Travs

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I never saw them much after Sixfields, until one lonely winter day a year or two later i was behind the goal in the Telegraph Stand, and spotted them half a dozen rows in front!
 
Tommo1993

Tommo1993

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Travs said:
Another sorry saga was that Brentford game where Fisher got roughed up in that bar in Ealing after the game....

Ok people could say he was unwise to be in there, but it was pure bullying of a guy on his own. Really was shameful.
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Think the only supporters who deserved the animosity were those who deserted and started following Wasps. Pretty sure a lot of them are now back on the wagon after the “sad” death of them.

Add to that those who left for Coventry United as well. Their phoenix club.
 
SHUNT31

SHUNT31

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Tommo1993 said:
Think the only supporters who deserved the animosity were those who deserted and started following Wasps. Pretty sure a lot of them are now back on the wagon after the “sad” death of them.

Add to that those who left for Coventry United as well. Their phoenix club.
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The supporting of Wasps when they were partly responsible for our demise was mind boggling.

The irony was, some of those ‘fans’ stopped going to our games in Birmingham due to us not being in Cov, yet would happily financially support a club that moved 100 miles to the city.
 
skybluelee

skybluelee

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Tommo1993 said:
Think the only supporters who deserved the animosity were those who deserted and started following Wasps. Pretty sure a lot of them are now back on the wagon after the “sad” death of them.

Add to that those who left for Coventry United as well. Their phoenix club.
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Does anybody know any current Coventry United fans that deserted City back then? Love to know their thoughts on that decision now.
 
ms639

ms639

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1999 UK solar eclipse, was really dark, next estimated time is 2090 so ride the wave boys
 
Fergusons_Beard

Fergusons_Beard

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Losing at home to Worcester in the cup was fucking awful too.

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WestEndAgro

WestEndAgro

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Fergusons_Beard said:
Still fucking bitter about fans deciding to actually watch the team they support.

You need to get over yourself pal-like I said in the original post didn’t appreciate the shit I got for watching City then and I don’t really get what you’re trying to achieve with this reply now.

Unlike you I didn’t shout abuse back at the folks on Sixfields Hill and I actually understood but didn’t agree with your choices.

It’s such a shame that you clearly can’t see that I made a different choice as a supporter of our team.

But as I said it’s ancient history now and hopefully City fans don’t have to have the same awful choice like we did back then.


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Scab 🤔 it was a choice and unfortunately you and a handful of others made the wrong one, personally I'm glad you got loads of abuse, you shouldn't have been there.

Just my opinion and feel free to fire back.
 
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Broken Hearted Sky Blue

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Fergusons_Beard said:
Still fucking bitter about fans deciding to actually watch the team they support.

You need to get over yourself pal-like I said in the original post didn’t appreciate the shit I got for watching City then and I don’t really get what you’re trying to achieve with this reply now.

Unlike you I didn’t shout abuse back at the folks on Sixfields Hill and I actually understood but didn’t agree with your choices.

It’s such a shame that you clearly can’t see that I made a different choice as a supporter of our team.

But as I said it’s ancient history now and hopefully City fans don’t have to have the same awful choice like we did back then.


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I didn’t shout at anybody, I didn’t go there to stop people going in or to change their minds. The choice to go in or not go in was a matter of personal choice. Oh and by the way you were the one that brought this up not me.
I’ve never been bitter about people going in even the abuse I got while on the hill. I’m also not bitter about the insinuations that were made against me on here about threatening people. So read what you posted and my response.
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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WestEndAgro said:
Scab 🤔 it was a choice and unfortunately you and a handful of others made the wrong one, personally I'm glad you got loads of abuse, you shouldn't have been there.

Just my opinion and feel free to fire back.
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Didn’t go to sixfields myself but those people kept the club running - SISU would have fucking waded it out with no fans in there at all and would have cut even more.

club would have plummeted into league two quicker and more than likely wouldn’t have got robins back.
 
skybluecam

skybluecam

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WestEndAgro said:
Scab 🤔 it was a choice and unfortunately you and a handful of others made the wrong one, personally I'm glad you got loads of abuse, you shouldn't have been there.

Just my opinion and feel free to fire back.
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You’re not seriously saying you’re glad people got abuse for supporting the club? 💀

Standing up there on the hill was one of the most obviously futile endeavours in human history
 
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Macca1987

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I neither stood on the hill nor went into Northampton. It was the only time I have not followed City (even though I still watched out for their results) I believe everyone has their own right to decide what was best for them at that time. This to me is now way in the past and all I look forward to is my team getting promoted, so I can go to watch them in the premier league with my son who has never experienced that. PUSB
 
Saddlebrains

Saddlebrains

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Tell you what's embarrassing

Grown men arguing over who was right and who was wrong over something that happened over 10 years ago that none of us had any affect on

Take your heads for a shit and pick your fanny up, honestly at times feel some on here don't deserve these good times we're going through
 
Old Warwickshire lad

Old Warwickshire lad

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Macca1987 said:
I neither stood on the hill nor went into Northampton. It was the only time I have not followed City (even though I still watched out for their results) I believe everyone has their own right to decide what was best for them at that time. This to me is now way in the past and all I look forward to is my team getting promoted, so I can go to watch them in the premier league with my son who has never experienced that. PUSB
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I was the same. Only season I never watched city. Got season tickets for me and the grandkids, and traveled over to brum. Found that depressing,but stuck it out.
 
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Macca1987

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Old Warwickshire lad said:
I was the same. Only season I never watched city. Got season tickets for me and the grandkids, and traveled over to brum. Found that depressing,but stuck it out.
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Same as, four of us got season tickets and went to Brum, was a pain, but we decided that this time it was different and them c*nty Wasps were kicking us out rather than us leaving ala Northampton. Don't know how many years I could have stuck it if Covid hadn't have come along though
 
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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Saddlebrains said:
Tell you what's embarrassing

Grown men arguing over who was right and who was wrong over something that happened over 10 years ago that none of us had any affect on

Take your heads for a shit and pick your fanny up, honestly at times feel some on here don't deserve these good times we're going through
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Thats Good Robert Deniro GIF
 
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Broken Hearted Sky Blue

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Saddlebrains said:
Tell you what's embarrassing

Grown men arguing over who was right and who was wrong over something that happened over 10 years ago that none of us had any affect on

Take your heads for a shit and pick your fanny up, honestly at times feel some on here don't deserve these good times we're going through
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Nobody was right or wrong it was a personal decision so wind your neck in and stick to your imaginary idk guesses
 
JulianDarbyFTW

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Fergusons_Beard said:
Losing at home to Worcester in the cup was fucking awful too.

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Burge sent off, Reda missing a penalty that I still have no idea why he took. Wasn't this the infamous pissgate game too?

I'll be honest, I didn't go again after this until Pressley was sacked. I hated him with a passion that was perhaps slightly irrational.
 
Domo

Domo

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JulianDarbyFTW said:
Burge sent off, Reda missing a penalty that I still have no idea why he took. Wasn't this the infamous pissgate game too?

I'll be honest, I didn't go again after this until Pressley was sacked. I hated him with a passion that was perhaps slightly irrational.
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pissgate? did someone piss? or was someone on the piss?

i could have written every single one of pressleys post match reviews, "great player, absolute credit to the club" etc etc.

saw him once in zou bisou once in leamington, looking very glum with Neil MacFarlane
 
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Cally Fedora

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There is an alternative low point. Worst conditions. Only one contender for me. Possibly January. Absolutely freezing cold. Pissing down with rain. Stood in the open on the Spion Kop with roughly 7 others watching a Simod Cup tie. Possibly v Ipswich. Definitely the game Lloyd McGrath broke his leg. Took about 3 days to thaw out.
 
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Travs

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Moff said:
I think without doubt the Sisu years are our darkest, but relegation under the debt laden stewardship of Bryan Richardson was pretty shit as well.
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Was it the first season down or the second, we had a couple of abject home performances prior to xmas..... i think one was a loss at home to Grimsby if memory serves me right, which led to a sit-in protest by the West Terrace.

That was quite a bad period.... not sure it compares with the years that followed though!!

Edit: just had a look and it was the first season down.... we lost our first three at home and Strachan was then sacked.
 
Terry_dactyl

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Cally Fedora said:
There is an alternative low point. Worst conditions. Only one contender for me. Possibly January. Absolutely freezing cold. Pissing down with rain. Stood in the open on the Spion Kop with roughly 7 others watching a Simod Cup tie. Possibly v Ipswich. Definitely the game Lloyd McGrath broke his leg. Took about 3 days to thaw out.
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I was at that game, in the skyblue terrace. He broke his leg the other side of the pitch…we heard the crack from where we sat!
He was Never the same after that.
 
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