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Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Craigo, Nov 3, 2011.

  1. Qatartiger Cambridgetiger

    Qatartiger Cambridgetiger Well-Known Member

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    Was Wednesdays Speedway .. Tony Childs etc Stay well yourself fella. I sat here in Jordan kitted out in my black and white gear.
     
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  2. Der Alte

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    Well done - it was a pleasure to play on.
     
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  3. C'mon ref

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    All this statistical nonsense cuts no ice with me as to me it all missing the point, there is no argument, those of that mausoleum KC era have, without doubt, had the success us BP lot dreamed about for years but during those years the highs, and lows, and there were plenty of both, made for compelling entertainment when the footballers were like most of us back then, not the 'don't touch' agent riddled mercenaries of today. You could, and I did, talk to many of the city players of the era, although Waggy was a bit aloof, on most training days, you could ask for autographs, as I did, and watch the players during their training at the Circle, Boothferry Park was out of bounds for actually training on except for running about the outside track. After the gym and training grounds were built The Circle was no longer needed, but can you imagine any of today's prima-donnas turning up in the clubhouse after the match for a pint and a chat? City players did until Terry Neil put a stop to it but you could still chat with the players in Hull's various watering holes of the day.

    Yes I endured miserable rain soaked nights on a bare Bunkers Hill before the South Stand was built but I also enjoyed seeing City play superb football belittling there league status many a time, I endured thousands of fair weather supporters (plastics) when City put together a winning run and grab some headlines, then see them disappear when it all went pear shaped, as it often seemed to do. But I can't explain the atmosphere and anticipation in the 60s and early 70's of the team consisting of one the most feared forward lines of the day in any division, if I could have bottled those times I would have a potent elixir to see me through to the end of my days. But instead I sat in the KC and wondered if any of the supporters or the team, were actually alive, the dreary constant passing and barely getting past the half way line in the process made me finally realise that my era had truly past on by and I would never see the likes again. City's recent success is a product of present day football to have the likes to have Waggy, Chilton, Butler, Houghton, Knighton, in our team today would put on a level of maybe Barcelona for attacking football, instead we have constant back passes to the goalkeeper from the half way line as there is no one with the gumption to drive forward under their own initiative.

    Well done Hull City A.F.C. circa the last 10 years, but no matter how many millions have been spent in the Premier League its a telling indictment that the only time we have had a World Cup Winning team was during those golden years, mentioning it still grates on today's supporters. Our 1st Division teams also ruled the European Cup after the likes of Real Madrid had shown the way. So farewell to what, was for me, Golden Years 'they think its all over, it is now'.
     
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  4. Yardley Tiger

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    Caught the difference between then and now perfectly. The excitement then attending every game no matter who was playing when both supporter groups would mingle anywhere on the ground. The days when they played no matter if there was inches of snow on the ground. When shorts were short and no one wore gloves. The days when the players arrived at the ground in their five year old Ford Anglias. When Billy Wilkinson would come on as a substitute and play his heart out as if he was first name on the team list. When we would bump into Chris Chilton or other players in the Ferguson Fawcitt on an evening after the game that was played at 3:00 p.m. on a Saturday and not some time between Friday evening and the following Monday evening when the TV companies condescended to slot the game in. I must confess after all these years I gave up "my" season ticket seat for this season and as much as I wanted to see my team live for the games at the KC against Leicester City and Manchester United, I was sat in a pub watching them on TV. I do not like being told I can sit in the corner where it is cheaper. Seems like Phil Brown saying I can go and sit on his "naughty step". Maybe I will be back live with my flask and blanket if things hopefully change.
     
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  5. Citygirl

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    Have just read how you missed out in 1949 , but feel sure that seeing City win at Old Traford made up for that .
     
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  6. philhul

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    best thread on here for a long while
     
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  7. City Man

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    If you watch some of the highlights of those late 60s/ early 70s games, the pace of the game is almost pedestrian, the marking/tackling/ tracking back is very casual.
    I'm not rubbishing that era or bigging up the modern one, but the fitness levels and thoroughness of preparation then are nowt compared to now.
    The fact remains that BP held twice as many as the KC and the excitement generated by both has been great.
    What we have now is a public used to success and high level football, many of whom have not done the hard yards and so are too blase about what we have hand since 2004 .
     
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  8. C'mon ref

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    As I tried to point out City Man, the game in those days was played mainly for pleasure, those good enough to play in a proffesional capacity going on to make it a job, but us lot, including me, went into factories etc. So when we turned up to watch those footballers we knew most of them were from a similar background so could affiliate with them unlike todays mob who's champagne lifestyles is a million miles away from most fans of today. But what you may also notice from those days is that the footballers of the time did not roll over 10 times if someone sneezed near them, tackles were for real, hence Bremner and Keegan getting sent off in a charity shield match, as for the high level of football of today you mentioned, I would also mention the high level of cheating and faking, such is life.
     
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    Don't disagree with any of that. Money has stolen our game and ruined it.
     
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  10. Yardley Tiger

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    Don't forget. There was also the threat of the "magic sponge" brought on by the coach if someone was really injured. Not an army of doctors, stretcher bearers and hangers on when ever a player trips over a blade of grass.
     
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    I've asked OLM if he wouldn't mind merging with the Tigers History thread when this thread is bedded down. Some good anecdotes on here as you say.
     
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  12. tigerscanada

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    There have been many a high & low during City's history for sure. The final Darlington game was somewhat an anti-climax on the park, but the brilliance of that event was seeing all those ex-players proudly walking around the field, genuinely mutually respecting the crowd's participation in those highs & lows, and letting the crowd know that they felt they had contributed to City's history by playing for the team.
    On my annual trips I often popped into Waggy's place on the Weir in Hessle, where my mother still lived at the time. A couple of days before the Darlo game I dropped in to buy 4 copies of Waggy's biography. We chatted for a while, he signed the books and invited me down to B.P. for the upcoming game telling me to come down early to meet the ex-players (many who were my heroes) and that I'd be able to get their autographs. I managed to get probably 35 signatures onto the inside front page of Waggy's signed book. Felt like a schoolboy again - I was only a few years younger than the man himself. Magical day.
     
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  13. Mrs. BLUE_MOUNTAINS_BEAR

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    As mentioned previously tc only a few posters on here would have been old enough to attend/remember the opening game and give any recollections. I know charles stokell and TigerRoo were there. Don't know about joannahatfield who would have been 10 and perhaps a little early for nw tiger who would have been around 6.
     
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    What fantastic reads fella's ... It really does give me even more pride in our club and where it has come from. That does beg the question of the old chestnut about all the recent stuff about throwing all of this history away, I know memories can never be erased can they? but the Allams certainly tried to dissolve them to me. In my mind our history should never be thought of as disposable. Why can't the club have theme days where we turn up in flat caps and some old style match day stuff. Old style programs, just thinking out loud, maybe I'm crazy, even put the HT scores on boards in the corner just to make ya smile and tell the kids how it was. Old footage on the screens before match.

    Thank you for sharing what you have with us.
     
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  15. Mrs. BLUE_MOUNTAINS_BEAR

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    Not completely, as the main disappointment about the 1949 match was missing my first home game. At the time of the '52 game I had still only missed that 1 home match.

    A big positive now is that I was at the only match when we have ever beaten Man U away.
     
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    Irrelevant! ! Miss the place for the good and the bad
     
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  17. Mrs. BLUE_MOUNTAINS_BEAR

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    Obviously West stand 1st then North, East and finally South. Cannot help about the clock.
    Watched my first matches on the rails behind the goal on Bunkers then moved to North on a perch right at the back after it was built. Went in the West for the only time in 1968 when I came home from South Africa for my dads funeral. During my brief stay in Hull I took my uncle and as we headed for the North he said he had a 'dicky ticker' so we went for seats.

    An earlier post said that the North stand was demolished around 1982. Was certain I stood in there in February 1985 for the Bradford match( last match for me at BP) with my brother in law and a couple of his mates.
     
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  18. Sikkedogsvendestykke

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    Obvious to you BMB because you saw them come up. But to me the clock was a grand feature suggesting that the north stand with its mix of standing and sitting on top of the turnstiles was every bit as important as the west stand.

    But as I wrote, my first match at Boothferry Park was 1959, and it seemed to me even then that the east stand was in poor condition. If as you put the east stand was the third to be erected, it might only have been five to ten years old when I first saw it. No wonder it didn't last as long as Stonehenge :emoticon-0100-smile
     
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  19. Mrs. BLUE_MOUNTAINS_BEAR

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    Just come across some video footage by "Boothferry Legend".
    On the video is the 'official' closing of the ground in 2011 when supporters gathered for a closing ceremony before the bulldozers moved in to start the housing project.. The last supporter to leave the ground and close the South stand gates behind him was a guy called Martyn Whitfield. Anyone from here at this event?
     
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    I was BMB, we stood on the remaining front section of bunkers, whole ground was overgrown. You could go in and walk around BP for a few years in that state after the stands had been demolished, stand on the Kempton terracing, also remember the 6 floodlights coming down one at a time. No reverence given by the HDM, just a report from a North Road nimby complaining about the eyesore, juxtaposed to the Boulevard which is still held by the media as holy ground with parts of the old threepenny stand preserved alongside dead bod!
     
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