I enjoyed the 99/00 season. I think I only missed two or three that year, home and away. That yellow MESH strip is still a fave (not that I can get into it these days). Martin Pringle. I loved his enthusiasm.
Hmm. That may have been a couple of years later when the likes of CP, Parker and Konchesky were called up for England. Plus we had Johansson, Svensson, Jensen and Bartlett all playing internationals. Curbs signed some excellent players over the years.
The most exciting and uplifting team I have watched with my own eyes at the Valley was Chris Powell's 2011-12 League One winning team. Ben Hamer, Chris Solly, Rhoys Whiggins, Michael Morrison, Johnnie Jackson Dale Stephens, Bradley Wright-Phillips, Yann Kermorgant, Danny Green, Matt Taylor & various squad players. Granted this was 3rd tier football. But I fondly remember some great afternoons as we rose to be Champions with 101 points. Lee Bowyer's 2018-19 team was good, and the Wembley play-off Final a great day out. But I recall enjoying 2011-12 more as a whole. Now, I don't know whether NJ's team of last season was better than that. Before this season I hadn't been to a game since November 2022. I'm only giving my answer based on what I've seen since 2007.
Fantastic squad. To this day i do not know how Lennie Lawrence fashioned such a good team with such a small budget. When you think of the amount of money we have wasted over the years on absolute crap.
