Match Day Thread Play Off Final. Hull City v Boro

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Speaking to a Boro fan afterwards, and he said lots of kids with their parents attend their matches. Whatever Acun is he's not daft enough to lose this, and the next, generation of fans. :emoticon-0138-think


It's our time.
I would imagine that when season tickets are floated on the website for this season, the vast majority of purchases will be junior memberships who will hopefully be sitting in 50 years time saying 'well that's it, I've done my bit, here's to our future Black & Amber army'...A bit like a few now, including myself are swaying towards.

I said several weeks before the match that I hoped we'd go up for the youngsters supporting our Club and so it was to be and I'm over the moon for them all

I won't apply for a membership because (1) It wouldn't be value coming for 6 or 7 matches. (2) It would be wholly unfair to deprive a local of going to every game. (3) I'm not a fan of the Prem, although I enjoyed the away aspects when we've been there but tickets will be scarce for such events now as we have a bigger away support and (4) I'm not fit enough or able enough or young enough anymore to put my body through 17hr on the Road 'home games'....

Up Our Tigers and Up our future hardcore fans...
 
Lots of sentimental posts about people's trips, so it's time to add mine.

Despite being a season ticket holder in the dark days, and travelling to all sorts of ****holes which feels like a fever dream compares to recent successes, I've not been down to many games over the last few years due to circumstances. I've watched as many as I can on TV with my lad over the last 3 or so years. He was too young for our previous Wembley win, but I couldn't have paid him to show interest in footy til he was 12 or so, but now he's 16, football mad, and midway through his exams.

Managed to get tickets through family, and so me and the boy set off to London on the train as a duo. Rocked up at King's Cross and bought him his first pub bought beer at Fer Ark, then headed to Wembley to soak it all in.

It was a tense nervy affair, as these occasions tend to be, and he was feeling it but when the goal went in , he along with everyone else went mental.

I'm an old head after 3 Wembley wins, but hearing him after the whistle repeatedly claiming "Holy ****, we're in the Premier League" really hits it home. He's never known City to be successful as he was too young to really see it, yet I have been blessed to follow City from near extinction to multiple stints in the top division. He hadn't seen it before, but nor did multiple generations of Tigers that didn't make it to see Windass' volley of destiny.

Hopefully next season I'll get to take him there to experience more matches, but days like that are why Football is the best sport in the World, but while I'd love City to become a PL mainstay, that will mean days like Saturday will be much harder to come by.

But, it doesnt matter. Silverware, we don't care...

UTFT
 
Lots of sentimental posts about people's trips, so it's time to add mine.

Despite being a season ticket holder in the dark days, and travelling to all sorts of ****holes which feels like a fever dream compares to recent successes, I've not been down to many games over the last few years due to circumstances. I've watched as many as I can on TV with my lad over the last 3 or so years. He was too young for our previous Wembley win, but I couldn't have paid him to show interest in footy til he was 12 or so, but now he's 16, football mad, and midway through his exams.

Managed to get tickets through family, and so me and the boy set off to London on the train as a duo. Rocked up at King's Cross and bought him his first pub bought beer at Fer Ark, then headed to Wembley to soak it all in.

It was a tense nervy affair, as these occasions tend to be, and he was feeling it but when the goal went in , he along with everyone else went mental.

I'm an old head after 3 Wembley wins, but hearing him after the whistle repeatedly claiming "Holy ****, we're in the Premier League" really hits it home. He's never known City to be successful as he was too young to really see it, yet I have been blessed to follow City from near extinction to multiple stints in the top division. He hadn't seen it before, but nor did multiple generations of Tigers that didn't make it to see Windass' volley of destiny.

Hopefully next season I'll get to take him there to experience more matches, but days like that are why Football is the best sport in the World, but while I'd love City to become a PL mainstay, that will mean days like Saturday will be much harder to come by.

But, it doesnt matter. Silverware, we don't care...

UTFT

It is kind of mental to think anyone early 20s or younger will likely have no memory of us in the PL when for most of us it doesn't feel that long ago.
 
Windass was our star striker going up in 2007-2008. He hardly got a look in the next season. Some of the team did well though.
yep. i always feel that was the major problem - going up and immediately (effectively) losing your strikers - campbell's loan ended and windass got sidelined due to age, etc. we were okay for the first few months, but then after we lost marlon king, brown went for one up front and we never had anyone who could do that role.
 
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