Best Away trip

[dedwards]

Always remember Huddersfield away in the cup a few years ago , Stanley at his best on the pitch and all sorts off it !

 

[C C Csiders]

Quote[/b] (dedwards @ Nov. 18 2005,14:37)]Always remember Huddersfield away in the cup a few years ago , Stanley at his best on the pitch and all sorts off it !

The circular aniseed one with the little pink balls of sugar on the outside was my particular favourite.

 

[DTS]

Quote[/b] (dedwards @ Nov. 18 2005,14:37)]Always remember Huddersfield away in the cup a few years ago , Stanley at his best on the pitch and all sorts off it !

Pitch invasion by a pantomine horse.....Superb Day

 

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (dedwards @ Nov. 18 2005,14:37)]Always remember Huddersfield away in the cup a few years ago , Stanley at his best on the pitch and all sorts off it !

ah great day, scrapings on chips and a beer in the working man's club nearby beforehand

The best away trip is still Col U in the LDV first time round though.

 

[shrimperian]

Like so many fans of a certain age, there are really too many to mention. But, as Canveyshrimper said earlier, the away trip to Derby in 75, maily for the train trip home. Also, Torquay away in 1979/80. A Saturday night game in May, we won to secure promotion with a home game against Rochdale to take the championship. On the way home we got stuck in a SNOW Drift! In bloody May! The old bill came on our coach looking for booze and we hid all of the champers. then when they had gone, I got volunteered to sit on the coach steps and open the champers. The cork missed the copper by about an inch and smashed a window of a house behind him! To be fair to the coach driver, he moved the coach out of there bloody quick!

 

[* ORM *]

Any away trip where Leeboy hasn't been allowed out to play

 

[Leeboy]

Quote[/b] (* ORM * @ Nov. 18 2005,16:00)]Any away trip where Leeboy hasn't been allowed out to play

hmm......I'm sure that should be reversed King Armchair

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Best away days for me - in order:

1. Cardiff, Play off Final, May 2005. Nervous beforehand, cheered up hugely by Barry Harris (in particular) and the rest of the SZ crew in the Yard, pure undiluted ecstasy when Freddy's goal went in, Napster buying champagne in the walkabout afterwards, cigars in first class on the train home.

2. Col Ewe, LDV, Jan/Feb 2004 - even though I missed the first goal (I was having a slash!), still a superb evening... "Simon Brown, Simon Brown, Simon Browwwwnnnn..." - and sprinting for the train (and just making it) with Uxbridge & Shepherd's Bush Shrimpers (and Spiff?). You just know it's your night when things like that happen.

3. Hartlepool, Dec 98. It's not often you go away and win 4-2; it's even rarer when those goals are scored by Scott Houghton and Barry Conlon. The fact that we'd been treated royally by my mate's parents, who'd put us up for the weekend (he's a Poolie), and we had a fantastic night out as well, made it a superb trip.

4. LDV Final, 2004. OK, so we lost. Still a feckin' amazing experience - our first ever final. So glad I was there.

5= Macclesfield, 2002 (?)... Scriv slaughtered, "you are my sunshine"... happy days.

5= Chester, 2004/5 - we played sh*te and still drew, "we always get sh*t refs" was the best chant I've heard in ages, great beers afterwards with Chester fans.

 

[* ORM *]

Nothing, not even the Cardiff play-off final, can surpass Gigg Lane 1991; particularly writing-off the car on the way up there.

Peterborough and Stockport promotion awaydays.

Shrewsbury away last season was great fun.

An Easter long weekend in Blackpool about 15 years ago with a Saturday ("it's just down the road love") Southend match at Grimsby, which we naturally lost. I knew how to be romantic in those days.

Aldershot away always used to be "interesting".

 

[Kent Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Kevin M (CCFC) @ Nov. 18 2005,14:05)]Last game of the season in May 1987 on a Friday night up in Stockport.  2-0 win with Glenn Pennyfather and Richard Cadette scoring. Just pipped Wolves to an automatic promotion place.

Great end to season made even better by later watching
the Layer Road lads lose home to Aldershot in the playoffs.

Great night, i flew with the team (only 12 at the time) but certainly a night to remember

 

[Guest]

I have two faves:

1. Promotion at Cardiff
2. Nicking a cup win off Hartlepool in the 89th and 90th minute!

 

[HUTTON]

Cardiff has it was the first time I'd been

 

[BEDFORD BLUE]

Too many to choose, return of Dave Webb at blackpool, peterborough promotion, cardiff 2005+1, bristol city this year pretty good, winning 4-2 at reading a few years ago, sunderland 2-0 on a cold, wet saturday, a 1-1 draw at birmingham with a late goal and first cardiff final very emotional!

 

[Bluesmanager]

Pikeyville in the FA cup, back when Cort was our top scorer's up there, if we're including blues world then the playoff final wins it by a long shot. Birthday Hatrrick. Speaks for itself.

 

[SteveYatesSocks]

A couple of favourites that don't seem to have already been mentioned.

1. Associate Members Cup 13/3/84 - won 2-0 against Col Ewe with goals from Billy Kellock (overhead kick?) and Trevor Whymark. Sang myself hoarse and lost my voice which didn't go down too well at school the next day.

2. (20/3/87 Div 4) Another at Col Ewe when we won 2-1 with a last minute goal by Richard Cadette. This followed an excellent equaliser from Peter Johnson.

 

[BrettieAngell]

Bury 1991, nuff said!

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

Gigg Lane 1991 of course.

But I'll also nominate Chesterfield in the FAC in December 2001. One of the first STC trips by mini-bus. We wore Santa hats; can you spot us?!

WS

 

[Sao Paulo Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Xàbia Shrimper @ Nov. 19 2005,09:03)]Gigg Lane 1991 of course.

But I'll also nominate Chesterfield in the FAC in December 2001. One of the first STC trips by mini-bus. We wore Santa hats; can you spot us?!

WS

That Chesterfield one was good except our coach ws stopped by plod just outside Chestefield and we were made to sit on the hardshoulder for 2 hours and it was bloosy freezing.

I mean all they found was beer, rastafarian old holborn, devils dandruff and some of those dancing biscuit things that ake you go all lovey dovey.

. The copper kept saying to me stop smiling but i was actually falling in love with her, even though she was 45 and about 15 stone!

 

[Guest]

2 games for me that stick out.

Kidderminster away last season. Got the Nightbus from Kingston to Central at about 4.30am after not going to bed after a session. Then got to Paddington?? at about 6.00am and got into Birmingham at about 9. Wetherspoons for Breakfast then to West Brom. They let us in to look at the Ground and then to Kidderminster where we went on to win 3-1 and i was loving it. I thought i was going to die on the terrace. Even bought the Video from the club shop...

Bury Away also last season. Got the train up there, on my own

took ages. Woke up late and missed my train, thought my 36pound was wasted but managed to get one in the end. Got to Bury's ground at 2.58. Just in time. First half pen. Scored. Last min pen for them Saved. WOOHOOO!!! On the way back met loads of Spurs fans on the way back from a win at Man City. Met 4 Norwegians on the train, shared a bottle a vodka with them. Couldnt see. Managed to get home. But fcuk me, quality!

 

[Bob Cratchitt]

Quote[/b] (SteveYatesSocks @ Nov. 18 2005,21:18)]2. (20/3/87 Div 4) Another at Col Ewe when we won 2-1 with a last minute goal by Richard Cadette. This followed an excellent equaliser from Peter Johnson.

Oh yes picked up just inside our half IIRC. That was the first time I was allowed to go to an away game with my mates. It was a Friday night special, and we got attacked with a shower pint glasses walking back to the station with our ever friendly Police escort.

That was the beginning of our unbeaten run at Layer Road and we have not lost there since.

So that holds a special place for me as does the Easter Monday game in 1990. Goodbye Col Ewe the conference awaits you