Ridiculousness Down The City

[The Lone Gunman]

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What about the time the club persuaded the fans to fund the purchase of a player - one Kurt Nogan - via the sale of club shares? I think it was during the 2000-01 season?

It was 1999/2000 - the season before Sam Hammam rolled into town. Nogan was supposed to score the goals that kept City up. He didn't and the team was relegated. Again.

[The Lone Gunman]

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Northampton away was a mad day around 88,I think we lost 4-1 , the stadium was falling to bits

1986. The County Ground was one of the most bizarre in the league, with the cricket pitch on one side. I can remember us singing:

You've got a cowshed over there,
You've got a Subbuteo grandstand over there,
You've got **** all over there,
You've got the worst ground in the land.

[Tuerto]

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1986. The County Ground was one of the most bizarre in the league, with the cricket pitch on one side. I can remember us singing:

You've got a cowshed over there,
You've got a Subbuteo grandstand over there,
You've got **** all over there,
You've got the worst ground in the land.

I was at that game, Boxing day? Northampton pissed the league that season if memory serves.

[Feedback]

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Not this game, Dale joined during the following summer.

City beat Northampton 3-2 at Ninian in 91/92 with Dale scoring two, so perhaps it was a goal in that game you're thinking of.

yeah it was. pike had a moment of brilliance in that game, setting up the third.

[The Lone Gunman]

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I was at that game, Boxing day? Northampton pissed the league that season if memory serves.

Not quite, Christmas holidays, December 28th. I remember going over there in Dafydd's car (or it may have been Phil's) and parking in an area that was a nightmare to get back to after the game. The crowd was 11,000+, which was about as much as that place held. We were on that open concrete embankment behind the goal.

You're right, Northampton won the league doing cartwheels. That was the City's first season in the old Division Four. Last game of the season, a 4-0 victory over Hartlepool, saw the lowest-ever league crowd - 1,334. The Ninian Park glory days everyone talks about.

[Tuerto]

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Not quite, Christmas holidays, December 28th. I remember going over there in Dafydd's car (or it may have been Phil's) and parking in an area that was a nightmare to get back to after the game. The crowd was 11,000+, which was about as much as that place held. We were on that open concrete embankment behind the goal.

You're right, Northampton won the league doing cartwheels. That was the City's first season in the old Division Four. Last game of the season, a 4-0 victory over Hartlepool, saw the lowest-ever league crowd - 1,334. The Ninian Park glory days everyone talks about.

Us, Swansea and Wrexham were in the dungeon that season. What were County doing, had they dropped out by then or were they in the 3rd division? surely not!

[The Lone Gunman]

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Us, Swansea and Wrexham were in the dungeon that season. What were County doing, had they dropped out by then or were they in the 3rd division? surely not!

County were busy finishing rock bottom of Division Three.

Meanwhile, in the basement, Wrexham finished 9th, the Swans finished 12th and City finished 13th.

[Tuerto]

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County were busy finishing rock bottom of Division Three.

Meanwhile, in the basement, Wrexham finished 9th, the Swans finished 12th and City finished 13th.

Bloody hell, Newport were wales' no 1 team. I didn't think that had ever happened.

[The Lone Gunman]

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Bloody hell, Newport were wales' no 1 team. I didn't think that had ever happened.

In 85/86, County finished 19th in Division Three, City finished 22nd (relegated) and the Swans were bottom, while Wrexham were mid-table in Division Four. So Newport were the top of the four piss-poor Welsh clubs two years on the trot.

[Bluebirdman Of Alcathays]

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Mine would be February 1991: Cardiff City 1 Aldershot 3. Attendance at Ninian Park - 1,629.

Those were the days.

I remember that game. A freezing Friday night with Nathan Blake at centre-half? Ian Stewart ran the show for them. Barclays sponsored the league at the time and apparently each branch were given two season tickets. I knew someone who worked in the town branch and he said no-one ever took (dis)advantage so me and a mate nabbed them for the night. The folly of youth.

[dembethewarrior]

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Bloody hell, Newport were wales' no 1 team. I didn't think that had ever happened.

There's paper cut Outs on the wall of a cafe we go to now and again around St Julian's with something like that on the wall, the final league table. Ain't been there for a while but remember seeing it and thinking how weird it was

[The Lone Gunman]

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I remember that game. A freezing Friday night with Nathan Blake at centre-half?.

I’m certain it was a Friday night and it was indeed freezing. It was the most miserable walk back to central station I can remember, and there have been a few grim ones. I think the next couple of games were postponed due to the freezing conditions and then City went on an unbeaten run when things resumed.

[the other bob wilson]

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did we beat Northampton by Carl Dale chipping in from about 30 yards out?

edit: according to youtube, the chip happened in the Sep 1991 game, so probably the season after the aldershot game.

I can remember that game, November 91, about five weeks before Maidstone trounced us on New Years Day. I’d say Dale’s chip was further out than thirty yards - the Northampton keeper was stranded about twenty yards from goal as the ball sailed over his head.

[pipster]

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The firework display at our last match at NP which was as damp and lifeless as the performance

I remember that - they would have been better off having no fireworks at all rather than that pathetic couple of bangers and a rocket.

The Newcastle choir was cringey beyond belief. Having stewards sit down at the front with their backs to the game - just watching fans is also a bit creepy.