Anyone else there that night ?

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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For some inexplicable reason em and a mate ended up driving down from Leckwith hill in order to avoid the traffic. We could see the top of the bob bank jammed with probably 45 mins to go. Distinctively remember- from the enclosure Mike England clenching his fist and grinning as the came off at the end. Also away game, well, well beaten by Hereford in front of 14,0000.

[Mr Soul '68]

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one of my earliest memories trudging down ninian park . was in the canton stand

47 years ago me and dad at this one the official attendance was 35,000 but most people thought it was closer to 45,000.
Not bad for a tier 3 club.
And we won 2 nil pic.twitter.com/lGhzisnVCD

— stubbsy (@stubbsy1927) April 14, 2023

Grange End for me with a couple of my mates from school

[Cleve van Leef]

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I wuz there.

[KingOfSiamIAm]

Re: Anyone else there that night ?

one of my earliest memories trudging down ninian park . was in the canton stand

47 years ago me and dad at this one the official attendance was 35,000 but most people thought it was closer to 45,000.
Not bad for a tier 3 club.
And we won 2 nil pic.twitter.com/lGhzisnVCD

— stubbsy (@stubbsy1927) April 14, 2023

I was there with my friend from high school, his dad and grandad.

It’s funny how the passage of time plays tricks on personal memories, because for some reason I seem to think that we were stood in the bob bank… but if the grange-end was still the home end back then, then we would have been in the grange-end.

Does anyone know when the grange-end got rebuilt? Then I will know when we moved to the bob bank.

[the other bob wilson]

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I was there with my friend from high school, his dad and grandad.

It’s funny how the passage of time plays tricks on personal memories, because for some reason I seem to think that we were stood in the bob bank… but if the grange-end was still the home end back then, then we would have been in the grange-end.

Does anyone know when the grange-end got rebuilt? Then I will know when we moved to the bob bank.

It would have been the old Grange End in 75/76, it was 77/78 when there were all of the problems with the council about the ground.

[TWGL1]

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It would have been the old Grange End in 75/76, it was 77/78 when there were all of the problems with the council about the ground.

Did the local paper big the game up in order to attract this huge crowd , as I know what Allison said about our support but you wouldn’t have thought a crowd of up to 45,000 would have turned up based solely on an apposing managers fleeting comments ?

[Hot Shot Hamish.]

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Me and my cousin were in the back row of the Canton Stand. I remember Radio Ninian announcer asking everyone in the enclosures to squeeze up a bit tighter.
And the oddest memory I have of the night is for some reason I remember them playing the Frankie Valli song “oh what a night” before kick off

[pipster]

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I remember watch Hereford - and a few calling their keeper's wide a lesbian and him getting really upset by it, must have have been mid - late 70's

[the other bob wilson]

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Did the local paper big the game up in order to attract this huge crowd , as I know what Allison said about our support but you wouldn’t have thought a crowd of up to 45,000 would have turned up based solely on an apposing managers fleeting comments ?

I thought I remembered a lot from that season, but there was plenty in the research I did that was new to me. For example, despite being team mates at West Ham in the fifties, Malcolm Allison and Jimmy Andrews did not get on - I got the distinct impression that Allison was affected by the fact that it was us, with Andrews in charge, who’d sent Palace down two seasons earlier, he talked rubbish about City when Palace had snuck a 1-0 win at Ninian Park earlier in the season with a last minute goal.

On the Monday before the game, the Echo ran a story in which the club said they were expecting a crowd of thirty thousand and Alison’s claim that there wouldn’t be twenty five thousand there got plenty of coverage - you probably know that Allison was a real celebrity back then, he was on the Big Match most weeks and was still thought of as one of the best manager/coaches around despite him doing a terrible job at Palace up to then (two relegations and taking longer to get out of the third tier than expected).

[TWGL1]

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I thought I remembered a lot from that season, but there was plenty in the research I did that was new to me. For example, despite being team mates at West Ham in the fifties, Malcolm Allison and Jimmy Andrews did not get on - I got the distinct impression that Allison was affected by the fact that it was us, with Andrews in charge, who’d sent Palace down two seasons earlier, he talked rubbish about City when Palace had snuck a 1-0 win at Ninian Park earlier in the season with a last minute goal.

On the Monday before the game, the Echo ran a story in which the club said they were expecting a crowd of thirty thousand and Alison’s claim that there wouldn’t be twenty five thousand there got plenty of coverage - you probably know that Allison was a real celebrity back then, he was on the Big Match most weeks and was still thought of as one of the best manager/coaches around despite him doing a terrible job at Palace up to then (two relegations and taking longer to get out of the third tier than expected).

Thanks for that.

Shows we have always had the support then, just not consistently enough be be considered a big club.

That said , I think you mentioned it actually, the last two home crowds of 28,252 & 23,365 have showed the clubs fans have remained loyal considering our very poor home form.

[rich munn]

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one of my earliest memories trudging down ninian park . was in the canton stand

47 years ago me and dad at this one the official attendance was 35,000 but most people thought it was closer to 45,000.
Not bad for a tier 3 club.
And we won 2 nil pic.twitter.com/lGhzisnVCD

— stubbsy (@stubbsy1927) April 14, 2023

I was there.

Malcolm Allison had said we didn't get the support Palace did. That no doubt helped.

[life on mars]

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Was there and the and the game before , away to Alisons Palace .

We were behind the goals and you could but a pint lol .

Halcyon away days, real tough encounters on and off the pitch .

Best song of the day was
" scrubber fecker " as old Malcom was alledgly popping one into a certain lady celebrity at the time ?

Big crowds for working folk and affordable prices allowed big crowds walk ups , even for the poorest, which we were ?

[Joe Gillis]

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Was there and the and the game before , away to Alisons Palace .

We were behind the goals and you could but a pint lol .

Halcyon away days, real tough encounters on and off the pitch .

Best song of the day was
" scrubber fecker " as old Malcom was alledgly popping one into a certain lady celebrity at the time ?

Big crowds for working folk and affordable prices allowed big crowds walk ups , even for the poorest, which we were ?

We had great away support that day, jam packed in an open end (before they put a roof on it)

[Heathblue]

Re: Anyone else there that night ?

one of my earliest memories trudging down ninian park . was in the canton stand

47 years ago me and dad at this one the official attendance was 35,000 but most people thought it was closer to 45,000.
Not bad for a tier 3 club.
And we won 2 nil pic.twitter.com/lGhzisnVCD

— stubbsy (@stubbsy1927) April 14, 2023

Enclosure, Canton stand side.

[MOZZER2]

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I was there with my friend from high school, his dad and grandad.

It’s funny how the passage of time plays tricks on personal memories, because for some reason I seem to think that we were stood in the bob bank… but if the grange-end was still the home end back then, then we would have been in the grange-end.

Does anyone know when the grange-end got rebuilt? Then I will know when we moved to the bob bank.

looking at this footage from May 1978 going through its demolition stage , not sure when it was completed . Was at this Wales game too !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_uSutTqOZA