Ninian Park Memories

[the other bob wilson]

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Seeing us come from 4-1 down half time to beat Plymouth 5-4 in league cup 1986. I’m sure it was 5-4 but 11v11 internet site says it was 6-4?
think it was frank burrows first game in charge

It was definitely 5-4, it was blowing a gale like the one that kept me awake through much of last night.

[the other bob wilson]

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Here's a Ninian Park memory for you. Great footage. I'm there somewhere.

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

The pitch wasn't too bad at that stage of 71/72, but it was dreadful through the winter and was probably one of the reasons why we struggled so much that year.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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...hello Colin..

How's the er.....How's the wife and family ?

[The Bloop]

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Agreed, incredible game I seem to recall Nigel Vaughan having a stormer second half and playing a major role in the turn around

One memory I have of Nigel Vaughan was one game where he effectively was our physio for the day. He wasn't playing that day but one of our players went down injured. No medical bag, no spray, no gloves. Nigel ran onto the pitch to treat the injured player with a saturated sponge dripping from a carrier bag.

[jimmyscoular]

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The pitch wasn't too bad at that stage of 71/72, but it was dreadful through the winter and was probably one of the reasons why we struggled so much that year.

The appalling quality of pitches during the 1960s is amazing. Some videos show players trying to kick the ball around a mud bath. I don't know how they even kept their feet, let alone kick a ball. Don't see that much any more. Grass maintenance technology must have improved.

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

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How's the er.....How's the wife and family ?

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[light up the darkness]

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BIF and BAF tickets

Scalding bovril and a hot pasty.

The supporters club behind the Canton

[tforturton]

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Roofless urinals, open to the sky....

[BLUETIT]

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The smell of piss and Peter's pies as you came through the turnstiles

Don't know which was worst

[jimmyscoular]

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Here's a nice little video of Ninian Park through the years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVnXvsAIY8w

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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Roofless urinals, open to the sky....

Imagine how much worse the smell would have been if those urinals had been enclosed?

Probably the only time they ever got cleaned was when there was a downpour!

[the other bob wilson]

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The appalling quality of pitches during the 1960s is amazing. Some videos show players trying to kick the ball around a mud bath. I don't know how they even kept their feet, let alone kick a ball. Don't see that much any more. Grass maintenance technology must have improved.

It was a feature of my research for Real Madrid and all that how many Ninian Park pitches were either mud heaps, frozen or a combination of both through the winter months of the 70/71 season, but, by and large, we did well on the heavier or frozen pitches, whereas in the spring when the mud dried and the pitch hardened a bit we didn't play as well - the very expensive 1-0 defeat against Watford was played on a dustbowl of a pitch.

[bobh]

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It was a feature of my research for Real Madrid and all that how many Ninian Park pitches were either mud heaps, frozen or a combination of both through the winter months of the 70/71 season, but, by and large, we did well on the heavier or frozen pitches, whereas in the spring when the mud dried and the pitch hardened a bit we didn't play as well - the very expensive 1-0 defeat against Watford was played on a dustbowl of a pitch.

More expensive than the Watford defeat were (from cloudy memory) 3 away losses on the trot between selling Toshack and signing Warboys.
Had we signed a replacement striker sas soon as we knew Toshack was leaving, we may have gone up.
But the board at the time thought a "successful 2nd div side " was more important than a "struggling 1st div side".
And maybe the 3-1 win over Blackburn helped them with that . ("Toshack is a reject" was the chant of that first game without him.)

[BLUETIT]

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More expensive than the Watford defeat were (from cloudy memory) 3 away losses on the trot between selling Toshack and signing Warboys.
Had we signed a replacement striker sas soon as we knew Toshack was leaving, we may have gone up.
But the board at the time thought a "successful 2nd div side " was more important than a "struggling 1st div side".
And maybe the 3-1 win over Blackburn helped them with that . ("Toshack is a reject" was the chant of that first game without him.)

We beat Blackburn 4-1

[bobh]

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We beat Blackburn 4-1

I thought I posted that. Finger trouble.