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ivanosandwich
July 30, 2014, 8:08pm
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Seeing the Happy Mariner in the Sports Telegraph after the game. A big smile if we win, bit of a sideways glance for a draw and a really down expression when we lost. Also seem to recall that his hat had almost fallen off in the lost photo, exposing his bald head.
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I remember the odd shaped St John's ambulance men and women who used to sit against the fence facing the pitch on the Barrett side of the ground, never saw them called into action! They reminded me of the vultures off Bedknobs and broomsticks.

Also a distant memory of being squashed to fck in the Barrett stand just trying to get half way up was a challenge on big game days and the chaos when we scored.... but it was fcking brilliant!! Also remember the Floral dance by Terry Wogan being played at half time and as it was fcking cold everyone stamping their feet in time to the music and thinking the stand was gonna collapse! People pi ssing into bottles, but not throwing them..... or was that just a dream!!?

I still have my football rattle which I wrapped in black and white stripped tape... God knows what to do with it, it's maybe a foot long.... can't use it for Health and Safety reasons or it would be also classsed as disturbing the peace, or possessing an illegal weapon!!
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I remember them all.

Plus

watching Town's A team play in the Midland League

being allowed to sit in the seats in the Osmond for reserve matches

the lousy sweets we used to buy from the kids with the trays walking round the track

charity collections with people throwing coins into a flag or a sheet carried round the track

being able to change ends at half time

standing up to watch a game

dashing out on the whistle to be first on the bus to Riby Square


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People selling the Telegraph walking thro the stands ....would be robbed now!!!!!


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    Town have given me some of my highest highs and my lowest lows ........ God it is like a marriage
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I can remember when we had the cons corner, and trying to decipher the  letters board and the page in the program for half time scores  
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I have vague memories of a "golden goal" competition, Can anyone remember how it worked?
Was there a time printed in the programme?
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I remember selling those sweets and getting in free. We sat on the track behind the pontoon goal and had the best views
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The song "Do what you do do well, boys" when Town came down the tunnel
The floor of the Barratt Stand bouncing up and down when people stamped their feet to warm them up
Rust falling down from the roof when a ball landed on it
The lad with the broken leg in plaster marching up and down the Barratt Stand playing a trumpet
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Fences behind the goals!
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Quoted from Perkins
Anyone remember:

1.Football Rattles.

2.Rosettes.

3.The Guy in the black and white striped suit and top hat walking round the side of the pitch getting the crowd going.

4.The Telegraph Photographer and his HUGE camera, pulling HUGE photographic plates out the back and giving them to a lad who jumped on his bike and pedalled like hell to the offices to ensure they were printed in the Football Telegraph that evening.

5.The old guy who continually shouted "Are You There Wouldy" to our illustrious as then chairman F A Would.

6.Hanging numbered plates up on the fencing to give half time scores that would correspond with the fixtures in your programme. (never seemed to tally)

7.Coming down the back exit steps of the Barratts Stand and wondering if you would make it down before it collapsed, (or caught fire because of a stray dog
end).

8.Dads carrying stools and boxes for the kids to stand on. (Now banned under Health and Safety Regs)

9.Grown ups passing kids overhead to the front so they could sit on the ash track and see the game. (Also now banned under Health and Safety regs)

10. Brass bands marching before the kick off.(Grimsby Borough Police Band mainly)

11.Leaving your push bike in an old lasses front garden in Imperial Ave for a tanner, and trying to untangle yours from a stack of about 40 others after the game.

12.When no supporter in the ground could be seen wearing a match day shirt. (when did that start?)

Cos i do.


Fantastic post! 12 out of 12 for me

What about paying an extra thrupence at a turn style to get into the Pontoon?
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