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aldi_01
September 6, 2022, 8:20am

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Our oldest rivals are clearly Lincoln. We've been playing each other reasonably regularly for over 140 years!

We've also played them a lot more than other local clubs in recent decades as Scunny had their moment in the sun and we've toiled around the bottom division.

It has occurred to me that I can't remember ever watching us play Hull (and I'm almost 50!).probably saw a game at some point when I was a kid but that's a long time ago. I do, however, remember always having a chuckle if Hull had lost games in years past. My Dad really doesn't like Hull after working there on and off in the 70s and this has obviously rubbed off on me to some degree! Scunny were just never on my radar and I simply don't care about them now, just as I didn't care about them when they were three divisions higher than us.


We played them in the auto windscreens early games at BP. If I remember, it was the game Macca got a really bad injury?

I think that idiot Danson refereed, providing evidence that ex players don’t make good referees…


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September 6, 2022, 9:55am
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If we had played them in a league match at any point in the last10 or so years everyone iwould undoubtedly say Hull. As it is, without being able to Scunny, it's Lincoln, Doncaster and Barnsley in that order.
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Personally, I don't get the Sheffield clubs/Barnsley thing at all. Big games when they come around, but no chance are they proper rivals. I think you could argue the case that Mansfield/Chesterfield are bigger rivals than them.

Scunny are our main rivals and always have been and it won't matter which divisions we're in. Lincoln has obviously crept in over the last few decades and their rise has turned them from quite a nice inoffensive middling L2/Conference side to the jumped up sycophantic monstrosity that unfurled that banner and now there's a very strong dislike. So it's kind of just those two for me. Hull would be a thing for me, but as others have said we never play them any more. The only Yorkshire side who would possibly be considered would be Donny.
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27 and never seen us play Hull
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Personally, I don't get the Sheffield clubs/Barnsley thing at all. Big games when they come around, but no chance are they proper rivals. I think you could argue the case that Mansfield/Chesterfield are bigger rivals than them.


That's the same thing though isn't it mate? Chesterfield and Mansfield only "rivals" because we've generally occupied the same divisions over the last 20 years. Games against Barnsley were always much tastier than Chesterfield or Mansfield. Not main rivals, no. Same as Doncaster but with not playing Hull in forever and not being able to choose Scunny, they would sneak in my top 3 for the last 30 years
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We're simply unrivalled!
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If by chance we start playing Hull, Wendys, Blunts and Barnsley regularly in the next few seasons, the under 30s in our fanbase will totally understand the added edge compared to any Scunny or Lincoln game. Don't underestimate anything until you've experienced it first hand...
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That's the same thing though isn't it mate? Chesterfield and Mansfield only "rivals" because we've generally occupied the same divisions over the last 20 years. Games against Barnsley were always much tastier than Chesterfield or Mansfield. Not main rivals, no. Same as Doncaster but with not playing Hull in forever and not being able to choose Scunny, they would sneak in my top 3 for the last 30 years

I always found Barnsley fairly friendly personally. Wednesday we can't have been in the same division as for more than 4/5 years around the turn of the millennium. Chesterfield on the other hand kicks off every single time we play them it seems, hence me mentioning them but yeah I wouldn't consider them rivals either.

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If by chance we start playing Hull, Wendys, Blunts and Barnsley regularly in the next few seasons, the under 30s in our fanbase will totally understand the added edge compared to any Scunny or Lincoln game. Don't underestimate anything until you've experienced it first hand...

I'm 38 and I don't really remember this Wednesday rivalry that people are on about. Like I said further up, I remember them being big games but mainly just because we were likely to take decent followings other than any kind of ingrained rivalry.
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September 6, 2022, 11:48am
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Sheffield Wednesday from the eighties but any South Yorkshire team really and Leeds back in the day.

We've only played Hull City in three league campaigns that I recall since I started watching Town 79-80, 85-86 and 86-87 and we spent the best part of two decades above them at one time.

I suppose Lincolnshire matches are derbies but the Yorkshire games have always had more bite for me.

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Quoted from Hagrid
27 and never seen us play Hull


The only time I saw us v Hull was in the early 60's. - Jeez 60 years ago!
We lost 2-1 at Boothferry Park, Chris Chilton scored both of their goals I think & maybe Ron Rafferty got ours.
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