Unless you are in the top division or have an immediate neighbour, most rivalries are going to be somewhat temporary. Poor Colchester - if they really still care about us, they are shaking their fist at the sky right now, so to speak!
Likewise, if we ever get back into the Championship, we will leave behind L1 mainstays like Sunderland.
The rivalry with Col U is just in the heads of the more elderly fans now. The last few games, both home and away, were played in the same atmosphere as any other game. It’s a long way from the danger and aggro that was everywhere around those fixtures in the Conference days.
I certainly did have a couple of great away days at Layer Road, but was always happy to get back to the car alive.
Obviously the rivalry with ColU, like any non geographic rivalry, has suffered from the vast gap in our recent fortunes. But there’s is still the first result I look for, and their defeats are the ones I enjoy most.
A Stockport player alleged that one of the Barnet coaching staff shouted racist abuse at him during the game. The club have since stood by their staff member and said it was misheard.
Club captain Jamie Turley, after the incident, challenged the staff member and there was an altercation. He has now been suspended by the club.
@Lloyd2084 said:
The rivalry with Col U is just in the heads of the more elderly fans now. The last few games, both home and away, were played in the same atmosphere as any other game. It’s a long way from the danger and aggro that was everywhere around those fixtures in the Conference days.
I certainly did have a couple of great away days at Layer Road, but was always happy to get back to the car alive.
Blimey - I'm still in my 30s and didn't realise that I counted as one of "the more elderly fans".
@Lloyd2084 said:
The rivalry with Col U is just in the heads of the more elderly fans now. The last few games, both home and away, were played in the same atmosphere as any other game. It’s a long way from the danger and aggro that was everywhere around those fixtures in the Conference days.
I certainly did have a couple of great away days at Layer Road, but was always happy to get back to the car alive.
Blimey - I'm still in my 30s and didn't realise that I counted as one of "the more elderly fans".
It was a curiously dismissive post, especially for someone who sounds like he was around in the thick of those days.
No malice meant by it! I’m in my late forties and am definitely approaching the brow of the hill, if not starting my descent!
There is clearly a gap between my generation of fans and those younger ones who are more ambivalent towards the Col U rivalry. I’m not sure I can think of an appropriate term or frame of reference for the gap. Post Sir Martin fans perhaps?
@Lloyd2084 said:
No malice meant by it! I’m in my late forties and am definitely approaching the brow of the hill, if not starting my descent!
There is clearly a gap between my generation of fans and those younger ones who are more ambivalent towards the Col U rivalry. I’m not sure I can think of an appropriate term or frame of reference for the gap. Post Sir Martin fans perhaps?
I started with senior, but then thought the yoof might take that as an attempt at superiority. I then thought mature but then suggests the other group are somehow less mature. I went with elderly for a bit of self deprecation, but appear to have prematurely aged a cohort of fans before their time.
@ReturnToSenda said:
Anyone watching the Brighton - Liverpool game? Goalkeepers are now allowed to roundhouse kick opposition forwards in the chest apparently.
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Yes, all that can be said for the Bolton result is that it increases our chances of a top ten finish, no matter what else happens.
Come on people...its only Rotherham at the weekend. ?
Sutton beat Wigan to reach the pepperoni tribute shield final
(In all serious, what a rise they've had and are still having)
In all seriousness, yes. Sorry about the pedantry @ReturnToSenda but you know me!
To much viagra?
Born in 1990. Oxford, Bristol Rovers, MK, Peterborough and Plymouth for me in roughly that order.
Crikey @OxfordBlue, you’re virtually a contemporary of young Tom. (NB not the drummer.)
I guess you live in Oxford? I lived in Reading for a while and their consistent failure still makes me smile.
Unless you are in the top division or have an immediate neighbour, most rivalries are going to be somewhat temporary. Poor Colchester - if they really still care about us, they are shaking their fist at the sky right now, so to speak!
Likewise, if we ever get back into the Championship, we will leave behind L1 mainstays like Sunderland.
Not a night to be at home in the Scottish Highland League tonight!
The rivalry with Col U is just in the heads of the more elderly fans now. The last few games, both home and away, were played in the same atmosphere as any other game. It’s a long way from the danger and aggro that was everywhere around those fixtures in the Conference days.
I certainly did have a couple of great away days at Layer Road, but was always happy to get back to the car alive.
Obviously the rivalry with ColU, like any non geographic rivalry, has suffered from the vast gap in our recent fortunes. But there’s is still the first result I look for, and their defeats are the ones I enjoy most.
It must have felt like a long old month for Jamie. I wonder if there was any action taken about the coach?
Blimey - I'm still in my 30s and didn't realise that I counted as one of "the more elderly fans".
It was a curiously dismissive post, especially for someone who sounds like he was around in the thick of those days.
No malice meant by it! I’m in my late forties and am definitely approaching the brow of the hill, if not starting my descent!
There is clearly a gap between my generation of fans and those younger ones who are more ambivalent towards the Col U rivalry. I’m not sure I can think of an appropriate term or frame of reference for the gap. Post Sir Martin fans perhaps?
I'm early forties and slipping down the other side rapidly. I reckon it's post 2001 fans
I think you can have a better go than elderly
I started with senior, but then thought the yoof might take that as an attempt at superiority. I then thought mature but then suggests the other group are somehow less mature. I went with elderly for a bit of self deprecation, but appear to have prematurely aged a cohort of fans before their time.
Sometimes I’m better not overthinking things!
Just go with 'more experienced'
Wanderers fans of a "certain vintage" has a nice ring to it.
‘Certain vintage’. Yes, that fits nicely!
Ooh good shout
Nice bouquet and slips down the throat easily
Which is ironically my tinder bio
How about this for a strike down in Gibraltar:
Anyone watching the Brighton - Liverpool game? Goalkeepers are now allowed to roundhouse kick opposition forwards in the chest apparently.
It's against Liverpool. Let it go.
Burnley's official commentary team taking yesterday's loss to Brentford well