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Part of away end to open to home fans for Tranmere game

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  • @chairboyscentral said:
    Gus Uhlenbeek? I guess that was around 2004? Which might explain why we had to take desperate measures to try and fill the stadium.

    That's a bit of a barbed comment. Uhlenbeek was a good watch in his time with us.
    From what I can remember the free game was used to put data in Steve Hayes mythical database.

  • I remember Uhlenbeek scoring at a snow covered Field Mill in 2005, in a match so bizarre, I'm not convinced it actually happened to this day.

  • edited February 2020

    @Right_in_the_Middle Huh? I mean 2003-04 wasn't exactly an enjoyable season to watch Wycombe, was it? I may have been a year or two out anyway.

  • @LX1 said:
    I remember Uhlenbeek scoring at a snow covered Field Mill in 2005, in a match so bizarre, I'm not convinced it actually happened to this day.

    I seem to have a memory that Gus scored a hat trick that game, or should I give up eating them field mushrooms?

  • Not being a local person at my local club I had to google yer man @EwanHoosaami and it seems to suggest that he only scored four goals for Wycombe in total...so I assume you saw him at his best! :smile:

  • @chairboyscentral said:
    @Right_in_the_Middle Huh? I mean 2003-04 wasn't exactly an enjoyable season to watch Wycombe, was it? I may have been a year or two out anyway.

    The free game was 04/05, which was a lot of fun in its own way.

  • @chairboyscentral said:
    @Right_in_the_Middle Huh? I mean 2003-04 wasn't exactly an enjoyable season to watch Wycombe, was it? I may have been a year or two out anyway.

    Every season is an enjoyable season watching Wycombe isn't it?

  • @EwanHoosaami I thought he'd got more than one but chairboys on the net says Claridge 2 Uhlenbeek 1 Stonebridge 1. Having arrived late to that game we hurriedly paid in, only to find that Mansfield had switched the away end. A steward helpfully escorted us around the pitch past John Gorman who cheerily said 'Nice days for it lads' as if we'd just passed him waiting for a bus on West Wycombe Road. Steve Brown was not as cool staring at us wide-eyed like he thought we were fearless hooligans who had just tried to 'take' the home end.

  • Note to self: Give up eating mind bending fungi!

  • @Right_in_the_Middle said:

    @chairboyscentral said:
    @Right_in_the_Middle Huh? I mean 2003-04 wasn't exactly an enjoyable season to watch Wycombe, was it? I may have been a year or two out anyway.

    Every season is an enjoyable season watching Wycombe isn't it?

    Indeed, comrade.

  • Although it seems to be one of our finest traditions to immediately pour scorn on every single new idea...this is surely a great, utterly risk free, nice little idea that surely no one can truly have any issue with?!

  • Have you met the gasroom Malone?

  • @Malone IS the Gasroom.

  • @LX1 said:
    Leaving the Vere to watch the second half against Cov

    It’s good to have you back

  • edited February 2020

    @NewburyWanderer What was the away attendance for the 'great escape' finale at Lincoln with the free coaches (does that count as a 'gimmick')? A mythical figure around the 3,000 mark is floating round my head, but you're usually bang on the money so the correct figure is probably less than the 2,700 odd at the 'orange' match.

  • Lol @micra and @drcongo

    I don't remember this orange business.
    I remember Celtic vaguely. Although i can't remember if that was also Cousin's testimonial, or if that was two separate events.

  • Celtic Day was a home game with Chester. Celtic fans were singing Wycombe 1 Chester 0 woah woah at half time in Scores.

    There was a Q&A with Lambert in the Vere after the game and one of the questions from a Celtic fan was “Can me and my son have a lift to the airport?”. Lambert was annoyed but ultimately said yes as he was going that way.

  • ah Gus. I used to get to more games then and remember him well from my (more musical) youth. Never did understand why we didn't more often pass to the Dutchie on the right hand side.

  • The best thing about Reading's orange hair day in celebration of Dave Kitson, was how irritated he got about the whole ordeal, and compared it to racism. You'd have thought The Secret Footballer would rise above that

  • @prufrock_91 said:
    The best thing about Reading's orange hair day in celebration of Dave Kitson, was how irritated he got about the whole ordeal, and compared it to racism. You'd have thought The Secret Footballer would rise above that

    And they had another ginger fella who didn't care at all.

  • @peterparrotface said:
    Celtic Day was a home game with Chester. Celtic fans were singing Wycombe 1 Chester 0 woah woah at half time in Scores.

    There was a Q&A with Lambert in the Vere after the game and one of the questions from a Celtic fan was “Can me and my son have a lift to the airport?”. Lambert was annoyed but ultimately said yes as he was going that way.

    Ah yes. Lambert was living in Scotland for half the week wasn't he!
    It made lawries leaving at 3.30 on the dot an easy arrangement in compArison.

  • I recall Dave lee travis being wheeled out onto the pitch at half time, must have been mid 90s as I was still on the terrace in those days. Was doing panto in Aylesbury or something. It was at the time I think he was trying to have radio 1 ban electronic music and so got a resounding “who the f*cking hell are you?” From the terrace.

  • Does anyone remember when we were asked on the Valley Terrace by some documentary maker via the tannoy announcer to sing "Spend it like Beckham?"

  • Ah yes DLT....I seem to recall listening to him in his Radio 1 days doing that snooker quiz and when he asked one fella what he did...he said I'm currently unemployed...to which the delightful Hairy Cornflake said. 'Well you should be out looking for a job then...' and cut him off.

  • Can't wait for Dev's essay on whether we're allowed to call DLT a nonce or not.

  • Everyone needs a hobby, Dr C

  • Not sure the allegations were nonce level...

  • @LeedsBlue said:
    @NewburyWanderer What was the away attendance for the 'great escape' finale at Lincoln with the free coaches (does that count as a 'gimmick')? A mythical figure around the 3,000 mark is floating round my head, but you're usually bang on the money so the correct figure is probably less than the 2,700 odd at the 'orange' match.

    Chairboys on the Net recorded the away following at Lincoln as being 'close to 3,000' and '2,500 plus' in this excellent record of the historic day http://chairboys.co.uk/onthenet/linc_99.htm.
    From what I can remember, we pretty much filled that end, which was terracing at the time and must have had a capacity of around 3,000.

  • Thanks @ReadingMarginalista - a great nostalgic reminder of a Top 10 all-time Wycombe game. And maybe, in the absence of any official record of the away attendance that day, this could even have been our biggest away league following after all...

  • @LeedsBlue said:
    @NewburyWanderer What was the away attendance for the 'great escape' finale at Lincoln with the free coaches (does that count as a 'gimmick')? A mythical figure around the 3,000 mark is floating round my head, but you're usually bang on the money so the correct figure is probably less than the 2,700 odd at the 'orange' match.

    @LeedsBlue I've got it down in my records as 2,643. I'm pretty sure a precise figure was never disclosed through the normal channels, but I do seem to remember that figure being 'slipped in' by Hutch on Ringing the Blues. So it can't be wrong (can it?).

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