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« Reply #225 on: Monday, September 28, 2015, 16:28:37 » |
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tans
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« Reply #226 on: Monday, September 28, 2015, 16:39:51 » |
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Sam morshead i reckon
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« Reply #227 on: Monday, September 28, 2015, 16:43:01 » |
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I went to all the games at the CG in the 80s and most in the 70s.
I honestly don't remember them taking the TE. I remember battles with Arsenal and Bristol City at the corner of the Shrivvy and the TE.
, but that was in the 70s. Surely in the 80s there was segregation and the away fans were in the Shrivvy/Stratton Bank corner.
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« Reply #228 on: Monday, September 28, 2015, 16:43:22 » |
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Probably an Oxford fan or Tans. |
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tans
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« Reply #229 on: Monday, September 28, 2015, 17:01:46 » |
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Nope not me, im banned
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« Reply #230 on: Monday, September 28, 2015, 17:22:53 » |
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I went to all the games at the CG in the 80s and most in the 70s.
I honestly don't remember them taking the TE. I remember battles with Arsenal and Bristol City at the corner of the Shrivvy and the TE.
, but that was in the 70s. Surely in the 80s there was segregation and the away fans were in the Shrivvy/Stratton Bank corner.
In the 80's/90's they never bought enough to fill the away end, let alone to 'take the Town End'. |
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« Reply #231 on: Monday, September 28, 2015, 17:56:36 » |
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Am I the only one who doesnt give a shit if they ever did 'take the town end?' I find it hilarious seeing the old farts who thought it was big and hard to have a fight in the 70's still banging on about it.
The children who claim to be still doing it now I also find pathetic.
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« Reply #232 on: Monday, September 28, 2015, 18:42:27 » |
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All this 'we took the Townend' crap. What used to happen was the Oxford fans would turn up at 1:30 when the gates opened and go into the Townend. Just before kick off the home fans would leave the pubs and enter Stratton Bank. They would all then mass at the corner of the Townend and Shrivvy Road and then push the Oxford fans towards the North Stand side. You would then end up with the Townend half and half with both sets of fans with the Police in the middle. This happened with most matches, not just Oxford.
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« Reply #233 on: Monday, September 28, 2015, 19:09:24 » |
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Okay, let's all clarify who's getting there and how?
I'm going by coach.
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« Reply #234 on: Monday, September 28, 2015, 19:10:18 » |
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That's the first time I've been on that site for a while - and what strikes me is just how civilised things are on there compared to the way it used to be. The Oxford fella who married in to the Swindon supporting family has it about right: Truth of the matter is the 'atmosphere', for want of a better word, has been diluted by the rarity of the fixture and also from the Swindon perspective, more of a 'couldn't care less' attitude. Having married into a Swindon supporting family does give me a different outlook TBH.
Bragging rights and general p!ss taking is the order of the day now, and rightly so. There is no place for the knuckledraggers these days.
The intensity is no way near what it used to be. And neither will it return until such time as we start playing them again on a regular basis. The bile, vitriol and hatred originated mainly in the 1970s when we were playing them practically every week. |
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« Reply #235 on: Monday, September 28, 2015, 19:21:15 » |
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All this 'we took the Townend' crap. What used to happen was the Oxford fans would turn up at 1:30 when the gates opened and go into the Townend. Just before kick off the home fans would leave the pubs and enter Stratton Bank. They would all then mass at the corner of the Townend and Shrivvy Road and then push the Oxford fans towards the North Stand side. You would then end up with the Townend half and half with both sets of fans with the Police in the middle. This happened with most matches, not just Oxford.
If memory serves me correct, except for Boreham wood. |
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« Reply #236 on: Monday, September 28, 2015, 20:15:46 » |
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Early score predictions?
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« Reply #237 on: Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 06:09:31 » |
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Us to win on penalties.
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« Reply #238 on: Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 06:30:02 » |
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The only violence I have seen at an Oxford match is when one of their fans jumped the fence at the CG into no-man's land, punched a ballboy who was about eleven years old. Then the culprit legged it back into the Oxford end.
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« Reply #239 on: Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 08:20:08 » |
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Us to win on penalties.
God please no. |
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