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Who's going to this then? I see we've only sold 500 so far, I would hope for at least 1000.

Getting mine on Saturday. We'll easily sell out, despite being a Tuesday game.

1800 isn't it?

So I've heard on here.

Last time I went there the turnstile operator had a right go at me when I complained about the price to 'watch this shit' - By which I meant both teams! Also, I remember we were awful and had to rely on Brian Wade coming off the bench and scoring an equaliser (I think) in the last 5 mins.

The game in 95 was good fun, with home fans being turfed out of their seats to make room for more Swindon fans.

Last time I went we played most of the game with 9 men.

Ended 0-0

Ummiing and Ahhing about going - got a free ticket

Hmm, ground with a pub on each corner, only just up the road and free ticket - where is you decision?

Well, when you put it like that . . .

This is the social event of the the league callendar, providing we are in the same league :beers:

The 3-2 win in 09/10 was enjoyable. Revell with 2 and Hutchinson with a goal, unbelievable stuff.

Fun but chaotic. Pretty certain there was a mass brawl on the pitch that day as well, which was ace.

Working down the road and finishing early 4 pm start to crawl the 4 corners  :pint: hopefully will bump into Natalie Sawyer whilst at it she's a fox.

Yep, taking two Premiership supporting mates, show them some proper football  :)


If I remember correctly, Hutchinson's goal was a bit of a belter, about the only thing he actually did for us.

For me, this is the game I've been waiting for all season. door-to-door the shortest distance I've ever travelled to a game, even at the CG.

I'll be finishing as early as possible and setting upon the four corners.

We'll sell out, it'll be ace and we'll draw.

Ditto for Calvin Andrew on the last visit there.

The only highlight of the Paul Hart era that day

Just got tickets for me +2, as I work in London, this is one of the few games  I can go to and actually enjoy a few beers beforehand without having to worry about driving..

I think the goal your thinking about is one of Revell's goal, which was an absolute pearler, even though Hutchinson did amazingly score that day also.

Quite possibly. The one i'm thinking of was a shot from the corner of the box. Now I think about it, I can't imagine Hutchinson doing anything good.

First ever away game, (Easter Monday I think) 1987.

Micky Droy ripped the arms of Jimmy Quinn's shirt.  1-1.

The away section was the terrace opposite the main stand in those days.

Revell's shot was a rocket from the edge of the box in front of the town fans. Hutchinson scored a neat goal but at the other end.

650 sold.

My first trip to Griffin Park was 47 years ago to the day...apart from it was a Saturday, so doesn't feel quite right. Town won 1-0, Roger Smart hammered the winner from around 25-30 yards.

I was exactly 3 weeks old that day :)

I was -27.

Were you conceived from frozen sperm?

Revells bullet would of killed me if there was no net.

Also when the town fans kept throwing the ball back on when they were trying to take a corner...sweet.

I'm probably going.

Great day...and a goal for Wayne O'Sullivan no less...

95 was great. Proper terrace surge when Finney scored in front of us...

The 3-2 win and the 1-0 where Calvin Andrew scored are two of the reasons I'm gutted to be missing this game. Almost tempted to go, but it'd cost a bomb to get there from the North West!

Got tickets today and nearly 1k sold! I've only been once and it was the Calvin Andrew winner that ended a 20? match or so winless run under Paul Hart! Great day on the beers and will be again!  :pint:

Just bought 3 today. Looking forward to this one.

I'll be der

Calvin Andrew - I could not reemmeber him at all - 10 games as well ?????

I will be there. working in east london but will sit with the Brentford if I have to.

Just bought 17

Cool story, Bro.

You're not alone. Very forgetable.

Felt sorry for Calvin Andrew - he worked hard but was isolated as the lone striker in a PaulHart 4-3-3

Yeah I thought he was the best of all Harts loan signings, showed the most promise.

He was dogshite and his career before and since has proven that. Career stats of 167 games, 11 (eleven) goals. Just over a 1 in 15 return. For a striker.

Prolific.

That was the match where Bodin almist scored at the end

What game was that? I remember 5-5-0 every fucking game.

That was the best 0-0 i can remember, the atmosphere was cracking throughout

it was a cracking 0-0.

Was Shaun Close playing that day?

Think both our strikers were sent off. Chalky and was it Mitch? Pretty sure Close came on and played up front on his own. Did pretty well and set up that Bodin shot that could have been the winner from memory. The roof would have come off had Zippy kept it a couple of yards lower.

Yeah but he did score for someone at the weekend. IIRC it was a 35 yard volley.. Oh hang on someone shot and it deflected in off his arse.

I'm pretty sure Brian Marwood played most of that game up front and never seen him work so hard. Not sure who replaced him when he was eventually taken off.

Here you go Hitchin. Was this game.

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19930138

You've a better memory than me but remember Close more then Marwood for some reason even though he only came on for the last 20. £10k attendance at Brentford too. Blimey!

That was the one when we were all down the side wasnt it? I know I was at the game but dont remember anything about it at all.

Pretty sure that we were in the little two tiered away end but i may be wrong (and probably am). Not convinced I've ever been on the side at Brentford but then i'm younger than you SR. :-)

Jeez you've obviously had a hard life ;)

was that the game that was all ticket for away fans and about 100 or so Town fans had managed to get in the Brentford terracing down the side, they then moved us into an all ready packed terrace behing the goal

Brentford reminds me of a sad little moment in the career of one Swindon player, fullback Dean Casserly, who made his debut away at B’ford in the Freight Rover (now Tin Pot) Cup in 1987.

He was injured after a few minutes (shoulder from memory) and was subbed, according to that great stats site, after 10 minutes. Never played for Swindon or any League team again which must make his pro career one of the shortest ever. Maybe on the pitch for 5 minutes?

There weren’t many there because I think it was a sort of mini league that season and we’d already got into the next round so there was nowt to play for. I got there right on kick off and climbed in through the building site that became the new stand behind the goal. Which is a bit of a shame because the listed attendance was 1,110, and I like neat numbers.

The 1-0 win there when we were struggling under Kingy was a goodun. Heywood header and a good turnout under floodlights by our lot.

 Was that the one where we were at the "other end", in the 2 tier stand rather than the terrace? Liked that one.

Yep. I sat at the front row of the top. Decent view but a strange stand is that

Ha yeah, I crammed in down the bottom. All I can remember is Matty's goal sometime near the end, a good atmosphere and a few anti Pope/IRA songs (fuck knows why there was a group singing them).

Fairly certain this is from Brentford, 05/06 maybe?

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Spot the TEFer.

I see a very young looking Whits and Kinky Tom. And is that Batch too?

I've got a few spot the TEFer pictures, I started collecting snippets from online, paper and matchday programmes for a bit. My interest waned a bit when I got a job.

I can also spot a Walrus with a very unimpressed lady

edit: collecting pictures of random STFC stuff, not just of TEFers. I don't need that with Facebook.

don't think so, where? Actually you mean the person in the black top, bottom right-ish? Looks like my hairline, can't remember owning that top though!

Is that 5-a-side marc in the flag behind the "20" sign.

Yep, that's Marc pre-weightloss.

I think I also spot DV and Bushey.

I see 3 of the lads I was there with that day. I must just be out of the picture:
I with two of them tomorrow (Blackpool Red and Eddy Red Kite).

I was at that game too. My girlfriend and I were in the away end behind the goal and then moved down in to the little enclave of STFC behind the goal when you lot were moved from the side of the ground. It was packed that day! If Bodin scored at the end I would have gone ape even though we were in the away end!

I'm out of the picture as well...I was stood next to your brother

Yep I'm in there.

If I remember rightly Whits was only there for the first half then went up to Wigan for some family thing?!?!?

Game was shit and 0-0

Think it was also the first point we picked up post Kingy after losing the previous 8.

Is that Didcot Paul :)

I'm not 100% sure but I think I can see Ardiles.

I can guess who that was singing those. Think Loopy mos posters..

There is a picture from the front page of the adver with me and Pumbaa from the Yeovil game a few years back, I seemed to look a little angry in it for some reason :D

Aye...

I blame the old man, plus i had a hard paper round.

Then it was your fault I got totally smashed that game. Any drinking involving you and Blackpool Red always ends in tears...........hence should be avoided.
Was the the time Stan Bowles came in the pub we were drinking in ?
I think it could have been.

Everything is always my fault...or at least that's what Mrs Ghanimah tells me. I do believe it was regarding Mr Bowles. I had trouble procuring matches at the bar iirc because they suspected (quite rightly) they were being used as a form of gambling...

Didnt fallon miss an absolute sitter in front of the away end that day?

My memory is hazy, probably due to being wankered

Reeves for England(Alex) is in the back row methinks

Very,very cold on Monday and Tuesday in London....be warned.

That's the one. It was my first visit to Griffin Park which is a surprise considering I'd been in London since 1986.

"Of course it bloody well you" - Mrs Batch

Looking at the forecast it seems extremely unlikely that this will be on.

Shame, as I was really looking forward to it and we don't really need another Tuesday game towards the end of the season.

Snow? Rain?

Sunny spells with the temperature at 4 degrees in Brentford on Tuesday according to BBC.

That's called summer here.

Snow Monday with temperatures overnight around -2/-3.

Tuesday looks fine at the moment, no real danger of this being off

Do any of you older Town Fans remember Brentford away in May 1979 we won 2-1 with Mayes & Miller the scorers and the attendance was over 13,320 with at least 4-5000 from Swindon. This is the season where we had the big games with Swansea & Watford and just missed out on promotion right at the end of the season

Might engineer a few customer visits that way on Tuesday. Anyone know what the parking is like as this is just over the boundry of my territory?

I always used to park at The Butts. But it's pay at  parking machine, and not cheap. There must be somewhere better..

Remember it well.....because of our two brilliant cup runs we ended up with three tough away games...Brentford which we won as you say...sadly we lost our next at Wednesday 4-2....which meant our last away match at Blackpool was a dead rubber....think we still took around 2000 to Blackpool and got hammered again(5-2?) i think....it was a great season and we really should have won the league
Swansea won it....we won 2-1 at Swansea on Boxing day which was a great away day....though they beat us 1-0 at the County Ground.

Great that you can remember the Swansea away game on the boxing day as I can remember us town fans being kept in with I am sailing by Rod Stewart being played loudy over the Tannoy. Fantastic day out !!!

Gilchrist with the winner i seem to remember at Swansea....also the 2-2 at Stoke was brilliant after being two down....we marmalised them in the replay.

I think the Stoke game was the following season 1979-1980 as I seem to remember us having some great cup games including drawing wih Arsenal away with over 8000 town fans backing them and beating them 4-3 at home in the replay liam Brady and all and also playing spurs at home when the hot dog stand was set alight at the stratton bank end. Also who can forget the disappointment of getting beaten by wolves in the semi final

Mine was the defeat at Bristol City perhaps 2002.
Still, the 7-1 at Forest was one of the best

210 Brentford tickets left in the ticket office and 300 available on the night. Out of an allocation of 1800 I make that 1290 sold. Not bad, hopefully make 1500.

One of the best seasons with Watford, Gillingham, Liverpool Reserves (Swansea) all going for promotion. All of the above home games were over 16,000.
We lost 0-1 Swansea but beat Watford 2-1 and the game was on MOTD and finally 3-1 v The Gills a very lively game like they all were then against Gilliscum.

Happy Days.

yes 1979 was a great time towatch the Town with really good attendances considering what the population of swindon would have been. Lots of great memories from beating liverpol reserves at the vetch field and swindon fans having their union jack flags taken off them. Also Aldershot away in the FA Cup where the attendance was 10,300 and Town fans everywhere including passing the special train near ground whilst in a convoy of Rimes coaches
Happy Days

The 1979-80 season was and probably will always be my favourite season, even better than getting to the Premiership for me.

Probably because it was my first experience of success as a own fan.

Was good fun on that lovely saturday when Calvin Andrew scored a couple of years ago. Little Smoke pellet and shoes on the pitch  :beers:

I've been to Brentford a few times and spent my 21st birthday there watching us get beat. Not been since Chalky and Mitch got sent off. I do remember gonig there on a Monday night many moons ago to find the game called off. We went into Soho as did a lot of Town that evening. It was kicking off all over the place. Police were rounding Town fans up and we were approached by a few police and we thought here we go, stitch up time. They asked us how we got there and offered us a lift back to the car. Decent police.
Looking forward to Tuesday.

I thought you were turning into Danny Dyer there... pwopa nawty ;)

Stuart Attwell is the ref tomorrow.

Kiss goodbye to a decent game then...

Initially i thought shit! Then i remembered the last two games he's refereed at the County ground he's done OK. A mate of mine works with him so wanted an view - honestly he did pretty well, for a ref.

It's pissing down with snow in central London today - hope they've got some covers on.

I've got a spare U18 ticket if anyone wants it.

Also, where are people going before the game?

A pub in every corner. Royal Oak (a small locals pub), The Griffin (serves Fullers real ale), The Princess Royal & The New Inn. The New Inn is the favoured pub for away supporters.

Perm any 2 from 4 although I'm planning on doing all 4. Start at the Griffin at 4.00

Any parking recommendations?

Always found it to be a pain in the arse finding a space in the residential areas

Anyone planning on paying on the gate want a terrace ticket tonight? £19 rather than the £21? My mate's bottled it with man flu.

We probably won't be there until 6ish, so will only have time for one. Plus, it's fucking freezing, so don't really want to be going in and out  :)

Looks like it will be The New Inn for us.

Best Brentford away for me was in May 79 when we won 2-1 in front of 13,320 with Ian Miler & Alan Mayes the scorers .This was when the away end was at the opposite end of the ground with at least 4000 from swindon there