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Post by martinjohn on Dec 31, 2023 15:42:37 GMT
Swindon Town cynically took advantage of the fuel strike in Sept 2000 to postpone their game with us which we would have inevitably won as we were absolutely flying in League Division 2 (or League One as it is now). It was the only game in the whole football league calendar which was cancelled.
This stopped our momentum, led to a bad run of form and ultimately cost us a chance at promotion.
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Post by cufcwill on Dec 31, 2023 15:42:41 GMT
Took me until our second season in League 1 to realise that bringing Kwesi back would have been a disaster. Not necessarily because he'd have been bad but more that he'd have never been able to reach the highs he hit in his two other spells. Oh and that without injuries Liam O'Neil would've been one of the best midfielders that the club has ever had
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Post by Tom Shaw's Fist of Rage on Dec 31, 2023 15:42:51 GMT
Dave Doggett & to an extent Jez George did as much as than good for the club. Richard Money & Co achieved the success they did despite DDs leadership rather than being helped by it. Equally with a competent manager we should have reached League 1 much earlier. What the financial implications would have been I don't quite know.
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Post by flouncingarburyboy on Dec 31, 2023 15:46:52 GMT
To keep it topical and recent, I will never budge from the belief that our floodlights are the highest in the EFL, are the most magnificent part of The Abbey and are worthy of listed status. Oh, and they work.
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Post by simon on Dec 31, 2023 16:19:10 GMT
No one will ever convince me that there wasn’t a campaign to prevent us getting to the inaugural premier league in 1992. Around Christmas that season the press turned on us. We went from plucky Cambridge to killing football. Several scandalous refereeing decisions cost us Promotion. The premier league was about big clubs and big money. We were not welcome.
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Post by Denton on Dec 31, 2023 16:39:16 GMT
Luke Berry's betrayal to join Luton. I don't like him, and I don't want him back. He made his bed, now he has to lie in it. I'm also sure he won't care about any abuse our fan base gives him considering his current position. I regularly have this argument with people. I will die on this hill with you, flip him
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Post by Sandypants on Dec 31, 2023 17:11:32 GMT
Luke Berry's betrayal to join Luton. I don't like him, and I don't want him back. He made his bed, now he has to lie in it. I'm also sure he won't care about any abuse our fan base gives him considering his current position. I regularly have this argument with people. I will die on this hill with you, flip him Why? He's in the premier league. A wonderful lad who gave us some great moments in some dark times. Luton was always a logical move, and so it has proven.
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Post by Andrewlang on Dec 31, 2023 17:29:55 GMT
My hill on that argument is that Jez threw Luke under the bus to make it seem like Luke was the bad guy guy and had forced through a late move, rather than it appear as though Jez had reneged on the promise not to sell him to a divisional rival and had negotiated a crap deal.
There are about 3-4 itk accounts of what happened in that deal though so knows. I have no issue with Luke either way.
My most controversial take is that Wannie was a whinger who moaned to press about how poorly he was paid on a few occasions to try and manipulate a better deal for himself. Never seen someone so public about it before or since and no matter how much I loved him as a player I don't like the dirty laundry and I don't like him. He'd been banging on about Oxford for years so I wasn't too bothered when he eventually had his bluff called.
Also, related, that Shaggy was used by the board to make tough decisions such as the above to save money on wages because they knew he was loved and would be forgiven, while also providing a distraction from the club being run into the ground.
Andrew
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Post by Denton on Dec 31, 2023 19:29:21 GMT
I regularly have this argument with people. I will die on this hill with you, flip him Why? He's in the premier league. A wonderful lad who gave us some great moments in some dark times. Luton was always a logical move, and so it has proven. I don't begrudge the actual move, obviously it's worked out well for them and you can't argue that Luton aren't a bigger team than us. It's the manner in which it happened (twice), Jez's negotiation skills aside (honking) we held all the cards and folded like a pack of cards
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Post by Sandypants on Dec 31, 2023 21:51:26 GMT
Why? He's in the premier league. A wonderful lad who gave us some great moments in some dark times. Luton was always a logical move, and so it has proven. I don't begrudge the actual move, obviously it's worked out well for them and you can't argue that Luton aren't a bigger team than us. It's the manner in which it happened (twice), Jez's negotiation skills aside (honking) we held all the cards and folded like a pack of cards Ah, so it's less Bez himself and more the nature of the transfer? That I can understand.
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Post by danboyb on Dec 31, 2023 21:51:38 GMT
Shaggy should never have been appointed as manager. Was done for all the wrong reasons and played a big part in our decline that followed. Love the bloke for what he achieved as a player, but he spectacularly failed to get anywhere near the best out of a decent crop of players.
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Post by hoolaohanrahanrahan on Dec 31, 2023 22:11:12 GMT
To keep it topical and recent, I will never budge from the belief that our floodlights are the highest in the EFL, are the most magnificent part of The Abbey and are worthy of listed status. Oh, and they work. Those are facts. The tallest floodlights in professional football in this country, and they should absolutely be protected. Depends where you start, of course, but nothing stirs the heart like coming over the Gog Magogs of an evening and seeing them lit up.
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Post by Andrewlang on Dec 31, 2023 22:17:16 GMT
Tallest remaining, yeah I'm almost certain of it.
There must only be a handful of clubs with them left and they should be treasured.
Andrew
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Post by Andrewlang on Dec 31, 2023 23:11:21 GMT
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Post by TallPaddy on Jan 1, 2024 2:03:20 GMT
The year we got into the playoffs of what is now The Championship, we had a late winner erroneously disallowed for offside at home against Middlesbrough (might have been Plymouth). The game finished 2-2. If the goal had stood, we'd have gone up automatically and still be in the Premier League. If (well sorry!) that's true then I would have been absolutely incensed and even more devastated at filbert street on that horrible night !
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