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Post by gasheadontour on Mar 5, 2021 3:46:27 GMT
In March 2000 we were top of the league with 10 matches to go and yet failed to make the play-offs. During the last 10 matches we won 1, drew 3, lost 6. The one win was against '82.
What went wrong?
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Post by Gasshole on Mar 5, 2021 5:43:35 GMT
I went wrong.
I’d been away for 3 years and cut a 3 month tour of South America in half to catch the tail end of that season. I should of stayed in Bogota.
It wasn’t all bad though, as Mrs Gasshole has never asked to come to another game after Cardiff away.
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Post by pirate on Mar 5, 2021 6:22:14 GMT
Losing Mauge and Pritchard to injury and failing to adequately replace them didn't help.
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Post by gasheadpirate on Mar 5, 2021 6:35:20 GMT
Roberts and Cureton stopped scoring because they wanted to get away?
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Post by pirate on Mar 5, 2021 6:41:44 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2021 7:00:48 GMT
Never really got over it. Learned to live with it, yes, deal with it, no.
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Post by gulfofaden on Mar 5, 2021 7:04:14 GMT
I went wrong. I’d been away for 3 years and cut a 3 month tour of South America in half to catch the tail end of that season. I should of stayed in Bogota. It wasn’t all bad though, as Mrs Gasshole has never asked to come to another game after Cardiff away. I remember that. Being penned in that car park with a massive mob of their fans coming after us. I was about 17 and bricking it. It did make me wonder, usually in football, the “firm” is usually a small bunch of guys, maybe 50-200. If seemed with Cardiff their firm was one entire stand, from memory it was a couple of thousand surrounding the car park. Mad. |
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Post by Windmill Hill Gas on Mar 5, 2021 7:08:26 GMT
If we had maintained our form and got promoted, what do people think would have happened? Could we have stayed up and kicked on or would we have struggled and gone straight back down? Tranmere, QPR and Huddersfield got relegated from Division 1 the following season. Even then we probably would have had the worst facilities in the league, although there were arguably a few smaller clubs than us that stayed up. Gillingham, Crewe, Stockport & Grimsby
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Post by ricardo on Mar 5, 2021 7:32:10 GMT
Still feel sick about Cardiff away
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Post by Gasshole on Mar 5, 2021 7:33:18 GMT
I went wrong. I’d been away for 3 years and cut a 3 month tour of South America in half to catch the tail end of that season. I should of stayed in Bogota. It wasn’t all bad though, as Mrs Gasshole has never asked to come to another game after Cardiff away. I remember that. Being penned in that car park with a massive mob of their fans coming after us. I was about 17 and bricking it. It did make me wonder, usually in football, the “firm” is usually a small bunch of guys, maybe 50-200. If seemed with Cardiff their firm was one entire stand, from memory it was a couple of thousand surrounding the car park. Mad. Mrs G is from NZ. she was particularly unimpressed with my mate who had just got out of prison, and seemed hell bent on getting back there as soon as possible. She’s never seen anything like it, apart the time I took her to see the Rovers at Ashton. 😂 |
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Post by bluebiro on Mar 5, 2021 7:37:30 GMT
Losing Mauge and Pritchard to injury and failing to adequately replace them didn't help. replacing them with two on loan youngsters probably did for us. Wollaston was one. Think they both made their debut at millwall and they totally destroyed us that day. Writing was on the wall that day on how much as a club we wanted promotion when those two started the game |
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Post by pirate on Mar 5, 2021 7:39:21 GMT
Losing Mauge and Pritchard to injury and failing to adequately replace them didn't help. replacing them with two on loan youngsters probably did for us. Wollaston was one. Think they both made their debut at millwall and they totally destroyed us that day. Writing was on the wall that day on how much as a club we wanted promotion when those two started the game Wolleaston from Chelsea and Jordan Stewart from Leicester. Both 17-year-olds if memory serves me right |
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Post by bluebiro on Mar 5, 2021 7:41:50 GMT
I went wrong. I’d been away for 3 years and cut a 3 month tour of South America in half to catch the tail end of that season. I should of stayed in Bogota. It wasn’t all bad though, as Mrs Gasshole has never asked to come to another game after Cardiff away. I remember that. Being penned in that car park with a massive mob of their fans coming after us. I was about 17 and bricking it. It did make me wonder, usually in football, the “firm” is usually a small bunch of guys, maybe 50-200. If seemed with Cardiff their firm was one entire stand, from memory it was a couple of thousand surrounding the car park. Mad. didnt stop there either. When we got off at temple meads. City were waiting to have some fun and dont think the day ended until the police escort took us up glos road and near the mem. |
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Post by Gasshole on Mar 5, 2021 7:47:26 GMT
Happy days though , being at the right end of the table with a faint sniff of glory.
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Post by goodnightirene1883 on Mar 5, 2021 8:01:13 GMT
I went wrong. I’d been away for 3 years and cut a 3 month tour of South America in half to catch the tail end of that season. I should of stayed in Bogota. It wasn’t all bad though, as Mrs Gasshole has never asked to come to another game after Cardiff away. I remember that. Being penned in that car park with a massive mob of their fans coming after us. I was about 17 and bricking it. It did make me wonder, usually in football, the “firm” is usually a small bunch of guys, maybe 50-200. If seemed with Cardiff their firm was one entire stand, from memory it was a couple of thousand surrounding the car park. Mad. That seems a bit old for a firm - i'd have gone for the 200 year old first (low hanging fruit) |
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Post by lympstonegas on Mar 5, 2021 8:02:41 GMT
Happy days though , being at the right end of the table with a faint sniff of glory. Oh to have a sniff of that again |
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Post by Jomo on Mar 5, 2021 8:03:22 GMT
I was 13 at the end of that season. To this day, I still feel that that collapse was more gut wrenching than anything we've been through since, aside from the relegation to the conference of course. I felt worse after that than the relegation the following season. I remember saying to my Dad after we lost to Millwall and Reading in that 2-punch horror show of a week, "we may not win the league, but at least we'll get at least a play off spot". The bounce then came back with that amazing win over the Sheeds, and we then conspired to still go and blow it by losing against Blackpool and Cardiff who both went down. It was so painful to see what seemed inevitable glory, just steadily and brutally pulled away from us.
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Post by William Wilson on Mar 5, 2021 8:34:54 GMT
I went wrong. I’d been away for 3 years and cut a 3 month tour of South America in half to catch the tail end of that season. I should of stayed in Bogota. It wasn’t all bad though, as Mrs Gasshole has never asked to come to another game after Cardiff away. I remember that. Being penned in that car park with a massive mob of their fans coming after us. I was about 17 and bricking it. It did make me wonder, usually in football, the “firm” is usually a small bunch of guys, maybe 50-200. If seemed with Cardiff their firm was one entire stand, from memory it was a couple of thousand surrounding the car park. Mad. To be fair, the police had it pretty sorted that day. I never felt that there was any likelihood of Cardiff getting into the carpark. Or maybe I was just too angry about the dross I`d just witnessed, to care. I remember games at Cardiff, ( and Swansea ) in the eighties, where it did get very tasty.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2021 8:43:47 GMT
Burnley signed Ian Wright. We signed 2 kids...there’s your answer
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Post by stuart1974 on Mar 5, 2021 9:13:26 GMT
I went wrong. I’d been away for 3 years and cut a 3 month tour of South America in half to catch the tail end of that season. I should of stayed in Bogota. It wasn’t all bad though, as Mrs Gasshole has never asked to come to another game after Cardiff away. No, actually it's me that went wrong. I missed out on seeing the 6-0 win at Reading the previous season so made the effort to make it that year. We lost 2-0 and it went downhill from then. My girlfriend wasn't impressed I went either so made a bad night even worse. Earlier that season I bumped into an ex girlfriend who wanted to get back together, she had since become a single mum so had I chosen to follow her out of the pub, my life would have been very, very different. A real sliding door year for me. |
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