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Post by mehewmagic on May 17, 2019 13:05:56 GMT
Where did you fly in from? My thoughts exactly... π€£
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Post by mehewmagic on May 17, 2019 13:07:37 GMT
Where on earth is he now? Dagenham!
I rate the Balanta penalty as the biggest and best of them all, straight after a miss and he had the iciest bollocks in the whole of Wembley. An underrated moment.
I wrote my first ever BRFC programme article about his pen, entitled 'Heaven Must be Missing an Angelo' ππ₯³ TBF to manse he is on record as agreeing that Balanta's pen was the pressure one. If Manse missed they just carried on.
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Post by kentgas on May 17, 2019 13:18:50 GMT
Angelo Balanta! The forgotten penalty taker! Where on earth is he now? Dagenham & Redbridge
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Post by Hudson1883 on May 17, 2019 13:21:32 GMT
Dagenham!
I rate the Balanta penalty as the biggest and best of them all, straight after a miss and he had the iciest bollocks in the whole of Wembley. An underrated moment.
I wrote my first ever BRFC programme article about his pen, entitled 'Heaven Must be Missing an Angelo' ππ₯³ TBF to manse he is on record as agreeing that Balanta's pen was the pressure one. If Manse missed they just carried on. Indeed, the very next penalty after a miss is always a huge pressure moment. Balanta gets just enough bend on the strike to take it away from the keeper. Unusual for a right footer taking it at that height, but itβs testament to the execution & quality of what was a massive moment & right in front of the Grimsby fans too. A fine end to a long (and in places, treacherous) season but one I always look back on as one of my all time favourites in a fair few decades of watching the Gas.
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Post by Henbury Gas on May 17, 2019 13:28:12 GMT
Dagenham!
I rate the Balanta penalty as the biggest and best of them all, straight after a miss and he had the iciest bollocks in the whole of Wembley. An underrated moment.
I wrote my first ever BRFC programme article about his pen, entitled 'Heaven Must be Missing an Angelo' ππ₯³ TBF to manse he is on record as agreeing that Balanta's pen was the pressure one. If Manse missed they just carried on. Mans description of that penalty at the last Blue Diamond lunch had everybody on the edge of their seats and was brilliant
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Post by Icegas on May 17, 2019 13:33:02 GMT
What a weekend that was! I flew back just for the weekend. I remember completely loosing my voice after the game and could barely speak on the flight back the next morning! I was like that for the whole week! π I went on my own as my mates couldnt go, worked all day until midnight the day before.Fell at 2am asleep in the cimema at cabot watching Mad max with the only other people being there being an asian couple! I was trying to stay awake to get the 5am London national express as I wanted to miss the ques from Bristol. Sat on my own at wembley and started singing gas songs on my own.And Ive never done that ever! And people were following me.lol All for the most important game in our history.Dread to think where we would be if we had lost..
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Post by aghast on May 17, 2019 16:42:45 GMT
Did we ever clear exactly how many went to Wembley that day?
There were 47,000 there and I'm almost certain Grimsby took no more than 16k, since none of the upper tiers were filled. In 2016 Grimsby v FGR only had 17k in total.
So if we took 24k as told, and Grimsby had 16k, who were the missing 7k? Neutrals? I doubt it.
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Post by Icegas on May 17, 2019 18:21:24 GMT
Did we ever clear exactly how many went to Wembley that day? There were 47,000 there and I'm almost certain Grimsby took no more than 16k, since none of the upper tiers were filled. In 2016 Grimsby v FGR only had 17k in total. So if we took 24k as told, and Grimsby had 16k, who were the missing 7k? Neutrals? I doubt it. Never did we only take 24k that day..ππits a myth spread by those prats on OTIB. I remember seeing it reported on the local news, on our website and in the papers that we had sold over 30k.If you go back to the video footage/pictures of that day we had the same if not more fans then Grimsby did on the bottom tier (they only had the bottom tier) and we had the whole of one half of the middle tier at our end that wasnt open in 2007 when we played Shewsbury as well as selling half the top tier also.We had at least..LEAST double the fans that Grimsby did so if they had 16k then we took at least 32k...This is not based on guess work, but picture and video proof! Still much down on the 42k we took in 2007 and the 38k to Cardiff a few weeks before, but at the time was to be excepted given dropping out of the league.
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Post by completewingback on May 17, 2019 21:42:04 GMT
Hard to realize that's been 4 whole years ago.
That season was probably my most active as a Rovers supporter from overseas who can't go to games. I was only 21, and since dropping from the EFL meant a lot less media attention on Rovers, I signed up on the Alternative Forum (the other one) to try and get news "firsthand", innacurate as they might've been. I'd go to my intern job, greet everyone and log into the forum first thing in the morning. I remember 3 weeks of everyone gushing over Ryan Higgins, only for him to go elsewhere and some bloke named Leadbitter signing instead. I remember people desperately trying to assess if Monkhouse and Sinclair were quality players. Everyone cheering for DC transfer-listing Harrison, and then months later for his new beginning as a super-sub. I remember Alex Wall, Goldberg and Jamie White just as well as I remember Lines, the Snake and Mildy. I remember sneaking out of work to listen to the promotion match - penalties and all - on the radio, since it happened in the middle of the afternoon around here. People passing by might as well think I was listening to my parents die or something.
Such a bittersweet season. Definitely our lowest point yet, the depression could be felt in the air, and the first few results didn't help either, but then it picked up and turned into two back-to-back promotions and the most entertaining squad to watch play and banter off-field ever.
Sometimes it's good to remember where you came from, to get a better sense of where to go next.
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Post by Jomo on May 17, 2019 22:53:10 GMT
Hard to realize that's been 4 whole years ago. That season was probably my most active as a Rovers supporter from overseas who can't go to games. I was only 21, and since dropping from the EFL meant a lot less media attention on Rovers, I signed up on the Alternative Forum (the other one) to try and get news "firsthand", innacurate as they might've been. I'd go to my intern job, greet everyone and log into the forum first thing in the morning. I remember 3 weeks of everyone gushing over Ryan Higgins, only for him to go elsewhere and some bloke named Leadbitter signing instead. I remember people desperately trying to assess if Monkhouse and Sinclair were quality players. Everyone cheering for DC transfer-listing Harrison, and then months later for his new beginning as a super-sub. I remember Alex Wall, Goldberg and Jamie White just as well as I remember Lines, the Snake and Mildy. I remember sneaking out of work to listen to the promotion match - penalties and all - on the radio, since it happened in the middle of the afternoon around here. People passing by might as well think I was listening to my parents die or something. Such a bittersweet season. Definitely our lowest point yet, the depression could be felt in the air, and the first few results didn't help either, but then it picked up and turned into two back-to-back promotions and the most entertaining squad to watch play and banter off-field ever. Sometimes it's good to remember where you came from, to get a better sense of where to go next. Great post, reading enjoyed reading that and I feel exactly the same! It's nice to remember that season with the hindsight that we succeeded, where so many other clubs have failed. We could have been another Wrexham, Stockport, Chesterfield, Hartlepool. It took Grimsby, Lincoln and Mansfield a long time to get back after relegation to the Conference. Our fans would do well to appreciate more where we're at now thanks to DC and his group of players that have now all disbanded bar OC. We have so so much to thank them for.
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