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Going back to The Valley

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  • boogica
    boogica Posts: 2,321
    edited August 2014
    Gumbo said:

    Real fans went Tuesday mate

    The real fans followed the club to shelhurst and upton park and every other piss hole up north year after year.

    And of course the old den now that was a proper shit hole.

  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,785
    Can't get to the ground today but will be there on Tuesday. Can't wait! Very jealous of everyone going up today...

    COYR!!
  • GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull Posts: 2,351

    Last game before leaving my beloved flat in Lansdowne Lane overlooking the ground .... bought in Nov 1991 as partly a home and partly an act of faith. The flat is now empty but my heart is full.

    So a bit of a double special day today. Tuesday's dress rehearsal wasn't half bad. UTA !!
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,853
    I genuinely can't imagine not being able to make it to every Charlton game. At this stage in my life, it seems like some sort of cruel torture. Best and worst 90 minutes of my week, but I always look forward to it like a kid at Christmas.
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    orpingtonRED said:

    most of u are bullshitters that don't even ever go to a game

    That makes you look like a right knob mate
  • MeebaumAzanitch
    MeebaumAzanitch Posts: 605
    Now in The Royal Oak. Happy times.
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    MeebaumAzanitch said:

    Can't wait. Moved to a different seat in a different stand. Closer to the away support. Looking forward to the banter.



    Welcome back MSE7
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,886
    edited August 2014
    Just leaving in a minute mate, A Block here I come. Doubt whether I'll bump into the legend that is MSE7 though because he's seems such a shy and retiring sort of person :-0 COYRs
  • MeebaumAzanitch
    MeebaumAzanitch Posts: 605
    Now in Bartrams. The posters on the wall around West Stand are great.
  • RedMist
    RedMist Posts: 1,404
    Be sure to keep us posted buddy!
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  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,652
    Hope I make in time to the game, up at 6 this morning, traveling back from Nottingham, at the moment , kids made me cut our holiday short just so we can watch this Match, got to see Vetekeles hat trick.
  • RedMist
    RedMist Posts: 1,404
    Mendonca In Asdas said:

    Hope I make in time to the game, up at 6 this morning, traveling back from Nottingham, at the moment , kids made me cut our holiday short just so we can watch this Match, got to see Vetekeles hat trick.

    Is that code for "I had enough of the kids on holiday and wanted to get to this match, so cut the holiday short"?
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,804
    On the sofa waiting for PeteF. Cuppa poured. The sun just coming up. Trying not to wake up the neighbors when we score. My ritual every Saturday through the season from California.

    Don't feel too sorry for me though. Manage to get to 3 or 4 games a year. Life's good. :-)
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,736
    Rob said:

    On the sofa waiting for PeteF.

    Don't think he'll be joining you mate! He's probably at The Valley! :-)
  • Norfolk_Addick
    Norfolk_Addick Posts: 2,289
    The only time I wish I still lived in London is 3pm on a Saturday
  • All_Thaid_Up
    All_Thaid_Up Posts: 2,293
    I am sitting in a bar in Bkk just watched the manure game, but I would give anything to be at the valley today
  • MeebaumAzanitch
    MeebaumAzanitch Posts: 605
    Now in my seat. East stand Block A Row BB. Thats it.
  • LuckyReds
    LuckyReds Posts: 5,866
    edited August 2014
    MeebaumAzanitch said:

    Now in my seat. East stand Block A Row BB. Thats it.

    Decent view I hope; I'm enroute to my seat in Row X
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,924
    Got to block A fine, now looking for some empty expensive seats for a free upgrade
  • MeebaumAzanitch
    MeebaumAzanitch Posts: 605
    Only drawback is I can't see the screen.
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  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,228
    She looks beautiful... Thanks Roland, not a foot wrong so far this seasom
  • Mosscat
    Mosscat Posts: 197
    Agree its good to be back at the Valley. We now have mirrors in the ladies loos in the north upper. Could do with hot water now.
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,911
    SheffieldRed said:


    @Viewfinder you make Deptford sound like 1980's Romania.

    I haven't been to Romania, Sheff, and you may well be right. Two of several things that Deptford has over Lagos, for instance, or Kingston (Jamaica), are Thomas Archer's gloriously baroque St Paul's Church (1776), and a very quick exit to Greenwich.

  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,085
    GlassHalfFull said:


    Last game before leaving my beloved flat in Lansdowne Lane overlooking the ground .... bought in Nov 1991 as partly a home and partly an act of faith. The flat is now empty but my heart is full.

    So a bit of a double special day today. Tuesday's dress rehearsal wasn't half bad. UTA !!

    Sorry to hear you are leaving the flat HGF.
    Hope you are okay, You will have to come down to the Trust stall some time, to say hello mate.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    This will be my 52nd season following the Addicks and I still get that same feeling of excitement and anticipation walking down Floyd Road before the first game of the season.
  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,629
    yes we miss the Valley, we do go to about ten away games that are in the north and try to get to the Valley twice a year, we'll be down for the Watford game but it's not the same as the first game when everything is new, hopes are high
  • C4FC4L1f3
    C4FC4L1f3 Posts: 1,917
    Red7oaks needs to read this as he is moving away and won't be able to make many home games! The north upper will miss his shit attempts at singing!!!
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,740
    boogica said:

    Gumbo said:

    Real fans went Tuesday mate

    The real fans followed the club to shelhurst and upton park and every other piss hole up north year after year.

    And of course the old den now that was a proper shit hole.

    You're both wrong, guys.

    The real fans are EVERYONE that supports our great Club , whether it's a one off match, every game both home & away for season after season or a match whenever they are able to attend within the constraints of money, family , work, distance.

    We should rejoice in the diversity of our support, in the wide range of ages attending, in the many miles travelled to get to a game, in the hard earned cash spent in just "being there", in the faith we have that things will only get better.....and the sheer elation when we are proved right.

    Faithful

    Addicks

    Never

    Say die

    And I'm proud to be one !

  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,810
    Indeed, I always pop into The Valley when I am back in the UK, even when there is not a game on!

    There's just such a special feeling every time you turn into Floyd Road and see the stadium for the first time, having been through the 1980s with that diminutive Covered End I can never quite get used to that huge spaceship like North Stand, its almost surreal.
  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,393
    edited August 2014
    Looking forward to my visit of the season on Tuesday. I know they annoy us, piss us off, frustrate us in equal measures, but I could never stop going. It's honestly the most I miss anything living overseas.

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