I know it probably can't happen due to the housing behind, but it would be great to see the stand enlarged. Still one tier but extra rows added, to make it look more vast as the terrace was.
F**k the residents!!
I give you the Holmesdale Road Stand at Smellhurst......how the f**k did they get planning permission for that?
I know it probably can't happen due to the housing behind, but it would be great to see the stand enlarged. Still one tier but extra rows added, to make it look more vast as the terrace was.
F**k the residents!!
I give you the Holmesdale Road Stand at Smellhurst......how the f**k did they get planning permission for that?
Not a bad thing I guess. At least the residents won't have a view of that shower of shit.
I know it probably can't happen due to the housing behind, but it would be great to see the stand enlarged. Still one tier but extra rows added, to make it look more vast as the terrace was.
F**k the residents!!
I give you the Holmesdale Road Stand at Smellhurst......how the f**k did they get planning permission for that?
It matches the other Collection of shacks and Missen Huts . The main wooden shack, the Sainsbury's cattle stall and the Arthur Waite toilet with its low rake so everyone has to stand up.
The whole place was better in the 70's actually and even then the Holmsdale end was a ghastly mud slide in the wet.
Why we never shared with the 'wall in the 80's only Sunley could say.
I actually went to their highest attendance ever in 1979 when they went up to Div 1 beating Burnley 2-0.
The Valley is a much better ground and was before both grounds were modernised.
If you weren't in the Away end at Palace this is a historic crime and if we still had the Flag system you would've more than a Borussia Dortmund home match pre Covid.
Did you do the double and wear a flat cap at the Den and sing " We are Millwall, No one like us, we don't care ?
Standards have dropped ever since oohaah was filmed undercover in Millwall's hospitality knocking back the lagers.
After looking at the evidence you have been pardoned. My dad took me down the Den as a boy before I could think for myself. TBF he also liked Charlton and went there as well. I just don't think that could happen these days.
I will never forget our first game as lodgers at Palace; I followed the crowd and ended up at the meat counter.
The Curb side is a good suggestion and could gain momentum if you like, as the full name is shortened.
Without Lennie, none of what happened subsequently would have been feasible.
That said, I agree with Lennie in the 1, 2, 3 - Curbs, Seed, Lennie
Disagree
Seed
Curbs
Lawrence
Saying that Seed did what he did was in a different era doesn't diminish just how much he did.
The FA Cup and five highest league finishes are statistically enough but ignore his starting point.
Before JS we were a third division club who'd spent two or three seasons in tier two and just been relegated.
We'd never been near the top flight.
Seed changed all that, changed how the game saw the club and set the expectations that left fans so frustrated by the time Lennie arrived because no one until Lennie and then Curbs even came close.
Yes, Seed had new and early on ambitious owners but so did LL and AC at first
👍 Much as I respect Curbs, I was a bit disappointed to hear him twice say on Charlton TV that he managed Charlton to their highest league placing in the club’s history. In the Premier League, yes, but not in the club’s history.
Sure, football has progressed since Seed’s day, but it operated on a more even playing field in his era, and Charlton were tested against the best and ‘biggest’ clubs in the country for two decades, and easily held their own. And that was an era when football was a huge part of the national psyche, arguably bigger than it is now, despite not being on TV.
Yes, we’ve never had the prestige of an Arsenal or Manchester United, but for a time we were heading very much in that direction.
Totally get why people choose the manager that they can actually remember as the GOAT though.
Without Lennie, none of what happened subsequently would have been feasible.
That said, I agree with Lennie in the 1, 2, 3 - Curbs, Seed, Lennie
Disagree
Seed
Curbs
Lawrence
Saying that Seed did what he did was in a different era doesn't diminish just how much he did.
The FA Cup and five highest league finishes are statistically enough but ignore his starting point. Success Before JS we were a third division club who'd spent two or three seasons in tier two and just been relegated.
We'd never been near the top flight.
Seed changed all that, changed how the game saw the club and set the expectations that left fans so frustrated by the time Lennie arrived because no one until Lennie and then Curbs even came close.
Yes, Seed had new and early on ambitious owners but so did LL and AC at first
👍 Much as I respect Curbs, I was a bit disappointed to hear him twice say on Charlton TV that he managed Charlton to their highest league placing in the club’s history. In the Premier League, yes, but not in the club’s history.
Sure, football has progressed since Seed’s day, but it operated on a more even playing field in his era, and Charlton were tested against the best and ‘biggest’ clubs in the country for two decades, and easily held their own. And that was an era when football was a huge part of the national psyche, arguably bigger than it is now, despite not being on TV.
Yes, we’ve never had the prestige of an Arsenal or Manchester United, but for a time we were heading very much in that direction.
Totally get why people choose the manager that they can actually remember as the GOAT though.
Spot on and well said. Maybe if the Glikstein's had capitalised on our success and impressive post-war attendances by investing in the ground and squad, we really might have become "the Arsenal of South London" before the hierarchy of English football became set in stone from the 60's TV age onwards. Coulda, woulda, shoulda - can only wonder
With due respect to Peter Varney, not if your judgement is based on highest league placings and trophies. But yes, there are other factors and Curbs will always be a God to me
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If you weren't in the Away end at Palace this is a historic crime and if we still had the Flag system you would've more than a Borussia Dortmund home match pre Covid.
Did you do the double and wear a flat cap at the Den and sing " We are Millwall, No one like us, we don't care ?
Standards have dropped ever since oohaah was filmed undercover in Millwall's hospitality knocking back the lagers.
After looking at the evidence you have been pardoned. My dad took me down the Den as a boy before I could think for myself. TBF he also liked Charlton and went there as well.
I just don't think that could happen these days.
I will never forget our first game as lodgers at Palace; I followed the crowd and ended up at the meat counter.
The Curb side is a good suggestion and could gain momentum if you like, as the full name is shortened.
Much as I respect Curbs, I was a bit disappointed to hear him twice say on Charlton TV that he managed Charlton to their highest league placing in the club’s history. In the Premier League, yes, but not in the club’s history.
Maybe if the Glikstein's had capitalised on our success and impressive post-war attendances by investing in the ground and squad, we really might have become "the Arsenal of South London" before the hierarchy of English football became set in stone from the 60's TV age onwards.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda - can only wonder
But yes, there are other factors and Curbs will always be a God to me