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If it wasn't for the play-offs...

Weegie Addick
Weegie Addick Posts: 16,674
edited April 2012 in General Charlton
we'd be promoted by now! (In the old days of three up/ three down)
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  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,397
    If it wasn't for Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United constantly winning we would be up by now.
  • BowieAddick
    BowieAddick Posts: 1,192
    We wouldn't have a had that memorable day at Wembley!!
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,220
    We wouldn't have a had that memorable day at Wembley!!
    good point!
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    And 2 cack semis
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,181
    we'd be promoted by now! (In the old days of three up/ three down)
    How dull!
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,372
    and st andrews where you had to be brave to be there
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    and st andrews where you had to be brave to be there
    Didn't you do a runner back to the coach?

    Or was that the other year v Birmingham?

  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,372
    our away support at the neutral venue was slightly outnumbered 10 to 1
  • southamptonaddick
    southamptonaddick Posts: 4,079
    our away support at the neutral venue was slightly outnumbered 10 to 1


    It's great to say "I WAS THERE" though in it.

  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,866
    our away support at the neutral venue was slightly outnumbered 10 to 1
    And the "10" were all psycopaths


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  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,440
    and st andrews where you had to be brave to be there
    A funny old night. We had 1500ish to their 16k. Plod basically told us politely to **** off out of Birmingham whilst they kept Leeds in the ground.
    Throughout the day Birmingham had been 'playing' with Leeds.
    On approaching the bullring after the game about 50 Charlton were allowed through to New Street by Birmingham and congratulated us on the result, phew, a close shave as they are not nice people!
  • SX_Addick
    SX_Addick Posts: 668
    The"10" we're throwing bricks and bottles at us even before the game.
  • HugoZHackenbush
    HugoZHackenbush Posts: 775
    and st andrews where you had to be brave to be there
    A funny old night. We had 1500ish to their 16k. Plod basically told us politely to **** off out of Birmingham whilst they kept Leeds in the ground.
    Throughout the day Birmingham had been 'playing' with Leeds.
    On approaching the bullring after the game about 50 Charlton were allowed through to New Street by Birmingham and congratulated us on the result, phew, a close shave as they are not nice people!

    More and like 1800 and 18000 I seem to recall. Still an interesting experience though - as was the 2nd leg at Elland Road
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,946
    Was at both St Andrews and Elland Road. Two memorable nights. That team was much like the present in that they both had that never say die attitude.
  • BrentfordAddick
    BrentfordAddick Posts: 1,474
    St Andrews = best game ever
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,818
    St Andrews = best game ever
    Certainly one of the most important, relegation after one season would have been a huge financial blow.
  • CatAddick
    CatAddick Posts: 2,396
    St Andrews = best game ever
    Certainly one of the most important, relegation after one season would have been a huge financial blow.
    IMHO the most important game in the history of the club I think I've ever been to.

    Also remember turning up at New Street just as a train pulled out and some numpty BR bloke saying 'that was the last train to London' - I said 'it had better not be, as there are about to be 10,000 unhappy Leeds fans about to turn up'
    Fortunately another train pulled in a few minutes later - does anyone know/remember if this was a special laid on, or was the BR bloke just a muppet?
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,440
    St Andrews = best game ever
    Most important game in our history. Without this victory we would have not had the success that followed.

    Long live Lennie Lawrence.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,440
    St Andrews = best game ever
    Without any shadow of a doubt
  • Oliver Street
    Oliver Street Posts: 5,133
    I remember seeing more Leeds fans than Charlton travelling south on that great evening. To think we took more fans to Bournemouth this season than on that historic night!

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,264
    I remember seeing more Leeds fans than Charlton travelling south on that great evening. To think we took more fans to Bournemouth this season than on that historic night!
    Yes, it was great talking to them at a service station on the way back. They weren't so pleased with themselves as on the way up :-)
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,440
    I remember seeing more Leeds fans than Charlton travelling south on that great evening. To think we took more fans to Bournemouth this season than on that historic night!
    Our train back from New Street was split in half, us and them.....thankfully!
  • HugoZHackenbush
    HugoZHackenbush Posts: 775
    That sounds vaguely familiar. I don't remember the train back being particukarky crowded. I'm fairly sure it was a bumptybump train rather than a mainline. And by the time we got back to Euston the tube had stopped. running. It was night bus to Victoria, night bus to Bromley an minicab from there
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,440
    That sounds vaguely familiar. I don't remember the train back being particukarky crowded. I'm fairly sure it was a bumptybump train rather than a mainline. And by the time we got back to Euston the tube had stopped. running. It was night bus to Victoria, night bus to Bromley an minicab from there
    Absolutely spot-on there Hugo, a four carriage effort from memory. The tube had stopped running, unlike my little legs moving a bit to get away from the Leeds doughnuts!
  • HugoZHackenbush
    HugoZHackenbush Posts: 775
    That sounds vaguely familiar. I don't remember the train back being particukarky crowded. I'm fairly sure it was a bumptybump train rather than a mainline. And by the time we got back to Euston the tube had stopped. running. It was night bus to Victoria, night bus to Bromley an minicab from there
    Absolutely spot-on there Hugo, a four carriage effort from memory. The tube had stopped running, unlike my little legs moving a bit to get away from the Leeds doughnuts!
    Of course, it was a perfectly ordinary working day (Friday) and rather short notice - the 2nd leg having been played on the Bank Holiday Monday, so not much opportunity to arrange time off.

  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,440
    The good old days
  • HugoZHackenbush
    HugoZHackenbush Posts: 775
    The period between John Sheridan scoring (that was a shocking handball decision by Alan Gunn!) and Peter Shirtlifter equalising wasn't!
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,440
    The period between John Sheridan scoring (that was a shocking handball decision by Alan Gunn!) and Peter Shirtlifter equalising wasn't!
    Know a few Leeds fans from Dartford(and not from Yorkshire), and reckon because we had such small gates/away followings we did not deserve to be in the top league. I say **** them!
  • CatAddick
    CatAddick Posts: 2,396
    That sounds vaguely familiar. I don't remember the train back being particukarky crowded. I'm fairly sure it was a bumptybump train rather than a mainline. And by the time we got back to Euston the tube had stopped. running. It was night bus to Victoria, night bus to Bromley an minicab from there
    Too right! I was a poor student so it was shank's pony to Finsbury Park where I gave up and got a night bus to Crouch End
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,780
    The only time I've ever got a coach to a game and we arrived with about 30 seconds to spare before kick off. On the way back there was a traffic jam on the M1 and a load of idiots got off a southbound Leeds coach and tried to get on ours.

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