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Nottingham Forest away trip by coach- what year please?

chilham
chilham Posts: 297
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Can anyone remind me which year was the organised coach convoy to the away game at Forest, probably around the end of the 1990s as RTM Radio was still on air at the time?  Thanks!

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  • Bilko
    Bilko Posts: 767
    I think the year was 2000.
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,884
    Was it the year we won the league? A win would have secured the title. John Terrybwas sent off for them and then Chris Bart williams scored a late pen to equalise.

    🎶win it at the valley, we would rather win it at the valley🎶
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,841
    Yes, it was the championship winning year 1999-2000, the club encouraged everybody to wear yellow IIRC.
  • Pelham123
    Pelham123 Posts: 379
    Not a great day. Our coach was involved in the shunt of our supporters coaches. Lot of walking wounded that afternoon.
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,823
    Pelham123 said:
    Not a great day. Our coach was involved in the shunt of our supporters coaches. Lot of walking wounded that afternoon.
    I was in the 2nd or third coach of the convoy and remember seeing the woman approach the crossing and press the wait button. I can just imagine when the lights changed and she thought she could cross and the mayhem that caused in the following coach convoy travelling at speed.  Luckily no coach hit her, or anyone caught up in the hard braking was seriously hurt (as far as I know).
  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,658
    Big William said:
    Yes, it was the championship winning year 1999-2000, the club encouraged everybody to wear yellow IIRC.
    ‘Yellow Peril’ I think they called it at the time!
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,405
    This title made me laugh very loudly. I thought we were looking to predict the future!
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,148
    Yes 2000...was on a coach from Basingstoke. Sat outside in a convoy outside Nottingham for ages that day. 
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    Some of the coaches crashed when one stopped at a roundabout even though they were being escorted in.
  • superclive98
    superclive98 Posts: 4,766
    Was the day of the 2000 Grand National. I had a nice win on Papillon at 33/1.

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  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,127
    chilham said:
    Can anyone remind me which year was the organised coach convoy to the away game at Forest, probably around the end of the 1990s as RTM Radio was still on air at the time?  Thanks!
    The year we won Division One. 2000. Yellow day and the club printed t-shirts that said ‘Bye Bye to the Nationwide’ as we only needed to win to get promoted and in typical Charlton fashion, drew. Coach coaches on the way. 

    Greet away day though.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Todds_right_hook said:
    Was it the year we won the league? A win would have secured the title. John Terrybwas sent off for them and then Chris Bart williams scored a late pen to equalise.

    🎶win it at the valley, we would rather win it at the valley🎶
    It was Colin Calderwood that was sent off.
  • Rock Spectacle
    Rock Spectacle Posts: 1,441
    Logistical nightmare, before, during, after
  • chilham
    chilham Posts: 297
    Some coincidence, Pelham, that I was also on that coach- had to return via the hospital to collect injured fan!
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    superclive98 said:
    Was the day of the 2000 Grand National. I had a nice win on Papillon at 33/1.

    Are you Ruby Walsh?
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,148
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jIET_FlvYA
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    I i was on a coach there. Wasn’t involved in a crash. I don’t knowing if my memory is misleading me but didn’t Svensson give away the penalty? I remember Hunt scoring.
  • cs1986
    cs1986 Posts: 1,529
    Pelham123 said:
    Not a great day. Our coach was involved in the shunt of our supporters coaches. Lot of walking wounded that afternoon.
    I was on one of the coaches that crashed as well.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    hawksmoor said:
    I i was on a coach there. Wasn’t involved in a crash. I don’t knowing if my memory is misleading me but didn’t Svensson give away the penalty? I remember Hunt scoring.
    Commentator said Barness. But whoever, it was the number 2
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156

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  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,148
    edited December 2022
    Whose the guy with the 'C' on his shirt middle right picture.

    Remember talking to him at Bournemouth many years ago in the cup match which we lost on pens. Sure he was with Vince from here and John (cant remember his surname).
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,148
    Remember the stewards that day were very good. We (son and me) had seats right on the front row which was beneath pitch level. They could see we were unhappy with the view and let us sit on the corner quadrant that was empty.

    Didnt get on well with the person running the coaches from Basingstoke and he always distributed shitty tickets to my son and me, so we started going on our own way, he didnt like it as coaches have to be viable to run of course but thats what you get when you try and do someone over.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    @Riscardo must have been 27 then 
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,212
    Algarveaddick said:

    Les and Vince 👏🏻
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,212
    I was at this one aged 12 YELLOW YELLOW YELLOW!  
  • superclive98
    superclive98 Posts: 4,766
    Off_it said:
    superclive98 said:
    Was the day of the 2000 Grand National. I had a nice win on Papillon at 33/1.

    Are you Ruby Walsh?
    No, Ruby only got 10/1.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,091
    Algarveaddick said:

    I'm in this one. Can't be many times away fans have sat in the Executive Stand. Made a change to the usual 500 we would take up there.
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,601
    As said stopped the coaches outside of Nottingham and made us sit onboard for an hour or more before straight to the ground and no pub. Remember , speaking with a Policeman and saying officer this is Charlton. Good job you didn’t let us loose on the City.  The library would have been taken and lots of old ladies helped across the road……. 
  • cafckev
    cafckev Posts: 2,914
    I was steward on the last mop up coach, so we were the last to leave Charlton and everyone was waiting in the lay-by for us to arrive for the drive into the stadium, so thanks everyone for waiting 

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