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Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:34 am

walsall v bristol rovers at home in about 1984 i think. We lost two one, the one thing that i remember about that game is 2 drunk walsall fans running onto the pitch, running all the length of it and bowing to the rovers fans in ront of their goal. I know our goal was a penalty because it was a like a riot when we scored. Then again it was fellows park!

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:05 am

remember that Man City game well. Andy Watson scored a tap in and then they got a late equaliser (that fat central midfield player) what was his name again?

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:08 am

Chester Saddler wrote:what was his name again?


God knows, I remember being absolutely uninterested! :oops:

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:58 am

I'd be lying if I said I had any idea - years ago, I was kid, taken with the family, but like AC, couldn't imagine supporting any other team - I'm from Walsall, so Wolves, Baggies, Villa and the 'big' clubs didn't come into it.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:10 am

First game would have been mid seventies - cant remember who against, but it was boxing day, must have been 8 ish

Alan Buckley scored and became an instant hero

Mike Kearns was in goal

great days

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:49 am

ws3 wrote:Brighton at Fellows Park

About 1974/5 i think

We won 6-0 and after that I was hooked

Same season (I think) we knocked Man U and Newcastle out of the FA cup. I stand to be correctd.


WS3 Was Brian Glough Brightons boss then

My First game early 60's in the old division 2 lost 1-5 to Chelsea
I seem to remember the Street end was uncoverd at the time

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:10 am

DAVEDEAN wrote:
ws3 wrote:Brighton at Fellows Park

About 1974/5 i think

We won 6-0 and after that I was hooked

Same season (I think) we knocked Man U and Newcastle out of the FA cup. I stand to be correctd.


WS3 Was Brian Glough Brightons boss then

My First game early 60's in the old division 2 lost 1-5 to Chelsea
I seem to remember the Street end was uncoverd at the time


Apparently Cloughie left Brighton in July 1974.

I think my first game was in 1974/5 season which suggests that he had gone by then.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:13 am

walsall v notts county in the promotion year in the late 1980's we won and willy noughton scored from the spot! my first favorite player

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:59 am

As a kid I lived in Old Wallows Lane. Dont know why but mother used to put me in the pram on Saturday afternoons. I can remember a roar coming from Fellow Park and crying. I grew up scared of the thing that raored over the bridge. But I grew to love it, like my wife really

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:42 am

Boxing Day 1969 v Mansfield.Ray Train came on as sub and scored.1-0
My dad,grandad and uncle used to alternate -watching Wolves one week walsall the next.when the fixtures clashed one season they made a pretty arbitrary decision to choose Walsall-if they hadn't ,I could have been a Dingle!

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:42 am

Cant remember first game but first match that sticks in memory was against either Sheff wed or Portsmouth.
We went one down but came back to win 5-1.
Anyone else remember this one?
The away fans managed to bend one of the crowd barriers in the end to the left of hilary street, and there were thousands of them as well.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:45 am

toffo wrote:Cant remember first game but first match that sticks in memory was against either Sheff wed or Portsmouth.
We went one down but came back to win 5-1.
Anyone else remember this one?
The away fans managed to bend one of the crowd barriers in the end to the left of hilary street, and there were thousands of them as well.

Sounds like Sheff wednesday.did it rain all afternoon?76?77?Brian Caswell walked to the ground.I think their fans must have said something to him ,because he scored and went straight up to the away fans to celebrate

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:49 am

Scarily enough (think about our next game)...

Walsall 0 Southend 1

It was 1979 (I think) I wasn't very old at all, but I know that Alan Moody scored for Southend, as Walsall failed to clear (a set piece?) a bobbling ball around the box.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:51 am

Sounds about right, i would have been about 10 then and i also remember loads of fighting after the match on the bridge.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:56 am

I don't know how anyone ever remembers this sort of thing (or first film, or first album, etc). I know it was in the mid-80s. Buckley was manager. It was at Fellows Park. That's all I can remember! (I do remember wondering why UB40 had a special turnstile just for themselves, OAPs and children.)

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:56 am

Not sure if it was the first match, but I can remember seeing Saddlers losing at home to Millwall .

The score was 6 - 5. Walsall had a diminutive keeper called Lewis in goal. I think it would

have been in the late forty's or early fifty's at Fellows Park. Happy days, big crowds, football was

fun then

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:58 am

Cant remember my first game, but some of the players were Mick 'Chopper' Evans, Bob Wesson, Frank Gregg and Tommy Watson.

I do remember us losing one nil to spurs at home, the day Jimmy Greaves did absolutly nothing all match then scored! Dave Wilson ran past 3 spurs defenders, past the goalkeeper and shot and Phil Beale sat on the ball on the line!

First away match was at Haig Avenue, Southport on boxing day - we lost 2-1 and Dave Wilson scored our goal.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:59 am

Walsall V Portvale 1998 0-0

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:00 am

1987, a 1 - 0 win over Middlesborough, Craig Shakespeare bagged.

Ah the good old days... :roll:

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:53 am

Hello all first post.


I first went 1987/88 season (£2 to get in great) I was 9

memories pretty hazy from that season

I think it might have been brentford and we beat them 4-2 with David Kelly scoring

certainly remember going to the Bristol games when we won promition

also, I think I went to a game when we lost and the had to take penalites...i think it might have been the playoff first leg...didnt really understand what was going on


can some one please help me remember!!

David Kelly with his flowing blonde hair and tight shirt is an enduring memory though!!

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:58 am

The match you're talking about is the 1988 Play Off Final 2nd Leg.

Walsall unbelievably managed to capitulate from a 3-1 away leg victory to leave the aggregate score at 3-3 at the end.

The penalties were to decide the venue of the deciding (and I think unprecedented) 3rd leg (no Cardiff/Wembley in those day, they were two-leg finals).

I remember well the euphoria when David Kelly smashed the deciding penalty off the underside of the bar.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:09 am

Chester Saddler wrote:remember that Man City game well. Andy Watson scored a tap in and then they got a late equaliser (that fat central midfield player) what was his name again?


Andy Morrison? Jamie Pollock?

My first game was in 1986, I would have been 7 years old, it was a tuesday night at Fellows Park versus Aldershot. We won 2-0 and Ned Kelly scored 2. My memory is that of a lovely white kit and Kenny Mower running down the left. My dad sat me on top of the dugout-those were the days!

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:10 am

My First Match....

I really cannot remember.... my Dad and my Uncle used to take me along to Fellows Park as a kid, on occassions, nothing regular though.

My first match as a "regular" came 4 days after I started work here at RAC Bescot.

9th September 1995 (I was 18yrs old).



Walsall 4 (2) - 1 (0) Swansea
Edwards ................. .. Palmer
Houghton
O'Connor
Wilson

Attendance: 3788

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Re: First Walsall Game

Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:30 am

Black Shadow wrote:Not sure if it was the first match, but I can remember seeing Saddlers losing at home to Millwall. The score was 6 - 5. Walsall had a diminutive keeper called Lewis in goal. I think it would have been in the late forty's or early fifty's at Fellows Park. Happy days, big crowds, football was fun then.

Saturday 13th November 1948
Walsall 5 6 Millwall
Walsall:- Lewis, Methley, Male, Walters, Foulkes, Newman, Aldred, Mullard, Chapman, Devlin, Condie.
Walsall Scorers:- Chapman (2), Male (2), Condie.
Attendance:- 9604
Several of that team retired to live locally and I met them in later years; Jack Lewis, Irvine Methley (he kept the chippie near where I live. Sadly, he died in August 2004) and Johnny Devlin (used to run the Littleton Street Youth Centre).

I didn't attend the above match (well, I was only 3 years old at the time!) and my first game was home v. Crystal Palace on March 12th 1955. We lost 1-4.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:33 am

My first match was against Doncaster in 1969 and the game was unusual in that it was on a Friday night. What was not unusual was that we lost, 3-1, with Colin Harrison scoring for us from a penalty.

I had been to see the reserves before then - I remember Allan Clarke was playing just before he got transferred to Fulham, which must have been in 1966.

My last game will be v Oldham, 18/02/2006, unless JB pulls his finger out and gets us a decent manager!!

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:34 am

Wonder if anyone can help with my first game. It was a friendly v Middlesboro about 12 years ago. I dont know nothing else about it maybe some of you could help.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:46 am

wfc_2uk wrote:Wonder if anyone can help with my first game. It was a friendly v Middlesboro about 12 years ago. I dont know nothing else about it maybe some of you could help.


Sounds like a pre season match against Middlesborough in about 1993. :lol:

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:54 pm

The first record of me attending a game was the first game of the 1987/88 season - Walsall v Fulham 1987 at Fellows Park as that was my first year with a season ticket.

Although I went to a couple of games from the season before, probably boxing day 1987 and possibly the last game of the 1986/87 season but i have no record or memory of what games they would have been.

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Magic Man Fan wrote:
wfc_2uk wrote:Wonder if anyone can help with my first game. It was a friendly v Middlesboro about 12 years ago. I dont know nothing else about it maybe some of you could help.


Sounds like a pre season match against Middlesborough in about 1993. :lol:


Thanks for the added info Mark :? :cry:

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:30 pm

April the something, 1954 - shopping in the Pleck with Grandma, and I hears this enormous cheering noise. "That's the football match" she says, and thrusting a threepenny bit into my hand she shoos me off along Hillary Street. I must have been 9 at the time, and we were playing Northampton Town.

Despite finishing bottom of the League that season (or as near as makes no difference) we actually beat Northampton 6-1 that day and, as someone has already said, "I was hooked".

I don't remember John Lewis in goal, but I do recall tha keeper's name that day against Northampton - it was Baldwin. Lewis was with us 1946-52, playing 271 games.

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