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Miz Saddler
 

Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:44 pm

i can't remember my first home match all i know it was at Fellows Park

but my first away match was Stoke City can't remember the year tho

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:51 pm

Mine was against Gillingham in October 1955. We won 2-1. About 12,000 there on the day.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:52 pm

aint supported Walsall for long, used to support Man Utd when i was younger :oops:

First game was vs Wimbledon in the FA Cup third round i think the year before we got relegated
Went to a couple more game that season but one game sticks in my mind - against wimbledon again the following year, the man next to us said while we were winning 1- 0 'a wins good but we need a few goals' too right he was, if we had scored a couple more goals we wouldnt of gone down

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:28 pm

boxing day 1971, we beat mansfield 2-1, then had to walk all the way home to aldridge as the buses where only every 2 hours on boxing day.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:59 pm

See Matt3454 it just goes to show you can recover from being stupid!! :wink:

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:25 pm

well yeah, i think the only reason my dad decieded to go the bescot was because the tickets were cheap, and we sat in the away stand cos wimbledon didnt bring anyone :lol:

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:31 pm

Walsall 3 - 0 Hereford - second season at Bescot (91?) in October I think - cant be ar$d to look up. Marshy had a blinder and scored at least 1 of the goals.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:44 pm

Talking of the early days at Bescot... anyone remember the International tournament held here (u-19's or u-21's maybe?)?

I recall attending the England v Holland game... loads of youngsters who went on to even bigger and better things... the front two were Julian Joachim and Robbie Fowler!

That was a cracking match

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:55 pm

KJC wrote:Talking of the early days at Bescot... anyone remember the International tournament held here (u-19's or u-21's maybe?)?

I recall attending the England v Holland game... loads of youngsters who went on to even bigger and better things... the front two were Julian Joachim and Robbie Fowler!

That was a cracking match


Got vouchers at the tournament which enabled me to get tickets for Euro '96 - we went to the boring opener against Switzerland at Wembley.

Other names from that tournament included Paul Scholes & Nicky Butt I think, plus quite a few others who went on the better things

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:58 pm

1963/64 season Walsall 1-1 Bristol City. I was 12 (have I really being suffering that long?) :lol:

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:50 pm

1993/1994 I was about 5 Dad always used to take me, Really can't remember the match though!! It was down the bescot.

luke
 

Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:54 pm

1995 not a happy day we lost 2-0 to stockport county.
Still made me be a saddler ever since though !

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:00 pm

Walsall 0-1 Darlington

March or April 1984

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:00 pm

walsall. 3
bury town. 2

season 1999-2000

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:04 pm

bristol city away 3-1 in the play offs, fun walking back to the carpark passed a pub full of bristol. :?

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:15 pm

Mark Rees Testimonial at Fellows Park was my first game

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:22 pm

Walsall v Rotherham 0-2 1991/1992 season
i was seven and even then in knew it was a bad game!!

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:32 pm

Walsall 2-1 Millwall

Hodges and Tholot

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:07 pm

matt3454 wrote:aint supported Walsall for long, used to support Man Utd when i was younger :oops:


At least you saw the light. Can you just convince all the other thousands of glory hunting Man Utd and Liverpool supporters in Walsall now? then we'd be laughing. Well Bonser would be.

My first game was in 1984 at Fellows Park against Bradford when I was 7.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:19 pm

canadiansaddler wrote: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

Was that Chester canadian? remember a Boxing day match which we won 2-0,the only thing i really remember was Garry Shelton heading on a corner for Buckley to head in inside the 6 six yard box.probably the two smallest players on the pitch.there was another match against Chester-probably later-when Buckley scored with an overhead kick from 25 yards out.I never saw Allan Clarke,but Buckley was the best player I've ever seen in a Walsall shirt.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:07 pm

matt3454 wrote:aint supported Walsall for long, used to support Man Utd when i was younger :oops:


I know the feeling, mate.

My Dad raised me as a Man Utd fan too.

Thank God that my Uncle decided to drag us along to watch the Mighty Saddlers!

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:18 pm

My first was Walsall v Portsmouth 2002/2003. We lost 2-1, the game where Merson thought he had scored! Then the next game I went to was Walsall v Derby when Junior scored a hat-trick, I've been hooked since and had a season ticket the next season.
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Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:24 pm

Walsall v WBA, Fellows Park, 0-0 draw, WBA missed a penalty.
Think it was 1988? 1st round, second leg of the league cup.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:33 pm

My First Game:

Date: 01/05/1999
Venue: Bescot Stadium
Opposition: Oldham Athletic
Score: Walsall 3-1 Oldham Athletic (Wrack, Marsh, Eyjolfsson; Duxbury)

Walsall Line-up: Walker | Marsh | Pointon | Henry | Viveash | Roper | Wrack | Steiner (Eyjolfsson) | Rammell (Green) | Keates (Larusson) | Brissett

Attendance: 9184

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:37 pm

Have checked. Was 1987.

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:14 pm

1-1 v Leyton Orient in the mid 50s. Georgie Meek played, so did Brian Taylor and Freddy Morris. Had a pint beforehand with Geoff and Leamore :lol:

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:25 pm

sj wrote: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

So you were the kid in the pram were you SJ. Me and my mates used to pull faces at some brat, screaming his head off, in a pram in Wallows Lane after a game at Fellows Park. Have we damaged you for life. Or putting it another way, are we to blame? 8)

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Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:55 pm

Mine was the glamour FA Cup tie that was Walsall v Lincoln United in 1997, always remember it for three reasons:

1) Lincoln had one shot on target all game, and that was a miss-hit cross.

2) The piece of rubbish that masquerades as a score board told everyone that we were playing; Tincan Utd

3) Being amazed that a manager of a league football team was having a fag next to the dugout, whilst looking utterly uninterested about the game.

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Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:15 am

Surrey ------Yes I remember now, you were the bald kid then. If I could have walked you would have had it :wink:

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Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:25 am

Nothing from Neil in this thread. I wonder if he could post and just tell us about his teenage memories of Gilbert Alsop? :wink:

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