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Post by uttoxbrewer on Dec 5, 2015 23:45:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2015 0:05:58 GMT
Ah yes, I do too, albeit these pictures pre date my time there.
A lovely non-League ground, especially as it was improved year on year. A place where you could watch the game whilst getting your faggots, change ends and walk through the players tunnel, you had to wait for them to go past at half time and the ref was always getting very good adviceā¦
The Brook end, half covered, but it allowed the fans to run forward if we scored, probably one or two went apex over base in their haste.
Then the pop side, dark, dingy but irrepressible at times, I am sure the "you'll never beat the pub team" started their before rippling around the ground.
And e had a Simmo proof fence once Barley Close was built :-)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2015 9:11:53 GMT
I really miss the smell of pipe tobacco along the popside, it really used to hit you as we changed ends at half time, or it was a mad rush just prior to kick off ! The oxtail soup, the programme shop and PC Len the club steward in earlier times-"come on you buggers, get back behind the fence" memories !
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Post by swaddy Dave on Dec 6, 2015 9:39:54 GMT
Many Many great memories from Eton park, I still miss the old place particularly having a drink with the players and board members after the game, great times but without doubt we have progressed massively from then.
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Post by claymillman on Dec 6, 2015 11:05:47 GMT
It's great to read the nostalgia here created by the thought of Nigel Clough coming back to us. I have warm memories myself of memorable games and visiting various small grounds. Doing the early FA cup rounds, and losing unexpectedly at times in them also. However, those days are now just fondly remembered history. BAFC are now a league club of note, with a superb stadium, a smaller than we would like, but nevertheless a loyal support base. It is as though we are now on a different planet, but we can still enjoy the football we see at a higher standard, and yet we can all feel we are still part of an informal, friendly community based football club. I am proud to support and be just a very small part of this football club
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Post by mikeyboy on Dec 6, 2015 11:09:51 GMT
It's great to read the nostalgia here created by the thought of Nigel Clough coming back to us. I have warm memories myself of memorable games and visiting various small grounds. Doing the early FA cup rounds, and losing unexpectedly at times in them also. However, those days are now just fondly remembered history. BAFC are now a league club of note, with a superb stadium, a smaller than we would like, but nevertheless a loyal support base. It is as though we are now on a different planet, but we can still enjoy the football we see at a higher standard, and yet we can all feel we are still part of an informal, friendly community based football club. I am proud to support and be just a very small part of this football club I am always conscious that we could easily go back there though Claymillman!
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Post by bennyboy on Dec 6, 2015 11:39:49 GMT
Many Many great memories from Eton park, I still miss the old place particularly having a drink with the players and board members after the game, great times but without doubt we have progressed massively from then. Remember them well, good times. Always had the faggots and mushies HT, watching the fans swap ends, or even before KO if we had to change ends, enjoyed a joke with some as they went past us, all good memories. Afters was spent as said in the bar afterwards with players when they came in for a drink. One of our clan who's no longer with us, bless him, used have a right go at whoever it was who had had a nightmare game, he didn't hold back. It was all in good fun and the players saw it that way too, thank god. Used to take them all home after they had their fill of beer, it was always me that missed out on the ale being as I was the driver.
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Post by phil on Dec 6, 2015 12:45:36 GMT
Nice to see the old ground as it was in the 80's. In those days if you wanted to find someone you always knew where they stood for each half. Can remember standing on the open bank behind the goal and seeing who lasted longest before running for cover in heavy rain or snow.I don't know if anyone remembers soup dog on the pop side who came in with an old chap and spent most of the match with it's nose in discarded soup cups.
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Post by BournemouthBrewer on Dec 7, 2015 10:00:40 GMT
My first ever football match as a kid was at Eton Park. Used to love going there when my dad brought me up around the holidays to see my family.
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