[moondog]

A nostalgic look back on grim times


https://footballleag...w&sfnsn=scwspmo

[Siberian Spireite]

moondog, on 19 November 2024 - 03:37 PM, said:

A nostalgic look back on grim times


https://footballleag...w&sfnsn=scwspmo

As fit as a butcher's dog which has been hoovering up all the fatty offcuts for years.

[Westbars Spireite]

Delighted to say I never saw him play for us.

[clarevoyant.]

Westbars Spireite, on 19 November 2024 - 03:57 PM, said:

Delighted to say I never saw him play for us.

Did anyone?

[whittman]

For his age Nelson was pretty fit but unfortunatly not quite as fit as what Martin Allen thought and what we required at the time

I am surprised that there was no mention of the pitch invasion during that
Solihull Moors debacle of a match

This post has been edited by whittman: 19 November 2024 - 05:10 PM

[Fit as a Nelson]

My hero

[stainlessstephen]

whittman, on 19 November 2024 - 05:08 PM, said:

For his age Nelson was pretty fit but unfortunatly not quite as fit as what Martin Allen thought and what we required at the time

I am surprised that there was no mention of the pitch invasion during that
Solihull Moors debacle of a match

Martin Allen was pretty not fit for purpose.

[dim view]

whittman, on 19 November 2024 - 05:08 PM, said:

For his age Nelson was pretty fit but unfortunatly not quite as fit as what Martin Allen thought and what we required at the time

I am surprised that there was no mention of the pitch invasion during that
Solihull Moors debacle of a match

There was one game which broke his (and my) heart. Can't remember which, but all Loz Maguire had to do was head away a cross at the far post to give us the points. He got bullied and we conceded. I've never been so depressed. Allen came on't wireless and kept on repeating 'one more header, that's all I needed'.

[gordon_brittas]

dim view, on 19 November 2024 - 05:32 PM, said:

There was one game which broke his (and my) heart. Can't remember which, but all Loz Maguire had to do was head away a cross at the far post to give us the points. He got bullied and we conceded. I've never been so depressed. Allen came on't wireless and kept on repeating 'one more header, that's all I needed'.

So many that season. Think it?s Harrogate the match you are thinking of.

[Blue roan lily]

Funnily enough I found it a good read, looking back too many bad decisions from all over the club at that time but hey sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to appreciate the good times.

[Holmesc1]

Nelson never seemed to stick around long anywhere in his later hears, he left gateshead after a few month to go to Stevenage and that never laster long either. Good player in his day though

[clarevoyant.]

Holmesc1, on 19 November 2024 - 08:30 PM, said:

Nelson never seemed to stick around long anywhere in his later hears, he left gateshead after a few month to go to Stevenage and that never laster long either. Good player in his day though

Stop trying to wind Can't Properly Spell up

[calvin plummers socks]

clarevoyant., on 19 November 2024 - 08:37 PM, said:

Stop trying to wind Can't Properly Spell up

He?s been trying to qualify as a ref clearly?.

[Exharboroughspireite]

Reading that article gave me flashbacks of how traumatic that period was. I?m genuinely struggling to remember Kyle Reid and he played 27 times????

[Fit as a Nelson]

Exharboroughspireite, on 20 November 2024 - 06:07 AM, said:

Reading that article gave me flashbacks of how traumatic that period was. I?m genuinely struggling to remember Kyle Reid and he played 27 times????

Yep, useless left winger. He is one of many that had a half decent career, before they came here..

[PontePete]

Fit as a Nelson, on 20 November 2024 - 07:48 AM, said:

Yep, useless left winger. He is one of many that had a half decent career, before they came here..

His legacy was crossing the ball for Will Evans to head the equaliser past fat boy Ashmore in the infamous 3-3 against Ebbsfleet

This post has been edited by PontePete: 20 November 2024 - 10:00 AM

[Burgerman]

PontePete, on 20 November 2024 - 09:57 AM, said:

His legacy was crossing the ball for Will Evans to head the equaliser past fat boy Ashmore in the infamous 3-3 against Ebbsfleet

My Grandson still talks about this as being the best game he has ever watched

[sophocles]

Burgerman, on 20 November 2024 - 11:43 AM, said:

My Grandson still talks about this as being the best game he has ever watched

I don't think it was the best game, but it certainly was one of the most dramatic, capped off by Evans putting on the keepers jersey and saving the penalty. As the saying goes, if you wrote the script it would be rejected as too unbelievable.

[PontePete]

Burgerman, on 20 November 2024 - 11:43 AM, said:

My Grandson still talks about this as being the best game he has ever watched

Will certainly live long in the memory of anyone who witnessed it in person

[Burgerman]

sophocles, on 20 November 2024 - 12:52 PM, said:

I don't think it was the best game, but it certainly was one of the most dramatic, capped off by Evans putting on the keepers jersey and saving the penalty. As the saying goes, if you wrote the script it would be rejected as too unbelievable.

My grandson is just 14 so he has many years of watching Town in front of him. Up to now, this is his best game. I hadn't been taking him regularly but this, for him, was the game that got him hooked, he's now a season ticket holder who adores the club.

We all start somewhere, and that game was his.