That was almost eerie that night. Seemed like a wind came from nowhere during that rendition after almost everyone had gone. Will take that memory with me.

brings a tear to my eye all that does.......i remember the three old dears in the portacbin club shop selling my mum my new kit whilst i was in attendance one summer holidays...bless em, probably not with us no more....
i also remeber having to go in the fc lottery shop on airlie street corner for our season passes, those were the days....

everyone seems to forget the fc club!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
matchdays with my old man and his mates having half of coke waiting for the raffle to be drawn, that place was fc...full of proper memorabilia......just wish id have stuffed some down my pants whilst it was still there..
waiting till 2.55 for my old man to finish his pint so we could watch the game, walking down back of the stand, and going to toilet before we went down the centre entrance in best stand, then onto gordon street hill.....not too far round tho, just on the corner in a 75 degrees type of view..just incase it rained so we could either put up the brolly or run into best stand near the boulevard kids......
some memories will never die....OLDEN BUT GOLDEN...in my opinion

My aunt & Uncle both worked at the club from the late 70's to the early 80's. Auntie worked in the club bar & Uncle was a Steward so getting in for nowt was a breeze if I turned up when Auntie was going in Always stood on the little wall to the left of the speedway gates & usually tried to get there about 1 to get autographs & sort my spot out (Wo betide any begger who pinched my spot..lol)
Tried my hand in the 3d stand a couple of times as a 13/14 yr old & the atmosphere was always awesome. I even had a slosh at the back, well, 'when in Rome'

Loving the portakabin souvenir shop story, was always in there buying other teams progs, sometimes it was so packed you couldn't get in...sigh.
The first game I remember was Oldham 61-10, Sammy knocking over 14 goals, vaugely remember watching the West Indians knocking the ball out the ground when we had floodlight cricket, the best match that I actually remember though was us running the 82 Invincibles close when Crooks, Skerrett & a couple of others were out injured.
happy happy days
So long old Pal of Mine, Non Omnis Moriar

(my fave Latin phrase is "Mihi est compositum in taberna mori"icon_wink.gif

Report on The Boulevard demolition coming up in a few minutes on Look North.

Just watched it....was a good report but would liked them to have covered why it was being demolished and try to get that ar$e hole Minns on to explain it.

and of course the sting in the tail is that there are only plans for a school - nothing concrete and certainly no funding in place. Other schools were so far down the line under the BSF programme they couldn't be stopped - but the rest of the programme is dead in the water. The old site will lie derelict for 3 years being desecrated in the same way the old Boothferry Park will be.

I only hope the demolition company remove the urns from the ground in the way they should be - it wasn't just ashes that were scattered - I recall from my times working there some small ceremonies where ashes were interred into the North east Corner.

May be wrong on this, but if they are buried like that, do you not have to do an official exhumation via the courts

My old man worked for the Council's Park's Department and one of his jobs were to look after the pitch when it was in a real mess. One day he was there with his mates and saw some 'stuff' in the corner of the pitch, went over and put his fingers in it and licked them. He said "what barsteward's been throwing stuff around and went to see a director who explained that someone had just had their ashes scattered!
He was'nt a rugby fan my dad, but saw things differently after that. Shame the the that is Minns cannot be bothered to take these things into consideration.

If it's a proper grave you'd have to re-locate it. If it's scattered ashes you wouldn't as far as i know.

Pleaase PM me I would love to hear from you because I was there that day. Fred Daddy the clubs handy man had sprinkled them on the pitch and I thought it was fertilizer as the Council were in charge of the pitch then we wondered what it was, and one or two of us tasted it to see what fertiliser it was. I would be interested to hear about your Dad as I have put this in a book I am working on!

'Wilf the Dentist in Cannible intrique!'

Though started as a best stand junior later went over to the 3p stand right next to the skippers and mates area.
Where you could always get a dram on a cold day, as they left the bottles in the rafters [doubt if be there if left now]
I painted the old wooden stand, tared the old tin roof even asphelted behind it after been left in a heap for 4 days at Woodcock St., entrance.
For this help Charlie Clegg tool me to all away games for 2 years and Len Clarke slipped us a fiver.
So was sad day for me to loose that stand atmouspher never the same.
Sad to see old ground go always thought it had a coverment on it that it could not be built on ?
Are well great memouries.