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Post by westyorkshiregull on May 1, 2010 13:39:51 GMT
dave , just noticed you started this thread and you were also at this game. what were your memoies ?
i remember my dad saying that evening he popped out to get a takeaway that evening and saw several torquay players doing the konga with others down near the seafront. sounds a bit cheesey i know and not sure if he was correct about if it was the players but he was sure it was. to be honest , ive been to all but one of the relagation showdowns we have had but this one is the best for me.
i live in leeds now but i know someone who knows paul dobson. he lives and works near darlington now. plays bowls for a team there. id love to know what his memories are.
will post some pictures now of the legend dobbo in action.
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Post by westyorkshiregull on May 1, 2010 13:49:10 GMT
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Post by Dave on May 1, 2010 21:57:03 GMT
westyorkshiregull Paul looks a lot different now to how I remember him and thanks for putting up the picture.
I left home that day as I do for any game I go to watch and that is believing we have every chance to win the game as all games are always winnable, just some you may need large slices of luck in them to get anything.
The only real problem with this game over other relegation games from seasons before was we could not go cap in hand this time if we did finish bottom and hope the league would look kindly on us and let us keep our league status. If we finished bottom we were going out of the football league for the first time in our history and so I knew it was going to be one of those roller-coaster sort of games that might switch one way and then the other.
It was so frustrating in the first half as we made some great chances and never took one of them and to go in at halftime two nil down had me wondering if this really was now going to be the end of league football at Plainmoor.
Jim's goal sure gave us all hope we could still save ourselves and as in those days you could stand right up to the fence on the popside as you can now in the enclosure, I saw Bryn sink his teeth into Jim.
When the trouble started at the end of the popside I could not believe the dog handlers took their dogs pitch-side of the fence and as they were just watching the crowd and not what was going on behind them, it was an accident waiting to happen
The ball goes out for a throw-in and Jim runs to get it and the dog thinks Jim is trying to get to the handler and as quick as a flash suck those teeth in.
But even when they patched him up the time was running out and even I was starting to think we were going down, then Dodo gets that goal and when the final whistle went I was on the pitch with all the other fans.
Only I forgot about Ant and his sister who went to the game with me and so I was crying because we were staying up and crying as I had lost my children somewhere on the pitch and with so many fans on the pitch and then both being just children then, I was fearing for them and also worried if they were getting scared themselves.
When I found them at last it was another great feeling to go with the one the team gave me that day.
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Post by westyorkshiregull on May 2, 2010 20:19:15 GMT
quality dave. really good memories and dalso good to remember some of these past players.
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