The Last game at the Goldstone VS the first game at the Amex...
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pishhead
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One the start of history, the other the end of a chapter. Purely down to the significance of the occasion and the amount at stake the last game at the Goldstone has to mean more.
Taybha
Whalewhine
Doncaster Goldstone = Devastation
Doncaster Amex = Elation
Doncaster Amex = Elation
Hmmmm
Standing in a crumbling "not fit for purpose" wreck of a ground, soaked to the skin, watching the worst Albion team ever, players that cost less than £10,000, bottom of the league, worried sick about the future against sitting in a comfy chair under a roof in a stadium that's cost nearly £100 million,, watching the reigning champions and a couple of million pound plus strikers ...........
I just don't believe it!
Staggering, just staggering!!! Archer, Bellotti can you hear me? Our boys gave you a helluva beating!
Standing in a crumbling "not fit for purpose" wreck of a ground, soaked to the skin, watching the worst Albion team ever, players that cost less than £10,000, bottom of the league, worried sick about the future against sitting in a comfy chair under a roof in a stadium that's cost nearly £100 million,, watching the reigning champions and a couple of million pound plus strikers ...........
I just don't believe it!
Staggering, just staggering!!! Archer, Bellotti can you hear me? Our boys gave you a helluva beating!
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Losing the Goldstone was at a time when we didn't know what was going to happen. We weren't safe in the league, had nowhere of our own to play and a board that seemed hell-bent on killing us. For many it felt like the last time we would EVER see the team play.
Falmer is the future. Somewhere to take the kids in the future. A football team to support.
I won't be at the first game, but I don't care - there WILL be a first game. There WILL be a club. At some point I can go. We're safe. 1997 certainly didn't feel like that.
Falmer is the future. Somewhere to take the kids in the future. A football team to support.
I won't be at the first game, but I don't care - there WILL be a first game. There WILL be a club. At some point I can go. We're safe. 1997 certainly didn't feel like that.
dejavuatbtn
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Despite the grass being greener, I won't be taking any of it home this time.
Completely gutted when we left The Goldstone for the last time. The fact we didn't have a ground to go to and if we lost the next game the club itself would be in doubt it really was a bad time to be an Albion fan. I never wanted to leave the Goldstone and wished at the time that it wasn't sold but redeveloped. Gutted.
Now we have Falmer, a ground that could never have been built on the Goldstone's footprint I finally feel a depressing and dark chapter in the clubs history is over.
We haven't been able to compete on a level playing field since stadiums moved on in the early 90's, nearly 20 years ago! With the advent of all seater grounds from 93/94 and the revenue they generate, with higher ticket prices and lots of corporate seats we have been fighting a losing battle really since the early 90's. The goldstone could never generate the income that grounds owned by our rivals could and its only now we have a chance to face other sides on a level playing field with Falmer.
It will be awesome to see us in our new ground starting a new chapter having finally taken a seat at the table of modern football.
On a side note I think its interesting that most pre Withdean era threads on here (like this one) get only a handful of the replies that other threads do. This reinforces my view that this board is predominantly viewed by a post Goldstone crowd.
Now we have Falmer, a ground that could never have been built on the Goldstone's footprint I finally feel a depressing and dark chapter in the clubs history is over.
We haven't been able to compete on a level playing field since stadiums moved on in the early 90's, nearly 20 years ago! With the advent of all seater grounds from 93/94 and the revenue they generate, with higher ticket prices and lots of corporate seats we have been fighting a losing battle really since the early 90's. The goldstone could never generate the income that grounds owned by our rivals could and its only now we have a chance to face other sides on a level playing field with Falmer.
It will be awesome to see us in our new ground starting a new chapter having finally taken a seat at the table of modern football.
On a side note I think its interesting that most pre Withdean era threads on here (like this one) get only a handful of the replies that other threads do. This reinforces my view that this board is predominantly viewed by a post Goldstone crowd.
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Not suprising really. You have to be over 18 years old to remember going to the Goldstone as opposed to just being told you were there as a toddler.
Most people just can't rememebr their first four years or so
DumLum
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Looking at it from a different angle, the quality of the football should be a good two divisions better.
No disrespect to any of those players that helped keep this club alive, but we could have four players in our team this time around that individually have a higher value than the total starting twenty-two that day....pretty much as Storer 68 has already said.
No disrespect to any of those players that helped keep this club alive, but we could have four players in our team this time around that individually have a higher value than the total starting twenty-two that day....pretty much as Storer 68 has already said.