The moment you believed it really would happen...

[FalmerforAll!**]

For me, Ashley Barnes' 92nd minute winner away at Exeter. The game was dead, we hadn't really been playing particularly well, and just a little bit of luck in the middle saw the ball break for someone to play it wide to Bennett, whose low cross somehow found a way through for Barnes to stick it in the onion bag.

So many times in previous years we'd have drawn, maybe even lost games like that. Barnes had come on as a substitute too, which highlighted the strength in depth that we had.

 

[BHAryan]

Totally agree we didnt deserve to win but we did!,
Although i went to plymouth in september and had a feeling all those months ago that we just might..

 

[Brovion]

Started to believe it was going to happen in about mid-November.
The 95% moment was after the FA Cup game against Portsmouth.
The 100% nailed-on moment was after the 4-0 home win against Plymouth

 

[Bwian]

Charlton away. When I saw The Albion playing football that had the home fans applaud our team off the pitch after absolutely tonking them, I knew Gus had created a team of winners.

 

[severnside gull]

For me, Ashley Barnes' 92nd minute winner away at Exeter. The game was dead, we hadn't really been playing particularly well, and just a little bit of luck in the middle saw the ball break for someone to play it wide to Bennett, whose low cross somehow found a way through for Barnes to stick it in the onion bag.

So many times in previous years we'd have drawn, maybe even lost games like that. Barnes had come on as a substitute too, which highlighted the strength in depth that we had.

Totally agree. I picked it as my season's highlight for just that reason and because it was the first time we had played three strikers up front - from there onwards all things became possible.

 

[pasty]

Brentford away. We were pretty average that night and didn't play very well at all, but still came away with a 1-0 win. Thats when I started to believe.

 

[7:18]

Carlisle at home cemented it for me!

 

[Mendoza]

Carlisle at home. To conceed an equaliser in the last minute, only to have the passion and belief to go up the other end and win it, sums it all up for me.

We had changed from the tippy tappy, to a team with more steal and determination

 

[The Large One]

Liam's winner at home to Carlisle.

It was emotional.

 

[porkypie]

Swindon away!

 

[Sam Ovett]

Aberdeen at home

 

[Gerbil]

The space of 7 days
Going up to Yeovil a tricky place and still coming away with a win
Carlisle conceding in the 91st minute only to go up the other end and win it, just felt like our year
Finally Brentford, we were quite honestly poor, yet still scrapped 1-0 win
9 points from 9 including two bloody difficult Tuesday night away games, i knew we'd go up.

 

[Biscuit]

Charlton.

To beat a decent team 4-0 in their own yard... you just kinda knew that it wasn't a one off and Poyet was starting something incredible.

 

[stss30]

The Charlton and Peterborough away games were the most memorable for me, but I still didn't think we'd do it until that magical Carlisle game...

 

[poidy]

Im a great believer of fate and i really felt this was to be our season with Falmer just around the corner.

Like many on here i remember walking out of St James Park absolutely freezing my tits off thinking that we had just watched champions in the making. Of course Carlisle at home was much the same.

Peterborough and Charlton(two complete examples of total football)was when i knew we were good enough. The burning question at that time was did we have the resolve witnessed against the likes of Exeter, Carlisle and more recently Dagenham to last the distance. Thankfully the answer was YES

 

[Captain Haddock]

Good thread. For me there were two defining moments:

1) Charlton at home...resilience and quality in adversity, coupled with relief expressed by fans of a Charlton side who had a goal and man advantage early doors but were glad of their point at the final whistle.

2) Carlisle at home...refusal to yield points at a criocal juncture in the season. This out-gunning of these exceptionally stubborn opponents confirmed my earlier convincer from example 1)

 

[WestUpperClub69]

Daggers on Tuesday, has it really happened

 

[NMH]

Not one moment, but all.
The belief was there, but reality cemented it with every game.

Still going too, for the rest of my belief.
We are now just that kind of team and club

 

[homer]

July 31st 2010 after I took 18/1 at Ladbrokes on us to win the league.

:albion1::albion1::albion1:

 

[Stat Brother]

I didn't think THIS would happen, but the 23rd October was when I knew something 'different' was happening.

I was on here spouting that Yeovil would be a hard game, I guess we were on some kind of undefeated run at the time, (as usual).
What with them being chock full of ex players, etc.
But the clinical way we put them to the sword without breaking a sweat told me this wasn't the Albion I'm used too.