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Best and worst matches
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Bit of festive nostalgia - what are the three best, and three worst Boro games you've attended? Can be performance, atmosphere, personal reasons. Off the top of the dome:
Best
1) 2-1 vs. Villa, FA Cup 2023
2) 3-1 vs. Newcastle, FA Cup 2011
2) 3-0 vs. Orient, League 1 2023
Worst
1) 1-5 vs. Crewe, League 2 2019
2) 0-3 vs. Orient, League 2 2020
3) 0-4 vs. Gas, League 2 2022
Edited by Freemo at 19:30:35 on 23rd December 2024
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Best probably
4-4 FGR away
2-2 Oxford home
That game against Aldershot where Boyd was walking around their players.
Worst
0-0 farsley Celtic
That bumming against Wrexham
Any game I’ve been to in the past five years.
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Was Aldershot the New Year's Day one that was his last game for us? That was such an incredible send-off, Hollywood stuff.
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Would've been, yeah.
Think Steve Guppy just threw up his arms in disbelief and amazement when Boyd scored.
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I'm a bit surprised nobody has mentioned Torquay at Old Trafford.
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Traffic was a nightmare, parking was a rip-off. Got there way too late for a bite to eat or a pint.
Stadium was 75% empty.
Great result but as an experience overall it was a bit meh for me.
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Yeah, the experience at Old Trafford was a bit surreal. Kiddy game managed to have a good atmosphere with the whole town turning out.
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Personally thought the atmosphere at Old Trafford was much better than Kiddy at Wembley. Was able tonstand all game and the Dale Cavese echoing around the place was great. Compares to Wembley where we were told to sit down instantly whenever anyone tried to get any atmosphere going
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That was good
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Surprised nobody has put our trophy win at Wembley against Kidderminster…..0-2 down at half time and demolished them in the second half to win 3-2.
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4-0 Woking, April 1996
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Some recency bias here but:
Best:
Villa (a)
Kings Lynn (a)
Bradford (a) - 2014
Worst:
Cambridge (h) 2024
D&R (h) 2015
Bury (a) 2018
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Best
1. Tottenham Hotspur, 1-3 (A)
2. Kidderminster Harriers, 0-2 (A)
3. Forest Green Rovers, 4-4 (A)
Worst
1. Wrexham, 0-5 (A)
2. Farnborough Town, 0-2 (A) -- GW's first visit back methinks
3. Exeter City, 0-4 (A) - went to both 4-0 away defeats that season
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Best:
Kiddy (A), better than my wedding day for the raw emotion. It'll never get better than that afternoon for me.
Newcastle (H) win. The noise on the East was incredible.
Spurs (A) taking that early lead was special. (Kinda what Villa must've felt like but I missed that one)
Worst:
Throwing away a solid playoff lead at Cambridge.
Losing at Bury on a very cold week night when Robbo almost cried because we were so fucking poor and he knew we were going down that season.
Losing 7-1(?) At Kenilworth Rd
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Best
Villa 1-2 Boro, FA Cup 2023
Swindon 0-1 Boro, League 2023
Boro 4-0 Sheffield United, League 2013
Worst
Crewe 3-1 Boro, League 2020
Northampton 3-0 Boro, League 2021
Colchester 4-0 Boro, League 2017
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Swindon game is a good shout. That was a great evening
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Ugh that Colchester shout reminded me of Boxing Day 2013, same scoreline, going on my tod because my Dad couldn't be arsed, freezing cold, trying to drive through a flood under the railway bridge at Bragbury End on the way back and getting an instant flat tyre. Miserable, miserable stuff.
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Worst was that bloody play off defeat at Stoke. Christ, that place was windy and cold in the middle of May
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Was just going to write the same - Carlisle playoffs. So disappointing, in such a grim place.
In the spirit of the original question, loads of great memories. If anything trumps Villa it'd be pretty good :-) Best has to be Villa, still gives me goosebumps! Can't believe it happened, really! And quite the opposite of losing at Stoke, winning at *Villa Park*, with so many Boro there. Awesome day out.
And I don't always remember games for the performance, more for the end: noise, spirit and togetherness. Always remember visiting somewhere new and interesting. Bonus points for stumbling on a great boozer :-)
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Best league
Kidderminster away
Rochdale away
Sheffield Wednesday home
Best cup
Villa away
Newcastle home 98
Newcastle home the other one
I don't remember bad performances, but losing 3-2 to Macclesfield when 2 nil up in the 90s top of the table battle was a shitter.
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That Macclesfield game doesn't count because it didn't happen.
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Dale away was such a great day
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Rochdale would've been in my list if:
1) We had appointed Robbo permanently to take us the final step up to the Championship before getting poached by England
2) I hadn't been sat in the away end with my uni mate, a lifelong Dale fan who was very gracious
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I remembered some crap games.
Losing to Sheffield United in the playoffs and Robbie sitting on the advertising hoarding on his own
Losing to Cambridge in the playoffs after being 3-1 up after the first leg.
Honourable mentioned for winning the first final at new Wembley after being 2 nil down, but since it was Wembley it was mostly shit atmosphere
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I'd erased that Cambridge defeat from memory. I can also remember now a photo shortly after Rendell scored where the Destiny banner had half collapsed on the stand as if to encapsulate the mood.
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