Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?

RalphCoatesComb · Post by **RalphCoatesComb** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:09 pm

When your action shots were a series of grainy dots on the back page of "The Buff" or The Pink" on a Saturday evening?

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:11 pm

I think, if recent threads are anything to go by, there are quite a few people on here would like to go back to those days for a variety of reasons.

Paul Waine · Post by **Paul Waine** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:14 pm

Never left!

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:36 pm

Still going....
https://www.cityvarieties.co.uk/Online/ ... utumn12017

piston broke · Post by **piston broke** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:41 pm

In the proper "Good Old Days" they drew lines showing where the ball had travelled.

COBBLE · Post by **COBBLE** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:49 am

I think we have managed to bring them with us somehow.

martin_p · Post by **martin_p** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:51 am

you wouldn't have got a photo from that angle in the good old days!

Although I do feel the urge to cut it out and stick it in a scrap book.

Funkydrummer · Post by **Funkydrummer** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:55 am

martin_p wrote:you wouldn't have got a photo from that angle in the good old days!

Although I do feel the urge to cut it out and stick it in a scrap book.

No you wouldn't - they were nearly all taken from behind the goals and you had to
peer through the netting.

Ah, the good old days

TractorFace · Post by **TractorFace** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:57 am

The past is a foreign country - they do things differently there.

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:59 am

Bring back the birch/rack/thumbscrews.

And that's just for people who don't indicate.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:08 am

Div 4?

It was ace when I was in my teens and early twenties but now?

Crikey

Spijed · Post by **Spijed** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:16 am

Funkydrummer wrote:No you wouldn't - they were nearly all taken from behind the goals and you had to
peer through the netting.

Ah, the good old days

In the good old days whenever there was a penalty you'd get a load of photographers gather behind the nets.

Now, it's all done via remote cameras.

Culmclaret · Post by **Culmclaret** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:20 pm

The photos through fine-mesh nets were particularly .... err...atmospheric. There was more fog in the old days too.

Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:31 pm

It's how Spot the Ball was invented!

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:40 pm

In the good old days the beehole toilets stank. Right next to the food bar.. A blend all on it's own bovril pies and p!ss!

RalphCoatesComb · Post by **RalphCoatesComb** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:58 pm

Buxtonclaret wrote:It's how Spot the Ball was invented!

I can tell you're having "withdrawal symptoms"

Just for you...

RalphCoatesComb · Post by **RalphCoatesComb** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:02 pm

Personally, I prefer a more artistic, brushstroke approach

Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:39 pm

B6!!!

JohnMac · Post by **JohnMac** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 2:23 pm

I remember the black and white photo's in the Burnley Express window a day or so after every game that were for sale.

I reckon they were around 3/6d which was far too much for my budget

Hazzyclaret1955 · Post by **Hazzyclaret1955** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:45 pm

tim_noone wrote:In the good old days the beehole toilets stank. Right next to the food bar.. A blend all on it's own bovril pies and p!ss!

You used the toilets! Most went behind the wall of the stairs, I certainly did.

keith1879 · Post by **keith1879** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:47 pm

Hazzyclaret1955 wrote:You used the toilets! Most went behind the wall of the stairs, I certainly did.

We weren't all as posh as that.

PaintYorkClaretnBlue · Post by **PaintYorkClaretnBlue** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:03 pm

Lancasterclaret wrote:Div 4?

It was ace when I was in my teens and early twenties but now?

Crikey

Exactly this! I was 16 in 1987 and I loved it! Not sure that I'd want to go back to it now mind!!

RingoMcCartney · Post by **RingoMcCartney** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:53 pm

RalphCoatesComb wrote:I can tell you're having "withdrawal symptoms"

Just for you...

The crazy thing about the Spot The Ball competition, was the ball was where the judges deemed it to be. Not where it had actually been!

ExistentialWanderer · Post by **ExistentialWanderer** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:59 pm

tim_noone wrote:In the good old days the beehole toilets stank. Right next to the food bar.. A blend all on it's own bovril pies and p!ss!

Yep! If you could get in. As another poster has pointed out. Other areas were used when you were busting and there was a queue.

RalphCoatesComb · Post by **RalphCoatesComb** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:18 pm

RingoMcCartney wrote:The crazy thing about the Spot The Ball competition, was the ball was where the judges deemed it to be. Not where it had actually been!

I think that's how "Spot" did it last year

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 7:10 pm

Hazzyclaret1955 wrote:You used the toilets! Most went behind the wall of the stairs, I certainly did.

No I was queuing for a pie.... Fancy putting a snack bar next to them toilets,mind you who's idea was it to put a sh!tter next to a sweet shop!!

Woodleyclaret · Post by **Woodleyclaret** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 8:28 pm

To quote Parky "Nostalgia ain't what it used to be."
I was at Colchester in the Eighties in the away end with less than 100 fans and at Old Trafford last season in a 75,000 crowd to watch us thwart Manure and I know which I prefer .
Long may our Premier journey continue.

RalphCoatesComb · Post by **RalphCoatesComb** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:07 pm

Woodleyclaret wrote:To quote Parky "Nostalgia ain't what it used to be."
I was at Colchester in the Eighties in the away end with less than 100 fans and at Old Trafford last season in a 75,000 crowd to watch us thwart Manure and I know which I prefer

Me too but, there was something quite "Special" about seeing Brian O'Neil square up to some bloke twice his size, or Ralph Coates sitting on the ball, before skinning the full backs. Parky was right, Nostalgia ain't what it used to be

ExistentialWanderer · Post by **ExistentialWanderer** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:09 pm

Going through the annals of my mind. Wasn't there a programme called 'The Good Old Days'? Vaguely remember dancing and such.

RalphCoatesComb · Post by **RalphCoatesComb** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:17 pm

ExistentialWanderer wrote:Going through the annals of my mind. Wasn't there a programme called 'The Good Old Days'? Vaguely remember dancing and such.

There was. See post 4 above

Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:42 pm

RingoMcCartney wrote:The crazy thing about the Spot The Ball competition, was the ball was where the judges deemed it to be. Not where it had actually been!

Reckon your right there, Ringo.
Tried loads of times. Never won the dam thing once!

ExistentialWanderer · Post by **ExistentialWanderer** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:08 am

RalphCoatesComb wrote:There was. See post 4 above

Indeed,

HunterST_BFC · Post by **HunterST_BFC** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:23 am

I miss last seasons spot the ball.

I believe Spot the dog ran away and now lives with Buxton. (bacon bribe treats I believe...and now Spot eats from a Silver Cup or two).

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 3:39 am

RalphCoatesComb wrote:When your action shots were a series of grainy dots on the back page of "The Buff" or The Pink"

I do remember my action shot when I first entered 'the pink'
But I wasn't exactly in 'the buff'.

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