Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: 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?
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Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: 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.
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:14 pm
Never left! 
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:36 pm
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:41 pm
In the proper "Good Old Days" they drew lines showing where the ball had travelled.
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:49 am
I think we have managed to bring them with us somehow.
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: 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.
Although I do feel the urge to cut it out and stick it in a scrap book.
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:55 am
No you wouldn't - they were nearly all taken from behind the goals and you had tomartin_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.
peer through the netting.
Ah, the good old days
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:57 am
The past is a foreign country - they do things differently there.
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:59 am
Bring back the birch/rack/thumbscrews.
And that's just for people who don't indicate.
And that's just for people who don't indicate.
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:08 am
Div 4?
It was ace when I was in my teens and early twenties but now?
Crikey
It was ace when I was in my teens and early twenties but now?
Crikey
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:16 am
In the good old days whenever there was a penalty you'd get a load of photographers gather behind the nets.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
Now, it's all done via remote cameras.
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: 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.
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:31 pm
It's how Spot the Ball was invented! 
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: 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!
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:58 pm
I can tell you're having "withdrawal symptoms"Buxtonclaret wrote:It's how Spot the Ball was invented!
Just for you...
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:02 pm
Personally, I prefer a more artistic, brushstroke approach
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:39 pm
B6!!!
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: 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
I reckon they were around 3/6d which was far too much for my budget
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:45 pm
You used the toilets! Most went behind the wall of the stairs, I certainly did.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!
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:47 pm
We weren't all as posh as that.Hazzyclaret1955 wrote:You used the toilets! Most went behind the wall of the stairs, I certainly did.
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:03 pm
Exactly this! I was 16 in 1987 and I loved it! Not sure that I'd want to go back to it now mind!!Lancasterclaret wrote:Div 4?
It was ace when I was in my teens and early twenties but now?
Crikey
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: 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!
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:59 pm
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.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!
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:18 pm
I think that's how "Spot" did it last yearRingoMcCartney 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!
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 7:10 pm
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!!Hazzyclaret1955 wrote:You used the toilets! Most went behind the wall of the stairs, I certainly did.
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: 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.
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.
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:07 pm
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 beWoodleyclaret 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
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: 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.
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:17 pm
There was. See post 4 aboveExistentialWanderer wrote:Going through the annals of my mind. Wasn't there a programme called 'The Good Old Days'? Vaguely remember dancing and such.
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:42 pm
Reckon your right there, Ringo.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!
Tried loads of times. Never won the dam thing once!
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:08 am
Indeed,RalphCoatesComb wrote:There was. See post 4 above
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: 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).
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).
Re: Would you really want to go back to the "Good Old Days"?
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 3:39 am
I do remember my action shot when I first entered 'the pink'RalphCoatesComb wrote:When your action shots were a series of grainy dots on the back page of "The Buff" or The Pink"
But I wasn't exactly in 'the buff'.