• We are the Longside

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 2:30 pm**

Yesterday this was only sung in the CFS for the most part.

The Longside was.....like being in church.

Is this the end of a great stand?

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 2:32 pm**

IanMcL wrote:Yesterday this was only sung in the CFS for the most part.

The Longside was.....like being in church.

Is this the end of a great stand?

Absolutely, the stats say it’s legs have gone since the back end of last season

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 3:00 pm**

Any other stand other than the CF is like a cemetery

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 3:04 pm**

I love it in the CFS thought it really funny how the poncey southerners where all sat down yesterday though

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 3:26 pm**

Last time I went in the Longside was for the Lincoln debacle in the cup. Couldn't believe how tame it was, felt like I was going to get told off for raising my voice by the people sat around me.

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 3:32 pm**

IanMcL wrote:Is this the end of a great stand?

there are 2 ends of the stand Ian!

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 3:35 pm**

The end of the Longside was in 1995, Schürrle

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 4:09 pm**

mickleoverclaret wrote:The end of the Longside was in 1995, Schürrle

It was, which is why the song makes no sense now.

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 4:21 pm**

It's the plumbers merchants stand now. What sort of deal did James Hargreaves do to get the sponsorship in 95 and is it still the going rate for a Premier League side?.
Think it should be called the Jimmy Adamson stand or the Harry Potts stand personally

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 4:24 pm**

I don't get this song and I don't sing it.

It's 200bpm, the Longside has gone and I sit it the Jimmy Mc.

One rule of passion(which creates a song) is that there has to be a connection, or love. I have no connection to an non existent football structure and certainly have no desire to sing about it, despite some decent memories in there.

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 4:26 pm**

PutTheWheelieBinsOut wrote:It's the plumbers merchants stand now. What sort of deal did James Hargreaves do to get the sponsorship in 95 and is it still the going rate for a Premier League side?.
Think it should be called the Jimmy Adamson stand or the Harry Potts stand personally

I would prefer it to be renamed, The Longside.

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 9:41 pm**

It HAS to be called The Longside by the next or current sponsor. Let’s try and keep some connection to the atmosphere we once had - and hopefully at some time we can generate the same passion and noise. Without being wrapped around a barrier during a large surge.

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:30 pm**

If we could somehow join JHL to our end of the CFS I honestly think the atmosphere would be electric on the turf.

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:35 pm**

Bop wrote:It HAS to be called The Longside by the next or current sponsor. Let’s try and keep some connection to the atmosphere we once had - and hopefully at some time we can generate the same passion and noise. Without being wrapped around a barrier during a large surge.

Thats a decent shout actually Bop. BTW.
I Hold me hand up. We were responsible for more than one of the surges in the "Elton Wellsby is a w9nker" days!

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:41 pm**

the longside was created organically, it evolved over many years. It didn't need anyone telling it how things were to be done.
This modern day CFS thing some harp on about is a pale shadow of what the longside was, at best the cricket field is about 2 generations out in terms of tale telling within families, and the younger end trying desperately to recreate (and failing miserably) something that has long gone.

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:05 pm**

Wile E Coyote wrote:the longside was created organically, it evolved over many years. It didn't need anyone telling it how things were to be done.
This modern day CFS thing some harp on about is a pale shadow of what the longside was, at best the cricket field is about 2 generations out in terms of tale telling within families, and the younger end trying desperately to recreate (and failing miserably) something that has long gone.

The bogs are an improvement to be fair.

Only because they actually exist!

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:21 pm**

RingoMcCartney wrote:The bogs are an improvement to be fair.

Only because they actually exist!

What can beat two parallel walls, some thistles and a smell that could withstand open air?

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:30 pm**

RingoMcCartney wrote:The bogs are an improvement to be fair.

Only because they actually exist!

true, but no human should EVER have been subjected to the bogs on the bee hole end

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:33 pm**

Bop wrote:What can beat two parallel walls, some thistles and a smell that could withstand open air?

Big smiles here pal!

But I'll raise ya the man made miniature lake at the back of the bee hole. A quick wazz in there on the way out after the final whistle was guaranteed to take your nasal hairs off good style!

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:36 pm**

Awayfromburnley wrote:I don't get this song and I don't sing it.

It's 200bpm, the Longside has gone and I sit it the Jimmy Mc.

One rule of passion(which creates a song) is that there has to be a connection, or love. I have no connection to an non existent football structure and certainly have no desire to sing about it, despite some decent memories in there.

But then, presumably when people sang "we are the Longside" they weren't really claiming to be a football structure - they were claiming to be the people who made that football structure a symbol of the club. And the demise of the structure isn't necessarily enough to kill that feeling.

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:37 pm**

Wile E Coyote wrote:true, but no human should EVER have been subjected to the bogs on the bee hole end

Haha

You posted while I was typing.

Bee hole bogs - 20 foot wide but you could only actually stand in 18 inches of them without the "tide" getting on yer docs!

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:38 pm**

Bop wrote:What can beat two parallel walls, some thistles and a smell that could withstand open air?

Dont forget the peeling black paint that was given a fresh coat at the start of every season.. ..... about 36 inches high from the gutter to the top of the paint line.

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2018 12:26 am**

The Enclosure wrote:Dont forget the peeling black paint that was given a fresh coat at the start of every season.. ..... about 36 inches high from the gutter to the top of the paint line.

Yeah. Just under three dicks high was how I remember it.

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2018 12:35 am**

Bop wrote:Yeah. Just under three dicks high was how I remember it.

Depends how big your dick is.

I remember it being only half a dick high, little fella!

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2018 12:55 am**

So your dicks six times the length of Bops? Does Bop accept this slur on his wand? The silence is deafening.

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2018 1:14 am**

Millertime v1.7 wrote:So your dicks six times the length of Bops? Does Bop accept this slur on his wand? The silence is deafening.

No one said Ringo had a big dick. They just said he was one.

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2018 1:52 am**

IanMcL wrote:Yesterday this was only sung in the CFS for the most part.

The Longside was.....like being in church.

Is this the end of a great stand?

Shouldn't they be singing
We are the short end?

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:53 am**

The young uns should make their own songs up. The cfs is a new era . The longside only exists in the memories of older clarets . I hate the speeded up chanting. Really gets on my tits .

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:53 am**

My memory is not what it was but i seem to remember a wooden shack between the back of the longside and the Beehole end right at the back that sold pies and drinks.This was pre Twix days lol.it was open to the elements and am sure I used to have many a soggy pie at half time in the rain.In those days they were probably Bob Lord's pies.

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:15 am**

The Enclosure wrote:My memory is not what it was but i seem to remember a wooden shack between the back of the longside and the Beehole end right at the back that sold pies and drinks.This was pre Twix days lol.it was open to the elements and am sure I used to have many a soggy pie at half time in the rain.In those days they were probably Bob Lord's pies.

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:21 am**

Nowadays you would be nominated for an award if you ventured into the old bee hole end bogs, especially if you were carrying your pie in the other hand!

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:22 am**

The Enclosure wrote:My memory is not what it was but i seem to remember a wooden shack between the back of the longside and the Beehole end right at the back that sold pies and drinks.This was pre Twix days lol.it was open to the elements and am sure I used to have many a soggy pie at half time in the rain.In those days they were probably Bob Lord's pies.

This one?

Photo by Homes of Football who are doing an exhibition at Towneley Hall at the beginning of October.

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:23 am**

Brilliant Brandon.Thank you.

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:34 am**

The Enclosure wrote:My memory is not what it was but i seem to remember a wooden shack between the back of the longside and the Beehole end right at the back that sold pies and drinks.This was pre Twix days lol.it was open to the elements and am sure I used to have many a soggy pie at half time in the rain.In those days they were probably Bob Lord's pies.

And Brew Ten and Toby Light.
Or was that a separate beer hut?

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2018 6:48 pm**

The Enclosure wrote:My memory is not what it was but i seem to remember a wooden shack between the back of the longside and the Beehole end right at the back that sold pies and drinks.This was pre Twix days lol.it was open to the elements and am sure I used to have many a soggy pie at half time in the rain.In those days they were probably Bob Lord's pies.

Yeah the bar at back of longside , I had two pints and dropped them when Wimbledon scored

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:07 pm**

Quickenthetempo wrote:This one?

Photo by Homes of Football who are doing an exhibition at Towneley Hall at the beginning of October.

Did QPR take the longside that day?

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