Didcot
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andy
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Re: Didcot
God we had some awful years didn't we? I think that's another reason this season is just so special. We didn't know there was a light at the end of the tunnel, but it shines mighty bright now!
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Noggin
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Re: Didcot
Quite right Andy. I think what really hurt about the Lynch/Hill saga was the sense of hope turning to disappointment.
We had gone to the brink of thinking we needed to re-start and then Lynch stepped in and appeared to be a white knight. Sadly his armour was soon found to be somewhat tarnished as we all know to our despair.
That is what I find so refreshing about Karen and Keith. That they are open, transparent and that they acknowledge that many of us are wounded by our previous experiences and therefore they will not give false hope. There is the world of difference between blind faith and being optimistic and I think we have it about right at the moment.
I am a relative new bloke (it is 15 years in a week or so to the time I first came to the Grove), but I saw enough of the pains and the tribulations of that era to rejoice in our new dawn. Long may we enjoy have a Bright Golden Haze because that is exactly what match day feels like these days - like throwing the curtains open on a sunny day
We had gone to the brink of thinking we needed to re-start and then Lynch stepped in and appeared to be a white knight. Sadly his armour was soon found to be somewhat tarnished as we all know to our despair.
That is what I find so refreshing about Karen and Keith. That they are open, transparent and that they acknowledge that many of us are wounded by our previous experiences and therefore they will not give false hope. There is the world of difference between blind faith and being optimistic and I think we have it about right at the moment.
I am a relative new bloke (it is 15 years in a week or so to the time I first came to the Grove), but I saw enough of the pains and the tribulations of that era to rejoice in our new dawn. Long may we enjoy have a Bright Golden Haze because that is exactly what match day feels like these days - like throwing the curtains open on a sunny day
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andy
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Re: Didcot
Noggin, what are you complaining about? We've had at least one and a half decent seasons in that time. 
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andy
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Re: Didcot
Not bad. We're now on page seven of a game that didn't happen.....
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andy
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Re: Didcot
......when we finally play them it will probably run to half a page of ' well done lads, six nil again'. 
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YeltzDoc
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Re: Didcot
Nah, never happened.andy wrote: ↑27 Feb 2020, 15:07Fancy dress! Freezing cold, Bermuda shorts and dressing gowns!Laurel Lane Lamper wrote: ↑27 Feb 2020, 14:34Dorchester away on March 26th 1996 was another midweek, Tuesday trip
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andy
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andy
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Forgot the wigs and surgical caps. Obviously the ensemble would be incomplete without them....
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YeltzDoc
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Re: Didcot
There was probably a very good reason.
Bits were definitely Evran-based, but God knows.
Bits were definitely Evran-based, but God knows.