Anyone Going Tomorrow At The Last 2 Top Flight Promotions?

[View From The Top]

Assuming of course that we win tomorrow and go up is anyone there tomorrow who was Orient back in the day??

 

I wasn't allowed to go in the 70s, mum wouldn't let dad take as it was a school night.

[Saint Lindford]

Yep I was there and will be there tomorrow.

[sotonjoe]

I expect This Charming Man was.

[Thedelldays]

was at argyle last season....but after some serious thinking..and mates letting me down...unfortunately, not going to go.

however, it could transpire that next weekend is the day...(hope not)

[This Charming Man]

I expect This Charming Man was.

 

No, I couldn't be bothered to go to the last one. Too much hassle.

[View From The Top]

was at argyle last season....but after some serious thinking..and mates letting me down...unfortunately, not going to go.

however, it could transpire that next weekend is the day...(hope not)

 

Plymouth was fantastic last season and hopefully, result pending, tomorrow will be the same.

[Thedelldays]

Plymouth was fantastic last season and hopefully, result pending, tomorrow will be the same.

yes.....good thing about plymouth last season was that it was bank holiday weekend and saw many saints fans out on the sunday night before hand.....

hope it is the day tomorrow...

[kpturner]

I was/will be at both. I hope we don't get a collapsed wall this time.

[CFSFC]

was at argyle last season....but after some serious thinking..and mates letting me down...unfortunately, not going to go.

however, it could transpire that next weekend is the day...(hope not)

 

Hope? And therefore losing any chance of the title.

[sotonjoe]

No, I couldn't be bothered to go to the last one. Too much hassle.

 

Where was it?

[cdvdtz]

Hope? And therefore losing any chance of the title.

 

Except he said 'hope not'.

[Window Cleaner]

Where was it?

 

 

Orient 25th April 1978

[sotonjoe]

Orient 25th April 1978

 

Fans who didn't go to a London away trip where Saints could secure promotion are pr1cks. End of.

[Joe Kirkup]

Was at Orient in 78 and Plymouth last year and going tomorrow

[Window Cleaner]

Fans who didn't go to a London away trip where Saints could secure promotion are pr1cks. End of.

 

There were a lot of us there, it was midweeker as well, mind you in those days people used to love a charabanc trip to London of a Tuesday.Hadn't started all this no drinking, no smoking on the coach crap.Even talked to people you didn't know to pass the time, mobile phones,game boys and I pads not having been invented at that time.

[sotonjoe]

There were a lot of us there, it was midweeker as well, mind you in those days people used to love a charabanc trip to London of a Tuesday.Hadn't started all this no drinking, no smoking on the coach crap.Even talked to people you didn't know to pass the time, mobile phones,game boys and I pads not having been invented at that time.

 

How may were there out of interest? I presume it was all standing.

[70's Mike]

going for my 4th, 66,78,11 and tomorrow

[Window Cleaner]

How may were there out of interest? I presume it was all standing.

 

Ah, there you'd need the historians amongst us, wouldn't have been all standing no, some people liked the comfort of a seat in the stands,wouldn't have been any segretion in the seats in those days.I was on the terraces with the main body of the Milton faithful.But there were Saints fans everywhere, segregation just wasn't a problem then, you just turned up, paid your money and stood wherever you wanted.We used to get away fans in the Milton Rd,there just wasn't any control over that in the 70s.

[70's Mike]

Ah, there you'd need the historians amongst us, wouldn't have been all standing no, some people liked the comfort of a seat in the stands,wouldn't have been any segretion in the seats in those days.I was on the terraces with the main body of the Milton faithful.But there were Saints fans everywhere, segregation just wasn't a problem then, you just turned up, paid your money and stood wherever you wanted.We used to get away fans in the Milton Rd,there just wasn't any control over that in the 70s.

 

That is what gets me annoyed when people prattal on about right clothes, wrong songs etc

[View From The Top]

going for my 4th' date=' 66,78,11 and tomorrow[/quote']

 

Legend.

[ladysaint]

Yes I was at orient and will be there tomorrow. Obviously we had a lot more atbOrient than will be there tomorrow but sure we will make as much noise if all goes our way.

[Fitzhugh Fella]

going for my 4th' date=' 66,78,11 and tomorrow[/quote']

 

 

Good Luck Mike

[buctootim]

going for my 4th' date=' 66,78,11 and tomorrow[/quote']

 

Tsk. Promotions are like buses. Wait decades for one and then two come along in successive years.

[MadDogMatt]

going for my 4th' date=' 66,78,11 and tomorrow[/quote']

 

Fantastic Mike, didnt we make certain of promotion in 78 with the 0-0 draw at home to Spurs?

[View From The Top]

Fantastic Mike, didnt we make certain of promotion in 78 with the 0-0 draw at home to Spurs?

 

No, Orient (A) in the midweek.

[mikec]

Fantastic Mike, didnt we make certain of promotion in 78 with the 0-0 draw at home to Spurs?

 

I'm a different Mike but you are right strictly speaking, although it would have taken some freak results for us not to be promoted by then. Brighton needed to win and us to lose to Spurs and there also needed to be a 8 goal turnaround in goal difference. Therefore it was the draw at Orient that effectively sealed promotion.

[southamptonfclegend]

Everyone saying they were at Plymouth, we weren't technically promoted at Plymouth.

[Eric The Red]

Actually we weren't 'officially' promoted until the last game in 66, 78 and 11. Each time it would have needed a freak result to stop us going up. Hopefully we will make absolutely certain tomorrow. By the way I was there in 78 and 11. My brother was there in 66, does that count?

[MadDogMatt]

I'm a different Mike but you are right strictly speaking, although it would have taken some freak results for us not to be promoted by then. Brighton needed to win and us to lose to Spurs and there also needed to be a 8 goal turnaround in goal difference. Therefore it was the draw at Orient that effectively sealed promotion.

 

Thanks Mike! In that case I was there in 78, 11 and come this or next Saturday (everthing crossed!) 2012!

[oldsarum]

Was at Orient in 78 and Plymouth last year and going tomorrow

 

me too, only 7 in 1966 so too young to go, although I did see our 1-0 win at Bristol City a few weeks before the end of that season

[Badger]

me too, only 7 in 1966 so too young to go, although I did see our 1-0 win at Bristol City a few weeks before the end of that season

 

Wasn't that Mick Channon's debut ?

 

And yes, at Orient in '78 - remember the wall collapsing - two-thirds of the crowd seemed to be Saints fans, and going tomorrow.

[rick1976.4.38]

i was at the spurs in 78,so technically that counts,maybe not to some,i was at plymouth and will be in boro in a few hours,coys

[humber]

in 66 i was 3.

But i was there in 78 and 11 leaving in 10 mjns to drive the 310miles to be there again.

[stanthemanfairoak]

Assuming of course that we win tomorrow and go up is anyone there tomorrow who was Orient back in the day??

 

I wasn't allowed to go in the 70s, mum wouldn't let dad take as it was a school night.

YEP,more worryed about today though.

[CLOTH EARS]

I went to Luton in 78, this was the 3rd last game, Orient was the following Wednesday. We took over 2 1/2 stands at Luton, i'd estimate we took 12000-14000 that day and it was brilliant! I never went to Orient as i was only 12 and the people who i usually went wiv were not going but we took over 3/4 of Brisbane Road that day from what i gather.

[Suomi Saint]

The funniest thing I remember about '78 at Orient was the South Today sports reporter trying to climb a cat ladder to a gantry, which I presumed held the commentary box. His legs were wobbling and 00's of sympathetic Saints fans were giving him some "encouragement."