70's Mike Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 obviously answer depends on your age, i just hope that those who were to young one day exoeience a Wembley 76 or Fratton 84 moment, it makes all the crap days worthwhile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 Would love to have been there in 76 and the celebrations in the city the next day/week/month. Must have been a great time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 A lot of good ones already mentioned. I'll add Camara 88th minute against Norwich in the relegation season. To this day I have never heard SMS as loud as it was when the ball hit the back of the net for that one. Insane celebrations. . Agreed. I have never heard a noise as loud as that in any stadium ever. I spoke to a Norwich fan last year and he was there that day. He agrees. Absolutely madness. I genuinely thought we'd survive after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wopper Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 End of the game at Leyton Orient 1966 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saints_is_the_south Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 Agreed. I have never heard a noise as loud as that in any stadium ever. I spoke to a Norwich fan last year and he was there that day. He agrees. Absolutely madness. I genuinely thought we'd survive after that. I have friends who were shopping in town at the time, who claim to have heard the roar from SMS. Incredible game of football. If we'd stayed up then it would be classed as a legendary Saints game. For me it is anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansums Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 SRL curling one into the top corner next week for England against the swetties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Under Weststand Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 1976 I hope I get to see at least one more weekend like that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 It has to be Le Tiss scoring the last goal to beat Arsenal at the last match at the Dell. Honorable mentions to the Dellhurst experience and the 40 or so coach convoy that went up to the match against Wimbledon. Watching the video reminds me how close Wimbledon came to scoring several times before we eventually scored our two. How good was Beattie!!! He was vital towards the end of that season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 This has to be the best moment , 1.57 secs in, Just for those that were not born then http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/bobby-stokes-v-manchester-united/Memory/7ba9f896-4309-4b37-81c5-a03101068ba3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 If you could preserve one moment so you could go back there and experience it again, what would it be? One ?! I can't do ONE ! Moments to re-live Pahars v Skates in 2003 The moment we drew Watford in the FA Cup semis (cue me screaming off down the office corridor knowing we were in the Final) 2010 at Fleet Services on the way back from the JPT Final - or I suppose when we scored the 3rd, cos we knew we had it in the bag then The last 10 minutes at Brighton in the L1 promotion season The first goal against Coventry at St Mary's in the Championship promotion season Henri Camara against Norwich Me scoring from 40 yards in the Gwent County League 2003 My triple hat-trick in the Gwent County in 2000. Saints 3-3 at Man U - Pahars megging Stam, Le Tiss through Taibi... Moments to revisit to change Middlesbrough away in the Championship runner-up season 1979 League Cup Final The last minute of the 2-2 against the Skates at St Mary's The whole of the 2004/5 Fratton visit Not punching Jerry Sherman in the face when I had the chance as a teenager in 1988 in Newport (possibly ditto with Lowe on Cup Final day 2003) Me, clean through in the Gwent Amateur Cup Final in 2003, chipped the keeper on a soggy pitch and put it a yard wide. We still won, but I only set that one up. Telling the manager I was injured before Inter Cardiff v Afan Lido in 1995/6, probably should have played Immediately before a knee-high tackle from behind wrecked my knee in 2000. Moments I wasn't at but would like to have been 1976 FA Cup Final at Wembley Tommy Tynan, 90th minute, Jena, 1980/1. CMFG's meandering dribble goal. Saints in Europe in the 70s... maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 Watching us score 6 in the 2nd half against Coventry in 1984 was good fun. Can't think of a game since that one where we've scored 8. We did it about three weeks ago in a friendly, suppose that doesn't count though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killers Knee Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 signing the European Footballer of the Year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefoggy Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 Walking into The Dell..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saints_is_the_south Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 One ?! I can't do ONE ! Moments to revisit to change 1982 to 84. I wasn't even alive, but I've read and heard so much about these years. If I could, this would be the times I'd go back to and change. Keep Keegan for another 2 seasons, and we'd have won the double. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dronskisaint Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 '76 caps everything for me...years of being the butt of my glory-following mates' jokes eclipsed in one wonderful 83rd minute moment...I cried then, I collected my winnings - I'm not a betting man but couldn't bear to have people betting me on the result and admitting that they could be right by not taking it on...the partying and even a few minutes ago watching it i still throw my arms in to the air and get a lump in my throat about little 'Legless'... Much more recently when Jos scored that 3rd against Coventry last year and I believed, let myself believe, that we were up - phenomenal feeling and great celebrations afterwards... Many more, too many to mention but the ups I remember so much more than the downs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggers Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 Wesley??? I really must give up and were my glasses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fareham saint phil Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 I love these sorts of threads, brings back happy memories and you remember obscure matches that you forgot all about. Like many others cant only have one!!! 76 - seeing the cup lifted towards us was the greatest day in a 14yr olds life, even at the final whistle I still thought I'd wake up 77/78 - seeing Saints win away for the first time and what a result, 6-0 v Carlisle (lived up there at the time) every MLT screamer at The Dell, so so many CMFG overheadish kick to score the first in the quarter final of the cup run Marion scoring the goal to give us our first SMS win to **** the gypsy curse off hell loads more im enjoying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky_Mark Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 Plenty of mine have been mentioned already! Rasiak at Derby, JPT trip, Camera against Norwich, MLT at the dell & Pahars Beattie against skates! Three that stick with me though are the Alan Ball tribute and the Southend game to follow to get us in the play offs! Sheffield United win to keep us up But.... Goal I think I have gone most mental at, it's very close is Higginbotham away at Palace in 05 that kept us still believe, crazy scenes when he popped up at the back post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintadjg Posted 8 August, 2013 Share Posted 8 August, 2013 1966 England winning the world cup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toomer Posted 9 August, 2013 Share Posted 9 August, 2013 (edited) My first match at The Dell with my Dad as a 5 year old October 1959 when we beat Swindon 6-2, I only had Dad around for another 12 years as he passed away in 71. I was with him when we got promoted in 66 and I can still see the smile on his face to this day, shame he did not see some of the other highs. I did think once or twice what he would have said about Lowe, I am sure it would not have been very polite. Edited 9 August, 2013 by Toomer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwsaint Posted 9 August, 2013 Author Share Posted 9 August, 2013 Another thread that I don't remember starting. In no particular order: 1976 and all that. The city collectively lost it for the whole weekend. Orient 1978, when we knew that we were up Listening on the radio to Steve Moran's goal v the Skates in 1984 Being at Cardiff in 2003, even though we lost Camara's goal against Norwich in 2005. It was like being at a gig, it was that loud Coventry 2012. Just one big party. And the one memory I don't want to relive Heath's goal for Everton in 1984. I was at the clock end. A game we should have won. Why was Williams playing when unfit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maysie Posted 9 August, 2013 Share Posted 9 August, 2013 Yes, but equally the relief in 96 when Man City drew 2-2 with the 'Pool and we drew 0-0 with Wimbledon. So you'd like to relive a feeling of relief. God, you're a dare devil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appy Posted 9 August, 2013 Share Posted 9 August, 2013 Moran at Fratton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Jazzbo Posted 9 August, 2013 Share Posted 9 August, 2013 It has to be the FA cup in 76 for me. I think what a lot of people forget is, that Winning the FA Cup back then was more or less considered equal to winning the old Div 1. It was the knockout competion, as a team we'd proved that we could come out on top of a pile that consisted of every team in the Country, and the whole world watched it. Now to some degree its very much a sideshow compared to the premier league, with the teams out of the top 6 aiming to win it so they can get a European spot. Look at Arsenal when they beat us, the fans werent interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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