ciderbeans Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 For those that sit in the williams, Sunday will be the last ever game you will watch from the current williams stand. Worthy of a good farewell me thinks amongst the title celebrations. I'm sure people have many memories from that stand. Well worth sharing on here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awbb Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 My father falling over whilst cheering a Brian Tinnion free kick against Millwall on Boxing Day, 1997. He was right by the gantry ladder and had to use it haul himself back up. We won 4-1. Rob Edwards scored from flicking on a Greg Goodridge throw in too over a portly and completely past it Nigel Spink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuno Gomes Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Go on then I'll kick off. Was in what was the old enclosure with my Dad. Think I must have been about 10 at the time. Dad said I could get a packet of crisps which I duly did but then could not find my way back to him as the tunnel was between us. I did not realise that I had gone from one side to the other across the top part. So did what all kids are told to do, asked a policeman. He took me to a club official and then comes an announcement over the PA "will Mr. ***** please come to the office to pick up his son!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 it won't if Bristol win their play-off against rotherham, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted April 30, 2015 Admin Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 it won't if Bristol win their play-off against rotherham, ..and as long as they are a rugby fan Strange how compared to the EE this stand being demolished has almost gone unmentioned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldstandrobin Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Fond memories of the Enclosure as it was known before it was all seater. Took my girlfriend (now my wife of 44 years) to See City play for our FIRST date in the mid 60's, cant remember who we played, being only 5 foot all she can remember is looking at people's heads. Sunday will be very emotional for me for a number of reasons. After the match, took her into the supporters club for a drink. We old uns knew how to treat a girl in those days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchay Red Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Happy to see it replaced as far as I'm concerned. Over all the years I've supported the club it's the only part of the ground I've never used on a regular basis. Don't really know why, but for some reason it never appealed to me to watch from the stand or the enclosure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cider hoss rules Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 one of my fondest memories would be 'sharing' the after aroma of a kiosk pasty during a night game against Northampton, in the old black and white days of standing in the front enclosure and wandering to which ever end City were attacking. I suddenly found myself standing all alone in about a 10ft circle clearing of supporters. Happy days indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingleRed Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Took an American gal to watch Man U in the enclosure. She couldn't see much and some **** through up over her shoulder. Never saw her again!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welcome To The Jungle Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 My first City game I watched from the Williams. A 1-1 draw with Port Vale in 2001 aged just 7. A certain Steve Brooker scored for vale that day before Scott Murray equalised. Gunna miss it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse With No Name Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 For those that sit in the williams, Sunday will be the last ever game you will watch from the current williams stand. Worthy of a good farewell me thinks amongst the title celebrations. I'm sure people have many memories from that stand. Well worth sharing on here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tts_city Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 four generations of us have sat in the williams, I can remember taking my grandad there for his last match a couple of seasons ago, I wont miss the seats but I will always have fond memorys of the williams stand, farewell old girl you served us well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welcome To The Jungle Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Just wonder if the club will be selling off any of the fixtures and fittings as they did with the EE seats. I would love to buy a couple of the old wooden seats or a sign of some sort as I have been a Williams / enclosure regular since the seventies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRL Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 I remember watching us play west ham some nob of a West ham fan walking along the wall above the the enclosure giving to the city fans below. Then some kid must have be no more than 8 years old gave him a shove as he ran passed. Must be said what happened after must have been close to the worst days of his life. We're any of you otibers one of fans welcoming a flying wham fan into the enclosure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Cyril Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Who was the player sent off who ran down the Williams tunnel to loads of jeers...only to re-emerge sheepishly having realised he should be using the tunnel in the Atyeo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dolman Pragmatist Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Bizarrely, some might remember a regular bit of half-time exhibitionism from a young lady in the Williams in the late 80s. As a regular in the Dolman, I could never quite see what was going on, and the industrial-grade binoculars proved surprisingly unhelpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLionLad Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Bizarrely, some might remember a regular bit of half-time exhibitionism from a young lady in the Williams in the late 80s. As a regular in the Dolman, I could never quite see what was going on, and the industrial-grade binoculars proved surprisingly unhelpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Fond memories of the Enclosure as it was known before it was all seater. Took my girlfriend (now my wife of 44 years) to See City play for our FIRST date in the mid 60's, cant remember who we played, being only 5 foot all she can remember is looking at people's heads. Sunday will be very emotional for me for a number of reasons. After the match, took her into the supporters club for a drink. We old uns knew how to treat a girl in those days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devoncider Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Fond memories of the Enclosure as it was known before it was all seater. Took my girlfriend (now my wife of 44 years) to See City play for our FIRST date in the mid 60's, cant remember who we played, being only 5 foot all she can remember is looking at people's heads. Sunday will be very emotional for me for a number of reasons. After the match, took her into the supporters club for a drink. We old uns knew how to treat a girl in those days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterStyvarsRightFoot Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 My first memories of the Williams was seeing lee trundle before and after a game against s****horpe .... It was his first goals for the club ! My old him to score which he then did I felt proper chuffed as I said to him after... Knew you'd do it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Team In Keynsham Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinmans Love Child Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 When I first started going to games (89/90 season) my Dad and his friends would stand near the back of the terrace in the Williams, and me and my mates would go down the front and sit on the railing which was attached to the wall at the front! Best game in the Williams was when we played Watford in the league 07/08 season I.e. When we nearly went up to Prem and Basso saved a penalty and did his infamous fingers pointing to God, the Williams was electric when he saved it and then endless chants of 'Oh Basso', never heard a noise like it from the Williams, must be something in those wooden seats!! Having sat in the Williams stand a few times this season I don't think anyone can argue that the new stand will be a vast improvement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lou-peters-dive Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Had my first season ticket in the Williams Stand way back in 1976. Sat just to the left of the Directors Box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 I don't know why they don't save money on the works budget and just ask the fans to demolish the stand after the trophy presentations... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Never really had much to do with the Williams myself, had a ST in there years ago as it was a gift, couldn't wait to get back into the old Eastend though before now settling in the Dolman. And it's fom the Dolman that I shall miss her. It always looks cold and dark looking across, a very old and grey stand. Well it does when I got the sun in my eyes, not looking forward to having no Williams sun shield! I did think to myself during the Coventry game how different it was going to look at the start of next season, but then I glance across at the new South Stand and the Dolman work, she has served her time but needs to go. The South Stand looks hugely impressive, and the new Williams will better that by some distance I think. Exciting times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBobSuperBob Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 My memories are of the enclosure which has sadly long gone - The Williams has served City tremendously well and I will always remember hanging around the old Players & Officials entrance after games in 70s for autographs and the hotel style doormen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 My only memories of the stand in recent years: - hospitality vs Sheff Utd under SOD where we lost the game 1-0 late on. Dire, dire game. - free tickets that I won off of JET on Twitter when we beat Palarse in the cup in the same season. Sitting behind what I presume were Waggy's family as they got very excited every time he touched he ball. Kilkenny was sat a couple of rows over, slumped in a seat with his hands in his pocket, his tracksuit top up around his face, looking like a moody teenager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Yes I have a few memories of being sat behind a pillar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Ferret Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Always thought it was quite an interesting shape to look at. Very old school Wasn't great to sit in though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forbespm Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 chelsea in the cup.1991 i think?3-1 victory.watched it in the corner of the enclosure with coins and seats raining all around me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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