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[Offside]

When I saw the pic in this thread  there was something familiar about it - now I remember seeing it on the front of this book (picture quality not very good). I don’t have the book, but I remember looking at it in a book shop after I saw AG on the cover. 

[Porto Red]

Nice to see the Dolman Salute being impeccably observed there

[Sleepy1968]

1 hour ago, 1960maaan said:

The first game was our home game, the 2nd was change of venue. Not sure why it didn't change for the replay though.

Bath gave home advantage up to make mo money.

[slartibartfast]

2 hours ago, Red Army 75 said:

Remember him scoring a screamer . Think it was Crewe away 

1-0  (late on, possibly)

[slartibartfast]

3 hours ago, Kingswood Robin said:

 

Who was it against? It seemed like everybody play in yellow against us back then! Mansfield?

Nah, they play in sags away strip !

[REDOXO]

6 hours ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

I’m in the 15th row of the Dolman, centre block if that helps?

And getting some apparently!?

[Kingswood Robin]

1 hour ago, slartibartfast said:

Nah, they play in sags away strip !

Sorry, my mistake.

[Oh Louie louie]

Bath didnt want us there my guess.

Or bigger gate fees why the reply at ashton gate my guess.

Paul stevens was playing?

Cant make him out in the back line.

Mansfields shirt was very much like that in the 80s.

[Oh Louie louie]

My grandad was friendly with david mogg.

Him, biff, and andy ly used to visit people in hospital.

He was at bath around then.

Is that him?

[Oh Louie louie]

Paul used to live over ashton vale well he played.

He even had a support bristol city now or never sticker in his car.

Best sticker ever that was.

Alan roberts had it in his shop, till the day he went.

[ashton_fan]

The 2 games against Bath included here:

 

[Kingswood Robin]

Always remember that Bath game. My dad won £1000 on the City Society draw at halftime. Everyone had a four digit number and it was limited to 2000 members I think.  Each week they'd call out the numbers one at a time. You were lucky to be still in the draw after one number and usually knocked out by the second.  It got pretty interesting after getting three matching numbers. I'll never forget my dads face when they called out the fourth number and he'd won. He'd just been made redundant too. We picked up the big cheque on the pitch at halftime in the replay.

He's passed on now, but football can create these sorts of memories that stay with you forever.   

[ashton_fan]

1 hour ago, Kingswood Robin said:

Always remember that Bath game. My dad won £1000 on the City Society draw at halftime. Everyone had a four digit number and it was limited to 2000 members I think.  Each week they'd call out the numbers one at a time. You were lucky to be still in the draw after one number and usually knocked out by the second.  It got pretty interesting after getting three matching numbers. I'll never forget my dads face when they called out the fourth number and he'd won. He'd just been made redundant too. We picked up the big cheque on the pitch at halftime in the replay.

He's passed on now, but football can create these sorts of memories that stay with you forever.   

Me and a couple of mates won a car in that draw, it was announced at a boxing day game and with all the noise we weren't 100 per cent sure it was our number until we got it confirmed after the game. At the next home game we were driven around the edge of the pitch in the car, then it left the stadium and we had to pay to get back in! In the original version of that draw the first prize was a house, can't see that happening again now.

[Bazooka Joe]

20 hours ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Steve Neville no 11? To the left of him, er, Alan Walsh (although I'm not sure you'd ever see him there, so maybe not ...)

 

Who we playing?

 

Edited December 28, 2021 by Bazooka Joe
Ask no question, and I'll tell you no lie.

[Bazooka Joe]

20 hours ago, sticks 1969 said:

Found on a 80,s Facebook page 

This reminds me of those old Spot the Ball photos.

What a con they were.

Hundreds of crosses entered every time and never won a penny.

I reckon they just pulled winners out of a hat.

[eardun]

20 hours ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Steve Neville no 11? To the left of him, er, Alan Walsh (although I'm not sure you'd ever see him there, so maybe not ...)

I think it is Walsh. I also have a vague recollection that he played centrally occasionally for us. 

[Red Army 75]

3 hours ago, ashton_fan said:

The 2 games against Bath included here:

 

Thanks for posting. Watching that made me realise how much I miss those days. Oh Alan Walsh what a player 

[Oh Louie louie]

Waughy loved that blue top.

Whats the diffrence between a tyre and 365 used condoms?

Ones a goodyear, ones a great year!

[Sleepy1968]

16 minutes ago, Bazooka Joe said:

This reminds me of those old Spot the Ball photos.

What a con they were.

Hundreds of crosses entered every time and never won a penny.

I reckon they just pulled winners out of a hat.

They were 'in the judges opinion' weren't they, so it probably didn't really matter where the ball was, especially if the judge was boss-eyed.

[Oh Louie louie]

Now you mention it, all the older generation of my family played stb every week.

Never won anything.

Im sure i read a article, a few years ago,nobody had won it for years?

Anybody here ever won it or know anybody?

[Bazooka Joe]

10 minutes ago, Sleepy1968 said:

They were 'in the judges opinion' weren't they, so it probably didn't really matter where the ball was, especially if the judge was boss-eyed.

You're right, which is why I reckon it was just pulled out of a hat.

On the evidence of their decisions the judges certainly didn't seem to spend much time critically analysing where the ball might really be.

The ball was usually adjudged to be in the most unlikely place considering where the players were looking, shooting or running.

Though to be fair, in the case of Bas Savage, the ball could be absolutely anywhere (even lodged between his bum-cheeks).

 

[Davefevs]

14 minutes ago, Oh Louie louie said:

Now you mention it, all the older generation of my family played stb every week.

Never won anything.

Im sure i read a article, a few years ago,nobody had won it for years?

Anybody here ever won it or know anybody?

Remember Esther Rantzen’s That’s Life doing an investigation on STB.  They made up a set of “stamps” with crosses on them so they could cover every bit of the STB photo and never won a thing either.

[Oh Louie louie]

I can recall when esther, and the thats life team, came to the bowls alley under the dolman.

A kid from luckwell school was on there, and he was very very good at it.

 

 

[Davefevs]

4 hours ago, Oh Louie louie said:

I can recall when esther, and the thats life team, came to the bowls alley under the dolman.

A kid from luckwell school was on there, and he was very very good at it.

 

 

All cock?

[1960maaan]

4 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Remember Esther Rantzen’s That’s Life doing an investigation on STB.  They made up a set of “stamps” with crosses on them so they could cover every bit of the STB photo and never won a thing either.

I  gave up doing to when I found out they blanked out the ball, then placed it where they thought it would be. As bad as relying on the Pools panel to pick the same draws as you. 

That said I did have one small win once.

[Oh Louie louie]

We drew plymouth, after bath.

Took a good following, to the reply.

They drew the gooners after.

[handsofclay]

On 28/12/2021 at 11:19, ashton_fan said:

Me and a couple of mates won a car in that draw, it was announced at a boxing day game and with all the noise we weren't 100 per cent sure it was our number until we got it confirmed after the game. At the next home game we were driven around the edge of the pitch in the car, then it left the stadium and we had to pay to get back in! In the original version of that draw the first prize was a house, can't see that happening again now.

You should thank your lucky stars it wasn't Tammy Abraham driving it (although he would've been about minus fifteen at the time, and I'm referring to his age not rating his dexterity behind the wheel).

[handsofclay]

Whatever match and year it was, and Bath City 1986 seems a bloody good guess, the picture was taken in the 70th minute as the first person leaving the Dolman can be spotted descending the nearest stairway.