What was your first ever Stanley match that you attended??

smudgie · 11-01-2006, 18:35

just interested to see how long people have been attending the stanley??

ill start the ball rolling.......

November 95- Stanley v Boston- 2-0 win

team from what i can remember

Rob Mulloy
Chris Molloy
Ged Walsh
Olly Parillon
Brian Welch
Greg Challender
Pete Smith

BLACKBURN RAVER · 11-01-2006, 18:37

huddersfield in fa cup ....and i got on the tele ....woo hoo..

maccawozzagod · 11-01-2006, 18:46

away at Winsford 1983 I think. I was 6 years old and just started reading the Observer and taking an interest in Pannini sticker albums. I suggested to my dad that we go and watch Stanley away at Watford! and there we went, the magnificent Barton Stadium.

I'll have a stab at the team

1 Keith Bradshaw
2 Neil Rowbotham
3
4 Steve Bramwell (Accy fishmonger)
5 Pete O'Brien
6 Ged Keenan (manager to be)
7 Dave Mahon
8 Daryl Adams
9 Dave Hargreaves
10 Steve Parry
11

sub that day was Dave Hargreaves' tache

anyone help with missing players?

Redraine · 11-01-2006, 19:05

Hard to see through the mist of time, but I seem to remember it was a cup tie at Peel Park against Blackburn Rovers in the early 1950's and a big "gate". I think Stanley won!
Can anyone verify from the records?

Deman red · 11-01-2006, 19:39

1952/53 Lancashire Senior Cup first round won 2-1 Att5,300

1954/55 Friendly drew 2-2 Att 17,634 (record at Peel Park)

southernred · 11-01-2006, 19:41

My first match' was Altrincham (A) in 1970's. FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round. Unfortunatley we lost 3-0, but I was hooked and 4 decades later still massively involved.

Checking my records on Winsford A in 1983.

My guess ( on checking the programmes from that time) would be as follows:

We played Winsford A on 6th Jan 2004 and drew 1-1. David Hargreaves was the scorer. The previous away meeting was 30 Oct 2002; when a 2-2 draw was played; scorers Blackburn and Byrom.

To try and fill in the missing players:

The goal keeper was KEVIN Bradshaw,
Mick Higgins played fullback that season.

The 11 could have been Martin Farnworth and i'm sure Dave Mooney would have been involved in the squad.

In those days visit to Winsford was a major treat. Team coach, good ground with a bar and a "big" crowd 500+.

Please remember when viewing Stanley today, remember what we had and where we have come from.

EW and Coley have made fantastic progress.

LongLostSon · 11-01-2006, 19:52

can't find a B.Rovers game - only home ties agin top div oppo around then was Portsmouth '59 and Preston '61 (in both we forced replays. We did play Liverpool 3rd rnd '56 - but that was at Anfield and we lost 0 - 2.

My first ? - 1st rnd tie lost 1 - 3 at peel park to Chester in 1951 - a matter of weeks before being exiled down south (perhaps they blamed this curly haired little lad !).

smudgie · 11-01-2006, 20:04

wow i thought id been going on the crown for a long time, obviously not hehe!!!

maccawozzagod · 11-01-2006, 20:07

Dave Mooney was around at that time, Brammy was not the regular centre back I think that Mooney would have been injured that days. Can't believe I got Bradshaws name wrong. Anyhoo, legends every one of 'em. I got Bradshaws gloves one game, I'd like to say he gave them me but I was the mascot and used to kick about on the pitch after the game and he had left his spares in the net. I slyly threw my tracksuit top over them and sloped off. Feel dead guilty about it now. Oh well, paid my penance the day we lost 5-o away at Christie Park and we carried John Armfield off at the end whilst singing nil five to the stanley boys.

AccyMad · 11-01-2006, 20:44

I can't remember the exact date but I started watching Stanley in the mid 70's when John Blackburn, Dave 'Dingo' Hindle and Jack Brydon were playing

Doug · 11-01-2006, 20:59

Some time around the late 60s. A forced move to the coast in the early 70s led me to give indifferent support until last year when I started to come home on a regular basis. I finally got my act together two weeks ago and attended the Halifax Match.

Anyone is entitled to say what they want and I don’t care what opinions others have on this, for me it's a rebirth of a lost child hood wish to support the team of my home town.

What I mean by that is my mates in Accrington around the late 60s and early 70s wouldn’t have Stanley as a proper team to support because they were amateurs. It was simply a case of Burnley or Rovers, I reluctantly took up Rovers and two months later I give up supporting football altogether and for the last 37 years it stayed that way. Now my family think I’ve lost it……….Tuff I’m coming home, On Lads on…

shakermaker · 11-01-2006, 21:37

Accrington Stanley 3 - 3 Liverpool FC

Pre-season friendly 1995ish ; a very young Michael Owen taking the field at the Crown i remember!
Fowler hat-trick; cant remember who scored for us...I was only 7!!

but I do remember buying a Paul Beck pin badge and my first of many Stanley scarves from where the programmes are sold now.

it was packed and i remember people actually climbing the floodlights to watch!!

i call it my baptism of football

Tin Monkey · 11-01-2006, 22:04

SouthernRed - have you got your years mixed up?

I never really liked Winsford. I kept getting the urge to put a bet on.

I can't even remember my first game, but it was around the 78/79 season. I remember my first away game, though. It was the same season and we played Darwen at The Anchor. Might have been a cup game, but I might be wrong.

Outback Ozzy · 11-01-2006, 22:31

I cannot remember my first Stanley game but it was the late 50's early 60's prior to the demise. Remember sneaking over t'wall from Peel Park School to watch the old Stanley train, came back to Stanley after I left the army in '86 but again couldn't tell you who or which team I watched, but been hooked ever since. Pity the shifts I work don't allow me to get to all matches, but will get to as many home and some away matches each season.

Wynonie Harris · 11-01-2006, 22:32

September 1960. Stanley 0 Barrow 0. My dad usually stood on the terraces with his mates, but for some reason, he took me into the large, green corrugated iron stand which had been built on the Burnley Road side. All I can remember is the smell of tobacco smoke, lots of old men grumbling about what a waste of money the new stand was, and being bored...very bored.

Just a quick aside about my first ever visit to the Crown/IES. When I was in the 6th form at Accy Grammar in '68/'69, golf was the slackers' option for games. We usually went to Green Haworth but one week for some reason, the coach took us up Whalley Road to a funny little place behind the Crown Inn. As we walked past the semi-derelict pavillion, ducked under the wonky fence and threaded our way past the puddles on a sports ground that resembled a ploughed field, I decided that I didn't want to be here. Our games master obviously agreed, because after around half an hour of trying to teach us how to tee off, he finally gave up and dismissed us. As I walked quickly away, looking forward to a frothy coffee and a fag in the Blue Dahlia downtown, I distinctly remember hoping that I would never have to come to this place again...