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6 years : Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:06 am  

6 years ago that we beat Bradford in the million pound game.
How life could have been so different for us all

Re: 6 years : Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:18 am  

Very strange day. A real rollercoaster of emotions. I still get goosebumps when a replay is shown and I hear Eddie with the Scott Moore commentary followed by the eruption in the majority of the stadium.

As you say, it could’ve been all so different. I personally think that both clubs would currently be in the championship if we’d of lost that game.

Re: 6 years : Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:23 am  

Was one of the longest days I will ever remember. Couldn’t even drink until after as was there early as my lad was representing Stanley rangers before the game but had to be down early. As soon as we got back and he was dropped off I was in the local not drinking to celebrate but more to calm me down.

Re: 6 years : Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:38 am  

It was a horrible end to a horrible season.
We were awful for most of the season and then had the now infamous "joyride", which literally put the skids under our preparation for the game against Bradford.
There was far too much resting on the game to actually enjoy it and the game swung when Bradford missed a tricky shot at goal, which IIRC would have levelled the game.

Huge relief. for us and the famous Jimmy Lowes meltdown

It seems longer than 6 years ago.

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Re: 6 years : Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:44 am  

It's funny because I felt a lot more positive about the Cas one. I felt the players v Cas were capable of much more than lower half and they just needed to show it. Kear was the key.

Whereas against Bradford we were at a low point and probably right where we deserved to be. Smith coming in was a boost but Tim Smith not playing along with a few other end of season changes made for a tense game.

Re: 6 years : Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:53 am  

I had a couple of bets on the game including getting a £5 @ 20/1 for the draw after 80 minutes. I was pretty close when Addy missed that late conversion. I made a lot of easy money backing against Wakefield that season but blew most of it rolling in onto the league win v Hull. Happy Days.

Re: 6 years : Mon Oct 04, 2021 9:09 am  

TimmySmith wrote:

Very strange day. A real rollercoaster of emotions. I still get goosebumps when a replay is shown and I hear Eddie with the Scott Moore commentary followed by the eruption in the majority of the stadium.

As you say, it could’ve been all so different. I personally think that both clubs would currently be in the championship if we’d of lost that game.

I agree, a day of mixed emotions.

That season nearly did it for me and I almost didn’t attend, last minute change of heart. I’d had enough, years of incompetent management of the club and the most gutless team ever. I honestly didn’t feel much emotion during that game up until the last ten minutes, I couldn’t get over the feeling that our time had come and we deserved to be relegated and I was prepared for that.

The game had none of the us against the world feel of those early relegation deciders. Or the why the hell are we in this position with such a potentially good squad circa 2006 and 2019.

I was slightly past caring. Still it taught me there was more to life than Trinity and I’ve never been as obsessed as I was pre 2015 and I know I’m not alone in that. I know have a healthy interest in the club but I don’t lose sleep, I don’t get angry as much and above all if there is something better to do on a Sunday I will happily miss a game. The fixture list is no longer my master.

So in a way 2015 did me a favour but I’m still happy in the belief that one day the Trin will be back and for that reason I carry on supporting the club when I can, it’s just no life consuming anymore. What will be will be.

Re: 6 years : Mon Oct 04, 2021 9:30 am  

That was an awful season. Tupou throwing a dummy at Salford instead of passing and the debacle at Brammel Lane. It felt at times we were trying to lose on purpose.

Re: 6 years : Mon Oct 04, 2021 9:50 am  

PopTart wrote:

It's funny because I felt a lot more positive about the Cas one. I felt the players v Cas were capable of much more than lower half and they just needed to show it. Kear was the key.

Whereas against Bradford we were at a low point and probably right where we deserved to be. Smith coming in was a boost but Tim Smith not playing along with a few other end of season changes made for a tense game.

Like you PT I was confident in 2006 that we would beat Cas and again like you, feel that given the players we had we should not have been in that position. Thank God for JK.
The whole season in 2015 was misery with few, if any bright spots. We won, thank God, but it was probably my least enjoyable game in nearly fifty years of watching Trinity, despite the win.

Re: 6 years : Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:12 am  

Seem to remember that MC was reduced to a shivering wreck that day. I presume he's had many similar days since.