HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by moo » 26 May 2011 00:38

I've seen Reading in 12 playoff finals, beat that!!

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by i'll_be_there » 26 May 2011 00:59

This is my first :)

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by Ian Herring » 26 May 2011 01:06

I saw the 1991 play-off final against FC Albanie at the Stade Melodramatique in Cannes.

They were selling Simmonds bitter in champagne flutes at the Boules Bar.

Reading lost 4-1 and I picked up eighty grand in Swiss francs from the fixed-odds donkey sellers round the back by the Citroen dealers.

Anyone else remember this?

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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by Wizard » 26 May 2011 01:17

Ian Herring I saw the 1991 play-off final against FC Albanie at the Stade Melodramatique in Cannes.

They were selling Simmonds bitter in champagne flutes at the Boules Bar.

Reading lost 4-1 and I picked up eighty grand in Swiss francs from the fixed-odds donkey sellers round the back by the Citroen dealers.

Anyone else remember this?


:lol:

Yous posts are just superb.

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by Ian Herring » 26 May 2011 01:24

Ha thanks Wiz. Very kind of you.

Not half as good as your t-shirt thread on AE though mate.

Brilliant stuff.

*Doffs cap, etc*


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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by i'll_be_there » 26 May 2011 02:28

1TeamInBerksRFC
i'll_be_there This is my first :)


Enjoy it fella my Third Final.... i hope we win


Thanks :) I will. Only been to Wembley once before so would be nice to go back! :)

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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by URZZ » 26 May 2011 02:39

I saw Walsall in 2001, was too young for Bolton.

I'm a plastic.

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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by RoyalBlue » 26 May 2011 03:28

Hoping for third time lucky 'cos I'm not sure I could cope with the grief of another loss!

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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by Jackson Corner » 26 May 2011 05:34

Went to the previous loses plus the Simod cup. The three games had a total of 17 goals thats 5.6 goals per game. Will be happy with a 1-0 win this time.


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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by East Stand Ste » 26 May 2011 07:07

Both of the previous ones......will miss this one due to a terribly timed holiday! Will be in pub though!

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by The Real Sandhurst Royal » 26 May 2011 07:14

Three

Reading v Bolton - Wembley
Reading v Walsall - Millenium
Brentford v Stoke - Millenium

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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by RFCUK » 26 May 2011 08:06

Reading v Bolton - Wembley
Reading v Walsall - Millennium

Two for me. As with most others, hoping third times the charm. Last time I first hand experienced promotion was at Brentford and that was an amazing feeling, especially at the age of 14.. Really want to come away with that feeling of disbelief/awe, like I felt after the Cardiff game.

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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by leicsRoyal » 26 May 2011 08:13

Both with Reading

And

Burnley V Sheffield United.

Father in law is a Burnley fan, so although I was sat in the winning end of fans, I just sat that dreaming of it being us there! :)


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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by urz_1871 » 26 May 2011 08:14

I have been to Three.

Reading v Botlon - Wembley
Reading V Walsall - Millenium
Bristol City V Hull - Wembley

Watched a piece on Meridian last night on the playoff final from 95 and it brought back a gut wrenching feeling, even though i was only 8 at the time.
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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by super darren caskey » 26 May 2011 08:14

None!! and i am continuing that run this year

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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by royal madrid » 26 May 2011 08:18

Ian Herring I saw the 1991 play-off final against FC Albanie at the Stade Melodramatique in Cannes.

They were selling Simmonds bitter in champagne flutes at the Boules Bar.

Reading lost 4-1 and I picked up eighty grand in Swiss francs from the fixed-odds donkey sellers round the back by the Citroen dealers.

Anyone else remember this?



I missed the game. I was working as a fixed odds Donkey from the back of a 1946 Citroen flat bed. Went to the Dynamo Plopov game in 92' at the PotatoStadt Arena in Gilkesgrad though...

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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by URZZZZZZZZ » 26 May 2011 08:19

This is my first with Reading, couldn't get my Parents to go with me to Cardiff luckily.

I went to the Rochdale Vs Stockport final in 2008

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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by glenroyal » 26 May 2011 08:20

4 if we include this year and Swindon v Leicester in '93

(Don't ask - big fan of a certain Mr Hoddle back in the day.)

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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by Handsome Man » 26 May 2011 08:32

Fourth
Saw the two Reading ones, and then saw Rushden and Diamonds lose against a year after the Walsall game.

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Re: HOW MANY PLAY OFF FINALS YOU BEEN

by Svlad Cjelli » 26 May 2011 09:09

Seven - the Bolton & Walsall ones, then one a year for the past five years (including the last one in Cardiff). This'll be my 6th at Wembley.
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