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  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,622
    yep. total dogwank. still some people might like it.
  • Eltham
    Eltham Posts: 211
    My first ever match at the Valley was watching Charlton in the old Div. 3. Charlton Athletic vs. Newport County. Can't remember the score.
  • Stone
    Stone Posts: 3,026
    Aye to that, 1st games I can remember were around '69 and Palace in the F A Cup.
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    Yes for me also,first visit was the 64/65 season.
  • Yep, but I only remember our last sojourn in that division. If we do go down I hope our stay will be just as long as it was back then.
  • Sadly yes.
  • Yes. The promotion clincher vs PNE game in '75 sticks in the memory - fantastic atmosphere that night.

    That season we scored 51 goals at home, the most in the division. We also conceded 29, which was the joint 2nd worst. Tells you a lot about Andy Nelson's footballing philosophy - never a dull moment!
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,577
    Yup,saw Harry Cripps play for us in third
  • pickwick
    pickwick Posts: 1,649
    edited January 2009
    80/81 was my first season so never seen as relegated to it before and who knows may not yet.
  • Being quite weird, must first game was Charlton's first game at selhurst against Hull!

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,814
    I was a season ticket holder at the time (courtesy of my Dad) and to me it was the most exciting period of supporting Charlton - you never knew whether we were going to win 4-2, 5-3 or 6-1.Being in the old West Stand for the Preston match with the after match celebrations was very much the highlight.
  • Terry Naylor
    Terry Naylor Posts: 2,126
    First game I went to was in in the 80/81 season against Chester City in the 3rd division.

    We won 1-0
  • I think I remember the Chester City game. Didn't someone obscure score the goal? Or, am I mixing this game up with something else? I've been agonising for over 30 minutes trying to remember.
  • D_F_T
    D_F_T Posts: 1,154
    Yep, all the way from 1972, had some great times, some great punch-ups and a good laugh.....but I don't want to go back, give me the Premiership every time. I'm getting on a bit now...oh, bring back terracing though
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,577
    [cite]Posted By: Morts-Genius[/cite]Being quite weird, must first game was Charlton's first game at selhurst against Hull!

    first game at selhurst was sunderland andwe won 2-1 i thnk
  • alan dugdale
    alan dugdale Posts: 3,077
    [quote][cite]Posted By: charltonkeston[/cite]boogica
    dont think so 1st game with my grandad was a nipper it was southampton 6-2 anyone remember the year it was around the time they won the fa cup. 76 or 77

    We were Div 2 at that time. I think the game was a league cup match. may have been 1976/77.
    Anyway I was there.
    And I've seen us play Div 3 football. Real football not plastic prem.[/quote]
  • alan dugdale
    alan dugdale Posts: 3,077
    yep, from 1974 promotion season onwards.

    Also remember the 6-2 Southampton game which was 1976 on a Friday night. I think even Phil Warman scored with a diving header.

    The 1980-81 3rd division season was quality with the likes of Johns, Shaw, Berry, Hales and Walsh. Promotion and a great cup run
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,957
    edited January 2009
    [cite]Posted By: alan dugdale[/cite]

    Also remember the 6-2 Southampton game which was 1976 on a Friday night. I think even Phil Warman scored with a diving header.

    That was in the real Div II though, Dugdale.

    ;o)

    Edit: Just seen your previous post now. Sorry.
  • boogica
    boogica Posts: 2,321
    cheers henry 80 ,81` remember it well mike bailey as manager done a great job did mike .
  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,394
    edited January 2009
    Mike Bailey, our very own George Graham. Enjoyed that season immensely.

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  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    edited January 2009
    Just a couple of memories of Div.3 (1972/73)
    Not realising that Port Vale isn't an actual place and driving round Stoke looking for it. Having eventually arrived, going into a local Burslem hostelry nattily attired in brown leather safari jacket and flairs and realising that the clientele were all in flat caps and boiler suits and playing dominoes: one of those times (in westerns) when the piano stops playing, it all goes quiet and everybody stares. Since that time I have never gone into a strange pub on my own without a prop of some sort e.g newspaper/magazine.
    At Scunthorpe (the Old Showground) they didn't kick off 'til 3.15 when the steelworkers, who worked Saturday mornings, turned out of the big pub opposite the ground. We were persuaded by the gateman to part with an extra shilling to transfer to the extremely rickety stand. It was on this trip that Bob Curtis bought us a pint when we bumped into the team in a pub en route.
    Nearly running Bobby Moore over at Newport Pagnell services on the way to Rotherham : he was standing on the slip road waiting for his team coach when I came bowling along. Went back to apologise and had a chat: a real gent!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,017
    Quote from March 51 "It was on this trip that Bob Curtis bought us a pint when we bumped into the team in a pub en route."

    Can't believe no one has commented on this. I'd like to think that this was at about midday on the day of the game.

    Pwopper footballers in them days :-)
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    didnt chester spank us in the old third,rember that one i think.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,108
    [cite]Posted By: March51[/cite]Just a couple of memories of Div.3 (1972/73)
    Not realising that Port Vale isn't an actual place and driving round Stoke looking for it. Having eventually arrived, going into a local Burslem hostelry nattily attired in brown leather safari jacket and flairs and realising that the clientele were all in flat caps and boiler suits and playing dominoes: one of those times (in westerns) when the piano stops playing, it all goes quiet and everybody stares. Since that time I have never gone into a strange pub on my own without a prop of some sort e.g newspaper/magazine.

    I remember going up to Port Vale in driving snow only to find it had been postponed when we arrived. It took us an eternity to get there and an eternity to get home. No toilets on Lewis's coaches in those days. You used to have to pee in a beer can.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,017
    [cite]Posted By: nolly[/cite]didnt chester spank us in the old third,rember that one i think.

    3-0 I think at Sealand Road.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,017
    [cite]Posted By: Valley McMoist[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: March51[/cite]Just a couple of memories of Div.3 (1972/73)
    Not realising that Port Vale isn't an actual place and driving round Stoke looking for it. Having eventually arrived, going into a local Burslem hostelry nattily attired in brown leather safari jacket and flairs and realising that the clientele were all in flat caps and boiler suits and playing dominoes: one of those times (in westerns) when the piano stops playing, it all goes quiet and everybody stares. Since that time I have never gone into a strange pub on my own without a prop of some sort e.g newspaper/magazine.

    I remember going up to Port Vale in driving snow only to find it had been postponed when we arrived. It took us an eternity to get there and an eternity to get home. No toilets on Lewis's coaches in those days. You used to have to pee in a beer can.

    Or pee in a carrier bag and get the driver to open the door so you can throw it out. LOL
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,238
    [cite]Posted By: Covered End[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: nolly[/cite]didnt chester spank us in the old third,rember that one i think.

    3-0 I think at Sealand Road.

    4-0 in fact

    We won 1 - 0 at the Valley with "obscure" scorer *Hales (pen)* so Maylasia Addick must be thinking of another game.

    Score v Newport at home was 3-0. They are now in the Conference South with Welling and Bromley.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,212
    Yep - I've even got the tee shirt!
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Covered end: yes, it was around 12.00/12.30 at a hotel/pub between Lincoln and Scunthorpe. Bobby C. was on halves: he scored a penalty that afternoon and Peacock got the other one in a 2-0 win.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,017
    [cite]Posted By: March51[/cite]Covered end: yes, it was around 12.00/12.30 at a hotel/pub between Lincoln and Scunthorpe. Bobby C. was on halves: he scored a penalty that afternoon and Peacock got the other one in a 2-0 win.

    Can we have a poll AFKA as to which pub the players will be drinking in tommorow lunch time?