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Post by stokiejohnss on Nov 1, 2016 10:19:17 GMT
We were discussing the old days last night when the 3.15 kick off came up. We couldn't remember when they finished , does anyone know when it was and what was the last game played at this time ?
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Post by heyronnieronnie on Dec 29, 2016 5:27:16 GMT
5pm instead of 4.45pm.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 21:40:34 GMT
We were discussing the old days last night when the 3.15 kick off came up. We couldn't remember when they finished , does anyone know when it was and what was the last game played at this time ? Was definately well after i started supporting Stoke as a 7 year old in 1970 Would think mid 70s ? living in Chester we used to get the Manc/Scouse Pink equivalents of the Green `un and The Manc version amazed me as it carried a Poters report but Stokes home results were always LKO and the report would stop on about 78 minutes. |
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Post by Staying up for Grandadstokey on Oct 31, 2017 20:39:41 GMT
Stoke were one of the very few teams that kicked off at 3-15 . I think the pubs closed at 3-00 pm and that would allow 15 mins to down your pint and get down to the ground. Can always remember as a kid I was taken to the match by 3 of my uncles, the ritual was always the same, catch the 1-00 bus from Longton bus station alight just past the railway bridge in Stoke, cross the road into the Railway ( or was it the Locomotive?) later known as the Winger by 1:20 wait in the corridor with a bottle of Vimto and a packet of Nibbets till said Uncles came out at 3-00 on the dot. A quick stroll down to the ground , to be lifted over the turnstile and in position in the Butler St. Paddock just as they were about to kick off. Just like Clockwork 😊
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Post by gonk on Jan 3, 2018 17:30:35 GMT
Stoke were one of the very few teams that kicked off at 3-15 . I think the pubs closed at 3-00 pm and that would allow 15 mins to down your pint and get down to the ground. Can always remember as a kid I was taken to the match by 3 of my uncles, the ritual was always the same, catch the 1-00 bus from Longton bus station alight just past the railway bridge in Stoke, cross the road into the Railway ( or was it the Locomotive?) later known as the Winger by 1:20 wait in the corridor with a bottle of Vimto and a packet of Nibbets till said Uncles came out at 3-00 on the dot. A quick stroll down to the ground , to be lifted over the turnstile and in position in the Butler St. Paddock just as they were about to kick off. Just like oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/thread/242027/3-15-kick-off |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2018 21:44:49 GMT
It was due to Saturday working. Pots and Pits worked Saturday morning probably till 1.00 time for wash, snapping, ale and trek to the Brit. It would bugger up todays tv schedules.
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Post by arayzorwallace on Aug 27, 2018 14:38:28 GMT
I only heard about this at the weekend when I was at the match with my dad, he worked at the Michelin for years and he said it was due to the early shifts finishing there at 2 or 3. Back in the day thousands worked there so maybe it was done to get these workers in the ground after work to spend their hard earned money.
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Post by AlliG on Oct 13, 2018 12:45:29 GMT
It was actually 4:55pm as in those days it was only 10 minutes for half time and then maybe a minute or two injury time at the end of the game. Injury time at the end of the 1st half was almost unknown. It allowed just enough time to get back to the car to listen to John Webster and later James Alexander Gordon reading out the final scores on Radio 2 at 5 o'clock. |
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Post by mrcoke on Dec 7, 2018 17:17:06 GMT
I was very grateful for those late KOs.
I used to play rugby for Wolstanton Grammar school on a Saturday pm. We would KO at 2.30 pm, play 40 mins each half with a 5 minute HT. Consequently the match would be over by 4 pm, we didn't bother with injury time.
Then it was a quick shower, and jump in a car of one of the boys father's and down to the Victoria for the match. The big gates would be opened half way through the second half so we could get in for free and watch the last 20 minutes or so.
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Post by somersetstokie on Mar 30, 2020 23:25:55 GMT
Stoke were at one time unique in the football league for having a 3-15pm late kick off. Up until the 1970s, Stoke started games at 3.15pm to take into account the shift change at local potteries. This kick off time was introduced by Bob McGrory, who managed Stoke from the mid-1930s to early-1950s, and he was very much aware of the significance of getting supporters into the ground for the kick off.
The change was therefore a chance for drinkers to finish supping when pubs shut at 3pm and get on the Boothen End in time, and this gave hundreds of pub loving match goers more time to get to the ground for the kick-off time. In those days Stoke used to favour starting home games with a high tempo assault on the Boothen End, whenever they could. There was very little desire to cautiously sound out the opposition and play a safety first game, and the first 5 or 10 minutes of a Stoke game at the Vic usually involved a concerted and sustained cavalry charge attack. Roared on of course very loudly by all those fans turned out of the pubs minutes before.
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Post by bucknall67 on Aug 9, 2020 18:58:28 GMT
As Somerset says above.
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