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Post by raythesailor on Aug 10, 2024 18:43:24 GMT
I don't ever recall seeing the ball go over the top of the stand and outside before!
It is one hell of a strike and takes some doing.
Caused a lot of laughs around me in the Franklin😄
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Post by chad on Aug 10, 2024 18:44:35 GMT
Have to say I can’t ever remember that being done before
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Post by stayingupforbigbazza on Aug 10, 2024 18:47:31 GMT
Did it come back.
Expected a mad rush for the exits to find the ball. 😁😁
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Post by RF10 on Aug 10, 2024 18:58:32 GMT
Small ridiculous moments like once in a blue moon is what makes going the match so special.
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Post by nott1 on Aug 10, 2024 19:02:11 GMT
Used to happen over the Butler Street stand at the Victoria Ground!
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Post by AlliG on Aug 10, 2024 19:25:47 GMT
Used to happen over the Butler Street stand at the Victoria Ground! It is the only positive thing I can remember Mike McDonald (keeper we signed after Banks' car crash) do in his entire Stoke career. In that case the ball didn't even touch the roof of the stand on its way into the Trent. |
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Post by foxysgloves on Aug 10, 2024 19:31:02 GMT
Used to happen over the Butler Street stand at the Victoria Ground! Remember Shrewsbury? Gay Meadow. The lad in the boat on the Severn. |
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Post by onionman on Aug 10, 2024 19:33:16 GMT
My stream had the Coventry commentator who described it as “Have it!”
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Aug 10, 2024 19:34:08 GMT
Said to my old boy I can't remember that ever happening at our ground. Maybe someone with a better memory than mine can put me right.
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Post by onionman on Aug 10, 2024 19:34:20 GMT
Used to happen over the Butler Street stand at the Victoria Ground! Remember Shrewsbury? Gay Meadow. The lad in the boat on the Severn. The lad was about 99 years old - he was featured on Football Focus every 5 years or so. |
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Post by foxysgloves on Aug 10, 2024 19:36:33 GMT
Remember Shrewsbury? Gay Meadow. The lad in the boat on the Severn. The lad was about 99 years old - he was featured on Football Focus every 5 years or so. Just remembered too….it was a coracle wasn’t it? Odd looking canoe type thing? |
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Aug 10, 2024 19:37:50 GMT
Didn't see it. Which one of our strikers was it?
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Post by cheadlepotter on Aug 10, 2024 19:38:07 GMT
Did it come back. Expected a mad rush for the exits to find the ball. 😁😁 Somebody popped outside to fetch it and threw it on the side of the pitch during a break in play. |
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Post by onionman on Aug 10, 2024 19:39:36 GMT
The lad was about 99 years old - he was featured on Football Focus every 5 years or so. Just remembered too….it was a coracle wasn’t it? Odd looking canoe type thing? Yes and his name was Fred and he looked like Bob Holness’s dad. |
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Post by shrewspotter on Aug 10, 2024 19:51:26 GMT
The lad was about 99 years old - he was featured on Football Focus every 5 years or so. Just remembered too….it was a coracle wasn’t it? Odd looking canoe type thing? it was a coracle that's correct He used to row it in the severn and wait for the balls to arrive, when I first went to ee them play at the meadow they were good, in fact very good, players like Graham Turner, Chic bates. Gary Hacket, Tony Kelly, steve Ogrizovic and john McGinlay anyway I digress We've a beer in Shrewsbury brewed by Salopian called Coracle in honour |
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Post by shrewspotter on Aug 10, 2024 19:52:26 GMT
Didn't see it. Which one of our strikers was it? they're Centre half. Bobby Thomas maybe |
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Post by foxysgloves on Aug 10, 2024 19:54:35 GMT
Just remembered too….it was a coracle wasn’t it? Odd looking canoe type thing? it was a coracle that's correct He used to row it in the severn and wait for the balls to arrive, when I first went to ee them play at the meadow they were good, in fact very good, players like Graham Turner, Chic bates. Gary Hacket, Tony Kelly, steve Ogrizovic and john McGinlay anyway I digress We've a beer in Shrewsbury brewed by Salopian called Coracle in honour Chic Bates. What a man. They had good teams back then. |
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Post by shrewspotter on Aug 10, 2024 19:56:19 GMT
it was a coracle that's correct He used to row it in the severn and wait for the balls to arrive, when I first went to ee them play at the meadow they were good, in fact very good, players like Graham Turner, Chic bates. Gary Hacket, Tony Kelly, steve Ogrizovic and john McGinlay anyway I digress We've a beer in Shrewsbury brewed by Salopian called Coracle in honour Chic Bates. What a man. They had good teams back then. they did and Chic was a good centre forward. Lovely man too, suffers with dementia these days unfortunately |
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Post by Meirparkstokie on Aug 10, 2024 19:59:16 GMT
The closest I remember was playing Peterborough in the old division 2 and bjarni Gudjohnsson hitting the old signal radio sign on the south stand roof 😂
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Post by foxysgloves on Aug 10, 2024 20:01:16 GMT
Chic Bates. What a man. They had good teams back then. they did and Chic was a good centre forward. Lovely man too, suffers with dementia these days unfortunately Ah fuck. I didn’t realise. Played against his son, Phil. Lovely lad and great player. Chic was a gent and handled a very tough gig at Stoke with great decorum. Genuinely sad to hear that. Dementia is a cunt. |
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Aug 10, 2024 20:02:48 GMT
they did and Chic was a good centre forward. Lovely man too, suffers with dementia these days unfortunately Ah fuck. I didn’t realise. Played against his son, Phil. Lovely lad and great player. Chic was a gent and handled a very tough gig at Stoke with great decorum. Genuinely sad to hear that. Dementia is a cunt. Will second that mate it's a bastard of a disease. |
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Post by JoeinOz on Aug 10, 2024 20:18:52 GMT
Remember Shrewsbury? Gay Meadow. The lad in the boat on the Severn. The lad was about 99 years old - he was featured on Football Focus every 5 years or so. Whenever Shrewsbury reached fa cup 3rd round he'd be featured. As would Roly Howard because he was Kenny Dalglishes window cleaner |
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Post by danceswithclams on Aug 10, 2024 20:19:55 GMT
The lad was about 99 years old - he was featured on Football Focus every 5 years or so. Whenever Shrewsbury reached fa cup 3rd round he'd be featured. As would Roly Howard because he was Kenny Dalglishes window cleaner He was Richie Cunningham in 'Happy Days' too. |
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Post by Block 26 on Aug 10, 2024 20:20:58 GMT
Never seen it until today but it gave us all a good laugh.
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Post by spiderpuss on Aug 10, 2024 20:21:05 GMT
it was a coracle that's correct He used to row it in the severn and wait for the balls to arrive, when I first went to ee them play at the meadow they were good, in fact very good, players like Graham Turner, Chic bates. Gary Hacket, Tony Kelly, steve Ogrizovic and john McGinlay anyway I digress We've a beer in Shrewsbury brewed by Salopian called Coracle in honour Chic Bates. What a man. They had good teams back then. You rang? |
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Post by spiderpuss on Aug 10, 2024 20:22:00 GMT
Who remembers the clearance that went over the double tiered stand at Norwich. Even made an Oatcake feature that one.
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Post by Etain Tur-Mukan on Aug 10, 2024 20:23:14 GMT
Didn't John Gayle smash it out over the Boothen End at the Victoria Ground? We then went and signed him! 😁
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Post by stokecakesandcheese on Aug 10, 2024 20:26:18 GMT
Did it come back. Expected a mad rush for the exits to find the ball. 😁😁 Yeah a steward got it, threw it to the ball boy… He let it slip straight through his hands, back onto the pitch. Liner stood there for 15mins, before thinking I’ll get that actually. |
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Post by PenkPonther on Aug 10, 2024 20:28:27 GMT
I seem to recall that during our dark days in the third division, under Allen Ball, Big Noel Blake used to take it as a personal challenge to launch the ball as high as he could, miles over the stadium roof, whenever it came anywhere near him.
And watching on from the terraces, my Grandad, who had played for Stoke as a younger man, used to shake his head sadly in disbelief: at how low the club had sunk in footballing terms. ☹️
So when Big Noel retired years later, it was with some disbelief that I saw he'd been recruited into the England coaching setup!
I mean what the f*ck could he possibly teach anyone?!?
I used to envisage him training all the future England starlets, by making them repeatedly watch that John Smiths advert; the one where Peter Kaye f*cking lamps the ball into outer space, and then shouts "'Ave it!"
Before then solemnly intoning to his impressionable young pupils "You see lads?!? If God had wanted us to play football on the ground, he would have put clouds down here."
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Post by callas12 on Aug 10, 2024 20:38:44 GMT
Definitely first time I recall it happening at the Britannia/Bet 365.
Was quite a regular occurrence at the Victoria Ground.
When it used to happen and go over the Butler Street roof you'd always one of the groundsman, Somebody Hartley I think his name was, would run down the tunnel, head around the pitch passed the Boothen End and then up through the disused section to get out onto the Butler Street car park to try and retrieve it! Remember Blake knocking a few over, reckon George Berry must have done as well!
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