It also makes me realise I've only seen us win away once in the league under each of our last few managers:You sound a lot of fun to be around :happy:
I have only seen us lose once in an away league fixture and that was away to Bolton last season. Maybe I should go more often
Bored in my lunch hour, I worked out I have seen the Sky Blues play at 40 away grounds:
Rochdale
Chesterfield
Port Vale
Grimsby
Peterborough
Wycome
Oxford
Walsall
West Brom
Birmingham
Leyton Orient
Brentford
Swindon
Dagenham & Redbridge
QPR
Crystal Palace
Arsenal
Tottenham
West Ham
Millwall
Charlton Athletic
Bristol City
Yeovil
Norwich
Derby
Brighton
Portsmouth
Southampton
Southend
Gillingham
Northampton
Notts County
Sheffield United
Hull
MK Dons
Wimbledon
Leeds
Preston
Reading
Watford
The sad bit is that I have only seen us win at 7 of them!
Went to our two big well-supported wins at MK Dons under MR and SP, and the 4-0 at Millwall under TM. We beat Wycombe (twice) and Daggers in the EFL Trophy when I attended. One of the other three was Grimsby this season, another was Vale away last season, and the other one was when we beat Peterborough 1-0 (Stead) in the last game before it went pear-shaped for Coleman.
I knew it was a low % but that's shocking (especially when you think I've been to many of them multiple times e.g. P'boro 4 times, for instance, and only seen us win there once).
Maybe I should give up my away tickets for Saturday, Stevenage, Luton, Barnet etc!!!!!!!!
1st away game was Livepool in 1999. We lost 2-0. Great solo goal from Owen. Can't remember who scored the other.
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I only need to go to 14 more. Hopefully 9 to be done this season including saturday. I suppose its one of the only good things about dropping through the leagues (if there is anything good about it)
I've seen us win at some point or other at all but 13 (I think) of the grounds that I've been to over the last 30 years.
You really need to stay in more!It also makes me realise I've only seen us win away once in the league under each of our last few managers:
Dowie - 0
Coleman - 1 (P'boro 1-0 in March 2010)
Boothroyd - 0
Thorn - 1 (Daggers in the League Cup)
Robins first time - 1 (MK Dons away)
Pressley 2 - (MK Dons, Wycombe away in EFL Trophy)
Mowbray - 1 (Millwall)
Venus - 2 (Port Vale, Wycombe in EFL Trophy)
Robins second time - 1 (Grimsby)
Villa park St Valentines day (4-2) and Liverpool away when we won 2-1 (James dropped the ball for Dublin to score in the last few minutes) on a Sunday were two of my very best away games. Having said that I'd still rather go to all of the smaller grounds that we're at now than get bombarded with adverts in the premier league and pay £50 for the privelege week after week.Well Done......
It's the memories you can't beat ah....like beating Arsenal 3-0 at Highbury on the opening day of the season with that infamous Micky Quinn hatrick, watching Arsenal lift the league trophy after hammering us 6-1, also at Highbury with a packed terraced end full of Cov....and running on the pitch several times at Wimbledon when Cov took over South London for the day......I won't mention Villa Park on 'that' day....
Villa park St Valentines day (4-2) and Liverpool away when we won 2-1 (James dropped the ball for Dublin to score in the last few minutes) on a Sunday were two of my very best away games. Having said that I'd still rather go to all of the smaller grounds that we're at now than get bombarded with adverts in the premier league and pay £50 for the privelege week after week.
Could of been. I remember it was an anniversary of some kind for Bill Shankley and we had a silence before kick off. I was very back row, and just like the old West terrace when everybody stood up I couldn't see anything past the half way line.Pretty sure I was at that, was it camara, he deffo scored against us around that period
Done about 52, a couple I can't remember whether I've been or not. Some I've been to their old and new grounds (inc Derby, Oxford, Northampton, Leicester, Sunderland), some just the old ground (Man City). Also watched a terrible friendly in Scotland, Ayr Utd I think. The most enjoyable wins have been Spurs, Arsenal, Bolton, Villa, Leicester, Blackburn (league and cup). Random other memorable moments Ndlovu goal at Leeds, Busst injury, somehow losing at Scarborough, and trips to Newcastle and West Ham only for the games to be called off.
Yep, one of the rare games where it seemed that every shot we had went in. It seems odd to say it but it's so enjoyable seeing an occasional away win, I pity the supporters of successful teams that often win away.was that Bolton one the 1-5 ?. cracking game that
Done about 52, a couple I can't remember whether I've been or not. Some I've been to their old and new grounds (inc Derby, Oxford, Northampton, Leicester, Sunderland), some just the old ground (Man City). Also watched a terrible friendly in Scotland, Ayr Utd I think. The most enjoyable wins have been Spurs, Arsenal, Bolton, Villa, Leicester, Blackburn (league and cup). Random other memorable moments Ndlovu goal at Leeds, Busst injury, somehow losing at Scarborough, and trips to Newcastle and West Ham only for the games to be called off.
Could have been as I do love them as a band!I must be more pissed than I thought. Thought the thread title was dire straits fan :smuggrin:
Incidentally, that was Morecambe's first game at that groundMy first away game, was morecambe away, in the league cup, I think 7 years ago now? What a horrible introduction to away games that was.
Done about 52, a couple I can't remember whether I've been or not. Some I've been to their old and new grounds (inc Derby, Oxford, Northampton, Leicester, Sunderland), some just the old ground (Man City). Also watched a terrible friendly in Scotland, Ayr Utd I think. The most enjoyable wins have been Spurs, Arsenal, Bolton, Villa, Leicester, Blackburn (league and cup). Random other memorable moments Ndlovu goal at Leeds, Busst injury, somehow losing at Scarborough, and trips to Newcastle and West Ham only for the games to be called off.
I drove up with a friend, the rain was awful on the motorway on the way up, so much so that I could literally see nothing out of the windscreen, and rain was coming through the seals in the doors, it was then my friend suggested that I could slow down, and I thought, yeah he's probably right, I hadn't thought of that.I went to that Newcastle game. Went on the SBA coach and was on an all dayer. Got hammered and came out of the pub about 6 ish and all the goerdies were taking the piss as it'd got called off (they were playing Man U at the weekend and wanted to beat them). Met sir John Hall and Freddie Shepherd? and to cut a long story short, he paid for us to go to the FA cup game a few weeks later, a tour of the Newcastle brewery and a few pints that night in the Strawberry Bank pub. It must have cost him a few quid but he originally offered to take me and my mate for a chinese with the other directors and their wives and then realised how pissed we were.
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