| Vetch Field... 20:55 - May 1 with 9494 views | TNT |
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| Vetch Field... on 21:05 - May 1 with 3596 views | Kilkennyjack |
Toshack leading his team out in his first home game
Curts goal vs Leeds - 'that goal'
Beating the monkey hangers 8 nil
James Thomas hat trick goal vs hull :-)
Cant get to 3 - sorry. [Post edited 1 May 2015 21:34]
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| Vetch Field... on 21:11 - May 1 with 3578 views | union_jack |
| Vetch Field... on 21:05 - May 1 by Kilkennyjack |
Toshack leading his team out in his first home game
Curts goal vs Leeds - 'that goal'
Beating the monkey hangers 8 nil
James Thomas hat trick goal vs hull :-)
Cant get to 3 - sorry. [Post edited 1 May 2015 21:34]
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Coates?
Does Coates mean James Thomas in Welshio? [Post edited 1 May 2015 21:13]
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| Vetch Field... on 21:16 - May 1 with 3569 views | Daggyjack |
| Vetch Field... on 21:05 - May 1 by Kilkennyjack |
Toshack leading his team out in his first home game
Curts goal vs Leeds - 'that goal'
Beating the monkey hangers 8 nil
James Thomas hat trick goal vs hull :-)
Cant get to 3 - sorry. [Post edited 1 May 2015 21:34]
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You mean James Thomas for the Hull memory, not Coates but I agree with you on that one. I'd agree again with Curt's goal.
Added to those:
Beating Tottenham and West Ham 1-0 in the League and FA Cup.
Legg's goal v Stoke.
The atmosphere v Panathinaikos and Robbie's penalty.
Beating Cardiff 4-1 in the snow.
The North Bank.
The East Stand floodlight. [Post edited 2 May 2015 10:00]
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| Vetch Field... on 21:30 - May 1 with 3541 views | morningstar |
I can't really work out how individual performances or goals can be included in best memories of the Vetch, but each to their own. For me it's:
Swansea v Chesterfield
Swansea v Leeds
Swansea v Hull |  |
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| Vetch Field... on 21:47 - May 1 with 3509 views | longlostjack |
Toshack's first game
Ardiles's first game
Wales vs N. Ireland ( Georgie Best super star walks like a woman and he wears a bra) |  |
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| Vetch Field... on 21:51 - May 1 with 3498 views | builthjack |
The toilets
The bovril
The pasties
All petty awful |  |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| Vetch Field... on 22:07 - May 1 with 3471 views | monmouth |
The wonderful smell (pipe tobacco?) in the centre VP stand where I was taken age 11 for my first season. I just loved the whole thing, floodlights, grass, goal nets, Barrie Hole... I was totally besotted.....I even went to all the reserve games. |  |
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| Vetch Field... on 22:16 - May 1 with 3450 views | TNT |
| Vetch Field... on 21:51 - May 1 by builthjack |
The toilets
The bovril
The pasties
All petty awful |
Builth, YJB!
should that read:
pasty
Bovril
toilet
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| Vetch Field... on 22:20 - May 1 with 3440 views | TNT |
Stockport 4-4
Tranmere 4-3
Hartlepool 8-0 | |
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| Vetch Field... on 22:26 - May 1 with 3422 views | morningstar |
| Vetch Field... on 22:07 - May 1 by monmouth |
The wonderful smell (pipe tobacco?) in the centre VP stand where I was taken age 11 for my first season. I just loved the whole thing, floodlights, grass, goal nets, Barrie Hole... I was totally besotted.....I even went to all the reserve games. |
I remember the reserve games as a kid. I used to walk around to the north bank, sometimes I'd be the only one on there, as only the centre stand would be open, and if Ton Pentre (for example) were playing in red, I'd stand there alone imagining we were playing Man Utd! Heh heh! Great days! | |
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| Vetch Field... on 22:26 - May 1 with 3422 views | Treforys_Jack |
Harry Griffiths memorial game v Everton. (1st game attended)
1st time in the DD with my mates.
1st time walking up the ramp to the NB for an evening game. |  | | |
| Vetch Field... on 22:26 - May 1 with 3422 views | union_jack |
| Vetch Field... on 21:05 - May 1 by Kilkennyjack |
Toshack leading his team out in his first home game
Curts goal vs Leeds - 'that goal'
Beating the monkey hangers 8 nil
James Thomas hat trick goal vs hull :-)
Cant get to 3 - sorry. [Post edited 1 May 2015 21:34]
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Sneaky edit there Kilkenny!! | |
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| Vetch Field... on 22:43 - May 1 with 3385 views | jackonicko |
| Vetch Field... on 22:26 - May 1 by union_jack |
Sneaky edit there Kilkenny!! |
It's odd how unlikely games stick in my memory.
The draw against Nuneaton in the FA Cup. A 0-0 against Hull which was a midday kick off for some reason. The time Raynor came back to the Vetch and was ritually abused for 90 minutes.
Not memorable games, but times at the Vetch which will inexorably stick in my memory.
10 years since that Shrewsbury game. Bloody hell. |  | | |
| Vetch Field... on 22:45 - May 1 with 3379 views | TNT |
| Vetch Field... on 22:26 - May 1 by union_jack |
Sneaky edit there Kilkenny!! |
Do you have three memories of The Vetch mate? | |
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| Vetch Field... on 23:01 - May 1 with 3353 views | union_jack |
| Vetch Field... on 22:45 - May 1 by TNT |
Do you have three memories of The Vetch mate? |
Yes thanks! | |
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| Vetch Field... on 23:13 - May 1 with 3336 views | builthjack |
| Vetch Field... on 22:16 - May 1 by TNT |
Builth, YJB!
should that read:
pasty
Bovril
toilet
Memories |
Good ones too 😜 | |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| Vetch Field... on 23:19 - May 1 with 3331 views | Dyfnant |
West Ham FA cup atmosphere
Man U friendly 5 - 1, melvilles debut I think
Joe Allons scoring run, 8 games? |  |
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| Vetch Field... on 23:31 - May 1 with 3300 views | TNT |
| Vetch Field... on 23:01 - May 1 by union_jack |
Yes thanks! |
and... they are...
otherwise, post your bollocks elsewhere. | |
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| Vetch Field... on 23:35 - May 1 with 3290 views | Cooperman |
1. My first home game, beat Man City 4-1, aged 7 ish / March 82 ish.
2. Boston United (remember them?) on a Friday night, 3-0 I think. I'm sure this was the night I met the future Mrs C.
3. Hull City 4-2, say no more. |  |
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| Vetch Field... on 23:47 - May 1 with 3269 views | builthjack |
My first match, 1969. Swans 3, Hartlepool 0. Sat in the wooden stand, each time we scored everyone stamped their feet for ages, brilliant for a kid. The prisoners trying to watch the game from their cells. The half time refreshments.
Aston Villa, in the old 3rd division. 24000 packed into the Vetch, the North bank rocking, my Dad had to put me on his shoulders. Some skinhead telling my Dad to effing get that kid down, so my Dad put me down, lifted the skinhead two foot off the ground, and told him to run. He did! So back on the shoulders it was.
Nottingham Forest. That game! Superb. No stories for me to tell, you all know about that one. | |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| Vetch Field... on 00:27 - May 2 with 3222 views | budegan |
1. Holding a exceptionally good Liverpool to 0-0 in the very early 90's (can't remember the date, but do remember us losing 9-0 on something in the replay);
2. Another FA Cup game I think, this time v Millwall. Tasty atmosphere; Cyril wrestle's Lenny the Lion's head off & boots it into the North Bank;
3. The game v I can't remember who, when we went mental at Petty OR the v last game league game at the Vetch.
Gone but NEVER forgotten. |  | | |
| Vetch Field... on 00:35 - May 2 with 3217 views | longlostjack |
| Vetch Field... on 23:47 - May 1 by builthjack |
My first match, 1969. Swans 3, Hartlepool 0. Sat in the wooden stand, each time we scored everyone stamped their feet for ages, brilliant for a kid. The prisoners trying to watch the game from their cells. The half time refreshments.
Aston Villa, in the old 3rd division. 24000 packed into the Vetch, the North bank rocking, my Dad had to put me on his shoulders. Some skinhead telling my Dad to effing get that kid down, so my Dad put me down, lifted the skinhead two foot off the ground, and told him to run. He did! So back on the shoulders it was.
Nottingham Forest. That game! Superb. No stories for me to tell, you all know about that one. |
The prisoners - to be honest when I was 10 year old on the North Bank with my uncle I was more interested in looking at the prisoners peering through the glass than the game. Where were they standing - was it the chapel or the staircase? | |
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| Vetch Field... on 00:42 - May 2 with 3208 views | TheArtChappy |
| Vetch Field... on 22:26 - May 1 by morningstar |
I remember the reserve games as a kid. I used to walk around to the north bank, sometimes I'd be the only one on there, as only the centre stand would be open, and if Ton Pentre (for example) were playing in red, I'd stand there alone imagining we were playing Man Utd! Heh heh! Great days! |
Me and my mate did that a few times, we'd get a bloke ask if we were ball boys. Yep ha ha. One game we stood behind the goals, for the second half felt great.
Being a mascot, it was a brilliant day. | |
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| Vetch Field... on 01:36 - May 2 with 3188 views | Dull1Thomas |
Only three?
Beating Leeds 5 -1 in our record breaking season in the top division.
Hull
Ivor Allchurch's return in '65.
Personal
Breaking my nose on a roof girder
Being stabbed in the leg on the North Bank by a Leeds supporter (at the game above)
Dragging police out of the East when Rhyl visited in the cup (we were helping the police .. who thanked us by arresting several fans who had jumped in to save them from a hammering.
Happy days. | |
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| Vetch Field... on 03:53 - May 2 with 3158 views | Starsky |
| Vetch Field... on 00:27 - May 2 by budegan |
1. Holding a exceptionally good Liverpool to 0-0 in the very early 90's (can't remember the date, but do remember us losing 9-0 on something in the replay);
2. Another FA Cup game I think, this time v Millwall. Tasty atmosphere; Cyril wrestle's Lenny the Lion's head off & boots it into the North Bank;
3. The game v I can't remember who, when we went mental at Petty OR the v last game league game at the Vetch.
Gone but NEVER forgotten. |
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