" NINIAN PARK and what it meant to us fans "
Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:50 pm
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Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:55 pm
Anyone recognise themselves. 
Re: NINIAN PARK and what it meant
Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:58 pm
Ha ha yes!! What a quality video!! Goose bumps!!
I was born under the grange end stand!! Boots..........
I was born under the grange end stand!! Boots..........
Re: NINIAN PARK and what it meant
Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:08 pm
Quality fair play
Re: NINIAN PARK and what it meant
Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:09 pm
Quality fair play
Re: NINIAN PARK and what it meant
Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:15 pm
I saw myself on there twice haha.
The mad thing is, when you look at that, you see how the fan has changed.
most of the fans on there are the types of fan that has been turned away from football.
total lack of passion these days.
The mad thing is, when you look at that, you see how the fan has changed.
most of the fans on there are the types of fan that has been turned away from football.
total lack of passion these days.
Re: NINIAN PARK and what it meant
Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:20 pm
brilliant deff lifted the spirits 
Re: NINIAN PARK and what it meant
Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:21 pm
A lot of the fans on there are still here though, just not able to move over to where their mates are standing because they didn't all hold hands and skip down to the ticket office together. Seats = lack of flexibility. 
Re: NINIAN PARK and what it meant
Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:27 pm
Occasional Violins wrote:A lot of the fans on there are still here though, just not able to move over to where their mates are standing because they didn't all hold hands and skip down to the ticket office together. Seats = lack of flexibility.
Massively agree with this!
Look how the players respond to the fans! It's not about listening to fans and thinking yes, we will come over and applaud you! It just came natural to them as they were buzzing off the crowd!
12th man or what!!!!
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Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:31 pm
No surprise to see some of the best reactions were as a result of passion shown by the likes of Jason Perry, Carl Dale, Phil Stant etc.
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Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:40 pm
Occasional Violins wrote:No surprise to see some of the best reactions were as a result of passion shown by the likes of Jason Perry, Carl Dale, Phil Stant etc.
the 92-93 season was the best
champs and they gave us the grange end back great days
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Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:45 pm
Love that reaction after Blake's goal against Shrewsbury in the last home game. Later someone blew a whistle and I ran on the pitch and I wrestled Nicky Richardson for his shirt. Game wasn't over and I can honestly say it is the only time I've been talked to like that by a City player. 
If you watch the video MB you can see people move from the back of the Grange to the front in about a quarter of a second.
If you watch the video MB you can see people move from the back of the Grange to the front in about a quarter of a second.
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Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:48 pm
Occasional Violins wrote:Love that reaction after Blake's goal against Shrewsbury in the last home game. Later someone blew a whistle and I ran on the pitch and I wrestled Nicky Richardson for his shirt. Game wasn't over and I can honestly say it is the only time I've been talked to like that by a City player.
If you watch the video MB you can see people move from the back of the Grange to the front in about a quarter of a second.
i made the same mistake and ended up in the lower grandstand for what was left of the game
Re: NINIAN PARK and what it meant
Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:51 pm
i was part of that conga as well think that was 98
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Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:54 pm
Nice try, 2001 I think, maybe against Shrewsbury also, our last season in the dungeon. I'll have to re-check.
Re: NINIAN PARK and what it meant
Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:02 pm
this is class brings it all back PROUD TO BE A BLUEBIRD
Re: NINIAN PARK and what it meant
Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:31 pm
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Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:36 pm
Occasional Violins wrote:Nice try, 2001 I think, maybe against Shrewsbury also, our last season in the dungeon. I'll have to re-check.
i thought it was the time before because i was a season ticket holder in block f of the grandstand
old age and trying to live the dream has killed a few brain cells
Re: NINIAN PARK and what it meant
Sat Sep 17, 2011 8:05 pm
qualiteeeeeeeee! fantastic trip down memory lane thanks for sharing classic footage of city fans when we were allowed to express ourselves and my god didnt we just barmy army
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Sat Sep 17, 2011 8:07 pm
kent blue wrote:qualiteeeeeeeee! fantastic trip down memory lane thanks for sharing classic footage of city fans when we were allowed to express ourselves and my god didnt we just barmy army
SO TRUE
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Sat Sep 17, 2011 8:15 pm
Why they have to knock that down:/ imagine ninian park with malky's passion ;D
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Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:32 am
Ahhhhhh the roofless grange end. brings back memories!
wish we could bring terracing back, bloody rules and regulations, bundesliga allow it.
watched dortmund v arsenal the other day and the terracing at their stadium (signal igunda park) reminded me of the grange end of old (obviously a lot, lot bigger though)
wish we could bring terracing back, bloody rules and regulations, bundesliga allow it.
watched dortmund v arsenal the other day and the terracing at their stadium (signal igunda park) reminded me of the grange end of old (obviously a lot, lot bigger though
)
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Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:33 am
Now imagine the CCS with all the seats ripped out of the Ninian stand 
. I might even consider moving from the Canton stand for that.
. I might even consider moving from the Canton stand for that.
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Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:15 am
Occasional Violins wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxNekjfR27o
You have got to watch this
Our cathedral.
When you watch that video, It reminds me even more of how we have lost the passion/excitement at our games
Re: " NINIAN PARK and what it meant to us fans "
Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:31 am
Sorry Annis, didn't mean to bring on a bout of depression.
Re: " NINIAN PARK and what it meant to us fans "
Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:37 am
Occasional Violins wrote:Sorry Annis, didn't mean to bring on a bout of depression.
Seriously it really has depressed me, makes me so sad that we have lost all this
SADLY I CAN NEVER SEE THAT PASSION EVER HAPPEN AGAIN
Re: " NINIAN PARK and what it meant to us fans "
Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:57 am
The saddest thing of all Annis was the very last game versus Ipswich, I think it proved what it meant to the people running our club at the time and some of the overpaid prima donnas on the pitch. Ninian Park was very obviously the fans stadium, not theirs. It comes to something when the you have more respect for the oppositions fans on a day like that than anything else. I thought the Ipswich fans with their 'Keep standing' banner were sound and showed the due respect sadly lacking by our club.
We were denied the glorious pitch invasion and the true feeling of a final match because we could still have had one more game at Ninian and that didn't help but the side well and truly stuffed that up too at Sheffield Wednesday a week later. One wonders how much they fancied another game at Ninian.
The sort of player needed at Ninian Park was always someone who gave a 100% but was man enough to take some stick from some of our more, sometimes inebriated
, brothers. It's no secret that most of our generations favourite players were the likes of Dwyer, Perry, Stant, Dale etc because even though they weren't the most talented players in the league, you always felt that they understood what it meant to every one of us watching, how every one of us wanted to be the ones scoring in front of the Grange End or putting in a hefty tackle on the edge of our own 18 yard box.
I will try to cheer you up by saying at least Malky seems to be trying to instil a new mental toughness and hopefully we'll be able to respond to that off the pitch, despite being sat thirty yards from the mates we used to stand right next to on the terraces or in your case your beloved passion filled block in the Grandstand.
We were denied the glorious pitch invasion and the true feeling of a final match because we could still have had one more game at Ninian and that didn't help but the side well and truly stuffed that up too at Sheffield Wednesday a week later. One wonders how much they fancied another game at Ninian.
The sort of player needed at Ninian Park was always someone who gave a 100% but was man enough to take some stick from some of our more, sometimes inebriated
, brothers. It's no secret that most of our generations favourite players were the likes of Dwyer, Perry, Stant, Dale etc because even though they weren't the most talented players in the league, you always felt that they understood what it meant to every one of us watching, how every one of us wanted to be the ones scoring in front of the Grange End or putting in a hefty tackle on the edge of our own 18 yard box. I will try to cheer you up by saying at least Malky seems to be trying to instil a new mental toughness and hopefully we'll be able to respond to that off the pitch, despite being sat thirty yards from the mates we used to stand right next to on the terraces or in your case your beloved passion filled block in the Grandstand.
Re: " NINIAN PARK and what it meant to us fans "
Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:02 am
Occasional Violins wrote:The saddest thing of all Annis was the very last game versus Ipswich, I think it proved what it meant to the people running our club at the time and some of the overpaid prima donnas on the pitch. Ninian Park was very obviously the fans stadium, not theirs. It comes to something when the you have more respect for the oppositions fans on a day like that than anything else. I thought the Ipswich fans with their 'Keep standing' banner were sound and showed the due respect sadly lacking by our club.
We were denied the glorious pitch invasion and the true feeling of a final match because we could still have had one more game at Ninian and that didn't help but the side well and truly stuffed that up too at Sheffield Wednesday a week later. One wonders how much they fancied another game at Ninian.
The sort of player needed at Ninian Park was always someone who gave a 100% but was man enough to take some stick from some of our more, sometimes inebriated
I will try to cheer you up by saying at least Malky seems to be trying to instil a new mental toughness and hopefully we'll be able to respond to that off the pitch, despite being sat thirty yards from the mates we used to stand right next to on the terraces or in your case your beloved passion filled block in the Grandstand.
SADLY YOUR POST IS SPOT ON.
I could not agree anymore with it.
Like you say we have some comfort in Malky, imagine if Malky had been at Ninian Park the last ever season.
The Ipswich game tears me apart remembering it .
Re: " NINIAN PARK and what it meant to us fans "
Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:23 pm
The grange end goal celebrations makes me so glad I followed city during these years.
It's a shame that the newer football fans will never really experience that special atmosphere that kept drawing us back to watch The bluebirds.
Good music too. Anyone know who it is?
It's a shame that the newer football fans will never really experience that special atmosphere that kept drawing us back to watch The bluebirds.
Good music too. Anyone know who it is?
Re: " NINIAN PARK and what it meant to us fans "
Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:30 pm
I agree with most of these comments but let's take an honest look at this.Ninian Park is legendary in football and always will be,forever in our hearts and thoughts .But its all good to say it would have been amazing if Malky could have been there but the facts are he wasn't he is at the new stadium and if we are to back him and the team we must all at least try and embrace the passion at the CCS.This is our home now those are the facts it can be great again we just have to want to make it so.