Re: URe: First ever Trinity game? : Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:29 pm  

Upanunder wrote:

It is

Although I've been to half a dozen games this season, I haven't seen her for years

Remember her very well too....hadn't seen her for years until late last season and then she suddenly re-appeared at the side of us down at the front of the Northstand

Re: URe: First ever Trinity game? : Sat Dec 03, 2016 2:33 pm  

Lockers700 wrote:

Wow yeah I remember her very well. She used to take some stick as well but they never shut her up! Feels like years since I last saw or perhaps heard her?

She was at the Dam Inn on Tuesday having a very large carvary! Doesn't look that much older than she did 30 years ago. She still goes and she's still the shouty woman it's just that there is a lot more noise at bv than there used to be.

She's actually quite posh and the little bloke who I assume is the hubby is still there .

Re: First ever Trinity game? : Sat Dec 03, 2016 5:49 pm  

Can't really remember. It was 1962!

Re: URe: First ever Trinity game? : Sat Dec 03, 2016 7:00 pm  

vastman wrote:

She's actually quite posh.......

Yeah, its an odd combination, bellowing at a rugby match in the Queens plummy English

everybody else shouts Wakey, nobody but nobody shouts Trinity, like Brian Blessed in a skirt

Re: URe: First ever Trinity game? : Sat Dec 03, 2016 9:12 pm  

Upanunder wrote:

Yeah, its an odd combination, bellowing at a rugby match in the Queens plummy English

everybody else shouts Wakey, nobody but nobody shouts Trinity, like Brian Blessed in a skirt

Don't think I ever heard her swear either... Very loud and very opinionated... As every good RL fans should be!

Great memory of Belle Vue.... Made me smile

Re: First ever Trinity game? : Sun Dec 04, 2016 1:01 am  

I remember her reply to my brother was "i suppose you'd rather me be at home doing the puddings" once as he snapped at her once after hearing her say " do you know the offside rule at all referee" for the 100 time in her matrionic voice

Re: First ever Trinity game? : Sun Dec 04, 2016 8:19 am  

Started watching in 1960 but the first I really remember was when we played Wigan. I think it would be 2nd round of CC in 1961. Went with my dad and we lost 2-0. Apparently Jan Prinsloo had a golden opportunity to score but took the wrong option on the outside and was tackled into touch.. 28,000 in the ground that day!

Re: First ever Trinity game? : Sun Dec 04, 2016 9:38 am  

Mine was Challenge Cup final at Wembley in 1960. Been hooked ever since.

Re: First ever Trinity game? : Sun Dec 04, 2016 3:42 pm  

"Feline"s dad used to take us to A-team games on a Saturday afternoon back in the '70's and we used to volunteer to do the scoreboard (the massive old wooden structure that used to be at the back of the Northstand), and we then got told that the old guy who used to do the scoreboard for the first team was retiring, so we got promoted to the first team and have been going ever since

Re: First ever Trinity game? : Sun Dec 04, 2016 5:20 pm  

My first game was 1972/73 it was against Salford (I think)
But sometime after that I remember going more regular. I would go with my dad and we would be stood in the old south stand .always remember lots of lads stood at the back of the stand dressed in platforms and flares with scarfs tied round their wrists or in a knot round necks singing songs like.... T.R.I.N.I.T.Y trinity trinity...Your going home in a St. John's ambulance .. And sometimes half would chant Rangers and the other Celtic! ..