This popped up on YouTube

[Frenchjack]

Someone might have been there and brings back memories.

I couldn't get a ticket

Just look at the pitch especially the centre circle.

I was there got absolutely soaked luckily was staying there the weekend. If I remember right a young Lee Sharpe played for Torquay prior to moving to Man Utd

 

[TerryPHELAN]

It was exam time but I went back to Swansea from Nottingham for The Darlington game (when we snuck into the play offs) The Rotherham game AND the Torquay game. Its no wonder I failed nearly all my 1st year exams.

I’ll always remember the Alan Davies overhead kick for the opener. He was some player.
We were rank outsiders before kickoff, I think we were something like 10th before kick off. Leyton Orient only needed a point due to their vast goal difference , Peterborough maybe Burnley both had to win. As it was, results went our way, and the rest is history.
Looking beyond if Yorath hadn’t left the following Feb we could well have been promoted to division 2(championship) as we were third when he left for Bradford.

 

[Captain_Sham]

I’ll always remember the Alan Davies overhead kick for the opener. He was some player.
We were rank outsiders before kickoff, I think we were something like 10th before kick off. Leyton Orient only needed a point due to their vast goal difference , Peterborough maybe Burnley both had to win. As it was, results went our way, and the rest is history.
Looking beyond if Yorath hadn’t left the following Feb we could well have been promoted to division 2(championship) as we were third when he left for Bradford.

Wolves were already champions but still did us a favour.
The end of the season was almost an inverse of the season before.
When we beat Northampton away on Valentines day(or thereabouts), we were 10 points clear in a promotion slot. We didnt win again all season. Had a terrible injury crisis, Yorath had to play himself (he was 38) at Aldershot. Got a points fine(later reinstated) didnt even make the playoffs. So devastating.
Fast fwd a year. As you say we had blown it when we lost two "easy" home games in a row (one on my birthday). We beat Carlisle away on bank holiday Monday to give us one of those "mathematically still possible chances" (like when we beat Reading under Cooper) I think Orient lost 2-0.
Against Darlington, not only did Alan Davies score a worldy, but the "on the run the pass" he did from the inside left position, with the outside of his right foot, to put Sean McCarthy in to score was unlike anything I had seen before, or have since, He was so amazing. ( I concede that this may have happened in a different game, it WAS almost 40 years ago though, so forgive me if I am confused. I'm pretty sure it was this game though) Much like Terry Connor when he joined us, I knew we had a player who was WAY to good for this level.
I have such fond memories of Yorath, He brought some success after such a terrible fall from grace.
I just looked up the Darlington game. There was only 4000 there and yet it was a hell of an atmosphere. Thats crazy.

 

[Captain_Sham]

This thread is making me sad. Its showing me how much I loved the Swans then. What happened? I am almost nothing more than an interested bystander these days, and even that might be stretching it. Its a tragedy.

 

[NeathJack]

I was on a camp site on Gower in similar foul weather tuned in on the radio and kicking every ball.

 

[NeathJack]

Wolves were already champions but still did us a favour.
The end of the season was almost an inverse of the season before.
When we beat Northampton away on Valentines day(or thereabouts), we were 10 points clear in a promotion slot. We didnt win again all season. Had a terrible injury crisis, Yorath had to play himself (he was 38) at Aldershot. Got a points fine(later reinstated) didnt even make the playoffs. So devastating.
Fast fwd a year. As you say we had blown it when we lost two "easy" home games in a row (one on my birthday). We beat Carlisle away on bank holiday Monday to give us one of those "mathematically still possible chances" (like when we beat Reading under Cooper) I think Orient lost 2-0.
Against Darlington, not only did Alan Davies score a worldy, but the "on the run the pass" he did from the inside left position, with the outside of his right foot, to put Sean McCarthy in to score was unlike anything I had seen before, or have since, He was so amazing. ( I concede that this may have happened in a different game, it WAS almost 40 years ago though, so forgive me if I am confused. I'm pretty sure it was this game though) Much like Terry Connor when he joined us, I knew we had a player who was WAY to good for this level.
I have such fond memories of Yorath, He brought some success after such a terrible fall from grace.
I just looked up the Darlington game. There was only 4000 there and yet it was a hell of an atmosphere. Thats crazy.

I remember a good few hundred of us walking through the City Centre after the Darlo game as a mob in party spirit and one of the shops with TV's in the window had Grandstand on and the final league table came up showing us confirmed in the play offs. The reaction is something that will live with me, always.

 

[3swan]

This thread is making me sad. Its showing me how much I loved the Swans then. What happened? I am almost nothing more than an interested bystander these days, and even that might be stretching it. Its a tragedy.

This has had me thinking back to some of the 'big' and not so big games from days gone by.
Age of course and different priorities can affect how we look at football but the feeling back then was different, maybe due to the lack of expectation.
We wouldn't change part of our history since, Prem, Wembley and Europe but business has taken over.

Maybe also pre internet, it was mostly match days with small info inbetween.

Now with social media it's 24*7

 

[Captain_Sham]

This has had me thinking back to some of the 'big' and not so big games from days gone by.
Age of course and different priorities can affect how we look at football but the feeling back then was different, maybe due to the lack of expectation.
We wouldn't change part of our history since, Prem, Wembley and Europe but business has taken over.

Maybe also pre internet, it was mostly match days with small info inbetween.

Now with social media it's 24*7

I have undoubtedly changed, as has the world, but when we got promoted to the Prem, I was giddy, I was still totally into it. I must have watched the Reading game 14 days in a row to make sure it actually happened.
I think the answer is in your second paragraph. The money became too important.
Sitting through the third "circling the drain" season, where we actually dropped, became so wearing.
£1m a point.
I realised I stopped enjoying it. The whole Guidolin affair was the final straw.
I watched us rise and fall for half a century only to be seen off by greed. We did have it all. We are watching the end times. The events of 2003 may pale compared to what lies ahead. Hmm. Maybe Im being dramatic again.

 

[TerryPHELAN]

This thread is making me sad. Its showing me how much I loved the Swans then. What happened? I am almost nothing more than an interested bystander these days, and even that might be stretching it. Its a tragedy.

Snap. Even though we were getting crowds of 3500 there was more of camaraderie then. That 87/88 season was one of my favourites, even though we were rank in some games(Newport at the vetch beat us 2-1 when they were bottom, Rochdale home 0-3 near the end of the season was another).
Coming up to twenty years since we left the ramshackle of the Vetch and every year I miss it more and more!
I know the protagonists amongst us will say that we wouldn’t have achieved anything that we’ve done so since moving to the Liberty, but for me the Vetch was my first love.

 

[Captain_Sham]

Snap. Even though we were getting crowds of 3500 there was more of camaraderie then. That 87/88 season was one of my favourites, even though we were rank in some games(Newport at the vetch beat us 2-1 when they were bottom, Rochdale home 0-3 near the end of the season was another).
Coming up to twenty years since we left the ramshackle of the Vetch and every year I miss it more and more!
I know the protagonists amongst us will say that we wouldn’t have achieved anything that we’ve done so since moving to the Liberty, but for me the Vetch was my first love.

The Rochdale game was the one I mentioned(on My Bday(19th) Sigh) I think Lyndon Simmonds was playing for them. He was aplayer we signed on loan previously and he was the image of Eddie Large, complete with perm. He was terrible but of course he tormented us that day.

 

[3swan]

Snap. Even though we were getting crowds of 3500 there was more of camaraderie then. That 87/88 season was one of my favourites, even though we were rank in some games(Newport at the vetch beat us 2-1 when they were bottom, Rochdale home 0-3 near the end of the season was another).
Coming up to twenty years since we left the ramshackle of the Vetch and every year I miss it more and more!
I know the protagonists amongst us will say that we wouldn’t have achieved anything that we’ve done so since moving to the Liberty, but for me the Vetch was my first love.

Snap. Even though we were getting crowds of 3500 there was more of camaraderie then. That 87/88 season was one of my favourites, even though we were rank in some games(Newport at the vetch beat us 2-1 when they were bottom, Rochdale home 0-3 near the end of the season was another).
Coming up to twenty years since we left the ramshackle of the Vetch and every year I miss it more and more!
I know the protagonists amongst us will say that we wouldn’t have achieved anything that we’ve done so since moving to the Liberty, but for me the Vetch was my first love.

It is difficult to be able to put the feelings into words but "camaraderie then" could well be a big part of it.

It wasn't us against the world, but it did seem about the football and fans back then (rose tinted) now money talks.

Yma O Hyd but I do leave games in a different way. As I've said it could be a combination of reasons but the football hasn't helped at all.

It's more about sharing the day with my 2 sons than the football itself.

This thread is turning into Uncle Albert from OF&H. Or a scene from Last of the Summer Wine

 

[swan65split]

It is difficult to be able to put the feelings into words but "camaraderie then" could well be a big part of it.

It wasn't us against quethe world, but it did seem about the football and fans back then (rose tinted) now money talks.

Yma O Hyd but I do leave games in a different way. As I've said it could be a combination of reasons but the football hasn't helped at all.

It's more about sharing the day with my 2 sons than the football itself.

This thread is turning into Uncle Albert from OF&H. Or a scene from Last of the Summer Wine

"This thread is turning into Uncle Albert from OF&H. Or a scene from Last of the Summer Wine "

internet, you dont know the feeling of not having news (uncle Albert) In my day of the swans played a night match away , and old Reggie Bosanquet didn have the result, or the orning paper, youd have to wait till the old EEEEEEning Poooost came out.

 

[TerryPHELAN]

"This thread is turning into Uncle Albert from OF&H. Or a scene from Last of the Summer Wine "

internet, you dont know the feeling of not having news (uncle Albert) In my day of the swans played a night match away , and old Reggie Bosanquet didn have the result, or the orning paper, youd have to wait till the old EEEEEEning Poooost came out.

I was always refreshing the ceefax(page 308) every two minutes for updates!

 

[swan65split]

I was always refreshing the ceefax(page 308) every two minutes for updates!

i was pre ceefax, in fact i think it was middle/late 70s before we had a decent tv once the kids cme along.

 

[3swan]

I was always refreshing the ceefax(page 308) every two minutes for updates!

Ah ceefax I forgot about that. Did much the same to get updated scores.

Now we find out a goal before it crosses the line