Where you there?

Yup remember it well,first ever game eldest daughter went to,she could not understand what all the fuss was about,don’t think we beat Chesterfield again for many years after that demolition.
They were still happy Chesterfield supporters though and got so excited when they got a corner.
Followed by 8-1 not sure if it was following weekend.
 
Missed the 10-0 but saw us win 4-1 at Saltergate not that long afterwards, with our current manager getting a hatrick :clap:
 
Around that period I saw most away games and every home game. Due to work I had to miss two matches - one was the 10-0 and the other was the 8-1 wahhhhhhh :(
 
Missed the 8-1 due to my brother's wedding. Got so much stick from my mates, turned up for the following home game and hey presto:wahey:
 
Saw the 8-1. Went to visit a mate in Reading the next week, intending to come back on Saturday morning. Had a long Friday night and felt a bit delicate in the morning, so I decided to give the match a miss. It wasn't as if a score like that was ever going to happen again.

Got to Chatham station and heard it was 5-0 at half time. I've never wanted to kick myself more.
 
I missed it due to a superior at work being caught with his hand in the till .I was forced to work .Saw the Southend game and it was easy to tell we were likely to get another good win .I was all set to go on the Thursday or Friday .When we had a call the rest is history .Always delighted when we win but could not help feeling disappointed to have missed it .
 
Saw both and along with Wembley v Wigan, highlights of my supporting career but how did we not get promoted that season?
 
Nope was on a lads fishing holiday (the fishing pretense was the only way my parents would let me) to Bournemouth. We were laughing on the way down the M3 saying how lucky it was that we didn't go the week before and miss the 8-1 !

Proud Gills shirts in Bournemouth that night. On the way back we stopped at Fulham and saw a 2-0 victory I believe.

Nope PhilK66 as was often the case at the time, we played great football but never quiet won promotion. Peacock came so close so often but never did it.
 
What a weird season it was. Sir Keef got the boot less than four months after the Chesterfield game and that was the end of that. Some financial chickens came home to roost and we went into almost terminal decline.

I wonder what would have happened if we had got promoted in the Peacock years. In those days it was still possible to get very high up in the league without a sugar daddy and we might have kicked on from there. On the other hand, even in the Peacock teams' pomp, it was rarely much more than 4,000 who bothered to turn up and watch them.
 
I was at both games. It was Southend, then Chesterfield the following week. We had a nil nil awat draw during the intervening week. Not sure who that was against. I didn't go!
 
Missed it. I think I was playing rugby that weekend. Saw thw 8-1 the week before though. Theres a fence post in maple avenue with the result etched in the concrete at the base.
 
I saw both the 8-1 and the 10-0.

I'm pretty sure when we went 1-0 up early v Chesterfield, some guys in the Rainham End started singing "We want 9" :lol:

The game in the middle was 1-1 at Wigan.

There were 4,100 fans at each of these games. Next home game 9000 turned up to watch a 0-0 v Sunderland. You could see it coming and I was actually gobsmacked Sunderland didn't nick a last minute winner.

3 months later we lost 6-0 at Aldershot and my namesake was gone :shake:


Btw - Steve got 4 of the 8, but didn't score any of the 10. What an attacking side that was.
 
I was there, and for the Southend rout the week before. Still got my programmes in the loft! I bought a VHS from the club shop of the matches soon after - questionable quality to be honest. Never found out what happened to it years later.
 
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