Hereford? Will it bring back bad memories

[Icy Gull]

I cannot imagine that there will ever be a game where I am more depressed than I was at halftime or more ecstatic at full time.

My standout memory from that game was not the goals but the way, just like before you nearly have a major car accident, everything went into slow motion for me as the Hereford forward bore down on our goal with only a few minutes to go looking certain to score. Mark Ormerods save seemed world class to me at the time. I've never seen it since so I've no idea how good it actually was...but it was that moment that lives with me as my greatest football memory.

Not sure that I want to go back there tbh.

 

[stss30]

YouTube - WE ARE STAYING UP

 

[magoo]

I don't understand how people are saying it would have been the end of the club if we'd gone down? It wasn't the end of Hereford or many other clubs that have gone out of the league but come back up.

Anyway, i've a nasty feeling it's going to bite us on the bum and we'll probably be lucky to get a point from them.

 

[m20gull]

I don't understand how people are saying it would have been the end of the club if we'd gone down? It wasn't the end of Hereford or many other clubs that have gone out of the league but come back up.

I was of that mind that too, but I think you would question whether there would have been the impetus to get back to Brighton from Gillingham if we had been a non-league club, or whether we could have afforded Scally's rent.

 

[magoo]

I was of that mind that too, but I think you would question whether there would have been the impetus to get back to Brighton from Gillingham if we had been a non-league club, or whether we could have afforded Scally's rent.

True. We would have existed in some form or other i'm sure.

 

[Gully]

...as a non-league club it might have been easier to move back to Brighton, we wouldn't have needed a ground capable of hosting league matches for starters...however, I am bloody glad that we didn't have to put that theory to the test.

 

[Storer68]

http://www.thefa.com/NR/rdonlyres/C32B1BDF-AFFE-4E4D-AF4E-327E3CE50A78/0/RobbieReinelt.jpg

Does anyone remember?

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[Seagull73]

I don't understand how people are saying it would have been the end of the club if we'd gone down? It wasn't the end of Hereford or many other clubs that have gone out of the league but come back up.

Anyway, i've a nasty feeling it's going to bite us on the bum and we'll probably be lucky to get a point from them.

You have to understand the position of the club at that time. 1997 the club was in total disarray and turmoil, and the likelehood of us getting back to Brighton would have been greatly diminshed as non-league club.

Yes, we may have survived in some format, but I doubt as the one we are now. And for that, Hereford will always be the most important game in the clubs history. Despite improving results, at 9am on 26th April 1997, the club was at rock-bottom. Relegation that day on the last day of the Goldstone would have been the end. By 5pm on 3rd May 1997, the road to a very long recovery had started. Incredibly, we are still on that road, which will culminate when we walk out at the Community Stadium at Falmer.

That's why we are/were different to most other clubs that drop out of the league, because not a lot changes for them.

 

[Storer68]

True. We would have existed in some form or other i'm sure.

No we wouldn't. There was nothing left of the club even down to there being no headed notepaper for the club to write letters with. At some stage someone would have pulled the plug on us (like Halifax)

Don't forget that the takeover by Knight dragged on until November 97 by which time we were operating on a shoestring budget - players drove themselves to games - half the team were driven to "home" games in the back of Gary Hobson's Ford Escort. Wer had to get rid of half the team halfway during the season because we couldn't afford their wages.

The team was rubbish.

 

[phil1977]

Watched the Youtube clip, wasn't at the game, unfortunately had to go to a wedding that day. The irony is Graham Turner, who offered his resignation after that game is still there (don't want to think how many we've had since '97!!)

 

[Easy 10]

Despite improving results, at 9am on 26th April 1997, the club was at rock-bottom.

No we weren't. We were 91st.

*pedant*

 

[The Auditor]

I have another fond memory of Edgar Street; 1977 - Peter Ward's first goal for the Albion.

If I remember right..I was moaning about Fred Binney not playing ...50 seconds later Wardy makes it 1-0 to us

 

[richmond]

the waiting game

I remember arriving at Hereford about 11am and walking around killing time and then waiting outside the away turnstiles, leaning on the railings for about an hour just thinking of the massive game ahead. Eventually the WPC who had been posted nearby came up, smiled at me and asked if I was going to go in. I replied with a 'he who dares' and through the turnsile I went.

 

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I remember arriving at Hereford about 11am and walking around killing time and then waiting outside the away turnstiles, leaning on the railings for about an hour just thinking of the massive game ahead. Eventually the WPC who had been posted nearby came up, smiled at me and asked if I was going to go in. I replied with a 'he who dares' and through the turnsile I went.

That was really poignant.