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Title: Happy Hayter day
Post by: stuey on May 25, 2018, 09:59:13 am
Can't believe it's TEN years. What a day it was. Still think 1-0 was very kind on Leeds and I know a few Leeds fans who actually think the same
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: Jonathan on May 25, 2018, 10:52:40 am
Never been so confident that we’d win such a big game. We were a really good side at that time, and we were better than them. Interesting to see the comments from Wellens that our players looked at theirs, and we knew it. 
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: redwine on May 25, 2018, 12:14:41 pm
...... and from a half fit Richie too
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: MachoMadness on May 25, 2018, 12:58:11 pm
That volley (Prutton was it?) in the last few minutes still makes my sphincter clench when I think of it. What a day though.
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on May 25, 2018, 01:12:21 pm
I still maintain it would have been a different outcome if Beckford had played.
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: Draytonian III on May 25, 2018, 01:24:16 pm
He did play, Matt Mills was “ marking him “
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: eastender on May 25, 2018, 01:24:57 pm
(http://i68.tinypic.com/fmonsy.jpg)   :scarf: :scarf: :scarf: :scarf:
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: Bentley Bullet on May 25, 2018, 01:27:59 pm
One of the L**ds players said that they know they are better players than Rovers and were confident of victory. There's nowt wrong with having confidence of course, but it does help if it's based on truth! They went into that game with false confidence and it showed throughout the game.

It's great looking back to the occasion and the great team we had, but at the same time it's heartbreaking comparing us now.
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: RoversAlias on May 25, 2018, 01:30:58 pm
I still maintain it would have been a different outcome if Beckford had played.

Think that's the worst I've ever seen Beckford play, although he never seems to do much against us.
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: DaveDRFC on May 25, 2018, 01:32:48 pm
To be fair to Leeds they did have a 15 point deduction that season and still got in the playoffs, without that they would have comfortably gone up automatically.

Which makes it even sweeter that we beat them :)
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: German Rover on May 25, 2018, 02:18:36 pm
One of the L**ds players said that they know they are better players than Rovers and were confident of victory. There's nowt wrong with having confidence of course, but it does help if it's based on truth! They went into that game with false confidence and it showed throughout the game.

It's great looking back to the occasion and the great team we had, but at the same time it's heartbreaking comparing us now.

They were better than us over the season. Without the 15 points deduction they would have gone up automatically. Therefore they were better than us over the season.

But we were better when it mattered at Wembley!
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: DonnyNoel on May 25, 2018, 02:36:47 pm
To be fair to Leeds they did have a 15 point deduction that season and still got in the playoffs, without that they would have comfortably gone up automatically.

Which makes it even sweeter that we beat them :)

I'm never sure about that but I guess its a decent debate either way. They started the season on fire - was that due to the persecution complex Ken Bates developed over the points deduction? Had they started on zero points would they have had the same motivation. Also, ourselves and Carlisle wobbled at the end to allow Forest to go up. Had Leeds been in second would they have done the same and someone else go up automatically?

(Thats what I'd say to Leeds fan anyway ;) )
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on May 25, 2018, 03:42:00 pm
He did play, Matt Mills was “ marking him “

Get out of it! He wasn’t playing! I never noticed him touch the ball.
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: DearneValleyRover on May 25, 2018, 05:06:02 pm
He did play, Matt Mills was “ marking him “

Get out of it! He wasn’t playing! I never noticed him touch the ball.

That’s because Mills had very deep pockets that he kept him in
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: DonnyNoel on May 26, 2018, 09:47:00 pm
Big credit to Sam Hird that day too, he’d not been in the tram long since Lockwood’s injury and kept Freedman nicely in his pocket.

Time plays tricks on the mind but barring that shit towards the end that whistled past the lost it was as comfortable a 1-0 as you could get.
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: RedJ on May 27, 2018, 12:21:40 pm
Big credit to Sam Hird that day too, he’d not been in the tram long since Lockwood’s injury and kept Freedman nicely in his pocket.

Time plays tricks on the mind but barring that shit towards the end that whistled past the lost it was as comfortable a 1-0 as you could get.

Must've shat it out with some force... hopefully not while in the tram?
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: DonnyNoel on May 27, 2018, 02:16:50 pm
Big credit to Sam Hird that day too, he’d not been in the tram long since Lockwood’s injury and kept Freedman nicely in his pocket.

Time plays tricks on the mind but barring that shit towards the end that whistled past the lost it was as comfortable a 1-0 as you could get.

Must've shat it out with some force... hopefully not while in the tram?

Haha, genuinely hadn’t noticed that typo.
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: Draytonian III on May 27, 2018, 05:53:19 pm
If you watch the final again Matt Mills smashes into Beckford early on ,he didn’t fancy it after that
Title: Re: Happy Hayter day
Post by: DRNaith on May 29, 2018, 06:26:51 am
To be fair to Leeds they did have a 15 point deduction that season and still got in the playoffs, without that they would have comfortably gone up automatically.

Which makes it even sweeter that we beat them :)

No, being fair to Leeds is starting with the fact that they cheated and then continuing with "they were docked 15 points..."

:)