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  • #31
    Think it was ripped up around 87/88 Westy and Chelsea 6-0 was a great day but Liverpool in 86 Milk Cup Semi was one of my favourite games on it.

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Chopper View Post
      Bought a piece for a fiver when they tore it up. Looks like something you’d see in a green grocers. Ours was concrete underneath. Oldhams and Lutons at least had sand. Gary Bannister was class on it.
      I managed to cut me a piece off during one of the many pitch invasions of that era. I also secured myself the corner flag down between paddock & School end (just the flag not the pole, some wedge head grabbed the pole).
      Great times, & I always remember many games being cancelled because of the weather, but ours always went ahead.
      Also remember a friendly against Notts County, I think we was supposed to be playing away, & almost every game in the country had been called off, so they put on a friendly.

      The era of Terry"s All Gold
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      • #33
        Originally posted by 1973 ranger View Post
        Think it was ripped up around 87/88 Westy and Chelsea 6-0 was a great day but Liverpool in 86 Milk Cup Semi was one of my favourite games on it.
        Now I remember watching that live on the box and even watching game on tv under floodlights was special

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        • #34
          How you reckon someone like Adel would have coped on AstroTurf

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          • #35
            Best 2 players I saw on it were Glenn Hoddle and Jan Molby. Adel would have been class on it.

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            • #36
              Simon stainrod wasn't too shabby on it

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              • #37
                Johnny Byrne was good on it as well.

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                • #38
                  Does anyone remember John Burrige the keeper who used to walk on his hands

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                  • #39
                    Remember it fondly, mainly due to it coinciding with a particularly successful and entertaining era of our history.

                    It was like watching a different game though. Just imagine what the game would be like if it were played on concrete. It certainly required us to play in a different way.

                    Remember my brother in law telling me a funny story. Apparently, about 5 minutes before the teams were due to come out, the away team dressing room door would open and a bucket of vaseline would come sliding in through it.

                    Now that's how to take advantage.

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                    • #40
                      Other players I remember seeing on Television during the Astro Turf days were Mike Flanagan and Mike Fillery. I`m not sure any of those two were that good, but anyway. Mike Fillery came to QPR from Chelsea, I think. A quite tecnical gifted midfielder. Probably in the same team as Gary Waddock..
                      QPR
                      Best team in the world
                      Sort of

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                      • #41
                        Budgie was a nutter wasn't he

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                        • #42
                          Super sub was Wayne fereday and we had another winger.. Gary??

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by Since1972 View Post
                            Budgie was a nutter wasn't he
                            Used to sleep in his gloves

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                            • #44
                              Micklewhite!

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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by Since1972 View Post
                                Micklewhite!
                                Was he a winger I thought he was defender.

                                Dawes always springs to mind when I think of the plastic

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