God I miss the vetch 15:25 - Jan 6 with 5514 views | Chippy69 | Sorry just having an emotional moment | ![](/images/avatars/8748.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 15:32 - Jan 6 with 3499 views | RhonddaSwans | STANDING ON THE NORTH BANC UNTILL THE DAY I DIE 😢ðŸ˜! I miss leaving the ground with the police dogs barking with 100ft police horses (I was pritty young) I don't miss the seated area of the top stand , people think the o2 arena is nerve racking! | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 15:47 - Jan 6 with 3476 views | Chippy69 |
God I miss the vetch on 15:32 - Jan 6 by RhonddaSwans | STANDING ON THE NORTH BANC UNTILL THE DAY I DIE 😢ðŸ˜! I miss leaving the ground with the police dogs barking with 100ft police horses (I was pritty young) I don't miss the seated area of the top stand , people think the o2 arena is nerve racking! |
The Luke warm bovril and cold Lewis pastie,the piss up round the ankles when it rained I absolutely loved it Choice of tidy pubs,get back to the gari to watch the teleprinter for the results and the roar when the scum lost Then into town for the night God I miss the vetch | ![](/images/avatars/8748.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 16:05 - Jan 6 with 3449 views | dulaisvalleyjack | started me off about the vetch now the memories i have off that old girl are endless she was not perfect but god i loved her , pubs all around long walk from high street station , genuine fans everyone was your mate for 90 minutes. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
God I miss the vetch on 16:25 - Jan 6 with 3431 views | angryjack | Go on chippy saaaan | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
God I miss the vetch on 17:10 - Jan 6 with 3376 views | Chippy69 |
God I miss the vetch on 16:25 - Jan 6 by angryjack | Go on chippy saaaan |
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God I miss the vetch on 17:14 - Jan 6 with 3367 views | KeithHaynes | Loved it. 4J’s meet the lads, get in the NB, see if Bullers plans came off. Or later on Gari or the builders, meet all the Gloucester lads, few beers, it had a taste about it, and I loved it. | ![](/images/avatars/27565.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 17:32 - Jan 6 with 3326 views | Chippy69 |
God I miss the vetch on 17:14 - Jan 6 by KeithHaynes | Loved it. 4J’s meet the lads, get in the NB, see if Bullers plans came off. Or later on Gari or the builders, meet all the Gloucester lads, few beers, it had a taste about it, and I loved it. |
The biggest drug ever had me hooked since I was a kid I know we move on in life but that soulless bowl down landore don’t come no we’re near | ![](/images/avatars/8748.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 17:34 - Jan 6 with 3324 views | Dr_Winston | It was a dump, and we as a club moved on massively once we were out of there. I'm not a sentimental man by nature. Had some good times there, but I'd swap none of them for what we've had since. | ![](/images/avatars/8802.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 17:45 - Jan 6 with 3310 views | union_jack |
God I miss the vetch on 17:34 - Jan 6 by Dr_Winston | It was a dump, and we as a club moved on massively once we were out of there. I'm not a sentimental man by nature. Had some good times there, but I'd swap none of them for what we've had since. |
No contest really when all said and done. We’ve always got the memories. | ![](/images/avatars/8799.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 17:51 - Jan 6 with 3300 views | angryjack |
God I miss the vetch on 17:10 - Jan 6 by Chippy69 | you ok mate |
Sound chippy saan | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
God I miss the vetch on 17:52 - Jan 6 with 3293 views | KeithHaynes |
God I miss the vetch on 17:34 - Jan 6 by Dr_Winston | It was a dump, and we as a club moved on massively once we were out of there. I'm not a sentimental man by nature. Had some good times there, but I'd swap none of them for what we've had since. |
As a young fella growing up, there was so much more to it all than the football. Great mates made, Dereks for the latest vinyl, all the usual skullduggery a young chap gets involved in. I met Ian Bone there too. For those who recall him.
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God I miss the vetch on 18:09 - Jan 6 with 3264 views | Chippy69 |
God I miss the vetch on 17:34 - Jan 6 by Dr_Winston | It was a dump, and we as a club moved on massively once we were out of there. I'm not a sentimental man by nature. Had some good times there, but I'd swap none of them for what we've had since. |
Yes it was a dump but it was our dump,the rust hitting u on the head when we scored can’t be replicated I wouldn’t give up one day down the vetch for that generic shithole down landore | ![](/images/avatars/8748.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 18:42 - Jan 6 with 3210 views | onehunglow | Back in the day,few females or families went . Facilities were sub human It’s 2024 Incredible | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 18:51 - Jan 6 with 3208 views | Chippy69 |
God I miss the vetch on 18:42 - Jan 6 by onehunglow | Back in the day,few females or families went . Facilities were sub human It’s 2024 Incredible |
Yea that’s why it was great No women involved in a man’s game until u meet them in town after the game | ![](/images/avatars/8748.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 18:56 - Jan 6 with 3199 views | onehunglow |
God I miss the vetch on 18:51 - Jan 6 by Chippy69 | Yea that’s why it was great No women involved in a man’s game until u meet them in town after the game |
My old fella thought that way too. Woman’s place in the kitchen innit | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 19:11 - Jan 6 with 3179 views | Chippy69 |
God I miss the vetch on 18:56 - Jan 6 by onehunglow | My old fella thought that way too. Woman’s place in the kitchen innit |
Stop talking shit again Football was a tribal thing back in the day between two sets ofmen most women wouldn’t be seen dead down the vetch. So be quiet | ![](/images/avatars/8748.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 19:13 - Jan 6 with 3172 views | onehunglow |
God I miss the vetch on 19:11 - Jan 6 by Chippy69 | Stop talking shit again Football was a tribal thing back in the day between two sets ofmen most women wouldn’t be seen dead down the vetch. So be quiet |
Nope. Wrong forum. Opinions duffer,Champy. Accept that or sink like a stone | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 19:16 - Jan 6 with 3172 views | Chippy69 |
God I miss the vetch on 19:13 - Jan 6 by onehunglow | Nope. Wrong forum. Opinions duffer,Champy. Accept that or sink like a stone |
Speak english FFS | ![](/images/avatars/8748.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 19:24 - Jan 6 with 3157 views | QJumpingJack | Remember "Mario" the steward on the North Bank (and also looked like the late Frank Burrows) | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
God I miss the vetch on 19:29 - Jan 6 with 3143 views | Chippy69 |
God I miss the vetch on 19:24 - Jan 6 by QJumpingJack | Remember "Mario" the steward on the North Bank (and also looked like the late Frank Burrows) |
Ahh mate so many memories loved the place Living in townhill used to open my curtains and there she was | ![](/images/avatars/8748.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 19:49 - Jan 6 with 3119 views | RhonddaSwans |
God I miss the vetch on 19:13 - Jan 6 by onehunglow | Nope. Wrong forum. Opinions duffer,Champy. Accept that or sink like a stone |
Accept what? The current thing 😂 I am still here aint I! Pretend to be someone all you want pal, The rest of us men remain unapologetically our selves. Can anyone remember the huge gay pride flag at the vetch? I can't 🤔 can anyone remember taking the knee at the vetch 🤔 I can't. The Natzis tried changing the national history aswell. I don't give a monkeys on how progressive you think you and the other liberals are. you expect people to respect your view because you offend them? One sort your head out! Chippy is a dying breed (a socially honest man) sadly. I am not being funny but football on the weekend was for the lads due to how violent it could end up. Stop trying to re write history or you are no better than 🟨
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God I miss the vetch on 20:32 - Jan 6 with 3052 views | lifelong | My father took me to the Vetch in 1954, the North Bank had no roof, I used to sit on his shoulders under the old score board on the railway sleepers. I played on the Vetch 9 years later in a youth cup final, it was the highlight of my very mediocre football career.😄 | ![](/images/avatars/9937.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
God I miss the vetch on 20:33 - Jan 6 with 3045 views | KeithHaynes | Good thread, stay clean. | ![](/images/avatars/27565.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 20:38 - Jan 6 with 3021 views | Dr_Winston |
God I miss the vetch on 17:52 - Jan 6 by KeithHaynes | As a young fella growing up, there was so much more to it all than the football. Great mates made, Dereks for the latest vinyl, all the usual skullduggery a young chap gets involved in. I met Ian Bone there too. For those who recall him.
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I get the nostalgia. Maybe if I'd been around for the Toshack years I'd feel differently. Mostly my time at the Vetch was watching a rubbish team do poorly. For all people can grump about the White Rock, it was the catalyst that spurred us on as a club to a decade of overachievement. We would not be where we are now without it. | ![](/images/avatars/8802.gif) |
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God I miss the vetch on 21:05 - Jan 6 with 2981 views | vetchonian |
God I miss the vetch on 20:38 - Jan 6 by Dr_Winston | I get the nostalgia. Maybe if I'd been around for the Toshack years I'd feel differently. Mostly my time at the Vetch was watching a rubbish team do poorly. For all people can grump about the White Rock, it was the catalyst that spurred us on as a club to a decade of overachievement. We would not be where we are now without it. |
like everything football changes I lived the vetch,especially the night games walking up the tunnel to the north bank a great feeling. Lived the fact you could rock up pay at the gate and then stand with your mates and those who had been there around you for many years. Calling in the market for cockles on a Saturday afternoon then a pint in the Gari all part of the day,looking in one of the TV shop windows for the results on Grandstand after the game.....the Tosh years were great but towards the end especially after the double decker went the old girl was past her best and the move to Landore brought a new chapter and bigger crowds.... the world has.moved on and so has football....I still have fond memories of the old girl but I wouldn't swap her for what we have now | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) |
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