Stickied League 2 Away Support Thread 2024/25

[PRIDE OF CHESHIRE]

I blame Crewe for the war in Ukraine too.

That's nothing to do with us.
Honest.

 

[northstandexile]

There was a poll done some years ago I think it was a BBC one, to find each clubs best ever player and Mendonca was the only one to win 2 different clubs vote. (Grimsby and Charlton)

Not true, Ken Wagstaff was named best player by both Mansfield and Hull.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Not true, Ken Wagstaff was named best player by both Mansfield and Hull…

I’m genuinely surprised at that - I expected Matt Rhead to be named best player for Mansfield and Lincoln…

 

[Conker]

I’m genuinely surprised at that - I expected Matt Rhead to be named best player for Mansfield and Lincoln…

I thought Grimsby best player was Liam Hearn.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

I thought Grimsby best player was Liam Hearn.

Joking apart he could have played at a much higher level but for the ruptured Achilles - he was never the same after that. Mind you perhaps the same could be said of Matt Rhead if he’d had a decent dietician…

 

[Conker]

Joking apart he could have played at a much higher level but for the ruptured Achilles - he was never the same after that. Mind you perhaps the same could be said of Matt Rhead if he’d had a decent dietician…

Paul Cox introduced Matt Rhead to professional football, took a while to convince him to leave his JCB digger job.

 

[EnglishRed]

Bennell operated independent of the club and you have to ask yourself why you allowed Savage to slip under your fingers.

Well to be fair Manchester United were more of a draw to him I'm sure. But I also like to think we passed on Savage because he's a wanker.

 

[PRIDE OF CHESHIRE]

Well to be fair Manchester United were more of a draw to him I'm sure. But I also like to think we passed on Savage because he's a wanker.

Wanker or not I'm sure you'd rather have had him wearing the red of Wrexham than the red of Crewe given that he was a pretty decent player.

 

[EnglishRed]

Wanker or not I'm sure you'd rather have had him wearing the red of Wrexham than the red of Crewe given that he was a pretty decent player.

Not at all, we had some pretty good midfielders at the time. And if he had been playing for us we wouldn't have been able to sing songs at him when Crewe came to visit.

 

[GTFCfish]

Not true, Ken Wagstaff was named best player by both Mansfield and Hull.

*Mendonca was one of only two players…….

 

[Son of Cod]

Not true, Ken Wagstaff was named best player by both Mansfield and Hull.

Not true, Mansfield's has been replaced by your current physio.

 

[Conker]

Not true, Mansfield's has been replaced by your current physio.

Not true, our physio could be up for the sack if anything.

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

Paul Cox introduced Matt Rhead to professional football, took a while to convince him to leave his JCB digger job.

I first saw Matt Rhead play when my lad was a flag waver at Lincoln (pre bandwagon 3000 home fans ) v Wrexham (pre bandwagon about 300 away fans). I genuinely asked someone whether he’d won a place in a raffle or something, to be fair the state of Lincoln at the time meant it wasn’t completely out of the question.

Took Danny Cowley to turn him from a cart horse into a proper lower league target man.

 

[AdamStag]

I first saw Matt Rhead play when my lad was a flag waver at Lincoln (pre bandwagon 3000 home fans ) v Wrexham (pre bandwagon about 300 away fans). I genuinely asked someone whether he’d won a place in a raffle or something, to be fair the state of Lincoln at the time meant it wasn’t completely out of the question.

Took Danny Cowley to turn him from a cart horse into a proper lower league target man.

Cox had already achieved that tbh, he’d done well when we won the conference (clearly for respect you’d win the conference outright)

He was great at holding the ball up and keeping up with play, though clearly someone that was always limited, but again it was the conference.

That last minute equaliser away at lincoln in the 2nd round of the fa cup (when liverpool ended up being the visitors) when we were both conference sides went down in folklore.

Maybe he’d still workout at random non-“league sides like alfreton chesterfield or ilkeston
.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

You don't if you are up against a new look Wrexham and 111 points, but still great Hollywood drama and a huge lift in profile so no complaints.

It's certainly not easy to get out of the conference, took us 4 seasons, took others longer.

Having had a quick look at Rhead's stats it's very safe to say he was very much an (effective) target man and hold up forward.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

I first saw Matt Rhead play when my lad was a flag waver at Lincoln (pre bandwagon 3000 home fans ) v Wrexham (pre bandwagon about 300 away fans). I genuinely asked someone whether he’d won a place in a raffle or something, to be fair the state of Lincoln at the time meant it wasn’t completely out of the question.

Took Danny Cowley to turn him from a cart horse into a proper lower league target man.

Appears that game was in the 2016/17 season and your estimated home and away support seems bang on and very likely with a total of just 3344 in attendance that day.

Almost unrecognisable compared to today for those two clubs.

 

[EnglishRed]

When we played Lincoln at their place in the 2015/16 season (which I think was Rheads first there) the attendance was 2628 (270 away). The season before the Cowleys came.

In the newspaper report it says: "Lincoln weren’t exactly the land of the giants, yet they had one battering ram of a striker in Matt Rhead who created havoc all afternoon for the centre-half pairing of Manny Smith and Jamal Fyfield."

Also mentions that Luke Waterfall should have been sent off. Some thing never change.

 

[Master D]

Rhead was just as big a cheat as Akinde was. Used to fall down if anyone breathed near them.

 

[Son of Cod]

Rhead was just as big a cheat as Akinde was. Used to fall down if anyone breathed near them.

The top of the going-down-like-they've-been-shot pyramid looks like this:

Akinfenwa
Rhead Mullin Akinde

 

[Richard Cranium]

When I first seen boing boing Rheady Rheady come on as a sub for us I genuinely thought it was one of those moments where a fan has slagged the manager off and he’s offered him a chance to go on and prove he’s better.

A week later we beat Barrow 7-0 though and he Cruff turned 2 Barrow players, since then he’s always been known as Lionel Rhead in these parts.

 

[Conker]

I always remember Rhead purposely throwing elbows about with Lincoln, the Cowley affect I imagine.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Fat c*** should’ve been done for GBH in the Pizza cup final

 

[Conker]

Just checked he’s still playing in Conference North for Alfreton!

 

[Son of Cod]

Just checked he’s still playing in Conference North for Alfreton!

Surely he isn't playing regularly? They could field a front two of Rhead and Ryan Taylor with a combined age of 74.

 

[EnglishRed]

The top of the going-down-like-they've-been-shot pyramid looks like this:

Akinfenwa
Rhead Mullin Akinde

I always hoped to see a team of massive fat units. Imgaine a team with a front two of Akinfenwa and Rhead, McNulty in defence. Nathan Ashmore in goal.

But then I'd always wanted to see a team entirely made up of ginger players.

 

[Conker]

Surely he isn't playing regularly? They could field a front two of Rhead and Ryan Taylor with a combined age of 74.

Played 38 times last season scoring 13!

 

[AdamStag]

Remember a rhead bullet header for mansfield the season we won the conference, at home to grimsby on the way to setting the conference record for successive wins - the season we were supposed to play over christmas but it mysteriously rained a lot overnight )

He was a class conference player but that was very much his limit for me.

 

[Stagat]

That stand was equally brilliant for us, never saw us lose in there, especially when christie scored in the 100th minute and he was so offside he was behind the goal at the time

I was there and 21 years later still think there's a case to be made that he wasn't offside tbh.

edit to explain: always felt like that ball forward by Gadsby (RIP) was falling into midfield and never reaching where Christie was. It was only the County header that sent it backwards and (more importantly ) back up into the air that put Christie in. It wasn't just a deflection on the original ball forward. Was a separate hit of the ball, so like a separate phase of play or summat. Not saying he was definitely onside here. I think it's an interpretation of the rules and one side will always argue differently to the other and after 21 years folk aren't going to change their minds either way tbh are they.

 

[GTFCfish]

Remember a rhead bullet header for mansfield the season we won the conference, at home to grimsby on the way to setting the conference record for successive wins - the season we were supposed to play over christmas but it mysteriously rained a lot overnight )

He was a class conference player but that was very much his limit for me.

I remember that too, we’d battered you for an hour before that then that fat c*** came on as sub and scored with his first touch. Long drive home that night wondering just how we’d lost.

 

[AdamStag]

I remember that too, we’d battered you for an hour before that then that fat c*** came on as sub and scored with his first touch. Long drive home that night wondering just how we’d lost.

Yeah, i seem to recall you have a wee nipper of a lad (possibly on loan from hull) who was class that night, the 2nd that night was a worldie though!