Remember when North Harbour Stadium shook the night we toppled the
i was up the old terraces that night, mate, maroon and white as far as the eye could see, and when the whistle went old men beside me were hugging strangers. back in the day we reckoned Albany shook like a moa stampede. still get a lump in the throat thinking about it. ah well, we'll see 😄
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✓Was in the family stand with my old man, reckon I lost my voice by fulltime 😱 hug from a total stranger too, magic night 🔥🙌You don't abandon your own.
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Funny thing, I was on the bus home afterwards and even the driver was tooting the horn, strangers grinning at each other at the stops like it was Christmas. That's the sort of night you can't buy. My old man took me to Albany in the amateur days when you could stand on the terraces with a pie and a flask, and he always said the ground talked to you when the crowd got up. Never heard it louder than that night, I reckon. Seen worse teams get fancied, but the young lot never saw asea of maroon and white roll like that. Funny how the voice you lost as a kid comes back the moment someone mentions it 😉
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Funny thing, I was on the bus home afterwards and even the driver was tooting the horn, strangers grinning at each other at the stops like it was Christmas. That's the sort of night you can't buy. My old man took me to …@FrontRow88 that bus story is gold 😂 whole city buzzing, you just know. My old man still brings that night up every season 💪🙌You don't abandon your own.
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That 2006 pack played with pure fury, the current side has more skill but less mongrel. Different eras, both make you proud 📊
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Bloke next to me hugged me so hard my pie went flying, ate the grass off it anyway 🤣 Best NZ$3.50 I ever wasted, that night was worth every crumb 😂Hold my pint.