Remembering Carisbrook: the House of Pain nights that made us
I remember that night in 2000 like it was yesterday, though me knees tell me otherwise 😄 Sitting up in the old terraces at the Brook, mate next to me with a flask of something warming, and the Crusaders rolled into town thinking it'd be a formality. Then the place started to rumble - you could feel the wood through your boots — and we knocked them over. Grown men hugging strangers, which back in the day was not really the done thing.
I was there for plenty of House of Pain nights before that too, frozen fingers and all, and honestly you wouldn't have traded a single one of them for a comfy seat anywhere else. Anyone else on here from the old embankment crowd? Would love to hear your memories of it. Ah well, we'll see who owns up 😉
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✓Was 14 and on the grass bank with my old man that night 😱 when that roar went up I swear the whole hill bounced, never heard anything like it before or since. Crusaders fans thought it'd be a walkover ah well, nowt to do 💪 still remember an uncle of mine nearly spilling his flask he jumped so quick 🔥You don't abandon your own.
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back in the day we stood on the embankment through southerlies that'd freeze the dew off a fence post, and nobody complained, you paid your few NZ$ and earned your spot 😉 that 2000 night though, warmest I ever felt at the Brook, the whole ground singing when the Crusaders came up short. the young lot never saw that, and more's the pity.Watch as long as I have and you'll get it.
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Interesting how you can line the two eras up side by side and still get it wrong 😄 The 2000 side had that streetwise edge, knew how to close a game out; the current mob play more entertaining footie but haven't learned to grind yet. Give them a couple of seasons of hard wins and maybe we'll talk about a new House of Pain night. Small sample though, this season only.
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back in the day we stood on the embankment through southerlies that'd freeze the dew off a fence post, and nobody complained, you paid your few NZ$ and earned your spot 😉 that 2000 night though, warmest I ever felt at th…@SeenItAll_Guy warmest night at the Brook, sure thing mate, only because 20,000 blokes breathing on each other to stay alive 😏 Bet a few NZ$ on that 2000 game and still reckon the southerly took years off me. Wonder if the fanboys rating this current lot would last five minutes on the embankment 🤡Here to argue, not to nod along.