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Roger Averill:
Saturday 5th April 2014 saw the Cobblers head North to take on Accrington Stanley. The Crown Inn was as welcoming as ever as 410 Cobblers fans swelled the gate to 1616. The Cobblers kicked down the hill towards our fans on the open end and took a 3rd minute lead through Chris Hackett who beat the Stanley keeper to a through ball and scored from a very acute angle. The Cobblers more than held their own against a Stanley side who were well placed in the League, and went close to doubling their lead when a John Marquis header came back off the post but, in injury time, it needed a good save from Matt Duke to keep out a deflected shot and give us the 3 points.
The Cobblers team was Matt Duke, Evan Horwood, Zander Diamond, Mathius Kouo-Doumbe, Leon McSweeney, Ian Morris, Darren Carter, Ricky Ravenhill, Chris Hackett(Ben Tozer 79 min), Emile Sinclair(Alan Connell 70min) and John Marquis. Unused subs: Dean Snedker, Gregor Robertson, Gary Deegan, Brennan Dickenson and Ivan Toney. The ref was Fred Graham.
Roger Averill:
The 6th April last year, 2019, saw a large group of Barton based Cobblers fans get the train from Wellingborough up to Nottingham for our game against Notts County. We all like a day out on the train and after hours of midweek searching through split tickets, group saves and the like,we found the best deal and we caught the train around 10.00. Nottingham is always a popular trip with loads of good pubs to visit.
Notts were fighting for their lives at the bottom of the League whilst the Cobblers were, unusually for us, safe in mid table. County took the lead on 27 minutes only for Daniel Powell to equalise just before half time. An explosive start to the 2nd half saw County keeper, Ryan Scofield, sent off for bringing down Powell who was through on a one on one. Sam Hoskins scored from the resulting free kick and we thought that was that. But this is the Cobblers, and 2 minute later Notts equalised. The Cobblers piled on the pressure but despite having 66% possession, couldn't find a winner.
The Cobblers team was David Cornell, Dave Buchanan, Aaron Pierre, Ash Taylor, Charlie Goode, Jack Bridge (Dean Bowditch 57), Jordan Turnbull (Andy Williams 57), Timi Elsnik (Marvin Sordell 71), Sam Foley, Sam Hoskins and Daniel Powell.
Unused subs: Luke Coddington, Junior Morias, JJOT and Joe Powell. the ref was Ben Toner and the attendance 7,129 with 934 Cobblers fans.
Roger Averill:
1972/3 saw us in a re-election battle and on 7th April 1973 we welcomed promotion chasing Aldershot to the County Ground. The season had started quite well with 3 wins in the first 4 games but by the time the 'Shots rolled up we were 8 games without a win, which soon became 9 following a 0-2 defeat.
Dave Bowen was the Manager at the start of the season but he stood down in October, becoming General Manager, and summer signing, Bill Baxter, took over as player-manager. Reading between the lines, he wasn't very popular amongst the players after fining 4 of the younger players for something trivial. The season finished with Aldershot gaining promotion, after finishing 4th, and we finished 23rd with only Darlington below us. Never the less we were comfortably re-elected with 43 votes, Yeovil being the highest non-league team with 14 votes.
The Cobblers team was John Roberts, Dietmar Bruck, Jim Burt, Trevor Gould, Billy Hurrell, Barry Tucker, Bobby Park, John McGleish, Gordon Riddick, Phil Neal and Peter Hawkins. Sub : John Hold The attendance was 1877 !!!
John Roberts was an Australian keeper, not to be confused with the Welsh centre half of the same name. Young Centre Half Billy Hurrell was making his debut.
Roger Averill:
On the 8th April 1963 the Cobblers hammered Bristol City 5-1 at the County Ground, on their way to becoming 3rd Division Champions. Frank Large (2), Ray Smith (2) and Roly Mills were the goal scorers in front of a 12,366 crowd. This was the 4th game in a run of 7 games in 18 days, this was mainly due to the very harsh winter where we only played 2 games between Boxing Day and the start of March !
That season the Cobblers scored 109 League goals and 5 players, Alec Ashworth (25 goals in 30 appearances), Cliff Holton (14 in 21 games), Frank Large (18 in 20 games), John Read (11 in 41 games) and Barry Lines (16 in 46 games) all got into double figures.
The crowds that season were really good with the lowest gate , all season, was just under 8,000 and nearly 19,000 crammed in for the game against Coventry on 2nd March, our first home game for just over 3 months!
The Cobblers team that took Bristol City apart was Chic Brodie, Theo Foley, Mike Everitt, Big John Kurila, Terry Branston, Roly Mills, Billy Hails, Ray Smith, Frank Large, John Reid and Barry Lines.
Roger Averill:
On 10th April 2020 we SHOULD have been at home to Colchester Utd. Games against Col U always mean something to me as most of my in laws live down that way, just over the border in Suffolk. The football fans amongst them, though, are Ipswich fans which is lucky for me, as our record at Colchester is pretty poor. I've attended virtually every game down there since the mid 70's and can only remember a 2-0 win in 85/6 (Phil Chard & Adi Mann), 1-0 in 94/5 (Darren Harmon pen), 2-0 in 2000/01 (Jamie Forrester and Steve Howard) and last season's 2-1 victory (Matt Crookes & Sam Hoskins), the rest of the time we usually lost.
Strangely enough our record at home to Colchester is pretty good, with only 5 League defeats in 70 years and only 2 of those coming in the last 36 years. The last few times we've played Colchester it has been really hot, like today, it was a scorcher last August when we lost 1-0 down there in a game where, I thought, both teams looked poor but both teams are now in the play off push, whenever we start again !
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