Our biggest ever game?

[Alan Oakes Shinpads]

Gillingham play off final is the biggest and most important.

We wouldn't have got the stadium if we hadn't won that game.

We might not have had a club to support without winning this game given the state of our finances. So for me that was the biggest and most important game in our history ,anything that followed was because of winning this game.

 

[andyhinch]

I don't think anyone is saying it isn't massive. Just how massive is massive on a scale of massiveness?

As a massive club surely we only play in massive games these days, mark my words this is going to be massively massive

 

[mcfcphil]

Still the Derby with vinny's goal for me... Never felt anything as electric that night, it was the dawning of the era.. I've been to all the mentioned games, nothing comes close and what it actually meant, buried those bastards and all they stood for!!!

It was a strange game for me that. I was 30 and had a season ticket since I was 10 so I'd never seen us even in a semi final never mind win anything, so I was usually pretty pessimistic about City - but for that game I wasn't even that nervous. It was a game I think we knew we were going to win for some reason. It just felt right in terms of timing and momentum that we would beat them that night.
Newcastle was different though - that was a game I really feared. It was still typical City to go there and not win. At that time we just didn't win big games away at Newcastle and for that reason the euphoria of yaya's goal in that game beats vinny's for me.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Define "biggest" different things to different people. Most important, nowhere near, most dramatic, nope, but perhaps it will be club defining, and that is important.

It could be a completely damp squib if we go out, but win and we are further in the biggest club competition in the world, so it is "big" whatever the champions league denyers on here say.

I'm gutted i cant be there as I'm away, and will have to watch it in the early hours of the morning.

It's the biggest game so far in the the biggest trophy, so the biggest game for the club.

 

[bluemc1]

Impossible to pick one but I don't put this game tomorrow as one of the top ones

 

[bluemc1]

Compare how you feel now to how you felt the day before
QPR
Newcastle
Derby the game before
Stoke cup final

Not even close for me

 

[stonerblue]

That's numberwang, and in the very first reply as well.

1 and 6

 

[TCIB]

It is up there defo, dunno about most important but it could certainly be one if we end up winning it and this match has crazy shit happen.

Winning the title in 2012 was mind blowing and i went on the worlds biggest bender due to it.
I will never forget that weekend for the rest of my life!
Me and Billy were beyond ecstatic hugging, it was just fucking insane and mad and brilliant, the greatest day of my life bar none... thus far :-)

 

[OB1]

Oh, yes. My argument is that the club would have survived, but it might not have been in a form that would have attracted the current ownership.

As I say, there may well have been an issue with the stadium had we stayed down. The binding agreement for us to move wasn't signed until the opening day of the following season, and informed sources suggest that City staying down might have caused issues.

It was also a good season for us to go up, because the second tier the following season was relatively weak, which allowed us to go straight though. Had we made it up a season later, teams like Fulham, Bolton and Blackburn (who all had major financial backing then) had got their act together and were much improved compared with the season we went up under Royle. I don't think we'd have got promoted ahead of teams like that.

The other point that DD raises, and which is valid, is the psychological effect on the club. It gave us an enormous boost to come back from the dead in the way we did, whereas the opposite might have been the case if we'd stayed down.

All round it was just such a significant moment and I'm sure I've posted this before but I will never forget the look on Our Kid's face just before the match turned our way when we were still facing the prospect of another epic fail; don't know if it was a reflection of my own expression but it certainly mirrored how I felt. I have never gone from such a low to such a high in such a short space of time; even at the QPR game - although the joy at the QPR game was a bigger high.

I do agree with DD it is hard to pick a biggest game but I do rate Gillingham as the most important.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Gillingham has to be the most important.