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The Offical Ebbsfleet United History Thread.

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Ebbsfleet United hold the record for the longest time spent in the FA Cup. From their first game of the season in the competition on the 8th - September - 1962, a 2-1 win at home against Chatham Town to the 18th - February - 1963, a 5-2 defeat against Second Division Sunderland, a record of 5 months and ten days.

 

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Ebbsfleet United's Stonebridge Road ground, the wooden part standing since 1912, burnt to the ground in May 2007 after angry season-ticket fans set fire to last season's book of tickets in protest at the new name.

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Originally Posted By: Harry J Allstars
Ebbsfleet United hold the record for the longest time spent in the FA Cup. From their first game of the season in the competition on the 8th - September - 1962, a 2-1 win at home against Chatham Town to the 18th - February - 1963, a 5-2 defeat against Second Division Sunderland, a record of 5 months and ten days.


You see Harry that is precisely the problem.

The FA Cup campaign that you refer to was and always will be part of the folk-lore of Gravesend and Northfleet Football Club. The record books will always confirm that fact.

It was and never will be Ebbsfleet United FC
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Originally Posted By: David Holden


Quite frankly David, I don't give a toss about other clubs.

I am talking about the club that I have supported since 1962, when I was 8 years old.

In one decision the board have managed to tear up all of the clubs history, folk lore and traditions and thrown it into the faces of those who have supported the club for years.
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John thats why we have to keep the history and the heritage of the club, okay the name is different but the fans and the soul will remain the same. I'm not going to harp back to previous experiences like Small Heath being Manchester United or The Arsenal once being in Woolwich and called Dial Square or the merger of 1946. The merger came about as their was really only one club. After the War Gravesend United had the money and Northfleet had the ground, it was the perfect partnership.

 

That's a chapter of our history, this is another. We need people like yourself that have stuck with the club through the difficult times and that can look back and catalogue all the great moments we've had.

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Originally Posted By: JimGNFC
Thinks Harry may be on the "wind up" here. I'll rise to the bait . . .

Ebbsfleet United F.C. has NO history whatsoever - happy now Harry? smile


Oh double messages on a thread from me, never. You've over rated me.

Ebbsfleet United and Gravesend & Northfleet are the same club. When I first started supporting the club one of the things that got to me and I found difficult to get over was that everyone was so happy to be moving grounds. At one point Chelsea were the only Premiership club never to have moved ground's, with the slight exception of Liverpool who were a fall out of Everton and Leeds United who were Leeds City but went bust. I was proud that Chelsea were the only one not to have moved grounds.

When I started supporting the Fleet the same ground over a series of time was important to me. You should stay where you are and concentrate on trying to develop the ground you're currently in. The main stand is the oldest stand in Kent and the thought that it one day will not grace the side of the pitch that we play our home games at brought me a feeling of sadness.

While this sadness still remains I learned to get over it and am managing to move on. A new modern ground will help us as a club.

I'm not saying I totally back the new name, I may do one day or I may never back it but the club and the history will remain with in the same club.
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For those current fans , the underlying fear is that when we become successful with good cup runs , league footie and big name signings , it will be Ebbsfleet United not GNFC that the new fans will associate with.

 

My nephew has been to 2 games , he enjoyed. He will grow up as an Ebbsfleet supporter . He has no sense of our history. It is our duty to tell the new bread of the dark days in the past , and we must never forget our roots,

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I have been supporting the Fleet for four to five years now, my first game was Leigh RMI (Home) in 2002. During those few years as a Fleet fan, I have learnt a lot of history about the club, including Gravesend United and Northfleet United, through other fans. Through this, it still means that the heart and soul of the club will always be with the fans; new name or no new name. Just remember that.

 

Despite only supporting the fleet for this amount of time, I will miss the old club name, I felt empty on Tuesday night to be one of the first to know that Gravesend and Northfleet FC is no more, but it's just the name that's no more, not the actual club. The name change will be part of the club's history.

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We are losing the name, there's no denying that, but we are still the same club that lined up against Dagenham on the 28th April. The supporters are still the same, there's the Plough End 'cauldron of noise ;)', there are the halfway liners who are a constant figure there, as well as their song of 'Come on youuuu Reeeeds' when we're flying, there's going to be Jarvis selling tickets and Kenny selling programmes at the first game of next season, much the same as last game last season, and we'll all be cheering on the team in red and white. The supporters, the colours, the pride we all feel and the attitudes and soul embodied in the club are all the same, and that to me is much more important than the name I walk under as I pass through the turnstiles.

 

Gravesend and Northfleet does mean alot to me, but the club itself means more to me than the name it goes by. We are still the club who hold the longest run in the FA Cup, our history is the same. From my perspective, all that's happened is a tiny facelift on top of a truly great club which is, by the looks of things, grasping rare opportunities with both hands to take us onto bigger and better things.

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