I went to pretty much every Seagulls game in 93 & 94. My Mum lived just up the road from Seagulls & I moved up there when I was 13. Myself, her partners son & a mate that lived next door used to get let into the games for free as we some how managed to score the job of "Official Flag Wavers". We were given the club owned giant seagulls flags before the game & we took them right up to the top of the stand that backed onto seagulls leagues club, & waved the crap out of them whenever appropriate. Non of us supported the seagulls but a footy match was really the only highlight of the weekend for kids our age around that part of the world.
My main memory of a game day is funnily enough not even game related. The stand we were always in had a tin or corrugated iron slide that ran beneath the seats, people would drop there rubbish onto it & it would slide down & drop into this concrete pit/bin that sat underneath the first row. One game some guys smuggled some long necks in & got stuck into them then threw them under their seats, they made a massive noise sliding down & everyone was looking behind to see WTF was going on, then they hit the concrete & just exploded. Everyone in the first coupe of rows jumped a mile high as they got covered in a shower of broken glass. The fella's that dropped them then piss bolted.
We played footy before and after every game on the training field that backed onto the oyster farm road. Pretty much every day after school a bunch of us kids from the neighbour hood would head down & play footy on the main field. I remeber playing in the in goal one day while the first grade team trained around us. We eventually got kicked off onto the training field. Pretty often someone would break into a concession stand & grab whatever they could. I remember one day at school kit kats being handed out to everyone as someone had raided a stand & got the motherload the arvo before. I'm pretty sure the first time I ever tried alcohol was from a bottle someone had stolen when they managed to get into a corporate suite & grab a few bottles. We used to sneak into the change rooms constantly & have spa's, I remember a few times some girls from a couple of grades above us coming down once they heard we could get into the change rooms & have a spa. For a 13yr kid sittng next to a 15-16yr old girl in a spa wearing a bikinni was freakng awesome.
I havn't thought about this stuff for ages, some pretty awesome memories actually.
