Score Board question

[chrisd]

Just a quick question to see if anyone can remember or guess a date when the old manual score board was stopped being used ?
I was at my parents place over the weekend and found two wooden number boards which were used for the scores at the Bramall Lane end
I have a vague memory of being on the pitch and running towards the wooden boards and grabbing two of these boards, my old man (who's memory isn't great) seems to think it may have been the last day of the standing Kop ! Any thoughts on a date or even game would be gratefully received
Cheers
Chris (London Blade)

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

It was the day after we signed Guthrie.

 

[Muttley]

Seeing the chap toddling up to change the pig score hoping their oppo's had scored.

 

[HuddersfieldBlade]

late 80s, when the electronic scoreboard was installed? I remember when it was there when I started going more in the early to mid 80s and seeing the old man, stand up, go through the numbers to get the right one and the groans when he walked past A.

Soon replaced my LATEST SCORE flashing on the scoreboard

 

[chrisd]

late 80s, when the electronic scoreboard was installed? I remember when it was there when I started going more in the early to mid 80s and seeing the old man, stand up, go through the numbers to get the right one and the groans when he walked past A.

Soon replaced my LATEST SCORE flashing on the scoreboard

Cheers Huddersfield Blade, the late 80's is about right as i was 16 then, hopefully someone will know the year the fancy electric scoreboard was installed

 

[Revolution]

Cheers Huddersfield Blade, the late 80's is about right as i was 16 then, hopefully someone will know the year the fancy electric scoreboard was installed

It was first used v Hull on Boxing Day 1986 (although it was not working properly!)

 

[Digs blade]

It was first used v Hull on Boxing Day 1986 (although it was not working properly!)

Yes, if I had to pluck a date I would say more like mid 80’s then late 80’s

 

[Cheesebored]

It was first used v Hull on Boxing Day 1986 (although it was not working properly!)

London 0, Hull 4?

 

[Bath Blade]

It was definitely still being used when I went to my first match in 1989, so I would guess at shortly after that.

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

London 0, Hull 4?

Aye
Some might say:
"more striking power than Lineker, Platini & Joe Bolton all rolled together into a great big cuddly ball”

 

[silver blade]

Just a quick question to see if anyone can remember or guess a date when the old manual score board was stopped being used ?
I was at my parents place over the weekend and found two wooden number boards which were used for the scores at the Bramall Lane end
I have a vague memory of being on the pitch and running towards the wooden boards and grabbing two of these boards, my old man (who's memory isn't great) seems to think it may have been the last day of the standing Kop ! Any thoughts on a date or even game would be gratefully received
Cheers
Chris (London Blade)

Takes me back to the days when I couldn't travel to watch the first team so watched the reserves in the 1960's we watched the man walk to the scoreboard at the cricket end wondering if the Blades or the other team had scored, big cheer or groan as he replaced one of the scores

 

[Sheffsteel]

Just a quick question to see if anyone can remember or guess a date when the old manual score board was stopped being used ?
I was at my parents place over the weekend and found two wooden number boards which were used for the scores at the Bramall Lane end
I have a vague memory of being on the pitch and running towards the wooden boards and grabbing two of these boards, my old man (who's memory isn't great) seems to think it may have been the last day of the standing Kop ! Any thoughts on a date or even game would be gratefully received
Cheers
Chris (London Blade)

Wouldn't an easy way to find out would be to look at some old, probably 90's programmes.
It will show the lettering for the latest scores at the other matches.

I seem to remember a gradual transition, when we installed our first electronic scoreboard we also kept the manual system for a while.

 

[Ozblade]

Think it was summer ‘86. First image I can find is April 87. The other photo in ‘86 doesn’t have it. Think I need to get out more

 

[Ned the Donkey]

No idea. But I know the manual scoreboard couldn't cope with this game. Started off, naturally enough, at 1-0, then 2-0, then 3-0 and so on, got as far as 6-0, then disappointingly it all seemed to slow down, till the bloke was first waving around a 6 and a 1, then a 6 and a 2

We learned that day the system didn't go up to 7, or 8.

 

[Billyblade]

I remember a game where the pigs were getting a right towsing. Every time scoreboard man wandered across to change it, the crowd were going 'Woooooooooooh, YEEEEEEAAAAH' as he informed us their opposition had bagged another. He got well into it knowing he was the centre of attention and even did a sort of a moonwalk at one bit before flipping the number over with a theatrical flourish.
So much more fun than that digital bollocks

 

[Paisley Blade]

No idea. But I know the manual scoreboard couldn't cope with this game. Started off, naturally enough, at 1-0, then 2-0, then 3-0 and so on, got as far as 6-0, then disappointingly it all seemed to slow down, till the bloke was first waving around a 6 and a 1, then a 6 and a 2

We learned that day the system didn't go up to 7, or 8.

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Can remember standing on the BLLT as we were drawing 1-1 with QPR . This historic event was unfolding in the North East much to the delight of all of us watching the old fella in his white coat jumping off his stool every 10 minutes or so.

 

[SwissBlade]

Just a quick question to see if anyone can remember or guess a date when the old manual score board was stopped being used ?
I was at my parents place over the weekend and found two wooden number boards which were used for the scores at the Bramall Lane end
I have a vague memory of being on the pitch and running towards the wooden boards and grabbing two of these boards, my old man (who's memory isn't great) seems to think it may have been the last day of the standing Kop ! Any thoughts on a date or even game would be gratefully received
Cheers
Chris (London Blade)

If you mean the boards where they had letters and the guy would put scores alongside letters. The letters were then in the match day programme to show which fixture they corresponded to - pigs always being ‘A’ when they played.

I remember this in the early to mid 90’s when I was on kop corner and then John Street west standing - so it was after the kop became all seater as i didn’t sit there until standing had gone from the entire ground

 

[Digs blade]

If you mean the boards where they had letters and the guy would put scores alongside letters. The letters were then in the match day programme to show which fixture they corresponded to - pigs always being ‘A’ when they played.

I remember this in the early to mid 90’s when I was on kop corner and then John Street west standing - so it was after the kop became all seater as i didn’t sit there until standing had gone from the entire ground

Crikey I will trust your judgement on that if your memory is better than mine but could have sworn they did away with it mid eighties

 

[spikeachu]

Might be one for the programme collectors to check when the letters and corresponding matches stopped being published.

I remember it being there in the late 80s.

 

[ThatJa]

I remember a game where the pigs were getting a right towsing. Every time scoreboard man wandered across to change it, the crowd were going 'Woooooooooooh, YEEEEEEAAAAH' as he informed us their opposition had bagged another. He got well into it knowing he was the centre of attention and even did a sort of a moonwalk at one bit before flipping the number over with a theatrical flourish.
So much more fun than that digital bollocks

Wonder if he's still alive? That'd be a reyt story to hear from his perspective!

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

If you mean the boards where they had letters and the guy would put scores alongside letters. The letters were then in the match day programme to show which fixture they corresponded to - pigs always being ‘A’ when they played.

I remember this in the early to mid 90’s when I was on kop corner and then John Street west standing - so it was after the kop became all seater as i didn’t sit there until standing had gone from the entire ground

It was certainly still there in the 92/93 season.

 

[Digs blade]

It was certainly still there in the 92/93 season.

Well I must be losing the plot then

We would have been in the top division for a couple of years by then. Are you saying that we still had the bloke walking to the boards putting the scores up as late as that, surely not or like I say I’m losing the plot.

Could have sworn we got the first electronic scoreboard mid eighties central on the away end and I thought from that point they put the latest scores onto there

 

[chrisd]

I've found this from 1988 and the digital score board is there and looks like the old manual scores too
Maybe I'll never find the answer, I'll need to visit the old mans house again and look through the 11 suitcases of programmes which may show/mention something

 

[chrisd]

It was there during the 1986-87 season



but not from some game highlights I've found from 1985, so it must have been 1986

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

Well I must be losing the plot then

We would have been in the top division for a couple of years by then. Are you saying that we still had the bloke walking to the boards putting the scores up as late as that, surely not or like I say I’m losing the plot.

Could have sworn we got the first electronic scoreboard mid eighties central on the away end and I thought from that point they put the latest scores onto there

15th August 1992. 16secs in on the video, the old scoreboard can be seen in all it's glory over Fergie's shoulder.

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[Carlton Blade]

I used to love the letters scoreboard

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

9th January 1994. 6 mins 02 in on the video, the old scoreboard can be seen in all it's glory opposite Les Sealey's groin.

 

[Digs blade]

Iook at some of those average gates but yes clear evidence that we were still using that system late eighties so thanks for confirming

 

[Digs blade]

15th August 1992. 16secs in on the video, the old scoreboard can be seen in all it's glory over Fergie's shoulder.

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I think we may be on different wavelengths with this one. Not denying the boards weren’t there but no way was the old fella still going round updating them by that year