Does anyone have a colour photo of Jimmy Sirrel from when he was our manager?

[JJ Sefton]

Our team at the back end of 74-75 when we took 17 points from the last 12 games (23 in new money) and went from mid table to 6th was usually as follows

Brown

Badger
Colquhoun
Franks
Bradford

Currie
Eddy
Speight

Woodward
Dearden
Field

Bradford was in at LB due to an injury to Hemsley and we occasionally saw bit parts for Flynn and Cammack.

Come the start of 75-76, the team was exactly the same, except Guthrie was in for Dearden and Currie and Colqhoun missed the first two games through suspension/injury. So from game 3 (a 1-5 defeat at Man Utd), we had our full top 6 team from 74-5 plus our new record signing. We lost 11 out of the next 12..

Obviously you would not expect 10 players to go from a top 6 team to relegation certainties in the space of 4 months, so it is all a bit of a mystery. I can only assume it was a confidence issue. They lost a few and spiralled down from there.

Walth Snr says it was a mystery, "All you could do was get blind drunk", he says.

 

[Darren]

Walth Snr says it was a mystery, "All you could do was get blind drunk", he says.

In one of those weird things you remember, I recall my 8 year old self on holiday in a caravan in Rhyl on 23rd August 1975 and contemplating United' visit to Man Utd. I concluded we would probably win as we had finished 6th last season and they had just been promoted.....

 

[Darren]

Always thought we played a traditional

--------------------------GK---------------------

RB----------------------CB------------------LB

---------RDM---------------------LDM----------

RW----------IR------------------IL---------LW

-----------------------CF--------------------------


Back then?

pommpey

Not since about 1955

Around 1970, we were playing 4-2-4 with Addison and Tudor as twin strikers and Woodward and Reece on the wings. Barlow and Currie were CM. As the decade wore on, we stuck an extra man in MF and played 4-3-3.

 

[essex blade]

Separated at birth !!

 

[Cyprus Blade]

Not since about 1955

We were certainly playing it in the early sixties - from memory it was the World Cup 1966 the led to a change to 442 I think.

 

[bornablade]

Wasn't Jimmy the manager when we bought Moncriefe House up at Neher Edge? A place where all the youngsters were housed.

 

[Jon Bon]

Wasn't Jimmy the manager when we bought Moncriefe House up at Neher Edge? A place where all the youngsters were housed.

The Jimmy Savile thread is that way...

(Sorry )

 

[Jostein's Bandage]

This thread is an open goal for someone to photoshop a picture of his face on to a squirrel's body, put it in a panini sticker with the name "Jimmy Squirrel"