ucandomagic
Active Member
I was a season ticket holder for nearly all of the 70’s, and then moving away made that impossible, until I retired in 2013, but I’ve only missed 1 home match since then, even though it’s a 200 mile round trip. Clearly my latest 6 years as a ST holder have been quite a ride.
Last night I started thinking about the last year when my season ticket was in the top flight - 1975/76. Quite a year - we talk about the glory years of TC and Woody, but they were both still there, along with Eddie Colquhoun and Len and a shiny new South Stand, but this year was far from glorious. I’d forgotten how bad it was - we had finished 6th the year before and started full of hope. The Pigs had been relegated from Division 2 to 3 in 74/75 as well, which made the prospect of 75/76 seem even more exciting.
After 36 of the 42 games we had won 2, drawn 9 and lost 25 and were basically down. The thing that I remember most of that season though was the end. In the last 6 games we won 4 drew 1 and lost 1, and the Pigs teetered on the brink of relegation to Division 4. Each week we all chanted “doomed” when we heard their score and the only disappointment was when they won their last game and stayed up.
That year, of course, was the start of our slide to the bottom, and was mainly caused by the debt from overextending to build the new stand as a result of overconfidence in the sustainability of our position. Our first year up 71/72, felt very much like this year and so these days I love to hear our brilliant manager talk about staying within our means - with Tufty we can get it right this time. He is so much more than our head coach.
So my last top flight year was not glorious, but boy did we have a laugh in those last 6 games. We’re going to get it right this time though.
This Magic is for ever.
Last night I started thinking about the last year when my season ticket was in the top flight - 1975/76. Quite a year - we talk about the glory years of TC and Woody, but they were both still there, along with Eddie Colquhoun and Len and a shiny new South Stand, but this year was far from glorious. I’d forgotten how bad it was - we had finished 6th the year before and started full of hope. The Pigs had been relegated from Division 2 to 3 in 74/75 as well, which made the prospect of 75/76 seem even more exciting.
After 36 of the 42 games we had won 2, drawn 9 and lost 25 and were basically down. The thing that I remember most of that season though was the end. In the last 6 games we won 4 drew 1 and lost 1, and the Pigs teetered on the brink of relegation to Division 4. Each week we all chanted “doomed” when we heard their score and the only disappointment was when they won their last game and stayed up.
That year, of course, was the start of our slide to the bottom, and was mainly caused by the debt from overextending to build the new stand as a result of overconfidence in the sustainability of our position. Our first year up 71/72, felt very much like this year and so these days I love to hear our brilliant manager talk about staying within our means - with Tufty we can get it right this time. He is so much more than our head coach.
So my last top flight year was not glorious, but boy did we have a laugh in those last 6 games. We’re going to get it right this time though.
This Magic is for ever.
