A look back at our previous playoff campaigns

[Tickhill Blade]

Yep

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Ian Hamilton and Bobby Ford in the same midfield, bloody hell

 

[Selly]

Ian Hamilton and Bobby Ford in the same midfield, bloody hell

And Graham Stuart on the bench!

That line up shows how much turmoil there was that season. our Line up on the Opening day was

Tracey
Vas - absent for unknown reasons
Holdsworth
McGrath - retired
Tiler - sold to Everton
Quinn
Marker
Patterson - sold to Bury
Whitehouse - Ainsworth
Deane - sold to Benfica
Fjortoft - sold to barnsley

Only 4 survivors from that starting 11 against Sunderland

 

[Eyeball]

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[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

 

[Nesh Blade]

Just watched triple assault season review video and got well up for it after the Forest home leg, then back down to earth with this thread

 

[RammyBlade]

Beans and Roygbiv as you are going to research previous playoff campaigns for your next pod, this thread is a decent starting point. All the misery in one place.

BTW, tangentially, I see people saying that Wilder is untainted by our previous playoff failure. Not so. He played in our first playoff game, the 1-0 defeat at Bristol City in 1987-8. He did not play in the second leg but I think he might have been an unused sub.

The up-to-date record: more than 5 playoff campaigns, never won:

9 - Sheffield United
7 - Lincoln
6 - Bury (RIP), Reading, Leeds United, MK Dons

MK Dons have never even reached a final, losing all 6 semi final ties.

Bury on the way back not RIP - went to their last match on saturday where they clinched the title with a 4-0 win with 109 points, scoring 131 goals and nearly 9000 attendance which is a record attendance for the North West Counties league (9th tier of English Football) .
I Read their programme and they refer to their play off disappointments ! which is clearly not as dismal as ours !!