Can anyone date this picture?

[ThatJa]

Hi all, just wondering if anyone could help my grandad, as his memory has failed him this time, wanting to know what date range this image could be from, and any players that anyone can recognise...

Would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Maidenhead]

Is about 1972/3. I can name a few of the players but I'm hopeless with names and faces so I'll leave it to an expert

 

[blade too long]

1972 at a guess
Woodwards hair is grey
Ted Helmseley looks like Justin Lee Collins
and the fact everyone has The Sweet hair cuts

 

[Swanseablade]

I think Geoff Salmons is back row far right. Him and Woody are the only ones I really recognise. Between 72 & 74 I would say.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Is about 1972/3. I can name a few of the players but I'm hopeless with names and faces so I'll leave it to an expert

This is my guess

Heaton or Speight, E J O Hemsley, ??, ??, Brown, Conroy, Badger, Bone, Franks, Salmons
Woodward, Steven Quinn (joke) ??, ??, Keith Eddy, Tony Currie, Eddie Colquhoun, Billy Dearden, ??, ??, ??

 

[silverfox]

Steve Goulding (I think), Ted Hemsley, Steve Faulkner, Steve Conroy, Jim Brown, Tom Mcalister,Len Badger, Terry Garbutt, Colin Franks, Geoff Salmons.

Front

Alan Woodward, Bradford?, Tony Field, Keith Eddy, Tony Currie, Eddie Colquoon, Billy Deardon, Nicholls?, Micky Speight, tip of my tonge!

Memory is starting to go!

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Steve Goulding (I think), Ted Hemsley, Steve Faulkner, Steve Conroy, Jim Brown, Tom Mcalister,Len Badger, Terry Garbutt, Colin Franks, Geoff Salmons.

Front

Alan Woodward, Bradford?, Tony Field, Keith Eddy, Tony Currie, Eddie Colquoon, Billy Deardon, Nicholls?, Micky Speight, tip of my tonge!

Memory is starting to go!

Hurts dunnit?

 

[Racy]

It's the 1974-75 squad

Missing name is France can't remember first name

 

[silverfox]

It's the 1974-75 squad

Missing name is France can't remember first name

Yep France.....I still can't remember his first name though!

 

[Foxy]

It's the 1974-75 squad

Missing name is France can't remember first name

Yep France.....I still can't remember his first name though!

Gary?

 

[Paulus]

Mint Kit, all it needed was a couple of red rings at the top of the socks. It would do my soul good to see us run out in that kit again instead of all the garbage we have to put up with.

 

[vorpal blade]

So August? 1974 scroll down this link a bit. The photo. was in 'Shoot'

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...nt=safari&sa=N&rls=en-us&tbm=isch&um=1&itbs=1

 

[Silent Blade]

Hi all, just wondering if anyone could help my grandad, as his memory has failed him this time, wanting to know what date range this image could be from, and any players that anyone can recognise...

Would be greatly appreciated!

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Deffo before the start of the 1974/75 season;

Back row; Steve Goulding, Ted Hemsley, Steve Faulkner, Steve Conroy, Jim Brown, Tom McAlister, Len Badger, Terry Garbett, Colin Franks, Alan Ogden

front; Alan Woodward, David Bradford, Tony Field, Keith Eddy, Tony Currie, Eddie Colquhoun, Billy Dearden, Terry Nicholl, Mick Speight, Gary France.

Steve Goulding (mid 1980s) and Alan Ogden (1990s, I think) have died

 

[Silent Blade]

I think Geoff Salmons is back row far right. Him and Woody are the only ones I really recognise. Between 72 & 74 I would say.

Geoof Salmons was transferred to Stoke before the picture was taken. The player standing on the far right is the late alan Ogden

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

The pinnacle of Blades success on the pitch in my lifetime!

If only we knew it at the time!


P.S. See my avatar for TC in the short-sleeve version of what I agree is the epitome of a Blades kit!

 

[beightonblade]

Yep France.....I still can't remember his first name though!

Vive La .........

 

[beightonblade]

The pinnacle of Blades success on the pitch in my lifetime!

If only we knew it at the time!

and sum Blades used to moan even then, can yer imagine em wi the crap we have now ?

 

[silverfox]

Geoof Salmons was transferred to Stoke before the picture was taken. The player standing on the far right is the late alan Ogden

Just had another look at the picture and you are correct Silent.

I didn't look properly with the hair and tash very similar to Salmons!

Looks like the eyes and the memory are going!

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

and sum Blades used to moan even then, can yer imagine em wi the crap we have now ?

Indeed. Stood on the JS Terrace you heard moaning all the time. Semi-constructive stuff such as 'move your arse Currie you idle twat' and 'Tek ball wi thi Gracie lad' to the just bizarre, 'Get a haircut Currie, tha looks like a girl!'

 

[Racy]

74-75 gotta been the best side over the last 50 year.

Anybody remember Birmingham last game of that season?

 

[silverfox]

74-75 gotta been the best side over the last 50 year.

Anybody remember Birmingham last game of that season?

I was there 0-0 draw

 

[Kentblade]

Deffo before the start of the 1974/75 season;

Back row; Steve Goulding, Ted Hemsley, Steve Faulkner, Steve Conroy, Jim Brown, Tom McAlister, Len Badger, Terry Garbett, Colin Franks, Alan Ogden

front; Alan Woodward, David Bradford, Tony Field, Keith Eddy, Tony Currie, Eddie Colquhoun, Billy Dearden, Terry Nicholl, Mick Speight, Gary France.

Steve Goulding (mid 1980s) and Alan Ogden (1990s, I think) have died

We had some quality players in that team and it was a good period for us.
UTB

 

[silverfox]

I can remember Steve Faulkner supping Wards in the "Roundhouse" Heeley Green.

And I thought my hair was dodgy in those days!

 

[Racy]

We had some quality players in that team and it was a good period for us.
UTB

Shame about the season after start of 13 years of pain

 

[ghandi]

I was there 0-0 draw

So was I (long time ago remember New St station as it was before it was moved "underground" in that shopping centre") and we all went thinking a win would take us into Europe but as things turned out the one club per city rule and already been rescinded and we wouldn't have qualified anyway. One of the few times when the grail wasn't snatched away.

 

[Racy]

So was I (long time ago remember New St station as it was before it was moved "underground" in that shopping centre") and we all went thinking a win would take us into Europe but as things turned out the one club per city rule and already been rescinded and we wouldn't have qualified anyway. One of the few times when the grail wasn't snatched away.

What a night that was thought we could take Birminghams end big mistake we took a right kicking

 

[TAMUS]

Them Zulus could run .

 

[beightonblade]

I was there 0-0 draw

If it was a neight match I was there ..... Blaged our way in behind the twat who used to commentate for Leeds TV

 

[Pedro Verde]

Them Zulus could run .

Dont think the Zulus were around in those days

 

[Blackheath Blade]

Deffo before the start of the 1974/75 season;

Back row; Steve Goulding, Ted Hemsley, Steve Faulkner, Steve Conroy, Jim Brown, Tom McAlister, Len Badger, Terry Garbett, Colin Franks, Alan Ogden

front; Alan Woodward, David Bradford, Tony Field, Keith Eddy, Tony Currie, Eddie Colquhoun, Billy Dearden, Terry Nicholl, Mick Speight, Gary France.

Steve Goulding (mid 1980s) and Alan Ogden (1990s, I think) have died

Silent Blade is spot on with the year and the players. This is the squad that took us to the brink of european qualification. Strange that the Manager, Ken Furphy isn`t in the photograph. Some great memories from that season, we were untouchable at The Lane.