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yeah so much expectation that august day in 75. was in south stand that day as a season ticket holder after the previous season we really fancied our chances of a crack at the first division title. but we changed our style to accomodate chris guthrie and it just didnt work nowt against the lad personally but he just wasnt a division 1 player
That’s what happens when you sell your best players familiar eh ?
The faithless player is David Nish, a one time record fee transfer holder, Leicester to Derby for £225,000.Don't think this fella had much faith in the penalty taker
Who did we sell in 1975?
You lose players like Salmons and Currie and players like Eddie C , Badger, Hemsley and a few more coming to the end of their careers and replace them with sub standard players and the inevitable happens
1976
1976
Salmons was sold in summer 1974. Eddie left in 1978, TC left in 1976, Badger and Hemsley were still with us for the 1975-76 season. We didnt sell any notable player in 1975
We sold Salmons in summer 1974 and it upset me, we went on to finish 6th in the following season. I am talking about the year 1975, we didnt sell anyone important that year.
Furphy tried to sign Francis Lee in summer 1975 but instead signed Chris Guthrie . Furphy's "3rd division" signings not playing as well as in previous season. Furphy got the sack, Sirrel didnt get on well with some of the senior players and tried to replace them with youngsters. Opponents were able to stop TC and Woody without worrying about the rest of the team. Sirrel signed Jimmy Johnstone who wasnt the same as he was at Celtic.
My point is we ended up in rapid decline from 75/76 I know we had Porterfields promotions but he wasn’t allowed to build apart from Edwards who was a quality 2nd tier striker.
And we didn’t buy any quality either we ended up with players like Franks,Calvert,Bourne,Pedro etc bet Woody wondered what was going on
Bourne and Verde signed for us after Woody left us.
That’s the point I am making we had some bad replacements for that great team save Alex Sabella.
I meant while he was enjoying himself in the USA
Correct. The only players with much first team experience that left that year were John Hope & Terry Nicholl.
I remember when we played Fulham at the Lane the press billed it as “Jinxy versus Best” and Jinxy came out on top!
Jinky
I beg to differ, Silent, I lived in Glasgow for a while and he was nicknamed Jinxy
that was a terrible decision silent geoff salmons was a brilliant winger and we never replaced him of course the building of the south stand affected things but we really should have signed francis lee in 75 instead of the cheaper option of chris guthrie who was never good enough for that level
I'm going with 'Jinxy', from now on, with what I know abart Scottish folk.
HH, is there any info on the team photo as it seems to be in a twilight zone between seasons 1956/57 and 1957/58.
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