Photo help - Blue away kit Mid 70s details

[Silent Blade]

Maybe it was the same season as the blue one, again I dont recall seeing it. It's the same style collar as both the home and the blue that season.

Maybe at Newcastle and/or at Middlesbrough?

 

[Kop sufferer]

I had a search and found the eBay shirt. Collar isn't right, see TC, but the colour is right from my recollection.

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Fantastic badge

 

[Hartley Hare]

Here's another I got with the Woody one: check out the ball, did anyone ever have a zephyr 25?

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Good to see a couple of pipe smokers in the background stand.

HH

 

[pommpey]

Many thanks for all the replies,, a note on the back stated End April 75, but that's usually refers to the date it was going to be used in one of the papers and not the date of the game. Given our fixtures opponents colours at that time it was either Liverpool or Arsenal and that's clearly Highbury (31st March 1975)

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Just look at that fucking player.

What I'd give to see him in Lunny's position on Saturday.

pommpey

 

[Kop sufferer]

Colchester (a) in the 1981/2 season . It was on MOTD. Lost 5-2. Only lost 3 more times that season .... Hull away ( Edwards scored for them, scored for us the week after) Stockport (a) on a Monday night , and I'm buggered if I can remember the other defeat Silent Blade

I was present at the Colchester away game, just before kick off the ref decided the blue stripes clashed with our red and I guess we had no away shirts with us we borrowed their away shirt which I believe was a dark maroon colour, can't remember if we played in our own shorts, mind say, we were that pissed we were all thinking what a great away strip, until late on someone noticed the badge.
Terrible away day, just glad to say we didn't have many that season

 

[originaltrueblade]

Many thanks for all the replies,, a note on the back stated End April 75, but that's usually refers to the date it was going to be used in one of the papers and not the date of the game. Given our fixtures opponents colours at that time it was either Liverpool or Arsenal and that's clearly Highbury (31st March 1975)

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I was at that game when United came I out I thought WTF fucking blue shirts no wonder we lost 0-1 to Arse

 

[I should coco]

Just look at that fucking player.

What I'd give to see him in Lunny's position on Saturday.

pommpey

I was only a kid at the time so I've no recollection of his tackling and tracking back, but as he was a 'forrud', I fear the worse.

That said, what a player and a hero to a young lad. I was there when he got 4 against Ipswich and absolutely loved the bloke.

RIP.

 

[pommpey]

I was only a kid at the time so I've no recollection of his tackling and tracking back, but as he was a 'forrud', I fear the worse.

That said, what a player and a hero to a young lad. I was there when he got 4 against Ipswich and absolutely loved the bloke.

RIP.

I didn't have the pleasure of seeing him smack Ipswich about that day.

Did see him in other games though, met him personally and worshipped him as an athlete and a player. Whenever we scored a worldy in the yard at GVSS it was followed by the cry, "Wood-wood!" In the manner of a commentator like Keith Macklin or Hugh Johns.

In our team he would be the engine room. Pair him up with Berge (who has bits of his old foil TC in him) and we'd launch teams like Villa, Leeds and Fulham.

People might correct me, but I don't ever recall Woody having a bad game, even when we lost.

pommpey

 

[LSF]

I didn't have the pleasure of seeing him smack Ipswich about that day.

Did see him in other games though, met him personally and worshipped him as an athlete and a player. Whenever we scored a worldy in the yard at GVSS it was followed by the cry, "Wood-wood!" In the manner of a commentator like Keith Macklin or Hugh Johns.

In our team he would be the engine room. Pair him up with Berge (who has bits of his old foil TC in him) and we'd launch teams like Villa, Leeds and Fulham.

People might correct me, but I don't ever recall Woody having a bad game, even when we lost.

pommpey

Maybe I go back a bit further than you Pommps....
In his early days Woody wasn't keen on rough arsed full backs giving him stick and often 'hid'.
A young Emlyn Hughes in his Blackpool days hit Woody hard early on and fished him out of his pocket on the final whistle.
Thankfully, that side of his game disappeared as the 60's drew to a close.
No finer sight than Woody in full flight!

 

[pommpey]

Maybe I go back a bit further than you Pommps....
In his early days Woody wasn't keen on rough arsed full backs giving him stick and often 'hid'.
A young Emlyn Hughes in his Blackpool days hit Woody hard early on and fished him out of his pocket on the final whistle.
Thankfully, that side of his game disappeared as the 60's drew to a close.
No finer sight than Woody in full flight!

Yep. He certainly learned the bloke's game later on, gained some mass (mainly in those massive legs) and started to impose himself on the game and his opponents

pommpey

 

[Silent Blade]

I was at that game when United came I out I thought WTF fucking blue shirts no wonder we lost 0-1 to Arse

We had already worn the same kit at Stoke, Liverpool and probably Boro before we played Arsenal that season

 

[originaltrueblade]

We had already worn the same kit at Stoke, Liverpool and probably Boro before we played Arsenal that season

Terrible bloody kit Silent

 

[Silent Blade]

Found this. At Newcastle in August 1974. First time in that all blue kit!

 

[FriethBlade]

Found this. At Newcastle in August 1974. First time in that all blue kit!

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Great photo Silent, I wish we had one centre back nowadays who could jump as high as any of those 3 !

 

[derbysufc]

Blades original kit was
White shirt , plain
Black shorts
Black socks .
...
We looked like an old derby County

 

[Silent Blade]

Blades original kit was
White shirt , plain
Black shorts
Black socks .
...
We looked like an old derby County

Black socks with red tops

 

[derbysufc]

Send you pic tomorrow

 

[Terry Poole]

Sorry wrong thread but sums up being a Blade! Which player is on the line?

 

[XH536]

Sorry wrong thread but sums up being a Blade! Which player is on the line?

Reg Mathewson

 

[XH536]

Sorry wrong thread but sums up being a Blade! Which player is on the line?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Blades original kit was
White shirt , plain
Black shorts
Black socks .
...
We looked like an old derby County

The original kit was one we "borrowed" from the military of the time, standard issue kit. It was described as white shirt and dark shorts and socks and my understanding is that it was a mixture of black, but mainly navy blue shorts. We looked more like England than Derby County.

 

[Terry Poole]

Great ‘before’ photo. Looks like Reg could have cleared it! Looks like Hateley from Villa and I can see Graham Shaw, Hodgy, Badger and Richardson(?) across the two pics. Thinks it’s at Villa Park from the 64/65 season?

Before my time but what was Mathewson like - not sure he was a regular.

 

[Silent Blade]

Great ‘before’ photo. Looks like Reg could have cleared it! Looks like Hateley from Villa and I can see Graham Shaw, Hodgy, Badger and Richardson(?) across the two pics. Thinks it’s at Villa Park from the 64/65 season?

Before my time but what was Mathewson like - not sure he was a regular.

April 1965, we lost 2-1. Not Len Badger, it was Ken Mallender

 

[Silent Blade]

Great ‘before’ photo. Looks like Reg could have cleared it! Looks like Hateley from Villa and I can see Graham Shaw, Hodgy, Badger and Richardson(?) across the two pics. Thinks it’s at Villa Park from the 64/65 season?

Before my time but what was Mathewson like - not sure he was a regular.

Just seen Badger in Sharrowblade 's photo.

 

[derbysufc]

First kit .
Have it on a huge canvas
White shirt
Black shorts
Black socks or stockings as they were called

 

[derbysufc]

First kit .
Have it on a huge canvas
White shirt
Black shorts
Black socks or stockings as they were called

Apologies
Dark navy shirts and socks

 

[derbysufc]

Be brilliant if we had this as an away kit one season .

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Found this. At Newcastle in August 1974. First time in that all blue kit!

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Silent Blade I had a quick go at trying colour the photo. Not great, but it gives an idea

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Another go

 

[Silent Blade]

Always thought it was Furphy's decision that our change kit should be all blue for that season until I saw this letter last week.