We need at least a point on saturday

[brownie4583]

We need at least a point on Saturday to guarantee the play offs,presuming Rochdale beat MK Dons,so we don't have to go into the final game against Chessy still needing points.
I would have thought it highly unlikely that Rochdale will win both their games but you never know.
Leyton Orient are fighting for their lives so it won't be easy down there.
I don't want a nail biting final day at the Lane.

 

[Woodwardfan]

We'd never have guessed.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

We'd never have guessed.

Does that mean that brownie4583 shouldn't post his thoughts?

 

[bornablade]

Orient will be more nervous on Saturday than us. I am pleased that their fate is not not yet decided. There's a tendency of teams who have just been relegated suddenly finding form. Yeovil are an example. I recall in 1975/76, an awful season for us, we started winning games as soon as our relegation was confirmed.

On the other hand I think Bristol will take their foot off the gas now that they have been confirmed champions and Chessie will beat them.

 

[Darren]

Orient will be more nervous on Saturday than us. I am pleased that their fate is not not yet decided. There's a tendency of teams who have just been relegated suddenly finding form. Yeovil are an example. I recall in 1975/76, an awful season for us, we started winning games as soon as our relegation was confirmed.

On the other hand I think Bristol will take their foot off the gas now that they have been confirmed champions and Chessie will beat them.

75-76 was indeed bizzare. After we were relegated with 13 points from 36 games (2 points for a win then), our record being P36 W2 D9 L25, in our last 6 games we had the record P6 W4 D1 L1 pts 9 - in other words we got over 40% of our points that season from thise last 6 games!

 

[Grecian2000]

I recall in 1975/76, an awful season for us, we started winning games as soon as our relegation was confirmed.

Indeed. I think you might find it was 4 wins, 1 draw and a defeat. However, the defeat only being 0-3 at Middlesboro was as good as a draw.

 

[JJ Sefton]

75-76 was indeed bizzare. After we were relegated with 13 points from 36 games (2 points for a win then), our record being P36 W2 D9 L25, in our last 6 games we had the record P6 W4 D1 L1 pts 9 - in other words we got over 40% of our points that season from thise last 6 games!

That works out at 1.6 points per game giving us a total over the season of 63 points if you extrapolate back over the first 36 games.

Liverpool won the league that year with 60.

 

[Darren]

That works out at 1.6 points per game giving us a total over the season of 63 points if you extrapolate back over the first 36 games.

Liverpool won the league that year with 60.

9 points from 6 games is surely 1.5 points per game?

 

[JJ Sefton]

9 points from 6 games is surely 1.5 points per game?

Yeah, that's what I meant.

I asked Walth Snr once what went wrong that season. "God knows" he replied "All you could do was get blind drunk and block it all out".

 

[Darren]

Yeah, that's what I meant.

I asked Walth Snr once what went wrong that season. "God knows" he replied "All you could do was get blind drunk and block it all out".

I was 8 when the season started and distinctly remember thinking, before our first away game at Man Utd, that it was an easy one as they had just been promoted and we had finished 6th the previous season. We lost 5-1.

 

[JJ Sefton]

I was 8 when the season started and distinctly remember thinking, before our first away game at Man Utd, that it was an easy one as they had just been promoted and we had finished 6th the previous season. We lost 5-1.

It might not mean owt, but I think 75/76 was the first season with the South Stand. Watching that old YTV video it seems like a totally different ground, different atmosphere.

 

[anglian blade]

75-76 was indeed bizzare. After we were relegated with 13 points from 36 games (2 points for a win then), our record being P36 W2 D9 L25, in our last 6 games we had the record P6 W4 D1 L1 pts 9 - in other words we got over 40% of our points that season from thise last 6 games!

With three points for a win it would have been 15 points in the first 36 games and 13 points in the last 6, so almost doubling our points total.

 

[Darren]

It might not mean owt, but I think 75/76 was the first season with the South Stand. Watching that old YTV video it seems like a totally different ground, different atmosphere.

It was indeed.

My hunch is that this was a classic lack of confidence thing. The only change at the start of the season from 74-5 was the addition of Guthrie, No-one was sold. We drew our first game and then lost 7 on the bounce and that was that really. Once the pressure was off, the fact that we then started playing like a top of the table team suggests that the issue was not one of ability.

 

[JJ Sefton]

It was indeed.

My hunch is that this was a classic lack of confidence thing. The only change at the start of the season from 74-5 was the addition of Guthrie, No-one was sold. We drew our first game and then lost 7 on the bounce and that was that really. Once the pressure was off, the fact that we then started playing like a top of the table team suggests that the issue was not one of ability.

The other thing I remember my dad saying was how weird it was watching blokes who'd played great stuff the season before suddenly playing like a bunch of shithouses.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

It might not mean owt, but I think 75/76 was the first season with the South Stand. Watching that old YTV video it seems like a totally different ground, different atmosphere.

It was indeed.

My hunch is that this was a classic lack of confidence thing. The only change at the start of the season from 74-5 was the addition of Guthrie, No-one was sold. We drew our first game and then lost 7 on the bounce and that was that really. Once the pressure was off, the fact that we then started playing like a top of the table team suggests that the issue was not one of ability.

It would - that game was at Old Trafford

 

[bornablade]

We opened the season and our brand new South stand with a home game against the league champions Derby County. 1-1 draw I think.

'Once the cricket pitch is used for football purposes then top flight football would disappear from the Lane' was the myth. By 1981 we were in the old Fourth Division. Many of us started believing the myth was true.

And then along came May 5th 1990.......

 

[maidmarion]

Chris Guthrie......what an enigma he was!

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Chris Guthrie......what an enigma he was!

Get thi spell checker on

Enema

 

[JJ Sefton]

We opened the season and our brand new South stand with a home game against the league champions Derby County. 1-1 draw I think.

'Once the cricket pitch is used for football purposes then top flight football would disappear from the Lane' was the myth. By 1981 we were in the old Fourth Division. Many of us started believing the myth was true.

And then along came May 5th 1990.......

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Incredible photograph.

 

[Worksop II]

Used to get more upto date scores on that Paviliion than on the JumboTron today

 

[Trigger Blade]

I seem to recall the pavilion stayed there for years looking onto the back of the South Stand, when was it demolished?

 

[Darren]

I seem to recall the pavilion stayed there for years looking onto the back of the South Stand, when was it demolished?

1981-82 season.

 

[Cyprus Blade]

I seem to recall the pavilion stayed there for years looking onto the back of the South Stand, when was it demolished?

1981 I think.

 

[JJ Sefton]

 

[JJ Sefton]

 

[Cyprus Blade]

 

[Worksop_Blade]

A question to anyone who attended the Lane back when it was a Cricket/Football ground, did they let people sit/stand/congregate on the pavilion then to watch the match? Surely that had to be the worst view in the football league? It was miles away!

 

[Cyprus Blade]

Yes - I remember it was full when we beat Cardiff 5-1 to go up in 1971. Attendance was 42,963

 

[JJ Sefton]

A question to anyone who attended the Lane back when it was a Cricket/Football ground, did they let people sit/stand/congregate on the pavilion then to watch the match? Surely that had to be the worst view in the football league? It was miles away!

They (at least) once erected a temporary stand on the cricket pitch for a big match.

EDIT: It was a sixth round Cup tie against the Pigs in 1960.