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Crikey!  Cox, Paynter, Corr, Sturrock, Ashikodi. Strikers!
Arguably, all of these capable of doing some sort of job at least, in this Division. And all signed, not loaned.
Is this a record? Please comment.   :)

We might have to put some of them down. Or start playing 5 up front. Both acceptable options.

Ashikodi is a loan........................................

No, there are five of them, please try to keep up (Unless we''ve signed Crikey as well) :wink:

Oh yes, sorry.

I would offer 66/67 as being a vintage season for strikers....we could pick from Dennis (Bullets ) Brown, Keith East, Ken Skeen, Jimmy Lawton and the great Pat Terry.

  Between them this lot scored 607 career league goals.....Skeen was a Trowbridge boy who had his finest moment scoring v West Ham in our 3-1 win at the CG, a match whose highlights were shown on Sportsnight with Coleman.  However he was the least productive of the quintet and was shipped out to the Scum, where he netted a modest  28 goals in 214 games.

 That season we scored 81 goals in the league....have we scored more since Tails?

Yes Reg, vintage. But that season Skeen was a winger, and scored only once. The four strikers Terry, Lawton, East, and Bullets got 29 between them, but Rogers got 32. I knew Keith East slightly, through some mates. He was a bit of a lad, I believe.

82 goals in 85/86 reg.

 Nah....Skeen was definitely a striker...he didn't score a league goal, that season.  As regards winger we could call on Don, Eric Weaver, Bruce Walker or Bobby Jones.

 That season was about Colin Gordon, Brian (The badger) Wade, then later Bambi, who played wide, but could play up top.  Charlie Henry was leading scorer playing in midfield.

We should play the classic 2-3-5 formation like they used to do until some point in the (I'm guessing) early60's.

How about (using the proper numbering system)
                               
                                 1. Brezovan
                                Full Backs
             2. Commmingues (Right Back)               3. Vincent(Left Back)
                                       
                                Half Backs
          4. Easton (Right Half)            5. Peacock(Centre Half)          6. McNamee  (Left Half)
                               
                                  Forwards
   7. Ashikobi (Outside Right) 8.Sturrock (Inside Right)  9.Corr (Centre Forward)               10. Paynter (Inside Left)   11. Cox (Outside Left)

It would be worth a goal start playing that formation, just for the shock value! What I would pay a lot of money to see is a team playing a 1-2-7 formation which is what I seem to remember reading somewhere, is the formation The Wanderers played against The Royal Engineers in the first FA Cup Final in 1872.

Marvellous, Mr Chumley Warner!

 There's a place in Cheshire called Cholmondeley (prononced Chumley) its near Malpas.

  I've always assumed its how Mr CW spelt his name.

You're probably right Reg. I have to confess, I did not bother to check my spelling there :oops:

 Not necessarily.....don't suppose many know of Cholmondeley (Chumley), its got a castle, and I used to do a fair bit of walking rouind there...Peckforton Hills.

Where did it all go wrong :(

  What like the hotel bod who asked  George Best question this when he was in bed with Miss World, when bringing in the champers?

Have done that...worked a bloody treat...3-0 up inside 10 minutes, they shat themselves when they realised what we were up to.  It was 3-3 at half time (I am now more tactically aware than I was then) :oops:

And actually I played 3-2-5 as I recall...but nearly...a bit...s'pose...

I'll get me sheepskin...

Now that was a season.

That's definitely the formation I used to use at Subbuteo in the 60's

if I may make so bold -   FACT!

92/93 - Maskell, Mitchell, White, Close, Hamon

  Indeed....I was so excited about a 2-0 win at Stockport on a Monday night..Feb 3rd, that it precipitated the conception of my first son.

I tried very hard, after the 1-1 draw at Mansfield, but failed.

  Striker... Shauin Close  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

  Think I recall Chris Hamon's only goal v Notts County, in  a last game of the season job when we were already down

  Just as well you didn't try limp.

I think they were too...saw Hamon's full debut at Barnsley in 92/3, last game of the season.

BTW...Shaun Close...I agree...

 Hamon was a Channel Islander....Hoddle played at Spurs with a fairly average lad called Chris Jones, who was also from Jersey, and recomended   Hamon.....shame he wasn't as good as Le Tiss.

I saw him set up a goal for Bodin when the wispy-'tached one was on that incredible scoring run('twas against Luton I think)For some reason I always thought Hamon was a New-Zealander

Well, what's 9,000 miles between friends?

It was against Lu'on, on Easter Saturday, just two days before the 4-6 at St Andrews, in which Bodin didn't score.

That's the one-I think Bodin scored in about 5 successive games

And missed that chance which was like all of his goals (running in diagonally into the penalty area) away against Brentford when Vic Callow had sent White and Mitchell off.   0-0, good result 9 v 11 (or should that be 12).

And probably, most of those were 1-0 wins. My favourite 'Bodin scoring the winner with the only goal of the game' was away to Sunderland. It was, in the words of the song, just a perfect day 8)

I do think, as stupid as it sounds, Bodin's goals were the most important for Town that year.

My favourite was the one at home to Millwall.I was stood right in line of fire in the Town End.Arrow-like!

Best Town season by an absolute mile, for me anyway, nothing has ever come close - which might be pretty obvious.

Agreed-though the demotion season would have beaten it but for you-know-what.

You're absolutely right McSporran.

It sounds totally fucking stupid.


 :wink:

Look at this..no less than five 1-0 wins where Bodin (a left back lest we forget)...
Wolves (H)
Sunderland (A)
Pompey (H)
Posh (H)
Luton (H)
...scored the winner

That's courtesy of the fantastic http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/ website btw.

It should also be remembered that in those days of free flowing football with Hoddle pulling the strings at the sweeper role, most of those results were ground out and were not great games.

I remember that Brentford game very well. Bodin was the perverbial whisker away from winning that game for us as well.

Agreed

And Sunderland missed two pelanties did they not?  Just another day in the transformation of Bodin from being a weak, gawky one footed liability to the Greatest Left Back in History.

Ahh, the magic and romance of Roker....I also recall the ever so brave Mackems pelting the few hundred with coins.

They just missed the one pen, but it was as good as missing two as it was in the 93rd minute. Kevin Ball. I can hear the ball smacking against the advertising boards even now. And it wasn't a penalty. No one even knew what the hell it was given for. Kevin Lynch of Knaresbrough :?

Think that was at Watford wasn't it?

Still have Mayes and Rowland. :wink:

 Think the point is you'd have to put Paul Gilchrist and Chic Bates into the equation .....don't they'd touch the goals of my 67 boys though,

No. We beat Watford 4-0 at their place.

Defo Brentford as I remember it like it was yesterday, there were some drunk blokes behind us on the terraces who basically used us as something to lean on through out the match.

Didn't go to Watford away but heard Chalky's hat trick on the radio.