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Title: The 80s. Post by: leefer on Thursday, September 17, 2009, 19:14:15 1987 programe v Brum....cant believe how dire some of the crowd averages were for the so called big clubs,Div 2 now the championship,after 8 matches the table was as follows
Barnsley-7,202 Palace-7,355 Plymouth-11,654 Bradford-9,715 Hull-6,689 Swindon-9,118 Blackburn-6,171 Ipswich-12,297 Leeds-20,055 Stoke-9,243 Reading-5.755 Bournemouth-7,203 Millwall-6,387 M,boro-10,476 Birmingham-9,477 Man City-20,209 Aston Villa-19,606 Shrewsbury an unbelievable 3,377 Oldham-10,462 Sheff Utd-9,461 West Brom-8,312 Leicester-8,771 Huddersfield-5,305. Football was really in the mire at this time for some clubs obviously,for the record the teams that day, Digby Hockaday King Kamara Parkin Calderwood Bamber O,Regan Quinn Foley Barnard...White and Henry as subs. Tony Godden Brian Roberts Julian Dicks Adrian Biro Vince Overson John Trewick Des Bremner Andy Kennedy Steve Whitton Tony Reece Steve Wigley....Gary Childs and Ian Handysides as subs. Town had just beaten M,boro 3-2 away......not sure how this one turned out. Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: grubby on Thursday, September 17, 2009, 19:22:21 Lost 2 nil
Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: Sippo on Thursday, September 17, 2009, 19:24:48 I was getting all excited and hoped it was put in the wrong area and was about music.
Grrr. Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: Rich Pullen on Thursday, September 17, 2009, 19:34:04 A lot of clubs that think they're "massive" have rubbish figures on that list... Always worth reminding the likes of Villa, just 5 years after winning the European Cup that many of their fans ditched them.
Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: leefer on Thursday, September 17, 2009, 19:58:25 Thats true Rich...thaught the prog was wrong...some of them crowds were awfull.
Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: Bob's Orange on Thursday, September 17, 2009, 20:05:59 Lost 2 nil Spot on. Adrian Biro won a pen in the second half with an inkingly bad dive. Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: leefer on Thursday, September 17, 2009, 20:25:32 So
Spot on. Adrian Biro won a pen in the second half with an inkingly bad dive. Biro won a pen...like it Bob. Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: chalkies_shorts on Thursday, September 17, 2009, 20:34:09 Town had just beaten M,boro 3-2 away......not sure how this one turned out. That was one of my favourite trips ever with Town. Barny got 2 I think. Lucky to get out alive - Mboro was a fucking dangerous place to go those days particularly on a minibus. Due to a crash in the minibus we got home about 2pm on the Sunday. Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: suttonred on Thursday, September 17, 2009, 21:23:02 That was one of my favourite trips ever with Town. Barny got 2 I think. Lucky to get out alive - Mboro was a fucking dangerous place to go those days particularly on a minibus. Due to a crash in the minibus we got home about 2pm on the Sunday. I went to that also, must have got lucky we were back in newbury by 9.30. I can remember another time there when smoke was drifting over the away stand and the tannoy said, "would the owners of reg plates etc etc, go to your cars they are on fire!) Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: THE FLASH on Thursday, September 17, 2009, 21:26:48 Lost 2 nil Still...........6-4 and thankyou!!! Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: leefer on Thursday, September 17, 2009, 21:30:04 That was one of my favourite trips ever with Town. Barny got 2 I think. Lucky to get out alive - Mboro was a fucking dangerous place to go those days particularly on a minibus. Due to a crash in the minibus we got home about 2pm on the Sunday. Barnard got one...Quinn and Bambi with the others...on a different note who was John Kelly?..cant say i remember him..he scored away at West Brom and was injured for the match v Brum. Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: THE FLASH on Thursday, September 17, 2009, 21:58:25 Barnard got one...Quinn and Bambi with the others...on a different note who was John Kelly?..cant say i remember him..he scored away at West Brom and was injured for the match v Brum. Got sent off in a friendly at Salisburys old Victoria park pre season... I played against him in some friendly match years ago... Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: dell boy on Friday, September 18, 2009, 18:01:11 Reading 5,755 surely that was a above average gate in those days for the plastic side. I'm sure all of their current supporters were there, well at least watching teletext.
Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: Rich Pullen on Friday, September 18, 2009, 18:06:17 Reading 5,755 surely that was a above average gate in those days for the plastic side. I'm sure all of their current supporters were there, well at least watching teletext. As we all know, 12000 of their current regulars were going back then. They're down to 15,000ish attendances, down approx 10,000ish from the Premier League. They'll be back to the 5000 hardcore again soon enough :) ...and there isn't an in-house Reading fan on here to tell me otherwise! Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: leefer on Friday, September 18, 2009, 19:35:27 Reading 5,755 surely that was a above average gate in those days for the plastic side. I'm sure all of their current supporters were there, well at least watching teletext. Probably was Dell but remember it was in the second tier and away fans probably swelled it up abit. Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: ahounsell on Friday, September 18, 2009, 20:08:49 on a different note who was John Kelly?..cant say i remember him..he scored away at West Brom and was injured for the match v Brum. Midfielder signed from after promotion from Div 3. From Chester I think. One of the few Macari signings that didnt work out. He wasnt here long. Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: leefer on Friday, September 18, 2009, 20:43:26 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kelly_(footballer_born_1960)
Found him. Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: leefer on Friday, September 18, 2009, 20:45:15 obviously wont copy...but his profile is on wiki.
Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: chalkies_shorts on Friday, September 18, 2009, 22:15:31 I don't think he played many games for us. Had a Jimmy Hill chin - quite a hard little fucker. I think we either bought him or sold him to Oldham. I was surprised when he went as I thuoght he was decent.
Title: Re: The 80s. Post by: JOHNNY REEVES on Saturday, September 19, 2009, 06:47:00 charlton were getting crowds of under 4000 in the top league then.
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