Tip off on who's in line

[Peter Venkman]

Please let it be senior  

How fucking funny would that be.

Worse manager I can think of.

You never saw Beamish? soapy tit wank

No I'm abit too young mate! I started watching Swindon in 86/87 season when I was a ickle boy!

My dad always tells me about Beamish though, worse he can remember.

Dad started watching Town in 1960.

It really was truly awful football...a manager brought up in the lowest league as a huge target man...that was the only way he knew how to play....bloody awful, but he did bring Simon Gibson in who was ace!

But we finished that year in our worst ever finish in the league 17th in div 4 and one game at home to Darlo when only 1,681 turned up, man that was a quiet game!

[Ralphy]

My dad was at that game! Said he got there at 2:55pm and thought the match had been called off  

[Peter Venkman]

My dad was at that game! Said he got there at 2:55pm and thought the match had been called off  

I remember ie well..my mate had the shits that day and he was worried that in his trips to the town end loo he would miss a goal...I think in 5 or 6 trips he missed 3 throw ins and a corner

[Ralphy]

Thats an astonishing crowd for a club our size.

[fatbury]

I was at that Darlington game - Ken Beamish in his old sheepskin coat - I rarely disagreed with his team selection as we had such a thin squad! and no money for new players

.. wasnt there an even lower crowd that year??? 800 or something?

[Spencer_White]

we did have low crowds, but I think they were usually tuesday afternoon games when there was a energy crisis and werent allowed to use the floodlights.

1600 is amazingly low though.  :shock: Dont tell Reading, thats the sort of thing we used to take the piss out of them for! Although Id say in the early 1980's, the average gate for a game in div 4 was under 2000.

[Peter Venkman]

I was at that Darlington game - Ken Beamish in his old sheepskin coat - I rarely disagreed with his team selection as we had such a thin squad! and no money for new players

.. wasnt there an even lower crowd that year??? 800 or something?

We had an 880 crowd but that was away at Chester, there were about 100 of us town fans on a cold winters night ther! but that was definately the lowest home crowd.

[Lumps]

To be fair to Ken, his replacement in Macari was no less route one, but had the advantage of new sponsors in LLG and a bit of cash to spend.

Poor old Beamish had to sell his top scorer from the previous season, Paul Rideout, and get his replacements in free transfers and loans. (I think he did alright in the transfer market as well. I'm sure he brought Alan Mayes back from Chelsea on a free and signed Nelson for a nominal fee from er Brighton I think).

And he'd turned the side around at the end of the season before after Trollope got the chop.

[Peter Venkman]

we did have low crowds, but I think they were usually tuesday afternoon games when there was a energy crisis and werent allowed to use the floodlights.

1600 is amazingly low though.  :shock: Dont tell Reading, thats the sort of thing we used to take the piss out of them for! Although Id say in the early 1980's, the average gate for a game in div 4 was under 2000.

The energy crisis was back in 73 and even then we were getting crowds in the afternoon of 3,000+ one went as low as 2,600 but that was the lowest that year.

[Peter Venkman]

To be fair to Ken, his replacement in Macari was no less route one, but had the advantage of new sponsors in LLG and a bit of cash to spend.

Poor old Beamish had to sell his top scorer from the previous season, Paul Rideout, and get his replacements in free transfers and loans. (I think he did alright in the transfer market as well. I'm sure he brought Alan Mayes back from Chelsea on a free and signed Nelson for a nominal fee from er Brighton I think).

And he'd turned the side around at the end of the season before after Trollope got the chop.

That is correct he did bring Mayes back but was a shadow of his former self.

And yes Macari did get the full backing of lowndes lambert but his football was not all based on long ball, I watched a few old vids of the 84 & 85 seasons and we played some great football, very very attacking and based more on wingers than route one, Barnard/Nelson bombing down the left and Hocky down the right....and shed loads of goals late in games due to the fitness levels.

[adje]

Dave Mackay-worst ever for me-