Van der MoodHoover Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 10 hours ago, steve brummie said: Thanks Hants, I also forgot to mention that we were first winners of the Watney Cup in 71 and in 72 we also won the Texaco Cup. Many of our team that played then went on to double European Cup victory with a club whose name escapes me! Not!! Was the texaco cup the Anglo Scottish tournament or was that a different thing? I vaguely recall us beating Airdrie in something which might be the win you've mentioned. Pity a lot of our triumphs are in defunct competitons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G STAR RAM Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 14 hours ago, TigerTedd said: Is it better or worse to break that record as a newly promoted club or as an established prem side? there was a perfect storm of contributing factors, but we were still able to get promoted, we weren't total **** at the end of one season, but by a few games into te new season, we were league 1 class, men against boys. I remember the being at the first game against Pompey. We drew, and you would have thought a general wave of optimism might have pushed on a bit from there. Anyway, my point is, can we be forgiven for being a newly promoted club, punching above out weight? Is it worse that Villa are meant to be established? Yes they've been struggling, but performing to a level that can be compared with our season is really pathetic. Of course we can be forgiven but for those of us who witnessed that season it will never be forgotten! Villa are performing nowhere near as bad as we did that season, when shipping 4, 5 or 6 goals became the norm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimRam Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Kenny Miller should be given a medal for that winner against Newcastle. Otherwise 0 wins in a season. I don't think any football league club has achieved that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Harford Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Some stupid idiots missed it as well, one lad a ST holder got a ticket for his mate and they were going to go, but decided to watch it on Setanta instead and get drunk at home. Missed the only win all season Definitely not me. 100% someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 6 minutes ago, Mick Harford said: Some stupid idiots missed it as well, one lad a ST holder got a ticket for his mate and they were going to go, but decided to watch it on Setanta instead and get drunk at home. Missed the only win all season Definitely not me. 100% someone else. I missed it - I was working in Ireland, and watched it in the Cat and Cage, Dublin. I was ridiculously optimistic after that win - the 5-0 defeat to Arsenal soon had me looking at things much more realistically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Harford Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 5 minutes ago, eddie said: I missed it - I was working in Ireland, and watched it in the Cat and Cage, Dublin. I was ridiculously optimistic after that win - the 5-0 defeat to Arsenal soon had me looking at things much more realistically. I actually take it as a badge of honour now, I was never optimistic. We were actually saying on teh minibus back from Wembley that it didn't matter if we lost every game in the PL as we would be financially secure, if only we had known! But it's ace when a thread about low points pops up on Reddit or something and you are able to say that you were a ST holder that season, not many people get to see history being made in the flesh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 3 minutes ago, Mick Harford said: I actually take it as a badge of honour now, I was never optimistic. We were actually saying on teh minibus back from Wembley that it didn't matter if we lost every game in the PL as we would be financially secure, if only we had known! But it's ace when a thread about low points pops up on Reddit or something and you are able to say that you were a ST holder that season, not many people get to see history being made in the flesh. Yes, in my case a season ticket holder who missed our only win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Harford Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 And me mate, and me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozza Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 ...and Sky missed Miller's goal .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernow Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 3 hours ago, mozza said: ...and Sky missed Miller's goal .. Setanta weren't it? Their first ever PL game too, and they missed the only goal. No wonder they didn't last long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ketteringram Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 On 24/12/2015 at 14:05, eddie said: I missed it - I was working in Ireland, and watched it in the Cat and Cage, Dublin. I was ridiculously optimistic after that win - the 5-0 defeat to Arsenal soon had me looking at things much more realistically. I was working in Cork. I was optimistic too. Thought we could go on a bit of a run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozza Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 36 minutes ago, Kernow said: Setanta weren't it? Their first ever PL game too, and they missed the only goal. No wonder they didn't last long yea , i knew as soon as i posted it wasn't Sky and knew someone would correct me , i watched it in a pub , and thought wtf !!.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 I can still see that speculative Kenny Miller goal. I was there with my son.What an awful season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssendonRam Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 On 20/12/2015 at 01:23, toddy said: Having watched the Newcastle game I'd have thought they might hit 20 + points this season So No. I still have both games against Newcastle on my HDD. If you judged our season by the games against Newcastle, we weren't the awful, dispirited rabble we were either. 4 of 6 points v Newcastle (and led for much of the second game too) equates (mind-bogglingly, really) to 7 of 132 v everyone else... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yani P Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 I am not sure our record will ever be beaten as the mindset at our club caused the problems..I remember on MOTD when we had literally just changed the manager he said that part of his role was preparing for the Championship - so what did we expect with that positive attitude..I could understand if he had called it a contingency plan but he didnt.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEL Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Blame Billy Davies the Scottish dwarf for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 4 minutes ago, Derby_EnglandLoyal said: Blame Billy Davies the Scottish dwarf for this. Really? I feel there were plenty more to blame than him. Everything was wrong about the club at the time. But I simply won't forgive Jewell. He couldn't have been worse if he tried. Any other manager in the football league at the time would have done better than him. Hell, we could have gotten John Gregory back and we still would have bettered his points tally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 4 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said: Really? I feel there were plenty more to blame than him. Everything was wrong about the club at the time. But I simply won't forgive Jewell. He couldn't have been worse if he tried. Any other manager in the football league at the time would have done better than him. Hell, we could have gotten John Gregory back and we still would have bettered his points tally. John Gregory could have played and bettered the points... Billy Davies had no idea of what was needed. He was completely out his depth but too arrogant to admit it. His signings were awful and Paul Jewell was clueless as well. It was a perfect storm of wankness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 4 minutes ago, uttoxram75 said: John Gregory could have played and bettered the points... Billy Davies had no idea of what was needed. He was completely out his depth but too arrogant to admit it. His signings were awful and Paul Jewell was clueless as well. It was a perfect storm of wankness. Billy D was out of his depth, but at least he had some sort of idea of the strenghts of his players. Jewell coming in and immediately shipping out Jones, Oakley and Howard - our three best players and among the most experienced - was utter madness. And his signings in January. There aren't enough superlatives to describe how bad they were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 9 hours ago, Bris Vegas said: Billy D was out of his depth, but at least he had some sort of idea of the strenghts of his players. Jewell coming in and immediately shipping out Jones, Oakley and Howard - our three best players and among the most experienced - was utter madness. And his signings in January. There aren't enough superlatives to describe how bad they were. True. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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