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Very correct
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Anyone remember much about the 1974/75 season?
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Very correct
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Dave the OAP
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Fred Binney...Harry Wilson ans sully, who still owes me a half of bitter
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
I remember watching Bobby Charlton play in that game. Even at the age of 8 I knew full well I was watching a legend.
Freddie Goodwin.
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Pretty much echo the other views.
Clough had legged it to Leeds but Taylor, to his credit, did the honourable thing & stayed.
Very much a team in transition and a whole lot of players in and out. Taylor could spot talent but the whole Clough/Taylor thing was wholesale change and a fair number didn't work out. Trouble scoring goals, especially away. Binney was a box player, great at home, Mellor took ages to settle so not really a striker.
The Palace game was a great start, although we were fortunate to win. By the time of the Leatherhead game we were beginning to show some form an nearly 20,000 turned up to see us lay the ghost of W&H but what a disgraceful performance. For some reason we wore blue shorts in our FA Cup games..
The team did pull clear of relegation and things settled. Taylor was spotting long term talent as well as really experinced players and so along came Horton, Burnett, Wilson, Winstanly, Catlin and then Wardy. He may not haver been the best motivator but his signings laid the foundations for Mullery to build on.
Clough had legged it to Leeds but Taylor, to his credit, did the honourable thing & stayed.
Very much a team in transition and a whole lot of players in and out. Taylor could spot talent but the whole Clough/Taylor thing was wholesale change and a fair number didn't work out. Trouble scoring goals, especially away. Binney was a box player, great at home, Mellor took ages to settle so not really a striker.
The Palace game was a great start, although we were fortunate to win. By the time of the Leatherhead game we were beginning to show some form an nearly 20,000 turned up to see us lay the ghost of W&H but what a disgraceful performance. For some reason we wore blue shorts in our FA Cup games..
The team did pull clear of relegation and things settled. Taylor was spotting long term talent as well as really experinced players and so along came Horton, Burnett, Wilson, Winstanly, Catlin and then Wardy. He may not haver been the best motivator but his signings laid the foundations for Mullery to build on.
Godstar
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It's threads like this that make me love t'internet. The Leatherhead game was my first ever match & although we lost, within a month i had MY Albion kit (royal blue trim with two hoops on the socks)
Goldstone Rapper
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u'vebeenamexed
Whateverhappenedto.......
I was thirteen at the time of this season and used to go to all home games and stand on the chicken run. I vaguely remember being excited when we drew Leatherhead at home in the 3rd Round of the cup as I expected us to get a big team in the 4th round ! - the innocence of youth.
I've scanned down the matches of that season and cannot say any stand out in the memory banks. The 1-0 opening win against Palace doesn't even register. Have a look at our home record 14-7-2 that's promotion form but we finished just above the relegation line due to an appalling away record 2-3-18 ! I also note that Gerry Fell was introduced to the team shortly after the Leatherhead loss - he was one of my favourites with a chin like Jimmy Hill and a shot like Peter Lorimer.
I'll go now as I am showing my age (classic Albion goalnets in that video clip)
I've scanned down the matches of that season and cannot say any stand out in the memory banks. The 1-0 opening win against Palace doesn't even register. Have a look at our home record 14-7-2 that's promotion form but we finished just above the relegation line due to an appalling away record 2-3-18 ! I also note that Gerry Fell was introduced to the team shortly after the Leatherhead loss - he was one of my favourites with a chin like Jimmy Hill and a shot like Peter Lorimer.
I'll go now as I am showing my age (classic Albion goalnets in that video clip)
I recall Fell, Cattlin, Tiler, Grummit, Binney, Sullivan, Rollins and Tiger Tony Towner.
Fred Binney looked anything but a sportsman - but deceived defenders all the time as they assumed to close on him and take the ball at their leisure. He was hilarilous - took the piss out of keepers and one VERY special penalty stands out in my mind;
the keeper did all the stock tricks to try and put Fred off and waste time, so he actually had the cheek to pace out the distance to the spot like we did in school!
With the keeper doing jumping jacks and a befuddled ref getting slightly peeved, Binney reached the spot, still back to goal, spun on the ball and buried it in the net. Goallie rooted on the line in a sudden protest of unreadiness. The ref got the joke and signalled to the centre in a businesslike serves-him-right fashion and the S.stand where I stood erupted in a mix of laughter, and incredulous cheers.
I never saw a better, more entertaining or more daring penalty since.
Wardy was soon to join and the unfit poacher Binney was briefly a strike partner before fading from the first team.
Taylor brought in Mellor, Graham Cross(!!) and Horton soon after that and he and his brilliant scouting team began building a real squad for fan expectations to swell with gate receipts!
We had learned to keep expectations to modest level before that, the proper good talent was on tv at Coventry, Burnley, Leeds MU or Villa, BHA was convenient local footy and not to be taken as much more.
Mullery was a new young revelation in the dressing room, and he inherited the scouts who spotted Ward from Burton for £6,000.
Lawrenson and Williams were a steal at £150,000 for the pair, Eric Potts stood out so well against us we bought him without any further question!
Sadly Mullery then asserted his own scouting managing 'skill' buying a carthorse from his beloved Fulham, insisting and persisting with him and benching Ward to try and underline his managing authority. Maybank was a club record and Muller's big buy - but he made Binney look like Messi. Super Teddy Maybank flattered to deceive many who saw king's new clothes about this inept lumbering lump who's 'touch' was normally deployed in passing ball back to whoever passed it to him then running forward in some sort of expectation that another pass should ensue.
His occasional goal was pale endorsement for Mullery's wasteful spending, so I even disliked Maybank scoring for us.
Fred Binney looked anything but a sportsman - but deceived defenders all the time as they assumed to close on him and take the ball at their leisure. He was hilarilous - took the piss out of keepers and one VERY special penalty stands out in my mind;
the keeper did all the stock tricks to try and put Fred off and waste time, so he actually had the cheek to pace out the distance to the spot like we did in school!
With the keeper doing jumping jacks and a befuddled ref getting slightly peeved, Binney reached the spot, still back to goal, spun on the ball and buried it in the net. Goallie rooted on the line in a sudden protest of unreadiness. The ref got the joke and signalled to the centre in a businesslike serves-him-right fashion and the S.stand where I stood erupted in a mix of laughter, and incredulous cheers.
I never saw a better, more entertaining or more daring penalty since.
Wardy was soon to join and the unfit poacher Binney was briefly a strike partner before fading from the first team.
Taylor brought in Mellor, Graham Cross(!!) and Horton soon after that and he and his brilliant scouting team began building a real squad for fan expectations to swell with gate receipts!
We had learned to keep expectations to modest level before that, the proper good talent was on tv at Coventry, Burnley, Leeds MU or Villa, BHA was convenient local footy and not to be taken as much more.
Mullery was a new young revelation in the dressing room, and he inherited the scouts who spotted Ward from Burton for £6,000.
Lawrenson and Williams were a steal at £150,000 for the pair, Eric Potts stood out so well against us we bought him without any further question!
Sadly Mullery then asserted his own scouting managing 'skill' buying a carthorse from his beloved Fulham, insisting and persisting with him and benching Ward to try and underline his managing authority. Maybank was a club record and Muller's big buy - but he made Binney look like Messi. Super Teddy Maybank flattered to deceive many who saw king's new clothes about this inept lumbering lump who's 'touch' was normally deployed in passing ball back to whoever passed it to him then running forward in some sort of expectation that another pass should ensue.
His occasional goal was pale endorsement for Mullery's wasteful spending, so I even disliked Maybank scoring for us.
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Dave the OAP
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That first game, the palace game, I went with my younger brother and bizarrely, as I knew nothing about brighton only having moved here a few weeks earlier, I was actually supporting palace. I was in the north west corner and there seemed to be a load of palace fans there and I suppose it was the herd mentality.
Looking at the ground from there I assumed the east stand was all sitting...but I thought we would try it the next game and found it to be standing and stood there until the bastard bellotti closed it.
I also remember leatherhead game...that was my first experience of a team beaten by a non league side.
Looking at the ground from there I assumed the east stand was all sitting...but I thought we would try it the next game and found it to be standing and stood there until the bastard bellotti closed it.
I also remember leatherhead game...that was my first experience of a team beaten by a non league side.
smudge
Up the Albion!
You.....WHAT?
Dave the OAP
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I know....In my defence, the only time I had ever heard of Brighton is when they got walloped by Rovers 8-2 as I lived in Wiltshire and it was the biggest thing that had ever happened down there since the invention of the plough
BTW does anyone remember the game up there...it may have been the next season where we won 1-0 and barry Butlin scored?
Screaming J
He'll put a spell on you
I remember once saying something very similar to this on the North Stand once, only to be threatened by a bloke standing near to me and my mates who claimed to be Teddy Maybank's brother!