Warboys and Bannister....now that was a forward partnership

[Goldstone Rapper]

I was 75-76 onwards. Looking at the video, surely that put pay to Brian Powney's Albion career, nightmare.......

Yes, as Clough signed Peter Grummitt who became first choice. Powney was released at the end of the season and became a midfield player... I wrote about this in 'My little Powney!' a few days ago
http://thegoldstonewrap.com/2013/09/01/brian-powney/

 

[Questions]

will never forget the after match revelry lol

It got a bit chilly on their coaches on the way home.

 

[Brighton Mod]

I believe they were known as 'smash and grab'

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Yes, as Clough signed Peter Grummitt who became first choice. Powney was released at the end of the season and became a midfield player... I wrote about this in 'My little Powney!' a few days ago
http://thegoldstonewrap.com/2013/09/01/brian-powney/

Peter Grummitt - still my choice as best all time BHA keeper, with Kuszczak and Beeney closely behind.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

I believe they were known as 'smash and grab'

They certainly were.... here they are in their quartered apparel

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Went to the first Walton game..0-0...they had a goal disallowed in the first ten seconds. Couldn't make the replay, as it was an afternoon k/o midweek. On the way back from work bought an early edition Argus. John Vinnicombe's match report went up to about 70 mins and I read that the Albion were one down. I then turned to the ' stop press ' section, only to read that someone had scored a hattrick in the last ten mins and we had lost 4-0...completely gobsmacked.
From memory, Bristol R were flying and top of the table when they came to us a few days later. I remember getting excited when we got it back to 1-2 but that was quickly extinguished and Warboys and Bannister ran riot.
If I remember rightly, we then lost by 4 goals away at Tranmere...so we conceded 16 goals in just over a week.
Happy Days!

 

[dougdeep]

Weren't they known as smash and grab.

I believe they were known as 'smash and grab'

You could be right.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Went to the first Walton game..0-0...they had a goal disallowed in the first ten seconds. Couldn't make the replay, as it was an afternoon k/o midweek. On the way back from work bought an early edition Argus. John Vinnicombe's match report went up to about 70 mins and I read that the Albion were one down. I then turned to the ' stop press ' section, only to read that someone had scored a hattrick in the last ten mins and we had lost 4-0...completely gobsmacked.
From memory, Bristol R were flying and top of the table when they came to us a few days later. I remember getting excited when we got it back to 1-2 but that was quickly extinguished and Warboys and Bannister ran riot.
If I remember rightly, we then lost by 4 goals away at Tranmere...so we conceded 16 goals in just over a week.
Happy Days!

Would you be interested in seeing video footage from the Walton and Hersham games?

 

[APACHE]

Yes, those were dark days but from there the Albion started the climb towards the top league while the 2 mentioned strikers quite quickly faded from out of the headlines.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Would you be interested in seeing video footage from the Walton and Hersham games?

Yes...go for it.

 

[Return of the Rev]

would you be interested in seeing video footage from the walton and hersham games?

Missed alot from the first game,ended up watching from the roof of a tea bar,got slung off when hersham scored,didn't realise it was ruled out till after the game

 

[LamieRobertson]

True.

Or even the Leatherhead game. What year was that?

Leatherhead....someone the Lip Kelly..memory fails me

 

[Willow]

That was actually just four days before, on the Tuesday night. So we lost consecutive home games - 4-0 to Walton and Hersham United and then 8-2 to Bristol Rovers. Cloughie can't have been a happy bunny.

"Following the defeat Clough almost got into a fight with comedian Eric Sykes, who was associated with Brighton & Hove Albion at the time and was laughing about the result to a friend during a phone call"

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Yes...go for it.

I will have a hunt. There is no sound or goals, but some rare footage from both matches nonetheless.

 

[Bwian]

That was actually just four days before, on the Tuesday night. So we lost consecutive home games - 4-0 to Walton and Hersham United and then 8-2 to Bristol Rovers. Cloughie can't have been a happy bunny.

Sorry to be pedantic but it was a Wednesday.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

I was at both and there isn't anything between those defeats in terms of shitiness.

Tidy goal from Sully in the Rovers game.

 

[Bwian]

"Following the defeat Clough almost got into a fight with comedian Eric Sykes, who was associated with Brighton & Hove Albion at the time and was laughing about the result to a friend during a phone call"

I believe Eric Sykes was actually associated with Walton & Hersham, not The Albion. He was sitting in their director's box for the game at Walton and cheered them the whole 90 minutes. If he was associated with us, he hid it well that day.

 

[Bwian]

Thank goodness we've progressed since those days and don't exit cups to 'minnows'...

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

I was 75-76 onwards. Looking at the video, surely that put pay to Brian Powney's Albion career, nightmare.......

From memory Sir Norman's also.

 

[kevo]

I believe Eric Sykes was actually associated with Walton & Hersham, not The Albion. He was sitting in their director's box for the game at Walton and cheered them the whole 90 minutes. If he was associated with us, he hid it well that day.

Was Norman Wisdom still a director then?