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Post by NG4POTTERS on Aug 29, 2011 19:41:55 GMT
Latest upload to the 60's/70's and 80's RRP scfc video channel is a 2-0 victory at sheffield united in the 75/76 season. Crowd 23410. Who was there?
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Post by Northy on Aug 29, 2011 19:58:53 GMT
that was my first ever visit to Bramhall Lane, we were behind that goal, - that away strip what was the stripes about ???
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Post by robinredcoat on Aug 29, 2011 20:02:05 GMT
Yep i was there, remember it well. Sheff Utd finished bottom that season if I remember right.
Thanks for posting that one, brings back good memories.
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Post by lancer on Aug 29, 2011 20:03:45 GMT
Latest upload to the 60's/70's and 80's RRP scfc video channel is a 2-0 victory at sheffield united in the 75/76 season. Crowd 23410. Who was there? God yes. Makes the hair stand up at the back of my neck. Jimmy was truly one of our greats. A star on the field, a gent off it who still lives locally (Alsager)and is still Stoke through and through. Lovely to see Huddy, as cool as ever glide the ball across the goal for Jimmy to put it away. gSoff Salmon, Sean Hazelgrave, John Mahoney, all names to reminisce over. Those were the day's my friends! And more to come I hope, for present day Stokies.  |
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Post by spiderpuss on Aug 29, 2011 20:08:25 GMT
that was my first ever visit to Bramhall Lane, we were behind that goal, - that away strip what was the stripes about ??? Still more stylish and unique than anything Adogsdinna can come up with. |
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Post by apb1 on Aug 29, 2011 20:12:18 GMT
Not at the game, but what a team (and kit) that was.
The way we are progressing is fantastic - imagine if we could be challenging in the top 8 and playing football as good as that 70s team. When we were tearing Wolves, Bolton and Arsenal apart at the end of last season, maybe it was a glimpse of that kind of future.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Aug 29, 2011 20:23:21 GMT
I remember getting crushed when Jimmy hit the inside if the post at the same end and the ball rolled along the goal line.
Still our greatest away strip worn by our best ever team.
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Post by Greenhoff is God on Aug 29, 2011 20:30:30 GMT
Me...... remember getting back and going to a party in Elworth on the Saturday night and watching it on MOTD (no decent klunge there at the time.......picked up later though)  On another note, in todays transfer market, what price for John Mahoney (Prince of Wales)..........20/25 million. Showed Alan Hudson how it should be done...a class act. Remember watching him playing for Crewe with Billy Dearden prior to Waddo signing him for Stoke. |
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Post by Gods on Aug 29, 2011 21:10:47 GMT
Great work roots - I was there, 15 years old full and full of hope and excitement |
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Post by theginsoakedboy on Aug 29, 2011 22:07:19 GMT
That kit was fucikn' awesome. I'd suggest reviving it but it would look utterly shit with the Brit sticker across the front.
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Post by JoeinOz on Aug 29, 2011 23:11:58 GMT
I remember being excited when it said in the sentnull it was going be on match of the day. In them days not every pass run and fart was televised.
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Post by ralfus on Aug 29, 2011 23:14:57 GMT
I'm almost embarassed whenever I see Jimmy. Quiet unassuming gent as he watches his grandson play (alongside my nephew which is why I watch Alsager Town youths). I'm a fifty year bloke and the little bit older bloke near me on the touchline is still my hero!
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Post by JoeinOz on Aug 29, 2011 23:27:00 GMT
Jimmy dominated my early football watching career. Sitting on the wall in the Butler Street Paddock and Jimmy moves to a wide position. The first time in my life I felt awestruck. The great Jimmy Greenhoff was a matter of feet away from me. Being in the park with my brother and dad practising Jimmy volleys. And a blistering one against Leeds winning us a cracking game. (By Jimmy not by us in the park!) Sadly, I also remember blarting on a Saturday morning in December 1976 when dad showed me the back of the Daily Mirror and it displayed the unthinkable news. Greenhoff had gone to Man Yoo. He didn't want to leave us. Betrayed by Stoke City Football Club. That news indelibly stamped a cynical edge in my mind. Seven is too young to endure heartbreak as deep as that. The next game I sort of expected him to be playing for us. Stoke City without Jimmy? Impossible. The next game I expected him to be there as usual. But gone he was...to win the FA Cup as we got relegated.
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Post by therethere on Aug 30, 2011 6:03:09 GMT
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Post by lancer on Aug 30, 2011 10:11:49 GMT
Our youngster had a white rabbit. He called it Greenhoff! Brain wash your kids when they're young. He also ate all his breakfast because I told him Dennis Smith did.
Smiley thing.
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Post by greenhofflovechild on Aug 30, 2011 10:17:02 GMT
My all time stoke hero !! Remember watching him from boothen end in early 70s and then pretending i was him in the street outside our house having a kickabout. Mind you every other kid was greenhoff as well !!! Wish we had a time machine so we could bring him back today, he would be a 20 goals a season striker for us now.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2011 10:21:43 GMT
jesus they were good !
and I watched em throughout - seeing that just reminds you how good they really were
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Post by madelinesmithmmmh on Aug 30, 2011 10:27:14 GMT
Mr Greenhoff was in front of us at the Thun game the other evening. Overawed when pointing him out to my son.
Great shame we didn't get the same result in 74!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2011 10:32:04 GMT
Greenhoff and Ritchie our last world class strike force...just think what Tone would be able to do with Big John!
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Post by The Stubborn Optimist on Aug 30, 2011 12:35:35 GMT
Remember it well.
Great to see footage of the one, the only, the great Jimmy Greenhoff. I never tire of telling anyone willing to listen that Jimmy is my all time favourite Stoke player. In the years I've watched Stoke (40+) he is without equal. My lad's middle name is James in his honour and I bore the poor bugger to death telling him how great his namesake was.
Particularly remember that game because it got quite lively outside after the game (as it often was at Bramhall Lane). It went off by the church near the ground as we were going back to the station. As it did in the 70's it was a mass brawl, about 200 a side and stopped the traffic. As I was grappling with a Sheff Utd. youth across the bonnet of a car stuck in the traffic, (I was trying to get him to keep still long enough so I could land one on him), I looked up to see my Business Studies lecturer from Cauldon College sitting behind the wheel of the car looking non too impressed as me and this youth tried to knock each other senseless!
Happy days.
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Post by shawi on Aug 30, 2011 15:21:47 GMT
I was there, along with many other mates, we spent several hours in a nearby pub, prior to watching a great performance, then returned to the same pub - eventually made it back over the Pennines on Sunday. Great team, hopefully we can produce similar flowing football - in Tone We Trust.
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Post by steedenscfc on Aug 30, 2011 15:28:53 GMT
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Post by hereclesdrumming on Aug 30, 2011 16:33:08 GMT
Ah, loved 'em all. Have to say what a gent. me and me mates used to spend our hols around the ground after autographs. He never refused, mind u most didn't.
Was p.s.ing down one day and Waddo must have noticed us getting drenched and fetched us in to watch them training 5 a side. These things you don't forget. Have met TP and he seems to have a similar philosophy. You need to see his conversations with Fuller. Hillarious!
As a postcript...The best goal I have ever seen was one scored by Bill Asprey on the training ground. Jesus it was brilliant, cross coming in, he launched himself forward, face down and hit it in the net with the back of his heels in mid air. Guess what? No body battered an eyelid!
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Post by werrington on Aug 30, 2011 17:34:35 GMT
I was in that main stand which at the time was brand new....sure it may have even been officially opened that day?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2011 19:33:12 GMT
was only reminiscing with a work colleague today about jimmy. a class act if ever there was one. would love to meet him. as i say pure class.
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Post by JoeinOz on Aug 30, 2011 23:40:25 GMT
When he was sold something in us died.
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Post by march4 on Aug 30, 2011 23:41:53 GMT
When he was sold something in us died. It was a tremendous blow from which it has taken us decades to recover. |
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Post by JoeinOz on Aug 30, 2011 23:44:37 GMT
We recovered from the stand blowing off quicker than some people make out. We got relegated but came back up in two seasons. In 1981 we finished mid table. The real thing that led to the big drop that would take us years to recover from was Barker's POMO
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Post by march4 on Aug 30, 2011 23:53:12 GMT
We recovered from the stand blowing off quicker than some people make out. We got relegated but came back up in two seasons. In 1981 we finished mid table. The real thing that led to the big drop that would take us years to recover from was Barker's POMO True, but our finances were unstable from the moment the roof blew off. Dudley Kernick raised a lot of money which went on the Stoke End Stand, but when the money dried up we were back to square one. In hindsight, the club should have used Dudley's money more proficiently. The roof meant that we couldn't match incomings to outgoings. |
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Post by JoeinOz on Aug 31, 2011 0:10:14 GMT
The stand blowing off MADE IT ALL HAPPEN BUt it's possible that we might had to start selling off players anyway. We had stretched our debt level and the banks were getting nervous with us.
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