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Post by theglove on Feb 11, 2019 17:12:09 GMT
Does anyone remember this run of results? 24 goals (including 3 hattricks) in 8 games. Great days.
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Post by stokebloke on Feb 11, 2019 17:47:44 GMT
Good old georgie berry knew how to take a penno.
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Post by callas12 on Feb 11, 2019 17:49:56 GMT
The 2x games in 2x days still amazes me, players of old used to just get on with it, there would be uproar if they had to play on 26th & 27th Dec with this current crop.
Aside from the great wins v Leeds and Sheff Utd that Keith Bertschin hatrick v Reading really stands out for me, he really was on fire & a striker in form around this period.
Looking back Carl Saunders was on more of a red hot streak than I realised around this time also coz he his goals to game ratio wasn't prolific for Stoke but he sure performed around this winning spell!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2019 17:53:16 GMT
Probably saw it through rose tinted specs as a young lad but I loved the Mick Mills era in the main. Unpredictable but certainly never dull and bags of goals. Not sure how a team could be so bad one week yet so good the next....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2019 17:54:02 GMT
The 2x games in 2x days still amazes me, players of old used to just get on with it, there would be uproar if they had to play on 26th & 27th Dec with this current crop. Aside from the great wins v Leeds and Sheff Utd that Keith Bertschin hatrick v Reading really stands out for me, he really was on fire & a striker in form around this period. Looking back Carl Saunders was more prolific than I realised at the time.. Didn't we used to play Friday Saturday and Monday over easter ? |
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Post by waffles on Feb 11, 2019 18:58:43 GMT
The 2x games in 2x days still amazes me, players of old used to just get on with it, there would be uproar if they had to play on 26th & 27th Dec with this current crop. Aside from the great wins v Leeds and Sheff Utd that Keith Bertschin hatrick v Reading really stands out for me, he really was on fire & a striker in form around this period. Looking back Carl Saunders was on more of a red hot streak than I realised around this time also coz he his goals to game ratio wasn't prolific for Stoke but he sure performed around this winning spell! Keith Birtchin on fire, I remember he wanted burning. |
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Post by PotterLog on Feb 11, 2019 19:06:31 GMT
The 2x games in 2x days still amazes me, players of old used to just get on with it, there would be uproar if they had to play on 26th & 27th Dec with this current crop. Aside from the great wins v Leeds and Sheff Utd that Keith Bertschin hatrick v Reading really stands out for me, he really was on fire & a striker in form around this period. Looking back Carl Saunders was on more of a red hot streak than I realised around this time also coz he his goals to game ratio wasn't prolific for Stoke but he sure performed around this winning spell! Nine goals in one month, pretty much. With our current lot those numbers are more like the other way round... |
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Post by Simon Drainrod on Feb 11, 2019 19:21:30 GMT
Confused. Sheff Utd 5-2 I remember as the second game I ever went to. Thought the first was Stoke 6 - Grimsby 0 in the cup replay just before. Was it the other way round then?
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Post by Trouserdog on Feb 11, 2019 19:25:53 GMT
That was the season I started going- just in time for that run of games. Couldn't have picked a better time really!
Had some good players in that side.
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Post by PotterLog on Feb 11, 2019 19:26:45 GMT
Confused. Sheff Utd 5-2 I remember as the second game I ever went to. Thought the first was Stoke 6 - Grimsby 0 in the cup replay just before. Was it the other way round then? We wouldn't have even played any games in the FA Cup until January. The (second) replay you're talking about was 28th Jan '87 |
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Post by Simon Drainrod on Feb 11, 2019 19:29:46 GMT
Blimey. Wrong all these years. Tony Kelly was good that night though.
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Post by potter25 on Feb 11, 2019 19:35:52 GMT
My first season supporting stoke
First game last game v Grimsby 5-1
Great times..
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Feb 11, 2019 20:12:38 GMT
Got a black eye as.a Belated Xmas present at Barnsley few of us went in the paddock to the right of the open end , and took a sneaky left handed in the bogs while taking a leak , , so one I’ll remember
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Post by GoBoks on Feb 11, 2019 20:13:43 GMT
Sigh! Will we ever score more than 3 goals in a game again?
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Post by bathstoke on Feb 11, 2019 20:15:54 GMT
I remember us being $#!t then, also. Like now people thought we were going through a blip.
It was a £@#&!n big blip 📉
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Post by hstoke on Feb 11, 2019 20:45:37 GMT
Remember when we beat sheff Utd 5-2 at home me dad took me my furst game ended in the wrong end lol no wonder we got some funny looks
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Post by callas12 on Feb 11, 2019 20:50:39 GMT
The 2x games in 2x days still amazes me, players of old used to just get on with it, there would be uproar if they had to play on 26th & 27th Dec with this current crop. Aside from the great wins v Leeds and Sheff Utd that Keith Bertschin hatrick v Reading really stands out for me, he really was on fire & a striker in form around this period. Looking back Carl Saunders was on more of a red hot streak than I realised around this time also coz he his goals to game ratio wasn't prolific for Stoke but he sure performed around this winning spell! Keith Birtchin on fire, I remember he wanted burning. Bit harsh.. Bertschin was Leading scorer with 23 league and cup goals in the 85-86 season, that's pretty hot form by striker standards & winning player of the year in the process.. Remember his 19 goals in the league were only 2nd to Norwich's Kevin Drinkell that season. Not as prolific in the 86-87 season but still weighed in with a few.. |
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Post by waffles on Feb 11, 2019 21:22:35 GMT
Keith Birtchin on fire, I remember he wanted burning. Bit harsh.. Bertschin was Leading scorer with 23 league and cup goals in the 85-86 season, that's pretty hot form by striker standards & winning player of the year in the process.. Remember his 19 goals in the league were only 2nd to Norwich's Kevin Drinkell that season. Not as prolific in the 86-87 season but still weighed in with a few.. I stand corrected sir. |
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Post by stantheman on Feb 11, 2019 21:46:24 GMT
Remember the Leeds game like it was yesterday, early kick off on a Sunday. 5-0 up at half time and the 2 they got should never have been allowed. Only 12,300 in the ground though, with a large contingent from Leeds. Aspin said they wouldn't concede 6 like they did the previous season  |
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 11, 2019 22:13:31 GMT
Remember it really well. It ended as suddenly as it started. Blowtorching teams off the pitch
😊
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Post by heworksardtho on Feb 11, 2019 22:38:29 GMT
That was the season I started going- just in time for that run of games. Couldn't have picked a better time really! Had some good players in that side. Gloryhunter 😎 |
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Post by johnnypotter on Feb 11, 2019 22:48:28 GMT
During the 5-1 win at home to Grimsby I was in the Butler Street paddock. Stoke were attacking the Boothen when Mick Mills who was playing that day shouted to Carl Saunders to'' get into his new position'' poor Carl looked like he didn't have a clue what his new position was.
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Post by mickstupp on Feb 12, 2019 1:53:55 GMT
That season was the best of times, and the worst of times. A scintillating middle third wedged in between two thirds of dross. A reasonable cup run aswell.
Strange how 32 years later it’s still looked on with such affection.
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 12, 2019 3:48:30 GMT
It was the prototype season with Mick. Start the season shit then have a good run in Autumn.
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Post by bristolpotter on Feb 12, 2019 6:18:33 GMT
Call me perverse but I absolutely loved those times we were brilliant one week then fucking shocking the next you just never knew what Stoke was going to turn up, the away games our fans were immense not necessarily in terms of numbers but we were a proper
Family back then everyone knew each and looked after one another and we needed to as well as Barnsley ,Bradford, Grimsby, Hull etc all glorious shitholes in their own right and would always see the whole town turn out against us some great times truly believed we would go up as champions by Xmas but we truly disappeared up
Our own arses by March and ended abysmally lol
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Post by silsdenstokie on Feb 12, 2019 7:12:36 GMT
Ended with a 4-1 thrashing at West Brom and then pretty horrendous from there on in. Seem to recall a sunny day at Shrewsbury where we were 3 down I. 20 mins and lost 4-1..think Lee Dixon scored on own goal.
Still we ended the season in good fashion with the Grimsby win which promised more for the next season. Sadly, cup runs aside, 87/88 never seemed to get going
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Post by Rt Hon Reverend Luvpump on Feb 12, 2019 7:16:50 GMT
Yes my first year as a season ticket holder 😁
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Post by Stretfordpotterer on Feb 12, 2019 14:31:12 GMT
Does anyone remember this run of results? 24 goals (including 3 hattricks) in 8 games. Great days.
Leeds 7-2, the game that really got me hooked. Remember me Dad telling me not to get too excited afterward, "it won't be like that every week", cue the next home game....... |
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Post by Stretfordpotterer on Feb 12, 2019 14:33:12 GMT
Remember the Leeds game like it was yesterday, early kick off on a Sunday. 5-0 up at half time and the 2 they got should never have been allowed. Only 12,300 in the ground though, with a large contingent from Leeds. Aspin said they wouldn't concede 6 like they did the previous season Wasn't Aspin was it?...Mervyn Day the keeper said it i think. |
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Post by Dutchpeter on Feb 12, 2019 15:22:44 GMT
All unravelled after the 4-1 beating by a poor West Brom. Ron Saunders set up WBA to counter our wing and overlap play, and we struggled to get a foot in the game. I always said two strong signings may well have got us promoted that season. However, Gerry Daly and Howard Gayle who we did sign were perhaps not enough. We didn’t have a pot to piss in and Gerry and Howard came cheap. Incidentally, while losing 0-3 at home to Bradford in the pissing down rain, was the first time I recall Delilah being sung.
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