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Post by TheWiseMaster on Mar 10, 2009 13:30:18 GMT
Our Current team
Sorrensen,Wilko,Shawcross,Faye,Higgy,Lawrence,Whelan,Delap,Etherington,Beatie,Fuller
Stoke City 1984:
Corrigan, Maskery, Spearing, McIlroy, Dyson, Bould, Painter, Bertschin, Phil Heath, Hudson, Chamberlain
Noticeable - No non British players!
Would our current team have been relegated in 1984?
PS this team pinched off an earlier thread - thanks
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Post by eddy_under_fire'sviews on Mar 10, 2009 13:33:20 GMT
no non british players.... i'm sure lord eff will have something to say about that  |
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Post by lordb on Mar 10, 2009 13:35:17 GMT
dont forget tnat Hudon & Chambo barely played in 84-85 due to injuries.
Corrigan was one of a mere 5 goalkeepers that season
Bertschin didnt come in until late on & flopped (till the following season)
too many games that year with Panner & Phil Heath upfront
Ebanks got games
at the end of the day any side with Dyson it deserves to go down
stick Dyson in the current side (for either Ryan or Abdy) & we would be cast adrift at the bottom.
on the other hand stick Beattie in the 84-85 side and.....we would still have gone down (but with at least 10 more points).
would TP have played a fit Chambo (given he didnt track back)?
TP would have loved Bould & Maskery mind.
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Post by hamburgpotter on Mar 10, 2009 14:02:05 GMT
Missed that last season in the top flight cause in the Falklands for 6 months, but that season was to be honest, as bad as derbys last season. i seriously thought we would do the same this time, but credit where credit is due ,well done Sir Tone and all at Stoke !!!
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Post by sheikh al dubai bin stokie on Mar 10, 2009 15:08:27 GMT
Our Current team Sorrensen,Wilko,Shawcross,Faye,Higgy,Lawrence,Whelan,Delap,Etherington,Beatie,Fuller Stoke City 1984: Corrigan, Maskery, Spearing, McIlroy, Dyson, Bould, Painter, Bertschin, Phil Heath, Hudson, Chamberlain Noticeable - No non British players! Would our current team have been relegated in 1984? PS this team pinched off an earlier thread - thanks holy moly... that brings back some memories  Joe Corrigan - WTF were we doing here? Foxy's back injury... blah Chris Maskery - I thought he was ok actually... Tony Spearing - SHITE SHITE SHITE loan player... Sammy the Mac - Total fookin Legend (sorry ilford) I remember being SO excited the day he signed for Stoke Paul Dyson - Tall... hmmm Stevie Bould - again, Leg-end Panner Painter - Would squeeze his zits on defenders as he went past them Keith Bertschin - He of 25 yard screamer fame Phil Heath - Was he nicknamed 'Shoes'?.. he was shite n all in the long run The original Sir Alan - past his best, and on the lash most nights in Leek... he used to love round the corner from me during this spell. Chambo - On the wane in this season... wanting out ahhh.. brings back mamories... |
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Post by jimmygscfc on Mar 10, 2009 15:12:26 GMT
Neil Adams was 'Shoes'.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2009 15:16:00 GMT
I'd put Steve Bould in the current team. Hudson was not himself that season but I would still have him. Chamberlain was lazy and TP would have kicked him from one end of the ground to the other then loaned him out somewhere. Sammy McIlroy was great, I'd have him for cover and experience. The rest were punching well above their weight and needed relegating badly.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2009 17:28:17 GMT
Things were so bad our top goal scorer was technically Dyson 3 goals and 3 own goals, ahhh how great we were that season. The real top scorer I think was Paint-a-spot with 5 goals.
And who remembers losing 2-3 to Norwich and only 4,000 crowd, how embarrassing were we ahh the memories
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Post by mickstupp on Mar 10, 2009 17:36:03 GMT
Only vague memoies of this horror season, but I saw some old footage of us recently on ESPN classic channel (442). We were away at Forest and actually drew the game 1-1 (George Berry scored). We should have won that game juding by the highlights but christ we had a poor looking side. Steve Bould at full back was cack. I wouldn`t swap any of them for the current starting eleven.
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Post by stokemark on Mar 10, 2009 17:45:35 GMT
I went to every game, home and away that season and really was as bad as the statistics seem to indicate !
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Post by imallstokedup on Mar 10, 2009 17:56:50 GMT
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Post by hamburgpotter on Mar 11, 2009 8:46:40 GMT
That pic bought back memories !! GLASS back Maguire, and Hampton, thought he would have been good cause he came from Leeds, Big Bren, a pissed up Huddy, and wasnt Painter ugly ? Who is the second one in on the top row ? the bloke we signed from Swansea didnt we ?
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Post by sheikh al dubai bin stokie on Mar 11, 2009 8:50:52 GMT
why does sammy mac look like the elephant man in that pic?
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Mar 11, 2009 9:08:07 GMT
That pic bought back memories !! GLASS back Maguire, and Hampton, thought he would have been good cause he came from Leeds, Big Bren, a pissed up Huddy, and wasnt Painter ugly ? Who is the second one in on the top row ? the bloke we signed from Swansea didnt we ? Thats Robbie James I think. You look at that team and wonder how we managed to go down, some real quality there, apart from Paul Dyson, possibly the worst defender I ever saw down Stoke. |
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Post by Hiram on Mar 11, 2009 9:32:18 GMT
It is Robbie James, sadly dead now.
Was it a record year for taches? I counted 7 + Georgie Berry and I reckon Paul Maguire sported one now and again too - 8 taches and a beard -get in.
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Post by cousindupree on Mar 11, 2009 10:38:04 GMT
I hope billy you are not including Pianter in the Tache ctakes...it was mere bum fluff....Big Brenda now his was the business
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Post by neilb987 on Mar 11, 2009 13:45:59 GMT
That was a very bad team really - that season is permanently etched into my memory! Remember though that Huddy barely played all season due to injury, Peter Fox's injury left us with a series of loan keepers, most of them over the hill or just poor, we had Wayne Ebanks in central midfield (oh dear .. !) for most of the first part of the season, Paul Dyson makes Sonko look like Beckenbauer, and Painter was simply too lightweight to score goals at that level.
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Post by hamburgpotter on Mar 11, 2009 13:50:20 GMT
I still say the reason we went down that season was cause we changed the strip to that shitty pin stripe one !! Oh......and the team was shit as well !! ha ha
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Post by Bick on Mar 11, 2009 14:15:11 GMT
I think the game is SO different now, u cant even compare the 2 teams!!
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Post by skip on Mar 11, 2009 14:32:24 GMT
Bloody hell, Robbie James. He presented me with a player of the year award at school. Or was it Ladsndads? And Peter Fox was a short arse for a keeper. That was the first season that I went to every home game. Dreadful. It's where I learnt the art of quiet contemplation as a fifteen year old.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 11, 2009 15:08:05 GMT
Chambo would have walked into the current team. On his day he was unplayable.
Sammy Mac far better than what we have now.
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Post by march4 on Mar 11, 2009 17:08:04 GMT
That photo is from the previous season. Maguire's reward for scoring the four goals that kept us up the previous season was a free transfer. The holocaust squad was even weaker than the one shown.
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Post by imallstokedup on Mar 11, 2009 19:50:49 GMT
That photo is from the previous season. Maguire's reward for scoring the four goals that kept us up the previous season was a free transfer. The holocaust squad was even weaker than the one shown. I wasn't totally sure if it was the season of doom, or the one prior, however Hudson didn't come until late on in the season we stayed up ?............................. so wouldn't of been in the team photo. |
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Post by LDE76 on Mar 11, 2009 20:01:30 GMT
Pictures of footballers from the Eighties are rather amusing. Blokes in their late twenties/early thirties look middle-aged, especially when sporting moustaches.  |
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Post by TheWiseMaster on Mar 11, 2009 23:18:36 GMT
Only McIlroy, Bould and Chamberlain if fit would get into our current team No wonder that they went down  |
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