hoopty
Youth Player
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Post by hoopty on May 16, 2009 19:25:03 GMT
Talking in the pub after the game: when was the last time our last couple of games meant "nothing"?
We've spent the last ten years either seeking automatics, playoffs or avoiding (sometimes) relegation.
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Post by actongatestokie on May 16, 2009 19:27:15 GMT
Johan Boskamp season ended in midtable obsurity...as was the previous Pulis season.
Other than that it was probably Lou Macari's last season in 96/97.
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Post by robwahlmann on May 16, 2009 19:31:47 GMT
In the top flight I think the last time was in the 1982/83 season. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Scrotnig on May 16, 2009 20:02:54 GMT
In the top flight I think the last time was in the 1982/83 season. ;D ;D ;D Yes...because 83/84 we just avoided relegation after Ritchie Barker was replaced as manager by Bill Asprey. The following season of course poor Bill Asprey gave us the Holocaust season, with a then-record low points tally of 17 points from 3 wins (which actually was only beaten last season by Derby). I heard rumours that traumatic season wrecked Bill's health too. Does anyone know what he's doing, or even if he's still alive? I felt dreadfully sorry for him. Of course we only finally bounced "straight back" from that relegation last year! Nice bit of history for the younger Stokies! |
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Post by march4 on May 16, 2009 20:04:27 GMT
It did indeed wreck Bill's health. He is a Stokie through and through.
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Post by harryh157 on May 16, 2009 20:10:27 GMT
Nice bit of history for the younger Stokies!
Even the not so young stokies to be honest!
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Post by gloucesterstokie on May 16, 2009 20:15:04 GMT
johan boskamp we finished 13th if i remeber and 11th
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Post by Done it for scfcbuxton on May 16, 2009 20:17:52 GMT
In TP's first full season we finished 11th, then the season after 12th then in JB's season we finished 13th
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on May 16, 2009 20:28:29 GMT
The following season of course poor Bill Asprey gave us the Holocaust season, with a then-record low points tally of 17 points from 3 wins (which actually was only beaten last season by Derby). Didn't Sunderland break that record a few years earlier than Derby? |
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Post by Scrotnig on May 16, 2009 20:31:51 GMT
The following season of course poor Bill Asprey gave us the Holocaust season, with a then-record low points tally of 17 points from 3 wins (which actually was only beaten last season by Derby). Didn't Sunderland break that record a few years earlier than Derby? No, don't think so. Found this HERE: But that must be a record low points total for the Premier League as it is now...our total of 17 was not in the Premier League but in the old first division, but I was talking the "top flight" overall in its various forms. |
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Post by robwahlmann on May 16, 2009 20:39:04 GMT
81/82 then?  ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by youngstenny on May 16, 2009 20:46:28 GMT
Premier League Scrotnig,
I was speaking to Tony Lacey not long ago and he was saying that we stayed up in 83/4 due to the signing of Alan Hudson.Bill asked Tony to concentrate on the back 4 and defending,hence the clean sheets during the second half of that season at home.Bill Asprey did become ill and Tony reluctantly took over.They both knew the 84/5 season was going to be a struggle but confidence just drained and they could not turn it around.
From memory he said Bill Asprey was ok and now living in Ireland.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 16, 2009 20:58:27 GMT
Premier League Scrotnig, I was speaking to Tony Lacey not long ago and he was saying that we stayed up in 83/4 due to the signing of Alan Hudson.Bill asked Tony to concentrate on the back 4 and defending,hence the clean sheets during the second half of that season at home.Bill Asprey did become ill and Tony reluctantly took over.They both knew the 84/5 season was going to be a struggle but confidence just drained and they could not turn it around. From memory he said Bill Asprey was ok and now living in Ireland. Thanks for that Stenny, yes I remember Tony taking over for a bit now, I'd forgotten about that. And yes, I can remember finding out about Hudson in the Evening Sentinel. Didn't they bring back Alan Dodd briefly as well, to shore things up a bit? And, from memory, Joe Corrigan was in goal for a while too. Dark days for the club back then, but they were my earliest days as a Stoke fan and you don't forget too easily. A shame my two school friends, who actually got me going to Stoke games in the first place, have long since stopped being fans - but I'm still here, all these years later!! |
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Post by braintreestokie on May 16, 2009 20:59:31 GMT
Sunderland got 15 points in 2005/06 which is 0.395 points per game in a 38 match league. Our 17 points for 42 games works out at 0.405.
So they did take the record before Derby!
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Post by Scrotnig on May 16, 2009 21:00:37 GMT
Sunderland got 15 points in 2005/06 which is 0.395 points per game in a 38 match league. Our 17 points for 42 games works out at 0.405. So they did take the record before Derby! Ah, I didn't know we'd already had our dubious record broken...thanks for that. |
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;D ;D ;D
