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Whitestar

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  1. 57 minutes ago, gonzo said:

    Today's team...

    Ipswich 

    Hmmm , in 70s and 80s they were a top team.

    A sparsely populated area really with not much competition so id say their attendance is very decent, always been a selling club when they get any talented players though (or managers) and they are on the up at the moment, so go on I'm gonna say ever so slightly bigger.

  2. I think we can.

     

    If that Derby County team is the second best in that division I'll eat hay with the donkey. It's time for bollox, who's got em eh??? Come on i reckon we can still do it and im one if the most sceptical kicked in the nads , seen it all before Bolton fans you could meet.

  3. No complaints from me, wasn't a great game but we were the better team.

    We showed up, we gave them a hard game, we can't finish but we know that.

    Lots of time wasting from Derby and they got lucky with the goal (offside in build up to corner) but that's how it goes.

    If we stick at it and keep up them performances we could win every game, others will F*** up, keep the faith.COYWM.

  4. 55 minutes ago, wakey said:

    Warning - please skip this post if you're not interested in stats / history or you'll be bored rigid. 

    Lots of mentions on how poor our recent record is in this fixture. It's not just recent - it's always been a shocker for us and is one of our worst away records. Our list of worst away records is like a rogue's gallery of teams that are historically shit, but more on that later.

    We won our first game there in the inaugural season but then had 12 win-less visits through the rest of the 1880s and 1890s before our next win in 1902. At that stage we'd won 2 of 14, almost the same ratio as our overall 10 in 68 which I think puts a bit of context into how bad our record is in Derby.

    Our next 10 trips were our most successful spell, winning 4, drawing 4 and losing just 2. The last of those draws in 1920 was the start of another 12 game win-less streak, this time worse than the last as we lost 11 in a row taking us post WW2. Even our all conquering cup heroes of the 1920's couldn't win there!

    Since then we've had the occasional win breaking up smaller win-less streaks, but we're currently on our longest barren run since the war of 9 games.

    That sequence is the same as our run at Old Trafford and 1 behind our run at Anfield, both a bit more understandable than Derby. It's also some way of our win-less streaks at teams like Arsenal (15, since the cup giant-killing), Blackpool (14), or Rotherham (19!). 

    For league games only, using 3 points per win and measuring on points per game, Derby are our 8th worst away record or 4th worst excluding teams we've visited less than 5 times. I found this list interesting (and shocking) so I'll share it:

     

     

    Club
    Away Away Away
    P W D L win% ppg
    Colchester United 2 0 0 2 0.0% 0.00
    New Brighton Tower 1 0 0 1 0.0% 0.00
    Scarborough 1 0 0 1 0.0% 0.00
    Walsall 11 0 3 8 0.0% 0.27
    Torquay United 3 0 1 2 0.0% 0.33
    Rotherham United 20 1 6 13 5.0% 0.45
    Brentford 20 2 5 13 10.0% 0.55
    Derby County 64 8 14 42 12.5% 0.59

    We're unlikely to be improving our record against most of these anytime soon (and hopefully we leapfrog Rotherham and avoid that trip for years), but we can with Derby today ... and obviously Brentford in the next year of two.

    Of course, none of this makes a jot of difference to who wins today - we will, obviously - but thought I'd share anyway.

    Don't say you weren't warned 😁 

    Hmmm, interesting.

    I'm nearly 60 and struggling to remember us ever winning at Newcastle either???

  5. Well it is what it is, if Debbie & chrissy want to go along and wear a cheesecloth top with a black bra and put a little battery powered light up head band on and sing along to the words they don't know of an artist they have never heard of ang cling onto a warm flat plastic cup of lambrini for 6 hours whilst trying not to piss in their always ultra, then its their choice.

    I enjoy listening to old shite like Slade whilst sipping cold beer and eating crisps on my patio and wearing shorts with my flab hanging out, but that's my choice. 

  6. You never know, there must have been times when you have attended a BWFC game that you fully expected us to struggle in or to be an awful drab game, but then you were pleasantly surprised???

    Struggling to think of any recently but it must have happened.

  7. Oh i don't know?, if only we could capture the spirit of 92/3 season, we would probably have been happy with the play offs then but managed to get over the line and went on to a fantastic 20 years and built up the fan base to what it had not been since the 70s, things do sometimes suprise you!!!

    COYWM.

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