No proper footie til Friday, so for the sake of summat to do thought I'd dive into some of our longest runs against other teams.

Starting with the good stuff - our longest winning runs including both home and away, all competitions.

Our record is 8 wins on the bounce. We've done that against 3 different teams. There's 2 further teams we've won 7 on the bounce, and a further 3 we've won 6 consecutive games.

So without cheating, can anyone guess the 8 teams we've had our best winning runs against. Unlimited imaginary prizes available for best guesses.

Charlton has to be one 

1 minute ago, Zico said:

Charlton has to be one 

you'd think so ... but no.

Our longest winning run against Charlton is 5 matches, albeit we've done it on four separate occasions (Aug 65 - Nov 67, Jan 73 - Nov 76, Jan 04 - Apr 06, and Sep 21 to Oct 23). If we hadn't been shit in the recent home game we'd have stretched the current run to 6.

Port Vale or Shrewsbury?

JJ against West Ham.

1 minute ago, Bertie said:

Port Vale or Shrewsbury?

Both correct!

We won 7 on the spin v Shrewsbury between 1990 and 2017 and won our first 8 v Port Vale between 1900 and 1933. We also won 7 on the bounce against them between 97 and 2017.

Well done Bertie, you win two completely imaginary prizes of your choice.

5 minutes ago, FrancisFogarty said:

JJ against West Ham.

West Ham spot on, but after JJ had gone - 8 wins from 2008 to 2011.

I must admit I was talking about JJs long run with the ball for his goal against West Ham .

Right answer but for the wrong reason.

1 hour ago, wakey said:

West Ham spot on, but after JJ had gone - 8 wins from 2008 to 2011.

I did think we had a good record against West Ham but was thinking earlier in the PL and could remember the odd draw and defeat

This run will have been when Davies bullied and bummed Upson each and every time we played

4 minutes ago, FrancisFogarty said:

I must admit I was talking about JJs long run with the ball for his goal against West Ham .

Right answer but for the wrong reason.

McAteer once made a great long run at Burnden, can't remember the opposition but it was a fine goal.

Tricky at Cardiff play off final was also a fine distance goal.

10 minutes ago, FrancisFogarty said:

 

Right answer but for the wrong reason.

Is still the right answer 😁

29 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

McAteer once made a great long run at Burnden, can't remember the opposition but it was a fine goal.

 

Millwall

rochdale , fa cup

34 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

McAteer once made a great long run at Burnden, can't remember the opposition but it was a fine goal.

Tricky at Cardiff play off final was also a fine distance goal.

 

5 minutes ago, Casino said:

Millwall

At 1.26 on YouTube compilation of Jason McAteer goals.

41 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

McAteer once made a great long run at Burnden, can't remember the opposition but it was a fine goal.

Tricky at Cardiff play off final was also a fine distance goal.

Rochdale on debut????

His debut v rochdale was 'just' a half volley

Millwall a bit later was a mazy run

Blackpool?

5 minutes ago, jmjhb said:

Blackpool?

good shout - and correct!

We won our first 7 matches against Blackpool between 1896 and 1909. 

1 minute ago, wakey said:

good shout - and correct!

We won our first 7 matches against Blackpool between 1896 and 1909. 

They're making up for it somewhat now though!

We've got 4 of them so far, so to recap ...

Bertie got Port Vale and Shrewsbury

FrancisF got West Ham

jmjhb got Blackpool.

Four left to get. I think there's one nobody gets without cheating, so I'll give a couple of clues.

1. This is a 'current' run in that we've won our last 6 against them BUT the last one was in 1911.

2. The only way we'd play them is if they had a good run in the FA cup.

3. All our previous meetings were in the league.

4. They spent one season in the top flight - but we weren't in it that year.

Darlington one of them?

25 minutes ago, wakey said:

good shout - and correct!

We won our first 7 matches against Blackpool between 1896 and 1909. 

I assume they were 7 home games😂

19 minutes ago, wakey said:

We've got 4 of them so far, so to recap ...

Bertie got Port Vale and Shrewsbury

FrancisF got West Ham

jmjhb got Blackpool.

Four left to get. I think there's one nobody gets without cheating, so I'll give a couple of clues.

1. This is a 'current' run in that we've won our last 6 against them BUT the last one was in 1911.

2. The only way we'd play them is if they had a good run in the FA cup.

3. All our previous meetings were in the league.

4. They spent one season in the top flight - but we weren't in it that year.

Swindon? 

Bradford park Avenue?

Birmingham. 

37 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Darlington one of them?

Not Darlington. Best we've managed v them is 4 wins on the trot.