Todays Games

[Marc505]

Fuck Wolves 

[deane koontz]

Pity there was no fans. I would have enjoyed watching them cry

[Mounts Kipper]

Poor Performance by wolves at least when we lost at this stage it was our reserves. 

[Johnnyrotten]

45 minutes ago, tkonion said:

Memory is a very funny thing, I thought that I'd seen George Wood break Reidy's leg on the icy pitch at Burden on New Year's Day. We played Everton and the game was abandoned at half-time. Where the fuck have I got that from? 🤔

You're completely right, definitely Christmas 78 or New Years Day 79.  Yes Barnsley was nearly 3 years later, a 2nd terrible injury.  He talks at length about it in his book, how he feared his career was over when George Wood did him.

[Mounts Kipper]

10 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:

You're completely right, definitely Christmas 78 or New Years Day 79.  Yes Barnsley was nearly 3 years later, a 2nd terrible injury.  He talks at length about it in his book, how he feared his career was over when George Wood did him.

I was at both games, was Barnsley broken leg or ACL? As can’t remember for sure. 

[SatanGreavsie]

1 hour ago, Johnnyrotten said:

You're completely right, definitely Christmas 78 or New Years Day 79.  Yes Barnsley was nearly 3 years later, a 2nd terrible injury.  He talks at length about it in his book, how he feared his career was over when George Wood did him.

Good pics posted by LW on earlier thread

 

[SatanGreavsie]

and though it won't appear in official records as the game was called off, I remember the papers next day quoting an attendance of 33k. 

[tkonion]

1 hour ago, Johnnyrotten said:

You're completely right, definitely Christmas 78 or New Years Day 79.  Yes Barnsley was nearly 3 years later, a 2nd terrible injury.  He talks at length about it in his book, how he feared his career was over when George Wood did him.

It was definitely New Year's Day. I'd forgotten that he played for is until 1982 though.

[SatanGreavsie]

Getting down the iced-up ramp out of the Paddock that day was dodgy to say the least!

[jeep]

3 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Poor Performance by wolves at least when we lost at this stage it was our reserves. 

Which year did we get to the quarter finals?

[dusan nikolic]

4 hours ago, jeep said:

Which year did we get to the quarter finals?

I think we got to the last 16 in 2007/08

[Roger_Dubuis]

3 hours ago, dusan nikolic said:

I think we got to the last 16 in 2007/08

Correct,  After spending nearly £50 million to be promoted from the second tier, Wolves did spend another £150 million in the transfer market in 2 seasons to get one round further

[bolty58]

12 hours ago, Mannyroader said:

You are being too generous. Him and Gareth Williams were huge and expensive flops.

Unless my memory is deceiving me, I distinctly remember Williams' home debut. Norwich City and we won 2-0 in a monsoon I recall. Williams scored a cracker from a fair way out which aquaplaned into the bottom corner at the Lever End end. At that moment, I thought we'd signed a superstar.

Remember his sports store opposite Ye Olde Pastie Shoppe?

[bolty58]

12 hours ago, leigh white said:

Hugh Curran was a belter though.

Was it him or Ralph Wright you could drive a motor bike through his legs? Properly bow legged. Seem to remember it was Curran. Pretty sure he played when we had the all white strip with the red numbers?

[woolli]

13 hours ago, Whitesince63 said:

Wolves were the most likely for Reidy and offering Terry Wharton as part of the deal. After Reidy returned from the injury we got a measly 60k and ended up paying 70k for Wharton. Just about sums our luck up.

Peter Reid was still in his nappies when Terry Wharton was playing for us, 1968-70

[Steejay]

Ralph Wright, Bob Hatton, Hugh Curran, Terry Wharton...

We never did replace Wyn Davies & Franny Lee...

[woolli]

18 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

Was it him or Ralph Wright you could drive a motor bike through his legs? Properly bow legged. Seem to remember it was Curran. Pretty sure he played when we had the all white strip with the red numbers?

Curran played for us 1974 onwards. Think it was 1969/71 we played all white. We changed to white shirts blue shorts for the 1971/72 season, when we was relegated to the old division three.

[leigh white]

45 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

Was it him or Ralph Wright you could drive a motor bike through his legs? Properly bow legged. Seem to remember it was Curran. Pretty sure he played when we had the all white strip with the red numbers?

He came in 74 so it would be the White shirts/Navy shorts.

 

[nantwichwhite]

Curran broke his leg at Burnley, sat up on the stretcher pumping his fists saying I'll be back, very hard man

[Mannyroader]

1 hour ago, Steejay said:

Ralph Wright, Bob Hatton, Hugh Curran, Terry Wharton...

We never did replace Wyn Davies & Franny Lee...

Or Hoppy (Alan Boswell) or Freddie.

[HenryPorter]

John Manning ??

[gonzo]

 

[Steejay]

9 minutes ago, HenryPorter said:

John Manning ??

Another duffer...

[HenryPorter]

1 hour ago, Mannyroader said:

Or Hoppy (Alan Boswell) or Freddie.

Speaking of 1960s centre forwards, I noticed from the BN obituaries this week that Ernie Phythian had passed away, in South Africa.  Another, along with Eric Redrobe, from the post-Nat Lofthouse barren years.

[Zico]

21 minutes ago, gonzo said:

 

ace

we are back, relatively speaking