Retro Season Thread.

[AFCBPlasticfan]

The Southport bombscare game is one of the few games I can recall from that season. They must have been near the bottom of the table. I thought they went 2 0 up. I remember the players running up and down the pitch by the New Stand.

 

[fritter]

 

[fritter]

Autographs were important. How they looked. Trevor Hartley's was great. A work of art. Dennis Longhorn's was very neat. Keith East's exuberant and John Hold's very normal. These autograph styles are etched in my mind as well as on hundreds of pictures.

 

[RobTrent]

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That ground. That pitch.

 

[AlGard]

This weekend in 87.
"We are going up."

 

[fritter]

Echo poster.

 

[fritter]

Fixture posted 1971/72

 

[glennafcb]

So looking at that fixture poster the badge came before the name change then? I always thought they were introduced at the same

 

[AlGard]

Has anyone got one of these?

 

[Kinson Cherry]

Reference to the bomb scare, this is from the programme from the next home game.

On the left (New Stand) side of this picture, you can see AFCB players from l to r: Steve Grapes (No.7), John Impey (5), Neil Hague (6), Nark Nightingale (12) and Clive Payne (2). A little further away are Kieron Baker (no number) level with Howard Goddard (10).

 

[RobTrent]

Reference to the bomb scare, this is from the programme from the next home game.

On the left (New Stand) side of this picture, you can see AFCB players from l to r: Steve Grapes (No.7), John Impey (5), Neil Hague (6), Nark Nightingale (12) and Clive Payne (2). A little further away are Kieron Baker (no number) level with Howard Goddard (10).

Walker Stand in the background.

John King really did work hard to push the commercial aspects.

 

[AlGard]

Great stuff coming out in this thread. And no arguing.

 

[Neil Dawson]

They somehow managed to win here 1-0 on Boxing Day but we got revenge at Easter coming from 1 down to win 2-1 with a Clarky screamer from about 30 yards

That was a great goal... right behind it. Didn’t John Beck get the first?

 

[retro red]

What a great team that was.

 

[FrankBartonsBeard]

Who was the guy the coach used to pick up on the slip road at Rownhams....was it Barry ? I say coach as it wasn't that often there was more than one

'Barry from Romsey' to give him his full name !

 

[Kev 1964]

That was a great goal... right behind it. Didn’t John Beck get the first?

Yes he did Neil

He didn't score that many

 

[Neil Dawson]

Yes he did Neil

He didn't score that many

Funny the little things you remember. At that game when the players were warming up the fans sang ‘Colin Colin Clarke, when he gets the ball he scores a goal Colin Colin Clarke’ then they started singing ‘Johnny Johnny Beck’ at which point Beck started clapping us only to hear ‘when he gets the ball he does f*** all, Johnny, Johnny Beck’. Terrace comedy gold.

 

[RobTrent]

Funny the little things you remember. At that game when the players were warming up the fans sang ‘Colin Colin Clarke, when he gets the ball he scores a goal Colin Colin Clarke’ then they started singing ‘Johnny Johnny Beck’ at which point Beck started clapping us only to hear ‘when he gets the ball he does f*** all, Johnny, Johnny Beck’. Terrace comedy gold.

Was a cracking effort though!

 

[AlGard]

Today in 1980.
Nothing like the season's longest journey and another defeat.

 

[fritter]

Sure Al and others will remember this. Not sure how many seasons they ran for.