Basement Jack Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 2 hours ago, @owlstalk said: That kit always reminds me of a period of decline 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@owlstalk Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 Not a huge fan of the shorts 1 Owlstalk Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 8 hours ago, York_Owl said: This was about the time you could start to see the lack of investment in the team. Not sure why we got rid of Shirtliff and Shelton but we should have been signing the likes of Mark Wright and Ian Snodin to replace them rather than Larry May and Gary Owen. Very much so mate ,old bert tightened the purse strings and it started to unravel all the good he'd done previously 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthefish2002 Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 This was the team when I first started to go regularly to home games. Think it was also when things stated to go a bit stale after the momentum of the early to mid 80s under Charlton and Wilkinson. 8 hours ago, Basement Jack said: That kit always reminds me of a period of decline I don't disagree with you but seems funny to be talking about decline when we finished 11th in the Top Division with what has gone off in last 20 years. English football in general was in a bit of a slump, clubs like Wednesday and Villa would only get 15,000 for Saturday home games at this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 1 hour ago, matthefish2002 said: This was the team when I first started to go regularly to home games. Think it was also when things stated to go a bit stale after the momentum of the early to mid 80s under Charlton and Wilkinson. I don't disagree with you but seems funny to be talking about decline when we finished 11th in the Top Division with what has gone off in last 20 years. English football in general was in a bit of a slump, clubs like Wednesday and Villa would only get 15,000 for Saturday home games at this time. Yep how we'd love that now but we lost 8000 fans in 3 years and started making annual losses so easy to see why the quality of signings dipped . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royalowlisback Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 11 hours ago, onslow said: Here we go... with West, Big Nige, Mego, Fee, Proctor Des Hazel, Wayne Jacobs Great picture. What a good-looking squad we had. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adelphi1867 Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 11 hours ago, onslow said: That's right, I think the youngsters didn't get a look in once we started to struggle that season, and the reinforcements (so called!) like Proctor were signed and blocked their progress in the days of 13 man squads One of the first things Wilkinson did was to scrap the Junior/Youth set up at Hillsboro. The first thing he did at Ellend Rd was set up a Youth system. Strange. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onslow Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 2 hours ago, matthefish2002 said: This was the team when I first started to go regularly to home games. Think it was also when things stated to go a bit stale after the momentum of the early to mid 80s under Charlton and Wilkinson. I don't disagree with you but seems funny to be talking about decline when we finished 11th in the Top Division with what has gone off in last 20 years. English football in general was in a bit of a slump, clubs like Wednesday and Villa would only get 15,000 for Saturday home games at this time. Im sure the job losses and closure of the colliery’s had an impact on the attendance figures. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthefish2002 Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 4 minutes ago, onslow said: Im sure the job losses and closure of the colliery’s had an impact on the attendance figures. Maybe but all clubs attendances were down. Even the biggest clubs like Man U and Liverpool weld only get 30-35k for an average game on a Saturday. The London clubs like Arsenal and Spurs would get 23k for an average Saturday game. Think it is a combination of factors high unemployment, hooliganism, football being very unfashionable, grounds being run down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royalowlisback Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 5 minutes ago, matthefish2002 said: Maybe but all clubs attendances were down. Even the biggest clubs like Man U and Liverpool weld only get 30-35k for an average game on a Saturday. The London clubs like Arsenal and Spurs would get 23k for an average Saturday game. Think it is a combination of factors high unemployment, hooliganism, football being very unfashionable, grounds being run down. A bit like Hillsborough now then? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Zarhutt Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 This was the year that Wilko tried (and failed) to get Mark Wright from Southampton. Apparently his Missus didn't want to move North, so he then went & signed for Derby..... Wilko then turned his attention elsewhere & tried to spend nearly half a million on a midfield player & promising centre-half. He was told by the board, 'we're not spending that on some Oxford Utd midfield player or some unproven lower league defender at Middlesbrough'. The Oxford player was Ray Houghton who shortly after went to Liverpool & promptly won the championship, plus a few more odds & ends in the follwoing seasons. The Middlesbrough defender was Gary Pallister who a couple of years later went to Old Trafford and won.....just about everything. No wonder Howie cleared off up the M1 to Elland Rd a year later..... 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrysgame Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 22 hours ago, York_Owl said: This was about the time you could start to see the lack of investment in the team. Not sure why we got rid of Shirtliff and Shelton but we should have been signing the likes of Mark Wright and Ian Snodin to replace them rather than Larry May and Gary Owen. I'd forgot about Larry May...what were we thinking! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDOWL Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Howard Wilkinson on Larry May when he signed him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
part timer owl Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 (edited) See that shirt and think of this. https://youtu.be/-3aWn1lwfIs?si=55OuZtaZTwEzJ7sg Edited March 14 by part timer owl Mistake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
island owl Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Wish we had Lee Chapman and Siggi Johnson now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
island owl Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Also Mel Sterland and David Hirst Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F. Spiksley Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 I can't help but think of that photograph of Jack Nicholson's character at the end of The Shining when I look at Mel Sterland's expression. Does anyone know if Mel's face appears in any old Wednesday team photographs from the 1920's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F. Spiksley Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 For real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 20 hours ago, adelphi1867 said: One of the first things Wilkinson did was to scrap the Junior/Youth set up at Hillsboro. The first thing he did at Ellend Rd was set up a Youth system. Strange. In what way did he scrap it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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