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Post by aloadofdbullocks on Aug 7, 2019 18:39:14 GMT 1
To cheer us up here is a MOTD when they used to have lower division games and we were main match when we stuffed Millwall in promotion year. Some legends on show and Mick Buxton being interviewed. I Remember it well!
Ah the good old east terrace - what memories!
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Post by Nickhudds.UTT on Aug 7, 2019 19:03:16 GMT 1
Brilliant, I was at that game, Russel was a lovely striker, lovely cross from Lillis.
Used to see them all in Johnys in their blue blazers.
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Post by bogart on Aug 7, 2019 19:20:42 GMT 1
Bring back the days you could swap ends at half time.
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Post by Porrohman on Aug 7, 2019 19:23:28 GMT 1
Peter sodding Willis 🤬🤬🤬
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Post by aloadofdbullocks on Aug 7, 2019 19:33:13 GMT 1
Allardyce for Millwall. Buxton saying get it forward and into the box quickly cos he didn’t like all the sideways and backwards passing he saw in games abroad.
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Aug 7, 2019 19:33:38 GMT 1
I was just going to say .. a historical match . The only one we ever won when Willis was ref |
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Aug 7, 2019 19:38:17 GMT 1
Looking at the kit I think paddy power were sponsoring us that season
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Post by aloadofdbullocks on Aug 7, 2019 19:39:11 GMT 1
Don’t think I have ever heard him being referred to as Peter Willis. It was, is and will always be Peter *#@!ing Willis!😂 |
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Post by aloadofdbullocks on Aug 7, 2019 19:40:27 GMT 1
Looking at the kit I think paddy power were sponsoring us that season Some will say it looks like a training top.  |
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Post by Porrohman on Aug 7, 2019 19:41:41 GMT 1
Looking at the kit I think paddy power were sponsoring us that season Wasn't that back when you couldn't wear a shirt with a sponsor on if the game was on the telly. |
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Post by royrace on Aug 7, 2019 19:42:15 GMT 1
What a day that was!!!
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Post by Doc Halladay 32 on Aug 7, 2019 19:43:20 GMT 1
Heroes every last one of them! Great memories - the refreshment trollies being pushed around the ground, bog roll flying from the Cowshed when a goal was scored. 8100 making lots of noise but still individual voices heard, we played nice simple stuff back then - the team had been away to Torremolinos - bloody pampered modern day footballers  Though they were the last Town team to be automatically promoted. A few more observations The crowd singing anti L666s songs, the oh so predictable groan from the crowd for a misplaced crossfield pass by Cowling, whose run and cross for Lillis was a thing of beauty. Lillis himself left Allardyce for dead when crossing for our third. How refreshing was it to hear a top class commentator (Barry Davies) correctly identifying every player in a third tier game, when his modern day (I hestitate to call them contemporaries because they are clearly not!) equivalents regularly misidentified Town's players for the last two seasons in the most watched league in the world. A great find by the OP. |
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Post by dxterrier on Aug 7, 2019 19:53:39 GMT 1
The good old days, the old ground, divisions 1 to 4, only 1 sub, you could put some steel in the tackle without all the rolling about and arm waving, the whole game seemed so much simpler back then
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Post by football on Aug 7, 2019 19:59:28 GMT 1
Cracking that cheers some lovely crosses and finishing.
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Aug 7, 2019 20:00:54 GMT 1
Mark Lillis was a talent
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Post by Frankiesleftpeg on Aug 7, 2019 20:04:20 GMT 1
Allardyce for Millwall. Buxton saying get it forward and into the box quickly cos he didn’t like all the sideways and backwards passing he saw in games abroad. He was right as well. There's a difference between just aimlessly hoofing it and the way Town got it forward under Buxton. Give me three or four passes followed by a goal any day if the week instead of 30 sideways passes resulting in a pass back to the keeper. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2019 20:12:43 GMT 1
Great stuff,
Someone far more intelligent than myself should create a "Town classic motd/big match" library thread and lock it.
I wouldn't like to guess how many times we were on in the old days. (70s 80s) on motd/big match/mwss
Milwall, Charlton away, Portsmouth away ?
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Post by villageidiot on Aug 7, 2019 20:22:36 GMT 1
loved this team. two fullbacks that bombed forward.
Russell looked like Dalglish had schooled him
Lillis was a top player
Stanton had a great engine and an eye for goal
in fact the whole midfield chipped in with plenty of goals
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Aug 7, 2019 20:26:38 GMT 1
I was there.....great find.
Going to send it to Mark.
How quickly we broke...how to beat a man and cross.
All on less than £200 a week.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Aug 7, 2019 20:30:04 GMT 1
No wank gangsta haircuts....no orange boots....just hammer and tongs football.
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Post by aloadofdbullocks on Aug 7, 2019 20:38:17 GMT 1
Mally Brown marauding forward - one of the most exhilarating sights in football.
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Post by workshyfop on Aug 7, 2019 20:39:12 GMT 1
Looking at the kit I think paddy power were sponsoring us that season The year of the (in)famous Central Mirfield prank ... In all seriousness, brilliant find. Cheered me right up. |
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Post by malcolmbrown on Aug 7, 2019 20:43:20 GMT 1
Oh to go back to those days. Dropped off by me dad, stand in different parts of the ground, fry up for tea afterwards.
Happy, happy days.
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Post by Stiggy on Aug 7, 2019 20:46:26 GMT 1
Proper footballers, not all just about pace then.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Aug 7, 2019 20:56:02 GMT 1
"Gerrit forrad" says Buxton.
Look how many support the ball. Even when we score see the others steaming in.
I know there was acres more space, i know they are fitter....but like boxing football has gone backwards.
Footballers egos, the 5 minute free kicks, the football family.
Yes, halcyon days despite the smelly bogs.
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Post by buxtonboys101 on Aug 7, 2019 20:57:42 GMT 1
... the memories ... the memories ... those oh so innocent days before the advent of so much greed, selfishness, oneupmanship and individualism. This was the year before the miners' strike a seminal event in British history when their defeat hastened in the end of the old working class idea of class solidarity as all of the above really took over. In fact, Buxton himself from a pit village in the North-East, epitomised perfectly the spirit of the times. To what his Town teams play was thing of beauty, grace and good old fashioned honesty and skill. God how we need some of that now.
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Post by badgertown on Aug 7, 2019 21:34:15 GMT 1
Allardyce for Millwall. Buxton saying get it forward and into the box quickly cos he didn’t like all the sideways and backwards passing he saw in games abroad. Have to agree with Mick on the Sideways and backwards passing! His football was great to watch, 5 goals in a game, also have to say what a tidy player Brian Stanton was, those were the days 😁 |
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Post by hypotenuse on Aug 7, 2019 21:59:09 GMT 1
I was just going to say .. a historical match . The only one we ever won when Willis was ref Funny that people can only remember the controversy. We actually did very well in later games he reffed, winning almost all of them. |
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Post by turbo2 on Aug 7, 2019 22:18:35 GMT 1
brilliant stuff. thanks for posting that. simple fast attacking football with players overlapping. its not rocket science
28 mins on match of the day for a 3rd div club. I bet we didn't get that in the whole of last season combined
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Post by Torquayterrier on Aug 7, 2019 23:01:34 GMT 1
No goaline technology then, still not sure if Hanvey's effort fully crossed the line.
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Though they were the last Town team to be automatically promoted.
