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Offline Damo70

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Re: Squad Comparisons - 1986 v today.
« Reply #45 on: January 09, 2013, 02:31:01 PM »
Lack of goals did for us that year. From the start of the new year only Southampton battered us. But in the twenty games from Jan 1st we only scored fifteen goals and four of them were in the West Ham game when we were as good as down. Stainrod and Thompson got six goals each all season, Andy Gray scored once in eighteen games and Aspinall didn't score in his first eleven games for us.

Offline fbriai

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Re: Squad Comparisons - 1986 v today.
« Reply #46 on: January 09, 2013, 02:42:55 PM »
As I remember Hunt and Blair were signed in the middle of season. Also in desperate need of a striker we turned to Warren Aspinal.

That's the way I remember it too.

As for that Forest game, didn't Franz Carr play a blinder for them and get a couple that day?

Online Duncan Shaw

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Re: Squad Comparisons - 1986 v today.
« Reply #47 on: January 09, 2013, 02:53:01 PM »
Blair was signed after we won the league, our only summer signing that close season!
Imagine an H&V transfer thread in those days!!

Offline DB

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Re: Squad Comparisons - 1986 v today.
« Reply #48 on: January 09, 2013, 02:54:05 PM »
Seems quite an apt bump, as that shower tonight and of recent weeks  is certainly no better than McNeill's team in my opinion.  There is the same stench of relegation as '87.

We are only as good or bad as the teams around us. Are there worse teams than us today unlike '87? Sat may help us to answer that.

Offline mr woo

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Re: Squad Comparisons - 1986 v today.
« Reply #49 on: January 09, 2013, 03:07:59 PM »
There was a young Erdington lad called Mark Burke that made his debut that season too. Another one that didn't really make the grade, pretty sure he went to Wolves at some stage.

 


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