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Strange how a thread trying to compare the good old day with the bad recent days can very quickly morph into discussion of a particular day about 37 years ago

rammywhite wrote:Strange how a thread talkng to compare the good old day with the bad recent days can very quickly morph into discussion of a particular day about 37 years ago

It was a particularly shit day though Rammy. Massive snowball fight lightened the mood as I recall. But it does relate to when we were a selling club, trying to work our way back up which is pretty much on topic.

I suspect this poll will largely split along age lines. Those of us who were there during the seventies and eighties vs those who came in during or after the White Hot Era. 

In all honesty though Sam's reign should have been self funding easily even with the players he signed. I want to know where the revenue he and that side brought in disappeared to because I still don't see how we managed to wind up owing north of a 100 million quid after eleven straight years in the top flight.

I for one don't believe that Ed or Phil have been anything like honest with us about how that money was used and I'd really like to know what exactly happened to it all. 

Getting back on topic I think my favourite time to be a Wanderer has to be the very late seventies when Frank Worthington signed for us and Ian Greaves took us into the 1st division and survived the drop against all expectations. I was eleven or twelve at the time and had never seen the likes of Liverpool, Man Utd and all those huge clubs with massive grounds and crowds in person. I still remember going to Old Trafford with my dad and being gob-smacked at the wall of noise I could hear from a good hundred yards outside the ground even though it was barely half past two and when we finally got to the terraces it felt like a different planet to me let alone a different ground.

Sluffy wrote:I was another there that day.

me too. Of course I was very very young. Has my memory failed me, did Reidy after the tackle sort of fall off the side of the pitch onto the track below and it was that which broke his leg?

Chairmanda wrote:

Sluffy wrote:I was another there that day.

me too. Of course I was very very young. Has my memory failed me, did Reidy after the tackle sort of fall off the side of the pitch onto the track below and it was that which broke his leg?

No I don't remember that.

What I do recall was that Reid was running through on a ball around Woods six yard box (nearest the Manchester Road stand) - Wood being in the Embankment end goal.

The pitch was covered in snow and Wood came sliding out to collect the ball and clearly Reid at the same time.  I can't even remember his leg being broken - was it not his knee that got done in?

A long time ago now though but we were close to selling him for back in those days an amazing sum of £600,000 to Arsenal and we ended up selling him a year later for a tenth of that fee to Everton.

If only and all that.

Option 1. Coming up through the league's and glorious cup runs under Rioch and Todd. Marvellous.

boltonbonce wrote:Selling Paul Fletcher to Burnley was a low point for me. Caused a great deal of bitterness.

Never mind Bonce, he was pretty poor for us. 

Went on to be a success in business though.

boltonbonce wrote:Went on to be a success in business though.

Tell me that you didn't take my post seriously.

I put one of them smiley things and that. 

I never take any post seriously.

Copper Dragon wrote:

boltonbonce wrote:Selling Paul Fletcher to Burnley was a low point for me. Caused a great deal of bitterness.

Never mind Bonce, he was pretty poor for us. 

Oh yeah. Bob Lord's "Team of the 70's"

It was Jimmy Adamson's team of the 70's actually.   

The team who beat the Champions Leeds 4-1 in their own back yard.....

Stevenson
Noble
Dobson
Waldron
Newton
Thomson
Collins
Nulty
James
Casper
Fletcher

With a very special bicycle kick from Bolton's very own Paul Fletcher.

Wasn't it Bob Lord who came on the telly in about 1970 (oooer missus) and claimed that Burnley would be the team that dominated football in the next decade?

I thought Jimmy Adamson was the player who became manager and got you relegated twice?

No it was Adamson who proclaimed that Burnley would be the team of the seventies. We then were relegated in his first full season in charge.

He got us back up two seasons later where we finished 6th and 10th, which in that time (as Burnley have always had to do) we sold Ralph Coates, Dave Thomas and Martin Dobson. Then our 25 ish years slide really started, which wasn't helped by Leighton James going and that Leeds bastard Hunter crippling Frank Casper.

We could have been the team of the seventies but there was no way we could compete off the field with the likes of Liverpool, Leeds and to a lesser extent Derby.

Copper Dragon wrote:No it was Adamson who proclaimed that Burnley would be the team of the seventies. We then were relegated in his first full season in charge.

He got us back up two seasons later where we finished 6th and 10th, which in that time (as Burnley have always had to do) we sold Ralph Coates, Dave Thomas and Martin Dobson. Then our 25 ish years slide really started, which wasn't helped by Leighton James going and that Leeds bastard Hunter crippling Frank Casper.

We could have been the team of the seventies but there was no way we could compete off the field with the likes of Liverpool, Leeds and to a lesser extent Derby.

Fair enough although it's exactly the sort of boast butcher Bob would have made from his sausage factory - he was a cock of the highest order. Here's an article that appeared in the Gurniad in 2009 when you got promoted:
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A throwback from the 17th century was Bob Lord. Whether folk liked him or not, and Adamson did not get on with him at all, he was the Chairman in Burnley's  most successful post war period.

A lot of the older boys still haven't got over us selling Jimmy Mac to Stoke, mind you it was a very big deal then.

Here's a treat CD.

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Yes I've seen it before Bonce.

"A giant killing attempt to beat Burnley"   

Those were the days.

Slightly before my time Bonce, but yes those were the days for us all.