So when is the 8-0

Mug out?

It is history after all, with being the biggest top flight Saints winning margin. Was it not 9-2 against Wolves before this?

COYR!!!

Mug out?

 

It is history after all, with being the biggest top flight Saints winning margin. Was it not 9-2 against Wolves before this?

 

COYR!!!

9-3, 2nd division, 1965.

9-3, 2nd division, 1965.

I was there and was it the following week we signed the Wolves keeper?

I was there and was it the following week we signed the Wolves keeper?

Dave MacLaren, but we didn't sign him until the next season (after we were promoted).

Good job your memory is sooo much better than mine!

The interesting fact with the 9-3 result against Wolves was that the scoring for that game ended in the 60th minute when Terry Paine scored number 9.

I was up in one of the Chocolate Boxes and we were, not unreasonably, convinced we were going to run up a double figures scoreline.

I still have all the Pinks from that promotion season...here's that week's...

Good job your memory is sooo much better than mine!

My memory is all due to Fitzhugh Fella. It was the season before my first game - glory hunter once we got to the 1st division, been waiting for the glory ever since :-) Brought in as a replacement for Campbell Forsyth when he broke his leg. In an era when playing with a Scottish goalkeeper was considered akin to playing with 10 men we played three different Scots in the one season, Forsyth, MacLaren and the great Eric Martin.

In respect of Dave Maclaren's performance in the 9-3 drubbing I quote the Sports Echo... "The Saints would have scored perhaps another five or six goals had it not been for some magnificent saves by Wolves' goalkeeper Dave Maclaren" Signing him less than a year later doesn't seem so strange...obviously Ted Bates had been impressed.

I was up in one of the Chocolate Boxes and we were, not unreasonably, convinced we were going to run up a double figures scoreline.

 

 

 

As indeed was I and I got in too late for Wolves going 1-0 up with a Tony Knapp o.g in the 1st minute. Only found out about it when we went 2 up (in my mind) and a bigger kid told me to stop singing "2_0".

In respect of Dave Maclaren's performance in the 9-3 drubbing I quote the Sports Echo... "The Saints would have scored perhaps another five or six goals had it not been for some magnificent saves by Wolves' goalkeeper Dave Maclaren" Signing him less than a year later doesn't seem so strange...obviously Ted Bates had been impressed.

Pity he never played that well in the 6 months he was here.

Pity he never played that well in the 6 months he was here.

Maclaren's main fault was the he wouldn't come off his line...good shot stopper but that was just about the only strength in his game.

8-2 v Coventry

Maclaren's main fault was the he wouldn't come off his line...good shot stopper but that was just about the only strength in his game.

Now who does that remind me of?

9-3 v Wolves. Jimmy Melia played inside left in the middle of the field. For some reason he wore the No 9 shirt which in those days was the centre forward who was marked by the No 5. He followed Jimmy everywhere. That left a bloody great hole in the Wolves defence. It must have been late sixties.

9-3 v Wolves. Jimmy Melia played inside left in the middle of the field. For some reason he wore the No 9 shirt which in those days was the centre forward who was marked by the No 5. He followed Jimmy everywhere. That left a bloody great hole in the Wolves defence. It must have been late sixties.

September 18th 1965.

9-3 v Wolves. Jimmy Melia played inside left in the middle of the field. For some reason he wore the No 9 shirt which in those days was the centre forward who was marked by the No 5. He followed Jimmy everywhere. That left a bloody great hole in the Wolves defence. It must have been late sixties.

Wolves obviously knew nothing about his particular style of play.

September 18th 1965.

Was also there , still have the programme , remember there were loads of Wolves supporters moaning like Sunderland's .