history repeating itself?.....please.

[lordswoodsaints]

season league position

1974-75 13

1975-76 6

1976-77 9

1977-78 2 promoted

 

2005-06 12

2006-07 6

2007-08 20

2008-09 ?

 

in our promotion season we lost 7 drew 13 won 22.

we drew our first game lost our second and then won 3 on the bounce.

5 of the 7 losses came before boxing day and 8 of the 12 draws came after boxing day.

15 of the 22 wins were at home.

 

oh and pompey got relegated to the old 4th division when we got promoted to the first :-)

 

hopefully history will repeat itself.

keep the faith.

come on you reds.

[Dicko]

I admire your optimism.

 

You're forgetting we won the FA Cup in '76 and weren't selling all our players in 77/78

I don't exactly see the parallels

[lordswoodsaints]

I admire your optimism.

 

You're forgetting we won the FA Cup in '76 and weren't selling all our players in 77/78

I don't exactly see the parallels

 

i think you will find there was a large change of personnel the season after we won the cup.

[Englesaint]

i think you will find there was a large change of personnel the season after we won the cup.

 

Indeed there was. Lawrie Mac had two totally different sides here. Once the cup was won, some of the older out of contract lads moved on. The attention and kudos from winning in '76 helped bring in Alan Ball which in turn helped Steve Williams out of the youth team and the rest is history.

 

Happy days !

[Fowllyd]

season league position

1974-75 13

1975-76 6

1976-77 9

1977-78 2 promoted

 

2005-06 12

2006-07 6

2007-08 20

2008-09 ?

 

in our promotion season we lost 7 drew 13 won 22.

we drew our first game lost our second and then won 3 on the bounce.

5 of the 7 losses came before boxing day and 8 of the 12 draws came after boxing day.

15 of the 22 wins were at home.

 

oh and pompey got relegated to the old 4th division when we got promoted to the first :-)

 

hopefully history will repeat itself.

keep the faith.

come on you reds.

 

I especially liked that bit. :)