[azul]

whittman, on 26 April 2018 - 06:55 PM, said:

Dave it was 2-0 and the other goal was Ernies overhead kick at the kop end

16500 attendance

Happy days

What a game that was

Wasn’t that the second 16000+ crowd we had that season for night game

And still enough room to swing a cat on the pop side

[RubyRed]

nattyfred, on 26 April 2018 - 09:06 PM, said:

The only time I've been to Wrexham I saw Jr. Walker & the all stars, Mac & Katie Kissoon, KC & the Sunshine band, Clem Curtis & the Foundations and a few others in what was probably one of the first Concerts on a football ground. It was somewhere around 1975 I think

Here you go Natty. One from that very day.  ACA23598-2B3E-4025-8FC5-FA65B9DD7FAD.jpeg (111.63K)
Number of downloads: 117

[nattyfred]

RubyRed, on 27 April 2018 - 12:53 PM, said:

Here you go Natty. One from that very day. ACA23598-2B3E-4025-8FC5-FA65B9DD7FAD.jpeg

I seem to remember that I was sat somewhere in that area but can't spot myself.


Thanks for the posting that

Now where did I put those flares and platforms

[hilly81]

Been to Wrexham more that any other away ground. Even went to this along with about 40 other Town fans. Jamie Hewitt's diving header in the last minute was a thing of beauty.

[Search & Destroy]

I went there once in the 80s maybe last game of the season, we were already down I think

[Misnomer]

hilly81, on 27 April 2018 - 02:52 PM, said:

Been to Wrexham more that any other away ground. Even went to this along with about 40 other Town fans. Jamie Hewitt's diving header in the last minute was a thing of beauty.

His equaliser against Sunderland was another beauty

[Tha Knows...]

I scived off school during the early 70s to watch us at Wrexham, an afternoon game midweek. If memory serves Keith Kettleborough lobbed the keeper from. 35 yards for a remarkable O.G. I forged a sick note but my mate took in a real note written by his mum saying “David was absent from school yesterday owing to Wrexham” �� He was dispatched to headmasters office for the stick after form master read it out to the amusement of the claas.

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[spireitetoo]

Misnomer, on 27 April 2018 - 07:31 PM, said:

His equaliser against Sunderland was another beauty

Loved to score a leveller against north east clubs ... who can ever forget that one against boro... now that... that is in the top 1 cfc football highlites.

[Wooden Spoon]

I remember seeing the words “welcome to hell” painted onto the road as we drove into Sarajevo and thinking ‘blimey, that’s for our benefit and a bit melodramatic isn’t it!


How wrong I was, and how glad I was when my time there ended and I got home. It wasn’t nice, it wasn’t fun, and it wasn’t amusiing repatriating bodies.


I truly hope my experience of the football league version of “ welcome to hell” doesn’t follow a similar path.

[60s 70s Spireite]

Spire-Power, on 27 April 2018 - 07:45 PM, said:

I scived off school during the early 70s to watch us at Wrexham, an afternoon game midweek. If memory serves Keith Kettleborough lobbed the keeper from. 35 yards for a remarkable O.G. I forged a sick note but my mate took in a real note written by his mum saying “David was absent from school yesterday owing to Wrexham” �� He was dispatched to headmasters office for the stick after form master read it out to the amusement of the claas.

Kettleborough was only here 67-8. And the only 35 yard own goal I recall him scoring wasn’t against Wrexham. (Chester?).
Apart from the FA Cup QF game, a match I particularly recall was there in Dec 70. They had chased us all the way in 69-70, finishing as runners up to our Champinship winning side. A close match was expected in the division above, but we were easy 3-0, winners, one of the performances of the season.
I always regarded Wrexham as our peers, similar crowds, similar ambitions, fair opponents in the Cup The fact that they, and indeed Tranmere and Stockport have found it so hard to come back frightens the hell out of me.

[Tha Knows...]

60s 70s Spireite, on 27 April 2018 - 08:36 PM, said:

Kettleborough was only here 67-8. And the only 35 yard own goal I recall him scoring wasn’t against Wrexham. (Chester?).
Apart from the FA Cup QF game, a match I particularly recall was there in Dec 70. They had chased us all the way in 69-70, finishing as runners up to our Champinship winning side. A close match was expected in the division above, but we were easy 3-0, winners, one of the performances of the season.
I always regarded Wrexham as our peers, similar crowds, similar ambitions, fair opponents in the Cup The fact that they, and indeed Tranmere and Stockport have found it so hard to come back frightens the hell out of me.

Not KK then but it happened 😀

[clarevoyant.]

60s 70s Spireite, on 27 April 2018 - 08:36 PM, said:

Kettleborough was only here 67-8. And the only 35 yard own goal I recall him scoring wasn’t against Wrexham. (Chester?).
Apart from the FA Cup QF game, a match I particularly recall was there in Dec 70. They had chased us all the way in 69-70, finishing as runners up to our Champinship winning side. A close match was expected in the division above, but we were easy 3-0, winners, one of the performances of the season.
I always regarded Wrexham as our peers, similar crowds, similar ambitions, fair opponents in the Cup The fact that they, and indeed Tranmere and Stockport have found it so hard to come back frightens the hell out of me.

Kettleborough's unforgetable OG was against Rochdale 67/68
After a promising start to the season, with regular crowds of 10,000+ we went rapidly down hill after Christmas

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[Bakewell Jim]

The way to return to the football league is to follow the Cowley model at Lincoln. Go for a successful manager of a smaller team in the National League, or the North/South feeder leagues. Fill the team with keen and physical youngish non-league players who want a break in their careers and you will do well. The Lincoln model had the likes of Rhead, Arnold, Woodyard, Habergham, Raggett, Farman, Hawkridge, Waterfall - committed non-league players who hadn't had a lot of league experience but were as keen as mustard. Highly physical but highly effective as we saw in the match in March.

[SpireiteFitzy]

Essex_Spireite, on 26 April 2018 - 03:13 PM, said:

Only 5 subs next season can be named as well... The need for a smaller squad?

I think we need to worry about getting an actual starting 11 who are any good before worrying about the subs situation 😂

[60s 70s Spireite]

clarevoyant., on 27 April 2018 - 09:47 PM, said:

Kettleborough's unforgetable OG was against Rochdale 67/68
After a promising start to the season, with regular crowds of 10,000+ we went rapidly down hill after Christmas

Thanks. Won the first 12 home games didn’t we, but drew 0-0 v Workington on Boxing Day and it was all down hill from there.

[clarevoyant.]

60s 70s Spireite, on 28 April 2018 - 05:49 AM, said:

Thanks. Won the first 12 home games didn’t we, but drew 0-0 v Workington on Boxing Day and it was all down hill from there.

That's right and it all coincided with the signing of that periods version of SEB, Bill Curry, if memory serves

[Westbars Spireite]

RubyRed, on 27 April 2018 - 12:53 PM, said:

Here you go Natty. One from that very day. ACA23598-2B3E-4025-8FC5-FA65B9DD7FAD.jpeg

I've been to Wrexham. That could have been last year mate.

[Voiceofjoe]

Is there an irony, that one of the main pundits on the BT National Shows is Dean Saunders. Would he dare come to the Proact if we were the live game ?

[Brimington Barry]

RN Blue, on 25 April 2018 - 09:36 PM, said:

A FA cup semi final rings a bell, now remind me what team we saw off in the quarters......

In answer to your question the old second division, but let's be fair you shouldn't even be in the English leagues

afaik, the Welsh clubs have played in the Anglo -Welsh system, pretty much since inception. So they have a perfect right to play their trade alongside English equivalents, one of which in the Premiership, although perhaps for not much longer.

Baz

[kopblue]

Voiceofjoe, on 28 April 2018 - 12:09 PM, said:

Is there an irony, that one of the main pundits on the BT National Shows is Dean Saunders. Would he dare come to the Proact if we were the live game ?

Why not, he left us outside the relegation zone in league 1 he wouldn't consider where we are to be anything to do with him, instead probably thinks had he not been sacked we'd still be a league 1 side