1970/71

[Surreyseasider]

The 1970/71 TEAM
Burridge
Armfield
James
Sudderby
Bentley
GREEN
Craven
Pickering
Suddick
Hutchinson
Sub Towers
How come this team were relegated that
season with very little points the lowest
at the time. On paper this team looks great

 

[southshore]

How many current internationals in that side?

 

[Surreyseasider]

Surreyseasider
I forgot T Coleman & Burns

 

[HetzkeBlaster]

I was talking to John Burridge three weeks ago, ahem, little name dropper me , and he was having a proper moan about todays modern footballers at the top level. "Always trying to cheat the refs, falling over etc - not a hard man between them and all that money etc". We could certainly do with some of the quality that BFC had in that 70's era when I started watching them. Happy days............

 

[CompleteControl]

How many current internationals in that side?

No current internationals in that side since most of them ( still alive) are at least 70.

 

[Ooh It’s a Corner]

The 1970/71 TEAM
Burridge
Armfield
James
Sudderby
Bentley
GREEN
Craven
Pickering
Suddick
Hutchinson
Sub Towers
How come this team were relegated that
season with very little points the lowest
at the time. On paper this team looks great

Budgie had a good career but was very raw in those days
Armfield at the end of the road
James average
Suddaby below average
Bentley had a good song that’s about it
Green good player but couldn’t do it all on his own
Craven below average clogger
Pickering bustling bevvy merchant
Suddick good song the odd good free kick
Hutchinson not helped by the wind coming in from the Irish Sea more meat on a butchers apron
There again compared to some of the teams since they were great

 

[hampshire_exile]

4 wins in a season tells its own story. At the time I thought we were unlucky in a good few games. But when we played well, we couldn’t put games to bed, and were were always liable to concede late on, And we never got anything when we didn’t play well.

 

[tangerinenotorange]

Budgie had a good career but was very raw in those days
Armfield at the end of the road
James average
Suddaby below average
Bentley had a good song that’s about it
Green good player but couldn’t do it all on his own
Craven below average clogger
Pickering bustling bevvy merchant
Suddick good song the odd good free kick
Hutchinson not helped by the wind coming in from the Irish Sea more meat on a butchers apron
There again compared to some of the teams since they were great

You must be on a wind up, but I can't be arsed to put you right.

 

[midfield general]

You must be on a wind up, but I can't be arsed to put you right.

You just saved me from saying the same thing!

 

[This is Ska]

3-0 up at half time against Chelsea (Bonnetti, Ian Hutchison, Osgood etc) and losing 3-4 sums up that season.

 

[Old_Laytonian]

My first season attending on my own age 12/13. I used to catch the 22 or 23 from Layton Square on my own . Would you let your kids or grandkids do that nowadays

 

[1966_and_all_that]

Burridge only appeared towards the end of the season. For most of the season it was Harry Thompson and whilst he'd been great in Div 2, he let us down a bit in Div 1. Certainly cost us a home win against Stoke.

 

[1966_and_all_that]

Budgie had a good career but was very raw in those days
Armfield at the end of the road
James average
Suddaby below average
Bentley had a good song that’s about it
Green good player but couldn’t do it all on his own
Craven below average clogger
Pickering bustling bevvy merchant
Suddick good song the odd good free kick
Hutchinson not helped by the wind coming in from the Irish Sea more meat on a butchers apron
There again compared to some of the teams since they were great

A very poor assessment. Glynn James was well above average. Tommy Hutchison (correct sp.) was a Div 1 player as he went on to prove. Others were good but we weren't a 90 minute team and lacked the strength in depth to see games out.

 

[Wizaard]

My first season attending on my own age 12/13. I used to catch the 22 or 23 from Layton Square on my own . Would you let your kids or grandkids do that nowadays

When I was 6, I used to get put on a Yelloways coach from what is now Lidl with my sister aged 3, with the driver under strict instruction that we weren't to get off until it got to Chorlton St bus station in Manchester where we'd be met by my grandma. Different times, although Myra and Ian were still on the loose.

On a similar theme, would you let your 10 year old hang around outside North Station asking strangers if you could escort them to their hotel, carrying their luggage.

 

[Ooh It’s a Corner]

Apart from the spelling error and forgetting Harry Thomson who was bobbins they went down and the only thing that was poor was the position at the end of the season not the assessment ps Glynn James won a lot ......for Marklyn Motors

 

[Loco]

My first season attending on my own age 12/13. I used to catch the 22 or 23 from Layton Square on my own . Would you let your kids or grandkids do that nowadays

I was only 10 and got the bus from the Halfway House on my own. Got in early to get my spot on the wall in the south. Met my parents in there for a lift home.

 

[62years&counting]

Apart from the spelling error and forgetting Harry Thomson who was bobbins they went down and the only thing that was poor was the position at the end of the season not the assessment ps Glynn James won a lot ......for Marklyn Motors

James was up there with the best centre backs we've ever had.

 

[southshore]

No current internationals in that side since most of them ( still alive) are at least 70.

You know what I meant smart arse,

 

[P t Barnum]

You're lost McPhee and mowbray and ronnie brown

 

[glasshalffull]

Fred Pickering missed an awful lot of games as I recall? That left John Craven up front on his own a lot. He was a good player, but more naturally a midfield player, so a lack of firepower up front.