1984-85 season.

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Insider

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Just been in the attic and came across the celebratory addition of the Gazette, "Going Up" (11 May 1985) and the programme for Pool vs Torquay (4 May 3-3)
Some interesting articles about the Club.
Fans praised for their support.
Groundsman, Harry Threlfall, complimented on the good pitch despite 70 games played on it.
Good article about the late Billy O'Rourke.
Predictions of a bright future for young Paul Stewart.
Pool had the highest average attendance, 4,750.
Pictures of Colin Greenhall with hair.
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I think anyone who went to the promotion winning clash at Darlington that season should get a ticket for this seasons Nobber's match.
 
I was only a boy in 84/5 but great memories of Chesterfield(h),Darlington(a) and nightmares about Bury(a),I can still picture me,my grandad and father trying to negotiate our way back to the car amid a riot. Sam Ellis assembled a really good team that season.
 
Alfie Conn said:
I was only a boy in 84/5 but great memories of Chesterfield(h),Darlington(a) and nightmares about Bury(a),I can still picture me,my grandad and father trying to negotiate our way back to the car amid a riot. Sam Ellis assembled a really good team that season.
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Champagne corks popping in the West Paddock before the Torquay game. We'd secured promotion the night before by Hereford losing I think.

There's a great picture somewhere on the photo's thread of the pitch invasion at the end of that game.
 
Potts Must Go said:
Champagne corks popping in the West Paddock before the Torquay game. We'd secured promotion the night before by Hereford losing I think.

There's a great picture somewhere on the photo's thread of the pitch invasion at the end of that game.
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Yep. My late departed mate Fergie smuggled a bottle into the West Paddock. More people on the touchline for the last 10 minutes than were on the Paddock Bring back promotion pitch invasions🤣
 
Wizaard said:
Yep. My late departed mate Fergie smuggled a bottle into the West Paddock. More people on the touchline for the last 10 minutes than were on the Paddock Bring back promotion pitch invasions🤣
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I was with yourself and Fergie that day Wiz, remember the champagne in the West. That was a tough side we had that season, plenty of hard players.
 
Insider said:
Just been in the attic and came across the celebratory addition of the Gazette, "Going Up" (11 May 1985) and the programme for Pool vs Torquay (4 May 3-3)
Some interesting articles about the Club.
Fans praised for their support.
Groundsman, Harry Threlfall, complimented on the good pitch despite 70 games played on it.
Good article about the late Billy O'Rourke.
Predictions of a bright future for young Paul Stewart.
Pool had the highest average attendance, 4,750.
Pictures of Colin Greenhall with hair.
PS.
I think anyone who went to the promotion winning clash at Darlington that season should get a ticket for this seasons Nobber's match.
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i was at darlington when our full coach was locked up in the exercise yard of the police station and released after the kick off
 
I was at the Darlo and Bury games and also Hartlepool in the last game of the season
It was my first or second year of going to away games. I was 15/16 and just loved the away days
 
Darlo away was class - on the way back racing the team coach on the a66 so we could jump out and cheer them as they went past!
The pub on the tops that was packed with pool fans and one poor old bloke trying to serve behind the bar
 
Insider said:
Just been in the attic and came across the celebratory addition of the Gazette, "Going Up" (11 May 1985) and the programme for Pool vs Torquay (4 May 3-3)
Some interesting articles about the Club.
Fans praised for their support.
Groundsman, Harry Threlfall, complimented on the good pitch despite 70 games played on it.
Good article about the late Billy O'Rourke.
Predictions of a bright future for young Paul Stewart.
Pool had the highest average attendance, 4,750.
Pictures of Colin Greenhall with hair.
PS.
I think anyone who went to the promotion winning clash at Darlington that season should get a ticket for this seasons Nobber's match.
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That away game at Darlington is etched in my mind forever. It was one of the best ways I've ever had.
 
I think a lot about the Torquay game, more these days. When everyone went on, I wandered on at the back and celebrated - I was in the West that day. Stood on the lip of the wall to jump back down, and someone shoved into me from the back. just managed to stop myself going head first into the Paddock, which I guess would have smarted a bit.

If it was someone on here, I forgive you!
 
I was there. the Kop was opened for that one as there was a big crowd for the times about 7.5k or something
On the pitch at the end as well
 
Screenshot_20220114-130049_Gallery.jpgPicture I've posted before .
Was the Gazette picture from the sports pages.
Managed to get every player from that team to sign it👍🏻

As for the Darlo match!!! I was a bugs dick from getting my head kicked in on the pitch after the match.
Fortunately a few lads came to my rescue. Lasted a couple of minutes felt like hours😬
 
Wizaard said:
Yep. My late departed mate Fergie smuggled a bottle into the West Paddock. More people on the touchline for the last 10 minutes than were on the Paddock Bring back promotion pitch invasions🤣
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Werent you still allowed to consume alcohol in the stands in those days?. I'm sure it was just before the law was made that you couldn't drink in full public view.
 
I went to Darlington away and remember that access to Feethams was via a back alley (I think). Stood on the open away end.
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Darlo was a fantastic night. lost my bank card and had to persuade a steward to let me back in to look for it., Found it thankfully in the paddock otherwise a long search on the pitch and Hetze's boots.

Torquay was a great day as was the following saturday😉
 
Probably my favourite ever season watching Blackpool. After all the misery that had gone on before, it was like the club had come back to life again.
 
Potts Must Go said:
I had that for years, and lost it in a move.

Your right about the praise for the fans, on the whole. I remember though it does give a nod to the fact that we kicked our way out of most grounds !!!

Any of the 70 or so people arrested at Bury should be pardoned and offered free tickets for PNE 🤣
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Does Rochdale away count in the arrestees 😉🤗
 
Alfie Conn said:
Werent you still allowed to consume alcohol in the stands in those days?. I'm sure it was just before the law was made that you couldn't drink in full public view.
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Stewards weren't keen on bringing your own bottle of champers in😂
 
The first season I started goin regularly as a kid , , Still my favourite season just for the fact it was the last time we got automatic promotion 👍🏻
 
The pictures of the pitch invasion against Torquay are on page 8 of the old photos thread. I can't link them on my phone.

Well worth a look. Quality season. Up there with the best.
 
The only time we’ve got automatic promotion in the last 50 odd years. I was at the age where football was all consuming and we had some real heroes in Stewart, O’Keefe, Dyer, Deary etc.
After all he’d done, the way Sam Ellis was subsequently treated by a large section of the fans was nothing short of shameful.
 
north_london_pool said:
Darlo away that season (which didn’t technically clinch promotion but effectively did) remains my favourite ever away game.
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Aye, some random things stick out from that game.

One chant of ten men went to mow a meadow, which was rather loud.

Refusing to leave until Sam Ellis came back out.

On the way there in the back of a Luton van, loads piled in, with a mattress for "comfort" and a Leeds fan came with us. For some reason he kicked off, and minutes later, in the middle of some country road, the roller was put up and he was turfed out.

Then on the way back, whoever was driving somehow got lost and we ended up in Bradford at one point.
 
Interesting piece in the Torquay programme about the next away game, Hartlepool. (Won 2-0) The admission charge was £3 however the police were warning fans in advance they could be locked in the ground after the match. Coach travel was £4 and you had to contact Paul or Ozzie as soon as possible.
The programme was also advertising "Blackpool's only Truly Adult Nightout" with beer and spirits 50p on Mondays.
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At the Tangerine Nite-Spot.
 
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Insider said:
Interesting piece in the Torquay programme about the next away game, Hartlepool. (Won 2-0) The admission charge was £3 however the police were warning fans in advance they could be locked in the ground after the match. Coach travel was £4 and you had to contact Paul or Ozzie as soon as possible.
The programme was also advertising "Blackpool's only Truly Adult Nightout" with beer and spirits 50p on Mondays.
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Got that programme and also went to Hartlepool. I think they were cashing in on the possibility that we'd take thousands if Promotion was hanging on it. The Darlington game was the Tuesday night before, and we were up by the time we played Torquay, the Hartlepool game was the Bank Holiday Monday. I'd say we took about 1000. Nothing to play for, the job was done.
 
Loved that team and season. One of my greatest regrets watching the Pool is that I missed that Darlo away game, as I was teacher training in Liverpool, and couldn't get back for the next day at school.

My other great regret is that I did manage to get to the Tranmere away game, which was complete dogshite, after a great start to the season.
 
The night at Darlington was just something else, I don't think I've ever experienced another game like it. We absolutely battered them, this after they came to Bloomfield that season and famously "parked the bus".
A game that has certainly stayed long in my memory, I also remember going to the Hartlepool games as well but have no recollection whatsoever of the Torquay home game, although I'm sure I went, didn't finish 3-3 with someone smacking one of their players during the pitch invasion at the end?
 
Insider said:
Just been in the attic and came across the celebratory addition of the Gazette, "Going Up" (11 May 1985) and the programme for Pool vs Torquay (4 May 3-3)
Some interesting articles about the Club.
Fans praised for their support.
Groundsman, Harry Threlfall, complimented on the good pitch despite 70 games played on it.
Good article about the late Billy O'Rourke.
Predictions of a bright future for young Paul Stewart.
Pool had the highest average attendance, 4,750.
Pictures of Colin Greenhall with hair.
PS.
I think anyone who went to the promotion winning clash at Darlington that season should get a ticket for this seasons Nobber's match.
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I’ve been asked to do a bio of Harry Threlfall. Does the article feature a picture?
 
I remember being on the Kop when we beat Hereford at home to open up the gap.
I took my Dad to the Torquay game which was special because he hadn't been since the Mickey Walsh days. Last automatic promotion.
 
Contribution of Sam Ellis to our history is largely overlooked which really baffles me. Before him we were applying for re-election and doing a deal to sell Bloomfield Road to a supermarket. He gave us back hope and the club a buzz!
 
Morty said:
Contribution of Sam Ellis to our history is largely overlooked which really baffles me. Before him we were applying for re-election and doing a deal to sell Bloomfield Road to a supermarket. He gave us back hope and the club a buzz!
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👍 Ellis came in for some awful abuse from the fans prior to his sacking and also on his return as Bury manager, which was wholly unfair in my opinion given the job he had done (although to correct your post he was manager in the re-election season).
 
L’étranger said:
👍 Ellis came in for some awful abuse from the fans prior to his sacking and also on his return as Bury manager, which was wholly unfair in my opinion given the job he had done (although to correct your post he was manager in the re-election season).
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Fair point - I phrased it clumsily - he picked up a squad that was sinking like a stone and with some astute buys and development of youth turned them into a v good third tier outfit.
 
Morty said:
Fair point - I phrased it clumsily - he picked up a squad that was sinking like a stone and with some astute buys and development of youth turned them into a v good third tier outfit.
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His style meant the crowd were with him as long as the team was winning. Once we hit a sticky patch, they turned on him. See also Graysonball.
 
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