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It was around about forty years ago this season that we won the fourth division title when we finished of Exeter in the last game of the season at Blundell Park.
A game I will never forget, simply for everything about the supporters and my fellow team mates 22,000 thousand supporters at Blundell Park that night incredible.
Now here is a thought we play Southport last home game of the season and we could be chasing a league position, or a play- off place.
For that game if I could get the atmosphere of that night against Exeter by bringing as many of the 71/72 team as possible to go out on the pitch and get the supporters to cheer the lads on against Southport.
I was talking about doing that Saturday to a few keen Town fans what do you think.
ALSO TELL ME WHAT PLAYERS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE COME BACK
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It was around about forty years ago this season that we won the fourth division title when we finished of Exeter in the last game of the season at Blundell Park.
A game I will never forget, simply for everything about the supporters and my fellow team mates 22,000 thousand supporters at Blundell Park that night incredible.
Now here is a thought we play Southport last home game of the season and we could be chasing a league position, or a play- off place.
For that game if I could get the atmosphere of that night against Exeter by bringing as many of the 71/72 team as possible to go out on the pitch and get the supporters to cheer the lads on against Southport.
I was talking about doing that Saturday to a few keen Town fans what do you think.
ALSO TELL ME WHAT PLAYERS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE COME BACK
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Would be fantastic if they could all be there, especially with POTENTIALLY sso much at stake. I remember that night and the excitement and joy that was throughout the ground especially in the pontoon. Oh happy days.
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My first ever game. I was 7 years old and my sister took me. I sat on one of the metal barriers near the back of The Pontoon but hardly saw anything all game. I remember I kept asking my sister if we had scored everytime there was a cheer from the Town fans.
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It was my first ever Town game. What a cracker eh?
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God makes me feel old. I was sat on the floodlights at Harrington corner.
What a great night. The atmosphere was amazing.
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A hell of a night which wouldn't have happened had the original game not been abondoned at half time due to fog earlier in the season.
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No one there that night will ever forget it. Brilliant.
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I wonder if there is any footage available. I seem to remember a brief snippit on the Calander news the following day. I guess it's too much to expect that it has survived anywhere.
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It was around about forty years ago this season that we won the fourth division title when we finished of Exeter in the last game of the season at Blundell Park.
A game I will never forget, simply for everything about the supporters and my fellow team mates 22,000 thousand supporters at Blundell Park that night incredible.
Now here is a thought we play Southport last home game of the season and we could be chasing a league position, or a play- off place.
For that game if I could get the atmosphere of that night against Exeter by bringing as many of the 71/72 team as possible to go out on the pitch and get the supporters to cheer the lads on against Southport.
I was talking about doing that Saturday to a few keen Town fans what do you think.
ALSO TELL ME WHAT PLAYERS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE COME BACK
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Just spoke to Dave Worthington, will try to put everything off to get to Southport game and he did say the most important thing is that we support the team on the day and hopefully Town are in some kind of a position to get promoted. NEWFOOTBALLER |
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For those who weren't there it was the equivalent of a footballing multiple orgasm.
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For those who weren't there it was the equivalent of a footballing multiple orgasm.
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I was right at the very front of the Ponny from about 6.30 onwards ( sat on the fench behind the goal)
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22,000 in Blundell Park. Gutted that I'll never witness anything close to that in my lifetime.
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I was right at the very front of the Ponny from about 6.30 onwards ( sat on the fench behind the goal)
I was fortunate I was playing. As they said in them days inside left was my position, and even I felt honoured to be on the pitch it was that special. NEWFOOTBALLER |
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I remember it well, one of the best nights.
my big memory of this night was the crowd converging on the touchline ready
for the final whistle. then the referee gave a foul and they all charged on thinking
it was the final whistle. at once it seemed the chant of off,off,off came from the
stands and the pitch cleared in seconds for the game to resume, finally to end
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It's impossible to convey the atmosphere on that night. To see BP packed to the rafters was unbelievably special and the advent of all seater stadia means we will never ever experience anything close.
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Would be great if the club was able to organise some sort of function in McMenemeys (meal and pre match talk) by the players, I'm sure that there would be a lot of interest and maybe even a bit of a money spinner for the club.
Would be a great way of getting the some of the older town fans back to the ground and also letting the young uns listen to the teams experiences and memories of that season.
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Just goes to show how times have changed. I saw a lot of games that year and it's true that the atmosphere was great.
Mind, I do think the McMenemy era was hugely exaggerated. Even with my basic knowledge of Mariners history I seem to recall that Lawrie was gone in a tad over 2 years to Southampton - hardly an era? Obviously remembered for the huge success at the time and the fact that he did so much in football. Remember him coming into my school and had plenty of time for the kids.
The poaching thing in footie obviously hasn't changed but folk find other things to do now plus it's so hugely over-priced for a basically poor product at lower league level and until the wages get sorted and the days experience becomes more spectator oriented - who really cares?
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My first season following Town. Hooked first game. No matter how excrement we have been it's always been a thrill when you see those stripes come out on the pitch.
Couldn't go that particular night but remember hearing it from my mum's house miles away. Can't remember last time you could hear the crowd from there (mind you I'm usually in the crowd if I'm up there visitng the old dear).
The songs from that era stick in the mind the most.
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my dad was in the pontoon that day. ps im 16 today
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Just goes to show how times have changed. I saw a lot of games that year and it's true that the atmosphere was great.
Mind, I do think the McMenemy era was hugely exaggerated. Even with my basic knowledge of Mariners history I seem to recall that Lawrie was gone in a tad over 2 years to Southampton - hardly an era? Obviously remembered for the huge success at the time and the fact that he did so much in football. Remember him coming into my school and had plenty of time for the kids.
The poaching thing in footie obviously hasn't changed but folk find other things to do now plus it's so hugely over-priced for a basically poor product at lower league level and until the wages get sorted and the days experience becomes more spectator oriented - who really cares?
Not when you consider the reaction he got from the area! The man oozed charisma. Not only did we finish with crowds of 22k+ but regular 10k+ crowds when just a year or so earlier we had lower gates than we see today. He not only united the club, but the area too. His off the field achievements should never be underestimated imo |
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Not when you consider the reaction he got from the area!
The man oozed charisma. Not only did we finish with crowds of 22k+ but regular 10k+ crowds when just a year or so earlier we had lower gates than we see today. He not only united the club, but the area too.
His off the field achievements should never be underestimated imo
THIS: You have to put the Lawrie Mac reign into the context of what had gone on immediately before. Town were forced to seek re-election only a couple of seasons before and rattled around the lower reaches of Division 4 after that flirting with re-election again in 70/71. Then, as now, there was a dormant, sleeping giant of a fan base just begging to be woken up. Lawrie knew exactly how to do that. His methods were unashamedly populist-taking players down the docks at 6:00 a.m. to show how "real" people lived and worked and opening up training sessions at Peaks Lane for fans to watch. The scene was set pre-season when we put seven past the Japanese National XI and the team were off and running after hammering Scunny 4-1 first game. The philosophy appeared to be in that first season "however many the opposition scored we'd score one more" which made for non-stop attacking football with a veil drawn over defensive lapses. The fans loved it and his place in folk lore was further cemented with the League Cup run. The second season happened on the back of the momentum built up during the first but the team was ageing. Matt Tees was reaching the end of an illustrious career and despite all the money which came in little of it seemed to be ploughed back into the future of the club. There was an inevitability about Lawrie's departure. For me Lawrie's biggest achievement was making the fans believe that we were invincible. In that first season it was simply a case of people turning up to watch another two points added to the total. The away followings were amazing considering the far poorer transport infrastructure that existed in those days and who could forget the near 15,000 who followed the team to Coventry in the second season. A short period it may have been but for those who were part of it absolutely unforgettable. |
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You have to put the Lawrie Mac reign into the context of what had gone on immediately before. Town were forced to seek re-election only a couple of seasons before and rattled around the lower reaches of Division 4 after that flirting with re-election again in 70/71. Then, as now, there was a dormant, sleeping giant of a fan base just begging to be woken up. Lawrie knew exactly how to do that. His methods were unashamedly populist-taking players down the docks at 6:00 a.m. to show how "real" people lived and worked and opening up training sessions at Peaks Lane for fans to watch. The scene was set pre-season when we put seven past the Japanese National XI and the team were off and running after hammering Scunny 4-1 first game. The philosophy appeared to be in that first season "however many the opposition scored we'd score one more" which made for non-stop attacking football with a veil drawn over defensive lapses. The fans loved it and his place in folk lore was further cemented with the League Cup run.
The second season happened on the back of the momentum built up during the first but the team was ageing. Matt Tees was reaching the end of an illustrious career and despite all the money which came in little of it seemed to be ploughed back into the future of the club. There was an inevitability about Lawrie's departure.
For me Lawrie's biggest achievement was making the fans believe that we were invincible. In that first season it was simply a case of people turning up to watch another two points added to the total. The away followings were amazing considering the far poorer transport infrastructure that existed in those days and who could forget the near 15,000 who followed the team to Coventry in the second season.
A short period it may have been but for those who were part of it absolutely unforgettable.
This post sums up that part of Towns history brilliantly Mr barralad. We could do with someone at the club with the PR skills of Big Lawrie. He was not only a good manager of the players he also managed the Town fans. If God(AB) had his PR skills we would have needed a 30.000 capacity stadium. Love NEWFOOTBALLERS passion for the club. You are a legend Dave  |
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THIS:
You have to put the Lawrie Mac reign into the context of what had gone on immediately before. Town were forced to seek re-election only a couple of seasons before and rattled around the lower reaches of Division 4 after that flirting with re-election again in 70/71. Then, as now, there was a dormant, sleeping giant of a fan base just begging to be woken up. Lawrie knew exactly how to do that. His methods were unashamedly populist-taking players down the docks at 6:00 a.m. to show how "real" people lived and worked and opening up training sessions at Peaks Lane for fans to watch. The scene was set pre-season when we put seven past the Japanese National XI and the team were off and running after hammering Scunny 4-1 first game. The philosophy appeared to be in that first season "however many the opposition scored we'd score one more" which made for non-stop attacking football with a veil drawn over defensive lapses. The fans loved it and his place in folk lore was further cemented with the League Cup run.
The second season happened on the back of the momentum built up during the first but the team was ageing. Matt Tees was reaching the end of an illustrious career and despite all the money which came in little of it seemed to be ploughed back into the future of the club. There was an inevitability about Lawrie's departure.
For me Lawrie's biggest achievement was making the fans believe that we were invincible. In that first season it was simply a case of people turning up to watch another two points added to the total. The away followings were amazing considering the far poorer transport infrastructure that existed in those days and who could forget the near 15,000 who followed the team to Coventry in the second season.
A short period it may have been but for those who were part of it absolutely unforgettable.
I have to add to your post, where I think you have got everything right Barra, The fact is Laurie when he came to Grimsby was a badly hurt Manager through getting the sack from Doncaster after getting them promoted from the Fourth division to the third. Player power got him the sack at Doncaster, they were dumped again in to the fourth division. When laurie came to Grimsby and we all taken into Blundel Park away dressing room because these were his words he wanted players to fight like out to be in the first team dressing room every day. Told us what he thought about us as players and said player power will never get him the sack again. so if you do not like it here just ask for a transfer now and you can go. As you said we got off to a good start, and we were a good team which had not performed to the correct standarsd that we were capable of doing with previous managers. Laurie had a eye for publicity always a story, like you mentioned going down to the docks at six in the morning brilliant piece of work, the dockers loved it to see us down there. Another thing was the pre season training was the hardest I had ever done since I was a pro, but not only did we do that at the start of the season we also had another pre season in January, and when you look back how many goals did we get in the last ten minutes of numerous games that season The top and bottom of it was that we were a potenshiel good side which was not performing, Laurie knew that and he frightened the life out of a few of us with a few home truths and it worked. NEWFOOTBALLER |
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I personally felt sorry for Bobby Kennedy when he got finished in 1971. We lost 1 out of the last 10 games (admittedly after a long bad run of form) but then we got Lawrie Mac who inherited most of the squad. He seemed to be able to gee them up and his additions were very good ones. Just a shame that he left within 2 years
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No one there that night will ever forget it. Brilliant.
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