SUMMARY

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Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Ave Att:
27	13	12	2	3,927

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The programme featured is rom the Newport game where we won 2-1, (Barney Daniels and Peter Fletcher on target). It was the season Daniels picked up 19 goals. He was the proverbial one season wonder. Having come from Ashton United, (via a brief spell at Chester), he returned to Hurst Cross where he became a legend in Tameside non-league circles.

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EP – A CITADEL IN 1977

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Given the impoverished nature of our performances in the late 70’s 1977 saw a remarkable home record insofar as the games I saw. There were 27 games in total and only the two defeats. The second of those, an FA Cup 2nd round replay against Shrewsbury was hugely disappointing. It deprived us of a trip to Blackburn, (then in Division 2, which at the time was the 2nd Tier). The chance to play on a higher stage had gone. It was to be another 18 years before there was a visit to Ewood Park.

The highlight of the year was a 6-0 win over Hartlepool. Carl Halford and Eddie Prudham both picked up a brace, to add to strikes from Terry Park and a penalty from Alan Thompson. One thing that dawned on me as I looked back to the 27 home games I saw in 1977, (involving 26 different teams), was how many would go on to cross paths with us in non league. There were 11 of them; Aldershot; Cambridge; Darlington; Grimsby; Halifax; Hartlepool; Newport; Southport; Torquay: Workington and Wrexham. Four of those were in the guise of “phoenix clubs”. It is a real indciation of the movement and change in English football over the period.

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Back (l to r): George McBeth; Eddie Prudham; Ken Fogarty; Mike Summerbee; Terry Park; Peter Fletcher; Mike Rogan; Chris Lawler; Graham Smith; Andy Thorpe; Derek Loadwick; John Rutter

Sitting (l to r): Steve Massey; Alan Thompson (Player Manager); Mr F Summer (Director); Mr F Pye (Chairman); Mr E Barnes (Director); Mr T McCreery (Secretary); Barney Daniels

Front (l to r): Trevor Porteous (Physio); Carl Halford; Peter Jackson; Eric Webster, (Youth Team Manager)

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I missed but the one home game in 1977. It was the League season opener against Watford, We were of course a Friday night team then, but the dictats of the FL said that the first game had to be on the Saturday. I still played cricket in those days so the call of an Ashton 2nd team CLL encounter at Littleborough, (from memory), had my prior attention.

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THE HOME GAMES I SAW THIS YEAR

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Day	Date	Competition	Tier / Round	Opponents	Res	F	A	Crowd	Home Game
Fri	07/01/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Workington	W	1	0	3,397	8
Fri	21/01/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Newport County	W	2	1	3,450	9
Mon	31/01/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Halifax Town	D	1	1	3,004	10
Fri	11/02/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Darlington	D	2	2	3,049	11
Fri	04/03/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Huddersfield Town	L	2	3	5,449	12
Mon	07/03/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Hartlepool United	W	1	0	2,649	13
Sat	19/03/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Aldershot	D	0	0	2,382	14
Mon	28/03/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Bradford City	D	1	1	4,138	15
Fri	01/04/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Torquay United	W	2	1	2,318	16
Mon	11/04/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Watford	D	2	2	2,536	17
Mon	18/04/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Southend United	D	0	0	2,391	18
Fri	22/04/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Colchester United	D	1	1	2,826	19
Fri	06/05/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Cambridge United	D	0	0	3,004	20
Wed	17/08/77	Football League Cup	Round 1 (2nd Leg)	Wrexham	D	1	1	4,926	21
Fri	26/08/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Grimsby Town	W	2	0	3,054	22
Fri	09/09/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Doncaster Rovers	D	1	1	3,614	23
Fri	23/09/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Barnsley	W	3	0	4,743	24
Mon	26/09/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Brentford	D	1	1	4,121	25
Fri	07/10/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Rochdale	W	2	0	4,927	26
Sat	22/10/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Swansea City	W	2	0	4,028	27
Fri	28/10/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Southport	W	2	1	5,122	28
Fri	11/11/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Hartlepool United	W	6	0	4,179	29
Sat	26/11/77	FA Cup	Round 1	Scunthorpe United	W	3	0	3,385	30
Fri	02/12/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Wimbledon	D	2	2	4,958	31
Mon	19/12/77	FA Cup	Round 2 (Replay)	Shrewsbury Town	L	1	2	8,370	32
Mon	26/12/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	Reading	W	2	0	4,777	33
Fri	30/12/77	Football League Division 4	Tier 4	AFC Bournemouth	W	2	1	5,241	34