The night we wrapped up qualification for Europe by winning at Wolves was a great one. . I may stand corrected but Brian Joyce who we signed from non league scored that night.I’d say 1970
We were an established top division club, we were qualified for European competition, and out crowds were in the top 10 in the country.
That's a great question. We've had some great eras and teams:
The Jimmy Hill revolution and promotions to the top flight.
The fantastic attacking teams of the late 70s under Gordon Milne: Wallace, Ferguson, Hutchison,Yorath Blyth.
Dave Sexton's young team in the early 1980s: Sealey,Thomas, Dyson, Gillespie, Blair, Thompson, Hateley, Bodak, Hunt, Daly. If only we'd kept that team and Sexton.
The Sillett/Curtis years: not only the FA Cup but the League positions. Fantastic and under rated top class players in Ogrizovic, Borrows, Peake, Kilkline, Bennett (an absolute superstar), Regis. And our greatest coach, Sillett.
Strachan's team 1999, for example vs. Villa away in the League. The team that day included Boateng, McAllister, Aloisi, Moldovan, Froggat, Huckerby, Nilsson. We also had Hadji and Chippo in the squad. In my opinion, our strongest ever line up. How Strachan managed to engineer a relegation in 2001 with that level of talent is mind blowing.
I hope in a few years we'll be celebrating a return to the Championship and referencing the Mark Robins era.
Aside from that- 1997/1998, I think someone mentions that above- Strachans team that won 7 on the trot.
Rolling back the years a bit but don’t forget that even though we didn’t get promoted to the top division until 1967, in the 30s we were seen as a giant and knocking on the door under the great Harry Storer (Brian Clough & Peter Taylor’s biggest inspirations, need I say more)- had it not been for WW2 breaking out it’s hugely likely that we’d have been a top division club 25 years before we were.
Aside from that 1977/1978 when we had some of the best games & performances the club has ever seen, 24,000 every game and looked like we were ready for a major push at Europe... then finances intervened.
Great post and particularly agree with this part. It gets lost a bit in the wake of 87 as if we "never really kicked on", but the side a couple of years after the cup win was actually even better for me and we carried on playing quality passing football. It was a great year for that too with us and Norwich in the top 7-and for quite a while the top 3! And of course, the genius that was Speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-do.............[/
I couldn’t agree more- 1988/1989 was up there with the best teams we’ve ever had, partially spearheaded by the criminally maligned and underestimated David Smith- take Hutch out the equation and I’d put him as our best ever lett winger.
I was gonna say- we never really capitalised on 87, and this May be heresy but Sillett should maybe have gone after 1988/1989, allow someone to come in and really push on
That's really interesting! I don't know much about the 30's era it's fair to say. There's not that much online compared to the Hill Years and afterwards...
Aside from that- 1997/1998, I think someone mentions that above- Strachans team that won 7 on the trot.
Rolling back the years a bit but don’t forget that even though we didn’t get promoted to the top division until 1967, in the 30s we were seen as a giant and knocking on the door under the great Harry Storer (Brian Clough & Peter Taylor’s biggest inspirations, need I say more)- had it not been for WW2 breaking out it’s hugely likely that we’d have been a top division club 25 years before we were.
Aside from that 1977/1978 when we had some of the best games & performances the club has ever seen, 24,000 every game and looked like we were ready for a major push at Europe... then finances intervened.
Imagine if we'd kept Dublin and signed Keane.That's a great question. We've had some great eras and teams:
The Jimmy Hill revolution and promotions to the top flight.
The fantastic attacking teams of the late 70s under Gordon Milne: Wallace, Ferguson, Hutchison,Yorath Blyth.
Dave Sexton's young team in the early 1980s: Sealey,Thomas, Dyson, Gillespie, Blair, Thompson, Hateley, Bodak, Hunt, Daly. If only we'd kept that team and Sexton.
The Sillett/Curtis years: not only the FA Cup but the League positions. Fantastic and under rated top class players in Ogrizovic, Borrows, Peake, Kilkline, Bennett (an absolute superstar), Regis. And our greatest coach, Sillett.
Strachan's team 1999, for example vs. Villa away in the League. The team that day included Boateng, McAllister, Aloisi, Moldovan, Froggat, Huckerby, Nilsson. We also had Hadji and Chippo in the squad. In my opinion, our strongest ever line up. How Strachan managed to engineer a relegation in 2001 with that level of talent is mind blowing.
I hope in a few years we'll be celebrating a return to the Championship and referencing the Mark Robins era.
I couldn’t agree more- 1988/1989 was up there with the best teams we’ve ever had, partially spearheaded by the criminally maligned and underestimated David Smith- take Hutch out the equation and I’d put him as our best ever lett winger.
I was gonna say- we never really capitalised on 87, and this May be heresy but Sillett should maybe have gone after 1988/1989, allow someone to come in and really push on
Good thread and Ring of Steel is a great addition to the board
Agree.Our greatest ever achievement in my opinion was beating Wolves to become second division champions in 1967, and thus moving to the top flight.
Nothing will ever surpass that game.
Seem to recall the plans were even grander with expansion to 60,000 involving a huge development of the Kop end.Correct!
The football wasn’t massively entertaining- it was the era of grinding out victories- but as a club I don’t think we’ve ever been in higher standing than that very match
That was the time where there were plans to revamp HR to 50,000 to build upon the demand and progress- thankfully it never happened as it was one of the ugliest buildings I’ve ever seen, but that’s where we were at that time.
I’d say 1970
We were an established top division club, we were qualified for European competition, and our crowds were in the top 10 in the country.
Yes that was my favourite team as well. The time machine team who went from 1986 back to 1977.Best teams were 77-78, 86-77 and 97-98.
Finest moment in history, FA cup win but also manner of win
including difficult route to final, style of performance , coming back twice and fans
celebrations. No-one has touched us on that, ever!!!!!!
All very obvious.
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