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Terry Dolan was a very underrated manager. We almost hit the top division under his management, Townsend and Curle would probably made the difference. As it turned we only signed up Micky Kennedy who it turned out was carrying a back injury. Dolan went to Hull City when they were skint and did a good job there, he brought Gregg Abbott out of non league football and got another 100+ games out of him as a dominant central midfield player. I think he even signed Dean Windass for Hull City.

 

I was there, in the kop, going delirious when Wetherall's header went in. Great scenes.

But the irony is that staying up was probably the worst thing we could have done. Had we gone down we'd have avoided Richmond's 'six weeks of madness' which led to ten years of decline and relegations to the khazi league. We'd have probably walked L1, or whatever the Championship was called then, and gone straight back up to the PL without the massive debt incurred during our second PL season.

On the other hand, we'd never have had Collimore's sublime volley against Leeds.

 

He signed Brian Mitchell for them too. Actually he did a fantastic job working under some very trying conditions. As you say, very underrated as a manager but I thought he was excellent for us.

 

Maybe so sir but its about now and tomorrow for myself. Yesterday counts for nothing, especially 20 years ago.

BTW hope those ain't the 6-1 tickets

 

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Forever living in the PAST.

 

We don't. We're in a MESS again.

 

He has been banned from calling them.

 

Have they taken an injunction again?

 

Better to have memories than dreams

 

We do. But some of us are demanding more. Better...

Happyclappers hanging to the past isnt helping.

 

Of course as fans we would like better, not sure fans can demand it, how could success be guaranteed.
Why would happy clappers want to hang onto the past most of it has been in divisions 3 and 4 as your dad he'll tell you.

 

Ditto, we were 7 rows from the Sky commentators and they keep shouting out to us Southampton 1 - 0 Wimbledon, Southampton 2 - 0 Wimbledon etc so we knew as long as we didn't get beat we stayed up.

 

Seems we are both wrong. According to eiki we didn't play at all on 18rh Nov 1987

 

I think Wiki has got that wrong, and @StaffordBantam is right. Frost also has that date for the 0-0 away at Reading in the League Cup.

RCB

 

Fits with there being a replay for sure, and wiki isn't infallible

 

11v11 has stafford right