Bogey Teams

[gkotw]

Replying to a post on the chelsea thread about our head to head record against them, got me thinking:

I wonder which team we have the best win ratio against. Conversely, which team is our nemesis (chesterfield springs to mind, but prior to the 70s we did actually used to beat them).

[loyalmiller]

Prior to the 2 cup ties with Northampton when they beat us and denied us our date with Man U, we’d beaten them on the previous 10 meetings.

Wednesday at home is s bit of jinx, regardless of position or form we've not beaten them in a league match at home since 1976!

Hopefully that’ll change Saturday

[Pattylallacks2]

I think it could possibly be Lincoln, as I once read somewhere that they are the team we have met most often in our history. Just looked up our record against them and it is:
Played 94
Won 49
Drawn 21
Lost 24

[Acido]

Replying to a post on the chelsea thread about our head to head record against them, got me thinking:
I wonder which team we have the best win ratio against. Conversely, which team is our nemesis (chesterfield springs to mind, but prior to the 70s we did actually used to beat them).

Aww I love these sort of threads GK lad, you havent won at our place (Oakwell) since the days of Noah and his Ark, have you ?.

[gkotw]

I think it could possibly be Lincoln, as I once read somewhere that they are the team we have met most often in our history. Just looked up our record against them and it is:
Played 94
Won 49
Drawn 21
Lost 24

Could be patty. Our record against donny isn't too shabby either:

Won 40
Drawn 22
Lost 22

[mikemiller]

Aww I love these sort of threads GK lad, you havent won at our place (Oakwell) since the days of Noah and his Ark, have you ?.

Saw us win 1-0 at Oakwell in the early 70s. Think Neil Warnock was playing for us on the wing in that game. We haven't had a good record more recently.

[Acido]

Saw us win 1-0 at Oakwell in the early 70s. Think Neil Warnock was playing for us on the wing in that game. We haven't had a good record more recently.

Thats before my time Mikey, and I cant remember a Millers win at our place.
(Come on Barnsley Fc).

[rolymiller]

Ronnie Moore was a player the last time we won at the blunts and you are right we aint beat Barnsley at Oakwell since the 70s. Also right about the Wendies we tend to do a lot better there than what we do at home. We did beat them in the cup fairly recently but the last time we beat them in the league is when Dick Habbin scored the winner in a 1-0 win in 1976. Theres other teams in this league I can't remember us beating for ages like Forest and Villa.

[mikemiller]

Ronnie Moore was a player the last time we won at the blunts and you are right we aint beat Barnsley at Oakwell since the 70s. Also right about the Wendies we tend to do a lot better there than what we do at home. We did beat them in the cup fairly recently but the last time we beat them in the league is when Dick Habbin scored the winner in a 1-0 win in 1976. Theres other teams in this league I can't remember us beating for ages like Forest and Villa.

I was present when we beat Villa in the FA Cup at Villa Park in 1968 ( that game is mentioned in an episode of "Porridge"), and we beat them at Villa Park in 1971... nowt since.
Can't remember us beating Forest, although I have seen us draw. We should have done better as they have been rubbish for the last few years, and have also off-loaded some awful players onto us

[wrinkly]

Saw us win 1-0 at Oakwell in the early 70s. Think Neil Warnock was playing for us on the wing in that game. We haven't had a good record more recently.

Very early 70s Mike. August 1970 we beat them 1-0 in the league cup
Last league win at Oakwell was 2-0 in Dec 1969.
Overall situation is fairly even with us winning 17 drawing 14 and losing 21.
They've definitely been a bogey team in latter years with us winning only one in the last 14 .