Which team have we played against.

[mikemiller]

We must have played Workington at some stage but more obscure is New Brighton FC have we played them think they got voted out 1952 I may have been but memory is vague

Seen us play against Workington at Millmoor 1/3/75 in the old 4th Division. We won 1-0 (Habbin) and we went on to get promotion that season with Jimmy McGuigan as manager.

New Brighton had a fairly long spell in Division 3N, so we played them several times. My dad (RIP) told me that he had seen the Millers play at New Brighton. Unlike some ex-League teams, New Brighton seems to have largely been forgotten by the general public.

[hotun]

Thanks mike think I must have been old football grounds still standing but not used anymore like Millmoor Bradford PA Darlington Feethams wonder how many there are

[PerigordMiller]

Seen us play against Workington at Millmoor 1/3/75 in the old 4th Division. We won 1-0 (Habbin) and we went on to get promotion that season with Jimmy McGuigan as manager.

New Brighton had a fairly long spell in Division 3N, so we played them several times. My dad (RIP) told me that he had seen the Millers play at New Brighton. Unlike some ex-League teams, New Brighton seems to have largely been forgotten by the general public.

Yes, saw that game (Workington). Seem to remember an FA Cup win against them as well.

They were the times...... FA Cup wins, eh.

[mikemiller]

Yes, saw that game (Workington). Seem to remember an FA Cup win against them as well.

They were the times...... FA Cup wins, eh.

Just checked a few things....

Amazingly we played New Brighton 38 (!) times in Division 3 North, with results fairly even, so they can't have been a bad team at that level.

Played Workington in the FA Cup at Millmoor in 1969/70 and in 1978/79. Won both games 3-0. Downes, Fantham and Swift scored in the first game, and Breckin and Gwyther (2) in the second. I must have been at both matches , but can't remember much other than fairly easy wins for the Millers. Workington had failed to get re-elected to the league in 1977 and had been replaced by Wimbledon.

Workington Town was never a club with a big football fanbase, partly because that area in the 60/70s had quite a strong rugby league tradition too. Barrow were similar. Also bit like current league teams Newport and Exeter City still are with rugby union.

[jocksgloves]

Anyone remember a cup-tie against Mossley in the 70's? Never heard of them before or since.

[mikemiller]

26/11/77 FA Cup Rnd 1 : Millers 3 Mossley 0 (Finney, Gwyther, Philips)

Mossley were unknown to me at the time too.They are still going in Northern Premier North.They managed to get to Round 2 of the FA Cup a few seasons later (lost to Mansfield), but haven't had a good cup run since the 80s

Not sure if I went to that game, but I definitely went to see us thrash Spennymoor 6-0 at Millmoor in the next round on 17/12/77 (Phillips hat-trick, Crawford 2 and Gwyther)

[pip_y]

Mossley won the FA Trophy the year before I moved to Staltbridge. Used to go and watch them when I couldn’t get to Millmoor. Been downhill for them ever since. Always a scrap when they played Hyde.

[pip_y]

Didn’t get a reply to my earlier post, other than Kiddie is the other club that has been in the league we have never played against Rushden & Diamonds?

[mikemiller]

Didn’t get a reply to my earlier post, other than Kiddie is the other club that has been in the league we have never played against Rushden & Diamonds?

That's the only post-WW2 club that I can think of - there may be much older ones?
By the way- after being relegated from the football league, they reformed and played for a while at the "Dog and Duck" ground in Wellingboro' - great name! They are back in the league "pyramid" system and I think that they are back in Rushden now.

[mikemiller]

Don't think that we ever played Merthyr Town, Aberdare or Thames from the old Division 3 South in any competition