Will we win another match this season?

[Zilzal]

Laptop giving me hell as usual. No other outlet alas but when it all settlese down II'll tell allalbout bout myy fifirst
with with KK andand IBS.
encounter

[wrinkly]

As expected we thrashed a pre-Shankly Liverpool 6-1 (4 goals by LW Ian Wilson) and finished with the same points as Brum and Luton.
If it had been goal difference and ?or/3 points for a win we would have won promotion to Div1 for the only time ever.

This begs the question Nard, what does your heroic old dad think we would coped in the First Division? Wasn't around in '54 but give your dad my regards as one lefelong Miller to another. t

Goal difference would not have made a difference Zil.

Birmingham had a GD of 45
Luton had a GD of 35
Millers GD was 30

3 points for a win would have seen us as champions though with 79 points
Birmingham would have had 76 points and Luton 75 points.

We only drew 4 games. Birmingham drew 10 and Luton drew 8
Would these figures have been different if 3 points for a win had been the system then?
Probably but who knows?

[thaimillerfan]

I agree Zil we wont get in the playoffs

[flourbasher]

You a Wendy fan? Must be

[Timbertop]

We don't have a decent striker on the books and such teams don't get promoted. Oh for a Marriott !!

[thaimillerfan]

What's a Wendy fan baker boy

[great_fire]

I'd love to know who our team was in 54-55 when with 7 consecutive wins under our belt and top with 2 to go. We blew it big time at lowly Vale, 1-0 down at H-T, Noble took at shocker of a pen in the second half and the draw we needed was gone.

Team against Port Vale was: Quairney, Selkirk, Warner, Marshall, Noble, Williams (D.), Grainger, Johnson, Farmer, Guest, Wilson.

Got all the archive stuff in the loft somewhere I'll try to dig it out.

[Zilzal]

Thanks very much G.F. I've heard of all of them except Warner and Marshall. With Jackie Grainger, Gladstone Guest Farmer and Wilson up top, how could we possibly fail to score that one goal which would have given us First Division football. Norm Noble must have had an attack of nerves to miss the second half penalty.

Would love to hear from Nardendee's dad, via Nard, what went so horribly wrong on the day. After all we did win 8 of our last 9 games that season.

[great_fire]

Thanks very much G.F. I've heard of all of them except Warner and Marshall. With Jackie Grainger, Gladstone Guest Farmer and Wilson up top, how could we possibly fail to score that one goal which would have given us First Division football. Norm Noble must have had an attack of nerves to miss the second half penalty.

Would love to hear from Nardendee's dad, via Nard, what went so horribly wrong on the day. After all we did win 8 of our last 9 games that season.

The penalty was saved by the goalkeeper who got a fist to it, a guy called King who was an England B keeper and had a good game.

The Port Vale goal came from a corner which Noble conceded as well.

He was dropped for the Liverpool game along with Johnson.

Jordan and Pell came in.

[jocksgloves]

I wrote an artical for Moulin Rouge on the possibilities of the 1955/56 season, had we gone up to the top league. Man utd won at a canter with 60 points (2 for a win).
Blackpool finised a poor second on 49 points. Only 16 points above relegation. Every one else was squeezed between . Brum and Luton finished 6th and 10th on 45 and 42 points respectfully.
Our average attendance 54/55 is the highest ever i believe. (17,000+). A few additions to the squad may have just cemented a place with the big boys for at least a couple of seasons.
In reality, we had an enormous slump and finished 19th, just 5 points above relegation. To make it even worse, finishing 1st and 2nd in our division was Leeds and Wednesday.