Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
62/63, Lawton/Sewell era nostalgia apparently kicks in with the club reverting back to white shirts, Astle comes into the picture and starts banging them in alongside Hateley, but that terrible winter creates a backlog of more away games than home in the run-in and they only win one game on the road in the 2nd half of that season, Hateley leaves in the summer, replaced with Terry Bly who scores only 4 goals in 63/64 whilst the other new signing Mike Barber gets an injury that ultimately forces him to retire and under a player/manager Eddie Lowe (age 37) it's relegation back to tier 4. Incredibly they stick with Lowe the following season, which proves to be a then all-time low.
Terry Bly was a crock before he arrived which is why he was sold by Peterborough? for whom he'd been banging in goals for fun. Mike Barber (QPR?) was a classy winger who loved cutting inside. I remember seeing him close up as I was on the front of the County Rd stand and I think it was the game he got crunched. My Dad was excited at the signing of Eddie Lowe, classy in his day, soon turned sour as you say.

How are we so good at being bad? Practice?