Blast from the past - Summer of 1976

We lost 12k from our average gate between 74 and 81, despite having a promising young side. The fans weren't enamoured with John Neal's side, as good as we think they were at the time.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
We lost 12k from our average gate between 74 and 81, despite having a promising young side. The fans weren't enamoured with John Neal's side, as good as we think they were at the time.
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I think a big part of that was due to a general decline in attendances in football as a whole.
Plus John Neal couldn't sort out our away record so we were never really true challengers. Whereas we were genuine contenders for a couple of years under Jack.
 
Erimus74 said:
IMHO, he was a cracking chairman for a good while then thought, I / we, can get big money here & cashed in on our crown jewels & as they say, tge rest is history
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I tend to agree.
But I thought it was a daft idea having that sports hall.
 
Rofesleg said:
I think a big part of that was due to a general decline in attendances in football as a whole.
Plus John Neal couldn't sort out our away record so we were never really true challengers. Whereas we were genuine contenders for a couple of years under Jack.
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Spot on, John Neal's achilles heel was our away form, we scored goals for fun at home, very rarely lost but away from home we very raely won, he just couldnt get the right blend, if he had done we'd have challennged the Ipswich, QPR, Southampton of the then top flight
 
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