This day 1974 & my holgate debut

Apps + Subs
Jim Platt 40
John Craggs 39
Stuart Boam 42
Willie Maddren 42
Frank Spraggon 39
Bobby Murdoch 33 + 1
Graeme Souness 34 + 1
David Armstrong 42
David Mills 38 + 1
John Hickton 40
Alan Foggon 41
Peter Brine 5 + 6
Malcolm Smith 6 + 11
Eric McMordie 7 + 1
Brian Taylor 4
Bill Gates 1 + 1
Pat Cuff 2
Jim Cochrane 3
Harry Charlton 0 + 2
Tony McAndrew 1
Malcolm Poskett 0 + 1
Peter Creamer 3
 
davidmills said:
Apps + Subs
Jim Platt 40
John Craggs 39
Stuart Boam 42
Willie Maddren 42
Frank Spraggon 39
Bobby Murdoch 33 + 1
Graeme Souness 34 + 1
David Armstrong 42
David Mills 38 + 1
John Hickton 40
Alan Foggon 41
Peter Brine 5 + 6
Malcolm Smith 6 + 11
Eric McMordie 7 + 1
Brian Taylor 4
Bill Gates 1 + 1
Pat Cuff 2
Jim Cochrane 3
Harry Charlton 0 + 2
Tony McAndrew 1
Malcolm Poskett 0 + 1
Peter Creamer 3
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Malcolm Poskett played 13 minutes when he replaced David Mills at home to Hull on the 13th October 1973, the least minutes a Boro sub played at AP
 
We went from an average of over 28000 in 1974 to just over 5000 in 1984.

I can remember on a rainy day everyone was under the stand, it looked empty.
 
If I remember correctly on the way home , coming out of the cemetary gates onto Acklam Road was a scene of mayhem as the Sheff wednesday coaches were trundling down the road , they mostly all had their windows put through, i stood in awe of the" big boys" who did it
 
Erimus74 said:
This day the 20th April 1974 my 1st ever visit in to the holgate when on the morning of the game my dad said, right Gordon, we're going in the holgate for the match
13 year old, wow, so grown up, boysender up until then

Sheff Weds were the visitors for our final home game of this fantastic & my favourite season ever

What a game to make your debut in the Holgate, Boro 8 Sheff Weds 0

Graeme Souness scored the only Boro hat trick of that fantatsic season, as the mighty Boro finished off their home campaigne handing out a hammering to Wednesday
Souness became the 40th different Boro player to score a hat trick, the 80th hat trick scored at AP & 113th in total since we became a football league club back in 1899
Sheff Wed old boy, John Hickton, started the scoring, such a massive win
When the final whistle went the mighty Boro paraded the 2nd divison championship around Ayresome Park

Goals by, big John, David Mills, Bobby Murdock one each, a brace from Alan Foggon, for their 10th, 11th, 5th & 18th of the campaigne respectively & 3 from Graeme 'I'd walk a miilion miles for one of your goals' Souness, taking his tally to the season to 7

Attendance - 25,287

The sad thing about that day, we scored 8 goals & paraded the championship & all I can remember is our best ever CH & captain, IMHO mind, Stuey Boam, east end seast when at 3 nil up, heading over the bar, when he should have scored

The best ever Boro team for me

Boro team:-

Jim Platt
John Craggs
Frank Spraggon
Graeme Souness
Stuey Boam
Willie Maddren
Bobby Murdoch
David Mills
John Hickton
Alan Foggon
David Armstrong
Sub
Harry Charlton
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Skipped that game as I was only 9 hours old, just round the corner at Parkside as well, bloody part-timer!
 
Erimus74 said:
Malcolm Poskett played 13 minutes when he replaced David Mills at home to Hull on the 13th October 1973, the least minutes a Boro sub played at AP
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I think I went to 30 games that season. It was my first job and that's where the cash went.

£10 a week, £3 lodge of which my mam gave me a £1 a day to go to work, the rest I wasted. I felt like a millionaire.
 
davidmills said:
Apps + Subs
Jim Platt 40
John Craggs 39
Stuart Boam 42
Willie Maddren 42
Frank Spraggon 39
Bobby Murdoch 33 + 1
Graeme Souness 34 + 1
David Armstrong 42
David Mills 38 + 1
John Hickton 40
Alan Foggon 41
Peter Brine 5 + 6
Malcolm Smith 6 + 11
Eric McMordie 7 + 1
Brian Taylor 4
Bill Gates 1 + 1
Pat Cuff 2
Jim Cochrane 3
Harry Charlton 0 + 2
Tony McAndrew 1
Malcolm Poskett 0 + 1
Peter Creamer 3
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THAT team...just rolls off the tongue, even nigh on 50 years later and as has been said, only a top class No 9 away from really challenging for all the top honours.
 
morrissey said:
THAT team...just rolls off the tongue, even nigh on 50 years later and as has been said, only a top class No 9 away from really challenging for all the top honours.
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And a word or two about Bobby Murdoch. When it was announced that he was coming, I was excited as hell - one of the ‘Lisbon Lions’, no less - but worried that he might be passed it - otherwise why would he have come to us?

In the event, he turned up and looked, to me at least, like an ex-pro pub or Sunday league player - a bit ‘rotund’ and smiley/jokey - like he didn’t really care.

And then………….

Probably the finest passer of a ball I’ve ever seen in a Boro shirt - he was unbe-f-ing-lievable, and just seemed to stroll around the central midfield area as if he owned it, which he evidently did.

He was anything but quick and looked a wee bit overweight, but he was always in space, always available - how did he do that?!? - and he just glided around, often smiling, and running things in a way that seemed effortless. I guess it’s what’s called ‘class’ (and it obviously helped having the likes of Souness and Spike around). But he really was world class, no doubt.

What a joy that season was, and WHAT a team!
 
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