Great team! and a great manager!!

Beverleyred said:
We knock the Geordies, mostly with light hearted banter, unless of course they are punching horses. But you have to admit that they produce the Boro a good stock of Managers from time to time, hopefully including Michael Carrick.
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Perhaps although you have to loosen the boundaries a bit to class Charlton and Robson as Geordies.
 
One centre forward away from glory
Jack's biggest mistake.
Basically 11 players. The names are ingrained in my head
League and Cup appearances
Jim Platt 45
John Craggs 42
Frank Spraggon 44
Graeme Souness 38
Stuart Boam 47
Willie Maddren 47
Bobby Murdoch 38
David Mills 41
Big John 44
Alan Foggon 46
Spike 47
Honourable mentions to
Malcom Smith 8 app 11sub
Peter Brine 6 app 8 sub

When you talk about the game being different now l agree with that. But l would say that every member of that team would still be a very good player today
 
Hanging on my stairs wall in the passage, so fortunate to have been old enough to appreciate that team & what followed

Won it at a 73-74 players reunion I attended with my late brother a one off fully signed canvas, apart from the late, great & best ever Boro defender Willie Maddren & the final piece of the jigsaw Bobby Murdoch


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WindyNook said:
One centre forward away from glory
Jack's biggest mistake.
Basically 11 players. The names are ingrained in my head
League and Cup appearances
Jim Platt 45
John Craggs 42
Frank Spraggon 44
Graeme Souness 38
Stuart Boam 47
Willie Maddren 47
Bobby Murdoch 38
David Mills 41
Big John 44
Alan Foggon 46
Spike 47
Honourable mentions to
Malcom Smith 8 app 11sub
Peter Brine 6 app 8 sub

When you talk about the game being different now l agree with that. But l would say that every member of that team would still be a very good player today
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That's what stood out for me about the 'squad photo'. Just 12 outfield players and 1 goalie. Same in the early Rioch days (although part of that was because we were skint!).
 
In 1974/5 - the Newcastle and Leeds games were 40k all ticket games - fans in the area had been 21 years without top flight football and 11 years since we had played them 2. I think we averaged around 28k that season, when football crowds were about 20% lower than now. It was a very exciting season to be a Boro fan.

The crowds did drop to an average around 20k under Big Jack by 1976/7.
 
can remember in the latter Anderson years crowds would average 14 - 16 k and when big clubs came up to 20k tops. Pity it never looked like promotion under Stan always top half tho...... Jack had a magic touch with only a few additions and basically the same team as Stan passed over. Organisation maybe the magic spark
 
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