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On This Day In 1974 22:06 - Dec 28 with 537 viewsSaintNick

I went to Goodison Park to watch Everton play Middlesbrough, a crowd of 41,105 watched the game and i left the ground to hear on the tannoy that Saints had lost at home to Sheffield Wednesday 1-0, 15,243 were at that one

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On This Day In 1974 on 22:19 - Dec 28 with 485 viewsgrumpy

Wasn't that a full house at the Dell in those days.
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On This Day In 1974 on 22:21 - Dec 28 with 483 viewsshotters

I would have been just over 3 months old then
No doubt I would have shown my displeasure by filling my nappy
Nowadays I can moan about it on an Internet forum

Fail we may, sail we must

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On This Day In 1974 on 22:22 - Dec 28 with 479 viewsPatfromPoole

On This Day In 1974 on 22:19 - Dec 28 by grumpy

Wasn't that a full house at the Dell in those days.


Didn’t The Dell hold about 30,000 then?

I was a year old FWIW.

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On This Day In 1974 on 22:22 - Dec 28 with 477 viewsSaintNick

On This Day In 1974 on 22:19 - Dec 28 by grumpy

Wasn't that a full house at the Dell in those days.


No the Dell held just over 30,000 then

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On This Day In 1974 on 22:23 - Dec 28 with 477 viewsshotters

On This Day In 1974 on 22:19 - Dec 28 by grumpy

Wasn't that a full house at the Dell in those days.


I could be wrong but wasn't the capacity closer to 30,000 then?
When I started going in 1982 it was about 25,000

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On This Day In 1974 on 22:31 - Dec 28 with 466 viewsgrumpy

On This Day In 1974 on 22:22 - Dec 28 by PatfromPoole

Didn’t The Dell hold about 30,000 then?

I was a year old FWIW.


Think your right,Pat.
Just looked up attendances and we had 28 thousand at home to Fulham in 1976,was that when Best,Marsh and Moore played for them?
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On This Day In 1974 on 22:39 - Dec 28 with 434 viewsSaintNick

On This Day In 1974 on 22:31 - Dec 28 by grumpy

Think your right,Pat.
Just looked up attendances and we had 28 thousand at home to Fulham in 1976,was that when Best,Marsh and Moore played for them?


Yes that was the game we beat them 4-1 although im not sure if Moore was still playing, but Best & Marsh where and Best got sent off

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On This Day In 1974 on 23:10 - Dec 28 with 413 viewsgrumpy

On This Day In 1974 on 22:39 - Dec 28 by SaintNick

Yes that was the game we beat them 4-1 although im not sure if Moore was still playing, but Best & Marsh where and Best got sent off


Moore was there,I remember because I was there 😊
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On This Day In 1974 (n/t) on 09:35 - Dec 29 with 260 viewshuelinsaint

On This Day In 1974 on 22:19 - Dec 28 by grumpy

Wasn't that a full house at the Dell in those days.


That was half full in those days, capacity was 31,000
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On This Day In 1974 on 10:10 - Dec 29 with 215 viewskingslandstand1

On This Day In 1974 on 23:10 - Dec 28 by grumpy

Moore was there,I remember because I was there 😊


Ditto!
I'm also sure recalling an attendance approaching 31k for the visit of Man U back in the early 70's. No matter where you stood st the start of a game you very rarely finished in that same spot!

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On This Day In 1974 on 14:12 - Dec 29 with 129 viewssaintmark1976

On This Day In 1974 on 23:10 - Dec 28 by grumpy

Moore was there,I remember because I was there 😊


So was I grumps.

Fulham came out with all their supposed Super Stars and we turned them over royally.

If it weren’t for a very patient referee they could have ended up with nine men.

Happy days at a wonderful football ground where none of the opposition liked to play. It was almost as though as a spectator you were on the pitch yourself.

I can’t help but wonder whether we would have been better off staying at The Dell.

Small crowd capacity hasn’t exactly held Bournemouth and Brentford back has it ?

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On This Day In 1974 on 15:02 - Dec 29 with 102 viewsAndu007

On This Day In 1974 on 14:12 - Dec 29 by saintmark1976

So was I grumps.

Fulham came out with all their supposed Super Stars and we turned them over royally.

If it weren’t for a very patient referee they could have ended up with nine men.

Happy days at a wonderful football ground where none of the opposition liked to play. It was almost as though as a spectator you were on the pitch yourself.

I can’t help but wonder whether we would have been better off staying at The Dell.

Small crowd capacity hasn’t exactly held Bournemouth and Brentford back has it ?


I was at this game too though it wasn’t until the later years the realisation of witnessing these great players & other great players & characters that graced The Dell over many years sank in.

It’s funny to think that we had to move to a bigger stadium, so we can compete & be a ‘bigger’ club, in my years of watching Saints at the Dell, we were never relegated, yes we came close a few times but it never ever happened however since our move to St Mary’s…
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On This Day In 1974 on 17:29 - Dec 29 with 50 viewsgrumpy

On This Day In 1974 on 15:02 - Dec 29 by Andu007

I was at this game too though it wasn’t until the later years the realisation of witnessing these great players & other great players & characters that graced The Dell over many years sank in.

It’s funny to think that we had to move to a bigger stadium, so we can compete & be a ‘bigger’ club, in my years of watching Saints at the Dell, we were never relegated, yes we came close a few times but it never ever happened however since our move to St Mary’s…


To improve we had to move but its strange to think that it seemed we beat the Bigger Fish more regularly at the little old Dell,oh!well that's progress I think,hang on.......
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