| On This Day In 1974 22:06 - Dec 28 with 571 views | SaintNick |
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 519 views | grumpy |
Wasn't that a full house at the Dell in those days. |  | | |
| On This Day In 1974 on 22:21 - Dec 28 with 517 views | shotters |
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 |  |
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| On This Day In 1974 on 22:22 - Dec 28 with 513 views | PatfromPoole |
| 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 511 views | SaintNick |
| 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 511 views | shotters |
| 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 500 views | grumpy |
| 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? | | | |
| On This Day In 1974 on 22:39 - Dec 28 with 468 views | SaintNick |
| 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 447 views | grumpy |
| 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 294 views | huelinsaint |
| 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 249 views | kingslandstand1 |
| 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 163 views | saintmark1976 |
| 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 136 views | Andu007 |
| 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… | | | |
| On This Day In 1974 on 17:29 - Dec 29 with 84 views | grumpy |
| 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....... | | | |
| On This Day In 1974 on 00:39 - Dec 30 with 10 views | LondonSaint76 |
| 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. |
You are right Pat, I was at the Saints v Man Utd game at The Dell on 20th April 1974 and the attendance was 30,789. The old Archers Road end was still all terracing as were the lower West and East stands.
You were shoehorned in back in those days. I used to walk down to the ground from Newlands Avenue at 1pm so I could get my favourite place on the East Stand terrace. In front of one of the stations that held the roof and the upper tier up there was a downpipe from the roof guttering that ran into a drain under the terracing, and across two terrace steps there was a raised concrete section with a manhole cover that was about 8 or 9 inches above the rest of the terrace. Well big enough to stand on and offered a clear view of the whole pitch not spoilt by the back of someone else's head stood in front of you!
Ended up in a Lower West Stand seat, originally a bench seat the year Keegan arrived that morphed into a proper tip up seat sometime later. Went to the last ever event at The Dell [the dinner in the marquee] and after the meal I went and found my drain cover which was still there and had one final stand on it before ending up sat in the dugout with my good mate Gary, a damned fine bottle of port and some champagne toasting all the great Saints players we could remember. |  | | |
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