Well said. I always felt that when we arrived in Division One we weren’t really geared up for it. We still had a Third Division ground with a Meccano/Lego extension to the West Stand as the only structural ‘improvement’. Perhaps in those days club infrastructure and five year plans were not...
I would like to think that we’re a damn site better run club now than in 1983. We struggled in the old Division One for three of the four seasons, 1981/82 being the exception. We replaced safe, boring Mike Bailey who took us to 13th with woeful, funny Jimmy Melia who took us down to Division...