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Yes, he fractured a cheekbone in a pre-season friendly against Luton in August 1976. By the time he got back, it was the Ward-Mellor partnership running amok.

Oops, I missed out Sammy Morgan. Sold for £15,000 in 1977.

Poor first touch, works hard. Occasional spells where he is amongst the goals. Yes!

So would the Craig Mackail-Smith signing for about £2.5 million be roughly the equivalent of the £238,000 we paid for Maybank in late 1977?

It is often forgotten that Maybank scored as many goals as Ward did in the league season that took Brighton to the top flight.

It's often commented that unlike his predecessors, Alan Mullery had a massive transfer budget to get Brighton & Hove Albion into the top division. Trying to get beyond the opinion, I wanted to see to what extent this was true and have (to the best of my ability) tried to collate all the...