With six games to go, we were 10 points off automatic promotion, and finished it four points off.
We won four, drew two, scoring 13 goals and conceding three (and one of those three was Hammond).
If you don't mind me saying, your memory is shocking.
For someone who doesn't have a problem with him, you are on his case. It's not a case of thinking he's that great - it's a case of not feeling you need to justify his perceived shortcomings. In comparison to those you list, he is in touch with most of them.
Malcolm Poskett - 10 goals in 29 apps...
A yardstick you're viewing through rose-tinted Foster Grants from back in 1977.
To say Ward stayed on his feet as often as he could is quite funny. He still goes down easily now - though that's probably more to do with the state of his knees.
Ward's record as a centre-forward in his first to...
Why such scorn?
You're comparing him to arguably our best-ever striker, rather than the dozens? hundreds? of others who have played.
Hundreds, possibly thousands of players have played for Brighton down the years, and only 23 have scored more.
So obviously this.
Every player has more than one role in the side. It's just antiquated, facile English-football thinking that considers it otherwise.