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[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

Didn't representatives of both those teams let Alty down by failing to attend the re-election meeting back in 1980, when Rochdale maintained their position as a Football League club by a solitary vote?

Some grudges last forever.

[Ballers]

Failing that, Barnet will do.

Some grudges last forever.

[Timperley The Best]

Failing that, Barnet will do.

Some grudges last forever.

chester please

[fuertes]

Didn't the Luton representative say he was going to vote for Alty's promotion, but got stuck in traffic or something??

[ManagementGuru]

Cult,

Great minds think alike!

I've started typing a "Revenge / Justice" note a few times over the last few weeks to be thwarted by dodgy networks etc.

I had hoped (dreamt) we'd accelerate into a playoff place to give a further ironic twist to the situation

On other subjects:

I was one of the 35(+) at Kettering and agree with Graham's view that we were the better team at the end of the first half and  beginning of the second - our problem was we equalised too early - it was almost all Kettering after we equalised. (and that's three matches I've been to this season now!)

Extrapolation:

Performance compared to last 4 "relegation" seasons after 33 games:

2007-08 We are 13 points ahead of last season
2006-07 We are 11 points ahead of the season before
2005-06 We are 6 points ahead of the "18 points" season - when we would have finished comfortably outside the zone

But

1999-2000 We have exactly the same number of points after 33 games than we had in the "12th in March but still went down" season


And if we compare with 1984-85 when we finished 5th (i.e. playoff form) we are 13 points behind.

[Saughall Robin]

Didn't representatives of both those teams let Alty down by failing to attend the re-election meeting back in 1980, when Rochdale maintained their position as a Football League club by a solitary vote?

Some grudges last forever.

IIRC. one of the two was already in what is now the Championship and didn't vote (for whatever reason) I thinl this was Luton, the other had been promoted into it and didn't realise that they had a vote (so they said!) as the old divs 3 and 4 voted as a group after a meeting of their chairmen/representatives.

[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

For the record, here are the results from the re-election voting in June 1980:

Darlington: 49
Crewe Alexandra: 48
Hereford United: 48
Rochdale: 26
Altrincham: 25.

The Luton Town Chairman was stuck in traffic and missed the meeting and the Grimsby Town Chairman sat in the wrong area of the room and failed to vote.

 

[Ballers]

How did we only gain 25 votes, if we'd lost 47 v 45 (or 46 v 44 I spose then ok) but 25 ? Jesus.

We knocked too many clubs out I think!!

[Paul Cain's Chip Pan]

What would have happened in the event of a tie?

[RockyRobin]

What would have happened in the event of a tie?

It would have been down to the number of "lads"....

[thegazelle]

i do believe there was a tie and it was the second vote that went wrong for us

[VofD]

Cult,

Great minds think alike!

I've started typing a "Revenge / Justice" note a few times over the last few weeks to be thwarted by dodgy networks etc.

I had hoped (dreamt) we'd accelerate into a playoff place to give a further ironic twist to the situation

On other subjects:

I was one of the 35(+) at Kettering and agree with Graham's view that we were the better team at the end of the first half and  beginning of the second - our problem was we equalised too early - it was almost all Kettering after we equalised. (and that's three matches I've been to this season now!)

Extrapolation:

Performance compared to last 4 "relegation" seasons after 33 games:

2007-08 We are 13 points ahead of last season
2006-07 We are 11 points ahead of the season before
2005-06 We are 6 points ahead of the "18 points" season - when we would have finished comfortably outside the zone

But

1999-2000 We have exactly the same number of points after 33 games than we had in the "12th in March but still went down" season
And if we compare with 1984-85 when we finished 5th (i.e. playoff form) we are 13 points behind.

Could there be a repeat.

[Timperley The Best]

Cult,

Great minds think alike!

I've started typing a "Revenge / Justice" note a few times over the last few weeks to be thwarted by dodgy networks etc.

I had hoped (dreamt) we'd accelerate into a playoff place to give a further ironic twist to the situation

On other subjects:

I was one of the 35(+) at Kettering and agree with Graham's view that we were the better team at the end of the first half and  beginning of the second - our problem was we equalised too early - it was almost all Kettering after we equalised. (and that's three matches I've been to this season now!)

Extrapolation:

Performance compared to last 4 "relegation" seasons after 33 games:

2007-08 We are 13 points ahead of last season
2006-07 We are 11 points ahead of the season before
2005-06 We are 6 points ahead of the "18 points" season - when we would have finished comfortably outside the zone

But

1999-2000 We have exactly the same number of points after 33 games than we had in the "12th in March but still went down" season
And if we compare with 1984-85 when we finished 5th (i.e. playoff form) we are 13 points behind.

Could there be a repeat.

I really hope not