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[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

The Trophy run that season was the start of the great years for me, big gate home games against Matlock, The Weymouth replay, Winsford I think, or was that the year after? Of course there were the Scarborough games too, the first proper trouble I recall at ML.

Were the crowds published for those games, and if so reliably?

The attendance figures will be available somewhere.

FA Trophy 1976/77

3rd Qualifying Round
Alty 3 Buxton 1
Attendance: 951.

First Round
Alty 2 Winsford United 1
Attendance: ?

Second Round
Alty 2 Atherstone Town 0
Attendance: 1,209

Third Round
Alty 1 Matlock Town 0
Attendance: 2,253.

Fourth Round
Weymouth 0 Alty 0
Attendance: 1,802.

Fourth Round Replay
Alty 2 Weymouth 1
Attendance: 2,450.

Semi-Final First Leg
Scarborough 2 Alty 0
Attendance: 4,183.

Semi-Final Second Leg
Alty 2 Scarborough 0
Attendance: 2,795.

Semi-Final First Replay (at Rotherham United)
Alty 0 Scarborough 0
Attendance: 2,597.

Semi-Final Second Replay (at Doncaster Rovers)
Scarborough 2 Alty 1
Attendance: 3,761.

Ah, Joe Flaherty being sent off and Mick Moore's missed penalty....what memories....!

[Brian Flynn]

I think that our last visit to the old ground  was early in 1987.John Williams was the manager & I believe we drew 2-2.It was around the time things started going a belly up & I seem to recall Peter Densmore refusing to play & staying on the team coach throughout the game.Later that year(September) we made our first visit to the Wessex Stadium & lost 1-0 to a Peter Conning penalty after about 83 minutes.

Brian,

Could you be more precise please.

Thank you.

Being a little anally retentive on the memory front, I have 83 minutes in my mind....but I wouldn't swear it was absolutely correct!!

[thegazelle]

never realised we played both matlock and winsford in both 76/77 and 77/78


the 78 crowds were much more and if there was only 2,800 in the second leg against scarboro you can use my arse as a banjo. there was about 3,000 leeds skinheads stood in the golf road armed with sharpened combs and dressed as clockwork orange or was the clockwork orange bit hartlepool

[jiminlondon]

never realised we played both matlock and winsford in both 76/77 and 77/78


the 78 crowds were much more and if there was only 2,800 in the second leg against scarboro you can use my arse as a banjo. there was about 3,000 leeds skinheads stood in the golf road armed with sharpened combs and dressed as clockwork orange or was the clockwork orange bit hartlepool

thats pretty much as i remember it
i climbed into the stand and stayed there

wasnt matlock the second time at their place and ian morris scored with a mish*t cross. there were loads of 'alty lads' there that day who were never seen before or since. the coaches got there late and we had to run through the town to make kickoff. the locals thought the barbarian hordes had arrived.

i went to weymouth on more than one occasion but dont remeberit at all. i'm getting on you know

[thegazelle]

ineed james the coaches (at least three) were late and there was a fair mob who were very vocal through the town i also remember it p1ssed down all game. ian morriss scored at the other end to the cricket pitch. much to the dismay of fenoughty g fenoughty b fenoughty z and fenoughty j remmeber them?

[jiminlondon]

indeed at the 76/7 game my mate lee had a banner which read 'johnson eats fenoughtys for breakfast'
not very witty but its what passed for humour in 1976

cold someone post the winning cup run the next year?

[Railway Alty]

never realised we played both matlock and winsford in both 76/77 and 77/78


the 78 crowds were much more and if there was only 2,800 in the second leg against scarboro you can use my arse as a banjo. there was about 3,000 leeds skinheads stood in the golf road armed with sharpened combs and dressed as clockwork orange or was the clockwork orange bit hartlepool

Gazelle the clockwork orange crew were Hartlepool and i seem to remember some old dear taking here umberella to the head of the guy who was leading them round to start trouble

[thegazelle]

blatantly plagarised from the main site but we still need crowds
estimates to the right
  1   Workington A 0 0                        cant remember but not many
  1R Workington H 4 0                       1500
  2 Frickley Athletic H 4 0                   1700
  3 Matlock Town A 1 1                       2500
  3R Matlock Town H 2 0                     2500 The biggest2500 i ever saw the ground was packed
  QF Winsford United  H 4 2                4000
  SF1 Runcorn H 0 0                             3000
  SF2 Runcorn A 1 0                              3000
  FINAL Leatherhead N 3 1 at Wembley 20,000 16,000 from alty

[altyusa]

ineed james the coaches (at least three) were late and there was a fair mob who were very vocal through the town i also remember it p1ssed down all game. ian morriss scored at the other end to the cricket pitch. much to the dismay of fenoughty g fenoughty b fenoughty z and fenoughty j remmeber them?

I remember that game.  As you said Gazelle, got there late, pissed it down the whole time, Matlock fans all under the cover and we stood at one end that was really narrow with a massive hedge behind it!  Also seem to remember their floodlights were on the pitch right by the touchline and, yes, they had all those Fenoughty's playing!!

[SW]

Spot on Usa Alty but I recall as a teenager still smoking the old Rothmans throughout even if they were soaked and useless in minutes.

Also recall the late arrival and chanting as a mob through the town, until returning to the coaches after and findind a welcoming committee of Chesterfield fans waiting!

[jiminlondon]

imagine plying winsford in a trophy QF 
when the hell did we play hartlepool - i must have blanked that entirely

[thegazelle]

hartlepool was 72/73  i think
the year after notts county and my first experience of football violence
but andy windsor made the terror worthwhile .

[hsmith1]

the trip to Weymouth my father came of the M5 at gloucester said it would be quicker,we ended up in some hills and he admitted he was lost.he decided that a milk tanker was going the correct way and decided to follow it,straight into a farmers yard.We did get to the game though

[SW]

I was only about 10 when we played Hartlepool, sat in the stand with my old man. Some Hartlepool fan ran along the running track chased by police and hurled a large stone towards the stand. It hit the glass side panels making a small hole; if it wasn't wired glass he could as llikely have killed someone. The hole remained for years until the panels were completely changed.

[Brian Flynn]

hartlepool was 72/73  i think
the year after notts county and my first experience of football violence
but andy windsor made the terror worthwhile .

Hartlepool was the 1973/4  FA Cup 1st Round & the win took us through to face Blackburn at Ewood Park.