(27-05-2015, 09:53)silverbaggie Wrote: That could be interesting as I always thought that the Baggies team of the 1960's had been more successful in the league than it had. I expect it's a case of memories playing tricks as you get older.
Cup exploits were in that decade of course sensational!
In fact despite having some wonderful players in that era (Barlow, Kennedy, Allen, Kevan and later Astle, Hope and Brown) I think that we rarely finished in the top seven or eight in the league table.
Hi Ho Silver,
I'll try and get these stats updated, but I had some stats already on Us v D1ngle5:
Pre WW1 we come 14th, and they come 15th
Between the Wars we come 11th and they come 28th
40s/50s we come 13th and they come 3rd
60s we come 7th and they come 13th
70s we come 16th and they come 11th
80s we come 18th and they come 38th
90s we come 39th and they come 28th
When I 1st went in the late 50s we regularly finished 4th or 5th, after coming Runners-up in 54, and in the 60s we averaged about 1/2 way. Late 70s early 80s we came 3rd, 4th, 5th etc until we went down with a bump in 86, never to return to the Top Division untl Gary Megson's era.
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