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Between those two victories he also became the club’s longest serving manager (in one spell) since the great Harry Potts when he passed Jimmy Adamson’s run of 244 league games when we played Millwall at the Turf.
What will be a disappointment to Stan is that splitting the games into five groups of fifty shows that we have picked up less points from the last fifty than any of the other four, the last group of 50 started with the 3-1 defeat at Preston in October of last year (see below for breakdown).
Glen Little is the player to have taken part in more of those 250 games than anyone else with 188 appearances and he is one of eight players to have played in over half of them. The other seven are Graham Branch (161), Steve Davis (156), Paul Cook (147), Dean West (145), Paul Weller (138), Andy Payton (136) and Ian Moore (135).
They are amongst a total of 75 players who have featured in these games whilst 42 of them have scored at least one goal. Payts is well clear of the field in terms of goals. He scored 60 despite 40 of his appearances being as a sub and the nearest to him is Gareth Taylor with 36.
Of the current players Ian Moore has scored most with 28 followed by Robbie Blake on 22.
There have been some memorable moments during these 250 games and surely most people will point to that day at Scunthorpe as the number one highlight. But there have certainly been others including those two fantastic runs in the 2001/02 season.
We started the season with seven wins out of eight and then in November and December put together six successive wins and turned in some superb performances. None more so than the 2-0 win at Coventry when we controlled the game from start to finish.
There have been some memorable days outside of the league games as well with cup wins against Premiership clubs Derby, Spurs and Fulham.
There have also been some hammerings and incredibly we have conceded four or more goals on twenty occasions in the league with a good number of them coming last season as we threw a few in.
But we will all have our highlights and our lowlights. It has to be Scunthorpe and for best performance the win at Coventry whilst the lows were the 1-0 win against Coventry that wasn’t enough to take us into the play offs and a 5-0 defeat somewhere a year earlier.
Just a few more highs now and hopefully we can start planning for a fifth season in Division One.
The record is as follows:
p | w | d | l | f | a | pts | ||
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50 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 59 | 75 | 65 | ||
50 | 25 | 15 | 10 | 71 | 52 | 90 | ||
50 | 25 | 7 | 18 | 70 | 66 | 82 | ||
50 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 66 | 72 | 75 | ||
50 | 15 | 12 | 23 | 70 | 93 | 57 | ||
a | ||||||||
250 | 101 | 66 | 83 | 336 | 358 | 369 |