1st of January 2010 - where were we?

[shoddycollins]

Thanks to 11v11, you can just put in any date you like and see the league table on that day. So where was everyone in this division on the first day of the decade?

Not many of us were doing particularly well in our respective divisions.

Championship
20 - Reading
21 - Scunthorpe
22 - Plymouth
23 - Sheff Wed

League One
3 - Norwich
4 - Colchester
5 - Huddersfield
6 - Swindon
7 - Millwall
...
9 - Bristol R
10 - Walsall
11 - Brentford
...
14 - Yeovil
15 - Carlisle
16 - Hartlepool
17 - Gillingham
18 - Exeter
19 - Oldham
20 - Brighton
21 - Orient
22 - Tranmere

League Two
9 - Bury
10 - Morecambe
11 - Accrington
12 - Crewe
13 - Port Vale
14 - Burton
15 - Bradford
16 - Barnet
17 - Macclesfield
18 - Northampton
19 - Torquay
20 - Hereford
21 - Cheltenham
22 - Lincoln
23 - Grimsby
24 - Darlington

Conference*
1 - Oxford
2 - Stevenage
3 - York
...
5 - Kettering
6 - Mansfield
7 - Luton
8 - Crawley
9 - R&D
...
15 - Barrow
16 - Cambridge
17 - Wrexham
...
21 - Ebbsfleet
22 - FGR
23 - Grays


Conference South**
1 - Newport






Northern Premier League Premier Division









Northern Premier League Division 1 North
? - Salford
finished mid-table in the Northern Premier League Division 1 North... no idea what the table looked like on new year's day though.

*Conference table comes from footstats.co.uk
** Taken from Newport's own history, rest of the league table unavailable

 

[kieran_vale]

That would have been Micky Adams first season in charge at Vale. Was actually a decent enough season as it finished up given how bad the previous one was and some off field turmoil as well (what’s new there).

 

[valefan16]

That would have been Micky Adams first season in charge at Vale. Was actually a decent enough season as it finished up given how bad the previous one was and some off field turmoil as well (what’s new there).

Play offs were still in contention on the last day so did well with the dross Glover left

 

[Casey]

That was a tough conference division back then. It's never easy but there were some good sides that season.

R&D still had ambitions, Oxford, Stevenage and York at the top, Kettering still going great. Wrexham and Cambridge near the bottom!

Casey

 

[Chris FGR]

Hockaday was doing a sterling job in making us worse, having inherited what was admittedly a pretty poor situation.

Brought in about 20 free agents on non contracts/loans outside of the transfer window having taken over that September, and also had a shit load more different triallists turning up at training every week. He then had the nerve to say he was 'looking forward to January'.

Back then we were unrelegatable though, so not sure why we were worried.

 

[Chris FGR]

Sobering thought.

3 of the 72 clubs that started the decade as Football League clubs have since been liquidated. Include the Conference and that number goes up to 5.

 

[dedwardp]

We spent much of that season neck and neck with Norwich and Leeds for the two automatic promotion spots in League One, and with 14 games to go we were 10 points clear of dropping out of the play-off places.

Boothroyd's side won only two of the final 14 games to finish EIGHT points adrift of the play-offs. We even finished below Southampton who were 25 points behind us with 14 games to go. It's been pretty downhill ever since.

 

[The Terminator]

This is where we aspire to get back too, 21st in League One and go back to being one of the leagues smaller clubs.........

Think in 2010 we finished 18th but in 2011 finished 7th, before finishing 20th and struggling again in 2012.

 

[Vanni]

The 2009/10 season. Martin Ling. The home strip with the sash*

"Shudder".

*we were given three (or was it four?) designs to choose from, but the first choice was rejected, and then one fan came up with the sash design. So basically, the fans vote was all for nowt.

 

[Chris FGR]

You beat us 7-0 that season. the heaviest defeat I've ever seen.

Long miserable fucking trip back that was.

 

[Indian Dan]

We spent much of that season neck and neck with Norwich and Leeds for the two automatic promotion spots in League One, and with 14 games to go we were 10 points clear of dropping out of the play-off places.

Boothroyd's side won only two of the final 14 games to finish EIGHT points adrift of the play-offs. We even finished below Southampton who were 25 points behind us with 14 games to go. It's been pretty downhill ever since.

Was that the season you thrashed Norwich at Carrow Road, first game of the season?

 

[dedwardp]

Was that the season you thrashed Norwich at Carrow Road, first game of the season?

Yeah, won 7-1 at Carrow Road on the opening day after being 5-0 up at half-time. Then Lambert walked out to take over at Norwich and they beat us 5-0 in the reverse fixture which was a bit of a top of the table clash at the time.

 

[AdamStag]

It was a 2nd season (I think down there) for mansfield, we finished 9th down there. Embarrassingly losing to forest green in the fa cup.

The conference was really strong back then, it’s remarkable how poor the last few seasons conference has been with abject sides in it. The quality of it is so much worse than when we won it.

 

[E10rifle]

Good fun in a heart stopping way, that season. We looked pretty doomed at one stage after losing at home to Sarfend around New Year time. Thankfully, the contest for the drop was an absolute battle royale and we squeaked out of it by a point (but four[!] places) and the Mudrats went down instead.

Sean Thornton put in one of the top 10 individual performances I’ve ever seen as we beat Champions-elect Norwich in Russell Slade’s first game in charge. What a player he was... once every 15 games or so.

 

[Crewelad87]

As we went into 2010 it was probably my lowest point as a Crewe fan Gudjon Thordarsson had not long been sacked, and Dario had taken back over. Luckily 2010 was the shoots to recovery with players like Westwood, Murphy, Moore, Tootle and Powell all coming through. Assistant Manager Steve Davis took over later that year I think

 

[devilofajob]

Our last game of last decade was a 3-2 win at Grays.
Our first game of this decade was a 2-0 win at Eastbourne.
I wouldn't like to hazard a guess where we'll be in 10 years time.

 

[GTFCfish]

This was the season after Newell had come in part way through the season before and kept us up and we were all confident of a promotion push with players brought in who on paper looked too good for this league, unfortunately we didn’t allow for most of them being alcoholics and after a 27 game (I think) winless run we were relegated to non league.
We then won our first game in non league away at title favourites Crawley which convinced me that we would definitely be back in the league within a season or two.

 

[Chris FGR]

It was a 2nd season (I think down there) for mansfield, we finished 9th down there. Embarrassingly losing to forest green in the fa cup.

Nowadays losing to us would be par for the course.

 

[Greenacres]

Our last game of last decade was a 3-2 win at Grays.
Our first game of this decade was a 2-0 win at Eastbourne.
I wouldn't like to hazard a guess where we'll be in 10 years time.

Brighton or Bognor?

 

[PaulHaddock]

We started the decade 23rd in League 2 - we’re now 21st. The reign of Fenty summed up.

 

[TimeyWimey]

As we went into 2010 it was probably my lowest point as a Crewe fan Gudjon Thordarsson had not long been sacked, and Dario had taken back over. Luckily 2010 was the shoots to recovery with players like Westwood, Murphy, Moore, Tootle and Powell all coming through. Assistant Manager Steve Davis took over later that year I think

Yep, our worst period since the 80s. 2010 wasn’t a turning point tho. Would be another 2 years nearly before Davis would take over after we lost our first four games of the 11/12 season (and Dario hung on till end of October). Hardly a bed of roses since then but that period with Gudjon the twat and then the interim period with Dario, a complete lack of direction from the club, killed us as a League One club and could have killed us as a football league club.

 

[Chris FGR]

We started the decade 23rd in League 2 - we’re now 21st. The reign of Fenty summed up.

You've improved!

In 10 years time you'll be 19th! And promoted in 2100.

 

[Kim Mitten]

Good fun in a heart stopping way, that season. We looked pretty doomed at one stage after losing at home to Sarfend around New Year time. Thankfully, the contest for the drop was an absolute battle royale and we squeaked out of it by a point (but four[!] places) and the Mudrats went down instead.

Sean Thornton put in one of the top 10 individual performances I’ve ever seen as we beat Champions-elect Norwich in Russell Slade’s first game in charge. What a player he was... once every 15 games or so.

Cannot remember us winning at Orient that season! For Southend was even worse than this one for this was the season where in October Ron Martin decided to stop paying everyone at the football club and didn't start again until Sainsbury's bailed him out in June and then saw the entire squad bar 3 players all walk out.

Was the season I realised just how apathetic our fans are as it was clear 75% or so clearly didn't give a shit at the turmoil off the field.
A group of 50 or so of us who travelled regularly spent away games chanting about people not getting paid and the general shitness of Martin only to be rounded on and abused by our fellow 'fans' for daring to voice our opinion that maybe Ron might like to actually pay his employees.

Now we start the next decade with the most detested group of Southend players ever who clearly hate the club as much as we hate them.

At least I'm looking forward to Division 4 next season.

 

[E10rifle]

Cannot remember us winning at Orient that season! For Southend was even worse than this one for this was the season where in October Ron Martin decided to stop paying everyone at the football club and didn't start again until Sainsbury's bailed him out in June and then saw the entire squad bar 3 players all walk out.

Was the season I realised just how apathetic our fans are as it was clear 75% or so clearly didn't give a shit at the turmoil off the field.
A group of 50 or so of us who travelled regularly spent away games chanting about people not getting paid and the general shitness of Martin only to be rounded on and abused by our fellow 'fans' for daring to voice our opinion that maybe Ron might like to actually pay his employees.

Now we start the next decade with the most detested group of Southend players ever who clearly hate the club as much as we hate them.

At least I'm looking forward to Division 4 next season.

I remember that win very well, mostly because it left you in around 10th place and I still ventured on to ShrimperZone to tell everyone that you were so woeful that you’d join us in relegation despite the victory. I was half right, at least.

Re: Apathy amongst your fans, it’s been there for years. Ron Martin gets let off the hook on SZ time and again, but the way he’s run the club since Fossetts Farm was first mooted has been - in this semi-impartial observer’s opinion - borderline grotesque.

It’s in the nature of people, though. Look at all the fawning bootlicking going on over the NY Honours lists. Look at the sheep (not Colchester) getting conned into Brexit and neo-conservatism. Look at how Orient supporters fought amongst themselves almost right up to the end of B******i’s reign. There were still fans chanting for the pitch invasion to end in case Mad Frank got angry, just as we were on the verge of extinction.

 

[AdamStag]

Nowadays losing to us would be par for the course.

Yeah, that 1 game in 5 we’ve lost to FG since they came to the league

 

[Chris FGR]

Yeah, that 1 game in 5 we’ve lost to FG since they came to the league

You gotta admit though, if you beat us in a couple of weeks time it will be quite an embarrassing result for us what with it being 20th v 5th. Only drawing at home was bad enough.

 

[AdamStag]

You gotta admit though, if you beat us in a couple of weeks time it will be quite an embarrassing result for us what with it being 20th v 5th. Only drawing at home was bad enough.

Depends on how you interpret it, we’ve lost to plenty of tinpot irrelevant sides in our past, including yourselves. It’s football.

 

[Chris FGR]

Just find it interesting how times have changed. Back then losing to us was 'embarrassing', these days you snatch a draw at our place and celebrate like you've won the cup.

 

[AdamStag]

Just find it interesting how times have changed. Back then losing to us was 'embarrassing', these days you snatch a draw at our place and celebrate like you've won the cup.

you said the same thing earlier on and it was irrelevant then.

Whyever would mansfield celebrate beating a side like FGR (something we’ve done with decent frequency in our games) and celebrate like we’ve won the cup?

You’re either on a terrible wind up or really retarded

 

[Conker]

Just find it interesting how times have changed. Back then losing to us was 'embarrassing', these days you snatch a draw at our place and celebrate like you've won the cup.

You’ve got to realise the vast majority of fans (myself included) never heard of Forest Green Rovers until we actually played them, and got beat