The greatest escape?

[UTS]

As Bury currently disgrace themselves sitting 11 points adrift of safety, it would take a near miracle to keep us up.

Question is would recovering an 11 point defecit to stay up be the largest ever? Or has there been even bigger margains overturned?

Also, has your club ever pulled off a great escape act?

 

[Bobbin']

When I think of great escapes I always go straight to West Brom in 2005 in the PL, probably helps that it was our late equaliser against Palace on the final day that kept them up.

Not sure how many points they were adrift but I remember the crazy run they went on in the final couple of months including a 4-1 win at The Valley.

 

[Meadow]

I can't check due to statto.com going pop, but Newport's escape last season (I think) was pretty good.

11 points adrift in March according to wiki.

 

[Shrew_fan]

we had a good escape in 99/00 which culminated in last day survival thanks to our 2-1 win at Exeter (Micky Brown still has god-like status in Shrewsbury for his two goals that day). Both Carlisle and Chester were also in the relegation mix on the last day and at various points during the afternoon all 3 teams were in the relegation spot. In the end Chester went down whilst Carlisle were saved by a goal by their keeper Jimmy Glass.

We didn't learn our lesson though and got relegated out of the league in 02/03...

 

[Bottega Don]

I think Bury have a very good chance of it. They have a ridiculously good squad compared to where they are in the league. If like three of their good players hit a slight bit of form they could easily get up the league.

 

[lordofthepies]

we had a good escape in 99/00 which culminated in last day survival thanks to our 2-1 win at Exeter (Micky Brown still has god-like status in Shrewsbury for his two goals that day). Both Carlisle and Chester were also in the relegation mix on the last day and at various points during the afternoon all 3 teams were in the relegation spot. In the end Chester went down whilst Carlisle were saved by a goal by their keeper Jimmy Glass.

We didn't learn our lesson though and got relegated out of the league in 02/03...

It was Scarborough who were sent down by the Jimmy Glass goal, not Chester.

 

[Robie]

Get Maguire on the pitch and you will survive...

 

[07.05.16]

Didn't Sunderland have a pretty remarkable escape in the 13/14 season? including a 2-1 win at Chelsea which was Mourinho's first ever at Stamford Bridge.

 

[Shrew_fan]

It was Scarborough who were sent down by the Jimmy Glass goal, not Chester.

Oops - getting confused. Twas a while ago....

 

[MagpieBee]

I think Bury have a very good chance of it. They have a ridiculously good squad compared to where they are in the league. If like three of their good players hit a slight bit of form they could easily get up the league.

Was gonna say - thought I remembered something either this summer or last where everyone was saying how surprised they were at the quality and expense of Bury's signings.

Might be wrong though.

 

[BigDaveCUFC]

If i remember the biggest escape in terms of points may be macclesfield.

did they not have something awful like 5 points at christmas when ince took over and survived??

not 100% on that, relegation battles i usually remember the end, not middle.

Mind that 99/00 season with Chester/ourselves/shrewsbury........got to be one of the lowest quality seasons in the history of L2. All 3 of them clubs deserved relegation into the conference they were all absolutely bloody shocking.....and the champions that season Swansea were average at best.

 

[Vanni]

Ronnie Moore's Hartlepool.

 

[WilsdenBantam]

Our great escape was in the Premier League beating Liverpool on the last day, but it was nowhere near 11 points at any stage.

Regarding Bury I don't give them a prayer, some of our lot were jealous of their summer business think that might have changed now. They brought in players who they probably had to overpay to entice them from bigger clubs, and the players probably think they're doing them a favour. If you bring in one or two like that, like Merson at Pompey then it can work but not near enough a full team. They remind me of us in our last season in the Premier League to a degree, bringing in has been over paid mercenaries who have come from bigger clubs, them sort of players rarely show fight and it creates a weak changing room. I can imagine most of them go home after a loss and barely give it a second thought, Bury for the last couple of years have just seemed to try bringing in expensive random players with no long term strategy, a massive risk that has backfired and it's hard to have sympathy tbh.

 

[T.A]

If we get relegated at least it shuts up some of them wet gimps on twitter and the ones that get hard over everything Day does without thinking its actually hurting the club.

If getting relegated makes us become self-sufficient and stop buying players that clearly don't give a shit about us then I look forward to it.

 

[F!RTHY]

L**ds were 15 points behind before a ball was even kicked, and still made the play-offs.

 

[Hurrikeen]

Surely it’ll be tough to beat ours in the Premiership?

9pts adrift with 3 games left to play, all in 7 days, one of which away to the leaders Aston Villa.

Knowing the above was immaterial should either Palace or Sheff Utd pick up just a single point in their last 2 games, the chances of survival were near on impossible.

The rest is history.

The downside being our win at Villa Park handed United the title.

 

[KeithH]

Get Maguire on the pitch and you will survive...

Whats the point, he clearly does not want to be here, make us an offer an you can have him back. For a club he wants to be at he will be OK but his ONLY good game this season was against you lot.

 

[beaufighter]

Our great escape was in the Premier League beating Liverpool on the last day, but it was nowhere near 11 points at any stage.

Regarding Bury I don't give them a prayer, some of our lot were jealous of their summer business think that might have changed now. They brought in players who they probably had to overpay to entice them from bigger clubs, and the players probably think they're doing them a favour. If you bring in one or two like that, like Merson at Pompey then it can work but not near enough a full team. They remind me of us in our last season in the Premier League to a degree, bringing in has been over paid mercenaries who have come from bigger clubs, them sort of players rarely show fight and it creates a weak changing room. I can imagine most of them go home after a loss and barely give it a second thought, Bury for the last couple of years have just seemed to try bringing in expensive random players with no long term strategy, a massive risk that has backfired and it's hard to have sympathy tbh.

I remember that day. I remember thinking "Bradford needs to beat Liverpool to stay up (when the reds still had a reputation the likes of Man City have now), I'll watch that for a laugh". I ended up shouting and cheering at the telly for Bradford! A very strange feeling

 

[iWomble]

I remember that day. I remember thinking "Bradford needs to beat Liverpool to stay up (when the reds still had a reputation the likes of Man City have now), I'll watch that for a laugh". I ended up shouting and cheering at the telly for Bradford! A very strange feeling

I remember that day too. Of course, the Great Escape wouldn't have been on at all if it hadn't been for Jeff Winter the week before.

 

[WilsdenBantam]

I remember that day too. Of course, the Great Escape wouldn't have been on at all if it hadn't been for Jeff Winter the week before.

Look at the positives though, if you'd have stayed up we might never have being graced with a big club from the Milton Keynes, too soon?

 

[bantamigo]

I remember that day too. Of course, the Great Escape wouldn't have been on at all if it hadn't been for Jeff Winter the week before.

We spent too much money the summer after we stayed up because we’d stayed up, went into admin twice, nearly ceased to exist and dropped into League Two. So Jeff Winter probably fucked us both that day.

 

[Don Tonberry]

We were 11 points from safety in the Prem in 05/06 and looked certain to go down until Pedro Mendes scored a 94th minute screamer against Man City to give us a sniff of hope. That sparked a run which saw us stay up with a game to spare at the expense of West Brom and Birmingham. Good times.

 

[ThisTinpotLeague]

Back around 2004 we were in real danger of being L2 champions at Christmas. Luckily we only won twice in the second half of the season and finished safely outside the play offs.