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Reserve games back in the day

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Late 70’s/ early 80’s we were in the Wearside Combination League.
I remember going to watch them at Murton and having the craic on the sidelines with Alan Brown who was watching. We had a lad with half an arm playing in midfield for us
 
BombayBadboy said:
Remember the days we would get like 30,000+ for a reserve game? I seem to remember a game against Liverpool and I think proctor scored for us, and they fielded Mcmanaman. That's all I remember, random thought of the day!!
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Thought this was going to be about the old days with the North Midland League at Roker Park playing the likes of Boro, Bradford, Doncaster, Barnsley and Scunny. The mags were in the Central League.

Bill posters used to stick posters up (red writing on white background) at strategic points around the ground which would detail the next upcoming fixture for the first team(in either Div 2 or Div 1), the ressies in N. Midland League, and the Youths in the Northern Intermediate League. Wish I'd taken a pic of one for posterity
I was actually at a North Midland League game on the Saturday we lost 8 nil at Upton Park when Sir GH got 6. Think we were playing Bradford, and there was stunned disbelief amongst the fans in the Main Stand (only area opened for ressie games) unsurprisingly.
Learned a few 'new' words that day as a nipper and they all centred around Alan Brown, wonder why?
Grimsby Mackem said:
I remember the FA youth cup semi-final 2nd leg in 1982 against Man Utd in front of 16,000. We drew the first leg 0-0 at their place, but a couple of unknowns called Mark Hughes & Norman Whiteside ripped us to shreds. We lost 4-0, and 3 months later Whiteside was playing in the world cup.
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Was there.
The queues were so big, they opened the exit gates and let fans in for nowt.
Well over 20,000 in after kick off.
Abu Dhabi Red and White said:
Remember the pasted billboards for the ressies had blue text.
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Hmmmmm, red on white iirc, but you've got me questioning myself now.
 
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Luna17 said:
Thought this was going to be about the old days with the North Midland League at Roker Park playing the likes of Boro, Bradford, Doncaster, Barnsley and Scunny. The mags were in the Central League.

Bill posters used to stick posters up (red writing on white background) at strategic points around the ground which would detail the next upcoming fixture for the first team(in either Div 2 or Div 1), the ressies in N. Midland League, and the Youths in the Northern Intermediate League. Wish I'd taken a pic of one for posterity
I was actually at a North Midland League game on the Saturday we lost 8 nil at Upton Park when Sir GH got 6. Think we were playing Bradford, and there was stunned disbelief amongst the fans in the Main Stand (only area opened for ressie games) unsurprisingly.
Learned a few 'new' words that day as a nipper and they all centred around Alan Brown, wonder why?

Was there.
The queues were so big, they opened the exit gates and let fans in for nowt.
Well over 20,000 in after kick off.

Hmmmmm, red on white iirc, but you've got me questioning myself now.
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Red text on white background for first team games but blue for the reserves - I used to love seeing them being pasted up at Seaham in the 60s.
 
Grimsby Mackem said:
I remember the FA youth cup semi-final 2nd leg in 1982 against Man Utd in front of 16,000. We drew the first leg 0-0 at their place, but a couple of unknowns called Mark Hughes & Norman Whiteside ripped us to shreds. We lost 4-0, and 3 months later Whiteside was playing in the world cup.
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was there, think davy corner was playing for us that day. think more than 20k, had to open fulwell end up because of queues outside, underestimated how many people would turn up.
 
I do think that it has been a mistake ending the old reserves teams, a lot of fringe players don’t get the game time and the level of competition has suffered, when you played the bigger teams you could be playing against several players who were better than your first team. This must have been good for the development of the younger players and for the match fitness of those On the bench.
 
North Regional League, very few would go.
The youths played in the Northern Intermediete League, we won the FA Youth Cup anarl.
 
Riot Shot Pint said:
Those huge crowds there was a push to break a record, iirc one of them was free and another was a quid as only games that people paid into counted towards the highest crowd or something.

The Nunez one he out jumped gary pallister (I think) by a good foot to win a header everyone was just laughing their cocks off
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Then Rangers got 42K against Celtic reserves a week or two later
 
I remember us playing at Durham in the late 90's. Used to get in for free with your season ticket and those couple of games at the Sol when we were flying under Reidy. Brilliant days.
 
KNGHTHOOD said:
North Regional wasn’t it, we couldn’t get in the Central League because the mags voted against us getting in every year.
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I always wondered about that. Shame really, the Central League was a good standard, though in my time, Liverpool seemed to win it every year.

(As a kid, I used to see the Central League results in the papers. I couldn't work out why Newcastle United had 2 teams!)
 
Not an old one, but saw Galloway and Browning have storming games against us four or five years back. Galloway looked a complete class above. Told everyone we were getting two real talents when we brought them in. :oops:
 
Blue for reserves. This game may not have happened. There is no year on the poster but the only Sat Dec 4th during the North Regional League era was 1965. 1965/66 programmes show Second team were to play Hull City that day. Later programmes still show Dec 4th Hull, but with no result. What happened?
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