Accrington Stanley Squad 1977-1978

[Fazman]

Can anyone tell me the names of the players in the Stanley squad between 1977-1978?

Or better still still, can anyone point me in the right direction on how to obtain this information?

Much Appreciated

Fazman

[KIPAX]

I would suggest start in the accrington stanley forum
Your in general chat on an accrington forum.. you need to be in accrignton stanley

[Jimbo T Hornblower]

You MAY find what your looking for here :

http://www.accringtonstanley.has.it

I have a book that is called complete history of Accy Stanley but it only covers up to when the old club went bust in 62...

Jimbo T blower

[Bazf]

Here goes
D Hindle
R Haworth
B Poole
I Waburton
K Walkden
J Brydon
I Mcray
M McHugh
I Wilcox
D Parr
K Twinney
J Lamb
G Hilton
A Davis
T Clements
Manager Dom Bradley and Dave Hargreaves
In Feb 78 Hargreaves moved to the Rovers for the pricly sum of 1000 pounds.

[northern red]

Jack Brydon 47 (3) Bernard Poole 47
Micky Finn 47 Ronnie Haworth 47
Alan Davies 45 (2) David Hindle 45 (7)
Mick McHugh 44 (1) John Hubberstey 44 (1)
Keith Walkden 37 (11) Ian Wilcox 33
Ian MaCrae 26 (3) David Parr 25 (2)
David Hargreaves 22 Tony Monks 21 (9)
John Lamb 19 (9) Jimmy Leech 13 (4)
Ian Warburton 13 (3) Robert Haworth 9
Kevin Twinny 9 Graham Lord 6 (2)
Neil Haigh 5 (3) Tony Gardner 3 (3)
Tony Braysford 3 (2) Glynn Burr 2 (4)
John Blackburn 2 (1) David Calverley 1 (1)
Jack Hacking 1 Neil Pitt 1
Joe Devlin (1) Tony Ormerod (1)
Gary Hilton 1 Ian Bolton (1)
Cohan (1)

[southernred]

I suspect I have the access to the most information from this era. Sadly I am old enough to have watched most of the matches in this season when we won the Lancashire Combination for the last time ( before transfering to the new Cheshire League Div 2).
In this season we defeated Gt. Harwood ( then in the NPL) in the 1/4 final of the LFA Cup ( now the united co-op trophy) before losing to Wigan 3-4 in the semi final. This was Wigan's last season before election to the Football League 4th Division.

We also played Blackburn Rovers 1st team (part of the David Hargreaves transfer deal ( 2K in think) and drew 3-3 in front of a crowd of 900)

The only way to get information from this era is from the archieved records at Accy libarary ( via the Accy Observer)

I have in my collection 25 home programmes and the Gt. Harwood and Wigan away programmes.

May I ask why you are interested in this season??

[SophieK]

Hi there,
My father, John Hubberstey turns 70 this year and I am hoping someone is able to help me find any memorabilia or anything related to his time with Accrington Stanley. If there is anyone out there who remembers him or knows someone who used to play with him and would perhaps like to get together for a reunion type thing please don't hesitate to let me know.
Many thanks in anticipation

Sophie

[maccawozzagod]

Look up Accrington Stanley Memories page on facebook, there's a few of his old team mates on there

[wilkinp4]

That LFA semi-final at Wigan was brutal. Stanley 3-1 up with 10 minutes to go.... we all thought we was home and dry. I have never sat on a more despondent coach home than that one.

The Blackburn game was freezing cold mid-week, we weren't allowed to stand up and stamp our feet to get warm, but we all wanted to see Haggis do well, rest his soul.

I think the Harwood game was after a draw at our place, I have some of the footage on cine8 somewhere.

We played Knowsley in the cup v league winners at the end of the season, I have the team picture with me on it as sub, we only had 10 players, I think Dave Baron turned out, and I was used with someone elses name that was registered! I was kit boy at the time.

Very knowledgable stuff, as always on this site, from the contributors here. Sorry I have only just seen the thread.