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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: bangormaine on August 12, 2018, 12:32:09 am

Title: I don’t want to get too excited
Post by: bangormaine on August 12, 2018, 12:32:09 am
but..... my mind is not as sharp as some of the  other fans on here but after two good results is this our best start in 53 years, when we won our first two matches 4-0. Against Hartlepool and Lincoln, both at home in 1965. Am I right.
Title: Re: I don’t want to get too excited
Post by: roversam on August 12, 2018, 12:40:53 am
No.
Title: Re: I don’t want to get too excited
Post by: hoolahoop on August 12, 2018, 01:21:47 am
I Do , goddammit we deserve it .
Title: Re: I don’t want to get too excited
Post by: RobTheRover on August 12, 2018, 02:28:07 am
Made me laugh today when the chant of "E I E I E I O, up the football league we go..." came out. Just a tad early, Imho. We aren't Leeds fans, getting all in front of ourselves.
Title: Re: I don’t want to get too excited
Post by: scawsby steve on August 12, 2018, 02:38:04 am
Made me laugh today when the chant of "E I E I E I O, up the football league we go..." came out. Just a tad early, Imho. We aren't Leeds fans, getting all in front of ourselves.

Yes Rob, but we did go up the football league today, by one place; small mercies and all that.
Title: Re: I don’t want to get too excited
Post by: dickos1 on August 12, 2018, 07:39:52 am
Won the first two matches of the 2003/04 season, then didn't win for six games and fell towards the bottom six with the tag of 'relegation favourites' with bookmakers.

It didn't turn out too badly though - unless you were a bookmaker!

We won both games in 2012 also, maybe goal difference makes this season better though
Title: Re: I don’t want to get too excited
Post by: Dutch Uncle on August 12, 2018, 12:36:16 pm
This is the thirteenth time we have won our opening two league (or Conference) games.

The best (goal difference wise) was indeed 1965-66 with the two 4-0 wins. No other season has had a goal difference of more than 4.

The other seasons with a goal difference of 4 were:
2012-13: 5-1
2003-04: 5-1
1983-84: 5-1
1928-29: 7-3

Of those 13 seasons, in only three did we win the next game: 1994-95, 1990-91 (won first 5) and 1946-47 (also won first 5)

1990-91 and 1946-47 show that such a start can have different conclusions. In 1946-47 we had the most successful season of any league club ever at two points per game and were champions by a mile with 72 points (would have been 105 at 3 per game). In 1990-91 we didn't even make the playoffs.

Edit: Replying to BangorMaine from Bangor, County Down  ;)

P.S. Wasn't Bangor Maine orginally meant to be called Sunbury?

http://bangorinfo.com/history.html
Title: Re: I don’t want to get too excited
Post by: sheffield exile1 on August 12, 2018, 02:50:55 pm
If so a lot of Steven King novels would probably have different titles? Its a bit like living in Cabot Cove where a murder is always solved in 57 minutes...by Jessica Fletcher...makes the Bronx and like look tame..

P.S. Wasn't Bangor Maine orginally meant to be called Sunbury?
Title: Re: I don’t want to get too excited
Post by: scawsby steve on August 12, 2018, 03:46:08 pm
Third box car, midnight train
Destination Bangor Maine
No worn out boots or shoes
I don't pay no union dues

King of the road - Roger Miller