Tranmere 1 - 3 Forest Green Rovers

Tranmere 1 - 3 Forest Green Rovers May 15, 2017 17:25:27 GMT chasallnut likes this

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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 17:25:27 GMT

May 15, 2017 10:13:26 GMT chasallnut said:

May 4, 2017 17:16:18 GMT @manlystanley said:

It's not really right that shite like these two might take the place of Leyton Orient who have a rich and illustrious history in the Football League. It is a disgrace. They have no business being in the Football League.

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Let's see if I can goad FJ into posting again

Leyton Orient 1881
average home crowd 16/17 - 4500
Honours

Division Three South Winners 1955–56

Division Three Champions 1969–70

Tranmere 1884,
Average home crowd 16/17 - 5700
Honours
League
First Division (tier 2)

4th in 1992–93 (highest league position)

Play-offs: 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95

Third Division/Second Division/League One (tier 3)

Promotion: 1990–91

Play-offs: 1989–90, 2004–05

Third Division North (tier 3)

Winner: 1937–38

Fourth Division (tier 4)

Promotion: 1966–67, 1975–76, 1988–89

Lancashire Combination

Winner: 1913–14, 1918–19

The Combination

Winner: 1907–08

Cup
FA Cup

Quarter-final: 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2003–04

Welsh Cup

Winner: 1934–35

Runner-up: 1933–34

Football League Cup

Runner-up: 1999–2000

Semi-final: 1993–94

League Trophy

Winner: 1989–90

Runner-up: 1990–91

Alright, Bertie Big Chestnuts, no need to show off. In terms of popular culture, I'd say the Os are bigger. Our ground has featured in huge blockbuster feature films like I.D., we have had fly on the wall documentaries filmed about us featuring the likes of legendary manager, John Sitton (I'm talking documentaries that have aired on national television and not just documentaries that are available in the Tranmere club shop on VHS for 99p, in fact his rants are still a hit on youtube today!), we have celebrity fans like Andrew Llloyd Webber, Barry Hearn, Bob Mills, Orient have played in the top flight of professional football, we have reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup, we won the Dubonnet Cup in Paris in 1912, these are feats that Tranmere have never recorded. And I noticed what you did there, you included all the times that Tranmere got promoted (amongst a few other things) but didn't do the same for Leyton Orient.

Tranmere meanwhile, once got a mention on Brookside.

On a sidenote, I actually remember the year Tranmere finished in their highest ever league position, 4th in the second tier, John Aldridge was scoring a tonne of goals for you, the Daily Star were running a fantasy football contest which was easily exploitable if you knew a little about 1st division football, as the players were much, much cheaper than Premier League players yet they could score the same amount of points, I picked up Aldridge and a few other players for a steal and finished in 110th place or something, after spending most the season in the top 3 and top at times, just missing out on big cash prizes as I slid down the table in the final few weeks, I still feel The Daily Star might have rigged it that year as my team was about as close to perfection as I or anyone is likely to ever get. But I was 11 years old at the time, I didn't know who to make a complaint to.

In truth, neither club should be playing non-league next year, just goes to show how shambolic the running of our clubs must be, we have a corrupt owner who is wanted for embezzlement and money laundering charges in Albania.

Here is a short youtube documentary that just went out a few days ago that will break the hearts of any true football fan

I should have been there for them, I'm not superstitious but sometimes I feel my mere presence could have avoided all this.