Post by jupu on Mar 6, 2017 22:41:47 GMT
Saturday's draw made it 15 matches without a win. It's our worst run in living memory but it's not yet a club record.
In 1920, we went 17 games (14 league, 3 cup) from the start of the season without a win. We lost the opening match 0-10 at Wellington and the first victory came on 18 December 1920 when we beat Shrewsbury 6-0 at the Lane. This coincided with the signing of Paddy Reid, a forward from Aston Villa reserves, who scored 12 goals over the course of the latter half of the season. Four wins in the last 6 games meant we finished bottom but one of the Birmingham League table.
City had finished the previous season without a win in 7 games, so the run in total spanned 24 games and 9 months.
In more recent times, we went 13 without a win in 1966/67 season, when we were relegated from the Southern League Premier Division, but this sequence was interspersed with one victory in a Midland Floodlit Cup match.
We also went 12 without a win in our last relegation season, 1984/85, and in 1990/91, when Ally Robertson was manager. We didn't win any of our last 11 in season 2008/09 and, most recently, in 2011/12 we lost 9 in a row, but that sequence was bookended by 2 wins.
So, 15 league games without success is a club record for a single season, but 24 games is ultimately the (unenviable) record.
In 1920, we went 17 games (14 league, 3 cup) from the start of the season without a win. We lost the opening match 0-10 at Wellington and the first victory came on 18 December 1920 when we beat Shrewsbury 6-0 at the Lane. This coincided with the signing of Paddy Reid, a forward from Aston Villa reserves, who scored 12 goals over the course of the latter half of the season. Four wins in the last 6 games meant we finished bottom but one of the Birmingham League table.
City had finished the previous season without a win in 7 games, so the run in total spanned 24 games and 9 months.
In more recent times, we went 13 without a win in 1966/67 season, when we were relegated from the Southern League Premier Division, but this sequence was interspersed with one victory in a Midland Floodlit Cup match.
We also went 12 without a win in our last relegation season, 1984/85, and in 1990/91, when Ally Robertson was manager. We didn't win any of our last 11 in season 2008/09 and, most recently, in 2011/12 we lost 9 in a row, but that sequence was bookended by 2 wins.
So, 15 league games without success is a club record for a single season, but 24 games is ultimately the (unenviable) record.