I’ve been trying to find any teams which were worse than our lot in this division. I’ve gone back 60 years and I can only find a couple of teams which were worse than our current points table.
20 Doncaster 97/98
23 Workington 76/77*
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24 Us – with 8 games left
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25 Newport 87/88
25 Bradford PA 68/69
27 Crewe 81/82
28 Southport 76/77* – this is the only side I’ve found which won fewer than 4 games.
28 Workington 75/76*
29 Torquay 95/96
29 Barrow 70/71*
29 Bradford PA 69/70*
* Adjusted for 3 points for a win
What is perhaps most alarming about this list is what happened to a number of clubs on this list after leaving the Football League.
Southport, Bradford PA, Barrow & Workington all disappeared from the Football League around the time of these record low seasons and only Barrow have recently come back. Newport went bankrupt the season after being relegated and Doncaster barely survived. Torquay yo-yo’d for a decade or two and have been out of the league for nearly a decade.
The moral of this story is that a team this bad doesn’t tend to bounce back quickly. We’re currently on course for 29. Are we destined to become another Bradford PA or Southport, a name remembered only in Football League history?
Sobering analysis.. the future most certainly is not bright regardless of how many time MR Hill feels the need to tell us how the club is restructuring and rebuilding for it. LOB imo
