Always thought Jimmy Hill joining the board was the start of good things. He seemed such a positive influence and did he have a big hand in forming The Junior Reds?
Always thought Jimmy Hill joining the board was the start of good things. He seemed such a positive influence and did he have a big hand in forming The Junior Reds?
Yeah but he did fuck all when we left The Valley but (quite rightly) fought tooth and nail to keep his beloved Fulham at Craven Cottage a couple of years later.
He gave us dozens of VHS video tapes of the matches that were recorded for his use as manager, rather than for commercial sale. Once we get them converted to DVD, we will have an enormous archive of games from the eighties.
I would love to see some of these. Some great times and was pretty drunk for many of them.
Always thought Jimmy Hill joining the board was the start of good things. He seemed such a positive influence and did he have a big hand in forming The Junior Reds?
Yeah but he did fuck all when we left The Valley but (quite rightly) fought tooth and nail to keep his beloved Fulham at Craven Cottage a couple of years later.
Before a game up in smoggie land @rockspectacle and myself were drinking in The Zetland. Minding our own business a Boro fan struck up conversation with us, very soon he brought up Sir Lennie and said that the Boro fans loved him after he got them promoted to the Premier. He was insistent on buying us a drink as well!
Before a game up in smoggie land @rockspectacle and myself were drinking in The Zetland. Minding our own business a Boro fan struck up conversation with us, very soon he brought up Sir Lennie and said that the Boro fans loved him after he got them promoted to the Premier. He was insistent on buying us a drink as well!
There was such turmoil going on at the time, especially when @Airman Brown got the Back to the Valley campaign going that Lennie probably didn’t get the recognition he deserved.
We had no cash and no ground and yet he got us promoted back to the top flight for the first time in thirty odd years and kept us there for four years!
More than that just look at the class players he signed or brought through….
Bolder, Humphrey, Reid, Minto, Shirtliff, Miller, Lee, Peake, Walsh, Bennett, Mortimer, Melrose, Watson, Williams, Pitcher, Crooks - and he hardly spent more than £100,000 on any of them!
To be honest, I feel that he also deserves more recognition from the club for what he did - he arguably kept us alive during that period - perhaps the Lennie Lawrence Stand may be in order for the West Stand or maybe the Lennie Lawrence Covered End?
There was such turmoil going on at the time, especially when @Airman Brown got the Back to the Valley campaign going that Lennie probably didn’t get the recognition he deserved.
We had no cash and no ground and yet he got us promoted back to the top flight for the first time in thirty odd years and kept us there for four years!
More than that just look at the class players he signed or brought through….
Bolder, Humphrey, Reid, Minto, Shirtliff, Miller, Lee, Peake, Walsh, Bennett, Mortimer, Melrose, Watson, Williams, Pitcher, Crooks - and he hardly spent more than £100,000 on any of them!
To be honest, I feel that he also deserves more recognition from the club for what he did - he arguably kept us alive during that period - perhaps the Lennie Lawrence Stand may be in order for the West Stand or maybe the Lennie Lawrence Covered End?
Fantastic post.
Sir Lennie laid the foundations for the riches that followed.
There was such turmoil going on at the time, especially when @Airman Brown got the Back to the Valley campaign going that Lennie probably didn’t get the recognition he deserved.
We had no cash and no ground and yet he got us promoted back to the top flight for the first time in thirty odd years and kept us there for four years!
More than that just look at the class players he signed or brought through….
Bolder, Humphrey, Reid, Minto, Shirtliff, Miller, Lee, Peake, Walsh, Bennett, Mortimer, Melrose, Watson, Williams, Pitcher, Crooks - and he hardly spent more than £100,000 on any of them!
To be honest, I feel that he also deserves more recognition from the club for what he did - he arguably kept us alive during that period - perhaps the Lennie Lawrence Stand may be in order for the West Stand or maybe the Lennie Lawrence Covered End?
I'm not sure he deserves a whole stand - we don't have many to play with! - but he certainly deserves something. Maybe the family section or the NW quadrant, or at least a lounge like Keith Peacock has
One of our Volunteers has all the kit and will be picking up the tapes on Tuesday 6th (next time we're open) to digitise them.
Frees up space in the Museum and makes them accessible to more people.
Not sure there's much of a market for 1980s Charlton games but we'll see if we can make them available.
Worthwhile resource but the camera work and picture quality will be somewhat basic, akin to the “last game” video we released years ago, even by the standards of iFollow etc.
There was such turmoil going on at the time, especially when @Airman Brown got the Back to the Valley campaign going that Lennie probably didn’t get the recognition he deserved.
We had no cash and no ground and yet he got us promoted back to the top flight for the first time in thirty odd years and kept us there for four years!
More than that just look at the class players he signed or brought through….
Bolder, Humphrey, Reid, Minto, Shirtliff, Miller, Lee, Peake, Walsh, Bennett, Mortimer, Melrose, Watson, Williams, Pitcher, Crooks - and he hardly spent more than £100,000 on any of them!
To be honest, I feel that he also deserves more recognition from the club for what he did - he arguably kept us alive during that period - perhaps the Lennie Lawrence Stand may be in order for the West Stand or maybe the Lennie Lawrence Covered End?
There was such turmoil going on at the time, especially when @Airman Brown got the Back to the Valley campaign going that Lennie probably didn’t get the recognition he deserved.
We had no cash and no ground and yet he got us promoted back to the top flight for the first time in thirty odd years and kept us there for four years!
More than that just look at the class players he signed or brought through….
Bolder, Humphrey, Reid, Minto, Shirtliff, Miller, Lee, Peake, Walsh, Bennett, Mortimer, Melrose, Watson, Williams, Pitcher, Crooks - and he hardly spent more than £100,000 on any of them!
To be honest, I feel that he also deserves more recognition from the club for what he did - he arguably kept us alive during that period - perhaps the Lennie Lawrence Stand may be in order for the West Stand or maybe the Lennie Lawrence Covered End?
I
thought you might be interested in an update on the VHS tapes donated by
Lennie.
BK has now created a list of tapes (attached). There are a lot of other
tapes which are only labelled by the name of the opposition, so he won’t know
what’s on them until he plays them. Apparently the majority of tapes are copy
protected, which is proving to be a challenge.
BK thinks that the earlier tapes were when Alan
Mullery and then Ken Craggs were manager and Lennie inherited them.
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But that is one of many great positives of having a physical museum.
Stuff that might have just been dumped comes here.
A lot still gets dumped eventually but some is treasure and is saved.
Minding our own business a Boro fan struck up conversation with us, very soon he brought up Sir Lennie and said that the Boro fans loved him after he got them promoted to the Premier.
He was insistent on buying us a drink as well!
We had no cash and no ground and yet he got us promoted back to the top flight for the first time in thirty odd years and kept us there for four years!
More than that just look at the class players he signed or brought through….
Bolder, Humphrey, Reid, Minto, Shirtliff, Miller, Lee, Peake, Walsh, Bennett, Mortimer, Melrose, Watson, Williams, Pitcher, Crooks - and he hardly spent more than £100,000 on any of them!
To be honest, I feel that he also deserves more recognition from the club for what he did - he arguably kept us alive during that period - perhaps the Lennie Lawrence Stand may be in order for the West Stand or maybe the Lennie Lawrence Covered End?
Sir Lennie laid the foundations for the riches that followed.
Frees up space in the Museum and makes them accessible to more people.
Not sure there's much of a market for 1980s Charlton games but we'll see if we can make them available.
Otherwise great post.
I thought you might be interested in an update on the VHS tapes donated by Lennie.
BK has now created a list of tapes (attached). There are a lot of other tapes which are only labelled by the name of the opposition, so he won’t know what’s on them until he plays them. Apparently the majority of tapes are copy protected, which is proving to be a challenge.
BK thinks that the earlier tapes were when Alan Mullery and then Ken Craggs were manager and Lennie inherited them.
So far we have: