50 years since our last trophy

When will NUFC next win a trophy

Next 5 years
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13%
5-10
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10-20
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20-30
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50 years since our last trophy

Post by Colback's Orange Tufts » Tue Jun 11, 2019 10:51 am

Chronicle have a piece up from Moncur and Frank Clark, talking about the Fair's Cup final. 50 years and winning nowt, grim. I can't see us winning anything under Ashley, I'd like my dad to see us win something in his lifetime.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/f ... b-16342052
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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by lassassinblanc » Tue Jun 11, 2019 11:45 am

no comment
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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by Blue & Maroon » Tue Jun 11, 2019 11:47 am

You'd like to think we'd fluke one soon.... <erk>

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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by Colback's Orange Tufts » Tue Jun 11, 2019 12:36 pm

I was wondering how many posts it would be before Intertoto was brought up. Colly doesn't dissapoint
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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by The Deluded Pablo Diego Jose Francisco » Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:05 pm

Until someone takes over and spends a few hundred million on players (and have a good manager as well) then i highly doubt we'll see any trophies, unless we fluke one like Blue & Maroon said. <erk> <neg>

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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by TJR » Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:10 pm

Can't see us winning anything anytime soon.

Could all change with new owners but even then it is difficult. Man City and Liverpool are so far ahead of everyone else now I can't see anyone other than those two winning the league or a domestic cup in the next few years.

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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by Colback's Orange Tufts » Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:22 pm

TJR wrote:
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Can't see us winning anything anytime soon.

Could all change with new owners but even then it is difficult. Man City and Liverpool are so far ahead of everyone else now I can't see anyone other than those two winning the league or a domestic cup in the next few years.
If they bugger off from the PL to an European super league.. maybe 'lesser' sides could win stuff. Have the super league for the oil billions and commercial powerhouses and have a league left with some competition.
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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by krully » Tue Jun 11, 2019 2:48 pm

Championship <disgrace>

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Post by UlversToon » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:49 pm

At my age it has to be within the next 20 years as I haven't got another 50 in me! <wah>

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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by overseasTOON » Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:43 pm

Within 5 years we'll win something. Fingers crossed they bring back the Texaco Cup.

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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by UlversToon » Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:06 pm

Don't forget we won the Anglo Italian Cup in 1973 by beating Fiorentina. Quite an achievement really considering Swindon Town, Blackpool, Notts County and the mighty Sutton United were the only other English clubs to win this prestigious trophy.

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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by Remember Colo » Thu Jun 13, 2019 8:15 pm

I think we'll fluke a (formerly known as the Carling) Cup in like 8 years' time.

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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by ALF » Thu Jun 13, 2019 8:37 pm

Mbappe will fire us to the title next season.

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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by LaFraise92 » Sun Jun 16, 2019 9:34 am

UlversToon wrote:
Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:06 pm
Don't forget we won the Anglo Italian Cup in 1973 by beating Fiorentina. Quite an achievement really considering Swindon Town, Blackpool, Notts County and the mighty Sutton United were the only other English clubs to win this prestigious trophy.
There's a "tier" system of trophies we've won IMO:

Tier A: Top division titles, FA cups, Fairs Cup

Tier B: Charity Shields, Intertoto Cup

Tier C: Second division titles

Tier D: Texaco Cup, Anglo-Italian Cup

The Fairs Cup and the Intertoto Cup are tricky competitions to categorise. By 1969 the Fairs Cup was definitely the predecessor to the UEFA Cup, even if it isn't UEFA-sanctioned, but a Fairs Cup win in say, 1955 was very different than the way we won it. The Intertoto changed formats so often that it's difficult to pin down, and even then a trophy you win 'by default' (as we did) is a strange one - like a trophy for winning a group stage rather than a knockout.
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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by Bodacious Benny » Sun Jun 16, 2019 10:24 am

Intertoto Cup definitely isn’t Tier B, more like D.
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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by UlversToon » Sun Jun 16, 2019 1:30 pm

Bodacious Benny wrote:
Sun Jun 16, 2019 10:24 am
Intertoto Cup definitely isn’t Tier B, more like D.
It's still a trophy!

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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by Colly » Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:51 pm

UlversToon wrote:
Sun Jun 16, 2019 1:30 pm
Bodacious Benny wrote:
Sun Jun 16, 2019 10:24 am
Intertoto Cup definitely isn’t Tier B, more like D.
It's still a trophy!
Strictly speaking it's a plaque. Or a big tile.

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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by UlversToon » Sun Jun 16, 2019 5:17 pm

Colly wrote:
Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:51 pm
UlversToon wrote:
Sun Jun 16, 2019 1:30 pm


It's still a trophy!
Strictly speaking it's a plaque. Or a big tile.
OK, so at the very least we've won a big tile in the past 50 years! <laugh>

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Re: 50 years since our last trophy

Post by LaFraise92 » Sun Jun 16, 2019 8:30 pm

Bodacious Benny wrote:
Sun Jun 16, 2019 10:24 am
Intertoto Cup definitely isn’t Tier B, more like D.
The Intertoto at least related to matches in the UEFA Cup. The Texaco Cup and Anglo-Italian Cup were basically glorified pre-season tournaments - to the extent that it's hard to find online who even played in the final. I had to look in the NUFC Ultimate Record.
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