What's The Highest We Have Ever Been In The League?

[les.gtfc]

Plus a season in the Division III (South)?

That was 1920/21.

 

[Radio Free Skaro]

what do you think is rubbish?:

The Grecian Archive - 1924/25 All Results and information

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I think the poster was referring to an all too familiar dip in form at the crucial moment of the season.

 

[Super Ronnie Jepson]

The 1930's was our Golden Era, a 5th place finish in the top tier plus 2 FA Cup Semi-Finals.

And to this day, the highest ever attendance at Old Trafford in one of those semis v Wolves.

 

[Radio Free Skaro]

I think that this is the highest we have ever been in the football league?

 

[haka]

Second in Div 3, in August ... we've been here before. As usual, the magnificent Grecian Archive has the details:

https://grecianarchive.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/10885#gallery-2

I suspect we've been top in August sometime before but it'll be hard to find on the web. Early season tables weren't really a thing in the days of steam trains and old Hovis ads.

 

[haka]

Sheffield United, we're coming for you ... (er, we didn't!):

The Grecian Archive - Match 09 17th September1980 Fulham (h)

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[Grecian2K]

Second in Div 3, in August ... we've been here before. As usual, the magnificent Grecian Archive has the details:

https://grecianarchive.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/10885#gallery-2

I suspect we've been top in August sometime before but it'll be hard to find on the web. Early season tables weren't really a thing in the days of steam trains and old Hovis ads.

Interestingly (and encouragingly) our attendance yesterday was more than double the number that turned up on that occasion - even though that 1980-81 line up was (arguably) amongst the finest in Grecian history.
The scorers alone (Neville, Giles, Delve and Kellow) still bring a touch of nostalgic moisture to this pair of particular ancient Greek eyes.

 

[iscalad]

We were top of the league 4 minutes into this season.

 

[andrew p long]

We were top of the league 4 minutes into this season.

28 seconds wasn't it?

 

[denzel]

Second in Div 3, in August ... we've been here before. As usual, the magnificent Grecian Archive has the details:

https://grecianarchive.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/10885#gallery-2

I suspect we've been top in August sometime before but it'll be hard to find on the web. Early season tables weren't really a thing in the days of steam trains and old Hovis ads.

What a great side that was. I wonder if we may have finished higher that season if it wasn't for a certain cup run!