Club Historian Ron Parrott has been having some fun recently with
statistics and had has come up with some fascinating facts. Ron takes up
the story: “I was reviewing my stats about sending-offs since the Club
was formed in 1924 and it got me thinking about the game in general as
the number of sending-offs increased decade by decade. Were the laws of
the game and referees in general too slack in the past or are they too
stringent now? Were players more sporting in the past and less cynical
than they are now? Has the art of hard but fair tackling been lost? The
facts are irrefutable so you can make your own mind up:-
1924/25 to 1929/30 – 2 dismissals
1930/31 to 1939/40 – 4 dismissals
1945/46 to 1949/50 – 1 dismissal
1950/51 to 1959/60 – 5 dismissals
1960/61 to 1969/70 – 4 dismissals
1970/71 to 1979/80 – 9 dismissals
1980/81 to 1989/90 – 20 dismissals
1990/91 to 1999/00 – 43 dismissals
2000/01 to 2009/10 - 45 dismissals
2011/12 to 2016/17 – 24 dismissals already.
On a more flippant note though, we know that we’re currently blessed with a wonderful team of record-breakers so here’s one more for the record books! Only seven players in the history of the Club have been dismissed three times, just one player has been sent off four times (Michael Townsend) but standing out there all alone with eight dismissals is ........... our very own Ryan Green! Take a bow Greener!
When I told Ryan that I was putting this article on Bulls News, and I did so with his blessing I hasten to add, I also promised him that I would even things up by publishing a more positive record that he can perhaps be a little more proud of.
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| Ryan Green In His First Spell At Edgar Street |
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| Ryan Green Taking Little Notice Of Former Bull Gavin McCallum - Andy Compton Picture From 2011 |
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| Ryan Green In His Most Recent Away Game - At Gosport On March 6th |