Shrewsbury Town 2
Wrexham 1
League (Division Three)
Shrewsbury |
2 - 1
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Wrexham |
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League |
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| Goalscorers | |
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Graham Turner (44) Brian Lloyd (o.g.) (83) |
Billy Ashcroft (30) |
| Team Managers | |
| Alan Durban |
Arfon Griffiths |
| Starting Eleven | |
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1. Ken Mulhearn 2. Steve Hayes 3. Lee Roberts 4. Graham Turner 5. Colin Griffin 6. Ian Atkins 7. Jon Nixon 8. Brian Hornsby 9. Chic Bates 10. Jimmy Lindsay 11. Paul Maguire |
Brian Lloyd .1 Alan Hill .2 Alan Dwyer .3 Gareth Davies .4 John Roberts .5 Mickey Thomas .6 Bobby Shinton .7 Mel Sutton .8 Billy Ashcroft .9 Stuart Lee .10 Arfon Griffiths .11 |
| Bench | |
| 12. Sammy Irvine |
John Lyons .12 |
| Substitutions | |
| None. |
John Lyons for Billy Ashcroft (70) |
| Cautions | |
| None. |
Mel Sutton |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
D. Civil (Birmingham) (Referee) |
Match Report
This match has no report.
Squad Statistics (as at August 20th, 1977)
| 1977-78 | All Time | All Time | |||||||||||||
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| League | Cups | League | Cups | All | All | ||||||||||
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| Brian Lloyd (GK) | 29 |
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1 | - | 2 | - | 266 | - | 67 | - | 333 | - | |||
| Gareth Davies | 28 |
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1 | - | 2 | - | 335 | 6 | 78 | 7 | 413 | 13 | |||
| Alan Dwyer | 24 |
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1 | - | 2 | - | 68 | 2 | 22 | 4 | 90 | 6 | |||
| Alan Hill | 22 |
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1 | - | 2 | - | 34 | - | 15 | - | 49 | - | |||
| John Roberts | 30 |
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1 | - | 2 | - | 45 | - | 16 | 1 | 61 | 1 | |||
| Arfon Griffiths | 35 |
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1 | - | 1 | - | 568 | 119 | 121 | 21 | 689 | 140 | |||
| Mel Sutton | 31 |
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1 | - | 2 | - | 206 | 17 | 58 | 5 | 264 | 22 | |||
| Mickey Thomas | 23 |
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1 | - | 2 | - | 172 | 20 | 49 | 4 | 221 | 24 | |||
| Billy Ashcroft | 24 |
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1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 217 | 72 | 54 | 23 | 271 | 95 | |||
| Stuart Lee | 24 |
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1 | - | 0 | - | 49 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 62 | 19 | |||
| Bobby Shinton | 25 |
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1 | - | 2 | - | 47 | 16 | 16 | 7 | 63 | 23 | |||
| John Lyons (sub) | 20 |
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1 | - | 0 | - | 31 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 38 | 9 | |||
League Table & Results (as at August 20th, 1977)
| Other Wrexham matches played on August 20th, 1977: |
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| Welsh League (North) | ||
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| Wrexham Reserves | 0-2 | Porthmadog |
| Results of league matches played since last match |
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| 20th August 1977 |
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| Bradford City | 4-0 | Cambridge Utd |
| Bury | 1-0 | Lincoln City |
| Chester | 4-1 | Hereford Utd |
| Gillingham | 1-3 | Colchester Utd |
| Oxford United | 2-3 | Rotherham Utd |
| Peterborough | 0-0 | Portsmouth |
| Plymouth A. | 0-0 | Preston NE |
| Port Vale | 1-3 | Chesterfield |
| Sheffield Wed. | 1-1 | Swindon Town |
| Shrewsbury | 2-1 | Wrexham |
| Tranmere R. | 3-2 | Carlisle United |
| Walsall | 1-3 | Exeter City |
| Division Three 1977-78 |
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| P | W | D | L | GD | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Bradford City | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +4 | 2 |
| 2. | Chester | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 2 |
| 3. | Chesterfield | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 |
| 4. | Colchester United | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 |
| 5. | Exeter City | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 |
| 6. | Rotherham United | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 |
| 7. | Tranmere Rovers | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 |
| 8. | Shrewsbury Town | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 |
| 9. | Bury | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 |
| 10. | Sheffield Wednesday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11. | Swindon Town | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12. | Peterborough United | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13. | Plymouth Argyle | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14. | Portsmouth | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15. | Preston North End | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16. | Carlisle United | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 17. | Oxford United | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 18. | WREXHAM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 19. | Lincoln City | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 20. | Gillingham | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 21. | Port Vale | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 22. | Walsall | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 23. | Hereford United | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -3 | 0 |
| 24. | Cambridge United | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 0 |