According to this site, you’re misremembering, although perhaps they had a change kit in quarters?
Misremembering has become a way of life!
Thanks for that clarification. Creativity in the design of kit during that era was clearly in short supply! But then I suppose replica kits weren’t a thing in those days. I don’t recall what strip we wore when there was a clash with the colours of the club we were visiting but I think (hope) it wouldn’t have been the quarters. They’re far too important to be in the change category.
I too remember the opening of the main gates on Suffield Road at or before (?) half time. The mother of one of our group in the cattle shed used to appear at half time with her beagle/basset hound (?) and a bag of shopping. We still keep in touch with her (now 94) and her daughter.
It was even worse in 2009, lost 16 games on the trot, relegated in March, wound up in May.
When we did we start producing replica kits, sometime around 1990? I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone wearing a genuine 1987-1989 shirt.
I definitely have a long sleeve fully light blue replica top from before 1990. I think it is Trend, which would date it to 1987 or earlier.
Complete with hole in the sleeve from a hot iron…
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Alan Parry produced a video ‘The Loakes Park Years’ which is a terrific watch. In the video he showed footage of Wycombe playing Uganda. I can’t remember the Wycombe kit but I can remember the Ugandan footwear… or lack of.
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So did I - so they must have existed before the move to Adams Park
The first replica kit (i.e. for fans, not players) was produced for the final ever season at Loakes Park (1989/1990).
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Thanks. Mine must be Verco then. Have to see whether it stlll fits…
In those conference days, 90% of the play was lumped down the middle of the pitch. We’d been quite vulnerable to that, with CBs that weren’t the most physical. Creaser solved that problem at a stroke. His partnership with Andy Kerr was the basis for MONs early success. A true legend of the club.
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Yes, it was essentially England’s third strip shirt of the time, but with our crest and sponsor.
Yes - with Creaser and Kerr at the back, we basically became the dominant force at every corner in both the opposition and our own boxes for the next ten years!
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I started watching Wycombe in 1967 (hence my nom de plume) at that time our change kit was red shirts, white shorts and red socks, around 1972 we changed to yellow shirts, blue shorts and yellow socks. I believe occasionally we also wore white shirts as a change (if you look at the footage of the famous Uganda game it looks as though we are playing in white on that occasion) I don’t think we ever had quarters as a change kit until we used the fabulous red and white quarters at various times from the 90s and yellow and blue quarters which we used once in the 1990s under John Gregory and of course, the famous Ukraine kit of a few years ago .
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Who were the first ever shirt sponsors for Wycombe?
Norman Reeves?
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Ashford and Barrett signings, was the turning point for me. We had been treading water for years trying to compete on the cheap.
A real line in the sand moment in Wanderers history.
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I think Noel Ashford might have been another Barnet signing.
No they both signed from Enfield, who had just won the Gola Lge.
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What was Loakes Park like for atmosphere (on a typical matchday) compared to other opposition grounds? I’ve been to Chesham a couple of times and imagine it was similar?! But I have no real point of reference.
I attended a few games in the early ‘80’s, but started going regularly mid 80’s. I always enjoyed the match day atmosphere at Loakes Park. As others have said, changing ends at half-time, listening to the changing room banter, standing infront of the hospital radio shed listening to their commentary of the match. Crowd sizes were small though - 700 to 800 (which was still good for that level) and there was some chanting (and plenty of moaning from the cow shed!). But most of time we sang a lot more at away games, as the more committed souls were all gathered together. Quite often we’d have as many fans at a game as the home team in the Isthmian league. The crowds started building towards the end of the 80’s as the club started to show some ambition. There was one time that the crowd suddenly spiked upwards to over 3,000 for a home game against Kidderminster, and later (closer to 5k?) for Kettering. I think that was in the last season or two at Loakes Park, as the Martin O Neill era really got going (trip to Wembley in FA trophy). Its crazy to think thats well over 30 years ago!
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