[Wynonie Harris]

Interesting question, Winstanley, but I reckon even if we'd survived '62, we'd still have found it hard going. Apart from the 4-year purple patch in the mid-50's, Stanley always struggled in the league and had to apply for re-election on more than one occasion. The well-documented drawbacks of having a relatively small population and two bigger clubs on our doorstep have always put a brake on our ambitions. Think this could have got even worse as the 60's/70's wore on as the trend was for kids to watch the bigger "glamour" clubs. I think we could well have suffered the fate of Southport, Workington and Barrow and dropped out of the league anyway.