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Reply | Azhar Ali
at 00:30 31 May 2024
I struggle to support labour party leaders who were born in the south of England and represent constituencies in the south of England. Neither the current one nor his predecessor had any real exposure to traditional labour areas. You have to go back to Clem Attlee for the one before that. |
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Reply | Another one gone…..
at 21:22 25 May 2024
He could hang around for the plymouth job….it will be available again before Xmas after they appoint Rooney. |
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Reply | Hat tricks
at 01:40 22 May 2024
Yes he played a mixture of full back and centre back in his first season (66-7) playing in every game. In 67-8 he played centre back in all but 4 games where he filled in at full back for….Steve Melledew believe it or not! Even in the promotion season Smith had played 7 games at half back before taking over at full back for Radcliffe in that Workington win. |
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Reply | Hat tricks
at 20:11 21 May 2024
Aye, but we were only one point above the bottom four going into that game at high flying Workington.
Something ‘clicked’ to get that turnaround in form. |
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Reply | Hat tricks
at 06:11 21 May 2024
We lost at Swansea the saturday before Xmas that was 6 games without a win (8 if you include FACup) and were hovering around bottom 4. Workington was on boxing day and we won 2-1 to start a 15 game unbeaten run that took us all the way up to the top 4. We opened 1969 by butchering Grimsby at Spotland 6-1 ( Reg hat trick and Melling scored ). Then the following weekend was the game at Park Avenue and his hat trick - a natural hat trick at that. It was the first time since 1926 that we had two hat tricks in consecutive games, though Reg got two in three games in 1965. We beat Aldershot at Spotland the following Saturday with Melling scoring again, meaning in the four games since Xmas it was 4 wins with a combined score of 15-3, melling and Reg getting 5 each.
On Feb 10 Melling played in a 1-1 draw at Newport. After the game Dale signed newports centre forward Tony Buck. Buck replaced Melling in the starting line up in the next game at home to Darlington. The two joined forces for the only time in the following game a 0-0 draw at Lincoln and then Melling was sold to Darlington and Buck scored in 5 of the next 6 games.
Good times. |
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Reply | Hat tricks
at 20:38 20 May 2024
Dennis Butler at Halifax boxing day 1970. We had lost 5 straight and at the wrong end of Table. Halifax were going great and we stuffed them 4-1. Halifax went on to lose only 3 more games all season and finish third (only two promoted). We went on a 12 game unbeaten run in the league and of course beat Coventry in the Cup.
And to add to the legend…Dennis was found to have played with a hairline fracture. |
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Reply | Just a fun trip down memory lane..............................
at 20:25 13 May 2024
I have never known anyone who could recite fixture lists like Jimmy. You didnt need WWW. or a programme to find out when and where Dale were plaiying Halifax or Hornets were playing ‘goosebry’ as he called them. Also had fares and departure times for Ellen Smiths coaches off pat.
My old man worked with him at Turners. Lovely fella and always great with the kids. |
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Reply | Approximately 4.45pm Saturday 10th May 1969
at 19:04 11 May 2024
To be fair we followed that up by losing only 2 of the next 17 games in which we scored 42 goals and arrived at thetop of division 3. Then Vinny Leech got injured ( an injury that ended his career) and that was that. |
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Reply | Club Statement. Deal done
at 23:47 10 May 2024
Time to look forward not back and judge people on what they do in the new era. |
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Reply | Fair Game statement to the FA
at 04:40 2 May 2024
They might have to fill in the form but it is compulsory. United had to get special dispensation from FA not to take part a few years ago when Blatter had the world club cup extravaganza in Brazil. |
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Reply | Fair Game statement to the FA
at 20:30 1 May 2024
Keep the FA Cup as is (ie played at weekends with replays) but make participation voluntary. We might lose 2 or 3 clubs who dont need the fame and prize money because they are almost guaranteed champions league participation and its riches but for most premier league clubs its another route to the riches of european qualification. |
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Reply | NFL Draft
at 20:24 28 Apr 2024
offensive line😊 |
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Thread | NFL Draft
at 09:26 28 Apr 2024
Bills mean business….drafted a winger in the eighth tier of english rugby union at pick 221
I expect if they had the 222nd pick my wife might have been considered. |
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Reply | Investment update
at 20:27 24 Apr 2024
Ive got it but I am not a trust member |
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Reply | Galloway speech. Football related
at 12:55 24 Apr 2024
He misquotes Bill Shankley..
Shankleys quote related to some people seeing football as a matter of life and death. He said thats wrong, its much more important than that. |
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Reply | Refwatch: Southend United v Rochdale
at 07:41 19 Apr 2024
There are a hell of a lot of long trips for teams in NL tomorrow. You would think if they are kicking off games at lunchtime they would try and organise games that where a bit less onerous on clubs and fans. |
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Reply | Fa Cup replays
at 20:20 18 Apr 2024
Seems little point in having a football regulator if the FA and Premier League can simply blindside the rest of the game with decisions like this. |
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Reply | RIP Derek Underwood
at 20:20 15 Apr 2024
On a drying pitch in the era of uncovered wickets he was ‘deadly’.
I remember the1968 final test at the Oval when rain appeared to have ruined Englands chances of squaring the Ashes series. Amazing effort by ground staff and volunteers to get the pitch playable on final afternoon. With ten men around the bat ‘deadly’ Derek got them. |
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Reply | Dorking
at 11:47 15 Apr 2024
Surely passing it around at the back at slow pace is high risk footy. I cant agree that we take zero risks as a team. |
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Reply | Agents fees
at 19:40 12 Apr 2024
Gateshead not on the list……does that mean they spent nowt? They have been one of the more impressive teams in the league |
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