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Post by timbo on Jan 13, 2014 21:02:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2014 14:10:04 GMT
Another programme from what I was prone to call the Sterile Seventies. And what could provide a more sterile memory than a single-goal home defeat to Northampton Town?
Yet a more-balanced retrospective on that period could easily talk of the Stable Seventies and Mike Green certainly played his part in putting the club back on a firmer footing. Here, in his new season's message, he's talking of corners being turned. Can we look forward to similar sentiments being expressed in the first programme of next season? Let's hope so.
Mention of the death of Jon Van-de-Waart and the part he'd played in making Torquay United youth teams welcome at various youth tournaments in the Netherlands. Can anybody throw any light on these ventures? Or, indeed, pass on the odd memory or two?
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Post by gullone on Jan 14, 2014 16:26:47 GMT
Mention of the death of Jon Van-de-Waart and the part he'd played in making Torquay United youth teams welcome at various youth tournaments in the Netherlands. Can anybody throw any light on these ventures? Or, indeed, pass on the odd memory or two? From my records we sent a youth team to the Zeeburgia of Amsterdam tournament for the first time in June 76, Gronigan 0 0, Hambuhren 4 0, RCH 2 1, DWS 2 4, Zeeburgia 2 1. Then in May 77 Zeeburgia 0 0, Amsterdam 0 1, Herning Fremad (Denmark) 3 0, Heracles 2 1, Portsmouth 0 1. May 78 Volendam 2 0, Offenbach Kickers 1 1, Portsmouth 2 4. Then finally in June 79, AFC Holland 0 2, Offenbach Kickers 0 0, DWS 2 1. Can only find those four seasons but there may be more. And i have never come across any programmes covering those tounaments. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2014 17:40:23 GMT
From my records we sent a youth team to the Zeeburgia of Amsterdam tournament for the first time in June 76, Gronigan 0 0, Hambuhren 4 0, RCH 2 1, DWS 2 4, Zeeburgia 2 1. Then in May 77 Zeeburgia 0 0, Amsterdam 0 1, Herning Fremad (Denmark) 3 0, Heracles 2 1, Portsmouth 0 1. May 78 Volendam 2 0, Offenbach Kickers 1 1, Portsmouth 2 4. Then finally in June 79, AFC Holland 0 2, Offenbach Kickers 0 0, DWS 2 1. Can only find those four seasons but there may be more. And i have never come across any programmes covering those tounaments. Excellent stuff, gullone. Not a bad set of results and varied opposition. I'm assuming the teams mainly comprised local players who would now be in their early-to-mid fifties. Too late for Stefano and other greats of an earlier era! Any takers? |
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Post by nickc on Jan 14, 2014 17:52:03 GMT
I was on two of those youth team trips to Holland...Geoff Cox and Mike Hickman were our coaches and I remember Frank O'Farrell came with us on one of the trips. I have some photos somewhere...memory is a bit hazy...Amsterdam in the 70s might have something to do with it!
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Post by nickc on Jan 14, 2014 21:04:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2014 22:48:06 GMT
Good stuff, Nick. I don't think I've seen you since I was the bigger kid who occupied the next patch to your family on Broadsands beach sometime in the 1960s! |
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Post by nickc on Jan 14, 2014 23:23:54 GMT
This must be the other "Nick"!?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2014 23:48:53 GMT
This must be the other "Nick"!? That's me! Geoff Cox was our neighbour when he first signed for Torquay. That was before they moved to Sherwell Valley. And is that the Mark Smith who later played for Torquay United? Another neighbour of my mother's sometime in the 1980s. |
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Post by nickc on Jan 15, 2014 20:26:08 GMT
Maurice Cox was one of my friends at the Grammar School & Geoff started an under-14 team out of Watcombe Park (home pitch = Stepps Cross - what a field!). A few of us played together from under-14 all the way through TUFC youth & reserves, Devon Schools, Torquay Grammar U-19s, etc. There were a group of us: me, Maurice Cox, Stuart Foster, Andy Perrett, & Ian Doyle who played together for a long time. Mark Smith also lived around the corner from us in Sherwell Valley. He is younger than me, more my brother's age. His dad Harry played for Torquay, I believe. I have a ton of photos & newspaper clippings from those heady days... www.icloud.com/photostream/#A25qXGF1fGHMrI am sure you know that Tom Sermanni is now over here in the US coaching the women's national team...I ran into him last year at a coaches' convention...looks the same but with grey hair! |
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Post by Jon on Jan 15, 2014 21:02:31 GMT
Mark Smith also lived around the corner from us in Sherwell Valley. He is younger than me, more my brother's age. His dad Harry played for Torquay, I believe. Tim and Mark were both at the Morecambe game. I did wonder if they were about to be unveiled as our new management team! I am sure you know that Tom Sermanni is now over here in the US coaching the women's national team...I ran into him last year at a coaches' convention...looks the same but with grey hair! Tom was home for Christmas. I had a chat with him after the Exeter game - lovely bloke. That 1979/80 team was absolutely brilliant for half a season until Tom got crocked and was never quite the same again. link to Tommy Sermanni story |
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Post by Jon on Jan 15, 2014 21:23:04 GMT
From my records we sent a youth team to the Zeeburgia of Amsterdam tournament for the first time in June 76, Gronigan 0 0, Hambuhren 4 0, RCH 2 1, DWS 2 4, Zeeburgia 2 1. Then in May 77 Zeeburgia 0 0, Amsterdam 0 1, Herning Fremad (Denmark) 3 0, Heracles 2 1, Portsmouth 0 1. May 78 Volendam 2 0, Offenbach Kickers 1 1, Portsmouth 2 4. Then finally in June 79, AFC Holland 0 2, Offenbach Kickers 0 0, DWS 2 1. Can only find those four seasons but there may be more. And i have never come across any programmes covering those tounaments. Great contributions. Thank you both. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2014 21:53:47 GMT
With Jon coming on the scene we appear to be gathering a fine collection of language scholars here. Nick, have you seen the utterly bizarre Grammar Snobs thread on this site? And I hope my LinkedIn reply came through - I've been busily resurrecting my account and coming to grips with how it works. Good to hear from you nonetheless.
Steps Cross, what a place. Never a player myself but I've certainly kicked a ball around on that grubby old slope. That could have been with rather better footballers such as Dave Critchlow, Steve Aggett, Les Burnett and John Cockshaw (TBGS 1974 leavers).
I guess Maurice Cox was living on Moor Lane by the time Watcombe Park FC was founded. One odd memory of Maurice is working with a Huddersfield supporter who rated him very highly during his time there. This was in Lancashire and my colleague was hugely impressed that I'd known Maurice as a toddler (there's a picture confirming this somewhere on this forum). A case of "what might have been" for us fans but I understand that Maurice, a multi-talented bloke, has enjoyed a very successful business career. I wonder if he's got money to invest in Torquay United?
Mark Smith - son of Harry - made for an interesting Torquay United double in Greenway Close where Geoff - father of Maurice - had once lived immediately opposite. I last saw Mark when he was leading about twenty kids to a Somerset game in Taunton.
Mark and Tim as a management duo, Jon? Wasn't Tim heavily involved during Newton Abbot's glory days?
Previous conversation on here about Ian Doyle and his time at Bristol City.
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