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Post by Budleigh on Mar 14, 2011 22:37:12 GMT
It gets more intriguing!
It wasn't the name Wilson he played under but, according to this Facebook site, Jones. I was sure there was a something in this recollection of mine!
So is this correct or not?
Giggs was born in Cardiff, but attended Grosvenor Road Primary School and Moorside High in Swinton after his family had moved there in 1981.
He played football for Salford Boys before joining Torquay United as a trainee, going under the name Rhodri Jones to avoid comparisons with his famous older brother. His time as a trainee was not a happy one and he left halfway through his trainership and temporarily quit football.
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Post by ohtobeatplainmoor on Mar 14, 2011 22:39:10 GMT
Hmmm, methinks that his memory is being rather selective in that interview - "uncertain times" were mainly for opposition players wondering where their bloody property disappeared!
It was Herbert I was thinking of Barton, think we got a fee from the Baggies for him didn't we?
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Post by Jon on Mar 14, 2011 22:49:06 GMT
I made my debut when I was 16, I think it was against Huddersfield and the match ended 3-3 and I did okay. I would say that it has been my biggest moment in football so far, playing in front of so many people at such a young age. 868 according to www.tufchistory.co.ukHe got the score right which is impressive! I don't know how many were at Newton Abbot. Half of the first team were playing at Saltash (Don O did that a few times), but few fans would be brave enough to venture there with their strange scone-eating habits! You can hardly blame Giggs for re-spinning the reasons for his early departure - not something for him to be proud of. As Chris H says hopefully he has learned from his mistakes. I love ohtobeat's explanation as to why they were "uncertain times" at Plainmoor! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2011 8:20:27 GMT
Like Jon, I can't remember the player being known as anything other than Rhodri Giggs when he was at Torquay. And, yes, his brother is still listed as Ryan Wilson in the records of the English Schools FA (I'm pretty sure eligibility for schools' international XIs was based entirely upon where the player went to school).
At Plainmoor as a fifteen-year-old? Maybe as a triallist but not, if references to 2 April 1977 as his birthdate are correct, as a trainee (unless he was there illegally). It's amazing how many people still claim to have left school at fifteen when, for a fair time now, this has been restricted to those born in the summer months. Even in Rhodri's time he wouldn't have been old enough to have left school at Easter when this was still allowed for those born between September and January who weren't taking exams.
The friendly against Huddersfield: why were we playing them in February? (09/02/94 according to tufchistory.com).
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Post by ohtobeatplainmoor on Mar 15, 2011 13:20:10 GMT
Not sure why we would be playing them then - Barton, did it coincide with a fixture break for them - or indeed a fixture in the South West? Warnock would probably have been manager for run then prior to joining Argyle - might explain the visit.
Along the same sort of footballing' misdemeanors, can anyone recall what allegedly happened to the person who allegedly stole from Warnock favorite Ronnie Mauge!?
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Post by Jon on Mar 17, 2011 23:17:10 GMT
The friendly against Huddersfield: why were we playing them in February? (09/02/94 according to tufchistory.com). It was definitely the Warnock connection - he has always liked bringing his teams to his favourite part of the country. I checked Huddersfield on soccerbase to see if the game followed on from a league game at Exeter, but that was 5 March not 5 Feb. It crossed my mind that there could be a typo on tufchistory, but the date is confirmed on the programme copied off e-bay:  I'm not sure if those were the actual teams. I think I remember Lee Setter (wasn't he related to Comps - step-son, maybe?) starting and Rhodri coming on as a sub. That Richard Logan was a precocious talent - he was only twelve at the time! I reckon we only let in three because of our number 7's abject failure to sort it out. |
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