Dave
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Post by Dave on Mar 17, 2011 17:29:43 GMT
A nice piece in today’s Herald Express about a father and son who both played for Torquay United. In total between them they played 240 games and Chris who was rejected after his traineeship retuned to the club for a second time and was sold to Dundee United for £60.000.  |
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Post by westyorkshiregull on Mar 17, 2011 19:33:00 GMT
cheers dave , yes good memories of chris myers myself. not really from the 1st spell but from the other 2 spells. he really did well and a really nice chap by all accounts.
i live in west yorks now and i love these " the way they were" captions so any more you can post on here would be great.
here is a quizzy time question. any other father and son connections with torquay united ? i can think of a kinda one but i will keep that one to myself for the moment and see what others anyone will come up with ?
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Post by ricardo on Mar 18, 2011 0:01:49 GMT
A bit obscure but as I have metioned once before on this forum some time ago, I have a good friend Allan Coombe who was on United's books in the 60's but I don't think made a senior appearance. I did come across a picture of him and other players in a United book but can't recall which one. He is the father of a notorious goalkeeper of ours!
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Post by westyorkshiregull on Mar 18, 2011 10:53:09 GMT
got a reserve team picture showing no other that robbie herrera and his dad playing that day.
will try and find it later and post it if any one interested.
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Post by loyalgull on Mar 18, 2011 18:53:27 GMT
both useful players,had the pleasure of talking to cliff myers in his pub the sunburnt arms in lindos whilst on holiday there many years ago
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2011 20:31:21 GMT
Cliff and Chris Myers both played for which other club? (I think there is only one other club but I might be wrong).
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Post by ohtobeatplainmoor on Mar 18, 2011 23:54:46 GMT
I can only think that it *might* be Southport? Either that or Dawlish Town.
Slightly related, didn't Ivan Golac try and sign Darren Moore and A. N. Other (I think that it was Chris Curran?) and the same time he managed to get Chris for Dundee United? Shame that his career didn't quite achieve the outcomes that you might have thought - he had a really good end to our season in Division 3 (now League 1!) and he should have kicked-on. The last I heard of him was that he was living up in the North West and coming down to manage Dawlish just before they almost went into oblivion - wasn't he working in the fire service or something?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2011 9:08:02 GMT
I can only think that it *might* be Southport? Either that or Dawlish Town. I can't discount the fact that Cliff Myers may have played for Dawlish. I really don't know. It was somewhere along the coast I had in mind. As for coasts further north, Chris did play for another seaside resort club: Scarborough in early 1996 before he went to Exeter. Didn't Chris Myers run a golf shop in Paignton with Kenny Veysey for a while? Then, more latterly, I believe he worked for Royal Mail before moving to Lancashire. Footballwise he had a decent spell with Taunton Town in both the Western League and the Southern League. Indeed, he captained Taunton when they won the Somerset Premier Cup in 2003: Robbie Herrera, Tom Kelly, Ian Bastow and Luke Dawkins were also in a side managed by Russell Musker (recently gone to Stoke Gabriel?). Gary Fisher (ex-Buckland) - an excellent player at that level - got both Taunton goals; Jimmy Aggrey scoring for Yeovil in reply. As for Dundee United, I'm sure Golac moved for Darren Moore with a vague memory too of a third player being mentioned. Chris Myers played a handful of games for Dundee United at the start of the 1993/94 season together with a single substitute league appearance early the following season. It would be interesting to learn more about his time there. A curious transfer and, most likely, one that would have been greeted with a degree of incredulity by the local punters. It possibly blighted Chris Myers' career at a time when, a move somewhere else, might have seen him spending several seasons at a higher level than Torquay United. |
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Post by jeffsy on May 21, 2011 19:39:48 GMT
Would just like to say that ive had the pleasure of meeting Clifff on three occassions whilst holidaying in Lindos on Rhodes,and spent many an hour chatting away whilst cooling down with a beer or three.I hope that his health is improving as when i was visiting last year he had under gone heart surgery.
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