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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2012 19:32:44 GMT
I'll have to spend some time uuuuuup north next year as my family search has now taken me from staffs to Derbyshire Then you can share in the joy, old lad: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/19587040  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2012 15:43:21 GMT
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Post by chambta on Sept 24, 2012 21:22:30 GMT
What a fabulous thread. I've joined this forum just to congratulate you!
I was only popping on to see if there were any early comments re our game at the weekend. Fully agree with the comments re the two 'loveliest counties' of course.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2012 21:34:03 GMT
What a fabulous thread. I've joined this forum just to congratulate you! That's very kind of you to say. Welcome! We'll probably start talking about the game at Chesterfield on Wedesday or Thursday. In the meatime you might like to solve the latest puzzle in the "new where is this ground?" thread. Or to comment on the "two pictures, six months apart" thread about Saltergate. Or, possibly, tell us whether you would put cream or jam on your scone first should you ever go to Castleton for a cream tea. The last issue is probably the most important of all. |
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Post by chambta on Sept 25, 2012 17:05:33 GMT
Some of you display a far better knowledge of Derbyshire than folk around here.
As for the alI important question I think I'd personally go jam then cream.
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Post by chelstongull on Sept 25, 2012 18:58:20 GMT
As for the alI important question I think I'd personally go jam then cream. Top man ;D |
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Post by stefano on Sept 25, 2012 19:43:42 GMT
As for the alI important question I think I'd personally go jam then cream. Top man ;D Heathen!  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2012 20:11:08 GMT
As for the alI important question I think I'd personally go jam then cream. Isn't that the Nottinghamshire way? |
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Post by chambta on Sept 25, 2012 22:29:00 GMT
As for the alI important question I think I'd personally go jam then cream. Isn't that the Nottinghamshire way? In Nottinghamshire they'd eat the plate and headbutt the person who served it to them. |
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Post by Jon on Sept 26, 2012 21:31:48 GMT
It will come as no surprise to Alpine Joe to find that even back in 1939 Chesterfield was teeming with left wingers.  |
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Post by Jon on Sept 26, 2012 22:51:04 GMT
Access to the old Chesterfield stats files was knackered by the same website fiasco that dogged us, but the truth is still out there. cfchistory.webs.com/ |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2012 16:02:16 GMT
Wikipedia tells how both Chesterfield and Torquay United missed out on a goalscoring sensation:
The all time leading scorer of Eastwood Town F.C. is Martin Wright who scored 228 goals between the years 1974 and 1983
Martin could have been scoring some of those goals for Torquay had the boss at that time not preferred Mike Trebilcock. Imagine!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2012 17:14:47 GMT
I'd quite forgotten that Martin Wright was signed at the same time as Mike Trebilcock who was at the tail end of his most unusual career
Indeed, you sometimes wonder how players such as Wright - who couldn't have been at Plainmoor for much more than a season - look back on those little episodes in their careers and, more to the point, their lives. In Wright's case it would have meant being part of a recently relegated club that was slowly waking up to the fact that the ball was well and truly over.
As it happens, I guess Martin Wright is little more than a footnote in our history. But just imagine if he'd been chosen ahead of Trebilcock in a promotion-winning side. Maybe then he wouldn't have needed to become a legend in DH Lawrence territory. It can be a thin line between being remembered by many and being forgotten by most.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2012 11:24:12 GMT
I guess a lot of young players are allowed to drift away from the professional game for a good many reasons but in Martin Wright's case those 228 goals suvgest he should join Fred Binney in the Goalscorers We Should Never Have Let Go category.
Of course Torquay benefitted from another club letting Stubbsy slip through their fingers but the difference is that while a 4th division side can take advantage of abig club releasing a player, a youngster being let go by Torquay has nowhere to go but into the non league game.
Martin's goals for Eastwood must make him the best player ever to be given a free transfer out of Plainmoor? I feel a hot debate coming on....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2012 14:58:37 GMT
Well, Wildebeeste, in recent seasons Luke Guttridge has had a pretty decent career after playing a solitary game for TUFC as a youngster.
And, when it comes to goalkeepers past, Bill Glazier and Paddy Roche may be familiar names to you for reasons other than both once being Torquay United hopefuls.
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