What the feck was that.....

[Hazzman]

Thats your trouble Hazz,you always go to the glamour games

Off Fort William in a couple of Saturdays...

Fecking part-time Percy of a brother has a ticket for Liverpool v Arsenal. I am not going P'boro by the way...already been there for a cup tie which involved Brighton fans letting off flares.

 

[highland fox]

Off Fort William in a couple of Saturdays...

Fecking part-time Percy of a brother has a ticket for Liverpool v Arsenal. I am not going P'boro by the way...already been there for a cup tie which involved Brighton fans letting off flares.

Wouldn't bother went by thier ground yesterday its under a sheet of ice

 

[Steven]

I to am not going, I find the whole scenario humiliating,they are taking the piss, this pretence of football by our side is nothing short of a complete shambles
with no-one knowing what the hell to do about it from top to bottom, I am fed up and sick and tired of sitting in the west stand and predicting what is going to happen and 9 times out 0f 10 it does its getting like Groundhog day.
I've been through a lot with our side since I started in 1944 but even with some big defeats from sides I have taken it on the chin but this season and the last two matches I have been disgusted by our complete lack of effort and ability I've decided this is my last season as a S.T. Holder I cant put up with it anymore.

Sorry to hear that after so long an association with the Club. :icon_sad:

 

[Boy Genius]

Then you are a very wise boy (genius) indeed

I just can't wait to get down there, have those really great blokes pass that big flag over my head, listen to Birchenall reading out the names of the great players that Kelly has selected, then listen to the PA man play loud music right up to the kick off drowning out the crowd trying to sing, and then watch our brave boys get stuck right into the opposition.......




wibble.....

I rest my feckin case your honour

 

[Melton Fox]

I to am not going, I find the whole scenario humiliating,they are taking the piss, this pretence of football by our side is nothing short of a complete shambles
with no-one knowing what the hell to do about it from top to bottom, I am fed up and sick and tired of sitting in the west stand and predicting what is going to happen and 9 times out 0f 10 it does its getting like Groundhog day.
I've been through a lot with our side since I started in 1944 but even with some big defeats from sides I have taken it on the chin but this season and the last two matches I have been disgusted by our complete lack of effort and ability I've decided this is my last season as a S.T. Holder I cant put up with it anymore.

I empathise entirely WR, I feel exactly the same as you but with 2 differences a) I will renew, but only if there is change within the club. If we are the same as today, then no & b) I'm nowhere near as old as you

 

[homer]

I empathise entirely WR, I feel exactly the same as you but with 2 differences a) I will renew, but only if there is change within the club. If we are the same as today, then no & b) I'm nowhere near as old as you

Even if you look it......

 

[Melton Fox]

Even if you look it......

& feel it

 

[Redditch Fox]

I to am not going, I find the whole scenario humiliating,they are taking the piss, this pretence of football by our side is nothing short of a complete shambles
with no-one knowing what the hell to do about it from top to bottom, I am fed up and sick and tired of sitting in the west stand and predicting what is going to happen and 9 times out 0f 10 it does its getting like Groundhog day.
I've been through a lot with our side since I started in 1944 but even with some big defeats from sides I have taken it on the chin but this season and the last two matches I have been disgusted by our complete lack of effort and ability I've decided this is my last season as a S.T. Holder I cant put up with it anymore.

I'm quite cheered up by this - not because you are not renewing but because you go back to 1944. My first game was an end of season friendly v Derby in 1952 and I didn't think there were posters who went further back than then.

I have to say tho' that in all that time I have never seen the club with such a dispirited team and football management that is virtually non-existent. You can talk about the McLintock days but at least those disasters were in the top tier...and we had one or two players tho' well past there sell by dates who had some vestiges of football skills.

The team is now a bunch of scruffy wasters who in the vernacular are definitely not fit to wear the shirt. The so-called manager can only repeat after every set back the same platitudes that could be culled from the script of 'Roy of the Rover'.

The club is rotten to the core and desparately needs the long awaited sort out.

 

[western road]

When I think back Redditch, to the times when I first went on my own 1949 I believe a lot of those players had 2nd jobs Spider Harrison, Ron Jackson,TedJelly,Gordon Bradley
Bert Frame,Jack Lee albeit that the football was slower more patient, but with more ball control, they still had to train they were'nt brilliant as a team but had the odd individual like Don Revie and Jack Chisholm, but they more than stayed the 90 mins, unlike this misbegotten lot.

 

[alex]

So true Redditch.

 

[Bobby Smith]

When I think back Redditch, to the times when I first went on my own 1949 I believe a lot of those players had 2nd jobs Spider Harrison, Ron Jackson,Ted Jelly,Gordon Bradley
Bert Frame,Jack Lee

Made up names them are. Who was the Manager, Tommy Cockles?:icon_wink

 

[Feriol]

When I think back Redditch, to the times when I first went on my own 1949 I believe a lot of those players had 2nd jobs Spider Harrison, Ron Jackson,TedJelly,Gordon Bradley
Bert Frame,Jack Lee albeit that the football was slower more patient, but with more ball control, they still had to train they were'nt brilliant as a team but had the odd individual like Don Revie and Jack Chisholm, but they more than stayed the 90 mins, unlike this misbegotten lot.

well done, learning to use a computer! :icon_wink

 

[Steven]

When I think back Redditch, to the times when I first went on my own 1949 I believe a lot of those players had 2nd jobs Spider Harrison, Ron Jackson,TedJelly,Gordon Bradley
Bert Frame,Jack Lee albeit that the football was slower more patient, but with more ball control, they still had to train they were'nt brilliant as a team but had the odd individual like Don Revie and Jack Chisholm, but they more than stayed the 90 mins, unlike this misbegotten lot.

Name that team.

Gordon Bradley, Horace Jelly, Alec Scott, Walter Harrison, Norman Plummer (Captain), John King, Mal Griffiths, Jack Lee, Jim Harrison, Ken Chisholm, Charlie Adam

 

[Feriol]

Made up names them are. Who was the Manager, Tommy Cockles?:icon_wink

oi! respect your elders :icon_bigg

his memory can't be what it used to

 

[highland fox]

Name that team.

Gordon Bradley, Horace Jelly, Alec Scott, Walter Harrison, Norman Plummer (Captain), John King, Mal Griffiths, Jack Lee, Jim Harrison, Ken Chisholm, Charlie Adam

He's still playing for Rangers now

 

[newtonfox]

He's still playing for Rangers now

i thought any charlie played for them HF :icon_wink

 

[Melton Fox]

i thought any charlie played for them HF :icon_wink

:icon_lol:

 

[Redditch Fox]

Made up names them are. Who was the Manager, Tommy Cockles?:icon_wink

Johnny Duncan was the manager who took Leicester City to Wembley for the 1949FA Cup Final- I was far too young to go but heard the match on radios at the fairgound - Blackbird Road Stadium site..... the word went round that Chisholm had equalised for City but as you know it was ruled offside.

When I started going in the 50's the manager was the unlikely named Norman Bullock - and of course your players names are not made up.

 

[Redditch Fox]

When I think back Redditch, to the times when I first went on my own 1949 I believe a lot of those players had 2nd jobs Spider Harrison, Ron Jackson,TedJelly,Gordon Bradley
Bert Frame,Jack Lee albeit that the football was slower more patient, but with more ball control, they still had to train they were'nt brilliant as a team but had the odd individual like Don Revie and Jack Chisholm, but they more than stayed the 90 mins, unlike this misbegotten lot.

Ron Jackson (left back) was a teacher at Lancaster Boys School.

Gordon Bradley (reserve goalkeeper really - first team keeper was McGraw who sadly got badly injured v Grimsby Town just before the 1949 Cup Final) was - I think - a pro tennis player....and I think played football for a time at least as an amateur.

Wasn't it Ken rather than Jack Chisholm - along with Revie (captain and also injured prior to Cup Final) who were the stars of the side. My recollection is that they did struggle in the league (old second division) but as you hint had considerable individual ability which came out in the FA Cup run (which was then a premier competition - not a sideshow as it is Now).

 

[western road]

Yes you are right it was Ken Chisholm, and I think it was George Dewis's last Season as a player, and if I remember correctly it was Derk Hines first season, Sep Smith was at the end of his career here and one of my old favourite's left Les Major the reserve / A team keeper .

I'll pack this in now as nostalgia gets up some peoples noses, especially when an old man starts rambling on