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Post by timbo on Aug 26, 2013 18:13:44 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 9:05:51 GMT
An early reference in Jack Edwards' notes to Steve Morrall making his debut for Torquay United. I remember that being an exciting event at the time.
I assume the reference to local talent joining bigger clubs refers to Steve Pope (West Ham) and Colin Lee (Bristol City).
Dave Easton, son of Fred. There was almost an Easton dynasty at Plainmoor and their involvement with the club must have covered a fair period.
The mini-stand to be known as the Supporters' Association Stand? I'd clean forgotten about that. That rowdyism must have been a serious issue in those days. Are any of the culprits reading these words?
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Post by gullone on Aug 27, 2013 16:04:48 GMT
An early reference in Jack Edwards' notes to Steve Morrall making his debut for Torquay United. I remember that being an exciting event at the time. I assume the reference to local talent joining bigger clubs refers to Steve Pope (West Ham) and Colin Lee (Bristol City). Dave Easton, son of Fred. There was almost an Easton dynasty at Plainmoor and their involvement with the club must have covered a fair period. The mini-stand to be known as the Supporters' Association Stand? I'd clean forgotten about that. That rowdyism must have been a serious issue in those days. Are any of the culprits reading these words? I was born under a Supporters Association Stand just wouldnt have had the same ring to it IMO ! I |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 16:13:17 GMT
What does Neil Warnock look like with long hair and those sideburns?
That was the season Hartlepool tried to turn themselves into Manchester City by adopting their home and away kits. Alpine Joe will recognise ex-guardsman trainer Tony Toms because he followed Len Ashurst to Gillingham and then Sheffield Wednesday during the Owls' bleakest ever decade.
And why was my friend Martin Wright being kept out of the side by the knackered combination of Stubbs and Trebilcock?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 18:09:09 GMT
That was the season Hartlepool tried to turn themselves into Manchester City by adopting their home and away kits. Alpine Joe will recognise ex-guardsman trainer Tony Toms because he followed Len Ashurst to Gillingham and then Sheffield Wednesday during the Owls' bleakest ever decade. Tony Toms, that's a half-forgotten name. The Star was full of tales of his training regime in those days. The consensus was that the Wednesday players didn't exacty benefit from all that PT and "drill" business. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 18:50:52 GMT
Star man in that Hartlepool side was Bill Green, who played for, captained and scored the first goal in the top division for Carlisle United before leaving to join West Ham.
Bill was also captain of the best Chesterfield side I ever saw, in 1979/80 and 80/81. A genuine Spireites hero.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 21:29:43 GMT
Felix Indeed Felix, and he stayed on at Hillsborough to serve under Big Jack. He brought the Wednesday players down to the Marines Commando Training Centre at Lympstone near Exeter for one pre season in the late 1970's. Warnock is very complimentary, and certainly says that he benefited from Tony Toms training, even if, a few years later the Wednesday players didn't (assuming that the consensus that Lummaton Cross informs us of is accurate). Toms was also renowned for being a big hit with the ladies....including the wife of one visiting Director.....a fast worker indeed ! 'Neil Warnock still vividly remembers the pre-season training he underwent at Hartlepool 40 seasons ago under the fearsome former Royal Marine Tony Toms. One night he'll never forget was spent on the Yorkshire Moors. Toms gave each player a chocolate bar and a sheet of polythene, and sent them to sit on their own in the dark. He then crept up on them one by one, scaring the wits out of them with a tap on the shoulder. Once together, the squad competed for an extra ration of food – the loser was thrown in a river. Warnock narrowly avoided that fate, but the player who went in was left shivering by the camp fire under his polythene. Come morning the players, without any cash, were told to find their way home (Warnock reversed charges from a phone box and got a lift). The QPR manager's other memory is of Toms' day-to-day training. "All my career I'd had to do cross-country runs and jog up sand dunes. Under Tony we never ran more than 400 yards and we'd do that over hurdles to break our stride and think about things while running. It was all short sprints." Fortunately, for QPR's players, it was the second practice Warnock went on to adopt when he became a manager. "It was the best pre-season I ever had," he recalled when we met at Rangers' Heathrow training ground this week. "I was a winger and I had never felt as sharp. That season I won my only playing honour, Hartlepool player of the year.When I went into management I remembered that feeling'. LINK - Warnock On The Moors |
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