timbo
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Post by timbo on Jun 26, 2020 10:30:36 GMT
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Jon
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Post by Jon on Jun 27, 2020 13:28:29 GMT
Alex Russell travels to Plainmoor a few days after celebrating his son's second birthday.
I wonder what Alex Junior wants to be when he grows up. A professional footballer?
A few weeks ago we were having to sack the coach to bring in a player, now we can treat ourselves to three new signings! Where is the money coming from?
Malcolm Musgrove had been hawking his most valuable asset around first division clubs for months and finally Newcastle bit to sign Mike Mahoney. Enough money to get us out of serious immediate cash difficulties with a little left over. A fee paid for Brown and another for Kruse when his loan was made permanent. Both provided good value for money. Middleton temporarily filled the goalkeeper position but we could not lure him away from Southampton permanently.
Tearse scored in the game at Southport but now injured. Story of his life. He had already played his last Football League game - on loan at Reading alongside Robin Friday. The move to Reading was aborted when his loan was curtailed by injury. How would a fit Tearse have fared alongside Willie Brown? We'll never know.
Tearse dropped to part-time football at Atherstone and led them to third place in the Southern League behind Wimbledon and Yeovil. His manager there was Gil Merrick.
Can anyone tell me why Torquay United fans should be eternally grateful to Gil Merrick?
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Post by stefano on Jun 27, 2020 14:54:13 GMT
Gil Merrick - he was manager of Birmingham City when he allowed Robin Stubbs to transfer to Torquay United. He wasn't really sure - Stubbs had already played for Birmingham at the San Siro and Nou Camp - but his decision marked a marvellous time in the history of Torquay United. The swinging sixties it certainly was! Merrick was well aware of Torquay United as a sound lower league club to go to as we had a few other ex-Birmingham players at that time. Off the top of my head I think Allen, Wolstenholme, Atkinson, and Cox were ex-Birmingham and I think there were others. Eric Webber the Torquay manager of course at the time. Merrick was probably instrumental in persuading an ambitious 21 year old Stubbs to make the move.....
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Jon
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Post by Jon on Jun 28, 2020 22:59:18 GMT
Gil Merrick - he was manager of Birmingham City when he allowed Robin Stubbs to transfer to Torquay United. Stefano wins the prize. Robin hit the headlines as a 17-year-old towards the end of the 58/59 season when he scored eight goals in his first eight first division games. The press marked him down as a definite England centre-forward-to-be. He was in the squad but not the team at the Nou Camp as Birmingham lost the Fairs Cup final to Barcelona just after his nineteenth birthday. A few days later, Merrick took over as manager. He had a teenage superstar on his hands but failed to develop him at all in three years - leaving him desperate to get away. Robin did play, as Stefano mentions, in a 2-1 win over Internazionale at the San Siro to qualify Birmingham for their second successive Fairs Cup final, but that was a rare highlight. |
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