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Post by Jon on Oct 29, 2022 18:44:49 GMT
What is it with us and white goods? Sparkworld adverts 2012 Daily Mirror full page ad 7/7/80  |
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Post by plainmoorpete on Oct 29, 2022 19:19:54 GMT
According to Merse on BTPIR that newspaper advert cost us a valuable commercial deal with Hoover.
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Post by hector on Oct 29, 2022 21:09:50 GMT
My first season watching Torquay was when they wore that Buckta kit. Not sure what game that would have been as I don’t recall Derek Bellotti playing that season (if that is him coming through the door) but I was only around 10 years old so I may have missed it.
I wish the retro market would recreate that shirt. One of my favourites.
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Post by Jon on Oct 30, 2022 20:02:45 GMT
My first season watching Torquay was when they wore that Buckta kit. Not sure what game that would have been as I don’t recall Derek Bellotti playing that season (if that is him coming through the door) but I was only around 10 years old so I may have missed it. I wish the retro market would recreate that shirt. One of my favourites. Yes, it is Derek Bellotti and no he never played a competitive first team game for Torquay. Played just under three seasons for our Western League team and would have stood in if Turner or O'Keefe were ever injured, but they never were. Did play in the Ben Street and Clint Boulton testimonials against Wolves and Southampton - just to prove he could still do it. His son Ross played a few games for Exeter as a teenager. |
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Post by Jon on Oct 30, 2022 20:03:29 GMT
According to Merse on BTPIR that newspaper advert cost us a valuable commercial deal with Hoover. Did he say that? Coincidence that it came up here and over there. |
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Post by hector on Nov 4, 2022 21:41:05 GMT
My first season watching Torquay was when they wore that Buckta kit. Not sure what game that would have been as I don’t recall Derek Bellotti playing that season (if that is him coming through the door) but I was only around 10 years old so I may have missed it. I wish the retro market would recreate that shirt. One of my favourites. Yes, it is Derek Bellotti and no he never played a competitive first team game for Torquay. Played just under three seasons for our Western League team and would have stood in if Turner or O'Keefe were ever injured, but they never were. Did play in the Ben Street and Clint Boulton testimonials against Wolves and Southampton - just to prove he could still do it. His son Ross played a few games for Exeter as a teenager. I have a feeling Derek Bellotti had something to do with the company that produced our programmes for a while. His last EFL appearance was for Swansea according to wiki although that could be wrong as they have him not being on our books until the 81/82 season and I’m sure he was with us during 79/80 at least. |
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Post by Rags on Nov 5, 2022 10:24:30 GMT
I have a feeling Derek Bellotti had something to do with the company that produced our programmes for a while. His last EFL appearance was for Swansea according to wiki although that could be wrong as they have him not being on our books until the 81/82 season and I’m sure he was with us during 79/80 at least. He did. He was a director of Kingfisher Print & Design which produced our programmes in the early 80s. Kingfisher became KPD Realisations which in turn went into administration in 2017 owing over £1m. It looks like they have agreed payments to (some) creditors of £20k if I read the Companies House documents correctly. My learned colleague Jon can read a balance sheet better than I can so maybe I've misread the situation. Link here: KPD Realisations Limited |
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Post by Jon on Nov 5, 2022 12:32:53 GMT
I have a feeling Derek Bellotti had something to do with the company that produced our programmes for a while. His last EFL appearance was for Swansea according to wiki although that could be wrong as they have him not being on our books until the 81/82 season and I’m sure he was with us during 79/80 at least. Wiki, eh? By coincidence, somebody seems to have gone in and corrected the dates now. Funnily enough, Derek signed on again for us just before transfer deadline day in 1983. We were running the club on such a shoestring that Bruce Rioch arranged with Falmouth manager Jimmy Hargreaves that we could register a load of his players so we could still field eleven if we got any injuries. Only left-back Alan Pluckrose played that season, but Jeremy Collins (by then at Saltash) started the following season at right-back as we only had ten fit pros. Falmouth pulled out of the Western League in 1983 and Hargreaves joined TUFC as the club's first Youth Development Officer - our first batch of YTS boys including the great Mark Loram, Gary Wright and the father of Like Young. Hargreaves was caretaker manager for two games when Rioch left and subsequently joined up with him at Middlesbrough. |
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Post by Jon on Nov 5, 2022 12:37:31 GMT
He did. He was a director of Kingfisher Print & Design which produced our programmes in the early 80s. Kingfisher became KPD Realisations which in turn went into administration in 2017 owing over £1m. It looks like they have agreed payments to (some) creditors of £20k if I read the Companies House documents correctly. My learned colleague Jon can read a balance sheet better than I can so maybe I've misread the situation. Link here: KPD Realisations LimitedSad to see a business go under. Technically the old Kingfisher company founded in 1981 is still going as a property development company. The one gone bust started in 2003 as a property company and the two businesses "swapped over" in 2004. |
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