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Post by Jon on Apr 21, 2009 16:38:08 GMT
I see that Robbie Herrera is in the squad for our Bowl match tonight. I remember watching him play for us as a fifteen year-old (him not me!) in the 1985/86 Bowl semi at Sid James.
Is 24 years' service as a player (admittedly with quite a few interruptions) a record? Can you think of anyone else who comes close to that?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2009 20:31:08 GMT
Wasn't Roberto a 5th year - I doubt whether it was yet known as year 11 - at Cuthbert Mayne at the time?
Given the dreadful state of affairs at Plainmoor in those Webb days, Robbie had the good sense to bugger off to QPR as a youth trainee. Indeed, am I right in thinking that he announced that - if given the choice - he would opt to play for Spain rather than England?
Robbie's dad - Tony - was a prominent local player in the 1960s playing for teams such as St Marychurch Rovers in the old Torbay Wednesday League.
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Post by merse on Apr 25, 2009 20:40:54 GMT
 Robbie went to Westlands where he featured in a very good football team alongside Darren Cann and Ian Down. His father in law is Norman who ran the programme shop at Plainmoor for many years, and I'm proud to say i have known Robbie Herrera ever since he was a thirteen year old.
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Post by Jon on Apr 28, 2009 21:36:13 GMT
Wasn't Roberto a 5th year - I doubt whether it was yet known as year 11 - at Cuthbert Mayne at the time? Robbie went to Westlands where he featured in a very good football team alongside Darren Cann and Ian Down. I side with Barton on this one. Chris Myers was the third member of the famous "Westlands three". Cann and Myers both left school and joined Torquay's YT scheme in 1985, whilst Down headed off to Southampton as a YT. Robbie would be one year younger than the "Westlands three", but played alongside Cann and Myers in Torquay's newly-reformed reserve team (South Western League and Macbar Midweek League) in 1985/86 whilst in the fifth year at, I believe, Cuthbert Mayne. I believe that Robbie's older brother Tony played alongside him in Torquay's reserves that year. Robbie made his "first team debut" in that Bowl semi before joining QPR as a YT in the summer of 1986. He would not make his "official first team debut" for us until 1992 and would not sign for us permanently until 1998. |
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Post by Budleigh on Apr 28, 2009 21:45:08 GMT
Funnilly enough Chris Myers has been in the football news (well, maybe not the 'big' news, but the NLP) this weekend as he is looking to be given the Burscough job on a permanent basis after having managed Dawlish, commuting the long distance from his home in Lancashire.
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