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Post by Dave on Oct 3, 2008 5:56:33 GMT
Happy Birthday Enzo  have a really great day and thanks for your great posts on the forum, you go and have a brill  All the best Dave & the admin team |
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Post by Enzo on Oct 3, 2008 10:09:12 GMT
Happy Birthday Enzo have a really great day and thanks for your great posts on the forum, you go and have a brill All the best Dave & the admin team Thanks very much Dave. It was a birthday gift of a trip to Plainmoor for my 9th birthday in 1982 that started a lifetime of sporting disappointment! My Dad could have taken me anywhere.....Argyle, Bristol, Liverpool, Arsenal. He chose Torquay and I was hooked from then on. Mind you, the game in question was an infamous 3.2 victory over Hartlepool where two pool players were sent off for fighting......with each other. One of the very few 3pm Saturday kick offs of that era. |
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Post by capitalgull on Oct 3, 2008 11:42:01 GMT
It was a birthday gift of a trip to Plainmoor for my 9th birthday in 1982 that started a lifetime of sporting disappointment! My Dad could have taken me anywhere.....Argyle, Bristol, Liverpool, Arsenal. He chose Torquay and I was hooked from then on. Mind you, the game in question was an infamous 3.2 victory over Hartlepool where two pool players were sent off for fighting......with each other. One of the very few 3pm Saturday kick offs of that era. Weird you should say that Enzo. Looks like my birthday is one day after yours, although I am also a year older, wiser and fatter, and that Hartlepool game was the first time I had ever sat in the main stand, which of course has changed little in the 26 years since, apart from the seat I sit in still today is now next to a previously-used entrance and exit that is now blocked up!! I'd been going for a few years before then, but had stood with my dad and his friends in the back corner of the Popular Side, usually found playing somewhere behind the stands (ssssshhh Merse) rather than watching the football. But by 1982 I was right into the Gulls, and trying to recruit as many school friends as I could to come along as well, and Dad paid out for a few of us to sit in the stand as a birthday treat. At the end of that season, we bought a couple of those seats as season tickets, and my Dad still has his today, although this season it has been me occupying the seat while he continues to recuperate from his recent hip replacement. |
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Post by bbcgull on Oct 3, 2008 14:39:24 GMT
HB Enzo
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Post by Enzo on Oct 4, 2008 9:52:40 GMT
It was a birthday gift of a trip to Plainmoor for my 9th birthday in 1982 that started a lifetime of sporting disappointment! My Dad could have taken me anywhere.....Argyle, Bristol, Liverpool, Arsenal. He chose Torquay and I was hooked from then on. Mind you, the game in question was an infamous 3.2 victory over Hartlepool where two pool players were sent off for fighting......with each other. One of the very few 3pm Saturday kick offs of that era. Weird you should say that Enzo. Looks like my birthday is one day after yours, although I am also a year older, wiser and fatter, and that Hartlepool game was the first time I had ever sat in the main stand, which of course has changed little in the 26 years since, apart from the seat I sit in still today is now next to a previously-used entrance and exit that is now blocked up!! I'd been going for a few years before then, but had stood with my dad and his friends in the back corner of the Popular Side, usually found playing somewhere behind the stands (ssssshhh Merse) rather than watching the football. But by 1982 I was right into the Gulls, and trying to recruit as many school friends as I could to come along as well, and Dad paid out for a few of us to sit in the stand as a birthday treat. At the end of that season, we bought a couple of those seats as season tickets, and my Dad still has his today, although this season it has been me occupying the seat while he continues to recuperate from his recent hip replacement. Many happy returns! Unlike your father, my Dad gave up on the Gulls as soon as I was old enough to go with friends! He has often said that had he known that I'd get hooked on the Plainmoor experience he would have taken me swimming instead! Have a good day. |
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Post by merse on Oct 4, 2008 11:42:13 GMT
my Dad gave up on the Gulls as soon as I was old enough to go with friends! He has often said that had he known that I'd get hooked on the Plainmoor experience he would have taken me swimming instead!  Don't you mean "drowned me at birth "?  |
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