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Post by Dave on Jan 27, 2011 20:03:13 GMT
A great picture and small piece in todays Herald Express about two players who came to us from the Caribbean. I'm sure you will have many thoughts and memories to add to this thread.  |
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Post by ohtobeatplainmoor on Jan 28, 2011 21:09:05 GMT
What a pair of players they were on their day, they certainly lit-up a few cold afternoons and evenings at Plainmoor!
Goodridge perhaps blew a bit more hot and cold than Jack (after his first injury hit season that was in the second worst team that I have seen while watching the club) but had some great moments. It was a shame that he didn't feature for QPR so much as he was surely capable of moving up the ladder but maybe not straight away to the top flight. Sadly his return wasn't the success that his first spell was 6 years earlier but he still showed the odd flash of quality.
Jack was probably the most exciting Torquay player I have ever seen - anyone who followed that fantastic 97/98 team was lucky to see such talent at this level. It was a shame that so many of the opposition used to hack at him to blunt our attack but he got the better of most defenders. I think if he hadn't have sustained that gashed leg towards the end of that season then we would have got those extra one or two points that would have carried us over the line. It was great to see a player with such a smile on his face and a warm affection for our fine club - even years after he left.
It is incredible that those two players earned the club £850k in transfer fees. Shame that so much of Rodney's fee was wasted by Wes Saunders on utter s***e. It's also a shame that the similar transfer opportunities were blocked-off by a change to the immigration and international transfers. We have much to thank Kevin Millard for - anyone know what he is up to now?
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Post by Budleigh on Mar 8, 2011 11:22:54 GMT
Kevin Millard was a Northampton boy whose parents moved to Ipplepen on retiring, and through this connection Millard become a United fan. He sold his business at this point and emigrated to Barabados where he saw the potential in the young footballers playing there and so became involved in the local football scene. He became national coach in 1993 but resigned to take on the Lambada F.C franchise where, as coach in 1994, he took them to the CONCACAF Champions League final losing to Mexican side Necaxa in front of 77,000 at Miami's Orange Bowl.
Millard has had various other posts in Barbados, both on the coaching side and in the media, and over a period of fifteen years has managed to find professional clubs for over twenty-five players from Barbados. At one point he was thinking of returning to South-Devon, but up until January of this year was coaching Premiership side, the Barbados Defence Force Sports Programme, a position he had held for a number of years.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2011 21:19:47 GMT
In my professional capacity I found myself helping somebody from St Vincent on Thursday. As he was awaiting the required feedback all I could do was to ask if he knew Rodney Jack, Jack, Jack....
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Post by ohtobeatplainmoor on Mar 14, 2011 20:30:41 GMT
Wow - what a cracking sounding lifestyle - being involved with football, getting paid (presumably), living in Barbados and supplying your beloved team with the best part of a million quid worth of talent with two players that will not be forgotten by those that saw them!! Good for him.
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Post by torquayforever on Mar 23, 2011 2:41:06 GMT
Had to get this in. I actually was talking yesterday to the very same Kevin Millard. And get this, he has been living here in the Bay since last summer! And not only did he make £850,000 for the Gulls in the late nineties, but he has also worked in Argentina as Boca Juniors 2nd team boss in the last few years. He didnt really want to talk too much about being here but he said he had contacted a few local clubs here about helping out but there was no interest. Imagine that! With this chap's experience. Maybe Paul should consider bringing him on board - Gregory Goodridge was in the same team as Bucks so he knows the calibre of the man in producing quality players. After what he did for us surely we should find a way of making use of his ability?
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Post by westyorkshiregull on Mar 23, 2011 19:13:34 GMT
the days.......
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