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Northumbiron wrote:

Would they have developed into the same players that they are now if the academy/U18s hadn’t been disbanded?

The nutshell answer is: Yes
Reason: Sold / Released before it was closed. In Dec’s case… 12 years earlier.

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They were all shown the door or sold before the Academy was terminated.
I think TSF was in the senior year of the last batch of U18s and completed his Apprenticeship by the end of its last full year.
If memory serves, it was closed at the beginning of the following season.

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Excellent boys!

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Call v Dec.
Will we see it tonight?

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Rene Artois wrote:

lesgeo wrote:

I remember going to a Carlisle game by stopping off in Leeds and taking the Settle- Carlisle line to please a train-fan friend.
LONG time ago – appalling weather, horrendous playing conditions – but I think we won. I got soaked to the skin and somehow dodged pneumonia.
Anyone remember what season that might have been?

Is that the game where the Ref was going to abandon the game but Stevie Lister told him in so many words of what the outcome would be if he did?
Think it was Feb 1989? We won 3-0.

Thinking about it – I think the Steve Lister ‘conversation’ with the ref was at Torquay… old age!

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My memory thought it was actually raining pretty heavy during the game?
I do remember the farcical conditions though.

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lesgeo wrote:

I remember going to a Carlisle game by stopping off in Leeds and taking the Settle- Carlisle line to please a train-fan friend.
LONG time ago – appalling weather, horrendous playing conditions – but I think we won. I got soaked to the skin and somehow dodged pneumonia.
Anyone remember what season that might have been?

Is that the game where the Ref was going to abandon the game but Stevie Lister told him in so many words of what the outcome would be if he did?
Think it was Feb 1989? We won 3-0.

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iron64 wrote:

old skipper coming back :-)

Scunthorpe United vs King’s Lynn Town

Trinity v H’pool

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Trinity v Iron for me.

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Rene Artois wrote:

First 10 games in 2024-25 of the newly promoted teams:

Tamworth 14pts
Yeovil 13pts
Boston 9pts
Braintree 7pts

I’m thinking 9pts for us.
Hopefully I’m very wrong and we tally double that figure.

So pleased to be wrong again!

22 points.

Say we are staying up, say we are staying up!

Delighted if we end up in a play off spot at season’s end.

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1-1 draw

0-0 half time

Howe to score between 70 to 80th minute.
Shrimpers equalise 90 +5 to 90 +10

5 yellows, 1 red card (us, 80th to 90th minute)

Att: 8,975
Assist: CR10

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When they’ve scored their goals at home:

First Quarter: 2min & 11min
Second Quarter: 31min
Third Quarter: no goals
Last Quarter: 80min, 84min & 90min
After Hours: 90 +15 min

Highest gate to date: 8,735

With four of their seven goals coming in and beyond the 80th minute… it’s going to be a long edgy game.
Rotund ladies & singing.

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Dear AB

Please play the fox in the box, the round peg in the round hole, let dog see the rabbit.
Play Howe through the middle – preferably with Whitehall.
Let’s play to his strengths.
He passes the ball in to the net for fun.

Best regards
Monsieur Artois

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Still undefeated.
Ewing missed.
I’d like to see Howe down the middle.

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3-1
Howitzer, JR Ewing & Les Dawson to score for us.
Att: 4,135

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Deereyme66 wrote:

SouthYorksIron wrote:

Deereyme66 wrote:

Is Rodders available?

Seemingly not. Interesting that he’s airbrushed his time at the Iron from history though…

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/james-rodwell-ab43b07

Ha ha, that’s convenient!

I bet he hasn’t airbrushed and returned his £500k a year salary – £250k after Swann’s cutbacks?

What did he actually achieve / do whilst at the club – even had his own tea boy (coffee) in Gricey.

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cassidystash wrote:

Next 4 against top 8 teams, how many points? Take 7?

H – Boreham Wood 3pts
A – Southend 1 point
A – York 1 point
H – Carlisle 3 points

Eight points.

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The 3 day music fest was his greatest achievement… oh,,, erm… one moment,,, lol

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Howitzer – natural born goal scorer – never a risk.

Just pleased that the BoD read this site.

Hapi Dayz!

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mistertonmick wrote:

I wonder what the National League would have done if it was Truro against Carlisle or Gateshead, to me the ref should have let us take the free kick and blown for time

Agreed.

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Perhaps his carer was procuring refreshments and the said person was alerting him to the fact that he desperately needed to use the facilities?

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Time for an artificial pitch? Grants / funding available.

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Northumbiron wrote:

FGR should have been defeated last Saturday!

Seconded.

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And then there was two!

Only FGR and ourselves undefeated now.

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Deereyme66 wrote:

Who said he wouldn’t get 5?

Not sure who. But, it’s in one of the threads.
W’hall & Howe may both hit north of 20 if they remain uninjured?

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Giving Banjo a chance to get the fifth.
lol.

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Rene Artois wrote:

Truro away form:

P4 L4 GS1 GA9 GD-8 Pts0

3-0 maybe 4-0 home win.

Keep going, get a fifth!

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Yee-ha!

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3-0

Go make it 4-0

RIP Graham Colby

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BOOM!

Someone said he’d be lucky to get to 5 over the course of the full season.

That’s his fifth.

He had one scrubbed from the abandoned game. (6 in total)

Let the blitz continue!

Well done Dec son!

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