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« Reply #1 on: Monday, January 28, 2013, 07:33:52 » |
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BALL BOY-GATE: This is how we fill column inches when there's no game on a Saturday.
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« Reply #2 on: Monday, January 28, 2013, 09:17:16 » |
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BALL BOY-GATE: This is how we fill column inches when there's no game on a Saturday.
Blame Tranmere. |
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Arriba
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« Reply #3 on: Monday, January 28, 2013, 10:19:33 » |
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I was a ball boy for a season when I was a kid. Was great back then and more or less a free way in.used the players entrance and was allowed to wander around in the tunnel pre and post match. Jon gittens screamed at me once for not getting the ball quick enough and the groundsman of that time did too on another occasion(grumpy old git whose name escapes me) could bring a mate in with me and was just left to do as I wanted really. Got bored of it though as it was more fun in the shrivvy road with my mates.
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« Reply #4 on: Monday, January 28, 2013, 12:10:34 » |
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Zzzzz... What the fuck does this have to do with Swindon?
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« Reply #5 on: Monday, January 28, 2013, 13:23:00 » |
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the groundsman of that time did too on another occasion(grumpy old git whose name escapes me).
Geoff Warren. What season did you ball boy? |
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #6 on: Monday, January 28, 2013, 13:25:04 » |
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I used to get on really well with Geoff Warren, left us to become Bristhole Shittys groundsman, nice bloke when you got to know him, a brummie and Birmingham City fan.
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From the station at Colchester
To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
We travel over England
And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
We're the famous Town End crew.
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« Reply #7 on: Monday, January 28, 2013, 13:30:16 » |
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Smoked a pipe didn't he? Always seemed pissed off his grass was getting cut up by playing matches on the pitch.
Am I right in thinking someone from the council used to cut the pitch in the 85/86 season? that year pitch was all sand. It got a whole lot better after that.
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #8 on: Monday, January 28, 2013, 13:33:45 » |
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Smoked a pipe didn't he? Always seemed pissed off his grass was getting cut up by playing matches on the pitch.
Am I right in thinking someone from the council used to cut the pitch in the 85/86 season? that year pitch was all sand. It got a whole lot better after that.
He did often smoke a pipe yes, always moaning but a sound bloke. I didn't think we ever let anyone other than club groundstaff look after the pitch but I could well be wrong, I think we brought in Geoff around 88 so it could well have been then, Geoff was previously groundsman at Edgbaston CG moved on to Shitty then Bath City before coming back to the CG in the early 00's. |
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From the station at Colchester
To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
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And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
We're the famous Town End crew.
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Arriba
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« Reply #9 on: Monday, January 28, 2013, 13:34:22 » |
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Think I did season 88-89. The groundsman did smoke a pipe too. He may have been ok but my memory is of a grumpy bloke.
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« Reply #10 on: Monday, January 28, 2013, 13:36:34 » |
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Think I did season 88-89. The groundsman did smoke a pipe too. He may have been ok but my memory is of a grumpy bloke.
Yeah thats him, grumpy to kids and wouldnt let you on the pitch at all, not even to collect a ball if was coming your way. |
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From the station at Colchester
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From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
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And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
We're the famous Town End crew.
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« Reply #11 on: Monday, January 28, 2013, 13:37:36 » |
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I don't think we had a groundsman before Geoff. I think he arrived the summer after we won Div IV
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« Reply #12 on: Monday, January 28, 2013, 13:39:15 » |
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Do you still have your light blue and navy track suit Arriba?
I was collecting coins from in front of the Town End the year before. Got in for free, got loads of scribbles in my programme that season.
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Arriba
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« Reply #13 on: Monday, January 28, 2013, 13:42:42 » |
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I remember him shouting at me as I was stood between the dug outs. The ball went onto the grassy wasteland area between the pitch and the north stand and in his opinion I wasn't quick enough fetching it. I was the bugger who ran to get it though when others just stood there and were probably closer to it-hence why I took a disliking to the bloke.
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« Reply #14 on: Monday, January 28, 2013, 13:46:54 » |
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That wasteland was a building site the year I did it, they started building those stairs, JCB, mud, massive puddles, no way was I going near a ball in there.
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