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(Eddie) Hopkinson? Debut v Chester W11-2, went on to play for England?

 

I'm sure Wayne Harrison would have been up there if injuries had not cruelly intervened.

I may be very very wrong here, but when I worked at Somerfield in Royton about 2001, there was this old bloke who worked there, I remember someone telling me that he played for England and Bolton in goal, he also played for the stores 5 a-side team and was still very good despite his age apparently. I wonder if it was this bloke?(I'm sure his name was Eddie too)

I think either Poggers has cursed us, cant remember us getting anywhere near as good a home record as we did in his first season, didn't we loose like once/twice at home all season, and correct me if im wrong but didn't Pogs keep 21 clean sheets that year too?

Cheers for that fellas.Now, who has been the best player to come through our youth system?Milligan,Henry,Makin,Gerrard,Barlow(Andy),Taylor???

Two stands might not be so bad, we could build it into the pennines like Braga....

 

 

 

That has gotta be the maddest stadium I have ever seen...

On a slightly different note, which player has gone on to be the most successful after leaving the club?Irwin?

Scholes was never our player, he played for Boundary Park juniors which had loose ties with the club but most of the coaches were pretty loyal to United, thus players like Platt, Robins and Scholes all ending up United. (And his teacher in Middleton was a massive Red who convinced him to sign for United - Scholes)

 

The player that caused all the controversy was David Brown, didn't make it ended up at Hull, was pretty :censored:e in the end and has played in non-league for the majority of his career.

Cheers for the info, just read up on him on wikipedia, as you say he was a load of :censored: scoring about 68 goals in his career, he's still a player at Forest Green but had a stint as caretaker manager last season.

Weren't ties cut with Utd when we sued them for poaching a young lad (Brown??)

Just out of interest which player did we take United to court over? And what other playes have they poached off us in the past (Scholes)?

It's not me.

 

However I've built up quite a collection of Latics press photos - mainly from the Chron but not exclusively. Some from before the war, others 1940s - 70s. Interestingly some do have copyright stamps on the back but others don't. As I've never thought of selling then it doesn't bother me but if I was to reproduce, or loan for reproduction, then I'd look carefully at the issue.

I'm a recently qualified photographer and from what I can remember copyright only lasts for 65yrs (I think) so after that time they are open to anyone. Despite saying this I wouldn't open a stall selling the images before you follow this up.

When George Best died, the doctors cut his feet off and froze them, after bidding for them on ebay latics bought the feet for £22, and today is the day they transplant them onto Parker. Worth a try if you ask me.

Certainly not been good for goalkeepers, Enkle dead, Cudicini Knackered and Brill dropped, what a bad few weeks indeed.

Just found out :censored: played for ashton last year and then wondered, how come no scouts spotted someone with his talent get missed right underneath our noses? have we got any scouts?

 

I wouldnt mind but were we playing some reserve matches there last year?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Competition time:-

Question. £3m in the red, colbeck£60k,:censored: nowt. Can you spot any problems, who would you have?

 

Answers on a postcard.

Totally agree with the :censored: comment, how did our scouts not spot him? And how many more have we missed or will continue to miss?

Yea just cant see that they would cause this much trouble just to keep our attention away from a different site.

I have spent ages trawling over google earth and never really found anything to match the Failsworth site apart from BP.

I wonder if there is any supporters out there with the skill to make us our own billboard for free. They could advertise their business on the board too below the advert for the next game.

I have an A4 printer, It'll take a lot of paper and ink but I'll get there eventually...

Am I imagining this or did the club not have themselves advertised in the center of London at one point? Cant remember the name of the place but its where all the lighted signs are (alongside Tdk/coca cola) things like that. If so what was this in aid of?

Yeah I think your spot on about the billboard. It would be interesting to find out the cost of taking over that advertising space. My experience is in digital media so could not really hazard a guess at how expensive billboards are.

 

I too would be willing to get involved with marketing schemes if there was enough interest and enough people willing to help to get them off the ground.

http://www.marketingminefield.co.uk/outdoo...sing/costs.html

Just some info on billboard advertising, I think price can depend on the location of the advertisement. But if there was anyway I could get involved by donating a few quid to the cause I would be happy too(maybe we could do a collection at a game). Also I don't think the Advert in the Chron or the Advertiser is good enough, has the club ever sent leaflets out to houses in the borough? surely this would reach more people as from what I know not that many people bother with the local press.

As long as we don't end up like Bolton at Burnden Park with a supermarket in the away end

Didn't Hull have an iceland in the back of their old stadium aswell?

And as far as putting a supermarket on the BP site, I cant imagine this would get the go-ahead, not after the amount of fight the local residents put into the ground development. What ever happens to the site I just hope those Royton NIMBYS suffer from years of sleep deprevation and traffic jams that last all day for the s**t they stirred up in the past.

It was a big thing to turn it down, especially as I have been on a week-to-week contract since rejecting it.

Not even month to month, I really think Penny lost his mind when forking out the cash for this deal, surely h would have been on a free come the end of the week. Madness!

Some one has commented on the Chronicle website that Brill is the highest paid player at the club this season, is there any truth in this? I find it hard to believe.

Would it not have been Oldham County though?

you are correct it was Oldham County

What the hell has this got to do with Labour? Sounds like their fishing for votes in the next election to me.

at the ticket office today they were giving tickets allocated to seats and you cant pay on the day so looks like you have to sit were your supposed to.

probably the first and only team to replace a perfectly fine undersoil heating system and replace it with a plastic pitch which lasted around 2-4yrs?

David Ashworth the first manager to watch the game while standing on the roof of the old broadway stand?

Former Latics player Sam Wynne was the first player to ever die during a match in 1927 i think he was playing for bury though.

Frankie Bunn the first player to score 6 goals in a League cup fixture.

3 posts in and this threads already getting silly!

 

 

 

 

 

by the way, latics were the first team to play at boundary park.

I thought the first team to play at boundary park would have been Pine villa (although it might have been called the athletic ground back then)

I cant believe they are using noise as a complaint, its not as if the games go on till 3 in the morning and stop them from getting their beauty sleep. Its litterally gonna be for 2-3 hours once maybe twice a week if their lucky. They also talk about the traffic, have they never been near Elk mill retail park at the weekends? They all need to get a grip, I hope the council completely ignore this rubbish.

pretty interesting indeed, sounds as though he is still a bit inconsistent but I can only think that the added experience is doing him the world of good. If Flavahan does well an we can keep him on loan for the season I' be happy for Flemming to stay their until the end of the season then hopefully we will have a confident keeper with experience who can push for the #1 spot.

P.S was one of the reasons for him going out on loan due to home sickness?