[jack bauer]

having watched the highlights back, Rowley looks even better, he has serious qualities.

[Wooden Spoon]

h again said:

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Well, he moves into all the right positions, chases everything, brings others into the game when he can't do much himself, has an excellent eye for goal and very rarely wastes a ball.
Given the service Robbie Fowler got he'd score shed loads of goals. How do you think that's different from Robbie Fowler?
Have a think about it before the knee-jerk reaction kicks in.

Much better effort.

He's the same as Robbie fowler, the fox in the box, because he chases everything. Well worth a 5, but as you've thrown in the usual, poorly disguised insult.....an upgrade

Six out of ten on the court jester scale.

[jack bauer]

does the praise here go back to paul cook? when he came in he controversially at the time replaced Bentley and jules with smith and I seem to recall him saying something along the lines of its all well and good winning the youth league but I want this to be about developing players who can be ready to challenge for places in the first team....

[semi130497]

spireitetoo, on 08 April 2017 - 08:36 PM, said:

Jock weir..

He was head of my yr and had to go see him when i got caught smoking he sat on the edge of the stage giving me a lecture on the dangers of smoking.... all whilst he was smoking my fags.....


And newcastle

jock weir was my games teacher too, he got john lukic a trial at leeds utd too. Lukic used to come and see him from time to time so obviously appreciated it.

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

h again, on 09 April 2017 - 07:52 PM, said:

Well, he moves into all the right positions, chases everything, brings others into the game when he can't do much himself, has an excellent eye for goal and very rarely wastes a ball.
Given the service Robbie Fowler got he'd score shed loads of goals. How do you think that's different from Robbie Fowler?
Have a think about it before the knee-jerk reaction kicks in.

Errr, if it's any comfort I thought Joe Rowley looked a little bit like Owen Farrell on Saturday.

Y'know, from a distance, like...

[Waller is my hero]

semi130497, on 10 April 2017 - 08:50 AM, said:

jock weir was my games teacher too, he got john lukic a trial at leeds utd too. Lukic used to come and see him from time to time so obviously appreciated it.

Jock was my form teacher all the way through Newbold Green

[another fine mess]

Waller is my hero, on 10 April 2017 - 10:27 PM, said:

Jock was my form teacher all the way through Newbold Green

I hit him on the shin with a cricket ball, he picked up the ball and threw it at my head, if it had hit me I would have been killed.

[clarevoyant.]

another fine mess, on 11 April 2017 - 07:50 AM, said:

I hit him on the shin with a cricket ball, he picked up the ball and threw it at my head, if it had hit me I would have been killed.

I hit him full in the face with the ball whilst playing 5 aside (he was playing for his house Kellar? they weren't very good )much to everyones hilarity, he chased me round the gym, tripped me up and stuck the boot in for what seemed an eternity.

[Tha Knows...]

Life and attitudes were different then. But is this a case of historic child abuse that could lead to charges?

[60s 70s Spireite]

Spire-Power, on 11 April 2017 - 08:10 PM, said:

Life and attitudes were different then. But is this a case of historic child abuse that could lead to charges?

Per official records there were around 179,000 secondary school teachers in 1965. So the answer to your question is yes, If the courts have time for around 80,000 prosecutions. .

[another fine mess]

Is there anyone who knew " Thrasher " ?

[Search & Destroy]

Wonder if we could retrospectively sue those sadistic headmasters who took delight in caning 12 year old kids at Shirebrook Lower Comp

[BoroSpireite]

another fine mess, on 12 April 2017 - 04:25 PM, said:

Is there anyone who knew " Thrasher " ?

Thrasher Simmons by any chance?

[another fine mess]

BoroSpireite, on 12 April 2017 - 06:10 PM, said:

Thrasher Simmons by any chance?

That's ya man.

[BoroSpireite]

Blimey, you must be as old as me.
The infamous ogre of Willie Rhodes.

[The Rev.]

BoroSpireite, on 12 April 2017 - 09:47 PM, said:

Blimey, you must be as old as me.
The infamous ogre of Willie Rhodes.

Stevens, the headmaster was also known by the same nickname - but Simmons was more fearsome!

[Tha Knows...]

How far back you going? Arnie Crookes DFC was the gaffer in my day

[Boggy]

Search and Destroy, on 12 April 2017 - 05:59 PM, said:

Wonder if we could retrospectively sue those sadistic headmasters who took delight in caning 12 year old kids at Shirebrook Lower Comp

Fred Ashton caned me. Then went for a pint with my Granddad.

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

Spire-Power, on 13 April 2017 - 07:51 AM, said:

How far back you going? Arnie Crookes DFC was the gaffer in my day

Blimey - he reddened a few asses in his time!

Infact I remember him lining me and my mates up outside his office once, pointing to the trophy cabinet, then drawing our attention to the fact awards had supposedly ended when it became a girls included secondary school.

Before rattling our backsides in the traditional manner, of course.

That little episode always left me wondering if his zeal to dispense 'the stick', as we used to call it, had deeper connotations than merely dispensing discipline.

[Search & Destroy]

Boggy, on 13 April 2017 - 11:36 AM, said:

Fred Ashton caned me. Then went for a pint with my Granddad.

I got caned for running on the grass