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Post by ceefer on May 10, 2015 14:31:26 GMT
They hid it in the groundsman's shed !!! It has been returned but very badly re-sited (on the cheap) as was expected. Unbelievable... I was worried it might have ended up at a scrap dealers... |
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on May 10, 2015 15:20:35 GMT
The statue is worth more than the whole first team put together.
The Senior Seasider's Walking Football Squad are gearing up and polishing their boots in readiness for next season in League 1.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on May 10, 2015 16:14:20 GMT
Their 'keeper is definitely good enough!  |
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on May 10, 2015 16:51:10 GMT
The statue is worth more than the whole first team put together. and on last week's evidence, more mobile than most of them as well... |
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Post by stuinedgeley on May 10, 2015 19:31:59 GMT
Does anyone really believe the reason for that statue being removed?
Bollards !
Considering its fans are seaside town folks who have to go where the work is their fans are loyal and strong supporting it is a disgrace to let a club - any club - fall into such a mess.
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Post by bigfudge on May 10, 2015 21:22:39 GMT
via the Johnstone's Paint Trophy in 2004! versus southend at the millenium stadium? did you go? i went to the previous one (v cambridge) in 2002, and then the play-off finals against yeovil, cardiff and west ham at wembley. it's brilliant being with someone you love as their team does something special (like get promoted to the premier league). I did ars!! I went with my Grandad to watch Blackpool Vs Southend in Cardiff! The second of 3 times in one year! I saw Wolves Vs Sheffield United in May 2003! Blackpool Vs Southend in March 2004 and Man United Vs Millwall in May 2004! I also went to Blackpool Vs Yeovil in 2007 but it was soured by the fact that it should have been County at Wembley 24 hours previously!! It was actually the last Blackpool game I went to with my Grandad! The last game at all was Kendal Town Vs County a few months later! A story that made it into my speech at his funeral! |
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on May 10, 2015 21:52:37 GMT
I also went to Blackpool Vs Yeovil in 2007 but it was soured by the fact that it should have been County at Wembley 24 hours previously!! i don't recall keigan parker ever doing anything like BFC's second goal that day in his easily-forgotten spell at edgeley... as i've said at length before, a lot of my county memories were experienced with my grandad, and they are good memories to have. hope you're able to feel the same. |
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Post by bigfudge on May 11, 2015 1:32:13 GMT
I only ever saw County with him a couple of times but saw Blackpool a good 50+ times with him. His visits to Bloomfield Road got less frequent the older he got.
My two main memories are my first Blackpool game against Sheffield Wednesday in 2002 and the playoff final against Cardiff he was far too ill to be travelling to Wembley, he did muster the strength to watch it in the Cleveleys working men's club. He wasn't a well man he had Parkinson's disease, he could barely muster the strength to finish his pint. He just sat in silence staring at the TV showing no emotion as the game went on, I thought he was really suffering and felt terrible for taking him out but when the full time whistle went he jumped up and down, albeit slowly, and cheered and got another celebratory pint and literally shed a couple of tears that he got to see Blackpool have at least a season in the big time before he died.
Before he went a few years later he did have a little upturn and got to another couple of Blackpool games and a few Fleetwood games but the final whistle of the Cardiff game is something I'll never forget!
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Post by bigfudge on May 11, 2015 1:33:12 GMT
Sorry for rambling on a bit by the way it's just a story that is very close to me!
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Post by gazz on May 11, 2015 5:42:29 GMT
Sorry for rambling on a bit by the way it's just a story that is very close to me! Don't be, mate. Memories like those are what define us, and this is the best place to share them. |
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on May 11, 2015 17:59:29 GMT
I thought he was really suffering and felt terrible for taking him out but when the full time whistle went he jumped up and down, albeit slowly, and cheered and got another celebratory pint and literally shed a couple of tears that he got to see Blackpool have at least a season in the big time before he died. that's brilliant! a properly great story, and i'm glad you got to experience that day in his company. as you know i got to see it from the comfy seats (middle tier) at wembley, and was annoying my dad by going "dad...it's twenty to prem..." at 70 minutes played. i managed a couple more before being told to shut it! cracking day though and lovely to see him happy. with those sorts of days i love stuff like stopping at the services on the way back. it was a red hot day and there were just tangerine shirts everywhere, sitting eating, obviously still buzzing from the result. we had our homeward journey picnic and watched it all go by. similarly to your grandad, mine was too frail (had recently had cancer surgery) when we won at wembley in 2008. he'd taken us on all four trips there in the early nineties, so it was gutting not being able to take him. i started taking him to county again later, but he wouldn't have been able to manage the walk from wembley park tube up wembley way. |
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Post by bigfudge on May 11, 2015 20:47:21 GMT
Yeah I'm glad I got to experience it! I remember in 2003 at the Millennium Stadium watching Wolves beat Sheffield United with my Dad! I'd never seen so many fans in one place as there were Wolves fans in Cardiff that day!
I'd only been a proper football fan 3 seasons prior and had seen 1 relegations and 3 close shaves! I didn't realise the buzz that surrounded success!!
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on May 13, 2015 10:40:03 GMT
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on May 13, 2015 10:41:23 GMT
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Post by gazz on May 13, 2015 11:28:36 GMT
Good grief, but at last they are the ones having to cough up. |
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