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Martin Bellamy
Martin Bellamy
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RE: Boro Sack Carrick and seek replacement

I don’t think MC will be out of a job for too long. I just hope our new manager gets to manage in the EPL (assuming that’s the aim) before MC does, bu...

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RE: Tumbleweed blowing through the deepest regions of our minds and dusting off snippets of memories to be shared.

@lenmasterman Thanks Len, that’s great info. My Mam was living at her parents in Nut Lane, Marton and I think my Dad would have been with his parents ...

11 months ago
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RE: Tumbleweed blowing through the deepest regions of our minds and dusting off snippets of memories to be shared.

@pedro Thanks for that. I’ve got a vague memory that my Mam was related to the Moore of Moore and Cartwright. I’ll have to do some more digging.

11 months ago
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RE: Tumbleweed blowing through the deepest regions of our minds and dusting off snippets of memories to be shared.

From what I recall, my Mam & Dad met at a place called The Bungalow in Marton during or just before the WW2. They married in 1943 whilst my Dad wa...

11 months ago
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RE: Tumbleweed blowing through the deepest regions of our minds and dusting off snippets of memories to be shared.

@john-richardson What a fantastic memory to have - I’m not surprised you’ve never forgotten it.

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RE: Tumbleweed blowing through the deepest regions of our minds and dusting off snippets of memories to be shared.

@original-fat-bob I used to sledge on a field at the top of Ormesby Bank too. My Mother’s twin, my Uncle Bill, lived with his wife, Mary, near Fair...

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RE: Tumbleweed blowing through the deepest regions of our minds and dusting off snippets of memories to be shared.

@clive-hurren The Devil’s Bridge was outside my purview too, but plenty on here seem to be familiar with it. My own limb breakage occurred from jumpin...

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RE: Tumbleweed blowing through the deepest regions of our minds and dusting off snippets of memories to be shared.

@selwynoz I went to Linthorpe School before we moved. My brother and sister also went but they were older than me so had moved on to secondary school ...

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RE: Tumbleweed blowing through the deepest regions of our minds and dusting off snippets of memories to be shared.

I can recall meeting up with school friends from Swans Corner Primary School and catching the train from Nunthorpe to , to go fishing. To be honest we...

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RE: Tumbleweed blowing through the deepest regions of our minds and dusting off snippets of memories to be shared.

My own childhood adventures were developed once we moved from our council house in Norwich Road, Linthorpe (the house in which I was born in 1955) to ...

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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@paulinboro I’m inclined to agree that we’re a Championship club at heart, although I’m not downhearted by that. It’s one of the most competitive leag...

11 months ago
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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@exmil But, but, we’re a Big Club we DESERVE to be in the Premier League. Tbf, I recall lots of us on here expressing similar views before the start o...

11 months ago
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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

A BBC article about Djed Spence - remember him?

11 months ago
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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@pedro Fair points there. Do you think the majority of ST holders want MC to be replaced?

11 months ago
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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@pedro I completely understand people not renewing their STs on the basis of cost. Most fans are cash strapped with other potential priorities. I d...

11 months ago
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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@original-fat-bob It was good to hear from you yesterday, although distressing to hear your news. As I said directly, the members of this Forum hol...

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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@pedro If only MFC had an experienced, successful businessman at the helm…

12 months ago
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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

It’s tempting to believe who we want to believe in these situations without ever having the full facts at our disposal. Who knows who’s telling the tr...

12 months ago
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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@exmil I’m with you on this one. I don’t for a minute doubt @ofb’s inside knowledge, but unless we get clarity, I can’t see the point of mentioning it...

12 months ago
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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@clive-hurren Can we add more practice at throw-ins to that list please? No one seems to want to receive the ball once it’s in Dijksteel’s hands.

12 months ago
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RE: Coventry v Boro

So two, out of how many? And two with relatively small readership numbers compared with the other main protagonists. Disappointing isn’t it?

12 months ago
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RE: Coventry v Boro

I really like facts - they’re irrefutable and in short supply these days. I do, however, prefer to have more details, otherwise those very facts remai...

12 months ago
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RE: Coventry v Boro

@forever-dormo “ * Both papers are/were, of course, the purveyors of only the truest of truths.” As, of course, are all of the UK’s fine, unbiased...

12 months ago
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RE: Coventry v Boro

Would the Diasboro cognoscenti swap Carrick for Mowbray as manager? Not to work alongside MC, but as his replacement?

12 months ago
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