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gtfc98
October 25, 2016, 3:48pm
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Quoted from arryarryarry
Didn't Stuart Watkiss take charge just before Newell was given the job, I remember seeing if trying to excuse a poor performance at Rotherham after we had been thumped 4-1.


He was the oine who said we were going to sign two stars on loan from Big, Big clubs (rumour I heard is that he'd enquired about a young Welbeck and Cleverly....but told no!) and we ended up with Malvin Kamara from the mighty Huddersfield and Tomi Ameobi from the even mightier Doncaster Rovers.


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October 25, 2016, 3:57pm
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I think we lost 1-0 at home to Barnet and it remains one of the worst games of football I've ever seen - and that includes matches not involving Town, and all matches I've watched on TV!


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Quoted from Madeleymariner
Lets get Dave Booth back as well he returned to England a few months back


We were talking with Dave Boylen a few months ago in the Notts and my mate who was in Tennerife at the same time as Dave Booth went, asked Dave Boylen why Booth left Town to go there.

Dave Boylen said, "Thereby hangs a tale:" and spent 15 minutes talking about everything that went on at the time and mentioned many players and clubs.

When Dave had finished, my mate asked again, "So why did Dave Booth leave?"
and Dave Boylen replied, "Nobody knows."

You had to be there.


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October 25, 2016, 4:13pm
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Watkiss is a good coach and we need that right now alongside DM during the interim period.

But whilst we all remember the disappointment of Alan Buckley's last period in charge, remember also that Stuart was a big part of that.

I alluded the other day to Alan being out of touch with the modern player market. Well there hardly seemed to be a signing that Buckley made without a mention being given to "Stuart knows him from his time at X - or Watkiss worked with the player at Y".  I particularly remember the big useless centre half from Brentford we signed on the back of Stuart Watkiss recommendation. Matt somebody or other???

Happy to have him back on the coaching team for the time being, but nothing more than that.
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Matt Heywood. He was a proper cart horse.


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Quoted from RichMariner
I think we lost 1-0 at home to Barnet and it remains one of the worst games of football I've ever seen - and that includes matches not involving Town, and all matches I've watched on TV!


I'm still trying to forget that game and there you go, bringing it back up again.  
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Matt Heywood. He was a proper cart horse.


Seen smaller cart horses!
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Me I'd prefer all of the past coaches / managers not to be involved with our great club again , nothing personal but all part of a era id rather forget
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Quoted from Mallyner


We were talking with Dave Boylen a few months ago in the Notts and my mate who was in Tennerife at the same time as Dave Booth went, asked Dave Boylen why Booth left Town to go there.

Dave Boylen said, "Thereby hangs a tale:" and spent 15 minutes talking about everything that went on at the time and mentioned many players and clubs.

When Dave had finished, my mate asked again, "So why did Dave Booth leave?"
and Dave Boylen replied, "Nobody knows."

You had to be there.



The season Dave Booth left we beat Everton and finished about 10th in Div 2 after finishing 5th the season before. I suspect there were a number of reasons why he left. One was the turmoil in the board room with the Ramsdens fighting between themselves and team investment looked to be stalling. Chris Nicholl who was hugely influential on and off the field, went to Southampton. My guess is that Booth thought he had done as much as he could and had enough of the hassle. Dave actually went to a non-football property venture to start with, came back when that fell through and tried a comeback at Darlington before going off to various places in India and the Far East.


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If all Stuart does is to train players how to take and score from corners and free kicks he will have done us a massive favour.
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