Paul Hurst

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Looking at Wiki the fans chipped in with £10K for Joe, oh what we would give for his like in mid field now> He could run a game with his eyes shut

I remember it well ,

Well fairly well but can not remember names,

There was a well known runner from Grimsby who I played football with but I can not remember his name at the mo,

Anyway he ran from Leicester City's ground to Blundell Park and raised a fair bit of cash to bring Joe here,

Sadly he died a few years back he was a really nice bloke.

Quoted from barralad

I'm pretty sure the fans had to fund raise to get Waters here.

I played in a sponsored football match to help raise the funds.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

If you "don't want to be pedantic" then you don't have to be..............  

Tom Casey signed most of them and gave the likes of Tony Ford debuts but John trusted them enough to make them a massive part of a promotion winning team after bringing them on the season before, you can sign who you want but then someone has to make them successful.

Or you could say it was Casey's foresight (to be fair though I don't think he had that many options) that got them some much needed first team action which meant they could cope better when Newman came calling  

Seriously though Newman's part in their development cannot be under-estimated. Most of those mentioned played together in the Northern Intermediate League when I believe they won either the league or the cup and got crowds in the hundreds watching them. A special time.

Quoted from barralad

Or you could say it was Casey's foresight (to be fair though I don't think he had that many options) that got them some much needed first team action which meant they could cope better when Newman came calling  

Seriously though Newman's part in their development cannot be under-estimated. Most of those mentioned played together in the Northern Intermediate League when I believe they won either the league or the cup and got crowds in the hundreds watching them. A special time.

I seem to recall some of the local talent came through the old YDA system long before the days of the academy. It's one of my biggest disappointments of the last decade or so hat we stopped bringing our youngsters through. I feel that RS could do his popularity rating a lot of good by giving some game time to the likes of Harry Clifton etc.. some time soon.  

Pete, that runner was Brian Jones I think. Often seemed to doing marathons and longer.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Pete, that runner was Brian Jones I think. Often seemed to doing marathons and longer.

Spot on Kingston. Brian died a good few years ago now.

The Stones were never the same after.

[quote=120785]Pete, that runner was Brian Jones I think. Often seemed to doing marathons and longer.[/quote

Thanks KM I remembered his name when I woke up this morning. Nice man.

Quoted from grimsby pete

[quote=120785]Pete, that runner was Brian Jones I think. Often seemed to doing marathons and longer.[/quote

Thanks KM I remembered his name when I woke up this morning. Nice man.

Been racking my brains all night until I remembered his name-got up this morning and someone had beat me to it. Remember him having a "Dago" moustache -think he worked as groundsman at the A.B.P. sports ground down Carr Lane

Paul Hurst continues to impress. Now 10 points clear in his automatic promotion quest.

Still the only undefeated team in the EFL. Doing an ace job.

Has to be the best English football manager in the game at the moment. Can't think of anybody doing his job better right now.

How I wish he was still our gaffer. But on the flip side I love the way that he has made so many foolish Town fans look foolish. The ones that constantly berated him. They know who they are and very few of them will admit that they were wrong and clueless