Sunday League Footy

Quoted from moss_side_mariner

Did you play for Ross reserves in the early/mid 80s? With the likes of Bry Goodwin, Robbie Butler?

I did indeed, also with Neil Horwood, Gaz Thompson amongst others, we had a really useful side  even though only a reserve side i reckon we would have given Ross first team a game if we played them, but i dont think Mick Toyne was over keen!
Think it was about 1982 or 3 we did the league  and cup double.

Quoted from moss_side_mariner

Did you play for Ross reserves in the early/mid 80s? With the likes of Bry Goodwin, Robbie Butler?

I did indeed. we had a very decent side that also included Neil Horwood, Gaz Thompson, Bri Sargeant to name but 3, plenty of other good players in that squad too ,did the league and league cup double and i reckon we would have given Ross first team a tough game had we ever had the
opportunity to play them, but i done think Mick Toyne was over keen!

Sorry answered the posr twice, didnt think my first one had appeared and it now has.

Quoted from petethemariner

I did indeed, also with Neil Horwood, Gaz Thompson amongst others, we had a really useful side  even though only a reserve side i reckon we would have given Ross first team a game if we played them, but i dont think Mick Toyne was over keen!
Think it was about 1982 or 3 we did the league  and cup double.

Wasn’t 83 as we, Ruston Bucyrus Reserves, won the league that year but always loved playing at Ross, we used to go with the right back? up to the Sumarine as the bar at Ross used to close early, great days.

Quoted from newarkmariner

Happy days Meza,saw Rookie and Jam at a few home games last season,some team that was,my final yr,i retired on a high,hope your well buddy

Alright mate, how things.  i hope the picture brings back some great memories haha.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Wasn’t 83 as we, Ruston Bucyrus Reserves, won the league that year but always loved playing at Ross, we used to go with the right back? up to the Sumarine as the bar at Ross used to close early, great days.

Ah must have been  82 or even 84 then, i always enjoyed playing at Bucyrus as well, pitch  was a bit on the small side lengthwise until they turned it round, iv'e lost track  these days, do Bucyrus still have a side and in what league LM?

Ah lightbulb moment, they changed their name to Lincoln Moorlands, are they still on the go LM?

Quoted from petethemariner

Ah lightbulb moment, they changed their name to Lincoln Moorlands, are they still on the go LM?

Yeah they are still on the go and back playing in the Lincs League I believe, I was down at their clubhouse a few weeks back for my brothers 70th and distraught to see all the footie photos had been removed from the walls. We must have played against each other given the time you played and I remember a cup game at Bucyrus when we 2-0 down but won 3-2 as we kicked down the slope second half. I’m big mates with Micky Heward if you know him? He played for Bucyrus for a few seasons in the early eighties before he had the tragic injury but he still plays in our Monsons Golf Society which was borne from the football team but alas the pub like many others has just been knocked down to make way for a supermarket, such a waste.

Thanks LM yes i did know Micky Heward and its tragic what happened to him, what i heard was Crows 1st didnt have a game and he went down to watch one of the 2nd/3rd teams, the Crows team keeper didnt turn up so Micky volunteered to go in goal, broke his leg, taken to hospital, operated on, plastered up, but the plaster cut off circulation to his foot that had to be amputated, awful,  shortly afterwards i broke my shin playing for Skeggy at Nettleham and the plaster was given a spyhole to make sure the same didnt happen to me.
Moorlands seemed to be a club going places a decade ago so its sad to see they have gone backwards.
Incidentaly, as an ex Bucyrus player what were the games against Ruston Sports, your neighbours up the road like? Bit Spicy?
Always preferred playing at Bucyrus to Rustons.

Quoted from petethemariner

Thanks LM yes i did know Micky Heward and its tragic what happened to him, what i heard was Crows 1st didnt have a game and he went down to watch one of the 2nd/3rd teams, the Crows team keeper didnt turn up so Micky volunteered to go in goal, broke his leg, taken to hospital, operated on, plastered up, but the plaster cut off circulation to his foot that had to be amputated, awful,  shortly afterwards i broke my shin playing for Skeggy at Nettleham and the plaster was given a spyhole to make sure the same didnt happen to me.
Moorlands seemed to be a club going places a decade ago so its sad to see they have gone backwards.
Incidentaly, as an ex Bucyrus player what were the games against Ruston Sports, your neighbours up the road like? Bit Spicy?
Always preferred playing at Bucyrus to Rustons.

We always played sports on Boxing Day and to say they got feisty would be an understatement especially after 82 when our former manager and about three others left to play for them adding even more spice to a game that always attracted a bumper crowd. Remember one game at the Moorlands when it came to blows and a couple of spectators came on the pitch to join in!! But, as it was in those days, after the match it was just something to laugh about as we still do forty years later as many of us play golf together and regularly reminisce about those games. Pretty much the same when we played Lincoln Clayton’s and on Sundays Monsons v Adelaide was always a fixture not to be missed. Pretty sure it would have been the same in Grimsby with Ross, Drewery and Grimsby Amateurs and of course Louth and Immingham always had lots of Grimsby based players. Remember playing Skegness when Czuzman and some other ex town players were in their side and then I think Skegness won the league a couple of years later, 85 ish ?