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Barrattstander
June 18, 2018, 5:47pm

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This is just turning into a list of players that 'returned' rather than players that did the biz when they came back.


I nominated Clive Wigginton yesterday because he certainly ‘did the biz’ when he returned to Town for £5k from Lincoln City in March 1979.

78/79...18 appearances....Town finish 2nd in Div 4 and promoted. (Added bonus Lincoln relegated from Div3)

79/80...44 appearances...Town champions of Div 3 and promoted.

80/81...40 appearances...Town finish 7th in Div 2.

I would love a returning player to have a similar impact again.


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Oster, Townsend and have to agree with the Marcus Marshall call (we could still be non-league). Croft was ok, too.


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Tommy Briggs  I did not rate him but my dad said he was good,

Re Matt Tees he could leap like a gazelle the best header of a ball ever to play for Town,


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If you can get a copy of Matt Tees on Football beg steal (if you have to) or borrow a copy - tells of his life at Airdrie, Town, Charlton, Luton, Town again, Boston, great managers he played for and great players he played with.- a fantastic look at football in the 1960s and 1970s and a wonderful insight into a real Mariners hero


Wow! Didn't even know about that. Thanks!

Just been on Abe Books.com and ordered a copy £10 plus postage. There is another copy on sale there for anyone interested.  
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Tommy Briggs  I did not rate him but my dad said he was good,

Re Matt Tees he could leap like a gazelle the best header of a ball ever to play for Town,


Yes, my Dad raved about Briggs. Didn't he score a hat trick for us at Old Trafford? Or maybe that was Billy Cairns.

But I was lucky enough to see Tees in 1971/72. Incredible player.
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So many fantastic memories of Sir Matt (my lad is named after him)

The famous quote / story of course is Lawrie Mac's description of the first time he saw Matt in the dressing room. I'm afaid I can't remember it word for word but someone will post it herre I'm sure

His great header past Jim Standen in the League Cup against West Ham (Hurst, Peters and Moore et al) at BP - what a night that was!

A hat-trick against the Scunts in Lawrie Mac's first game in charge

If you can get a copy of Matt Tees on Football beg steal (if you have to) or borrow a copy - tells of his life at Airdrie, Town, Charlton, Luton, Town again, Boston, great managers he played for and great players he played with.- a fantastic look at football in the 1960s and 1970s and a wonderful insight into a real Mariners hero



Apparently Laurie Mac was being introduced to the players in the dressing room by the physio . He asked the physio who the skinny guy smoking a pipe in the corner was and he was told he was out star striker - that was Matt Tees.


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Apparently Laurie Mac was being introduced to the players in the dressing room by the physio . He asked the physio who the skinny guy smoking a pipe in the corner was and he was told he was out star striker - that was Matt Tees.


...he'd taken his false teeth out and was wearing slippers (as it was conveyed to me).

#possibleembellishment
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Wow! Didn't even know about that. Thanks!

Just been on Abe Books.com and ordered a copy £10 plus postage. There is another copy on sale there for anyone interested.  


Excellent - let us know what you think of it. My copy is signed by the great man himself or at least I think it is - Terry Hall got it for me so it might be Terry with the pen in his left hand!   I still haven't paid him for it!


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