Martin Patterson

Just been appointed as manager of Burton Albion, was a decent player in his short time with us wasn't it 8 goals in fifteen appearances or something like that

Always like to see ex mariners doing well, good luck to him  

I was there on the night he made his debut on loan with the son of Tony Pulis; and Martin chased everything, including seemingly lost causes; and we gave him a standing ovation.

I think Alan Buckley would have loved to have signed him, but seemingly it was out of the question.

That’s just Paterson down to a t

Quoted from Mallyner

I was there on the night he made his debut on loan with the son of Tony Pulis; and Martin chased everything, including seemingly lost causes; and we gave him a standing ovation.

I think Alan Buckley would have loved to have signed him, but seemingly it was out of the question.

Great debut. Pato was a brief shining light in what was a relatively dull period as a Town fan.

Aye Till and Paterson were good for us

Patto went on to have the most success. Think he went out to states for a bit?

Pulis wasnt great but sure he ended up in the US as well

Quoted from Poojah

Great debut. Pato was a brief shining light in what was a relatively dull period as a Town fan.

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PAT-OH PAT-OHHHHHH such a short but satisfying chant to belt out after he'd just chased a loss cause and forced a defender into conceding a corner. Great player to watch, wish we'd have had him for longer. Love to see a player punching ground in frustration after missing chance personally. Shows that they care.

Worst Town home kit of all time though.

Remember him scoring the winner for Huddersfield in the cup…….last minute Osmond end….
He came on as sub…
I think we went from 2-0 up to losing 3-2

Good goal but it doesn’t overcome my realisation that Accrington Stanley have now been in the EFL for 18 years and we are still below them

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Remember him scoring the winner for Huddersfield in the cup…….last minute Osmond end….
He came on as sub…
I think we went from 2-0 up to losing 3-2

Almost. Paterson equalised at the death and then Huddersfield won it in the dying moments of injury time through an unfortunate Aswad Thomas OG.

Sounds weird to say, but probably my favourite defeat I’ve witnessed at BP. A proper blood and thunder performance from Town against a much better side, and one of the best atmospheres I can remember there for a long time. Neither of those things happen enough these days.

He was ace.

Quoted from Mallyner

I was there on the night he made his debut on loan with the son of Tony Pulis; and Martin chased everything, including seemingly lost causes; and we gave him a standing ovation.

I think Alan Buckley would have loved to have signed him, but seemingly it was out of the question.

Was that Torquay away? Seem to remember him having a blinder there one cold Friday night

Love that finish from Lump 🙂

Quoted from Poojah

Almost. Paterson equalised at the death and then Huddersfield won it in the dying moments of injury time through an unfortunate Aswad Thomas OG.

Sounds weird to say, but probably my favourite defeat I’ve witnessed at BP. A proper blood and thunder performance from Town against a much better side, and one of the best atmospheres I can remember there for a long time. Neither of those things happen enough these days.

I had a "restricted view" seat in the Main Stand next to a column. The view wasn't actually restricted at all, but I just remember some idiot next to me spent the full 90 minutes moaning that we weren't closing them down.

I really enjoyed the game, proper blood and thunder like you say, and we were very unlucky to lose that game.

Quoted from chaos33

Love that finish from Lump 🙂

A classy player. A real pity that he couldn't stay a bit longer.

For Paterson, I always remember a quick and very direct player, always trying to run at the opposition defence. Very reminiscent of Kabba in that regard.

Great player
I used to work with is Scottish dad on LOR

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Sounds weird to say, but probably my favourite defeat I’ve witnessed at BP. A proper blood and thunder performance from Town against a much better side, and one of the best atmospheres I can remember there for a long time. Neither of those things happen enough these days. [/quote]

This was at the time there was a fuss about "has the FA Cup lost its magic" and lower gates for 3rd round matches ........ a mate was driving down south during the match ......and he said radio5 was going round the grounds all reporters where mentioning lack of atmosphere and mundane football .....but when they came to Grimsby the report went along the lines of ......I don't know what the others are watching but it is absolutely  bouncing here we have a proper cup tie

Quoted from grimps

Great player
I used to work with is Scottish dad on LOR

Pato snr still lives in Healing

Quoted from forza ivano

Was that Torquay away? Seem to remember him having a blinder there one cold Friday night

All credit to you for going to Torquay Forza, but the game I recall was the one in the video clip.

Paterson and Lump instantly had a connection. I can remember a move in the first half of the Accy game where Paterson received the ball from the full back but feinted over it to allow it to run to Lump who played him through with his first touch (the classy sodomist) and he nearly scored. One of the best little bits of play I can remember watching at BP in the last 20 years and they'd probably only met each other an hour before. What a strike partnership that was. I miss Lump.

Quoted from mariner91

Paterson and Lump instantly had a connection. I can remember a move in the first half of the Accy game where Paterson received the ball from the full back but feinted over it to allow it to run to Lump who played him through with his first touch (the classy sodomist) and he nearly scored. One of the best little bits of play I can remember watching at BP in the last 20 years and they'd probably only met each other an hour before. What a strike partnership that was. I miss Lump.

Everyone had a connection with Lump, he was just that good. The lower league Bergkamp  

Quoted from LocalLadGTFC

Everyone had a connection with Lump, he was just that good. The lower league Bergkamp  

The vision, the touch and the ability to smash someone in the head if needed  

Pato was such an exciting player and really helped lift those post-Slade blues that season.  That summer we completely lose all explosiveness in the side.  Gary Cohen and Michael Reddy were both broken, Cohen never played against and Reddy only made a few appearances where he looked a former shadow of himself.  Isiah Rankin came in but was a completely different player to the one we'd seen a few years before.  The departure of Andy Parkinson and his high energy was one that I think was a bit under valued too.

It really was no surprise that Buckley waited a whole week into his third spell before bringing in Paterson and Peter Till as players with a bit of zest about them.  

At the time we signed Paterson I was dealing with a Stoke fan at work, who simply couldn't believe we had picked him up on loan.  His view was very much that he was above our level and I don't think he was wrong. It took just 12 minutes for his impact to be felt on his debut too.

4 goals in his first 3 games and then the fragilities of the side overall became too much.  That awful run of 7 consecutive defeats, with only Paterson's last minute consolation at Torquay making sure it wasn't 7 games without scoring, was just dreadful.  I genuinely thought we would never score again.  Confidence is a funny thing though as we then went and thumped Boston 6-0 in the next game.

The biggest shame with Paterson's time here was that he was in a largely poor side.  The season before he would have proved the perfect replacement to Reddy, especially post Xmas when he struggled with injury and then even the following season when the side improved under Buckley but just lacked a consistent killer edge (by then of course he was in the Championship with Scunny).  

Quoted from LocalLadGTFC

Everyone had a connection with Lump, he was just that good. The lower league Bergkamp  

I still remember his debut against Torquay, famously spoiled by a late Chris Hargreaves equaliser if memory serves. As he “sprinted” for a loose ball, I remember thinking to myself “what on earth have we signed here?”. I think he’d signed late in the summer window, but Christ, he made Paul Futcher look like an albino Linford Christie.

That was the beauty with Lump, though; like the late, great Futch, his strength wasn’t in his fleet of foot but rather fleet of thought, coupled with a level of skill and finesse that had no right to have graced League Two. You go don’t need to run fast when you’ve got Michael Reddy next to you, anyway.

Despite our mixed fortunes this side of the millennium, we’ve been lucky to witness some great strikers in the black and white stripes. Regardless, it’s hard to think of a more perfect, more complimentary partnership than Jones and Reddy. Just pure, unbridled magnificence.

I still think it’s a travesty that side never made it over the line to promotion. Somewhere in a parallel universe, I wonder, maybe Northampton and Leyton Orient don’t score in the dying embers of our league season, Slade takes us on back-to-back promotions to the second tier, and there’s a gleaming bronze statue of our John standing proudly outside of our state-of-the-art Fentydome.

Perhaps a stretch too far, but our failure to go up that season certainly feels like a sliding doors moment in retrospect.

Quoted from grimps

Great player
I used to work with is Scottish dad on LOR

Were you Frodo or Sam?

Reddy, Paterson, Danny North (look up Lump's goal against Carlisle in the cup)...

All managed an immediate connection with Lump.  A common theme amongst those, I'm convinced he could have made any of us on this forum look remotely decent if paired up front with him.  Easily the best example of a) the first two yards only existing in your head but also b) a lack pace keeping him from playing at the highest possible level.  

Genuinely just an unassuming presence on the pitch.  Didn't look like a footballer, didn't move like a footballer but intercourse me could he play with a football.  Even his retirement was unassuming.  Pretty sure he just disappeared without even announcing it, just decided he had run his course.  Probably didn't even bother actually hanging his boots up - more of a flicked kick off his feet, no doubt both going into the bin off the plastic frame.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Danny North (look up Lump's goal against Carlisle in the cup)...

Quoted from diehardmariner

4 goals in his first 3 games and then the fragilities of the side overall became too much.  That awful run of 7 consecutive defeats, with only Paterson's last minute consolation at Torquay making sure it wasn't 7 games without scoring, was just dreadful.  I genuinely thought we would never score again.  Confidence is a funny thing though as we then went and thumped Boston 6-0 in the next game.

I went to that Torquay game and then turned down the chance to go with a mate to the Boston game as I couldn't face it. Sod's law we would stuff them. Hat-trick from Bore, wasn't it?

Yeah, one of those days were Bore made you think he was going to go onto something very special.  Not enough of those days for him, unfortunately.  I still can't work out if they were just awful or we just clicked that day.  I think it was probably a combination of both.

Looking up that Torquay game, it looks like we had a centre-back pairing of Gary Harkins and Simon Grand, with Nick Fenton on the bench (came on in the first half).  No wonder we got stuffed!

I remember my first ever game, I turned up thinking how on earth is that fat b**tard a footballer... to then just be sat in awe of everything he did for the full 90 minutes. The only player I can liken him to of recent times is Berbatov in the fact he just looked like he couldn't be arsed. He was emotionless and quite cold and that showed on the pitch with just how composed he was.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Reddy, Paterson, Danny North (look up Lump's goal against Carlisle in the cup)...

All managed an immediate connection with Lump.  A common theme amongst those, I'm convinced he could have made any of us on this forum look remotely decent if paired up front with him.  Easily the best example of a) the first two yards only existing in your head but also b) a lack pace keeping him from playing at the highest possible level.  

Genuinely just an unassuming presence on the pitch.  Didn't look like a footballer, didn't move like a footballer but intercourse me could he play with a football.  Even his retirement was unassuming.  Pretty sure he just disappeared without even announcing it, just decided he had run his course.  Probably didn't even bother actually hanging his boots up - more of a flicked kick off his feet, no doubt both going into the bin off the plastic frame.

A lower league Berbatov. Pure quality. Like Poojah said we've been lucky to have had some very good strikers in the last 20 years despite generally being a bit crap. Reddy, Amond, Bogle, Connell, Danny Rose, McAtee. But Lump was the best. As a millennial who has mainly watched Town since our decline started, he is undoubtedly my favourite ever Town player.

I was blessed enough to start my journey in the late 80's, to the extent that it was in the mid-90's when someone like Jamie Forrester came along to give me a sense of what seemed poor in comparison (I've erased Murray Jones from memory so he doesn't count).  It wasn't until the days of a well-past it Iffy Onuara and a never-even-had-it Laurens ten Heuvel before I realised what it was really like to have a poor strike force, even during that season we had Michael Boulding, Phil Jevons and an on loan Rankin chipping away with goals.

Birtles, Rees, Woods, Mendonca....yet Lump still sits amongst them and even higher than some in my list of all time favourite players.  Birtles is probably the most like-for-like player I've seen in a Town shirt, not necessarily in their style or ability but more just in how everything was effortless and natural.  You can imagine that they both just tried football one time and were instantly good at it.

As good as Lump was, and he was very good, us older fans got to see Trevor Whymark for 4 seasons.

Imagine Lump, but just better at everything, and the best player I have seen in a town shirt.

Sadly has Alzheimer's now.

Great comments on Lumpaldinho. One thing not mentioned that I would add is just how quick his feet were at times, made up for that lack of pace.

I just remember Whymark he was absolutely class, as was Birtles.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I had a "restricted view" seat in the Main Stand next to a column. The view wasn't actually restricted at all, but I just remember some idiot next to me spent the full 90 minutes moaning that we weren't closing them down.

I really enjoyed the game, proper blood and thunder like you say, and we were very unlucky to lose that game.

The only game we've lost that I really enjoyed was the 4-3 defeat against Arsenal in the FA Cup, mid 80's.

Quoted from gytone

I just remember Whymark he was absolutely class, as was Birtles.

Those were the days and very good they were.