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aldi_01
January 16, 2022, 8:19am

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Forgot the discussion about green kits…look at the diadora kits😍that training wear…those were the days…


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January 16, 2022, 9:57am

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Wasn't it Mick Lyons who picked up on green being unlucky 🤔
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January 16, 2022, 10:54am
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Why are  people trying to destroy the unlucky  wearing green story.The green thing is a great story bearing in mind we were/ are a fishing Town with a great history. I've always thought it was a way of remembering men who risked their lives and many lost their lives at sea and showing a little respect to them. I know I may be wrong but I don't care.
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January 16, 2022, 3:53pm

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For the benefit of young uns, green is seen an unlucky colour for fishermen, which is why we never traditionally had a green goalkeeper's jersey (certainly not under Buckley Mark I).


As a 15 year old I went on a " pleasure trip " in 1963 for a 28 day trip to Greenland on the trawler Velinda. Three days out I went on the bridge wearing a green shirt ( I didn't know the superstition then) and the mate ripped it off my back and told me in no uncertain terms never to wear anything green again or I would be in the " oggin " - his words !


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Why are  people trying to destroy the unlucky  wearing green story.The green thing is a great story bearing in mind we were/ are a fishing Town with a great history. I've always thought it was a way of remembering men who risked their lives and many lost their lives at sea and showing a little respect to them. I know I may be wrong but I don't care.


I love this post.

If we all analysed things logically and literally, none of us would turn up at Blundell Park on a Saturday afternoon. It’s our shared cultural history that binds us and our club together. I’ve retold this story so many times to people over the years and frankly don’t care if it’s factually correct, folklore or otherwise. Put quite simply it’s a story that connects GTFC to the cultural roots of it’s community and that in itself makes it worth re-telling.
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As a 15 year old I went on a " pleasure trip " in 1963 for a 28 day trip to Greenland on the trawler Velinda. Three days out I went on the bridge wearing a green shirt ( I didn't know the superstition then) and the mate ripped it off my back and told me in no uncertain terms never to wear anything green again or I would be in the " oggin " - his words !


And I love this post even more - a first-hand account of why a GTFC goalkeeper shouldn’t wear green.
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January 17, 2022, 1:59am

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As the son of a fisherman, I can say that the wearing of green was frowned upon. Another thing that never happened would be the washing of clothes on the same day that a family member set sail. It was thought that this was tempting fate and could lead to the fishermen being washed away at sea.
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January 17, 2022, 9:28am

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Batchy nearly always wore green and it didn't really bring him too much bad luck.


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Quoted from Les Brechin
Batchy nearly always wore green and it didn't really bring him too much bad luck.


Not sure steve foley would agree Les 😳
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Quoted from ginnywings
As the son of a fisherman, I can say that the wearing of green was frowned upon. Another thing that never happened would be the washing of clothes on the same day that a family member set sail. It was thought that this was tempting fate and could lead to the fishermen being washed away at sea.


Lots of superstitions as regards fisherman, especially at sea. You never used the word "rabbits" - usually referred to them as underground greyhounds!


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