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No, John Grest is my dad. I remember the name Mick Walker.
Was it Mick Walker? His nickname was 'wobbly' which was a bit unfair, he was a V good keeper and kicked it miles!
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Can't believe there are only four divisions now, and such low numbers within those divisions. I haven't been involved in Sunday league for nine or ten years now. And at 46, it looks like I can't even play 5 a side now due to an aging / injured knee that is showing no signs of improvement.
Lads nowadays seem a different breed, suppose I'm a middle aged bloke and it's a different generation but they don't seem to be proper men to me. Get some socks on, get on the urine with your mates and get picked up at 9.30am on a sunday wankered with stories of last nights dirty bird.
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I played for Crows in a Div 2 decider against Seawave down at Bradley at some point in the 80’s a proper ding dong game and probably a couple of hundred watching they beat us and we both went up, them as Champions.
Local footy can thrive if it has the right set up. Boston Saturday League is really well run with refs for each game and last season 4 leagues. Just needs a bit of standard setting.
I also saw someone mention walking football. TBH sod that. In the US we had a cracking league of over 50s teams. It was competitive but played in a great spirit. Standard was ok but just a bit slower and fatter. Love to have that over here.
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Oh yes, John was a great keeper and a really nice man as well, i might be wrong but i think he was 1st team keeper at Drewery Sports
Saturday team (maybe the old grey matter is playing me up) but i would have been one of his understudys cause i think at the time in was the best keeper in GY.
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I played for Crows in a Div 2 decider against Seawave down at Bradley at some point in the 80’s a proper ding dong game and probably a couple of hundred watching they beat us and we both went up, them as Champions.
Local footy can thrive if it has the right set up. Boston Saturday League is really well run with refs for each game and last season 4 leagues. Just needs a bit of standard setting.
I also saw someone mention walking football. TBH sod that. In the US we had a cracking league of over 50s teams. It was competitive but played in a great spirit. Standard was ok but just a bit slower and fatter. Love to have that over here.
Played Sunday League for 20 years and during that time the biggest frustration was the decline in commitment from players. When I started it was organised via phone calls on a Friday evening and bar the odd injury from a Saturday game, you knew the 13/14 who were down. Towards the end you could be expecting 15 players and 10 would turn up. On the flip side, during that time I have seen the organisation, coaching and standard of junior football improve massively. |
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should have typed at the timne he was the best keeper in GY.
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Yes, he played for Drewery Sports. Again, quite early for me but remember going down there with him. He was a big shadow to grow up in. I quickly realised I was never getting anywhere near his level of football!! What’s you or surname name, Pete.
Oh yes, John was a great keeper and a really nice man as well, i might be wrong but i think he was 1st team keeper at Drewery Sports
Saturday team (maybe the old grey matter is playing me up) but i would have been one of his understudys cause i think at the time in was the best keeper in GY.
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[quote=226]The standard would have been amazing back in the early 80s in Sunday league. My dad played for Seawave and it was only later on I realised that quite a few of the team had played for Town or other pro sides prior to that.
It is a real shame the decline in local football. Same here in Leicester with fewer and fewer teams/ divisions year on year. I stopped playing about four years ago and it’s getting worse year on year sadly.
I stated earlier that we beat Crows Nest in the final but as it happens we played 4 of Grimsby’s best Sunday league sides in BRSA ( Wayne Butts, Phil Warvill?), Athletico (Paul Bartlett) Seawave in the semi final when Keith Brown and Kev Carter played. In all honesty against Seawave we only got out of our half two or three times in the whole game but like Town battled through nearly 90 minutes had a break, a corner and a last minute penalty did the trick. In those days winning the Sunday County Cup was our equivalent of a pro winning the Champions League. It was a bloody hard competition to win.
Phil Welby perhaps? Really good player who I had the pleasure of playing alongside for a while. |
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Yes, he played for Drewery Sports. Again, quite early for me but remember going down there with him. He was a big shadow to grow up in. I quickly realised I was never getting anywhere near his level of football!! What’s you or surname name, Pete.
Did he play for Drewery when they won the Linc League under Dave Boyle and had Les Harrison banging them in for fun ? I was there the night they won the league beating us, Ruston Bucyrus, 2-0 in a night match but I was a spectator having broken my leg against Appleby Frodingham. Must have played against your dad several times playing for Bucyrus on a Saturday and Monson United on Sundays. I’d forgotten about Brian Bloomer playing at Seawave and pretty sure he played in the semi final with Neil Ellis and Sean Farrow. Think we also played them in the County Cup a couple of years later and game was abandoned when one of the Seawave lads broke his leg in a bad challenge from our sweeper, Keith Ellis. |
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Lads nowadays seem a different breed, suppose I'm a middle aged bloke and it's a different generation but they don't seem to be proper men to me. Get some socks on, get on the urine with your mates and get picked up at 9.30am on a sunday wankered with stories of last nights dirty bird.
They probably discuss where's the best place to get a "wax, back & crack" and compare moisturisers these days. |
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