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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 6:40:48 GMT
Was one end of the ground open then ie did it have spectators around all four sides ?
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Post by brownie on Sept 27, 2014 12:11:54 GMT
Re.StMirren match. The team was brought down by the then City manager Bill Cauldwell with a view of signing George Urqhart a 20 year old.He was signed a few months later but only played 8 games in the first team in 1970-71 and 5 games in 1971-2 scoring only one goal.George failed to reach his full potential at City but went on to Wealdstone on loan then to Ross County. Eventually he Joined Wigan Ath. in the Football League making 63 App.plus 6 goals he then moved to Macclesfield. When at City he was involved in a odd transfer negotiation with ASO Ostend which involved on off talks right through the night but it all went tits up and the talks ended.City were hopeing to get a sizable transfer fee for George.
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Post by Mike on Sept 27, 2014 23:31:55 GMT
Re.StMirren match. The team was brought down by the then City manager Bill Cauldwell with a view of signing George Urqhart a 20 year old.He was signed a few months later but only played 8 games in the first team in 1970-71 and 5 games in 1971-2 scoring only one goal.George failed to reach his full potential at City but went on to Wealdstone on loan then to Ross County. Eventually he Joined Wigan Ath. in the Football League making 63 App.plus 6 goals he then moved to Macclesfield. When at City he was involved in a odd transfer negotiation with ASO Ostend which involved on off talks right through the night but it all went tits up and the talks ended.City were hopeing to get a sizable transfer fee for George.
Many thanks for that Brownie.
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Post by Mike on Oct 8, 2014 14:56:00 GMT
Had a strange conversation yesterday. Sold a car on ebay and the guy came to pick it up last night; went down to my "office" (cabin in the garden) to do paperwork etc and he saw all my sons' old Everton shirts on the wall so we started talking football. He was probably sixty-ish but he'd played/been involved in non league all his life (having not made the grade at Arsenal) and ended up in fairly recent years being chairman at Dawlish Town, who are now sadly no more. Anyway, mentioned City and my non-league youth and he said that in around 2002 Dawlish Town had bought two turnstiles that had come from Joseph's Road. Supposedly someone had taken them home when the club folded and left them in their shed, and then when he died his family sold/gave them on. Obviously just have the chap's word for all this but seems unlikely he'd make it up. Had a great chat with him and he was happy with the car . Small world.
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Post by teflon on Jul 9, 2023 8:26:46 GMT
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Post by teflon on Jul 9, 2023 9:01:54 GMT
Hi Shottermiller Very interesting post which stikes a chord. I went to Josephs Road fist time in 1959 with my dad. Was entralled and 'hooked' immediately and it was only a Met League cup match against Crawley Town ! 2-2 AET and Crawley won replay and the cup too. Remember many of the names you mention. Albert Tennant joined that year. He was a good coach and well connected in football so could sign decent players. He had a big clearout in 1960 and released Dore Asher Devine Donaghy and Devine and many more. Aso let John Carragher go. He became massive for Canterbury and Dover. I think he wielded the axe a bit too heavily heavily. A player you didn't mention was Dave Barrett, who was top scorer for most of his 7 years at City from 1958 to 1965. Deadly on the gound and good in the air too. Extremely fast as well. Came in from Arsenal juniors when 18. How he never went back to league football I'll never know. He was a No 10, and had various no 9s alongside him - Steve Fullick, Tony Biggs, Jeff Darey, Paddy Hasty, John Stevens. Remember all those names form other clubs. There was also Charlie Fleming and Jesse Pye who played for years at Bath and Wisbech respectively. You are right about Woking. I think John Hebdon was the only non international in a great side, but it soon broke up. Hamm went to Wimbledon, Littlejohn played for Bournemouth and Poole. Stratton went on to Fulham. Charlie Mortimore stayed but had also played for Aldershot. You could well be right about the gate for that Yeovil game. The gates I remember were usually about 3,000 or more for normal league games. I watched City from 1959 to 1963 when Dad's firm moved to Crawley and we moved also. Came back a few times esp for cup tie with Gillingham in 1964 (2-2, lost replay 1-0) and the gate was over 7,500. The financial mismanagement with the club effectively mortgaging the ground to the hilt, leading to its inevitable demise was a crying shame. The ground was eventually sold with a ridiculously short lease-back and they had to move out in 1974 when they amalgamated with Dorking. Even that could have been made to work. Just look at Dorking in the Conference today to see that.
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Post by lennynotchris on Jan 10, 2024 20:21:11 GMT
I thought i would start this thread after thinking of a couple of memories i had of the old ground. My recollections are; 1 Park Barn v Bellfields - School Traders Cup Final, 1972
lost 3-2 after being 3 nil down at half time. We had beaten Bellfields 2-1 in the knockout Final earlier in the year up at the University but this was the big one. Unfortunately we lost and to this day i blame the referee (nothing new there then i hear you say!) Mr Price of Stoughton ruled that Keith Taylor was offside when he scored the equaliser with 5 minutes to go. Never in a million years was he ofside but Price had been paid off by the Bellfields Mafia i tell you. As a 10 year old to play on the pitch, in what felt like a real, proper football ground was just amazing and although we lost it is an experience i will never forget. The bath (size of a swimming pool) after the game was something else. 2 Half-time Protestcan't remember the game but there was a half-time pitch invasion protesting about the decision to shut the ground. Also at end of game people protested on the terraces under what is now the City Club's snooker room window. Clive Wanstall's dad threw a brick straight through the window and got arrested! 3 Dover nutters being chased around Josephs road by a large group of marauding an very unfriendly Dover fans. Scary!! Anyone else want to share any memories then? Hi Kevin, Do you still read this board? Hopefully you do. Before I write a long message perhaps you could let me know. It's your captain from the Knockout Trophy victory up at the University Sports Ground. Kind regards, Stuart
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