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Post by The Man from Del Monte on Jul 11, 2014 15:31:52 GMT
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In case anyone isn't aware of the fact, tonight's game with Thornbury Town has been called off
There was a game? Anyway, just in case anyone was going...
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Post by Lambert's Right Boot on Jul 11, 2014 15:42:51 GMT
The reason it was called off, according to Keith, is that Thornbury couldn't get together a team.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 15:58:25 GMT
I had literally no idea this was happening. Or that Thornbury had a team.
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Post by ipswichrover on Jul 11, 2014 15:59:35 GMT
Wow, sadly i haven't lived in Thornbury for nearly 30 years, but I didn't know this annual game was still going. It was/is a charity game that started in the 60's. Ian Hamilton, who played 'inside forward' for Rovers came from Thornbury and his brother played for Thornbury. Sadly, his brother died in a house fire and Rovers thereafter played an annual charity match against Thornbury, though I am pretty sure it used to be at the end of the season. Rovers used to bring their full team and always won about 12-1. It was great to see my heroes running round my local playing field at a time when I was too young to go to Eastville very often.
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Post by dinsdale on Jul 11, 2014 16:19:05 GMT
I had no idea despite coming from Thornbury and having played for them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 16:46:13 GMT
Wow, sadly i haven't lived in Thornbury for nearly 30 years, but I didn't know this annual game was still going. It was/is a charity game that started in the 60's. Ian Hamilton, who played 'inside forward' for Rovers came from Thornbury and his brother played for Thornbury. Sadly, his brother died in a house fire and Rovers thereafter played an annual charity match against Thornbury, though I am pretty sure it used to be at the end of the season. Rovers used to bring their full team and always won about 12-1. It was great to see my heroes running round my local playing field at a time when I was too young to go to Eastville very often. Ian scored the winner in the game at Halifax in 1963 which prevented a double-relegation, and the shame of going down to the 4th Division. 
He was a tidy inside forward and linked up well with Alfie.
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Post by ipswichrover on Jul 11, 2014 17:06:57 GMT
I think the game started in the early 60s and was still going when I left school in the early 70s I think there was a plaque to the dead brother (David ?) on the changing rooms when they were built. When my Dad played for Thornbury, in the 50s the teams changed in the produce shed at the market in the town and walked half a mile to the pitch.
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Post by Alveston Gas on Jul 11, 2014 17:25:26 GMT
Thornbury. Town have played at the Munday Playing Fields with decent facilities for as long as I can remember. I went to Thornbury Grammar in 1966 and although at around County League level it's surprising that sides like Tytherington Rocks and the various Almondsbury reincarnations have become bigger. Thornbury has around 20,000 inhabitants and should have a better team....Heard that before somewhere!
Ian Hamilton was a neighbour of mine in Rudgeway, sadly he has failing health a bit like Jeff Astle. His brother Roger a lovely guy died many years ago and another brother died in a fire in Olveston donkey's years ago. Ian still attends the Gas supported by his wife and deserves better than to see us in the Conference - for the likes of him we need to be better this season.
As an aside it appears Stuart Sinclair will move into a local South Glos village soon, in the little house my Aunty Watts used to live in. I am told by the owner he is a super guy totally committed to his football.
UTG
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Post by nerdgas on Jul 11, 2014 17:30:24 GMT
I watched the game last year or maybe the year before and it was used to give the kids a run out.
Marcus Stewart was managing the side.
Surprised Thornbury Town couldn't raise a side.
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Post by Westcountry Gas on Jul 11, 2014 17:33:28 GMT
As an aside it appears Stuart Sinclair will move into a local South Glos village soon, in the little house my Aunty Watts used to live in. I am told by the owner he is a super guy totally committed to his football. UTG I've been told that Sinclair has a great attitude and is already a popular member of the squad, one 1st team player told my source that they have never seen a player with such good fitness levels. When i read his interview after signing it was good to hear that he can play as a box to box midfielder aswell as a winger or a wing back, hopefully he could turn out to be our signing of the summer. |
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Post by brizzle on Jul 11, 2014 17:39:00 GMT
Ian Hamilton was a good servant to BRFC, and was a tidy inside forward.
But my lasting memory was of him playing in big yellow gloves, when the weather was cold. This was unheard of in the early to mid-1960s, and the crowd certainly gave him a bit of good-natured stick.
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Post by harrybuckle on Jul 12, 2014 10:35:33 GMT
Ian Hamilton and his wife are season ticket holders at the Mem. Ian is suffering for many years due to the continual heading of the old leather ball aka Jeff Astle.
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Post by Bridgeman on Jul 13, 2014 9:42:44 GMT
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