Whitehawk FC

[The Large One]

Good wind-up, BG.

 

[BensGrandad]

He did play for Haywards Heath but a player from Ringmer has just signed for my sons team and told him that Geoff Pitcher and Kerry Mayo were at Ringmer so I dont know.

 

[RM-Taylor]

Mayo can no longer run yet play football at any level.

If he could then he would be playing for Port Vale.

 

[The Large One]

Mayo can no longer run yet play football at any level.

... is the right answer.

 

[BensGrandad]

Many ex pros are able to play county league standard football when they are unable to train or run to the requirements of league football. I just know thata young man who played for Ringmer first team last season has joined my son and to quote him ' Ringmer has been bought out and paying a lot of money to bring in ex pros and senior non league players and I dont want to revert back to youth football I want to play mens football. 2 of the players they have brought in are Kerry Mayo and Geoff Pitcher ex Brighton'.


Having spoken to my son it appears that GP is playing for St Francis but Ringmer are trying to get him to transfer to them.

So no TLO is wasn't a wind up.

 

[keaton]

I saw Darren Freeman play for Whitehawk last season and he could hardly walk let alone run

 

[The Large One]

Really?

I spoke to Kerry two weeks ago, and he said he cannot train, run or play for longer than a minute without being in excrutiating pain. Basically, he is a crock. He can, thankfully, walk OK.

He is doing his coaching badges, but for now is working in insurance and wants nothing to do with football on a day-to-day basis. It's something he is genuinely upset about.

 

[BensGrandad]

Didnt Cullip do the same at Lewes and on a higher scale when did Guy Butters stop or even start running but he was very good at what he did do with his knowledge of the game.

I once took a team to France to play againsta little local team who had 3 central defenders who in their day had beach been Player of The season for PSG,St Ettiene etc but were all over 55 but they were outstanding ran about 3 yds each to reach the ball as they were always in the correct position to receive it and this was an education to my lads who were mostly early 20s.

So Mayo could play centre back for a county league side and hardly have to run.

 

[BensGrandad]

Really?

I spoke to Kerry two weeks ago, and he said he cannot train, run or play for longer than a minute without being in excrutiating pain. Basically, he is a crock. He can, thankfully, walk OK.

He is doing his coaching badges, but for now is working in insurance and wants nothing to do with football on a day-to-day basis. It's something he is genuinely upset about.

If what you say is true , and I have no reason to doubt you, what the chap told my son was bullshit so I am wrong, but just passing on what I had been told by somebody who I expected to have known. I did say at the time to him are you sure its as a player and not as a manager and he was most insistant it was as a player.

 

[The Large One]

Didnt Cullip do the same at Lewes and on a higher scale when did Guy Butters stop or even start running but he was very good at what he did do with his knowledge of the game.

I once took a team to France to play againsta little local team who had 3 central defenders who in their day had beach been Player of The season for PSG,St Ettiene etc but were all over 55 but they were outstanding ran about 3 yds each to reach the ball as they were always in the correct position to receive it and this was an education to my lads who were mostly early 20s.

So Mayo could play centre back for a county league side and hardly have to run.

I give up. You're clearly not understanding a basic premise here.

He can do no more than walk anywhere. He cannot kick the ball, or jump for it or even trot around.

The players you mention could still run if only a bit, Mayo cannot.

Unless, of course, Kerry was lying to me.

 

[Arthur]

Didnt Cullip do the same at Lewes and on a higher scale when did Guy Butters stop or even start running but he was very good at what he did do with his knowledge of the game.

I once took a team to France to play againsta little local team who had 3 central defenders who in their day had beach been Player of The season for PSG,St Ettiene etc but were all over 55 but they were outstanding ran about 3 yds each to reach the ball as they were always in the correct position to receive it and this was an education to my lads who were mostly early 20s.

So Mayo could play centre back for a county league side and hardly have to run.

Bit of a difference between PSG and Brighton to be fair. And lets face it Mayo wasn't much better than county league standard in his prime.

 

[BensGrandad]

Please dont do another flounce I was only passsing on what I was told as I have explained.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Please dont do another flounce I was only passsing on what I was told as I have explained.

Maybe you didn't understand the word retirement when it was announced. Retirement as opposed to released..

 

[CHAPPERS]

Could Mayo play up front as a target man still Al? Can he move enough to do that?

I think he could pull that off for Ringmer.

 

[The Large One]

Could Mayo play up front as a target man still Al? Can he move enough to do that?

I think he could pull that off for Ringmer.

I phoned him to ask him on to the show. I'm worried he may not even be able to get up the stairs.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

They may have signed him to do some coaching?

 

[CHAPPERS]

Surely coaching requires running?

 

[The Large One]

They may have signed him to do some coaching?

Possible, but BG's chum said they'd signed him as a player.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Surely coaching requires running?

No you get the others to do it for you...

Alright teaching then.

 

[The Large One]

I've just asked Kerry and got this from him...

"You having a bad dream today or something? It must have been one hell of a Bank Holiday weekend for you..."