Scarface
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I remember it being 4-0 until about 80 minutes and then their fitness ran out. We were cheering NV by the end and booed when we scored the last goal!
Why shudder? He liked cricket and football so gave both a go. He also scored..
I'm sure Joe Gatting very much liked cricket and football. I shudder because unfortunately he was complete and utter SHIZER at it.
Another one to add to the pile of hopeless Development Squad strikers we systematically churn out.
Apart from this game, he scored the winning goal at Cheaterfield, which we celebrated wildly. He also scored two goals at Blackburn for the FA youth cup to get us through to the 5th round at Newcastle.
Ok so he didn't make it any higher, but he still played for, and scored for the Albion. I really don't think that deserves a shudder. Just my opinion.
Having seen most of the games he played for the Albion and most he played for Sussex, it always struck me that whilst he was a slow and cumbersome striker, he was a lithe and excellent fielder. Probably says more about the 2 sports than it does about Joe.Its certainly more than I or most people ever managed or could even dream to, granted. He was still a SHOCKING striker though, nowhere near good enough to cut it in the Football League. We've produced loads of those. Its a Sussex speciality.
Six of them haven't, perhaps surprisingly - so not quite half have retired:-
El Abd and Revell have both scored recently (see Goal of the Month competition for El Abd's effort!);
Lynch is at QPR, Hammond at Sheff. Utd.
Cox and Fraser just up the road at Burgess Hill.
Think the rest have probably retired though.
And it only seems like yesterday that he was giving us the finger when he scored against us at the Withdean.Hammond is a free agent.
Signed permanently for Sheff Utd at the end of his loan spell last season when Adkins was still there, but instantly transfer listed by Wilder when he took charge and left by mutual consent in August.
Hammond is a free agent.
Signed permanently for Sheff Utd at the end of his loan spell last season when Adkins was still there, but instantly transfer listed by Wilder when he took charge and left by mutual consent in August.
Why shudder? He liked cricket and football so gave both a go. He also scored.
I was there. NV brought so few fans, they had block A in the South Stand.
Sam Rents at Whitehawk
Ten years ago today, we weren't bothered by such things, as we welcomed Northwich Victoria to Withdean for an FA Cup First Round tie.
The team was:
Kuipers
Mayo
Butters
Hinshelwood
Lynch
El Abd
Hammond
Fraser
Robinson
Revell
Cox
Subs:
Gatting
Rents
Santos
Frutos
Sullivan
Albion 8 (Cox 2, Robinson 3, Revell, Gatting, Rents)
Northwich Victoria 0
Att 4,487
And it only seems like yesterday that he was giving us the finger when he scored against us at the Withdean.
Perhaps we could get him a job at the Amex. Selling programmes or maybe directing buses.
PG
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Apart from this game, he scored the winning goal at Cheaterfield, which we celebrated wildly. He also scored two goals at Blackburn for the FA youth cup to get us through to the 5th round at Newcastle.
Ok so he didn't make it any higher, but he still played for, and scored for the Albion. I really don't think that deserves a shudder. Just my opinion.
Is that the game where Jakey dared to score a hat-trick and gone-wrong Wilkins punished him by relegating Jakey to the bench for the next game? Or did it actually happen TWICE?