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69 today!
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Have they rescued the kids down the well yet
Sorry couldn't resist happy Bday Skippy
Sorry couldn't resist happy Bday Skippy
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Even though I was lucky enough to enjoy the wonderful championship winning team with those wonderful players, there was just something about Steve when he burst onto the scene. His pace created havoc for the opposition and great atmosphere in the Longside.
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Wardrobe with a head attached.
Saved our bacon that half a season or so he came back, delayed the drop to Div 3 but not for long.
Saved our bacon that half a season or so he came back, delayed the drop to Div 3 but not for long.
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What’s not to like! Superb player who still has time for the fans
Happy Birthday Steve!
Happy Birthday Steve!
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My favorite player by a long way, seeing its the pantomime season reminds me of when the referee was looking all round for him to have a word, "Hes behind you"
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Hey Boss, I actually thought that this thread was about the TV programme.
What's that Skip? Some kids are trapped down the well?
Click click - click click click - click click.
Aw right, we betta go tell daad.
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It was Stuart Hall I think that dubbed him the flying wardrobe. After he came back and scored a shedful of goals we really were playing 'the long ball' then. Hoof it forward over everyone's head and Stevie would run on to it and suddenly be on a one-to-one with the goalkeeper. Great stuff. I think at his peak the only player who was faster than him was Macdonald. He was almost impossible to play offside against.
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If it wasn't for the wall at the bottom of the Bee Hole End, I swear sometimes he'd have galloped right up the terrace.
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I think it was Paul Fletcher who said his nickname was horse. When asked why he said cos he had the control of a clothes horse and the brains of a rocking horse.
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Or was it because he had the same attributes that "Horse" on "The Full Monty" had
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I think it was:
Strength of a shire horse
Pace of a race horse
Brains of a rocking horse
I remember a tale he tells in his after dinner routine - you need to know about his speech impediment to get this:
He tells you that he has moved to Southport for a quieter life by the sea. He is semi retired but his wife has got herself a part time job. It's a job I find difficult to talk about explains Steve. But the wife enjoys it and it keeps her busy. But it really is something I can't bring myself to talk about.
Eventually someone takes the bait and asks what job his wife does that is so difficult for him to speak about.
"She sells sea shells on the sea shore" is the punchline.
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I think it was the build of a cart horse, the speed of a racehorse and the brains of a rocking horse.
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G’day Skip!
And who among us remember the fantastic,
The Magic Boomerang. ???????
And who among us remember the fantastic,
The Magic Boomerang. ???????
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One of my favourite ever Clarets.
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that as a kid.
See what I did there ?
See what I did there ?
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Pressed submit before you finished typing????
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Remember him rounding the Celtic keeper. Cue mayhem ....
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Very kindly sorted me a Cup Final ticket. Thanks again Steve.
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Once remembering him coming back to help out the defence against Manchester United. It was in the days when the hoardings were in front of the stand where the Bob Lord is now. He hoofed the ball clear deep into the other half of the pitch and then set off and beat everyone to it.
He was outrageously quick and when adding his sheer size to that pace it made him one very effective player.
He was outrageously quick and when adding his sheer size to that pace it made him one very effective player.
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Youth cup final 2nd leg - 28th March 1968 my first sight of this remarkable Claret!
from the Burnley Express: '...As for his speed, there is only one word for it…phenomenal! He bounds along with huge powerful strides, eating up ground like a kangaroo, at an astonishing rate...'
From that moment on, the former rugby player would henceforth be known as ‘Skippy` and the rest they say is history!
https://burnley.vitalfootball.co.uk/bla ... inal-1968/
from the Burnley Express: '...As for his speed, there is only one word for it…phenomenal! He bounds along with huge powerful strides, eating up ground like a kangaroo, at an astonishing rate...'
From that moment on, the former rugby player would henceforth be known as ‘Skippy` and the rest they say is history!
https://burnley.vitalfootball.co.uk/bla ... inal-1968/
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Are there are any modern day equivalents? Traore at Wolves perhaps?ClaretTony wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 11:16 pm
He was outrageously quick and when adding his sheer size to that pace it made him one very effective player.
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Nothing like Kindon though - Steve had around 14st plus charging at youJohnDearyMe wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 8:29 amAre there are any modern day equivalents? Traore at Wolves perhaps?
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he was a great runner, very fast indeed, 10 + seconds for 100metres.
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I can do 10+ seconds for 100m as well.Wile E Coyote wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 9:45 amhe was a great runner, very fast indeed, 10 + seconds for 100metres.
(Mind you, it's a big plus.)
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The only comparison with Traore is speed. I would not like to call it between the two.
But Kindon had the physique of Van Dyk
Not the best player I have seen for Burnley but probably the most exciting and effective
But Kindon had the physique of Van Dyk
Not the best player I have seen for Burnley but probably the most exciting and effective
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I think I am right when I say I saw his debut for the first team at home against West Ham. I don't think we, or indeed the West Ham defence including Bobby Moore, had seen anything like him. I also think that was the start of an unbeaten run which saw us famously beat Leeds 5 0 and ultimately keep us up for another season. Met him years later at a function. He is a thoroughly nice bloke.
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Happy birthday Skippy have a good one x
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His debut was at West Ham and we lost the game 5-0. He did play in the home win against West Ham a few weeks later and was in the team that beat Leeds 5-1.Mondsley wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 11:14 amI think I am right when I say I saw his debut for the first team at home against West Ham. I don't think we, or indeed the West Ham defence including Bobby Moore, had seen anything like him. I also think that was the start of an unbeaten run which saw us famously beat Leeds 5 0 and ultimately keep us up for another season. Met him years later at a function. He is a thoroughly nice bloke.
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I only saw him in his second spell with us but he immediately became my favourite player. That night against Celtic will live long in the memory, for the goal and what it triggered.
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His debut was at West Ham and we lost the game 5-0. He did play in the home win against West Ham a few weeks later and was in the team that beat Leeds 5-1.
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Thank you for correcting my failing memory Tony! I have obviously blanked out that Leeds goal
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Thank you for correcting my failing memory Tony! I have obviously blanked out that Leeds goal
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Indeed! Only time I have feared for my life at a football match.
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He was a bulldozer on acid. Great to watch.
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I love this, it brings tears to my eyes when I read it.Herts Clarets wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:26 pmI think it was:
Strength of a shire horse
Pace of a race horse
Brains of a rocking horse
I remember a tale he tells in his after dinner routine - you need to know about his speech impediment to get this:
He tells you that he has moved to Southport for a quieter life by the sea. He is semi retired but his wife has got herself a part time job. It's a job I find difficult to talk about explains Steve. But the wife enjoys it and it keeps her busy. But it really is something I can't bring myself to talk about.
Eventually someone takes the bait and asks what job his wife does that is so difficult for him to speak about.
"She sells sea shells on the sea shore" is the punchline.
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I was disappointed when I realised it wasn't about the bush kangaroo
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Wonderful nonsense from the 60s. How the f*ck did that kid know what skippy was saying from that noise he made? Still, who cares at the age we were. Innocence and fun were the rule of the day.deanothedino wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 4:44 pmI was disappointed when I realised it wasn't about the bush kangaroo
By the way, a kangeroo can rise up to about six feet or more when stood up fully, was Skippy a wallaby?
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I'm sure the latics keeper in the semi final touched cloth (twice) !!
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Very exciting when given a ball to run onto, regardless of any opposition in the way. Like having John Wayne marauding towards their penalty area.
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Played by 9 different kangaroos aparently.houseboy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 4:48 pmWonderful nonsense from the 60s. How the f*ck did that kid know what skippy was saying from that noise he made? Still, who cares at the age we were. Innocence and fun were the rule of the day.
By the way, a kangeroo can rise up to about six feet or more when stood up fully, was Skippy a wallaby?
It was the 90s incarnation I grew up with.
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Oh wow - I didn't even know there was a 90s version. Sadly I missed that.deanothedino wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 7:49 amPlayed by 9 different kangaroos aparently.
It was the 90s incarnation I grew up with.
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Strangely I read an article on John Wayne yesterday (coincidence or what). I didn't know he was a draft dodging, racist, womanising, semi-drunk who then went on to criticise anyone who didn't go to Vietnam, despite being one of the few to never, ever serve in the armed forces during World War Two. Sounds like a pretty awful human being from what I gather. Lost a great deal of respect apparently when it all came out. He also had some pretty dire views on 'blacks', criticising their intelligence and their inferiority to whites (he was an unashamed white supremicist). The article compared him to Charles Bronson who was apparently a mild mannered, gentle guy (regardless of his on screen persona) who was a decorated war hero (he won the Purple Heart).Cirrus_Minor wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 6:59 pmVery exciting when given a ball to run onto, regardless of any opposition in the way. Like having John Wayne marauding towards their penalty area.
Strange how boyhood heroes can turn out to be something other than what we think ain't it?