Comments on: Plenty in reserve? Pancrate to play in free Newcastle v Hartlepool game. http://www.nufcblog.org/2009/11/plenty-in-reserve-newcastle-v-hartlepool/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:59:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: icedog http://www.nufcblog.org/2009/11/plenty-in-reserve-newcastle-v-hartlepool/#comment-17075 icedog Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:59:51 +0000 http://www.nufcblog.org/?p=5966#comment-17075 lesh/chuck,dont get me started on old days,chuck,i go a little further back one shilling and three pence (old cash) for leazes and one shilling 9 pence family enclos,lesh my peanuts had no salt on i must of got robbed,wor jackie was on about 8quid a week+pit work,took bus to sjp,iwas lucky i could walk there,thinking about i would there again at my age even if its 18mls i should be so lucky lesh/chuck,dont get me started on old days,chuck,i go a little further back one shilling and three pence (old cash) for leazes and one shilling 9 pence family enclos,lesh my peanuts had no salt on i must of got robbed,wor jackie was on about 8quid a week+pit work,took bus to sjp,iwas lucky i could walk there,thinking about i would there again at my age even if its 18mls i should be so lucky

]]> By: chuck http://www.nufcblog.org/2009/11/plenty-in-reserve-newcastle-v-hartlepool/#comment-17073 chuck Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:02:10 +0000 http://www.nufcblog.org/?p=5966#comment-17073 Yeah, the good old days, standing on a roofless terrace in the rain, with some disgusting excuse for either tea or bovril (hard to tell the difference sometimes) just to have something warm. Used to stand atop of the fence at the back of what is now the east stand, on a 12"x12" wooden beam, through snow, rain or both, awaiting a decision by the officials whether to play or cancel  the game on a frozen snow filled pitch . Must say the present stadium is state of the art, great areas for food or drink, excellent seats, not a bad seat in the house, though i hav`nt been to the upper seats, seem quite far from the action. The admission prices in the day were pretty steep, half a crown or one and three for kids, only the poshest  could afford the stand. Top players were making as much as twenty quid a week, dropping to about fourteen for a journeyman player. But four Wembley appearances in five years with three FA cups, a golden era, with genuine hero`s to cheer, would`nt change it for anything. Yeah, the good old days, standing on a roofless terrace in the rain, with some disgusting excuse for either tea or bovril (hard to tell the difference sometimes) just to have something warm.
Used to stand atop of the fence at the back of what is now the east stand, on a 12″x12″ wooden beam, through snow, rain or both, awaiting a decision by the officials whether to play or cancel  the game on a frozen snow filled pitch .
Must say the present stadium is state of the art, great areas for food or drink, excellent seats, not a bad seat in the house, though i hav`nt been to the upper seats, seem quite far from the action.
The admission prices in the day were pretty steep, half a crown or one and three for kids, only the poshest  could afford the stand.
Top players were making as much as twenty quid a week, dropping to about fourteen for a journeyman player.
But four Wembley appearances in five years with three FA cups, a golden era, with genuine hero`s to cheer, would`nt change it for anything.

]]> By: lesh http://www.nufcblog.org/2009/11/plenty-in-reserve-newcastle-v-hartlepool/#comment-17014 lesh Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:44:30 +0000 http://www.nufcblog.org/?p=5966#comment-17014 Speaking of legends..... anyone remember the peanut sellers?  You'd pitch your tanner or whatever down from the stand, he'd catch it, and bingo, a bag of salted nuts lobbed with ease, perfectly aimed to be caught by the buyer! Wonderful. Speaking of legends….. anyone remember the peanut sellers? 

You’d pitch your tanner or whatever down from the stand, he’d catch it, and bingo, a bag of salted nuts lobbed with ease, perfectly aimed to be caught by the buyer!

Wonderful.

]]> By: bowburnmag http://www.nufcblog.org/2009/11/plenty-in-reserve-newcastle-v-hartlepool/#comment-17004 bowburnmag Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:49:14 +0000 http://www.nufcblog.org/?p=5966#comment-17004 <p>Soz worky, has it set off the alarms? Been a while since I had to worry about the clap 8O</p> Soz worky, has it set off the alarms?

Been a while since I had to worry about the clap 8O

]]> By: workyticket http://www.nufcblog.org/2009/11/plenty-in-reserve-newcastle-v-hartlepool/#comment-17001 workyticket Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:45:41 +0000 http://www.nufcblog.org/?p=5966#comment-17001 <p>Bowburn, I've telt ye! Divven't paste from MS Word into this blog. It's like a dose of the clap.</p> Bowburn, I’ve telt ye! Divven’t paste from MS Word into this blog. It’s like a dose of the clap.

]]> By: danny-boy http://www.nufcblog.org/2009/11/plenty-in-reserve-newcastle-v-hartlepool/#comment-16997 danny-boy Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:38:10 +0000 http://www.nufcblog.org/?p=5966#comment-16997 great thread BBM, some real classic stories amongst it great thread BBM, some real classic stories amongst it

]]> By: bowburnmag http://www.nufcblog.org/2009/11/plenty-in-reserve-newcastle-v-hartlepool/#comment-16993 bowburnmag Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:32:14 +0000 http://www.nufcblog.org/?p=5966#comment-16993 <p>Aye, it’s not exactly obvious. A few people have recognised who he was but had no idea about the connection. I expected some of the younger generation to not recognise the character and perhaps even miss the sentiment to be honest.</p> <p>But I did this article because I genuinely wanted to know - </p> <p>http://www.nufcblog.org/2009/09/whatever-happened-to-the-east-stand-kenny-everett/</p> Aye, it’s not exactly obvious. A few people have recognised who he was but had no idea about the connection. I expected some of the younger generation to not recognise the character and perhaps even miss the sentiment to be honest.

But I did this article because I genuinely wanted to know –

http://www.nufcblog.org/2009/09/whatever-happened-to-the-east-stand-kenny-everett/

]]> By: lesh http://www.nufcblog.org/2009/11/plenty-in-reserve-newcastle-v-hartlepool/#comment-16991 lesh Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:24:49 +0000 http://www.nufcblog.org/?p=5966#comment-16991 Thanks for that BBM..... as you say, SJP has had so many legends and not only on the park! Thanks for that BBM….. as you say, SJP has had so many legends and not only on the park!

]]> By: danny-boy http://www.nufcblog.org/2009/11/plenty-in-reserve-newcastle-v-hartlepool/#comment-16989 danny-boy Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:23:45 +0000 http://www.nufcblog.org/?p=5966#comment-16989 could never quite make out who that was BBM, looked like Andy (lou & andy) in a NUFC away strip from here lol could never quite make out who that was BBM, looked like Andy (lou & andy) in a NUFC away strip from here lol

]]> By: bowburnmag http://www.nufcblog.org/2009/11/plenty-in-reserve-newcastle-v-hartlepool/#comment-16986 bowburnmag Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:17:46 +0000 http://www.nufcblog.org/?p=5966#comment-16986 <p>There was a fella used to sit the far end of the East Stand (might still sit there for all I know), and he was the spit of Kenny Everett. The Corner used to sing/request "Kenny givvus a song", to which he invariably responded by staggering drunkenly to his feet and belting out a song which then resounded round the Gallowgate and throughout. And to which we eventually responded "We've got Kenny, Kenny, Kenny Everett on the wing", to the tune of the Terry Hibbit song. Hence my avatar, in respect to a leg-end. In my eyes at least.</p> There was a fella used to sit the far end of the East Stand (might still sit there for all I know), and he was the spit of Kenny Everett. The Corner used to sing/request “Kenny givvus a song”, to which he invariably responded by staggering drunkenly to his feet and belting out a song which then resounded round the Gallowgate and throughout.

And to which we eventually responded “We’ve got Kenny, Kenny, Kenny Everett on the wing”, to the tune of the Terry Hibbit song. Hence my avatar, in respect to a leg-end. In my eyes at least.

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