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Jun 22, 2020 20:15:48 GMT
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Post by Imposter on Jun 22, 2020 20:15:48 GMT
Is “Was” Brown technically right? Controversial. Lampard was accepted on surname alone, so yes.
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Jun 22, 2020 20:22:20 GMT
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Post by Imposter on Jun 22, 2020 20:22:20 GMT
The b****** answers were Sam Hardy (1907-1920) and Jesse Pennington (same years) Sam Hardy lived at 14 Prospect Terrace Chesterfield in his England days, which is a much better address for an England player than a 40-acre country estate in Hampshire, and it says he would have won more caps if he hadn't refused to go on tour to South Africa. Jesse Pennington was once England's oldest ever outfield player. Like with Hardy, I was fascinated with his address, he lived on Smethwick High Street. He was a poultry farmer outside the game. Would Sam Harry's games in South Africa have been full internationals at the time? When County players Harry Hardy and Ernie Simms played for England against Australia in 1925 the matches were treated as Test Matches not full internationals. I'm guessing the same may have been the case with games against South Africa? Incidentally Simms was granted permission to travel by the club subject to the club surviving a relegation battle. Simms scored the winning goal at Blackpool to secure safety and celebrated by bounding back to the half-way line like a kangaroo!
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Jun 22, 2020 20:37:12 GMT
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Post by Imposter on Jun 22, 2020 20:37:12 GMT
Can we keep this as an ongoing thread please? Anyone with any quizzes or trivia, whack them in here. It’ll become a top resource for nerdery. Now there's a thing - when does Triviaism become Nerdery? Are they one and the same thinģ? I don't think they are. I think a good piece of trivia relies on something making it interesting, unique, standout. Nerdery will just be complete knowledge. A triviaist might know that our fastest goal was scored on Christmas Day (1957 to be precise) or that County scored the first Football League goal after WW1. A nerd will know full team line-up, who came on as sub, what shirt numbers players were wearing - even the obscure/forgettable players/matches/seasons. Or away from football a nerd might have the full height and weight progressions for Robert Wadlow down. A triviaist will know his middle name was Pershing, his father was the mayor of Alton, New Hampshire, and that he was able to carry his father upstairs at the age of 9. And of course both are different from "statto". A statto might not have all the figures and numbers nailed down like a nerd might, but they love playing with, working out, manipulating stats and figures. Whether it's how many points we've ever won in the Football League, what our average position is, where we are in an all-time Football League table, down to, how much more we statistically need to improve our home/away form to challenge for promotion. I'll freely admit I'm a triviaist and a statto. But I am not a nerd. 🙂
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Jun 22, 2020 20:39:08 GMT
Post by suedehead on Jun 22, 2020 20:39:08 GMT
Can we keep this as an ongoing thread please? Anyone with any quizzes or trivia, whack them in here. It’ll become a top resource for nerdery. Now there's a thing - when does Triviaism become Nerdery? Are they one and the same thinģ? I don't think they are. I think a good piece of trivia relies on something making it interesting, unique, standout. Nerdery will just be complete knowledge. A triviaist might know that our fastest goal was scored on Christmas Day (1957 to be precise) or that County scored the first Football League goal after WW1. A nerd will know full team line-up, who came on as sub, what shirt numbers players were wearing - even the obscure/forgettable players/matches/seasons. Or away from football a nerd might have the full height and weight progressions for Robert Wadlow down. A triviaist will know his middle name was Pershing, his father was the mayor of Alton, New Hampshire, and that he was able to carry his father upstairs at the age of 9. And of course both are different from "statto". A statto might not have all the figures and numbers nailed down like a nerd might, but they love playing with, working out, manipulating stats and figures. Whether it's how many points we've ever won in the Football League, what our average position is, where we are in an all-time Football League table, down to, how much more we statistically need to improve our home/away form to challenge for promotion. I'll freely admit I'm a triviaist and a statto. But I am not a nerd. 🙂 Your previous 200 words disagree with you.
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Jun 22, 2020 20:47:47 GMT
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Post by Imposter on Jun 22, 2020 20:47:47 GMT
Now there's a thing - when does Triviaism become Nerdery? Are they one and the same thinģ? I don't think they are. I think a good piece of trivia relies on something making it interesting, unique, standout. Nerdery will just be complete knowledge. A triviaist might know that our fastest goal was scored on Christmas Day (1957 to be precise) or that County scored the first Football League goal after WW1. A nerd will know full team line-up, who came on as sub, what shirt numbers players were wearing - even the obscure/forgettable players/matches/seasons. Or away from football a nerd might have the full height and weight progressions for Robert Wadlow down. A triviaist will know his middle name was Pershing, his father was the mayor of Alton, New Hampshire, and that he was able to carry his father upstairs at the age of 9. And of course both are different from "statto". A statto might not have all the figures and numbers nailed down like a nerd might, but they love playing with, working out, manipulating stats and figures. Whether it's how many points we've ever won in the Football League, what our average position is, where we are in an all-time Football League table, down to, how much more we statistically need to improve our home/away form to challenge for promotion. I'll freely admit I'm a triviaist and a statto. But I am not a nerd. 🙂 Your previous 200 words disagree with you. I disagree with you, that's just musing. Nerdery is an obsessive interest in a specific (usually quite narrow) field, particularly over several precise facts and minutiae. A nerd could take their subject as their specialist subject on Mastermind and ace it, a triviaist would do alright but not greatly. I'd be stuffed if I took County and was then asked a bunch of questions about a specific random game in 2004, or who scored for us in a random game at Walsall in 1935. A real nerd would get those answers.
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Post by Duncan McOchin on Jun 23, 2020 3:10:48 GMT
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Jun 30, 2020 15:29:37 GMT
Post by malvernhatter on Jun 30, 2020 15:29:37 GMT
Here's a new question :
Which 6 players made their final appearance for County at Wembley ?
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Jun 30, 2020 15:47:33 GMT
Post by Dids on Jun 30, 2020 15:47:33 GMT
Liam Dickinson Conrad Logan James Smith
Leon McSweeney maybe?
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Jun 30, 2020 15:54:11 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2020 15:54:11 GMT
Here's a new question :
Which 6 players made their final appearance for County at Wembley ?
Andy Preece? John Keeley? David Miller?
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Jun 30, 2020 15:55:26 GMT
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Post by Reddish Hatter on Jun 30, 2020 15:55:26 GMT
McNeil?
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Jun 30, 2020 15:56:44 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2020 15:56:44 GMT
David Frain?
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Jun 30, 2020 15:57:43 GMT
Post by malvernhatter on Jun 30, 2020 15:57:43 GMT
James Smith is correct. Dickinson came back and played a few games in 2013/14. Conrad played again on loan the following season. McSweeney played in 2008/9.
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Jun 30, 2020 15:59:43 GMT
Post by malvernhatter on Jun 30, 2020 15:59:43 GMT
Andy Preece and David Miller are correct - both left in the summer after the Burnley game. Keeley and Mc Neil not correct.
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Jun 30, 2020 16:11:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2020 16:11:08 GMT
Peter Duffield
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Jun 30, 2020 16:13:21 GMT
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Bill Williams
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