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Post by ricky on Aug 1, 2020 18:33:25 GMT
Retiring after 31 years. I personally won’t miss him, could never disguise his lack of enthusiasm for County but absolutely loved Bury, Citeh and Alty.
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Post by The Real Exile on Aug 1, 2020 18:36:43 GMT
Never liked us one bit.
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Post by desmond on Aug 1, 2020 18:42:32 GMT
You can add Rochdale to that list too, pretty much all the local clubs were “great little clubs” to him but rarely mentioned us. Seems he was a real bitter blue. |
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Post by tgttiw on Aug 1, 2020 20:31:21 GMT
You can add Rochdale to that list too, pretty much all the local clubs were “great little clubs” to him but rarely mentioned us. Seems he was a real bitter blue. I disagree I omitted Jimmy wagg. Gutted he's gone, Saturday's on the way home won't be the same again. |
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Post by AllyF on Aug 1, 2020 21:24:04 GMT
I've always liked listening to him although that has been much less since County had decent radio coverage. It will be interesting to see what sort of coverage we get on Radio Manchester when we start climbing the leagues again as there is a good chance we will pass the likes of Oldham, Rochdale and even Wigan in the next few years.
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Post by dispatcher007 on Aug 1, 2020 21:25:52 GMT
I always thought he was pretty clued up but he did not know why Alty were away today or why it was a one off game!
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Post by ricky on Aug 1, 2020 21:31:36 GMT
I always thought he was pretty clued up but he did not know why Alty were away today or why it was a one off game! We are well served by JK thankfully. I pretty much gave up on GMR when they couldn’t understand why Sale Sharks were a big cause of our demise, zero research or interest. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2020 23:21:23 GMT
Used to see him all the time in the Sylvan pub in Timperley. Always snarled at him because he never had said anything positive about us on air.
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Post by Bredburyhatter on Aug 1, 2020 23:28:30 GMT
I like listening to him on the wireless, both on his sport programmes and also his Sunday morning shows with Eamonn.
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Post by suedehead on Aug 2, 2020 6:50:40 GMT
GMR was always in in the car in the 90s pre/post game and despite his obvious love for City, I thought he was very entertaining.
Not listened to him for about 15 years now but his voice takes me back to the late 90s straight away.
On another note, does anyone know about our coverage for next season on the radio? I’m usually at the game so never listen to commentary but it’d be great to get a bit more post-match reaction. It seems to be over almost as soon as I’m back in the car.
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Post by houldsworthhatter on Aug 2, 2020 7:27:32 GMT
GMR was always in in the car in the 90s pre/post game and despite his obvious love for City, I thought he was very entertaining. Not listened to him for about 15 years now but his voice takes me back to the late 90s straight away. On another note, does anyone know about our coverage for next season on the radio? I’m usually at the game so never listen to commentary but it’d be great to get a bit more post-match reaction. It seems to be over almost as soon as I’m back in the car. Yeh he was alright and wasn't negative or ignorant of County. Met him through work in the early/ mid 90s and he was complimentary and well wishing of County. As we slipped out of the league coverage slipped everywhere as it does apart from Pure and Imagine when they had the commentary rights. |
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Post by timberwolf on Aug 2, 2020 8:29:47 GMT
GMR was always in in the car in the 90s pre/post game and despite his obvious love for City, I thought he was very entertaining. Not listened to him for about 15 years now but his voice takes me back to the late 90s straight away. Yeh he was alright and wasn't negative or ignorant of County. those were my feelings about him to be fair. think a lot of fans were always looking for stuff that was not really there. it was GMR anyway and not stockport radio. even when we beat city regularly they still had more fans and interest than us and the majority of listeners had to be catered for. who else misses those city fans suicidal sounding calls in the phone in. could feel a little tear coming into my eye every saturday evening. |
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Post by tgttiw on Aug 2, 2020 9:03:28 GMT
Yeh he was alright and wasn't negative or ignorant of County. those were my feelings about him to be fair. think a lot of fans were always looking for stuff that was not really there. it was GMR anyway and not stockport radio. even when we beat city regularly they still had more fans and interest than us and the majority of listeners had to be catered for. who else misses those city fans suicidal sounding calls in the phone in. could feel a little tear coming into my eye every saturday evening. Yes that city was far more entertaining than the current guise! |
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Post by philtheglass on Aug 2, 2020 9:15:20 GMT
Think he lost a little respect for us when his friend Fred Eyre was shown the door by Carlton Palmer.
Obviously privy to what was going on behind the scenes at the club...if only the rest of us had known !
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Post by ricky on Aug 2, 2020 9:34:18 GMT
Perhaps I was being a bit harsh, it was just his unbridled enthusiasm for those other clubs yet County were one of the closest clubs to where he grew up and he didn’t seem to have any affection for us, which isn’t a crime I know. Radio Manchester sport was a ‘must listen’ in the 90s and they covered County pretty well. I used to listen to the Sunday Eamon and Jimmy show, but I find it very tired now, ‘do you remember the mcvitie factory?’ Do you remember spangles?. I came back to it recently after a break of about 5 years, and it was exactly the same show, but, reassuring in a way, just not for me any more.
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