South Shields football club

jimmywizz · Post by **jimmywizz** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:22 pm

as you may of heard south shields fc was about to fold but at the last minute a group of local business men and local supporters have have put together a rescue package to take the club forward. The club is still looking for any potential sponsers to come forward to help support the club, if any one would like to get involved then please contact me at
[email protected] and i will pass your message on. Please watch this space for further details and fixtures, the club needs your support so see if you can make it down for the 1st home game and help support our local team

tonnee · Post by **tonnee** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:19 pm

the mariners if only

my heart bleeds

jimmywizz · Post by **jimmywizz** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:56 pm

cheer up better days are just around the corner

billymorgan · Post by **billymorgan** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:22 pm

hope the mariner's can see better day's

COME ON IF YOUR FROM SHIELD'S IT IS YOUR DUTY TO ATTEND A MARINER'S GAME.

mr-angry · Post by **mr-angry** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:36 pm

Ive always said a town the size of shields could easily have a team
worthy of the first division.
I would love nothing better than seeing the gypsies green turned into
a little stadium

Pooter · Post by **Pooter** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:27 pm

mr-angry wrote:Ive always said a town the size of shields could easily have a team
worthy of the first division.
I would love nothing better than seeing the gypsies green turned into
a little stadium

No it's too late I'm afraid, everybody is a Premier League fan these days. Even in the 20s and 30s when there was nothing else to do Shields struggled to get decent gates; that's why they went to Gateshead the first time.

memor · Post by **memor** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:04 pm

I not wish to be hard

or controversial

but

Is the demise of South Shields Football Club.

Because.

They just kept losing ??

jimmywizz · Post by **jimmywizz** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:47 pm

nope memor it was the fact that the cost of a game is now £500 and the money taken at the gate does not cover this

memor · Post by **memor** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:16 pm

Why no one go to gate ??

Was it because they keep losing ?

billymorgan · Post by **billymorgan** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:01 am

any chance of these local band's not doing a benifit gig for the mariner's?

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:17 pm

I was a Mariners' supporter when a schoolboy (they were affectionately known as the 'Babes' then). Chris Marron; Middlemiss; Rutherford; Hassan; Kilgallon; Hughie Watson. I was too early for Len Smith or goalies Lemon and Chicken. We even went to reserve games. Then my Dad (a Newcastle fan) sportingly took me to watch Sunderland, and my loyalties became dual.

Shields once beat Chelsea 5-0 when in the second division in the '20s (there was a howling gale at Horsley Hill).

Non-league teams - Stevenage etc. - do pretty well in places like Herts because there's no major team in the entire county. South Shields is squeezed between Newcastle and Sunderland. I once thought it was the largest place not to have a major team, but I've learned that Dudley and Croydon have more population.

Shields used to play in green and red stripes. Clash! Clash!

Jerry

Pooter · Post by **Pooter** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:32 pm

Jerry wrote: I once thought it was the largest place not to have a major team, but I've learned that Dudley and Croydon have more population.

Shields used to play in green and red stripes. Clash! Clash!

Jerry

Crystal Palace are generally regarded as the team from Croydon.

I thought Shields played in green shirts with red sleeves Arsenal style or was it red with green?

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:38 pm

Shields often played in a green shirt with a dark red collar, I mean wide, like a horse's collar, a bit like West Ham shirts. I think the arms were green. I liked the red and green stripes on a silky shirt better. In my experience they were unique.

I've never heard Palace supporters linking themselves with Croydon. Sarf Larnen, yes

Jerry

memor · Post by **memor** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:46 am

This green strip they played in.

Do you think that if they had gone the whole hog and got camoflaged strips they might have scored more goals.

You could just imagine the opposing side scratching their heads.

"Where have South Shields Footballers gone?"

and suddenly out of nowhere they are tackled the ball mysteriously makes it way to the other end and the opposition are one nil down.

They could have camoflaged the Goal as well thus making it harder for the opposition to score.

Pooter · Post by **Pooter** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:39 pm

Jerry wrote: I've never heard Palace supporters linking themselves with Croydon. Sarf Larnen, yes Jerry

Where I worked in Croydon they were all Palace supporters especially when beating us (Sunderland) in the play offs.

brian c · Post by **brian c** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:51 am

Saying Crystal Palace is in Croydon is a bit like saying Boldon's in South Tyneside.

baldy.smith · Post by **baldy.smith** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:55 am

But Boldon is in South Tyneside! at least it was the last time I looked.

brian c · Post by **brian c** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:58 am

What I'm trying to say is that Crystal Palace is part of the Borough of Croydon.

baldy.smith · Post by **baldy.smith** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:12 am

Got ya, and the point is that no one in South Tyneside supports Boldon. Or do they.

I wasn't aware that Croydon was a Borough. You learn a little more each day eh.

brian c · Post by **brian c** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:25 am

The London Borough of no less.

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