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Post by Nickhudds.UTT on Dec 17, 2018 16:36:51 GMT 1
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Post by Galpharmer on Dec 17, 2018 18:10:26 GMT 1
7 years ago today apparently when Jordan scored 4 at the Massive. Legend has it the fan points founder Sunflower managed to attend, arrive late, leave early, and miss all 4 Town goals.
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Post by Nickhudds.UTT on Dec 17, 2018 19:58:19 GMT 1
3 X Ex town for Forest
Lolley
The heffster Jack Robinson
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Post by rothwellterrier on Dec 17, 2018 20:27:06 GMT 1
3 X Ex town for Forest Lolley The heffster Jack Robinson And Scott Malone for Derby.
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Post by Porrohman on Dec 17, 2018 20:33:01 GMT 1
3 X Ex town for Forest Lolley The heffster Jack Robinson And Scott Malone for Derby. Holmes on bench too
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Post by Porrohman on Dec 17, 2018 20:36:18 GMT 1
Have they just said it's the new players that have changed Lolley, that he'd been coasting at Forest for a couple of years ? 🤔😱
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Post by Nickhudds.UTT on Dec 17, 2018 20:38:48 GMT 1
How we could do with Lolley for saturday.
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Post by Porrohman on Dec 17, 2018 20:53:23 GMT 1
First time Joe gets the ball Malone kicks him up in the air and doesn't get booked
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Post by Doc Halladay 32 on Dec 17, 2018 21:35:01 GMT 1
How we could do with Lolley for saturday. And his shot that went out for a throw
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Post by Headless Chicken on Dec 17, 2018 21:38:26 GMT 1
How we could do with Lolley for saturday. You watching Nick? He's been shite.
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Post by Nickhudds.UTT on Dec 17, 2018 21:41:39 GMT 1
How we could do with Lolley for saturday. You watching Nick? He's been shite. Not as good tonight.
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Post by Headless Chicken on Dec 17, 2018 21:55:36 GMT 1
You watching Nick? He's been shite. Not as good tonight. Yep, some stats were on that he's scored four from outside the box. Impressive. Looked as bad tonight though as our struggling wingers have (whilst at a lower level).
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Post by Porrohman on Dec 17, 2018 21:55:45 GMT 1
How we could do with Lolley for saturday. You watching Nick? He's been shite. Tbf he has got the Derby players lining up to kick him every time he gets the ball and the ref is just letting them
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Post by Headless Chicken on Dec 17, 2018 21:57:34 GMT 1
You watching Nick? He's been shite. Tbf he has got the Derby players lining up to kick him every time he gets the ball and the ref is just letting them Debatable, been weak and slow to get it under control.....although Huddleston chopped him as I type 😂
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Dec 17, 2018 22:01:05 GMT 1
Well I’ve watched an hour and Lolley, Hef and Malone have all been bab. All those crying for former players need to give their head a shake. Huge difference in class. I love the competitiveness of the Championship but if we do go down I will really miss the quality of football.
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Post by teddytheterrier on Dec 17, 2018 22:26:56 GMT 1
Few ex town at pride park tonight.
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Post by canterburyterrier on Dec 18, 2018 13:08:29 GMT 1
Interview with Lucas Akins from the Times
Burton Albion’s Lucas Akins: the child dancer aiming to lead his side to Wembley Striker Lucas Akins has used ballet and jazz to help him make all the right moves on the pitch, writes Gary Jacob
Lucas Akins recalls the surprised looks when his team-mates discovered that he performed ballet and tap before the Burton Albion forward swapped the stage for the pitch. There is disbelief and curiosity but never the teasing that could be expected in the macho environment of a dressing room. “I am not on the same level as Rio Ferdinand but can you imagine people taking the mick out of him for doing it?” Akins says. Ferdinand attended the Central School of Ballet and gave it up for football as a child; Wimbledon’s “Crazy Gang” team trained with a ballet group and Dion Dublin used ballet techniques to help his recovery from a fractured neck vertebra when he was at Aston Villa. “I don’t strike the lads in the dressing room as the type to dance,” Akins says. “When they find out, they think it is a piss-take. ‘Did he really dance? Is he joking?’ They say, ‘Oh, good on you,’ and ask if and how it has helped me. I excelled in rugby league, basketball and tennis. People just thought I was good at dancing too.” Akins, 29, would accompany his older sister Claudia when she competed at dance events and he decided to join in at the age of four. He was hooked on Fame, the television show, and would pretend to be Gregg Burge, the late dancer and choreographer who played Richie in the musical A Chorus Line.
Akins discovered that he was a talented dancer and enrolled at the Audrey Spencer School of Dance in Huddersfield and completed his examinations in tap, modern, jazz and ballet. He competed in dance contests around the country and took on roles such as the Child Catcher, who snatched and imprisoned children in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Doctor Foster in the nursery rhyme of that name. He performed in Aladdin at the Victoria Theatre, Halifax, and in Singin’ in the Rain at Leeds Playhouse, where he played one of two brothers alongside Rohan Pinnock-Hamilton, who has since appeared in West End shows and ITV’s Dance Dance Dance.
“My dance teacher, Miss Spencer, was nice but hard,” he says. “She would be on at me so everything was polished. I was a lot more nervous in dancing than football as mostly you were on the stage by yourself. In a troupe, if you put one step wrong you could mess up the whole thing. Football is off the cuff and you play what you see. Dancing helped me with pressure, my core strength, balance and discipline. Dancers are deceptively strong. I liked modern and was quite good at jazz as I felt I could express myself.”
During an appearance in pantomime in Halifax, word spread incorrectly that he was the son of Rhino from Gladiators, the popular ITV show. “I played along and when my stepdad came to collect me I told everyone he was my bodyguard,” he says.
Akins would juggle practising his moves based on classic films of the 1950s and 1960s with his skills on the pitch at Huddersfield Town’s academy, sometimes rushing between venues on the same night. The crunch came at 16 when he needed to commit to one of the pursuits. At the time he was studying at Newsome High School, a specialist sports college, and making occasional coach trips to Highbury with Arsenal’s Yorkshire supporters’ club.
“As I got older I knew football would be the winner,” he says. “In one of my last competitions I became more conscious about dressing up in certain outfits to get in character and thought that now is the time where I want to call it a day and concentrate on football. It was not embarrassing but I just grew out of it. I was obsessed by football and I was not obsessed by dancing. I’d watch videos of Thierry Henry and the Brazilian forward Ronaldo, not dancers. That is probably why I fell out of love with dance.
“My dance teacher said I should stick at it as I might fancy doing it down the line but my mind was made up. I am not sure how far I would have gone with dancing. One of my mum’s mantras was to follow your dream and do as much as possible to see what we like.”
The costumes, ballet shoes, videos and gold medals from festivals are stored at his mother’s home in Huddersfield. Genevieve, 53, was born in Grenada and moved to England when she was four. She worked as a teaching assistant and Lucas was the youngest of her three children with Tim Akins from the Caribbean island of Carriacou. His parents separated when he was young and his mother got together with Mark Faulkner, 55, a financial adviser.
Akins’ brother Nathaniel won a basketball scholarship to Lake Forest Academy in Chicago, where he lived with Luol Deng, the British professional player who was at Chicago Bulls at the time. Nathaniel, 30, went on to play for Manchester Magic and Sheffield Sharks. His sister Claudia, 34, danced at Disneyland in Paris, then retrained to become a counsellor. His daughters Orlaith, two, and four-year-old Arabella have followed him in to dancing. He performed with Orlaith at a Christmas event last year. “When I looked at her on stage it was like my mum looking at me all those years ago,” he says.
Akins moved to Burton in 2014, was top league scorer in each of their subsequent two promotions to the Sky Bet Championship and voted supporters’ player of the year and players’ player of the year last season. He scored the winning goal away to Shrewsbury Town in the Carabao Cup first round and when he began at left back in the 3-2 win over Nottingham Forest in the fourth round, it meant that he had started for the club in every outfield position.
He is expected to captain the mid-table League One team in their quarter-final away to Middlesbrough tonight. “Why can’t we reach the semi-finals?” he says. “You have to dream.”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 13:25:55 GMT 1
We could benefit from a Nutcracker in our defence......bit more aggro......:-)
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Post by Nickhudds.UTT on Dec 20, 2018 14:27:48 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2018 15:00:46 GMT 1
Do you think he chose that haircut to distract from his ears?
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Post by Frederick on Dec 20, 2018 23:11:01 GMT 1
7 years ago today apparently when Jordan scored 4 at the Massive. Legend has it the fan points founder Sunflower managed to attend, arrive late, leave early, and miss all 4 Town goals. I got caught in a jam.....2-2 when I got in. Worth it to see the injury time equaliser....only had about 4 of them in 50 years a Town fan.
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Post by Headless Chicken on Dec 21, 2018 0:22:23 GMT 1
Do you think he chose that haircut to distract from his ears? Is so, didn't work 😂 He was a postie around at least Birkenshaw after. Different times!!!
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Post by Frankiesleftpeg on Dec 21, 2018 0:41:07 GMT 1
Do you think he chose that haircut to distract from his ears? Is so, didn't work 😂 He was a postie around at least Birkenshaw after. Different times!!! A local lad from Roberttown and a big Town fan
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Post by philincalifornia on Dec 21, 2018 1:05:11 GMT 1
Is so, didn't work 😂 He was a postie around at least Birkenshaw after. Different times!!! A local lad from Roberttown and a big Town fan I sometimes wondered if he was a Bobtown boy, but never asked. Is he Roger Trevitt's lad? Roger grew up as kid in a house right at the top of Roberttown rec.
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Post by Frankiesleftpeg on Dec 21, 2018 1:22:29 GMT 1
A local lad from Roberttown and a big Town fan I sometimes wondered if he was a Bobtown boy, but never asked. Is he Roger Trevitt's lad? Roger grew up as kid in a house right at the top of Roberttown rec. I don't know Simon personally but he's a mate of a mate of mine (Gary Richardson, whose Dad used to be landlord of the New Inn).
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Post by philincalifornia on Dec 21, 2018 1:59:03 GMT 1
I sometimes wondered if he was a Bobtown boy, but never asked. Is he Roger Trevitt's lad? Roger grew up as kid in a house right at the top of Roberttown rec. I don't know Simon personally but he's a mate of a mate of mine (Gary Richardson, whose Dad used to be landlord of the New Inn). Cheers mate. Always nice to hear about the centre of the known universe, where I started out as a two-day old sprog.
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Post by Galpharmer on Dec 21, 2018 2:07:35 GMT 1
I don't know Simon personally but he's a mate of a mate of mine (Gary Richardson, whose Dad used to be landlord of the New Inn). Cheers mate. Always nice to hear about the centre of the known universe, where I started out as a two-day old sprog. He’s got a brother that played cricket for Liversedge, Jonny I think.
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Post by Doc Halladay 32 on Dec 21, 2018 2:19:24 GMT 1
Cheers mate. Always nice to hear about the centre of the known universe, where I started out as a two-day old sprog. He’s got a brother that played cricket for Liversedge, Jonny I think. I always thought that Jonny was the better footballer of the two.
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Post by Essex Terrier on Dec 21, 2018 9:25:42 GMT 1
On BBC web site today... "Nottingham Forest boss Aitor Karanka has told English winger Joe Lolley, 26, to focus on maintaining his improvement - and not to concern himself with transfer speculation or potential contract talks. (Nottingham Post)" He's coming home, he's coming home...... etc?
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Post by ilsonterrier on Dec 21, 2018 17:35:19 GMT 1
Well, Martin McIntosh didn't last long as Manager of Ilkeston Town, so they've now appointed Lee Fowler as their new manager. He's put some weight on since he played for us - I didn't recognise him in the photo on the club website.
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