menstonterrier
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Post by menstonterrier on Oct 2, 2021 8:43:06 GMT 1
Allan and his wife are one of four families that are taking part in a new series about dementia.
Dementia and us BBC2. Tuesday. 9.00
Sure to be a sad, thought provoking set of programmes.
Just remember the hat trick he scored against Middlesbrough in the 6-0 win about 1965. Too young t(en to recall anything else more specific.
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Post by Macduff on Oct 2, 2021 9:15:48 GMT 1
I was there for the 6-0 Otley, like you I remember the game but not the details. Good player, but then as a young lad I think we all gravitated in those days to a centre forward. Find programmes on dementia not an easy watch,family reasons, so not sure if I will catch them.
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Post by Rigodon on Oct 2, 2021 9:22:32 GMT 1
Worked with him for a year or two, a few years ago now. Absolutely smashing bloke Gilly. Formidable. Be difficult to watch that.
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Post by griffa on Oct 2, 2021 9:36:49 GMT 1
Allan and his wife are one of four families that are taking part in a new series about dementia. Dementia and us BBC2. Tuesday. 9.00 Sure to be a sad, thought provoking set of programmes. Just remember the hat trick he scored against Middlesbrough in the 6-0 win about 1965. Too young t(en to recall anything else more specific. Will never forget that stunning Town performance, Allan Gilliver became my favourite player. Was very disappointed when we sold him to Blackburn Rovers. He looked to be the type of young we needed, will watch the programme, good luck to him & his family.
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Post by lochnessterrier on Oct 2, 2021 11:00:21 GMT 1
Allan and his wife are one of four families that are taking part in a new series about dementia. Dementia and us BBC2. Tuesday. 9.00 Sure to be a sad, thought provoking set of programmes. Just remember the hat trick he scored against Middlesbrough in the 6-0 win about 1965. Too young t(en to recall anything else more specific. Will never forget that stunning Town performance, Allan Gilliver became my favourite player. Was very disappointed when we sold him to Blackburn Rovers. He looked to be the type of young we needed, will watch the programme, good luck to him & his family. To rub salt into the wound we subsequently had to pay back a substantial proportion of the transfer fee after they discovered some sort of an injury. I was also extremely angry much later when some cocky TV interviewer gave Gilly a roasting about lack of safety at the newly rebuilt stand at Bradford following the fire. No doubt he was conned into giving the interview without any warning of what was to come.
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Post by araucaria on Oct 2, 2021 11:15:08 GMT 1
I have what is probably a false memory of Gilliver standing on the ball on the opposition's goal-line at the Bradley Mills end, just a second or two, before putting it in the net.
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Post by bluemond on Oct 2, 2021 12:45:41 GMT 1
Was this a night match? If so I’m sure I was there in the open end as an 8 year old. I can remember quite a lot of blokes wearing Red and White scarves around me .
Was this the game that Gilly crashed one in off the crossbar and it seemed to be still shuddering 5 minutes later?
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Post by Walton-on-the-Hill Terrier on Oct 2, 2021 12:57:27 GMT 1
Was this a night match? If so I’m sure I was there in the open end as an 8 year old. I can remember quite a lot of blokes wearing Red and White scarves around me . Was this the game that Gilly crashed one in off the crossbar and it seemed to be still shuddering 5 minutes later? The game v Middlesbrough when Town win 6-0 was on a Saturday. I remember it very well even though I wasn’t there because I passed outside the ground just as the game finished and the crowd spilled out, as I was going home from a cub camp, and someone told us the score. Ironically, my first ever game was the season before on 30 Mar 1965, also against Middlesbrough, and that WAS a night match, but only ended 1-0 to Town.
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Post by lindley62 on Oct 2, 2021 13:36:10 GMT 1
I was there for the 6-0 Otley, like you I remember the game but not the details. Good player, but then as a young lad I think we all gravitated in those days to a centre forward. Find programmes on dementia not an easy watch,family reasons, so not sure if I will catch them. I was there too that day and I seem to remember Les Massie scored the other three goals.
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Post by townian on Oct 2, 2021 13:41:35 GMT 1
Yes, both Gilliver and Massie got hat-tricks that afternoon. Massie also got one in the return fixture that season. I can’t imagine many have done that. Gilliver got 18 goals that year as we just missed out on promotion.
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Post by Stewpot on Oct 2, 2021 14:12:58 GMT 1
I became good friends with Gilly and his wife Margaret when he took on the steward/groundsman/player role at Brighouse Cricket Club after finishing his playing career. He played in our Brighouse Sunday league football team along with his mate Bobby Ham. After leaving he took up a position at Bradford City. I think he appeared in a Sport Relief film a few years ago highlighting his condition. Sad outcome for him, wish him and his family all the best.
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Post by orinoco on Oct 2, 2021 17:16:45 GMT 1
Will certainly watch that, my grandad had dimentia.
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Post by nibor on Oct 3, 2021 20:19:48 GMT 1
It was the first Town match I ever saw aged 8! I also seem to recall that Alan was lodging just along the road from where we lived in Marsh together with John Rudge.
Dementia is indeed a cruel disease in particular for the family.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2021 8:58:41 GMT 1
Allan and his wife are one of four families that are taking part in a new series about dementia. Dementia and us BBC2. Tuesday. 9.00 Sure to be a sad, thought provoking set of programmes. Just remember the hat trick he scored against Middlesbrough in the 6-0 win about 1965. Too young t(en to recall anything else more specific. Will never forget that stunning Town performance, Allan Gilliver became my favourite player. Was very disappointed when we sold him to Blackburn Rovers. He looked to be the type of young we needed, will watch the programme, good luck to him & his family. Good cricketer as well
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Post by skeggyterrier on Oct 5, 2021 11:10:59 GMT 1
Allan Gilliver was the first player I saw score a goal for Town (against Charlton) in a 1-1 draw, think it was 1966, following a 1-0 loss at Swansea and a 0-0 draw at Villa. He immediately became my favourite player.
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Post by Stewpot on Oct 5, 2021 21:22:56 GMT 1
Tough watch is this, Gilly poor bloke, and the young lad with early onset dementia through a hereditary gene. At least my mum got to nearly 92 with her alzheimers.
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Post by York Terrier on Oct 5, 2021 21:49:01 GMT 1
Was this a night match? If so I’m sure I was there in the open end as an 8 year old. I can remember quite a lot of blokes wearing Red and White scarves around me . Was this the game that Gilly crashed one in off the crossbar and it seemed to be still shuddering 5 minutes later? The game v Middlesbrough when Town win 6-0 was on a Saturday. I remember it very well even though I wasn’t there because I passed outside the ground just as the game finished and the crowd spilled out, as I was going home from a cub camp, and someone told us the score. Ironically, my first ever game was the season before on 30 Mar 1965, also against Middlesbrough, and that WAS a night match, but only ended 1-0 to Town. Les Massie got 3 and Gilliver got 3
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Post by Walton-on-the-Hill Terrier on Oct 5, 2021 21:53:02 GMT 1
The game v Middlesbrough when Town win 6-0 was on a Saturday. I remember it very well even though I wasn’t there because I passed outside the ground just as the game finished and the crowd spilled out, as I was going home from a cub camp, and someone told us the score. Ironically, my first ever game was the season before on 30 Mar 1965, also against Middlesbrough, and that WAS a night match, but only ended 1-0 to Town. Les Massie got 3 and Gilliver got 3 Yes, I know. Massie was also the scorer in my first game v Middlesbrough the season before.
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Post by togterrier on Oct 6, 2021 0:10:47 GMT 1
Tough watch is this, Gilly poor bloke, and the young lad with early onset dementia through a hereditary gene. At least my mum got to nearly 92 with her alzheimers. Missed it Stew as I was at the Shay (one hell of a match by the way, Shaymen 2-0 down and then had a man sent off for pushing a NC player on the chest who’d late tackled him. Said player pretended it was his head - just cheating and not even booked for his bad foul🤪) Anyhow, 3 great goals, the winner in the 10th and final minute of added time👍👍 Shaymen now 3rd and home on Saturday. I’d recommend it to everyone with no Town match. Will probably watch the dementia programme this week. Always tougher when it’s somebody you know/knew well. Dave Worthington was at the Shay tonight - chatted to him about Frank’s dementia and the cruelty of the disease. Just terrible.
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Post by lochnessterrier on Oct 6, 2021 0:17:48 GMT 1
That was hard to watch. Poor Gilly is in a pretty bad way now sadly.
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Post by orinoco on Oct 6, 2021 0:35:45 GMT 1
I recorded it will watch it a later date.
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Post by westislandterrier on Oct 6, 2021 0:38:15 GMT 1
That was hard to watch. Poor Gilly is in a pretty bad way now sadly. Very sad and probably one of the reasons I chickened out of watching is that a guy that was like a second daddy to me after my dad separated from my maw has it.. I’ve not seen him since pre Covid lockdown but ask his grandson across the road about his well-being and he says there are days he doesn’t know if it’s New year or New York and that it’s very distressing for the family to witness. I’ve my fond memories of great times with him and he was really good to me, and I’ve not seen him since the onset of his diagnosis, but it must be so difficult to deal with. Thoughts with Allan and his loved ones and maybe one day and all that... some sort of cure or anything to progress help to make things a wee bit more bearable.
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Post by orinoco on Oct 6, 2021 1:01:23 GMT 1
That was hard to watch. Poor Gilly is in a pretty bad way now sadly. Very sad and probably one of the reasons I chickened out of watching is that a guy that was like a second daddy to me after my dad separated from my maw has it.. I’ve not seen him since pre Covid lockdown but ask his grandson across the road about his well-being and he says there are days he doesn’t know if it’s New year or New York and that it’s very distressing for the family to witness. I’ve my fond memories of great times with him and he was really good to me, and I’ve not seen him since the onset of his diagnosis, but it must be so difficult to deal with. Thoughts with Allan and his loved ones and maybe one day and all that... some sort of cure or anything to progress help to make things a wee bit more bearable. Is a horrible illness, my grandad died from it 1985, he used to think my sister was my mum, and my mum my sister. He didnt have a clue who i was. Wouldnt wish it on any family.
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Post by Marshleeds on Oct 9, 2021 9:49:13 GMT 1
Tough watch is this, Gilly poor bloke, and the young lad with early onset dementia through a hereditary gene. At least my mum got to nearly 92 with her alzheimers. Just watched first episode this morning, a really hard watch as expected. Remember Allan Gilliver only just as a footballer from a very young age, remember him more for connections to Brighouse Cricket mid-late 1970’s when I used to watch games at Brighouse Cricket Club on Sunny Summer Saturdays and even help out in the Scoreboard with my mate whose Dad also played back then. My Dad suffered also with this very swiftly and passed away in 2013 so this was very close to home. The others featured also resonated, informative but painful watch.
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