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Oh Dear

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ernest

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Just glanced at the Dave Seddon twitter page and there is a link to an LEP article about a reunion event for former players. Find it yourself if you want - I won't provide it. I have got to say I wouldn't recognise any of them as they are now but they all looked happy enough which I suppose is the main thing. My old dad - a great North Ender now passed from this life - always rated Mike Elwiss.
 
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John Smith, Roy Tunks, Alex Bruce, Ricky Thomson and Mike Elwiss from the 77/78 promotion side

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Eric Potts and Eric Snookes
 
ernest said:
Just glanced at the Dave Seddon twitter page and there is a link to an LEP article about a reunion event for former players. Find it yourself if you want - I won't provide it. I have got to say I wouldn't recognise any of them as they are now but they all looked happy enough which I suppose is the main thing. My old dad - a great North Ender now passed from this life - always rated Mike Elwiss.
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Quite an odd post with an even odder thread title.
 
ernest said:
Just glanced at the Dave Seddon twitter page and there is a link to an LEP article about a reunion event for former players. Find it yourself if you want - I won't provide it. I have got to say I wouldn't recognise any of them as they are now but they all looked happy enough which I suppose is the main thing. My old dad - a great North Ender now passed from this life - always rated Mike Elwiss.
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Your dad was spot on ernest. Elwiss was a quality player possibly overshadowed at the time by Alex Bruce’s goal scoring exploits
 
Some familiar faces from when I first started going on PNE.. Considering that was 40 years ago, they all look well. Didn't see enough of Elwiss unfortunately & recall him returning on loan to PNE post serious injury & he wasn't quite the player he once was. Bruce was my first ever PNE idol. I find the OP & the title of this thread odd
 
Jack Daniels said:
Quite an odd post with an even odder thread title.
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I am just joking that it is a bit dismaying to see what time has done to people we once supported as PNE players - I would have thought that was obvious. But it was Monday morning when I did so and we can all be a bit slow on the uptake then. Nevertheless they are still heroes who will always be able to say that they played for Preston North End.
 
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buckshawwhite said:
I find the OP & the title of this thread odd
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As explained above perhaps I should have entitled the thread 'Oh Dear - What Time Does'. But then I suppose it does it to all of us. Anyhow we start the run up to a game in the present and this time next week we will have that to talk about.
 
Elwiss was class before going to Palace. Every throwing was thrown to his feet. He was the best shielded of the ball i’ve Ever seen. We played Palace when he was there, at Deepdale, and were 2-1 up with minutes to go. Think he scored twice to beat us. Great partnership with Bruce. As we had Robinson after him going don’t think fans were quite so unhappy
 
PNEinGranby said:
We played Palace when he was there, at Deepdale, and were 2-1 up with minutes to go. Think he scored twice to beat us........
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Yes, I remember that well... It ruined my Saturday night back in the day ( 1978 )

Lots of Palace fans in sheepskin coats looking for bother after the game...........
 
Ando60 said:
Yes, I remember that well... It ruined my Saturday night back in the day ( 1978 )

Lots of Palace fans in sheepskin coats looking for bother after the game...........
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Ando please note - Other ex-players to attend included Mel Tottoh. 😀
 
Sid Snot said:
Ando please note - Other ex-players to attend included Mel Tottoh. 😀
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You've only had to play for the youth team/reserves i think and you qualify to be a member. Bit like these PNE legends teams they put out where the majority of players never made the first team
 
Aitch said:
You've only had to play for the youth team/reserves i think and you qualify to be a member. Bit like these PNE legends teams they put out where the majority of players never made the first team
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"In 1985, Tottoh, a former radio officer in the Merchant Navy, was working for British Aerospace at Warton and playing as a forward for Preston North End's reserve team on a non-contract basis. Prior to a Fourth Division game against Scunthorpe United, originally scheduled for the evening of Tuesday 5 November, the first-team squad was badly affected by injuries, and Tottoh was called on to make up the numbers. Because the floodlights at the Deepdale ground had been condemned as unsafe, the game was re-arranged to kick-off at 2pm, so Tottoh left work early and cycled to the ground to take his place on the bench. Only 2007 supporters turned up, making it Preston North End's lowest ever league attendance. Tottoh came on as substitute as Preston lost the match 1–0, and never played in the Football League again, though he did play for non-league clubs Accrington Stanley and Netherfield, where he was player-coach."

I remember it well; good on him :thumbsup:
 
Ando60 said:
Yes, I remember that well... It ruined my Saturday night back in the day ( 1978 )

Lots of Palace fans in sheepskin coats looking for bother after the game...........
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Aye,so do I.
funny how you can go from near demi-God adulation to seething hatred for a player and then back again later.
Remember the sheepskin coats, wtf was that all about??
 
PNEinGranby said:
Elwiss was class before going to Palace.
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I was a school boy living at Doncaster and sold Golden Goal tickets whenever Rovers played at home so I'd earn a few pence and get into the game free and Mike Ellwiss played for then having come through the youth ranks, he was only a few years older than me and I met him a couple of times (he went to Danum Grammer which was about half a mile from where I went). I remember the day he signed for us, the placard outside the local newsagents read "Ellwiss signs for Preston", it upset the Rovers fans but I was right chuffed as I had always enjoyed watching him at Bell Vue and he was my favourite player whilst at Deepdale.
 
I went to Bell Vue (is that the correct spelling NW?) in the early 80s. Been to The Keepmoat now as well.
 
Tark said:
I went to Bell Vue (is that the correct spelling NW?) in the early 80s. Been to The Keepmoat now as well.
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Belle.

I followed Mike Elwiss' career playing for Doncaster before we signed him. Chuffed to bits when he did sign.
 
Sid Snot said:
Belle.

I followed Mike Elwiss' career playing for Doncaster before we signed him. Chuffed to bits when he did sign.
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Belle View has more stanchions than Sydney Harbour Bridge - was like watching from a jail
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Remember one time parked my car in broad daylight then couldn’t find it in the dark! Wandered the streets for ages before finding it . At least I think it was mine - started first time like.
 
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