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Jack Daniels said:
Shaky passed away on Sunday afternoon @Ando60. I was working that Sunday night. Buzzer phoned me at 2130 just as I was about to fuel up to break the awful news to me. I thought it was a joke at 1st with a punchline coming. It simply didn't compute with me for around 10 seconds.

I always remember it was FA Cup 3rd Round Day and Paul Scholes had come out of retirement to play for United that afternoon. Funny what you remember.
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He was found early Sunday afternoon. I got the call about 8pm. Remember it clear as day, right down to what I was wearing and the fact I had text him about 2 hours previously asking him, funnily enough, about a house up in Ulverton that a friend was looking at.

I rang Gill, John, Danny. They then cascaded the messages down. I turned my phone off, grabbed a bottle of gin and cried.
 
Bint said:
He was found early Sunday afternoon. I got the call about 8pm. Remember it clear as day, right down to what I was wearing and the fact I had text him about 2 hours previously asking him, funnily enough, about a house up in Ulverton that a friend was looking at.

I rang Gill, John, Danny. They then cascaded the messages down. I turned my phone off, grabbed a bottle of gin and cried.
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Yeah, I actually called you from Ulverston and suggested that we travel up by train - a reverse of his own match day journey to Deepdale - for the funeral.

Will always remember the bloke selling the train tickets commenting that the Ulverston train was busy today, it is usually quiet. Around 15 of us went?
 
Never knew him apart from his posts on here. We had the same opinions on a lot of things, disagreed on others. Whether it was his posts on Teffers and his triple salcos, his 'well done Derek' comments, him inducting people into the elite thicko club etc, he certainly added a lot to this forum and to others away from it.

I'd have loved to have met him for a beer or 2 that's for sure.
 
I was still relatively new to this community, having joined 18 months before. He basically introduced me to swearing at strangers online 😁.

Have said it before but I remember him as a really interesting character, who had a ridiculous view of Andy Lonergan! Massive rows but at the same time we would be PMing each other sharing advice about holiday destinations.
 
Jack Daniels said:
Yeah, I actually called you from Ulverston and suggested that we travel up by train - a reverse of his own match day journey to Deepdale - for the funeral.

Will always remember the bloke selling the train tickets commenting that the Ulverston train was busy today, it is usually quiet. Around 15 of us went?
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There was a lot of us I know that much. All in football shirts-no black.

And I stood on the table in that pub to give his ‘football’ eulogy.
 
Bint said:
He was found early Sunday afternoon. I got the call about 8pm. Remember it clear as day, right down to what I was wearing and the fact I had text him about 2 hours previously asking him, funnily enough, about a house up in Ulverton that a friend was looking at.

I rang Gill, John, Danny. They then cascaded the messages down. I turned my phone off, grabbed a bottle of gin and cried.
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Apologies Katie, it must have been Sunday night when I read the post …..
 
Never met the guy but exchanged plenty of messages.. thank fully we agreed more than we disagreed
Terrific verbal battles and he was brilliant on the "terrorist sheep" thread.
Occupied Lancashire.. north lancs jihad... that fish that had never evolved in 500 million years.
Safe to say he was/is a legend of the forum.
I like to think he would have been a no nonsense voice of sanity over the last two years.
Very sad that he isn't still giving as good as he got here.
Lets be honest the forum hasn't been the same since.
 
I never met him in person , used to read his posts and could only imagine what kind of person sat behind the keyboard as I suppose we do with most , you could tell he was quick witted and knowledgeable , Shaky , Voldemort and the forum member who had those bouncing knockers kept me reading !! …
Sadly missed a real character, those who knew him must have wonderful memories
 
Mortis said:
I never met him in person , used to read his posts and could only imagine what kind of person sat behind the keyboard as I suppose we do with most , you could tell he was quick witted and knowledgeable , Shaky , Voldemort and the forum member who had those bouncing knockers kept me reading !! …
Sadly missed a real character, those who knew him must have wonderful memories
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Bouncing knockers, was that DirkPNEmouse?
 
Gosh is it that long since we lost Shaky. I never met him but there must have been times when we shared the same space more likely at away matches than at our place. I used to have little run-ins with him here about was it David Lucas or Andy Lonergan - I think the latter - whom he didn't really rate but who I was always happy as I told him to see was keeping for us. I have sometimes wondered what he might say if as someone surmised here Lonergan returned as goalkeeping coach. But let's hope the lads can do something today to mark the anniversary of Shaky's passing in the manner he would appreciate.
 
I didn’t know Shaky personally, but I loved his observations, especially on Lonergan. My favourite though, was when someone called him vile, but unfortunately, for them, spelt it vial. Needless to say, they received an invite to the Elite Thickos Club.
Below is a photo of an away match at Gillingham, August 1997. I'm on there and I remember someone saying Shaky was just behind me. RIP Shaky.
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janiejones said:
I didn’t know Shaky personally, but I loved his observations, especially on Lonergan. My favourite though, was when someone called him vile, but unfortunately, for them, spelt it vial. Needless to say, they received an invite to the Elite Thickos Club.
Below is a photo of an away match at Gillingham, August 1997. I'm on there and I remember someone saying Shaky was just behind me. RIP Shaky.View attachment 5774
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Which one is you Janie ? Red Baxi shirt or Glasses ??
 
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