Glorious memories when the idea of clicking a button on your computer to watch any game was a mere dream.
I'll always remember Hutchy as refusing under almost any circumstance to tell you what the current score was. A fitting punishment for not tuning in on time.
Yes. There was once a clip online somewhere. I rue the day I didn’t somehow save it.
Some of his commentaries were pretty much stream of consciousness stuff about commercial things or old time characters. I remember him once waxing on mid-match about something that was on in the Vere Suite and suddenly pronouncing ‘Oh, Shrewsbury have scored’.
Yep Clint Easton, maybe 3-5-2 doesn't translate well on paper ( or i'm not describing it correctly) to what i was thinking in my head ill attach an image. No wing back just a packed midfield.
So often all I heard him telling an anecdote on one subject or another with Mark Westhead (or similar) chuckling in the background and then suddenly he would shout 'oh - it's a goal!'. Sometimes another two or three minutes would elapse before I could work out which team had scored. Had to give up listening to the commentaries in the end.
Hutch was an absolute player. Knew what he was doing and had the self-effacing charm to get away with it.
Remember standing at a call box in Leeds shovelling £1 coins in an effort to get some idea of what to expect from our first game in the football league at Carlisle. At least £3 went in just to hear him him banging on about prize draws and the like! We spent over about £7 in all and that was the era of the £1.30 pint.
39p a minute in the early 90s. Puts the £4.50 a month for Wanderers TV into some perspective.
I did suspect that might be a marmite selection, hand on heart i have no connection/relation to Easton! As you say all opinions and that's half the fun of football, even if i might seem a bit mad with that one.
It was still very early days but a few people were talking about him as the "key".
I assume you know the rest of the story, absolute tragedy all round, and shouldn't be forgotten a totally innocent lady was taken from the incident as well.
I remember when Philo broke his ankle in pre season at Adams Park, I think it was Middlesboro or Portsmouth I get in a muddle. It was the guy that played up front for both of them, total accident.
I heard once that Philo was Tysons cousin, not certain if true or not.
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That and a "Dear oh lore" on rotation please
Glorious memories when the idea of clicking a button on your computer to watch any game was a mere dream.
I'll always remember Hutchy as refusing under almost any circumstance to tell you what the current score was. A fitting punishment for not tuning in on time.
In terms of XI this would be my pick, in a 3-5-2
Taylor
Williamson Mawson Easton
Saunders Scowen Doherty Brown Currie
Easter Tyson
Was that from the Man City league game
Can we get one with "that's a pig if you're a Rovers fan" made up for the Brizzle home game?
Yes. There was once a clip online somewhere. I rue the day I didn’t somehow save it.
Some of his commentaries were pretty much stream of consciousness stuff about commercial things or old time characters. I remember him once waxing on mid-match about something that was on in the Vere Suite and suddenly pronouncing ‘Oh, Shrewsbury have scored’.
A definite legend anyway.
2 wingbacks who never played those positions for us, and Clint Easton, our left back from the gormania years?
Have you done a Sid Cann flag for tonight?
I’m sure this kind of thing changes every time I pick one but:
Taylor
Senda Mawson Johnson Jacobson
McCleary Scowen Doherty Guppy
Akinfenwa Tyson
In the interests of historic accuracy the quote was “that’s an absolute pig if you’re a Rovers fan”
Yep Clint Easton, maybe 3-5-2 doesn't translate well on paper ( or i'm not describing it correctly) to what i was thinking in my head ill attach an image. No wing back just a packed midfield.
... and you've also got to articulate it in a broad Bristolian accent to get the full effect.
So often all I heard him telling an anecdote on one subject or another with Mark Westhead (or similar) chuckling in the background and then suddenly he would shout 'oh - it's a goal!'. Sometimes another two or three minutes would elapse before I could work out which team had scored. Had to give up listening to the commentaries in the end.
Hutchy is a legend back from the days smarmy PR / social media types didn't exist and it was all honestly amateur and people doing their best.
If I didn't know better I'd say Hutchy intentionally never told anyone the score, it was his in joke.
It seems like a different lifetime ago that anyone would actually ring a phone line to hear him spiel the latest news.
"I'm Alan Hutchy and YOU'RE ringing the blues".
Hutch was an absolute player. Knew what he was doing and had the self-effacing charm to get away with it.
Remember standing at a call box in Leeds shovelling £1 coins in an effort to get some idea of what to expect from our first game in the football league at Carlisle. At least £3 went in just to hear him him banging on about prize draws and the like! We spent over about £7 in all and that was the era of the £1.30 pint.
39p a minute in the early 90s. Puts the £4.50 a month for Wanderers TV into some perspective.
Man, I used to dread the day the telephone bill would land to reveal my RITBs habit.
And at least you can rematch the Wanderers tv coverage repeatedly.
Imagine missing a key part of the aringing the Blues message and having to redial.
All opinions of course, but Clint Easton?
Haha, I thought exactly the same !
I did suspect that might be a marmite selection, hand on heart i have no connection/relation to Easton! As you say all opinions and that's half the fun of football, even if i might seem a bit mad with that one.
In the gormania team, Easton felt like the weak shoehorned link.
So unless you appreciated his Indie kid look and suaveness, it certainly is the strangest pick from that team.
Real question this...I started coming to AP after the Philo incident. Had he had a chance to play very much and was he good?
Better than good @Wendoverman He was clearly going on to play at a much higher level similar to Phillips IMO of course.
Yes, I think if Mark Philo had continued on the trajectory he was on he’d have had a good career in the top two divisions, and be a Wycombe legend.
Thanks, for replies. A great shame then.
It was still very early days but a few people were talking about him as the "key".
I assume you know the rest of the story, absolute tragedy all round, and shouldn't be forgotten a totally innocent lady was taken from the incident as well.
@Malone Yes, I remember all the coverage. Very sad and a waste all round.
I remember when Philo broke his ankle in pre season at Adams Park, I think it was Middlesboro or Portsmouth I get in a muddle. It was the guy that played up front for both of them, total accident.
I heard once that Philo was Tysons cousin, not certain if true or not.
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