New owner confirmed…

[rovertiger]

Is rovertiger short-sighted?

 

[The Omega Man]

Good story that. John Cooper was the groundsman at the time. He called a game off just after Christmas at that time, could have been on New Years Day, but a decent crowd was expected. The game was called off two days earlier on the pre text of 'a frozen pitch' The day the match should have taken place was one of the mildest days in winter for years, bright sunshine, no coat weather. But the game was called off to stop the Sheffield Mafia getting their hands on some decent gate money.

I posted off memory and whilst recall it as being the club owners, I can remember the manager saying can you do a repo on a football stadium, I said not by myself I would need a team to check the place and he said don’t worry, it’s an inside job. If I had put a team in instead of £100 I could have got around a grand.
We often got tester jobs. Ie being asked to do something that was difficult just to see if you had it in you. Stuff like getting sent to clear 50 traveller caravans off land by yourself. Say “no” and you would be given **** work in shot areas. I generally always said yes. If you think bailiffs are bastards, bailiff managers are ****ing bastards.

Just a note: I have three scars from sharps, been run over three or four times, poisoned twice, had everything you could imagine thrown at me (including two children). I have been punched, kicked, hit with sticks, iron bars, every type of bat, had five cars written off in one year after people drove into them and have been threatened with injury or death more times than I could count. My very worse time was being locked in a quiche Lorraine bakery after being on the Atkins diet for three months, was well as having a stainless steel tray stuck in my back.

 

[Evington]

I was asked to repossess Boothferry Park.
At the time, the grounds man was staying overnight to prevent it happening. You can’t evict anyone from a commercial property and lease forfeiture has to be peaceable entry.
I was told that the stadium would be empty at around 7:30 as the grounds man went for his tea then.
It would be an easy job as I only had to change one lock.
This was all done with the cooperation of the club owners and it was planned to stop supporters or staff preventing it. There was no surprise and it was all arranged between Lloyd and the club so that a fresh lease could be put in place.
My manager at the time said that I could have the job as it would save them paying for a hotel as if it went wrong I could be there all night. I would have got £100 for it.
I rang me Dad and asked what he thought and he said, “If you do this, don’t forget that, if it gets out, I will not be able to show my face in Greenwood.” I told him I wouldn’t take it on.
I told the office that I didn’t want the job. As a punishment, I got sent to work in Brixton for two months. It probably cost me £3k in bonus.
What happened is that they changed one door lock and one padlock. They didn’t need to even walk round checking every other door or window. A normal job would need every room and every part of the part of the stadium checked. The bailiff who did the job was there for twenty minutes.

Well done your old man

 

[rovertiger]

No, just myopic.

 

[dennisboothstash]

The fans decided at Wembley. Getting booed as you raise the winners trophy. Yes, yes, petty to think of that as my abiding memory of their tenure, but for me, that is their legacy.

That was the only moment I wished I hadn’t boycotted and had gone to Wembley instead.

 

[Plum]

I posted off memory and whilst recall it as being the club owners, I can remember the manager saying can you do a repo on a football stadium, I said not by myself I would need a team to check the place and he said don’t worry, it’s an inside job. If I had put a team in instead of £100 I could have got around a grand.
We often got tester jobs. Ie being asked to do something that was difficult just to see if you had it in you. Stuff like getting sent to clear 50 traveller caravans off land by yourself. Say “no” and you would be given **** work in shot areas. I generally always said yes. If you think bailiffs are bastards, bailiff managers are ****ing bastards.

I've been around the fresh produce business a bit, your bailiff managers sound like they're cut from the same stuff as gangmasters.

 

[The Omega Man]

Well done your old man

See my other post for an explanation of my thoughts. If I did the job, I was ****ed at home, if I didn’t I was ****ed at work.

 

[Mr Hatem]

I've been around the fresh produce business a bit, your bailiff managers sound like they're cut from the same stuff as gangmasters.

Plum sells plums?

 

[SW3 Chelsea Tiger]

I posted off memory and whilst recall it as being the club owners, I can remember the manager saying can you do a repo on a football stadium, I said not by myself I would need a team to check the place and he said don’t worry, it’s an inside job. If I had put a team in instead of £100 I could have got around a grand.
We often got tester jobs. Ie being asked to do something that was difficult just to see if you had it in you. Stuff like getting sent to clear 50 traveller caravans off land by yourself. Say “no” and you would be given **** work in shot areas. I generally always said yes. If you think bailiffs are bastards, bailiff managers are ****ing bastards.

Just a note: I have three scars from sharps, been run over three or four times, poisoned twice, had everything you could imagine thrown at me (including two children). I have been punched, kicked, hit with sticks, iron bars, every type of bat, had five cars written off in one year after people drove into them and have been threatened with injury or death more times than I could count. My very worse time was being locked in a quiche Lorraine bakery after being on the Atkins diet for three months, was well as having a stainless steel tray stuck in my back.

You should write a book it would be a great read

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

Plum sells plums?

So you’re changing yours to
Mr bums goats?

 

[Newlandcasual2]

You should right a book it would be a great read

Yeah as long as he doesn't give out his address

 

[Charon]

I posted off memory and whilst recall it as being the club owners, I can remember the manager saying can you do a repo on a football stadium, I said not by myself I would need a team to check the place and he said don’t worry, it’s an inside job. If I had put a team in instead of £100 I could have got around a grand.
We often got tester jobs. Ie being asked to do something that was difficult just to see if you had it in you. Stuff like getting sent to clear 50 traveller caravans off land by yourself. Say “no” and you would be given **** work in shot areas. I generally always said yes. If you think bailiffs are bastards, bailiff managers are ****ing bastards.

Just a note: I have three scars from sharps, been run over three or four times, poisoned twice, had everything you could imagine thrown at me (including two children). I have been punched, kicked, hit with sticks, iron bars, every type of bat, had five cars written off in one year after people drove into them and have been threatened with injury or death more times than I could count. My very worse time was being locked in a quiche Lorraine bakery after being on the Atkins diet for three months, was well as having a stainless steel tray stuck in my back.

try doing work study with the women on the Nivea line at Smith and Nephew - that's how you earn your stripes

 

[springtiger]

try doing work study with the women on the Nivea line at Smith and Nephew - that's how you earn your stripes

Went to a factory on Suttonfields 15-30 years ago doing airplane livery for Virgin , full of women machinists , manager I met told me he had to escort me across the factory for my own safety ! I might have taken my chances !!!!

 

[rovertiger]

When I worked on fish dock and went into a factory for the first time, now that is definitly an experience. My face was burning for the rest of the day I blushed so hard and I was a married man at the time.
Those women didn't take prisoners.

 

[The Omega Man]

Yeah as long as he doesn't give out his address

Never hidden that.
Not much point in hiding as I mainly worked in the same area as I live. My wife is well known in the local school.
Besides, I never have had an ego or thought at any time that I was better, bigger or harder than anyone. It just takes a lot to scare me. My mates always said I would make a good firefighter as I could stay calm in tough situations.
In over 20 years I never removed anything from a house. Never had to.
The only things that really scare me are when a druggie has a needle pointing at me. **** that. Knife, I can deal with, gun, not much point in being scared, if they haven’t shot you straight away, the chances are that they will either miss or not do it. Oh and rigger boots, forgot them, someone once put a pair on and told me he was going to break my legs, he got as far as my van and then I drove over his foot. But he scared me good and proper.

 

[balkan tiger]

When I worked on fish dock and went into a factory for the first time, now that is definitly an experience. My face was burning for the rest of the day I blushed so hard and I was a married man at the time.
Those women didn't take prisoners.

Ah the patty slappers, they knew the game

 

[gtigerbackin hull]

When I worked on fish dock and went into a factory for the first time, now that is definitly an experience. My face was burning for the rest of the day I blushed so hard and I was a married man at the time.
Those women didn't take prisoners.

Similar story 1960, I was 15 yrs old working on Fish Dock, the boss told me to tell the Female Net Braiders ( on piece work ) that they were not putting enough detail on their worksheets, as you can imagine I got a load of slaver. The next time I collected the worksheets you cannot imagine what the dirty buggers had written down. I was always scared going in there , they made me blush to my hair roots. As you say they took no prisoners.

 

[Gone For A Walk]

try doing work study with the women on the Nivea line at Smith and Nephew - that's how you earn your stripes

I did similar for a while many many years (decades) ago.
Now embarrassed that that's how things were done in those days.

 

[Mr Hatem]

a married man

Are you Frank Spencer?

 

[originallambrettaman]

When I worked on fish dock and went into a factory for the first time, now that is definitly an experience. My face was burning for the rest of the day I blushed so hard and I was a married man at the time.
Those women didn't take prisoners.

I used to regularly go into one of Hull's biggest fish processors and the girls doing the filleting always suggested I got my kit off etc.