We often saw HN and wife in their Rolls on the way to away games in the early 70's.....Before the Ouse Bridge was even conceived and we had to go around on that metal bridge near to the cafe/truck stopping area on the old A63. Dare say Howden way. ... Someone told me ' that bloke owns Needlers factory off Wincolmlee'..I took it in like a drain...He was of course owner of Hoveringham Gravel, and probably wasn't as minted as we thought.
Raymond Needler, last Needler of Needler's Sweets / Confectionery before they sold it ..... Correspondence address: The Millers House Kings Mill, Kings Mill Road, Driffield. Well, I never knew that! Related to Harold (and Christopher)?
We would need 8 teams to draw or lose and West brom to lose actually, not 14 teams but it's not worth arguing about really, it was just a loose point to show how close we are to 'success' in some people's eyes. And at the same time 'disaster' in the eyes of the doom merchants. Its a tremendous league and I enjoy the ride each season we are in it.
Id like walter to back to the more gungho stuff Id rather risk losing 4-0 then grinding out 1-1 draws Goals are goals and **** promotion
Agreed. I felt we did that against Burnley and caught them out first half. Just gotta make sure there aren't too many 0-4 defeats as League 1 isn't that exciting
If Acun has any serious ambitions about this season, then unless Walter gets his act together and we start seeing some positive results now, not to mention a better way of playing, then I'll point him towards the exit door by this time next month. Walters style of play after what Acun said, seems a million miles away from what I anticipated. Tim has been dealt a crap hand admittedly when it comes to incoming transfers, most of them being late in the window, and the number moved out. All the goal threat had just about been ripped from the side before he joined and not replaced, remains a major problem. Oh just forgot we don't provide any service to our main forward as it stands! Tim is asking for patience, in football, you get very little, and especially if you bring no previous record of success which would warrant patience from us supporters. Either get your s**t together Tim, or do us a favour and move on!
Wouldn't mind it for a season for some different grounds and opponents but it can quickly become a grind. Just ask Sunderland, Sheff Wed, Derby, Leeds, Ipswich...
I think there are multiple factors that only Tim and his staff know the answers to. Firstly, can the players play like that for 90 mins? The way they went at Burnley was a joy to watch but it must be exhausting. Secondly, and it's my only real reservation over Tim, is why don't we change tactics when in front to see out a game? Maybe QPR is the answer to that, we kept going at them and got further reward. I just feel like Saturday was an example of when it would be OK to come out with a bank of 5 in midfield and play a different way with less risk to try and ensure we keep the clean sheet. Someone told me Derby was the same.
He can move on for me...the second half "performance" was on par with the total capitulation of relegation to league 1...and if its right he had a pop at the fans,he can take goal music and German sausages and **** off back there
'I'm fed up of seeing us kicking around the lower half of the Premier League, and wouldn't mind a season in the Championship followed a promotion'. A Charlton fan heard by us on 606 on the way home from an away match many moons ago, he got half of his desire. As for sacking Walter, not yet for me, see where we are at the turn of the year and how the next transfer window goes. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
They were getting larger crowds in League 1, more than the MKM holds and bigger always followings, than we do in the Championship so their fans can’t have minded too much.
Harold Needler was a friend of one of my great uncles. He gave me a reference for a job at his Ontario subsidiary "Telephone City Gravel Company" which clinched my ability to become a landed immigrant into Canada. Brantford , Ontario - aka by the nickname "Telephone City". was in recognition of Alexander Graham Bell who was working on inventing the telephone at his home in Brantford. You may have been to Brantford given your connections in SW Ontario ?
Indeed. The Canadian Massey family were a major contributor to the development of tractors and other farming implements, starting up in Newcastle,Ontario as Massey-Harris Manufacturing in the late 1800's. They were instrumental in making Toronto the major City it became by heavily sponsoring educational institutions (University of Toronto plus numerous other colleges) their engineering factories making them one of the largest Toronto employers. Several mergers and acquisitions later, as Massey-Harris , during WW2 they built and supplied tractors and tanks for the US and allied war effort. The family spawned politicians ( Vincent became Governor of Canada, Raymond and Anna noted successful actors) as well as corporate executives. They hooked up later in the '50s with the Irish born mechanic/inventor and wannabe aviator Harry Ferguson. Today it's a division of the ADCO group. No idea how much it contributes to their bottom line. I assume it is a profitable division but really no idea given wars/covid impact on the global food-chain issues.
I would quite happily take a defeat tonight if it meant wally the german sausage getting the tin tack
All good apart from it's AGCO and I don't know if the factory is even there any more, they stopped building harvesters there in the late 1980s. And it's then owner massey ferguson had already done some creative accounting to get the debt laden factory off its books by virtually giving it away to a newly formed company MMC (?)
