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Title: Bit of nostalgia
Post by: PaulClementsLaments on October 01, 2020, 10:10:27 AM
From 1978...

https://youtu.be/eQCMe2S8Nio (https://youtu.be/eQCMe2S8Nio)
Title: Re: Bit of nostalgia
Post by: CRT Butty on October 01, 2020, 11:44:20 AM
That is a diamond of a find. Thanks.
Title: Re: Bit of nostalgia
Post by: Hale Alty on October 01, 2020, 12:59:06 PM
The last prediction was probably the most accurate.
Title: Re: Bit of nostalgia
Post by: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on October 01, 2020, 06:56:51 PM

As I recall, we signed the diminutive winger Graham Heys from Macc early in 1978, by which time he was already cup-tied and, therefore, ineligible to play in our FA Trophy fixtures.

He emigrated to Australia early in the 1978/79 NPL season (and according to a Macc Town website), "playing there for the following 10 years - Newcastle KB United (1979-1981), West Adelaide (1982-1983), Preston Makedonia (1984-1986), Melbourne Knights (1987-1988), Mooroolbark (1990-91) and Croydon City (1992)."

Here's a more recent photograph of him:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000247456048/f0f82681b9769242930e3a7512bf5492_400x400.jpeg)


Twitter account (with a mention for Alty): https://twitter.com/hazy55 (https://twitter.com/hazy55)

 
Title: Re: Bit of nostalgia
Post by: JD on October 01, 2020, 09:16:35 PM
That was wonderful and really put a smile on my face!

Thank you PCL!
Title: Re: Bit of nostalgia
Post by: Sale Holmfield on October 01, 2020, 11:46:47 PM

As I recall, we signed the diminutive winger Graham Heys from Macc early in 1978, by which time he was already cup-tied and, therefore, ineligible to play in our FA Trophy fixtures.

He emigrated to Australia early in the 1978/79 NPL season (and according to a Macc Town website), "playing there for the following 10 years - Newcastle KB United (1979-1981), West Adelaide (1982-1983), Preston Makedonia (1984-1986), Melbourne Knights (1987-1988), Mooroolbark (1990-91) and Croydon City (1992)."

Here's a more recent photograph of him:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000247456048/f0f82681b9769242930e3a7512bf5492_400x400.jpeg)




Twitter account (with a mention for Alty): https://twitter.com/hazy55 (https://twitter.com/hazy55)

 

I remember him being described in 1978 as "one for the future" but I don't think that was intended as a future in Australia!
There is an odd link there to more recent players as Preston Makedonia are now Preston Lions, playing at  a lower level than in the eighties, and they are the club James Poole joined when he went to Australia.