"Legends" come to Town

**Salmon Coloured** · 01/10/2008, 3:11 PM

Originally Posted by RonnieB

Not sure about bunting but apparently there will a statue of Lee Sharp carved entirely out of teak on offer...

Absolute quality! I knew Teak would get involved. Thats it, the way I want to die is in a teak crafted type of Wicker man scenario, except its not a Wicker Man its a Teak Marty Stapo. You can have me blazing away in it in the centre circle of the Flansiro the day the Town win the League.

**Longfordian** · 01/10/2008, 3:21 PM

Is that Premier League only or...?. We could make a Town remake of The Wicker Man. Not sure who'll play the landlord's daughter mind you, but it could be fun finding out.

**Martinho II** · 01/10/2008, 7:39 PM

Originally Posted by Salmon Coloured

Absolute quality! I knew Teak would get involved. Thats it, the way I want to die is in a teak crafted type of Wicker man scenario, except its not a Wicker Man its a Teak Marty Stapo. You can have me blazing away in it in the centre circle of the Flansiro the day the Town win the League.

nice to see my name used in vain salmon coloured...

**Salmon Coloured** · 02/10/2008, 7:59 AM

Not only that Marty but you are being crafted in Teak & i will be burned alive inside of you. Dana will be performing the initial blaze.

**Pauro 76** · 02/10/2008, 8:09 AM

Maybe we could have Pascal playing 'Yippee I O' for the umpteenth time as background music.

**Longfordian** · 02/10/2008, 11:52 PM

More names added. Lee Martin is a blast from the past and watch out for David May (Superstar, got more medals than Shearer) trying to get into every photograph like he did in Barcelona. Looking forward to this now after the win tonight.

http://www.ltfc.ie/news/article/?id=...e-3a2d653fffb3

Edit: Seems David May is no longer mentioned.

**RonnieB** · 03/10/2008, 1:00 PM

I'm still hoping they manage to drag Neil Ruddock over

**Longfordian** · 03/10/2008, 1:04 PM

The Ryanair charges might be prohibitive. We'd have to ship him over.

**RonnieB** · 03/10/2008, 4:08 PM

Line up confirmed for Legends Game

Today, 4:54PM

The team consist of former Irish Intrnationals Gary Kelly, Curtis Fleming and Liam O'Brien. O'Briens former teammate at Newcastle Kevin Scott looks to be a first choice central defender.

Man Utd FA Cup hero from 1990 Lee Martin is also in the travelling squad, Martin is best remembered for his winning goal for Utd. in the 1990 Cup Final versus Crystal Palace.After leaving Man Utd he moved to Celtic. Paul Dalton is a Utd player from the same era, from Utd he moved to Hartlepool to build a very sucessful career.

Northern Ireland and Middlesborough are represented by Terry Cochrane, Terry will long be remember for his goal against England which help Northern Ireland win the Home Nations Championship.

John Hendrie had a long career in top flight football and is still held in high esteem from his playing days with Leeds, Newcastle and 'Boro.

And finally the man who helped assemble the squad is Middlesboro and Blackburn star Craig Hignett.

So there is 9 of them?! No lee sharpe?! wtf are we gona do with the 20 foot high teak statue?!

**Longfordian** · 03/10/2008, 4:15 PM

There must be a couple more coming I'd say, they're not going to play with nine surely?. Sharpe must have got word of the "tribute" to him and gotten scared.

**RonnieB** · 03/10/2008, 4:19 PM

I see no mention of David May, I was using him as a major selling point to drag a few along

**Longfordian** · 03/10/2008, 4:31 PM

Somebody must have jumped the gun on that one, it was up last night that he and Martin were coming. I'm sure his legions of adoring fans will be crushed. Looks like a few who had promised Hignett they'd do it have pulled out. Obviously not enough money in it for them. Still at least there's a few names people will know. Some Town legends to make guest appearances too I think.

**Salmon Coloured** · 03/10/2008, 7:47 PM

Where did Steve bloody Howie go? Thought he was coming? This isnt the Premiership Legends its Mid Life crisis Athletic over for a couple of days of golf. I see some tickets have been "Returned" for the dinner. Could we get some clarification if the dinner has been moved to Luigis?

**Longfordian** · 03/10/2008, 8:46 PM

I'd say there's not many tickets remaining. It was actually sold out during the week. Obviously some "stars" decided it wasn't worth their while for the small beans they were getting. Oh well should be a bit of craic anyway.

**Salmon Coloured** · 04/10/2008, 12:08 AM

I hope theres a big fight at the game.Would make for an interesting few minutes when the soups being served. Any sign of Dennis Irwin or Gary Pallister?

**Longfordian** · 04/10/2008, 2:20 AM

No they got caught in a wife swapping sting operation by the News Of The World so understandably have more things on their mind.*

*The above sentence has absolutely no basis in fact and is in no way intended to sully the reputations of Messrs. Pallister & Irwin or their wives.

In all seriousness, Pallister's wife is ill I believe and Irwin probably doesn't love Craig Hignett enough.

**Martinho II** · 04/10/2008, 8:12 PM

it was a very competitive game tonight and the town won 4-2 after going 2-0 down.. Douglas with two. darren mckenna and a andy bermingham screamer.. very disappointin crowd.. the highlight of the nite was sectionoite and foot.ies own massop 10 coming on as sub .. he had two chances to score and didnt score.. that will shut u up for a while eh??

great to see maccer play for us again with vinny perth again -a bit like old times!! counted only seven-eight of the premiership legends were premiership legends.. wot happened to the rest???

**Rovers1** · 04/10/2008, 8:15 PM

what were the teams?

**Massop 10** · 04/10/2008, 8:34 PM

Before I defend myself (make excuses) I want to thank the club for giving me the great oppertunity to play tonight because anyone who is close to me knows how hard the last 18 months has been for me so to be able to walk out at an event like that with them 2 teams of legends was realy something that i will never forget and i want to thank the Legends for been so good to me before and after the game.
Now I have to say that the first was a BAD miss although it didn't miss by much but i couldn't score the second chance cos it would be cheating. Ah crap ok i fluffed my shot

Marty I'll still be the same don't worry

**RonnieB** · 04/10/2008, 9:33 PM

Originally Posted by Massop 10

Before I defend myself (make excuses) I want to thank the club for giving me the great oppertunity to play tonight because anyone who is close to me knows how hard the last 18 months has been for me so to be able to walk out at an event like that with them 2 teams of legends was realy something that i will never forget and i want to thank the Legends for been so good to me before and after the game.
Now I have to say that the first was a BAD miss although it didn't miss by much but i couldn't score the second chance cos it would be cheating. Ah crap ok i fluffed my shot

Marty I'll still be the same don't worry

We were only having a slaggin, would have been the same if any of us had got out there. I personally would have had a minor stroke, running! Was a shame the turn out. The legengds still have that vital touch, I think they just got tired in the end!

TBH as a non Longford person I grow more and more in hate of the area, the same c Unts who will bitch about everything would not get off their arses to goto the game. I'm sure a cup final they would be out. It is a nationwide problem but really annoys me. A TELL tale sign after every game the majority o the cars drive away from the Town itself. To some ******* going a mile out of their way is too much. Yet these same people will bitch about how bad everything is with us.