HE WAS A TRUE CLUB LEGEND

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d3d4
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Hi all,

Please check out this piece on one of your true club legends! http://d3d4football.com/blogs/blast-fro ... ian-alsop/

thanks
James
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robinsrule
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Good times! He and Naylor were immense that season
theidlerich
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Location: Cotswolds
I would love to know the stats on corners taken; headers by Julkes and the number he converted. Must be an all time record for CTFC. At least you knew "we" had a good chance of a goal coming from a corner; unlike last year and this.....[?]..
RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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Never forget the closest he came to a hat-trick...2-1 up vs City, crashes a header off the bar with less than 10 mins to go, before we concede two in last minutes to go down 3-2.
asl
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One of our greatest defenders, too: that ball seemed to be magnetically attracted to his head whenever the opposition had a free kick or a corner.
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Sprout Picker
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote:Never forget the closest he came to a hat-trick...2-1 up vs City, crashes a header off the bar with less than 10 mins to go, before we concede two in last minutes to go down 3-2.
Pretty sure he did the same in a 2-3 defeat against Mansfield at WR.
chelters
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Says a lot about our ability to retain good strikers that the goal record stands at only 38...
RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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chelters wrote:Says a lot about our ability to retain good strikers that the goal record stands at only 38...
Good point. We either have very good strikers who get snapped up by others after a season, or long serving strikers who don't score many goals.

Look at some teams, like Morecambe and Kevin Ellison, and they have someone who no one wants to sign but still gets a decent return of goals every season for ten years.

Let us hope Holman and Graham do that for a few years.
Nham68
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I remember that Rochdale goal... hadn't we been pummelled all game and then the late substitute (allsopp) somehow managed to get clear in injury time and find the net ?
Red Duke
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Location: North West
Nham68 wrote:I remember that Rochdale goal... hadn't we been pummelled all game and then the late substitute (allsopp) somehow managed to get clear in injury time and find the net ?
As he came on as a substitute, "If Alsop scores, we are all on the pitch...."
CTFCfan99
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Seem to remember a good quote from MA after that game on Alsop, said something along the lines of 'I thought he showed a great turn of pace...he seemed to get slower!'
Alf
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Joined: 17 Apr 2011, 08:24
Could have done with him today. The ball would have been in the back of the net with their keeper and a couple of defenders!
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