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I’ve supported morecambe since 1978. And still do although I live in Yorkshire now .. whilst riding my bike on the Pennines way I was thinking about our team ..

Who was the best penalty taker. No doubt Paul Burns never missed
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Who was best at free kicks. John Colman Lethal around the area,,

Who was the hardest worker. Wayne Curtis. Never stopped gave his all And scored some excellent goals

Who scored the best goal Tommo Thunder bolt from forty yards

Best defensive pairing. Blackburn. and Bentley

Best attack pairing. Colman. Mcmcuskie

Most influential. Bentley. Also best captain

Best ever player. BriAn Healy. Sold to Plymouth I think?

Most respected supporter. Peter (pork pie). Riding. A true gentleman

That’s what goes though a seventy year old riding his bike for exercise how I miss seeing my team and friends.

Nice one mate !

Have been watching since about 1958, so some of the categories have just become a blur in my memory.
A good selection, although my alternatives would be....

Best attack pairing.... Lea & Timmins

Best player ever.... Iain Cain

Best goal....has to be Danny Carlton at Wembley

Hardest working....Wayne Curtis. Agree 100%. Many a time I moaned at his lack of close control but the commitment was always there. Many a time watching over the last 3-4 years have I thought, 'this team could do with a couple of Wayne Curtises'. So a belated apology to Wayne for not appreciating him at the time.

an extra one..
Most influential sub.... Keith Galley

Who was best goalkeeper..?..

I always thought the young lad from teebay who only had played village football think his name was Williams ,,, didn’t play long for us as he got a bad injury against Bradford city ,,and never played again ,, but he was fantastic even better than Joe Lewis

Storm wrote:Who was best goalkeeper..?..

I always thought the young lad from teebay who only had played village football think his name was Williams ,,, didn’t play long for us as he got a bad injury against Bradford city ,,and never played again ,, but he was fantastic even better than Joe Lewis

I always thought Steve Mcilhargey was well above the level he played at with us. He was a different class. Peter McDonnell was the first goalie I remember and he was also top quality.

I watched Peter Mcdonnell play for both Oldham and Morecambe,
The first time I set eyes on him at Christie, I said to myself..........I know this guy

Some good names there.

I'd say forward pairing would be Jacko & Norman. Totally on the same wavelength, even Justin says that Johnny Norman made him look good and Rushden & Diamonds should have taken both of them together.

Agree with Jacko and Stormin, superb.
And for me our best ever player in non league was also Brian Healy, great talent and never stopped trying to play football with prompting and prodding.

Best manager for me was either Ken Waterhouse of Jimmy Harvey.

Both in their individual ways contributed to the success that our club has seen during my life time.

Best forward was either Mr Charles Lea or a certain John Coleman.....wonder what he is doing these days...

Best goalkeeper was Steve Mc and best defender was without question a certain James Bentley.

Best Chairman was one PMcG.....it was his finance that got us into the EFL what happened after that is open to individual opinions.

Best shout in the 80s.give it to parry!

Best trilogy- The Lancaster City FA cup games, 2 at Christie Park and one at the Huge Chopper. The Alan Tilsley chants, signing Mark Shirley afterwards and the buzz it created locally. My Dad has the In The Frame video, be well worth another watch.

A couple more nominations for best forward and from different eras.

Tony Webber , man of the match in the FA Trophy victory.

Michael Twiss , most exciting player I have seen in a Morecambe shirt and a real statement signing when we took him from Chester much to Mark Wright's disappointment

Some really good names comming up..from real supporters. I liked twiss. And not only a very good winger who played the game as it should , entertaining with a smile ,, yes Ian cain

Tony Webber was my idol when I was a kid, alongside Keith Galley.
Webber had a shot on his, as did Twissy!! Happy days.
Getting Shirl was a great signing, he was such a strong holder of the ball, allowed us to play ten yards further up the pitch as NOBODY could get the ball off him.

Freez wrote:Tony Webber was my idol when I was a kid, alongside Keith Galley.
Webber had a shot on his, as did Twissy!! Happy days.
Getting Shirl was a great signing, he was such a strong holder of the ball, allowed us to play ten yards further up the pitch as NOBODY could get the ball off him.

I believe Tony Webber cost £250 when we signed him , was it from Skem ? I think he was schoolteacher and he was a big signing in those days but what a bargain he turned out to be. A fantastic player who I think "assisted" both goals at Wembley against Dartford.

My idol's back in the day were Charlie Lea and Geoff Street,

Also remember going down to Wembley in 1974 aged 12 on the train from the promenade station, seemed to take an absolute age to get there if my memory serves me correctly, was it a specially laid on train? Like the Morecambe to Lancaster but 4 coaches instead of 2, sure someone will know
Fond memories of my half time hollands meat pie but not the smell of hot bovril under the main stand.
Well done Storm, getting the memories flooding back in alot of folk.

Not mentioned yet... Steve Brookes, such a massive potential before breaking his arm and also Tibor Szabo, who went back to Bradford to coach teens.

As this is a reminisce thread, to counteract the positive...Ian McInerney.The absolute worst player I saw in our colours, despite so many expectations of him as an ex football league player.

paschahound wrote:Not mentioned yet... Steve Brookes, such a massive potential before breaking his arm and also Tibor Szabo, who went back to Bradford to coach teens.

As this is a reminisce thread, to counteract the positive...Ian McInerney.The absolute worst player I saw in our colours, despite so many expectations of him as an ex football league player.

Remamber the 5-1 match at Christie against high flying Macclesfield? Brooks playing virtually right wing, Tibor scoring a flying header as we surged forward. Great stuff. Worst player Peter (dithers) Withers? Graeme Gill watching the aeroplanes take off while we lost 1 nil to Newcastle Blue Stars?

Are, there were two special trains, 10 coaches in each, admittedly one was a buffet car. I was on the second one!

Freez wrote:Are, there were two special trains, 10 coaches in each, admittedly one was a buffet car. I was on the second one!

Glad someone knew
Super day out that seemed to last forever, certainly slept it off the next day

Freez wrote:Are, there were two special trains, 10 coaches in each, admittedly one was a buffet car. I was on the second one!

I have to hang my head in shame!!!
I didn't go!!
BUT! I did see you go past us, we were in the rail triangle (like the Bermuda triangle) just past Bare Lane station.
Someone threw a toilet roll out of the train window, was it you?

Freez wrote:Are, there were two special trains, 10 coaches in each, admittedly one was a buffet car. I was on the second one!

How can you remember such details when you weren't even a teenager ?
I'm the trainspotter and couldn't recall that.

My main memory of the journey back was that most of the train was fast asleep after an exhausting but exhilarating day.

...and no Captain Sparkle, it wasn't him throwing the toilet roll out of the window!

Alan wrote:

Freez wrote:Are, there were two special trains, 10 coaches in each, admittedly one was a buffet car. I was on the second one!

How can you remember such details when you weren't even a teenager ?
I'm the trainspotter and couldn't recall that.

My main memory of the journey back was that most of the train was fast asleep after an exhausting but exhilarating day.

...and no Captain Sparkle, it wasn't him throwing the toilet roll out of the window!

No idea how he remembers that, I'm the same age and can't for the life of me, think that far back with such vivid detail, bet he bought his bar six from the vending machine as he wandered past the King Orry in its glass display cabinet

Players when I first started watching in the 60's. Arnold Timmins - great striker, scored at least 6 in the 14 - 0 game against Rossendale. Stewart Holding - quick winger and best ball crosser ever; he could deliver corners that hung in the air at head height around penalty spot. Lance Millard - great goalie. Gerry Irving - midfield general who bossed the famous FA cup tie at York when we murdered them 0 - 0. Special steam train that day as well pulled by Britannia Class locomotive - 70013 Oliver Cromwell. I'm a train spotter too!

The York away game in 1985 and again special trains were chartered by the club. Not sure how many went but it was great support. When we arrived at York Station the police frogmarched all our fans on the road all the way to Bootham Crescent ! They treated us like Millwall fans

After a 0-0 draw the replay was at Maine Road due to the state of the Christie Park terraces etc and the crowd was 1,200 in a ground that once held 84,000 ! The bars were closed and when a steward was asked why his reply was something like "We were told to close them because Morecambe fans were coming" !