Teddy Maybank rumoured to be returning - good move?

Guinness Boy

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• Jul 13, 2015

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According to a Twtter account I just made up by stealing a random photograph off the internet and attaching it to a name and some football clubs we are about to re sign Albion LEG END Teddy Maybank. Last seen gracing Corals FC and on a host of game shows our Ted may be getting on a bit but he fulfills the key requirements still outstanding. He's big, knows how to finish (his ale) and, more importantly, played for us in a period we all remember fondly which we seem to be attempting to receate in rumour form..

*impeccable sources face*

 

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• Jul 13, 2015

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Guinness Boy said:

According to a Twtter account I just made up by stealing a random photograph off the internet and attaching it to a name and some football clubs we are about to re sign Albion LEG END Teddy Maybank. Last seen gracing Corals FC and on a host of game shows our Ted may be getting on a bit but he fulfills the key requirements still outstanding. He's big, knows how to finish (his ale) and, more importantly, played for us in a period we all remember fondly which we seem to be attempting to receate in rumour form..

*impeccable sources face*

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I once had a couple of kids who kept ringing my doorbell as they thought I was the great man back in the day. Sadly the VERY slight resemblance was the only thing we had in common as my greatest footballing achievement was captaining Hove boys schools 11 and scoring our first goal that season

 

One Teddy Maybank

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• Jul 13, 2015

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Great move. More mobile than Best, more effort than Gardner - and good for team spirit ;-)

In other news, wing problems are likely to be solved with the resigning of Neil Smillie, whilst Steve Foster has agreed to return on a pay as you play basis, providing he can find his head band. Apparently the delay in his signing is the commercial rights relating to the head band, with the club keen to brand it.

 

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• Jul 13, 2015

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omg yes...made me smile...entertaining posts......maybe he and Mullers could do a double act.... did they get on though ?......not the best pound of flesh we ever bought. Cilla and Blind Date perhaps brought him back to earth.....

 

Dan Aitch

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• Jul 13, 2015

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Can someone tell him to sign his autograph where his image is on photos? All this 'signing in the opposite corner' etc. is very annoying.

 

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• Jul 13, 2015

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Who could forget his bicycle kick against Sunderland. Would have been goal of the decade (had it gone in and not hit the bar!).

 

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seagullwedgee

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I really do get fed up with people starting these rumours and getting our hopes up.

A friend of mine told me Malcolm Poskett had been dropped off by a taxi at Lancing, and there was a small ginger haired fella with him, which we assumed to be Eric Potts. Now that ladies and gentlemen is fact, so let's talk about the real stuff, and not this Twitter crap.

Thank you.
Wedgee

 

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It might be easier to have a thread on here of past Albion players who 'couldn't do a job' if they came back. With that in mind, I hear that old Arthur Mulkins-Threadneedle, who sat on the subs bench during our 1912 Charity Shield victory, is currently 'brown bread' and therefore couldn't 'do a job.' Beyond him I'm struggling, so maybe we should just bring them all back. Most of the real oldies would only want 16 or so shillings a week, which Tony could well afford.

 

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• Jul 14, 2015

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I am afraid i need to dampen this enthusiasm with some realism

Teddy Maybank was a poor striker IMHO

Kevin Bremner, Kurt Nogan, Mark Gall, Micky Small, Jonny Bryrne, Sergei Gostmanov or the legendary Brian Wade would be very different

 

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• Jul 14, 2015

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Anyone who could score a hat trick against Cardiff was alright in my book.

 

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Martin Keown could return up front for us again.

 

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• Jul 14, 2015

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knocky1 said:

Martin Keown could return up front for us again.

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Yes, I heard that rumour, too......

 

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• Jul 14, 2015

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Bombadier Botty said:

It might be easier to have a thread on here of past Albion players who 'couldn't do a job' if they came back. With that in mind, I hear that old Arthur Mulkins-Threadneedle, who sat on the subs bench during our 1912 Charity Shield victory, is currently 'brown bread' and therefore couldn't 'do a job.' Beyond him I'm struggling, so maybe we should just bring them all back. Most of the real oldies would only want 16 or so shillings a week, which Tony could well afford.

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Great post. But Peregrine Chalmondleigh-Warner who crossed for Charlie Webb to score in the (1910) Charity Shield IS still available though he is 123 on Sunday. Speaking from his Hove nursing home he longs for the days when he would pay his own expenses AND pay the Club for the privilege of being selected each week. He willingly played on pitches where boots could be lost in the mud and still bears scars on his forehead from heading a REAL football with laces on it. Raheem Sterling doesn't know he's born........

 

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• Jul 14, 2015

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Maybank means Blackpool to me. Back in 197? we went to Blackpool who were, at the time, amongst the front runners. My first pint of Tetleys (horrible) and Teddy scored, we won and Blackpool faded from the top.

 

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• Jul 14, 2015

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BrianWade4 said:

I am afraid i need to dampen this enthusiasm with some realism

Teddy Maybank was a poor striker IMHO

Kevin Bremner, Kurt Nogan, Mark Gall, Micky Small, Jonny Bryrne, Sergei Gostmanov or the legendary Brian Wade would be very different

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Think you're trying to rewrite history a bit [emoji34], [emoji4].

Key goals in our promotion run in and early on in Div 1.

He was never going to be a Ward and suffered because of the size of fee we paid.

Of those you mentioned comfortably better than Bremner, Gall and................. Sorry but Wade [emoji4]