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Post by russ on Oct 25, 2018 16:16:02 GMT
Love this idea.
Lot of time for MC.
ru career about as interesting as paint drying for mine but there you go.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2018 16:28:31 GMT
Quality Street Gang?
Cryptic much.
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Post by russ on Oct 25, 2018 18:55:19 GMT
Quality Street Gang? Cryptic much. Nothing cryptic about this MR Just a Salford alias from the time period and used on the club website. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2018 19:07:17 GMT
Quality Street Gang? Cryptic much. Nothing cryptic about this MR Just a Salford alias from the time period and used on the club website. I know who the QSG were, have a friend who penned a book on footbal hooligans and gang culture in Manchester, just didn't know we used the name too. |
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Post by russ on Oct 25, 2018 19:50:11 GMT
Nothing cryptic about this MR Just a Salford alias from the time period and used on the club website. I know who the QSG were, have a friend who penned a book on footbal hooligans and gang culture in Manchester, just didn't know we used the name too. As for football I've no idea what you're talking about the only reference I know is the Solly one. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2018 20:11:50 GMT
I know who the QSG were, have a friend who penned a book on footbal hooligans and gang culture in Manchester, just didn't know we used the name too. As for football I've no idea what you're talking about the only reference I know is the Solly one. Pretty sure the QSG were a football gang out of Manchester, not saying there is any relationship, just didn't get the original reference. |
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Post by prestwichred on Oct 25, 2018 20:19:42 GMT
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Post by vin on Oct 25, 2018 20:43:51 GMT
My memory (such as it is) is that the term was an insult used by Alex Murphy to refer to us.
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Post by osrd on Oct 25, 2018 21:33:05 GMT
My memory (such as it is) is that the term was an insult used by Alex Murphy to refer to us. Vin there is nothing wrong with your memory,as that is how Alex Murphy once referred to us. |
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Post by hillbillyred on Oct 26, 2018 6:58:48 GMT
I remember it well: looks good, cost a lot and soft
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Post by vin on Oct 26, 2018 11:59:02 GMT
I remember it well: looks good, cost a lot and soft
Well he was certainly wrong there. That big round one was as hard as they come - and I'm talking, of course, about the toffee and the great Charlie Bott.
Not a bad player, Murphy, although I don't think that he was good as he thinks he was, and I don't think he did much as coach for us. In fact, I remember an argument with someone in the 90s where I insisted that he'd never coached Salford: shows how much I'd blocked it out of my mind.
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Post by bonitared on Oct 26, 2018 12:21:19 GMT
Murphy was one the best players ever.
He was a brilliant player coach.
The only blip on his cv was his time with Salford.
He gains an extra point for allegedly hitting Maurice Lindsay with the phone
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Post by russ on Oct 26, 2018 19:14:35 GMT
Murphy was one the best players ever. He was a brilliant player coach. The only blip on his cv was his time with Salford. He gains an extra point for allegedly hitting Maurice Lindsay with the phone The quality street gang went downhill and he was a shouting coach by all accounts. But no one should doubt what a great player he was, even if pretty irrelevant in this thread. Next Colin Dixon? Maurice Richards? |
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Post by vin on Oct 26, 2018 19:59:14 GMT
Murphy was one the best players ever. He was a brilliant player coach. The only blip on his cv was his time with Salford. He gains an extra point for allegedly hitting Maurice Lindsay with the phone
Happen you're right. My mum's friend Florence adored him (she was from Leigh), but even she didn't rate him as much as he does - he seems always to have been a martyr to monomania, the poor bloke. Me, I can't really judge his abilities, as I mostly saw him play Salford, where he was never seen at his best.
Maybe we should compare his time at Salford to Brian Clough's 40 days at Leeds.
And talking of Leeds, he was also, in my view, a great actor, the way he had Syd Hynes sent off in the cup final for supposedly nutting him, leaving the field on a stretcher but getting better before the end of the game. Lance Todd? I reckon he deserved an Oscar.
Edit: you're quite right, Russ, it's all pretty irrelevant in this thread. Colin, Maurice, Keith, David, Paul, Ken, Billy, Chris, and the rest, they're all legends and I am one of the many lucky beggars to have spent my Friday evenings watching these peerless players of the greatest game.
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Post by dixon13 on Oct 26, 2018 21:33:30 GMT
Murphy is the best Rugby League half back I have ever seen that was born in Great Britain.
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