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Joe Gardner

Statto said:
Amazing how this lad went to posh school and yet still doesn't seem to be able to afford a pair of shin pads which fit...
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Plenty of lads went to posh school but had partial or total government assistance to do so (speaking from experience 🙂). I spent 7 years sat probably within 10 foot of our illustrious chairman.
 
Morpeth said:
My first pair was Gola and then I went Puma King, Lotto and then the original Predator with the fins.

Second outing in the Predators and I ruptured my cruciate. After 12 months and maybe the fifth or sixth outing I reptured the same cruciate again.

Each wear of the predators cost me about £20!
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I went with predators for a season, I had to keep getting the boot rep to send out replacement blade studs as they disintegrated to dust the second they touched concrete
 
Otis Redding said:
As opposed to the rock-hard leather studs on my first boots Notch, which could crack concrete
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Bloody hell [emoji23]. Plastic studs were still a thing when I started and they were leathel. As soon as you walked over concrete they would create sharp plastic tiny knives on the stud. I saw a few of those create some gashes until they got banned in the mid early/mid 90s
 
Browser79 said:
Plenty of lads went to posh school but had partial or total government assistance to do so (speaking from experience 🙂). I spent 7 years sat probably within 10 foot of our illustrious chairman.
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Yes, but by the time Joe got there (and Patrick Bamford a few years before), Blair had happened and canned assisted places. I guess they still do scholarships though.
 
Browser79 said:
Plenty of lads went to posh school but had partial or total government assistance to do so (speaking from experience 🙂). I spent 7 years sat probably within 10 foot of our illustrious chairman.
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I passed my 11 Plus, and went to a State Grammar School, where i got a far better education, and far more extra-curricular activities than my kids got when I paid for them to go private, as the state schools were so shit by the time my kids were ready for secondary education. With AI set to make all labour redundant, the rich and entitled classes will no longer have need of an educated workforce. So all education will go the way the NHS has gone (the rich don't need a healthy workforce already).
 
Browser79 said:
What’s education ever done for us anyway…?
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A good friend of mine used to say that.
When I was studying for O Levels and A Levels, Degree, professional qualifications he was working for a fabricators, earning a rate per hour.
Now we are both retired and he has only a State Pension he wishes he had not pooh - poohed education.
 
Browser79 said:
What’s education ever done for us anyway…?
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Exactly. Look at the products produced in Taiwan, Cambodia etc - a workforce of 9 year old, paid little, little education and we are much better off. Better option than paying for home grown products who need an old and highly educated workforce.
 
Captain Sinister said:
A good friend of mine used to say that.
When I was studying for O Levels and A Levels, Degree, professional qualifications he was working for a fabricators, earning a rate per hour.
Now we are both retired and he has only a State Pension he wishes he had not pooh - poohed education.
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Pooh-poohing of any kind is dangerous
 
Notcher said:
I went with predators for a season, I had to keep getting the boot rep to send out replacement blade studs as they disintegrated to dust the second they touched concrete
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That’s the problem with customers - they don’t use the product how it’s intended! 😂

Had a hand in designing the compound for the blades, met Craig Johnson and we made the compound for the proto types just outside Leicester. Far east ripped it off after a couple of years.
 
Rubics said:
That’s the problem with customers - they don’t use the product how it’s intended! [emoji23]

Had a hand in designing the compound for the blades, met Craig Johnson and we made the compound for the proto types just outside Leicester. Far east ripped it off after a couple of years.
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That's interesting, it always bugged me about those blades, the issue was when we had to walk some distance along paths without grass sides to get to pitches. I bet I went through about 6 sets that year. They were brilliant traction wise on the grass though. One of the best I've had for that.

This was the version I'm referring to
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We could do all the mechanical / physical tests on the compound (hardness, stiffness, strength, abrasion resistance, friction, density etc) but on this project it was very much make samples, get them made into blades / boots and see what Craig says.
If we’d have made the compound more abrasion resistant for concrete you would have lost a bit of the grip / traction on the pitch.
It was one of the few projects we worked on that had very little cost constraints - the original compound was something like 5x the price of clarks school shoes for kids.
 
Rubics said:
We could do all the mechanical / physical tests on the compound (hardness, stiffness, strength, abrasion resistance, friction, density etc) but on this project it was very much make samples, get them made into blades / boots and see what Craig says.
If we’d have made the compound more abrasion resistant for concrete you would have lost a bit of the grip / traction on the pitch.
It was one of the few projects we worked on that had very little cost constraints - the original compound was something like 5x the price of clarks school shoes for kids.
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Brilliant, love this. Thanks for sharing.

I remember watching Craig on Blue Peter talking about it just before they launched, obviously that was before these blades were introduced and it understandably .centred around the concept of the fins
 
Captain Sinister said:
A good friend of mine used to say that.
When I was studying for O Levels and A Levels, Degree, professional qualifications he was working for a fabricators, earning a rate per hour.
Now we are both retired and he has only a State Pension he wishes he had not pooh - poohed education.
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As we all know though its really not that simplistic.
 
The Frog said:
As we all know though its really not that simplistic.
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I went to uni, grabbed a few certificates along the way, but I think application in the right way is what makes you financially secure / successful.

It also requires a great deal of luck. Far better people than me have been ravaged by depression and illness and a million other things that have taken away their will.

My problem was that I worked too hard at times. I thought that by doing OT / 70 hour weeks I’d get noticed.

I did get noticed, but was dubbed Mr Fixit in my IT days, which translates as me getting all the hardest / shit projects. Whilst all the BS artists got promoted.

I then briefly became a BS artist (!) when I moved into recruitment.

Now I run my own business, I’ve learnt what to focus on, what to let go off and not to take life too seriously. And crucially, to look up at the bigger picture.

It’s bloody hard working by / for yourself, but the lack of office politics and BS means I wouldn’t change it for the world.
 
Red Dog in a Forest said:
I went to uni, grabbed a few certificates along the way, but I think application in the right way is what makes you financially secure / successful.

It also requires a great deal of luck. Far better people than me have been ravaged by depression and illness and a million other things that have taken away their will.
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Spot on. The idea that someone didn’t do higher eduction and blames that for their pension is the same as me blaming the loss of my professional football career on a dodgy knee.
 
My first boots were brown, with studs you hammered in on the last. With luck the nails didn't come through the sole, but if they did you just had to grin and bear it.
 
Notcher said:
Possibly the Puma King as pictured then C'ptn.

I started out with New Balance solely down to Collymore wearing them. Copa mundials then became my boot of choice, copas were the moulded version and World Cup were studded. Interestingly (or maybe not) the world cups didn't have the same comfort fit as the sole was different so pros would have the copas drilled either by the kit man or sometimes by the YT's if they knew what they were doing to enable screw in studs rather than switching to the world cups
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I tried on a pair of New Balance boots in the shop simply because Stan wore them. Black moulded with the big fold down tongue flap.

Ended up buying them because they fit like a pair of old slippers. Beautiful boots and (this might sound odd) I just always felt like I got great contact on the ball when wearing them. Crisp, clean strikes etc

I wanted to get coloured boots but blue was as renegade as my dad would let me (you can’t wear white boots at full back) so I got a pair of Asics screw ins. They looked great (I thought) but weren’t great boots.

I usually plumped for puma or adidas. Could never get on with Nikes as I always felt they were really narrow and pinched too much.


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Might have been the same NB ones I had too by the sounds of it. Spot on about Nike being narrow, I'm a wide fitting being 6'4 and I could never get on with Nike when I tried them. Adidas always had a much wider fitting hence the copas and predators.

I agree with the Asics too I had a pair of asics testimonials with the white foldover tongue, they looked beautiful but they were shite
 
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