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ADE CHATS WITH GERAINT WILSON MANAGER OF FOLKESTONE INVICTA DISABILITY FOOTBALL CLUB · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: They got a wonderful Amy Wine house, Mark Ronson and Valerie.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: I actually watched the film of that Back to Black yesterday.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: It was a quite good film. Now, I don't know
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: if anybody else has watched it. If you haven't, it's
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: worth a look. As I say, we got Garret Wilson
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: here in the studio with us this morning. He's going
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: to be talking about Disability team for folks in Victor Guys.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Being disabled, I mean can mean ones of many things.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: What's the criteria to actually play to be disabled?
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  Speaker 2: To actually qualify for the team. There's a number of
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  Speaker 2: things that you could have wrong with you. You could
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  Speaker 2: be have impaired vision, impaired hearing, mental health, and then
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  Speaker 2: you've got learning difficulties and disabilities, so plus injuries. Some
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  Speaker 2: people have had back issues, degenerating back and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully yet then yeah, yeah, no, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things that can be picked up on it because obviously
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  Speaker 2: not all disabilities are visible.
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  Speaker 1: No obviously, because I know you played Willing United Deaf
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  Speaker 1: team the other other week. Yes, how does that work?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, well, it's it's difficult. The referee has to carry
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  Speaker 2: a flag obviously as well to signal for decisions.
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  Speaker 1: But no, it was a cracking game.
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  Speaker 2: There a good bunch of ads, some of them have
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  Speaker 2: actually had the experience of international football as well at
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  Speaker 2: that level. Yeah, we come done well, we come out
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  Speaker 2: to nil winners in the end with two goals from
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  Speaker 2: Jared Prescott coming on supersub.
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  Speaker 1: Jared, Now, I mean that's that's another story on it.
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  Speaker 1: Jared is he's the younger brother of my co commentator on
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: Seasiders Radio when we do the commentary for Folks in
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  Speaker 1: Victor and Yeah, the we got the scores coming through
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  Speaker 1: from from Folks and obviously that the game was being
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: played and trying to get updates. keV was down there
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  Speaker 1: and he only managed to get there till half time
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  Speaker 1: and we had that we knew it was Neil Neil,
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  Speaker 1: and Charlie was quite quite you know, he wanted to
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: know what the score was and if his brother had played.
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  Speaker 1: And then when he came through and it was too
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  Speaker 1: nil too Folks and Victor and Gered had come on
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  Speaker 1: and the super sub and scored two goals. And speaking
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  Speaker 1: to Gerard in the week, I I asked him about
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  Speaker 1: the two goals and he said, I should have really
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  Speaker 1: got a third. Yeah, really probably the easier one out
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  Speaker 1: in the lot. Yeah, he's really tough to be playing
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  Speaker 1: for you, and he really really enjoys it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people like Gerard and coming through. Is there any do
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  Speaker 1: you have any spaces for other players coming through or Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We always accept players at training and obviously we look
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  Speaker 2: at the players from there and then put them into
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  Speaker 2: the ability level teams that we have. We have a
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  Speaker 2: slightly lower ability team for the seven side and a
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  Speaker 2: higher ability team as well. They're they're quite full, but
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  Speaker 2: if we get players come in then we can maneuver
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  Speaker 2: them around, and also with the eleven side, if we
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  Speaker 2: think the players are training and they're doing really well.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a few youngsters come through. Sonny Perry is
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  Speaker 2: another one that's coming through. He's only young and he's
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  Speaker 2: got impaired vision. He's another player that's showing good form
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  Speaker 2: and he come on with Jared the other day and he.
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  Speaker 1: Struck the post with you've got them coming through the
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  Speaker 1: ranks then, yeah, Young Pete Candy, is he still playing?
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  Speaker 2: He hasn't recently, He hasn't reacen. He's got hip problems.
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  Speaker 2: He's always been a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're listening, Pete we love you really get
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  Speaker 1: better soon, Pete. You're saying you've got different teams in that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you play in any specific league.
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  Speaker 2: We play in the Kent Disability Football League seven a
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  Speaker 2: side that's at Faversham. We go out there tomorrow. That's
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  Speaker 2: at the Abbey School. We have two teams that play
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  Speaker 2: in that. One of the teams is up there at
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  Speaker 2: the top and no one's down at the bottom at
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  Speaker 2: the moment, but I think the bottom team will improve
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  Speaker 2: due to.
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  Speaker 1: Recent signings as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good because we do get a few come
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  Speaker 2: up and watch as well, which is nice to always
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  Speaker 2: have the sport up there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've popped a lot. You may not see me
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  Speaker 1: by it. I have watched a few of your games
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  Speaker 1: and I've been saying to Charlie, you know you get
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  Speaker 1: to a final something where we might come along and
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  Speaker 1: do a Seasiders radio live broadcast for you. Yeah, be nice,
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  Speaker 1: I must have it. Yeah, what's what standard is it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the eleventh side is a pretty decent standard. I'd
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  Speaker 2: say you're looking at probably the lower division of Sunday
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  Speaker 2: leagues on some in some places, if not higher. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: The quality of the football I know from my lads
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  Speaker 2: we really do put it in and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the other teams like Clacton and Sutton United, they also
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  Speaker 2: who we've played and saying with Willie, they've all played
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  Speaker 2: good football, you know, there's so and even we had
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  Speaker 2: James Ruth come down. He was watching it. I think
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  Speaker 2: he was quite surprised at the standard.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, quite well, we're going to have play another record
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  Speaker 1: here now. One of your ones goes this is David
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  Speaker 1: Bowie and Heroes, and then we've got one from keV
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  Speaker 1: after that one, and then we'll have another chat to
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  Speaker 1: go about the folks in Victor disability to the there's
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  Speaker 1: our Dean Taylor and there's a ghost in my house.
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  Speaker 1: And keV said that he was meant to play that
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  Speaker 1: the other night though, but of course you know what
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: it's like here, you run out of time. So that
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  Speaker 1: was for you Ross and that one was from keV
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  Speaker 1: tu Halloween, definitely for Halloween. Now that that's all over, okay,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back gas Or keV says, you know, we were
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: talking about standing of football for the team football.
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  Speaker 3: And if you like, I've been following Garrant's team for
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  Speaker 3: ten years, I should think, and but the first time
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  Speaker 3: actually went to watch them. I'll tell you a long
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  Speaker 3: a guy. It was the AstroTurf was the sandy one, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you were playing on the on the Polar ground
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  Speaker 3: on a Saturday afternoon and there were two or three
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  Speaker 3: other games going on when there was lots more football locally,
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  Speaker 3: and I had looked around and I couldn't I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: work out which team was the disability team.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It was like if you like, it was that good.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't what I expected. It was so much better.
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  Speaker 3: And I've got used to watching them now, but that
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  Speaker 3: was that was my first impression of seeing the team.
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  Speaker 3: And since then I've seen them several times and and
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  Speaker 3: and it's always been a good game.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Willing United to be fair.
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  Speaker 3: I've always been seen lots of games against them, and
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  Speaker 3: they've always been a top club. And I can understand
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  Speaker 3: why they've got a couple of internationals in their club.
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  Speaker 3: They played some really good football and they did a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things right a couple of weeks ago, but
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  Speaker 3: they didn't put the ball in the net. And then,
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  Speaker 3: as we said, Jared took his chances. But it's surprising.
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  Speaker 3: Do come along and watch them because you'd be pleasantly
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  Speaker 3: surprised of how good they are.
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  Speaker 1: And it's free. Yeah. Football, No, that's very true. You
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  Speaker 1: know you're talking about you know, running the side. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: are you just do you run yourself or to folks
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  Speaker 1: in Victor Football Club vacuuming anyway.
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  Speaker 2: We're no, we're independent from folksing in Victor Football Club.
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  Speaker 2: All our funding's done through the obviously, through players, subs
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. Occasionally we get a sponsor coming.
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  Speaker 2: Not very often though nowadays obviously you can understand it.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes with the cost of living and et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: We just had a lovely budget, haven't we recently?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we don't all about that is sports show,
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  Speaker 3: yeah yeah, not a politics not yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, you know you're saying about sponsorship and everything.
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  Speaker 1: I see that. You've got a massive game coming up?
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  Speaker 1: Is it? Next weekend?
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  Speaker 2: November sixteenth, Saturday? It's does the first team playing the
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: FA Trophy. Unfortunately they got drilling our home. We play
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: Chelsea Foundation FC down at the Three Hills three fifteen kickoff.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big game. We've a lot of few years back,
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  Speaker 2: we used to play Chelsea in a regular basis, but
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  Speaker 2: this is the first time they've actually put a team
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  Speaker 2: into the league for a long time. Obviously, they play
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  Speaker 2: at the training ground, so they are linked to the Kay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they must be great, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean when I'm sure that soon you know, at
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  Speaker 3: some point some of the first team will see him
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  Speaker 3: or the reserves are you know, go and watch them
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, it just gives them a great lift, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when they're training, I do believe that they have
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  Speaker 2: some of the first team there, and sometimes they do
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  Speaker 2: come down and get involved with a bit of playing
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  Speaker 2: time with them as well.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, so are you looking for sponsorship for that
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  Speaker 1: particular game or any game? I suppose?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we we would be happy if someone
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  Speaker 2: come down and sponsor that game. It's not probably. They
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  Speaker 2: can always get in contact with me.
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  Speaker 1: I was just about to ask you how the hell
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  Speaker 1: would they get in contact with you.
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  Speaker 2: You can get in contact through the club or through
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  Speaker 2: messenger or by phone if need be.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and where would they they get you know, where
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  Speaker 1: would be the best place to look for that?
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  Speaker 2: It's normally it should be on the club website and
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  Speaker 2: it should be also in the program.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So you were here first, make sure you have
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: a look at that one. I'm going to play you
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: another tune and then I'm going to speak to Garren
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: about forthcoming coming game coming up on Tuesday evening, a
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: little a little bit of a derby. I think Victor
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: take it on over Athletic. I don't often say that
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  Speaker 1: out loud anyway. I promised you a miracle. We would
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: be a miracle if Dave beat us on Tuesday. But
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: there you go, This one's for you. Jim Palmenta, they go.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: Jim Kerr and Simple Minds from nineteen eighty seven. I
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  Speaker 1: saw them a year before that at the Milton Keys
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  Speaker 1: Bowl at nineteen eighty six and the cult was supported.
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  Speaker 1: And who else was it? Anyway, that's neither here, no there.
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday evening folks and in Victor have got dover Athletic
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  Speaker 1: the first time in twenty years. Can you remember the
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: last time to keV Guz Was it.
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: A boxing day? Was that James Dryden scoring one nil
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  Speaker 2: down at Dover.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't here. I was in sunny Oxfordshire at the time,
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  Speaker 1: so I could go back twenty years over than before that.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's been twenty years since we played a
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  Speaker 1: league game at chart And Road or the Alchorine Stadium
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  Speaker 1: as it is now now known as. And we've you know,
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: we've we've already won at the crab All earlier on
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: in this season. He was there gus for that one. Yeah, yeah, great,
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  Speaker 1: excellent two and a half thousand there. We're expecting that
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: at least on Tuesday evening, fire works evening, going to
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: be some fireworks there that night. We were expecting a
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: massive crowd on Tuesday evening at the Arkoos Stadium for
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: the visit of At the moment, top of the table
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: Dover Athletic. What's your reckening? Has three points?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I think we I think we will get the
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: three points, but obviously we've got to make sure we
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: keep eleven on the pitch.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: That's gonna well, just good job you said that, because
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  Speaker 1: I know who the referee is. Oh right? Is it
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  Speaker 1: Nick Dune? Unfortunately it's Cane Dempster, is it? I guess
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: that one camee Dempster. He's not the I'm sure he don't.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: I think he likes us very much. He keeps sending
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  Speaker 1: our players off, so it should be interesting. So hopefully
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: Dean Rants give his mouth buttons, shall we say, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think you've got to go out there with one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent discipline on Tuesday night and just get stuck in.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's that's something that I think our
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: team has really been lucky. What do you reck? You know,
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  Speaker 1: you've seen a few of the games, the.
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: Games and a lot of sending offs and I know
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: Miss Drury says that, you know, he's a bit unfortunate,
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  Speaker 3: but it is. They've had some really tough, you know,
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  Speaker 3: second yellow card decisions against them and then they've got
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  Speaker 3: to go. The most blatant one that when I went
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: over to Ramsgate when he was one on one on
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  Speaker 3: it was early on in the game, he took his
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: legs away, he had to go and they changed the
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: course of the game and we were earlyer FA Cup.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, they to be honest, well that's clear counts
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  Speaker 1: during the game. You know he saw a normal speed. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. Me and Charlie said on the commentary,
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  Speaker 1: Yeah he's got to go. Looking back on the video,
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  Speaker 1: he hardly touched him. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know we don't have VR NO A
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  Speaker 3: bit old fashioned in as much that the referea to
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  Speaker 3: make a decision there and then yeah, I agree, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't think any folks and players came out
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  Speaker 3: and started complaining about it.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely not. It wasn't until as I say, we saw
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  Speaker 1: the video back later on that we thought, oh that
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: was a bit harsh, but there you go. He as
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: I say, he was at that one gas that gravel
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  Speaker 1: on that fantastic evening when we we beat them three too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to a fly and start that day
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  Speaker 2: in which was ideal, and then got the second David
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  Speaker 2: did puts under a bit of pressure once we Once
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  Speaker 2: we got the third day, it was game over I
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  Speaker 2: think really, and they went down to ten which was a.
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  Speaker 1: Bad tackle, There's no two ways about it. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: deserved to go. And they've they have. I've got some
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: suspension of Hester Cook. He's not playing for them on
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Tuesday evening. He got sent off the other days and
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: he's suspended against us for Tuesday evening. So that will
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: be definitely a plus for us. Yeah, bonus in one
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: way because he's a lot of the entertaining football show.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: We say, he's come through him, so you know that
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: sort of playmaker not playing is definitely a plus for us.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: And they take on Potus Bartown and they defeated eight
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: nil on the opening game of the season up at Crabble,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: so they'd hope, yeah, I should get three points. Really
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: you never know though, with football, especially town. Yeah, that's
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: very true. I mean today we travel up to Carl
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Shulton Athletic. I should be going on the chuckle bus
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: very shortly after we finished here in the studio, and
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: you know we're heading up to London to go and
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: watch Carl Shorten Athletic folks in the Victor. So if
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: you want to, can't make it up there and make
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: sure he's tuning into Seasiders Radio and get the full
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: much wantry on that one. What about you guys? You
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: got you're up there today?
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: A are you?
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  Speaker 2: No? Not today? I should be listening on the radio
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: probably this afternoon as We've got our kdfil tomorrow, so
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: I'm resting for that obviously playing in goal tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: You got got in the gloves again? I have, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: gloves are on tomorrow. Takes us back to the old,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: the good old days of five A side, as we've
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: we're down here in Tontine Street just over the road
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: from us. There we used to play the Marine Pavilion
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: many years ago. I remember them, remember them days, World,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: the two posts, Yeah, two posts there. They used to
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: be good when you did the roller skating in the middle.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: They used to be able to hang on to those.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: But playing football on them, yeah, it was never a
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: good thing. Really. Well, remember the good old days, Warren,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: not the Warren Herald games. They were always pretty pretty special. Yeah, yeah,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: I think they've lost the year World. I think you did. Yeah,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: you did, not me, not me. I've never lose to Herald.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I couldn't couldn't lose to I. And anyway, we'll best
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: be moving on, otherwise we could be talking about we'll
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: start going on Sunday morning, and we're really bore the listener. Anyway,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: thanks for coming in Gas. It's been absolutely fantastic and
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: it's given a great opportunity for people that don't know
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: about the folks the Victor Disability Team. You know, you're
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: given a bit of a hindsight and hopefully people will
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: come forward, hopefully sponsor your game and maybe some other games.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: And you know, we've just highlighted it a little bit
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: more and maybe, as I say, get to a final
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: or something like that, we'll get you back in and
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: we can promote that one again. Anyway, we will playing
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: another song. Gassy is staying in the studio with us
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: and you might jump in with some of the bits
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: and pieces, so good play this one from you be
• 18:00
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• 18:07
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