Knowing the names of the Boro backroom staff when you were a kid

viv_andersons_nana said:
I’m 40 now but can still remember the names of Boro’s backroom staff from the very early 1990s. Obviously Tommy Johnson is the big one, and Sir John Pickering, but also Mark Nile and the permed, moustachioed Ray Train.

It would also be remiss of me not to mention David Rigg, the finest groundsman these lush green isles have ever seen.

Is it just me that remembers this sort of stuff or are there others who can name Robbo’s backroom line-up or who carried the bucket and sponge for Big Jack?
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I'll see your Mark Nile and raise you a Bob Ward.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
I’m 40 now but can still remember the names of Boro’s backroom staff from the very early 1990s. Obviously Tommy Johnson is the big one, and Sir John Pickering, but also Mark Nile and the permed, moustachioed Ray Train.

It would also be remiss of me not to mention David Rigg, the finest groundsman these lush green isles have ever seen.

Is it just me that remembers this sort of stuff or are there others who can name Robbo’s backroom line-up or who carried the bucket and sponge for Big Jack?
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Yep remember all them and for some reason a guy called david geddis although not sure why or when from i think he was a coach or something similar time to the above.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
I’m 40 now but can still remember the names of Boro’s backroom staff from the very early 1990s. Obviously Tommy Johnson is the big one, and Sir John Pickering, but also Mark Nile and the permed, moustachioed Ray Train.

It would also be remiss of me not to mention David Rigg, the finest groundsman these lush green isles have ever seen.

Is it just me that remembers this sort of stuff or are there others who can name Robbo’s backroom line-up or who carried the bucket and sponge for Big Jack?
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Saw Ray Train last month at a MFC Foundation memories event - still had the wavey hair.
 
TheWolfman said:
Yep remember all them and for some reason a guy called david geddis although not sure why or when from i think he was a coach or something similar time to the above.
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David Geddes was a former Villa and Ipswich forward and coach at Boro. The last time I saw him was at a Dorman Museum event for Victorian designer Christopher Dresser as he is very much into antiques.
 
TheWolfman said:
Yep remember all them and for some reason a guy called david geddis although not sure why or when from i think he was a coach or something similar time to the above.
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David Geddis was at the odd Junior Reds meeting back in the day, and he used to do some coaching over at Southlands Centre. Our Mam remembered him from his Ipswich Town days.
 
I asked David Geddes if he could have a word with Paddy Lee, our Northern Ireland youth winger, to return my 8 year old son's shin pads after a junior match at Bedford Terrace. He didn't believe me at first, then scuttled off and brought them back. Apparently Paddy would have had a fine and big bo11ocking for forgetting them, at least he remembered his boots.

Geddes came across as a smashing bloke in the chat afterwards.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
I asked David Geddes if he could have a word with Paddy Lee, our Northern Ireland youth winger, to return my 8 year old son's shin pads after a junior match at Bedford Terrace. He didn't believe me at first, then scuttled off and brought them back. Apparently Paddy would have had a fine and big bo11ocking for forgetting them, at least he remembered his boots.

Geddes came across as a smashing bloke in the chat afterwards.
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He organised a penalty shootout for the Junior Reds’ kids in the old Ayresome Park gym in about 1993, during which I absolutely smashed a penalty past Pearsy into the top corner of a five-a-side goal. I can still hear the noise Pearsy made as he realised I’d completely wrong-footed him. Sent him for a ‘paper, as my old Grandad used to say.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
Wasn’t Ron Bone an academy man? Downing always mentions him when he’s talking about coming up through the ranks. I think he looked after all the young lads and liaised with families and stuff.
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Yeah he did, but I mainly remember him as there was a strong rumour on the Crooksbarn estate amongst us young uns that his missus was very easy on the eye and often had the central heating on a bit high in their upstairs bedroom.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
I asked David Geddes if he could have a word with Paddy Lee, our Northern Ireland youth winger, to return my 8 year old son's shin pads after a junior match at Bedford Terrace. He didn't believe me at first, then scuttled off and brought them back. Apparently Paddy would have had a fine and big bo11ocking for forgetting them, at least he remembered his boots.

Geddes came across as a smashing bloke in the chat afterwards.
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Coached me as a kid, nice fella as I recall.
 
Lots of ex-Boro lads used to coach us as kids. Robbie Lake - who Lennie had with the first-team for a while before he got a career-ending knee injury, and he had a MASSIVE quiff - coached me, Michael Waller, Lee Roxby, Lee Turnbull did some Southlands sessions as well.
 
Jedi boro said:
I used to regularly walk past his house on the green
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I remember getting his autograph after a reserve game and he was absolutely beaming. I doubt he’d been asked many times before but you never know, there’s loads of us little nerds about. He shook my Nana’s hand as well. These are the true legends of football clubs aren’t they, really.
 
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