I can't remember when it started but i had my photo taken with the league cup when we won in 76 after a meeting in the Social Club. I was member number 4. Do remember the Free Trade Hall and the meetings in the Social Club. Also got my 1st season ticket when they launched the block of seats for junior blues in the Platt Lane.
The Junior Blues.....
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BLUE PEANUT
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Was a member as a kid in the 70's.
Could be wrong but I'm sure there was some big do at Belle Vue - 77ish. Going to social club on the Sunday morning was a highlight. Started taking my niece when she was about 6 and being proud as f@#k whilst she was speaking to Niall Quinn that she loudly announced she hated the rags
Could be wrong but I'm sure there was some big do at Belle Vue - 77ish. Going to social club on the Sunday morning was a highlight. Started taking my niece when she was about 6 and being proud as f@#k whilst she was speaking to Niall Quinn that she loudly announced she hated the rags
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I remember enrolling my first son in the Junior Blues before I had registered the birth. I told him about it 35 years later and he was dead chuffed!
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I joined in 89 and loved it. that was when it was at the old social club and you'd get a good turnout from the players.
I remember being in the junior blues and Distin translating for Sun Ji Hai, expect he was changing everything he said haha. Sun Ji Hai just sat there thinking everyone thought he was funny.
Used the love the Christmas parties they had as well.
Used the love the Christmas parties they had as well.
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What a great thing the JB's was. I used to play for Stockport (obviously) Junior Blues in the late 70's, great times, a junior team with no Rags in it. Getting a Player of the Year award from Tony Book (at a school in Brinnington I think) was such a buzz as a kid.
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can anyone help settle a discussion, what year was the Junior Blues started and who set it up? I remember going in the mid to late 70s and Ken Barnes always sticks in my mind.
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I always remember Ken Barnes and Uncle Harry Goodwin I think was there as well.
I was on Tameside commitee, I have just found in my junk box a letter from Richard Sutton, Chairman, reporting that after almost a year in office, the Junior Blues Club had growth exceeding all expectations.
I recall that Roger Reade was the Secretary at that time, and he replaced Richard as Chairman when Richard moved on.
I recall that Roger Reade was the Secretary at that time, and he replaced Richard as Chairman when Richard moved on.
Carver
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There is footage in the Lee, Bell, Summerbee video of Franny and Buzzer on stage at the Christmas do for the kids, dunno if this was the JB Christmas do. Franny left for Derby in '74.
Director Chris Muir had a lot to do with the JB but not sure if he set it up.
I was in the Tameside branch for a couple of years think they had meetings at Hartshead School.
The only other thing I remember is that Stuart Hall hosted thing at Maine Road with a ring hung from North Stand crossbar that Colin Bell was aiming at , I think this was October or November 1977.
Pretty much the entire membership must have been there.
The only other thing I remember is that Stuart Hall hosted thing at Maine Road with a ring hung from North Stand crossbar that Colin Bell was aiming at , I think this was October or November 1977.
Pretty much the entire membership must have been there.
Mad Eyed Screamer
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I'm sure @Gary James can fill in here, but I think it was either Chris Muir or Ian Niven
NorCalBlue
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Not sure exactly when it started, but my mum saw an ad in the Pink about it and signed up me and my brothers right away - we were numbers 12, 13, and 14. Any of the first 11 around?
My kids joined from the year dot absolutly fantastic .sign of the times now that it no longer around. junior blues was a proper brand unlike the nonsense in this day and ageWhat a fantastic thing the Junior Blues was..... the bi monthly newsletter with members birthdays in.... a silk scarf and the meetings at the old social club. The birthdays of members were read out at half time.... great days as a kid.
At one time the only club with such an organisation. Why the hell was it allowed to cease?
Loved it when we went to grounds with a shit home following and up would go the cry ''We've got more in the Junior Blues, do dah, do dah....''
nmc
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I enrolled my son as a JB within an hour of him being born.
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I was one in the early 70's remember the pen, sow on badge, silk scarf etc. Only ever went to one meeting at the Free Trade Hall where Tony Book must have signed 1,000 autographs and I was 1,001 in the queue.
I remember chatting to DT in the boardroom after the '76 LC win and for some reason think that was a JB only event.
Signed my lad up as others have said at birth in '91, by the time he understood what it was about it'd died a death.
I remember chatting to DT in the boardroom after the '76 LC win and for some reason think that was a JB only event.
Signed my lad up as others have said at birth in '91, by the time he understood what it was about it'd died a death.