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Greymouth High School 1st 11 Soccer Team.1964.
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DescriptionBack Row: Gary Murdoch, Keith Merriman, Bruce Abel, Morris Fagerlund.
Middle row: Blair Donaldson, Dennis Menzies, Wayne Molloy, Kevin Williams, Russell Allison, Mr R Dayne (coach)
Front row: Albert Stuart, Vincent Jacobs, Robert Ward, David Bridge, Tony Rodgers, Christopher Allison.Date of Photo1964Map[1] Contributor Phillip Lee
Middle row: Blair Donaldson, Dennis Menzies, Wayne Molloy, Kevin Williams, Russell Allison, Mr R Dayne (coach)
Front row: Albert Stuart, Vincent Jacobs, Robert Ward, David Bridge, Tony Rodgers, Christopher Allison.Date of Photo1964Map[1] Contributor Phillip Lee
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Location (city or town)GreymouthPersonGary MurdochKevin WilliamsChristopher AllisonTony RodgersDavid BridgeRobert WardVincent JacobsAlbert StuartR DayneKeith MerrimanBruce AbelMorris FagerlundBlair DonaldsonDennis MenziesWayne MolloyRussell AllisonOrganisation (eg business)Greymouth High SchoolEventGreymouth High School Football Team.1964.
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Date Created21st August 2021CommentsKaren Potter
My brother front row. Vince jacobs
Phillip Lee
Karen Potter I only know about 5.
Phillip Lee
Karen Potter second from left.
Karen Potter
Phillip Lee that's right granny
Priscilla-Chang Newton
I recognize a lot of them some really good player in that team
Mary Fenemor
Other Twin, standing along side the Teacher ,Mr Daine . Maybe , A. Michell , next Fellow, to Twin, then above, Teacher, might be the Chap of Faiglin .ex. Blaketown, sorry about poor spelling.
Helen Brennan
Robert Ward Albert Stuart
Bruce Keddie
I suspect that it's the First 11 football (soccer) team not a first 15 (rugby union) team Regardless of the numbers in the photo (some are reserves) check what it says on the football at their feet in the front row. I played football with some of these guys both at High School and in the Greymouth United (soccer) club.
Les Bryce
That's what it says in the title, First 11
Bruce Keddie
Does now! Said " First 15" when originally posted.
Les Bryce
ah, ok
Peter Fleming
Two blackball boys Gary Murdoch and Kevin Williams
Gary Murdoch
Sadly we weren't a good team. Against Westport High School that year we were ignominiously beaten 11.
Velma Donaldson
Gary Murdoch
Tom Hartill
Is that Denis Menzies 2nd row 2nd from left?
Mike Rodgers
Back Row: Gary Murdoch, Keith Merriman, Bruce Abel, Morris Fagerlund,
Middle row: Blair Donaldson, Dennis Menzies, Wayne Molloy, Keith?or Kevin? Williams, Russell Allison, Mr R Dayne (coach)
Front row: Albert Stuart, Vincent Jacobs, Robert Ward, David Bridge, Tony Rodgers, Christopher Allison.
I think.
Phillip Lee
Mike Rodgers thanks very for that, I will write the names on the back of the photo
Bruce Keddie
Yep, I would go with that.
Gary Murdoch
Well done on the names. It's Kevin Williams. I was there and I could recall only 3!!. Last time I checked I was still going and I know Kevin Williams and Bruce Able are still hanging in there. How many are not, I wonder?
There was a bit of an anti-league bias at GHS and we league people wouldn't stoop to playing that game anyway so that's how the Blackball boys ended up in the soccer team.
Got quite interested in the game though and that year I travelled with Bruce Abel's family to Christchurch to watch an exhibition match between Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United. If I recall correctly there was a special railcar put on for the event.
As they say, those were the days.
Mike Rodgers
Thanks, Gary, I have corrected Kevin's name.
Mike Rodgers
I cheated. I used the 1964 Mawhera Gazette.David Hall
That photo brings back good memories of my time at Grey High.
Eddie Parsons
Some hard cases in that team
Chris Kyle
Making a first 11 on the coast would require more bravery than skill.
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
I played soccer for a Blackball team in the 60s, Gary Murdoch, they made me goalie, nobody else wanted the job. We got thrashed in Cobden by about 11-zip too, if I remember. Then the team blamed me for letting all those shots past. Funny that, the other team (Cobden) was always down our end!
Then our driver made us kids sit in the car while he drank at Kells Hotel! I went home and resigned.Gary Murdoch
Any still living on the Coast I wonder?
Anne Mcmillan Miller
Gary Murdoch Russell Alison lives in Hokitika.Gary. has dementia i believe. He was in.my class at primary school. We had 3 sets of twins in our class.
Anne Mcmillan Miller 4 sets of twins Annie. Alison's, Hoggs, Marsh's and us.
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Anne Mcmillan Miller TERRIBLE
Thanks Anne. Shame about Russell. We weren't much of a soccer team getting beaten 8 or 9 nil by Westport that year (although it may have been the '63 team now that I think about it!)
Anne Mcmillan Miller
Gary Murdoch dont mind my twin sister Gary lol lol she loves correcting me
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Anne Mcmillan Miller wonder why .
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Noel Merriman do you guys know Keith x
Kaye Merriman
Anntoinette Allan no I think that’s the Merriman family that we can’t match up to
Anntoinette Allan
Kaye Merriman oh ok he looks like abit like dad when he was younger
Amii Merriman
Anntoinette Allan thats my dad, we are the non matching Merriman's
Priscilla-Chang Newton
Some good young footballers in that team
John Coffey
As a soccer player, Dennis Menzies turned into a pretty good rugby league centre for Marist-Western Suburbs.
Gary Murdoch
He certainly had the league pedigree for it John.
Jock Allen
Who is the good looking Guy on the left back row CHEERS Mate
Gary Murdoch
Jock Allen Been all downhill since then Jock.
Ken Johnston
Jock Allen please tell me...!!
Vanessa Hay
Liz Wilson
Liz Wilson
James Ward… Did you know dad played soccer??
Rob Lunn
Does anybody know where my cousin Maurice Fagerlund ended up??
Sue Scott
Rob Lunn I think his sister Alison is on the Blaketown page
Kev Rasmussen
Scott Alison ya dad and uncle I think
Bill Homan
Maurice was kicking around Nelson till recently. Bit of a mess sorry to say
My brother front row. Vince jacobs
Phillip Lee
Karen Potter I only know about 5.
Phillip Lee
Karen Potter second from left.
Karen Potter
Phillip Lee that's right granny
Priscilla-Chang Newton
I recognize a lot of them some really good player in that team
Mary Fenemor
Other Twin, standing along side the Teacher ,Mr Daine . Maybe , A. Michell , next Fellow, to Twin, then above, Teacher, might be the Chap of Faiglin .ex. Blaketown, sorry about poor spelling.
Helen Brennan
Robert Ward Albert Stuart
Bruce Keddie
I suspect that it's the First 11 football (soccer) team not a first 15 (rugby union) team Regardless of the numbers in the photo (some are reserves) check what it says on the football at their feet in the front row. I played football with some of these guys both at High School and in the Greymouth United (soccer) club.
Les Bryce
That's what it says in the title, First 11
Bruce Keddie
Does now! Said " First 15" when originally posted.
Les Bryce
ah, ok
Peter Fleming
Two blackball boys Gary Murdoch and Kevin Williams
Gary Murdoch
Sadly we weren't a good team. Against Westport High School that year we were ignominiously beaten 11.
Velma Donaldson
Gary Murdoch
Tom Hartill
Is that Denis Menzies 2nd row 2nd from left?
Mike Rodgers
Back Row: Gary Murdoch, Keith Merriman, Bruce Abel, Morris Fagerlund,
Middle row: Blair Donaldson, Dennis Menzies, Wayne Molloy, Keith?or Kevin? Williams, Russell Allison, Mr R Dayne (coach)
Front row: Albert Stuart, Vincent Jacobs, Robert Ward, David Bridge, Tony Rodgers, Christopher Allison.
I think.
Phillip Lee
Mike Rodgers thanks very for that, I will write the names on the back of the photo
Bruce Keddie
Yep, I would go with that.
Gary Murdoch
Well done on the names. It's Kevin Williams. I was there and I could recall only 3!!. Last time I checked I was still going and I know Kevin Williams and Bruce Able are still hanging in there. How many are not, I wonder?
There was a bit of an anti-league bias at GHS and we league people wouldn't stoop to playing that game anyway so that's how the Blackball boys ended up in the soccer team.
Got quite interested in the game though and that year I travelled with Bruce Abel's family to Christchurch to watch an exhibition match between Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United. If I recall correctly there was a special railcar put on for the event.
As they say, those were the days.
Mike Rodgers
Thanks, Gary, I have corrected Kevin's name.
Mike Rodgers
I cheated. I used the 1964 Mawhera Gazette.David Hall
That photo brings back good memories of my time at Grey High.
Eddie Parsons
Some hard cases in that team
Chris Kyle
Making a first 11 on the coast would require more bravery than skill.
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
I played soccer for a Blackball team in the 60s, Gary Murdoch, they made me goalie, nobody else wanted the job. We got thrashed in Cobden by about 11-zip too, if I remember. Then the team blamed me for letting all those shots past. Funny that, the other team (Cobden) was always down our end!
Then our driver made us kids sit in the car while he drank at Kells Hotel! I went home and resigned.Gary Murdoch
Any still living on the Coast I wonder?
Anne Mcmillan Miller
Gary Murdoch Russell Alison lives in Hokitika.Gary. has dementia i believe. He was in.my class at primary school. We had 3 sets of twins in our class.
Anne Mcmillan Miller 4 sets of twins Annie. Alison's, Hoggs, Marsh's and us.
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Anne Mcmillan Miller TERRIBLE
Thanks Anne. Shame about Russell. We weren't much of a soccer team getting beaten 8 or 9 nil by Westport that year (although it may have been the '63 team now that I think about it!)
Anne Mcmillan Miller
Gary Murdoch dont mind my twin sister Gary lol lol she loves correcting me
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Anne Mcmillan Miller wonder why .
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Noel Merriman do you guys know Keith x
Kaye Merriman
Anntoinette Allan no I think that’s the Merriman family that we can’t match up to
Anntoinette Allan
Kaye Merriman oh ok he looks like abit like dad when he was younger
Amii Merriman
Anntoinette Allan thats my dad, we are the non matching Merriman's
Priscilla-Chang Newton
Some good young footballers in that team
John Coffey
As a soccer player, Dennis Menzies turned into a pretty good rugby league centre for Marist-Western Suburbs.
Gary Murdoch
He certainly had the league pedigree for it John.
Jock Allen
Who is the good looking Guy on the left back row CHEERS Mate
Gary Murdoch
Jock Allen Been all downhill since then Jock.
Ken Johnston
Jock Allen please tell me...!!
Vanessa Hay
Liz Wilson
Liz Wilson
James Ward… Did you know dad played soccer??
Rob Lunn
Does anybody know where my cousin Maurice Fagerlund ended up??
Sue Scott
Rob Lunn I think his sister Alison is on the Blaketown page
Kev Rasmussen
Scott Alison ya dad and uncle I think
Bill Homan
Maurice was kicking around Nelson till recently. Bit of a mess sorry to say
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