Buckle signs-up

[Behind-the-Gulls]

Johnny Buckle,15 year old son of Mr.P. has been signed by us on a trainee scholarship.
Midfielder like his dad.

[jonnyfive]

Curious... rumour had it that Poppa Weasel was off to the US to be a kept man?

[Yellow4life]

he was on the bench for the U18's tuesday, didnt get on however like the HE say's

[goodluckgull]

Bucks was spotted in local Tesco last week and was asked if he would like the Torquay manager job again and he said "YES".

Good luck to his son and hope he gets a professional contract in the future.

[Trojan 67]

For a 15 year old to make it into an under 18 squad means the lad has more than ability.

I remember being 15 and playing against players of 18, they were bigger, stronger and had moustaches, hell some of them even had beards!

Good luck to the lad and I hope no one on here goes down the route of "visiting the sins of the father" . . . . . . . . .

[Dave]

Professional academies do not run teams at U15 or U17 , U16 and U18 are mixed age groups 15/16-17/18. Buckle's lad is actually a U16 so coming to the age where he would be up for a youth team scholarship, I beleive he and one other are being signed up by the the club.

[Yellow4life]

That's correct forever, the young striker who started and scored for them on tuesday is the other one due to sign,

[cambgull]

So we've got Buckle's son in the youth team, his cousin/nephew (can't remember which) in the first team, all we need now is his mum working in the office and his brother on the board and we can have the full set!

[Rjc70]

Good luck to him and the other lad. Seem to recall he has been with us a number of years now.

[Yellow4life]

Well they do like to say this is a family club!

[Gullscorer]

It's unlikely I know, but if fate and circumstances ever bring Paul Buckle back to our club in the not too distant future, I for one would welcome him. He's older, wiser, and more experienced, and is an excellent manager. If he were to get us promotion to League One, or even higher, all should be forgiven. Whatever many fans may have thought of him in the past or of the circumstances of his move to Bristol Rovers, nobody is beyond redemption. And I've absolutely nothing against Lingy or Alan Knill; if either of them do the business for us, that will be great too. But hopefully certain supporters are now spending less time criticising other people's characters and are looking in the mirror to try to imorove their own..

[SuperNickyWroe]

It's unlikely I know, but if fate and circumstances ever bring Paul Buckle back to our club in the not too distant future, I for one would welcome him. He's older, wiser, and more experienced, and is an excellent manager. If he were to get us promotion to League One, or even higher, all should be forgiven. Whatever many fans may have thought of him in the past or of the circumstances of his move to Bristol Rovers, nobody is beyond redemption. And I've absolutely nothing against Lingy or Alan Knill; if either of them do the business for us, that will be great too. But hopefully certain supporters are now spending less time criticising other people's characters and are looking in the mirror to try to imorove their own..

are you johnny buckle? 8/ :~D

i think everyone tries to better themselves gullscorer - and nobody would argue with that.
the problem with buckle (the highlighted piece) was the way he went about it - thats the thing that p155es posters off on here................

[bixieupnorth]

I for one would welcome him. He's older, wiser, and more experienced, and is an excellent manager.

he's still a ****, a loathsome weasel of a man, never liked him as a player or a manager. altho obviously he did play a big part in our getting out of the conference, but couldve done much more without his pig headedness, huge ego and well documented disloyalty to our great little club!

[Southampton Gull]

Couldn't agree more, Bixie. It was always about him and we were just not big enough for his ego.

[cambgull]

I think things have changed a bit now. After his rather awful time with Bristol Rovers, he'll have had his ego dented a little. If he were ever to rejoin us, I think we'd see a different person to the one we saw a couple of years ago. One who would realise where his bread was buttered.