A most enjoyable night out……

[mickd1961]

Met up in Harrogate with BaggieAl and Steviel81.

Very good company as always and a good laugh and hopefully we’ll repeat next week when I’m up north again.

If anyone else is reasonably local they’ll be welcome to join us.

Thanks again lads.

[Stevil81]

Thanks Mick, great to see you and Baggie Al again.

Good to chat Albion and various other topics.

Hope to see you next week.

[phild]

Thanks Mick, great to see you and Baggie Al again.

Good to chat Albion and various other topics.

Hope to see you next week.

Im liking ya avatar Steve

[Stevil81]

Thanks I used to love subbuteo!

When I wrote this, how weird does the name Subbuteo look? Wonder how this name came out!

Bored and just looked it up...
The name is derived from the Neo-Latin scientific name Falco subbuteo (a bird of prey commonly known as the Eurasian hobby), after a trademark was not granted to its creator Peter Adolph (1916–1994) to call the game "Hobby".

Everyday is a school day!

[Dubbag]

Thanks I used to love subbuteo!

When I wrote this, how weird does the name Subbuteo look? Wonder how this name came out!

Bored and just looked it up...
The name is derived from the Neo-Latin scientific name Falco subbuteo (a bird of prey commonly known as the Eurasian hobby), after a trademark was not granted to its creator Peter Adolph (1916–1994) to call the game "Hobby".

Everyday is a school day!

Did you ever get the floodlights Steve?
Loved Subbuteo...interesting name alright.

[Stevil81]

I didn't have floodlights but did have the AstroTurf which was good. I too knelt on mist of the buggers and had to use blutak to stick em back together.

My dad had a great horse racing game, I think it was called Escalado, that was good fun!

[baggieal]

It must have been my ghost as the unbalanced
p rick Viaduct says I don’t exist!

Good to see you both

[mickd1961]

It must have been my ghost as the unbalanced
p rick Viaduct says I don’t exist!

Good to see you both

On Balance……I agree with you mate!

[On Balance]

On Balance……I agree with you mate!

I loved Subuteo and had the floodlights. Had a second hand WBA team, some of which were glued at the base. On balance, due to the glue, they weren’t that balanced, a little like our club at the moment.

[phild]

I posted a thread on here a few years back about subbuteo and it seems many of us on here owned the game as kids

Had a few extras such as the 'throw in' players, a stadium and some fencing. I was always busting the players heads off because i would often kneel on em as we didnt have a table to put the pitch on

I also had the floodlights which were used to great effect during the power cuts in the 70s.