Hereford Rams

[ram59]

On 12/12/2023 at 21:28, Kinder said:

I’m surprised there isn’t a West Midlands branch. There was in the 80s, I remember going to The Royal in Sutton Coldfield for a branch event evening with Graham Richards and Colin Gibson.

i can’t remember much else, other than the branch chairman went to prison for fraud. Honestly! Nothing to do with the supporters’ club, I think it was at his work. Maybe that’s why there isn’t a branch any more!

I remember it well, we used to have a coach to away games. I remember one season when we lost our first few away games by one goal and celebrated our first away point at Oxford in a nil nil draw. We also played a charity football match against Villa supporters with a football league referee, I was the emergency goalkeeper when the proper one didn't turn up. The club lent us an old first team kit and we won 4-1, if memory serves me right.

I remember us having one practice game first, against some trainee priests in Sutton Coldfield, in our pre-match talk in the dressing room, we all agreed not to swear and to be polite on the pitch. The dirty foul mouthed bunch beat us 2 nil.😂

Edited December 14, 2023 by ram59
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[Kinder]

1 hour ago, ram59 said:

I remember it well, we used to have a coach to away games. I remember one season when we lost our first few away games by one goal and celebrated our first away point at Oxford in a nil nil draw. We also played a charity football match against Villa supporters with a football league referee, I was the emergency goalkeeper when the proper one didn't turn up. The club lent us an old first team kit and we won 4-1, if memory serves me right.

I remember us having one practice game first, against some trainee priests in Sutton Coldfield, in our pre-match talk in the dressing room, we all agreed not to swear and to be polite on the pitch. The dirty foul mouthed bunch beat us 2 nil.😂

I think my brother went on that coach a few times in the late 80s. Ed Dawes might have as well, although we didn’t know each other at the time. He’s a Sutton lad.

[Kinder]

On 13/12/2023 at 00:05, uttoxram75 said:

Sutton Coldfield is Villa territory. We took it over a few years ago when one of our lot married a girl from that way on. We did the bounce in Sutton Coldfield town hall much to the amusement of our lad and the embarrassment of his new wife and her Villa supporting family. 🐏

I’m born and bred in Sutton so I’ve been surrounded by Villa all my life. They’re generally a good bunch (way better than the bluenoses!) and they’re loving life at the moment.

[uttoxram75]

3 hours ago, Kinder said:

I’m born and bred in Sutton so I’ve been surrounded by Villa all my life. They’re generally a good bunch (way better than the bluenoses!) and they’re loving life at the moment.

Quite right mate. The Villa fans were ok, if it had been bluenoses we'd have been in a brawl no doubt.

[Justin Ratcliffe]

On 13/12/2023 at 16:57, Ramant62 said:

I havent been in touch, but that would be good if you could put me in touch. Thank you

Just a note to say that I have put a write up on the West Country Supporters Branch on Jan 2nd. 
 

Anyone in the West Country/South West who wants to meet up, receive regular newsletters or join coaches from Worcester or Solihull send me a pm or email: derbycountytravel@gmail.com

Justin Ratcliffe - Secretary, DCSCWCB