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Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by ClaretTony » Wed May 03, 2023 8:51 pm

ITV4 showing six compilation episodes of Saint & Greavsie this summer. Once more football will be a funny old game.

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by ElectroClaret » Wed May 03, 2023 9:10 pm

JG once described the Turf as looking like "something out of Lorna Doone" :D
Looking forward to seeing these old episodes.
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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by Leon_C » Wed May 03, 2023 9:14 pm

If we can just find out Greavsie's opinion of Scottish goalkeepers, we can finally square the circle.
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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by bobinho » Wed May 03, 2023 9:14 pm

Maybe someone will take notice about how entertaining a footy show can be and commission a new show?

Tony Hayers perhaps?

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by Silkyskills1 » Wed May 03, 2023 9:50 pm

Wasn't it Brigadoon?
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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by dougcollins » Wed May 03, 2023 9:56 pm

Silkyskills1 wrote:
Wed May 03, 2023 9:50 pm
Wasn't it Brigadoon?
No, the whole of the moon.

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by ElectroClaret » Wed May 03, 2023 10:02 pm

Silkyskills1 wrote:
Wed May 03, 2023 9:50 pm
Wasn't it Brigadoon?
Yes, think you might be right. Whichever, it was said in the best humour.
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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by evensteadiereddie » Wed May 03, 2023 10:07 pm

I'm not sure these reruns will stand the test of time.
We'll see.

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by kentonclaret » Wed May 03, 2023 10:09 pm

bobinho wrote:
Wed May 03, 2023 9:14 pm
Maybe someone will take notice about how entertaining a footy show can be and commission a new show?

Tony Hayers perhaps?
Any new show commissioned would have to show diversity and be politically correct and so wouldn’t be anything similar to Saint and Greavsie. One of them would have to be female for a start.
Sky have decommissioned a group of 5 middle aged white men who used to discuss football on a Saturday afternoon and those types of shows are now destined for the archives.
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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by Tricky Trevor » Thu May 04, 2023 9:00 am

Greavesie, back in the early 60s, said the difference between Spurs and Burnley was their reserve strength. This was at the time we won back to back Central Leagues. Me Da was foaming at the mouth.

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by MeeActon1 » Thu May 04, 2023 9:01 am

ElectroClaret wrote:
Wed May 03, 2023 9:10 pm
JG once described the Turf as looking like "something out of Lorna Doone" :D
Looking forward to seeing these old episodes.
JG actually said that when Spurs used to arrive into Burnley on the coach via Manchester Road, the town used to loom out of the chimney smoke and fog like Brigadoon. Always had a soft spot for Burnley did Jimmy.

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by CrosspoolClarets » Thu May 04, 2023 9:13 am

Will look out for this rerun and a bit o/t but what a shame the modern world is banging on about Haaland breaking the record when post-war Greavsie got more. It is disrespecting the dead.

Even that pales into insignificance compared to Dixie Dean with his 60 goals, someone who tragically dropped dead watching a mersey derby at Goodison and whose record of 60 goals needs to be respected.

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by ClaretTony » Thu May 04, 2023 9:41 am

That’s a brilliant clip and allowed me to listen to my old friend George Bray. George used to tell me that we’d get back to the top flight one day but I don’t think I ever believed him. I just wish he’d lived long enough to witness it.

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by Hipper » Thu May 04, 2023 9:46 am

evensteadiereddie wrote:
Wed May 03, 2023 10:07 pm
I'm not sure these reruns will stand the test of time.
We'll see.
I just looked at one on YouTube. It was better then I remember (I didn't see many because I was going to matches) with Greaves making mildly amusing little quips now and then. It looks quite ad lib. The main point was that it was a bit different from what we were used to at the time.

I often enjoy the interviews from the 70s/80s on the Big Match etc. repeats, especially with likes of Malcolm Allison and Ron Atkinson. They seem quite relaxed and honest and less of today's media savvy stuff.

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by IanMcL » Thu May 04, 2023 11:14 am

Silkyskills1 wrote:
Wed May 03, 2023 9:50 pm
Wasn't it Brigadoon?
Of course it was. A place where a visiting team can only win once in a hundred years!

I think Jimmy G described the coach coming over the hills and down into Burnley, amongst all the chimneys. The weather was different - always raining and misty. Suddenly, the mist would clear and there was Turf Moor.

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by Dazzler » Thu May 04, 2023 11:40 am

MeeActon1 wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 9:01 am
Always had a soft spot for Burnley did Jimmy.
I watched a few the other month on youtube and there's one where Ian actually says that he has a soft spot for Burnley.

I'll try find it.
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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by ElectroClaret » Thu May 04, 2023 11:55 am

Long time ago, of course, but I also remember him wishing us good luck on the morning of the Orient game.

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by Dazzler » Thu May 04, 2023 12:08 pm

Dazzler wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 11:40 am
I watched a few the other month on youtube and there's one where Ian actually says that he has a soft spot for Burnley.

I'll try find it.
17.55 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbat1ilb5GM

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by ClaretTony » Thu May 04, 2023 12:09 pm

ElectroClaret wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 11:55 am
Long time ago, of course, but I also remember him wishing us good luck on the morning of the Orient game.
He did.

On the one occasion I met him in 1986 when he and Saint came to Supporters’ Club Dinner, he spoke so warmly about our club and that was in a private conversation rather than speaking at the dinner.
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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by JohnDearyMe » Thu May 04, 2023 12:17 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Wed May 03, 2023 8:51 pm
ITV4 showing six compilation episodes of Saint & Greavsie this summer. Once more football will be a funny old game.


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What sort of age were they when they did the show? Hard to tell from the photo

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by ClaretTony » Thu May 04, 2023 12:37 pm

JohnDearyMe wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 12:17 pm
What sort of age were they when they did the show? Hard to tell from the photo
It started in 1985 when St John was 47 and Greaves 45. It ran for seven years.
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Post by Cirrus_Minor » Thu May 04, 2023 12:46 pm

Love the youtu.be clip. I think Greaves was confusing mist with smog. :D

I don't doubt that StJohn had a soft spot for Burnley, in '68 and '69 he came with Liverpool sides that buttered us st Turf Moor. I still have nightmares about Peter Thompson giving our defenders twisted blood.

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Post by Quicknick » Thu May 04, 2023 1:16 pm

Cirrus_Minor wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 12:46 pm
Love the youtu.be clip. I think Greaves was confusing mist with smog. :D

I don't doubt that StJohn had a soft spot for Burnley, in '68 and '69 he came with Liverpool sides that buttered us st Turf Moor. I still have nightmares about Peter Thompson giving our defenders twisted blood.
Peter Thompson ran Jim Thomson ragged. I think it was Thomson's debut, but maybe not.

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Post by Cirrus_Minor » Thu May 04, 2023 1:20 pm

Quicknick wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 1:16 pm
Peter Thompson ran Jim Thomson ragged. I think it was Thomson's debut, but maybe not.
He did indeed.

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Post by ClaretTony » Thu May 04, 2023 1:38 pm

Quicknick wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 1:16 pm
Peter Thompson ran Jim Thomson ragged. I think it was Thomson's debut, but maybe not.
It was Jim’s debut. We played him at right back. We lost 4-0, made changes and won the next eight.
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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by Ric_C » Thu May 04, 2023 1:41 pm

Used to love this show when I was a kid.

Anyone remember when Greavsie was ill, so Peter Brackley stood in for him as his spitting image puppet? :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBeiuFf ... el=Mooncat
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Post by Foshiznik » Thu May 04, 2023 1:43 pm

Quite nice at my age to still be able to see things like this and be able to say I'm too young to remember this. Doesn't happen so often nowadays in a year where we appointed the first Burnley Manager to be younger than me.

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Post by clansman » Thu May 04, 2023 3:57 pm

Ric
Thanks for that clip brilliant! So funny seeing Jimmy as a puppeteer puppet! Brings back great memories.

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by Quicknick » Sat May 06, 2023 11:48 am

ClaretTony wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 1:38 pm
It was Jim’s debut. We played him at right back. We lost 4-0, made changes and won the next eight.
I was at that match. Difficult to watch. Didn't we lose 5-1 at home the previous season?

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Post by ClaretTony » Sat May 06, 2023 12:46 pm

Quicknick wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 11:48 am
I was at that match. Difficult to watch. Didn't we lose 5-1 at home the previous season?
The 5-1 defeat was four seasons earlier

https://www.uptheclarets.com/fixtures-r ... 65-results

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by Quicknick » Sat May 06, 2023 1:11 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 12:46 pm
The 5-1 defeat was four seasons earlier

https://www.uptheclarets.com/fixtures-r ... 65-results
Surprised, but I was there. Fewer than 12,500 there!

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Post by ClaretTony » Sat May 06, 2023 1:19 pm

Quicknick wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 1:11 pm
Surprised, but I was there. Fewer than 12,500 there!
The fog was that bad, nobody could see much that day which, given the result, was probably for the best.

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by Quicknick » Sat May 06, 2023 9:19 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 1:19 pm
The fog was that bad, nobody could see much that day which, given the result, was probably for the best.
So long ago, I can't remember the fog.

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Post by Clarets4me » Sat May 06, 2023 9:49 pm

Ric_C wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 1:41 pm
Used to love this show when I was a kid.

Anyone remember when Greavsie was ill, so Peter Brackley stood in for him as his spitting image puppet? :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBeiuFf ... el=Mooncat
Brackley as Greavsie - " Even the best strikers have the occasional goal drought, I had one myself, worst 34 minutes of my life ! " :D

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Post by ClaretTony » Sat May 27, 2023 10:56 am

First episode is next Saturday on ITV4 at 10:25 am.

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by ClaretTony » Sat Jun 03, 2023 9:11 am

BUMP - this morning on ITV4 at 10:25

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Post by Clovius Boofus » Sat Jun 03, 2023 9:26 am

ClaretTony wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 12:37 pm
It started in 1985 when St John was 47 and Greaves 45. It ran for seven years.
I'd never have got that right if it was a quiz question. I would have said much earlier.

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Post by Goody1975 » Sat Jun 03, 2023 12:10 pm

Clovius Boofus wrote:
Sat Jun 03, 2023 9:26 am
I'd never have got that right if it was a quiz question. I would have said much earlier.
In a way you are correct, as a stand alone show it did start in 1985 but Saint & Greavsie were on World of Sport in a segment called 'On the Ball' much earlier than 1985.

I have a VHS full of clips from the 82/83 season and the attached clip shows the build up to the FA Cup game against Sheffield Wednesday in 1983.

https://youtu.be/0llzF5EwVIc
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Post by CrosspoolClarets » Sat Jun 03, 2023 12:10 pm

Fantastic, really enjoyed that, brings back memories and got me in the mood for the Cup Final better than the rubbish served up nowadays like Football Focus in recent years.

The access they get to training grounds and to athletes like Mike Tyson was far better than nowadays, and the players were happy to join in the gags.

Incredible that Greavsie in this is much younger than I am now but he don’t look it bless him (until he did those exercises at Watford) :D

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by ClaretTony » Sat Jun 03, 2023 2:02 pm

Really enjoyable. Not sure when the next one is on.

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Re: Saint & Greavsie back this summer

Post by Hipper » Sat Jun 03, 2023 4:45 pm

I thought it was stilted and no-one seemed comfortable. Frankly, pretty awful.

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