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Hello Quokka - are you feeling a bit lonely here? Shall we start a pensioners club.I go back to 1947/8 as a Carlisle fan - perhaps even a little longer than yourself!!!
This site looks quite promising.As you say very similar indeed to the old 606.I was never a big contributor to the old site although I was a regular reader.
I don't get to go to Brunton Park these days and feel I,m not really in a position to praise/criticise when I don,t actually see the team.We could have a discussion about United,s most exciting player post war - I think you are also a fan - he scored a hat trick against Birmingham in the cup tie at BP. Check out his stats on Wikepedia - to say he was a goal machine is putting it mildly!!
You'll be getting ready for Winter in Oz. Here in Scotland summer is coming - wet as usual although it does keep the midges away!!

G/Day from Oz.
Yes its lonely here, but hopefully more will register.
I think you may have a few years on me, my first recollection of Brunton Park is around1952, but yet I still feel that over the years two outstanding strikers have played for United.
Ackerman and MacIlmoyle. No others come close.
One thing I have never been able to understand is how Ackerman did not play at a higher level, how he never commanded higher transfer fees, and how come he never seemed to settle at any club for long. (Sorry, I accept that is 3 things).
I suspect that he may not have been the most popular player in the dressing room.
As to whether he or any other could qualify as Uniteds most exiting player ever., I can not comment on players like Hogan, Whitehouse, Ashman, as although I saw them play at the end of their careers, I cannot remember
their individual skills, and when you bear in mind that players like Beardsley,Bowles, Broadis, Carlin and Balderstone also graced Brunton Park,(Plus others)
I always feel that age and experience does not give us the right to feel superior over the current crop of Fans.
Now CCG.
Why did the moderator ban you, bearing in mind that has happened to us all several times, and as yet we still have to find out if a moderator exists on this Board.

Why did the moderator ban you, bearing in mind that has happened to us all several times, and as yet we still have to find out if a moderator exists on this Board.

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Ahh, it's kind of a long story. I never actually got banned from 606, but from another BBC site, hootoo. And I think it was unjust anyway! But I never actually made it back - I've been trying for 18 months and every new account I created on 606 gets an instant ban. So rude!! I for one am very glad it's getting the push.

Funnily I moderate a forum on a different site, do I can't be all bad. Right?

And back on a Carlisle (kind of) note, I'm loving the fact that Ian Harte could be playing Premier League football again next season. What a career he's had ... I was disappointed when he left Brunton Park, but I wouldn't want to deny him this one last shot at the big time.

Hello all, I was DerbyCumbrian on the old 606, do you think we will be able to get most of the old 606 lot to sign up here?

Don't get to see Carlisle play much anymore, always struggled to get to many games due to costs but now I'm a student it's even harder to get to games.

I hope this site can provide us with a place to discuss Carlisle United the same way the old site did, Extra Time just died over night, and the other replacement 606 I've signed up to pretty much has no league 1 fans.

Quokka. You could be right about Ackerman's attitude in the dressing room. Personally I never quite understood what brought him to United in the first place. I used the term "most exciting" guardedly. I certainly do not think he was the best post war player at BP - that accolade would possibly go to one of the names mentioned by yourself. If we go even further back my father used to rave about Bill Shankly who was with us a player for only a short time before going on to Preston An illustrious career would have been even better had it not been interrupted by WW11.
Changing the subject I must mention another of your favourite players - the late Tommy Kinloch. You probably missed his best performances which took place not at Brunton Park but in the Crown & Mitre ballroom - saturday evenings after home matches. He usually appeared along with Jim McLaren and a third first team player whom I just cannot recall. Any ideas? In those days footballers were not the "babe magnets" they are today.
As DerbyBlue mentioned Extra Time seems to have died a death although you did your best to keep things going. Need to get WLYC back on line unless he's been eaten by one of his lions!!!
I'm Sure I put paragraphs into this message but they have not appeared!!!!

My old Man is about to turn 102.
From your comments you could be him.
Hello Dad.

Afraid not. I can just about recall your father from schooldays but only just as he was a couple of years younger than me. (I wish!!!)

Funnily enough, if you ever got a perscription dispensed at Boots the Chemist in either English St, or Botchergate,
you have probably met my old man.
Also if you ever donated to Charity at the Carlisle Great Fair, to an old guy playing a violin, and dressed at "Jimmy Dyer", then that was also my old Man.

Hi Quokka
I left Carlisle in 1966 but prior to that I worked around the corner from Boots (I still recall the exquisite smell of roast coffee beans from you know where).I used to visit Boots fairly often as we had previously rented a flat in Victoria Road from a long term Boots employee - a lovely lady whom your father may remember.
I'm having difficulty recalling the Botchergate premises. Was this the old Timothy White shop somewhere near the Coop?

That smell of Roast Coffee Beans will stay with me forever.
Boots is Botchergate was roughly where you indicated, but a very small shop. Two Chemists, and two girls.
My old man is 5ft 2 inch, so if you ever met him, you would remember.