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Tigers at Layer Road
at 16:06 9 Feb 2025

Many thanks to new visitors to the 'Tigers' thread ...not sure how you arrived here but hope any time you spend scanning all this stuff is worthwhile.

One of my favourite finds was the notebook for taking food orders that l discovered on the pavement on North Hill.

Another one was the note pad from a cleaner at an establishment in North Station Road which is supposed to be some kind of hotel but has regular visits from Essex Police....and the ambulance service.

It was fun to share some of the text from those finds on here.

I pick things up off the ground that l discover on dog walks - some of them, like a pair of 3D glasses are used in collage work.

One of the most interesting finds a few years ago in Castle Park was a phone belonging to a drug dealer that l managed to get back to him after tracking his moves a few days later.

Another discovery involved possibly saving the life of an individual along with a fellow dog walker while we took instruction over the phone from paramedics.

He was drunk, had taken a lot of substances and having an epileptic fit.

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Super U's display promotion credentials in hard fought victory today
at 15:51 9 Feb 2025

I recall a conversation about a year ago with a coach from a Championship club who lives in Colchester.

He said one of Colchester's problems over about four season's was that they couldn't find a good left back.

Quite simple that. But now we have one and it's made a huge difference.

As for the Samson Tovide non movement in the transfer window l am curious to know what actually happened in the last 48 hours of that window - apologies if l have this wrong but it is my understanding that a fee was agreed with another club.

Surely you can't be flinging figures around in the final few hours ( minutes?? ) of that window?

Or can you?

And back to the conversation with the coach. It was his opinion that Colchester United's defence set up was flawed - and that over a long period of time.

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Super U's display promotion credentials in hard fought victory today
at 20:02 8 Feb 2025

I should imagine Danny and Nicky Cowley might be looking at the league table tonight and may have set their sights on a top three place.

Anything is possible once you get into a winning run. There are no teams in this division for Colchester to fear.

Whatever happens between now and the end of the season we have witnessed a transformation on the playing pitch that was long overdue.

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Tigers at Layer Road
at 19:34 7 Feb 2025

Price tag on Swindon Town F.C. tonight is £12 million.

A bid of £6 million awaits.

Not sure what Colchester United may be valued at.

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Tigers at Layer Road
at 10:54 7 Feb 2025

This might be of interest to music fans....as l understand it 'Only a Shadow' by Martin Newell of The Cleaners from Venus ( Wivenhoe based ) has hit in excess of 10 million listens on Spotify!

The song was written around 1982 so it took a while to grow on people.

Fully deserved Martin!

🙂🙂🙂🙂

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January 2025 transfer window hopes & facts
at 19:41 6 Feb 2025

The club must have been confident of selling Samson for a decent fee in this window as they appear to have bought in at least one player too many now in attack....possibly two or three that are unlikely to feature much as the season moves towards a conclusion.

No cups to be involved in, not even The Essex Senior Cup ( which we should be trying to win! ) so likely a few of them will have to be content to make the match day 18.

I would estimate that quite a bit of money has been saved with the transactions that were completed in the past few weeks.

It's almost impossible to contemplate that Ben Goodliffe ( after his amazing start to the season ) would have been shifted out on loan.

It's rapid turnover of players these days and l have a bit of a job keeping up with it all.

The Cowley's will go flat out for a play off place no matter what.

Thank God they came to the club!

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January 2025 transfer window hopes & facts
at 16:32 6 Feb 2025

Samson Tovide.

It sounds as though the club received the most ever enquiries and offers ( ? ) for any player in recent years but rejected all of them.

So, what do Colchester United ( or the owner ) value him at and how far short were all the clubs that expressed an interest?

It would appear the enquiries came in from at least five different countries.

I have often wondered if Samson will complete an entire football season without being sidelined for large chunks of it.

Would be interested to know how much people think he is worth currently. Maybe club expectations are set too high.

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M&T makeover
at 06:36 6 Feb 2025

Apology ...l think the actual words used by the new owners was 'lost focus' ( not 'interest' ) though it amounts to the same thing.

My question would be - How much focus or interest did the named owner ( at Companies House ) Richard Cowling have in the club?

From what l have been told - not very much.

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M&T makeover
at 22:51 5 Feb 2025

Thanks Daniel.

There are two keys words relating to the former ownership of Maldon & Tiptree F.C. - 'Lost interest' - an understatement perhaps.

I wonder if Richard Cowling had any interest to begin with?

A pawn in a game.

The past few years at Park Drive have been a xxxxxxx farce!

Likewise some of the goings on at The Jobserve could also be described in the same way.

I admire the spirit and the attitude of the new owners of Maldon & Tiptree F.C. and wish them well in their endeavours.

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Tigers at Layer Road
at 21:43 5 Feb 2025

Back to the beginning of this thread that deals with the Mark Blanco case.

It's possible a film may be made about the life of Mark Blanco.

One of people who was present on the night Mark died is involved with this along with a former journalist of a national newspaper.

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Tigers at Layer Road
at 19:29 5 Feb 2025

I have been working on some collage compositions utilising the tool kit and materials l purchased in auction here in Colchester that were part of Zacron's studio.

My intention initially was to sell on a lot of the work but as l delve further into Zacron"s mode of research and design l would like to produce some pieces 'In the manner of' or 'After Zacron'.

Some of his drawings that other bidders acquired have come up for sale online and the prices quoted are 100 times what was paid for some of the pieces at auction!

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M&T makeover
at 19:19 5 Feb 2025

Quite a bit changed on this deal over the past few weeks....some individuals now off radar.

The Gazette is quoting M&T being purchased from Robbie Cowling but technically perhaps that should be Richard Cowling.

The stadium and land has been purchased from one of Robbie's companies.

The whole thing was a bit of a smokescreen but l think the new owners will be open and clear about their intentions.

I'm still of the opinion that Robbie Cowling would be interested in speaking to potential buyers for Colchester United.

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M&T makeover
at 12:27 5 Feb 2025

New owners now and Liam Bailey is the number two.

Kevin Horlock installed as Manager.

Big money going into this project and it will be interesting to see how this all pans out.

The local football landscape has changed somewhat and probably for the better.

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Tigers at Layer Road
at 12:09 2 Feb 2025

I've just come back from the scene of the accident in Magdalen Street.

Local and National media are there. To the Eastern elevation of the building there is a fenced off area where the demolished parts of the building are piled almost 10 feet high. This includes the original support beams, pipes, gutters, bricks and roof tiles.

The impact was on the North West elevation and it appears that another property back towards the town centre was also struck.

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Tigers at Layer Road
at 20:47 1 Feb 2025

Just spoke to someone who lives nearby and was woken in the early hours by what appeared to be an explosion....sounds as though the deceased are possibly teenagers.

I can't recall a town ( city? ) centre motor accident on the scale of this in Colchester.

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Tigers at Layer Road
at 20:28 1 Feb 2025

I've only just heard about the terrible car accident in Magdalen Street early this morning in which four people were killed. The car hit what used to be Carter's second hand building and has caused huge damage. The vehicle was unrecognisable.

It must have been travelling at very high speed.

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Tigers at Layer Road
at 17:57 30 Jan 2025

It's taken me two days ( and virtually the nights as well ) to collate a treasure trove of items that were part of the estate of Zacron.

This has given me an opportunity to contact people in his circle which included Peter Blake.

Zacron was also an associate of Andy Warhol and after meeting him in New York at The Factory took heed of some advice from Warhol and always carried a camera with him ( before mobiles of course ).

I will be contacting a drummer in the US whose work on Zeppelin is in a folder from 2009.

( Thanks to the new visitors to 'Tigers' for taking the time to follow some of this ).

[Post edited 30 Jan 17:59]

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Sent to Coventry .
at 05:33 29 Jan 2025

Latest result for the Under 21's -

QPR 7 Colchester United 0

??? WTF is going on?

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January 2025 transfer window hopes & facts
at 21:35 28 Jan 2025

The exodus of Colchester United players in the current transfer window is of a scale l've not seen previously.

Hints of a fire sale?

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Tigers at Layer Road
at 21:27 28 Jan 2025

Attended an auction today as l was interested in some particular lots by Richard Drew - known as Zacron. Sitting quite close to me were a couple who l once watched purchase over 100 consecutive lots in a fashion and fabric spree.

They spent many thousands then in a single hour and it was my misfortune that l was bidding against them today on some art. Suffice to say, l was very pleasantly surprised to out bid them on the Led Zeppelin related graphics on two of the lots.

They were sitting nearby and had no idea l could hear them speaking as the sale progressed. Felt like l was on assignment from MI5 🙃🙃

I have been going through my purchases and learned that Richard Drew went to school with Eric Clapton. That accounts for one of the titles of a painting that my competitors acquired.

Richard then attended art school with Jimmy Page - hence the Led Zeppelin connection.

TBC

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