Thank you Ballboy.How lucky and privileged we were to see those players wearing the colours of The Town.
at one time I believe we could send out a side with six internationals!

Len Phillips;(England) Ronnie Oosthuizen;(South Africa)Frank McCourt(n.Ireland?)
later on we had Jackie Henderson(Scotland)
We also had some great locals who benefitted from playing alongside players as listed.
when i first started watching the Town Bill(Tanky) Foster was #3, Then along came players like Mike Stevens, Bill Gillett etc Doug Barrington also comes to mind,another polished defender.
Now. All hands to the Pumps and drain that Tatnam swamp and lets have an uninterrupted 2020/2021!!!

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Wilf Mannion Statue

Is this the full list of Poole Towns International players? If not please add

Stan Rickaby - English international played for Poole 1955-60 (Player manager)
Frank McCourt- Northern Ireland international played for Poole 1955 -19??
Len Phillips - English international played for Poole 1956-59
Horace Cumner- Welsh international played for Poole 1955- 19??
Wilf Mannion - English international played for Poole in the late 1950’s
Ronnie Oosthuizen- South Africa international played for Poole 1950’s
Ray King- English B international played for and managed Poole in 1960-63
Tommy McGhee - English Amateur international played for Poole early 1960’s
Jackie Henderson – Scotland international played for Poole 1964-67
Andy Jones - Welsh international played for Poole 1994 - 19??
Ted MacDougall- Scotand international played for Poole 1981
Abdulai Baggie - Sierra Leone international played for Poole 2015-17
James Constable - English C international played for Poole 2018-19.

Additionally
Joe Collins- Britsh Army team played for Poole 2005
Alan Jordan - Britsh Army team played for Poole 2005-06
Mark Hankey- Britsh Army team played for Poole 2006-07
Tommy McCormick - Britsh Army team played for Poole 2009-11
Keith Emmerson Britsh Army team played for Poole 2017
Luke Cairney - Brtish Army team played for Poole 2018 to present

Some great players.

Like the photos, A few more names Ted Macdougall Scotland, Ernie Jones Wales, Ray king ex manager England B, James Constable England C Roy Littlejohn England Amateur, there are more.

Evening Bob!!!. I think you meant to say the British Army team. Don't want you getting shot lol. Do hope you are well. Regards. Nick

Nuneaton Borough v Poole Town 26-09-1959 Report Poole Town team with Rickaby

Nuneaton Borough v Poole Town 26-09-1959
Borough: Gibson; Dunn and King; Pembery, Barrass and Simpson; Stewart, Plant, Duggins, Yates and Morrison.
Poole Town: Kirk; Rickaby and Hillier; Clayton, Parker and Elliott; Dixon, Asher, Smith, Naysmith and Hunter.
Borough welcomed Poole Town to Manor Park for a Southern League Premier Division fixture. In a poor first-half in which both sides played football almost completely devoid of ideas and inspiration, about the only incident of note was a header by centre-forward Duggins, which had the Poole keeper beaten, but struck a post and was cleared. After the change of ends Borough improved appreciably in their midfield approach work. They created quite a few openings, which a more alert and penetrating attack would have turned into goals. Put through by Duggins, Yates failed with an easy chance. Plant, Pembery and Stewart also missed easy chances. By and large Borough were much the better footballing side and when they went into the lead 15 minutes from the end, it seemed they had settled the issue. The goal came after Duggins had headed a cross from Stewart against a post. The ball ran to Angus Morrison who had an easy scoring chance which he duly accepted. After going behind the visitors launched an all-out effort to wipe out Borough’s lead. Moving the ball quicker and using the long pass had the Borough defence in a quandary, and four minutes after Borough’s goal, Poole levelled the scores when Rickaby moved between two Borough defenders and crossed the ball to the left-winger Hunter, who unmarked, made no mistake.
A draw looked a certainty, but two minutes from time Hunter, Poole’s danger man, got through on the left and lifted the ball into the centre for Rickaby to take a shot at goal. The shot appeared to be going wide, but struck King and was deflected past Gibson and into the net.
It was not a happy day for forwards or defenders, and once again Gibson was about the only Borough player who could not be faulted. He had no chance with either of the goals and made quite a number of excellent saves. This was a game Borough should not have lost. But through poor finishing and that last-minute slice of bad luck they dropped two points.

Thank You Dave2
I have to admit that I did not recognise some of those PTFC names
Rickaby,Elliott, Naysmith,Kirk, Hunter no problem..the others not so much
do you remember when programmes used to have a pen-picture of players. ours and theirs?? Great feature
i do remember Peter McParland playing for Worcester City(got the usual warm reception from Town Fans!!)
At one time i think that there were three Welsh teams in the Southern League
Merthyr Tydfil. Llanelli and lovells Athletic(from the Newport area??)
i am trying to think of the name of the welsh international Centre half (Ray John??) who played for Hereford
Anyway to this day i can see Tony France having one of his best outings for the Town, He gave that centre half the run around and i am not sure if he scored a hat trick. It was Town 4 Hereford(our biggest rivals 1) that would probably have been in 1964.
Stay safe everyone.....unless we send a "please come and buy us" boarding party on to that Russian Yacht

Dave Steve bean can update you better than I can he keeps all the stats from that period I believe?
But it was during TK tenure so Wessex 1 to Wessex prem era so last 10\12 years.

Scorpio;in the midst of this crisis you have made an old man very happy!!
Great days and now it sounds as if we are hanging on for dear life but you have just made up my mind for me!
I am in for a season ticket
Why doesn't the Club ask its Season ticket holders to commit for next season now;at least that would give a basis on knowing how much more is needed to keep us afloat.

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Thanks Rob and Steve I will await the answers. Dave2

Thanks Steve knew we could get the info from Mr Stato 👏👏👏

Still speak to Joe Collins occasionally on Twitter. Still has a lot feelings for the dolphins. His leg is still giving him problems. Had loads of ops on it.