Ex-Staff Des Buckingham

[Northstandboy]

Des Buckingham Joined: September 2004 - July 2014 (U18 Manager/Assistant Coach) 16th November 2023 - 15th December 2024 (Head Coach) ​

 

[ArrowsNumber9]

If memory serves, Russell was the best at sport, in my time there...

Not sure tbh, I did cross country for Russell and the school but wasn’t the best, that was Barry Patterson who I could never get close to. Barry wasn’t in Russell.

 

[Toe knee]

Not sure tbh, I did cross country for Russell and the school but wasn’t the best, that was Barry Patterson who I could never get close to. Barry wasn’t in Russell.

Hahaha cross country running through the brook & the marsh bog , up & down the plateaus , through the woodland then round the cricket pitch.
on a freezing cold rainy day. That was Mr Polgreens department, if he caught you spitting as you was running, he'd go berserk..
Some cross country course that was.
Mind you my school before Oxford Boys, Margaret Road ,Shotover was our cross country course..
Wonder if the schools still do it like that. Probably not???

 

[holdsteady]

Hahaha cross country running through the brook & the marsh bog , up & down the plateaus , through the woodland then round the cricket pitch.
on a freezing cold rainy day. That was Mr Polgreens department, if he caught you spitting as you was running, he'd go berserk..
Some cross country course that was.
Mind you my school before Oxford Boys, Margaret Road ,Shotover was our cross country course..
Wonder if the schools still do it like that. Probably not???

He was still running the cross country when I left in 95, always came in the top couple as well even though he seemed ancient.

 

[Northernyellow]

Was Russell house Black shirts? Because I think I was in it as well.

Yes. I was in Russell. And we were best at sport!

 

[Cliveaid]

No house called Collins the missing house is Sutherland (light blue)
And I think Murray was green.

I was there 71-76

Yes, I was in Murray which was Green. I was there 73-76. I was one of the Bash Street Kids parachuted in from Temple Cowley.

 

[bazzer9461]

I went to Peers let’s talk about that……the end

 

[EastStandKieran]

I went to Peers let’s talk about that……the end

And me good bloody school that

 

[Royalstandard74]

Me too, some great memories.

 

[Coffin Dodger]

I went to Peers let’s talk about that……the end

Never mind, we still respect you.

 

[SteMerritt]

I was in Bannister at LWS in Thame. I know it's not relevant, but I just wanted to be involved.

 

[Marston Road Yellow]

Grenville at Cheney for me. Lord only knows how I remember that as it wasn’t really that much of a thing there.

 

[Stranger]

Gosford Hill. We weren't posh enough to have 'houses'

 

[Northernyellow]

I went to Peers let’s talk about that……the end

Ha! I played against them loads over the years- for Oxford School. I played against Mark Wright a few times- he was obviously good, but I would never have thought he would have gone on to play for England. Just shows what I know!

 

[Swinny]

Matthew Arnold had "inter club sports" (or something like that) that were all named after classic Sportsmen...definitely Botham and Coe...can't remember any others.

 

[Coffin Dodger]

It moved/merged with Oxford boys or something, I did say it was a bit tenuous.

The merger was Oxford high school for boys and Southfield school on the Southfield site at the top of Glanville road to become Oxford boys grammer school.
This then merged with the boys from Temple Cowley and Northway schools at the inception of the comprehensive school system.

 

[holdsteady]

The merger was Oxford high school for boys and Southfield school on the Southfield site at the top of Glanville road to become Oxford boys grammer school.
This then merged with the boys from Temple Cowley and Northway schools at the inception of the comprehensive school system.

I went to Oxford boys (might not even have been called that by the nineties but as it was a boys school everyone called it that and I can’t actually remember what the proper name was) at the top of Glanville Road so I am assuming that was the end product of all these mergers, Oxford schools answer to Inverness Caledonian Thistle by that time. Think they let girls in a couple of years after I left, end of the 90s, no idea what it’s called now.

 

[brinyhoof]

I was in Bannister at LWS in Thame. I know it's not relevant, but I just wanted to be involved.

Same.

 

[Under The Cuckoo Lane]

I was at LW lower school west Thame. We lost every single inter house sports match except one. I scored a screamer against Wood and we drew 1-1. We were ecstatic like we'd won the FACup. My team of bullied losers, for one week only, felt 6ft tall, and all the 'well dones' bring a tear to my eye now. We were hopeless, but to a man they tried 100%. I was so proud of them.
The importance of sport.

 

[Bitter]

Went to Marlborough (Not the posh one) it was the pits.

 

[OxRox]

At Peers the only houses we were interested in were the ones we could break into.

 

[Oldgal]

I was a Peers gal too

 

[bazzer9461]

And me good bloody school that

Depends on when you were there

 

[bazzer9461]

Ha! I played against them loads over the years- for Oxford School. I played against Mark Wright a few times- he was obviously good, but I would never have thought he would have gone on to play for England. Just shows what I know!

Year below me then

 

[bazzer9461]

Wo

I was a Peers gal too

rrie about the Oldgal bit

 

[Emilio]

Bet Des loves what his thread has descended into

 

[Eric Blair]

I went to Riddlesdown Comprehensive School in Croydon. Anyone else? No, didn’t think so. On the plus side I did go to school with Kate Moss and we grew up on the same street.

 

[Emilio]

I did go to school with Kate Moss and we grew up on the same street.

Ah, that would explain a lot.

 

[Mojofilter]

Bet Des loves what his thread has descended into

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. The only thing worse than that is old fogies reminiscing about school days in a space built for you being talked about - Oscar Wilde

 

[SteMerritt]

I went to Riddlesdown Comprehensive School in Croydon. Anyone else? No, didn’t think so. On the plus side I did go to school with Kate Moss and we grew up on the same street.

One of you two jetted off all around the world, going to high profile parties, and the other spends their time on here talking about first cars and arguing about player formations with a bunch of misfits on a football forum...

She doesn't know what she's missing.

 

[Emilio]

One of you two jetted off all around the world, going to high profile parties, and the other spends their time on here talking about first cars and arguing about player formations with a bunch of misfits on a football forum...

She doesn't know what she's missing.

Do they cater for vegans at those high profile parties?