Jim Smith RIP

[Longy]

Do I remember him legging it across the pitch, mid match at Roker Park when an opposition player got injured in the early 90s? Night game?

 

[The Hesford Diet]

It was Jim Smith who gave me the confidence that we would win the second leg of the play-off in 1990. In the papers on the Wednesday morning, instead of talk about finishing the job off, he said "We dare not lose."

It betrayed a fear of losing a derby at home, against a Sunderland side that they had only drawn with through the season, and were outplayed for long spells in the 1-1 draw at Sid James' in the league.

He didn't deserve what his side and supporters gave him that night. He'd done great work at Birmungham and Oxford in particular, and lived and breathed the game.

A good, decent, down to earth football man.

 

[elder]

RIP. Bumped into him once. he was sitting at the next table with Harry Redknapp in an Italian restaurant in Bournemouth (that Harry owned) the night before a B'mouth v Mags game. The mags won the game iirc. Would have been the same year as our play off win.

 

[Kid Galahad]

Seemed a decent fella the likes of which are dying out because of the modern footballer, RIP Bald Eagle

 

[Al Bundy]

RIP. Always liked him. Seemed a good bloke

 

[ErichZann]

RIP. Great bloke, and soon these salt of the Earth types will no longer exist.

 

[obrienobrien]

R.I.P. Jim Smith...

 

[ftm1971]

Always remember him from his Oxford days in the old 1st Division, class team.RIP lad.

 

[Dauntless Dive Bomber]

Aye. Got sacked the following year and took over at Fratton Park iirc.

He wasn't sacked, he resigned half way through the season with us in mid table with an ageing squad and no money forthcoming from the board to upgrade it.

 

[SAFC_Jack]

Had loads of swaps of him in my 96/97 sticker book. Managing Derby then, I think.

RIP.

 

[hank williams]

Was it his Derby side tore us a new one at the baseball ground

5-0

Rip Jim

 

[Quillips]

Could we not appoint him our manager?

I know he's died, but he might still be better than Parkinson.

But seriously: RIP, thoughts with his family.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

He wasn't sacked, he resigned half way through the season with us in mid table with an ageing squad and no money forthcoming from the board to upgrade it.

I make no apologies for not being au-fait with the history of NUFC.

 

[Snugster]

Me dad put his gas in, said he was a right miserable tw@.

 

[rokerexile]

Good lad Jim, RIP.

 

[Iwhytedl]

For some unknown reason, I had a soft spot for him. He seemed a quite decent man,, RIP.