Did anyone know he's on loan at Wrexham? He could be paying us visit in March if his loan is long enough. Can't be pulling his weight at Crewe, Saying that that's where he should be in the national league in my opinion, I've read on the Crewe board that many fans have branded him "Lazy" which the majority off us thought here to be honest, Probably still living off that goal at Southend.

Think he played quite a bit last season, but not had a sniff this year.

Bit of a pattern with him - looks decent and gets a run in the team but then fades away

He's in the starting 11 today.

He'll probably score a wordie against us in a few weeks when we play them, While am on the subject does Anyone remember Michael Nelson's sort off scissor kick against us when he went to Norwich? His first visit back to the vic, Was a hell off a strike.

Think Walker is getting by in a half decent team such as Wrexham , especially a dour team like Wrexham, that are tight defensively , but in a struggling team that needs to attack Walker would be lacking. I can't see him lasting, but he seems to be doing okay for now , fair play to the lad.

I liked him at centre back


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He did surprise a few people , including myself with his performances at centre back.

Playing in midfield again for Wrexham, not too well it seems, some of the comments sound familiar to his time with us.

http://www.redpassion.co.uk/forums/wrex ... tings.html

For those who remember him, I thought Brad Walker ran like Douglas Bader. I kid you not.

Bader was pretty quick in a spitfire. He was also a stand out on the wing for Duxford.
Before losing his legs Bader played fly half for Harlequins and was on the fringe for England. He was an excellent sportsman, excelling at Rugby and Cricket.
After losing his legs he became a single figure handicap golfer.

There was also Biggles who had a book titled "Biggles flies undone"

It was never made into a film though due to the censor.

And a colossal racist.

He was a racist by today's standards. It was the norm. Governments of the day were also racist by today's standards, and subsequent ones if the way the West Indians were (and still are) treated is anything to go by.
Bader's biggest gripe was the lack of control on immigration, which wasn't seen as racist, and it could be argued that it still isn't. Believing that your own citizens should come first isn't racist in many people's eyes and it certainly wasn't in those days. Charity begins at home and all that. Different era, mate. Plus the fact that we're all cleverer with hindsight......even me.

You apply today's standards to yesterday. If you were born 100 years ago you'd probably have been one too. Don't say you wouldn't because you'd probably have been nurtured differently. We move on and learn. You can't change the past, you learn from it. That's how society moves forward.

Obviously a great many people haven't learnt from it then , with racism and intolerance seemingly on the increase, in certain quarters at least.

Not everybody was racist. My gran was but my uncle Tommy wasn't at all - he'd seen the world in the merchant navy and reckoned people everywhere were much the same at heart.

On a national level, Oswald Mosley was racist but the tens of thousands who stopped the BUF at Cable Street and disrupted his meetings all over the UK weren't.

Even in the 19th century lots of campaigners for the vote saw a common cause with slaves. William Cuffay one of London's leading Chartists was black and it wasn't an issue for the people who elected him to responsible positions in the movement.

I agree that times change and people shouldn't be judged out of their proper context but we should be careful not to over-simplify the past as well.

In the early 19th century some would say a lot of people in the UK lived lives nearly or as bad as slaves, in the mines and mills etc.

This led to a lot of people having revolutionary thoughts and an attraction for Communism.

So I agree with you Mr Toulouse.

Racism for me , tends to go in hand in hand with lack of education and severe economic downturns and inequality, exactly what we have in the poorer areas of the UK and USA today. Obviously the likes of Bader weren't uneducated, but for the rich, fanning racist thoughts has benefits for their class.

So is Brad Walker racist then?

He was much quicker in those days too.

If you were Winston Churchill would you have rotated Douglas Bader to give the marginally faster Brad Walker a go in the Spitfire instead? Bader was carrying a couple of genuinely bad knocks and would have benefited from a rest but the Battle of Britain was a crucial fixture.

if bader had been rested it could have ended a draw and we all know the outcome of that.

Churchill might have preferred Walker to fly a Lancaster as it was more suited to his pace.

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Somebody's ringing the bell
Do me a favour?



Sorry that's not me .i'm all for tighter controls on our border.Am i racist Horden?

What a load of bollocks. Bader was to the right of Genghis Khan - writing the foreword to a fervent Nazi's autobiography for example, or telling our colonial 'subjects' during the Suez crisis that they could 'bloody well climb back up their trees' if they didn't like the way we governed. His view were seen as extreme even then.

Best not mention Brad Walker has arms like Nelson.

What's Brad Walker got to do with Juncker or Junkers some might ask.

Whatever.

I don't know you so can't possibly comment. On that statement alone I would say no, as I feel the same way. This government and New Labour would have every job filled by a skilled foreigner by the sounds of it.

Fair enough but don't expect me or my family to fight any more fucking wars for you, let the skilled immigrants do it.

Hahaha tickled me that, A can just imagine him with his air glasses on in a open top single aircraft, Ahhhh fucking love the bunker me when threads take a turn for the worst.