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Dunk 400.
Apr 22, 2024 18:01:50 GMT
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Post by amberisbackdrink on Apr 22, 2024 18:01:50 GMT
A true legend for the club and popular with players, Managers and fans. Whatever is lined up next Dunk will always be welcome back at the Abbey.
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Post by martinjohn on Apr 22, 2024 18:20:31 GMT
A little ode to a hero:
They say the world moves too fast That nothing today seems to last.
2011 seems like a lifetime ago Couldn't have predicted the direction we’d go.
Four prime ministers later, and we've left the EU Brexit and Trump, global tensions renew.
Climate change and COVID made us fear for what’s next Conspiracies, culture wars and fake news perplex
Then the old Queen passed away Her son sworn in on coronation day
But through all those years, one constant remained true And that's Harrison Dunk - he was always a U.
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Apr 22, 2024 18:34:46 GMT
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Post by Matt Phillips on Apr 22, 2024 18:34:46 GMT
Part of me hoped that these couple of “unlucky injuries” that required ops may just mean we gave him another 12 months as last season he easily competed in this league. Shame for it to finish how it did, but by far one of the highlights of the last 13 years!
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Post by cornishu on Apr 22, 2024 18:55:24 GMT
Even though my hair is not the mat it once was, I have pinched my grand daughter’s hair band & will be wearing it tomorrow night out of total respect for an amazing player. The reason I love CU & the lower leagues is that it produces the likes of players like H who truly epitomise what football should be about. Good luck Harrison in whatever your future career brings.
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Post by St Neots U on Apr 22, 2024 19:00:57 GMT
Remarkably short Wikipedia page for such a cast-iron fugging legend. Who's our longest-serving player now? Must be Digby. Lewis Simper?
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Dunk 400.
Apr 22, 2024 19:01:32 GMT
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Post by danielcufc on Apr 22, 2024 19:01:32 GMT
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Post by MrRajeshX.AI on Apr 22, 2024 19:06:40 GMT
Horrisan Dunk is bloody point.
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Post by madmarvin on Apr 22, 2024 19:21:48 GMT
Remarkably short Wikipedia page for such a cast-iron fugging legend. Who's our longest-serving player now? Must be Digby. Lewis Simper? Yep hard to believe but it's Simper who signed a pro contract in January 2020. We signed Digby in July 2020.
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Post by relay22 on Apr 22, 2024 19:28:42 GMT
Genuinely welled up reading both the club announcement and Harrison’s letter. We will almost certainly never see his like again. The word legend is so overused it almost feels inappropriate. Wait until Half Time....the whole ground waterlogged with our emotion What a Guy and What a Hero.....Harrison we`ll always love you and will follow all your Endeavours in the future, Good Luck Dear Friend !
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Post by djs230480 on Apr 22, 2024 20:29:29 GMT
What a guy. One occasion really summed him up for me and what a gent he is.
Few years back I couldn’t go to his testimonial as we were away. I brought a couple of tickets anyway. I put a message on twitter to gutted I couldn’t be there but this was the least I could do for him.
He then sent me a lovely personal message thanking me.
What a guy
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Post by Jerry1971 on Apr 22, 2024 20:59:52 GMT
My son turns 15 tomorrow. For almost his entire U’s supporting life, H has been his favourite player - he is distraught at the news but understands that all good things come to an end. H was the man, together with Piero Mingoia, who took the time to sit down and talk to my lad when we ended up staying in the team hotel in Exeter before the first game of the season in 2017/18, and only a few weeks on my son started playing school football club, leading on to many good grassroots seasons completed together with a place playing in the CUFC RDC this season. Charlie naturally gravitated towards being a wing-back, both left and right sided, and it was H bombing forward and getting back to defend which inspired him.
My son probably won’t (like millions of other kids) end up with any sort of pro career, but whatever happens his love for the game is total and that is in no small part to the legend we are rightly celebrating this week. We’ve been so lucky to have a modern hero like H who grew with us as we re-grew as a club.
There are too many moments to sensibly recall in one post, but for me that winner at Northampton in our first season back to end any fear of a quick return to the Conference was right up there.
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Post by simon on Apr 22, 2024 22:13:17 GMT
I’ll be watching the game on ifollow. I’m now more interested to see the H goodbye. They’d better show it!
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Post by smartspud on Apr 22, 2024 22:37:02 GMT
Feel like I'm losing a friend! I can't remember him ever having a bad game; even when he was occasionally 'skinned' he ran his heart out to get the ball back or put the player off. Not to mention the punishment he took over the years and always seemed to get back up again ( until recently) and boy did he take some punishment. And of course he was very talented. He gave his all on the pitch. What a player, what a man.
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Post by danielcufc on Apr 23, 2024 7:26:25 GMT
I’ll be watching the game on ifollow. I’m now more interested to see the H goodbye. They’d better show it! Unfortunately they will probably show umpteen Carabo & Tool Station adverts. Perhaps the club will record it and put it on their socials for those unable to attend.
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Dunk 400.
Apr 23, 2024 7:50:01 GMT
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Post by td1975 on Apr 23, 2024 7:50:01 GMT
After walking my son to school I usually walk back across the South coast cliff tops thinking about the working day ahead. Today I walked back up the high street to a cafe to contemplate Harrison Dunk’s football life well lived and how fortunate Cambridge United were to have been the recipients. Enjoy your evening and well deserved plaudits H.
Football eh? Harrison Dunk eh?
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