2012 membership deadline is now!

For those club members who have not yet renewed their Bucs UK membership for 2012, you have only hours to do if you want to remain eligible for game tickets and club events and without losing your place on the seniority list.

Click here for costs and what members will receive in 2012


Previous coach searches

Looking back at when Wayne Fontes didn’t get the job and the likes of Sam Wyche and Richard Williamson did.

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A season ending six

Chris offers his views on the 2011 season in Tampa Bay and also finds time to make a marriage proposal to Jaime Maggio.

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What happened?

Nick gained a lot of plaudits for his last column criticising the 2011 Bucs. Now he tries to explain why it happened.

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Cleveland South

Denis takes a look at the 2011 Bucs and compares them to his local NFL team in Ohio, the beleaguered Cleveland Browns.

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Raheem going back to his coaching roots

Staying in Oregon - Chip Kelly says no to the Bucs

Looking for top cornerbacks at the Senior Bowl

Which coach would be best for Josh Freeman?

Wembley announcement - Rams and Patriots

Kelly’s Heroes - negotiations with the Oregon coach

Delay in head coach could affect assistants too

Could the NFL blackout rule be likely to change?

Lengthy search for head coach is nothing new

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Five of the 12 remaining contenders managed to pick the two losers in the Championship game.   So ignoring the chance to predict the Pro Bowl, the winner of our Survivor competition will have to predict the loser of the Super Bowl and how many points they will score in losing in Indianapolis.

Click here for the selections made for the Super Bowl

Now comes the labour-intensive task that is updating all the player profile and historical screens with what happened in the 2011 season.  Every player has had their 2011 and career statistics updated and all of the franchise statistics are now including the past season too.  The profile updates are under way and the history screen for 2011 is also now live with all the game reports, stats and over 300 action pictures included.


Over the festive period, the Bucs UK picture gallery screen was renovated with new galleries for the Bucs UK Tampa tour 2011 being added as well as one with all my autographed pictures too.

Click here for the link to all the club’s picture galleries



My award nominations

Now it is Alex’ turn to cast his votes for the Bucs UK awards in a column explaining his eight choices.

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94 Adrian Clayborn

Started every game at right

defensive end as a rookie and

led the team in sacks with 7.5

including a stretch of five

consecutive games where he

recorded at least half a take

down. Was the Bucs' first pick in the 2011 draft and the 20th overall selection and has already proven to be worthy of such a high draft choice

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2012 winter club meal and golf day

Saturday 4th February - 12.00 - Ansty GC, Leicestershire
The golf will take place at (Royal) Ansty, the traditional venue. Gary does have somewhere better lined up for the summer though. All the usual competitions on the day playing for the Bucs UK putter, longest drive, nearest the pin, Dave Warnke prize for the furthest away from the pin.


Saturday 4th February - 6.30pm - The Lime Kilns, Hinckley

And the usual venue for the meal with the function room, big screen TV showing Buccaneer games albeit probably none from the final 10 games of 2011. Lots of competition prizes on offer and anyone attending will have their chance to get hold of some Buccaneer games on VHS as I will be disposing of my collection now that I have them all on DVD.


All the 2011 game screens are now done

As we review last season player by player in our traditional way, every statistical screen has now been updated with the current details and all the regular and pre-season game reviews can be found at the link below too.

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Super Bowl competition winner

There were a huge number of entries from Bucs UK members for our amazing collection of Super Bowl prizes including a multi-signed shirt, Jon Gruden model and bobble head dolls. But of the 11 people to get all three questions right, KIERON HYAMS was the first name out of the hat and will be receiving the parcel of all the prizes.


The answers to the questions were as follows:-

1. Who was the leading receiver in the game - Joe Jurevicius.

2/. Which official got a tattoo of the trophy done the day after the game - Tampa fire chief Pete Botto.

3. Which Buccaneer defensive back fell down on the Raiders’ first touchdown pass - Dwight Smith.

Players happy with Schiano

Jeremy Zuttah is one Buc who will know the new coach better than most from his college days at Rutgers.

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How Chris sees the hiring move

Chris lives in New York and has seen Greg Schiano’s work at first hand for several years.  What does he think?

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Martin Fennelly’s comments

You can bet that the Tribune’s lead columnist will be beating down the door for an inside interview sometime today.

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It’s Greg Schiano!

The Bucs announced their ninth head coach yesterday afternoon and he will be introduced at One Buc today.

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Greg Schiano’s introductory press conference on Friday was everything you could have hoped for - lots of promises of how things will change and are going to be now in Tampa.  I am confident on what I have heard in the last 24 hours.

Click here for Roy Cummings’ take on the introduction of the new head coach

Martin Fennelly was sitting in the front row and offers his comments