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.
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Looking back at when Wayne Fontes didn’t get the job and the likes of Sam Wyche and Richard Williamson did.
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.
What happened?
Nick gained a lot of plaudits for his last column criticising the 2011 Bucs. Now he tries to explain why it happened.
Cleveland South
Denis takes a look at the 2011 Bucs and compares them to his local NFL team in Ohio, the beleaguered Cleveland Browns.
Raheem going back to his coaching roots
Staying in Oregon -
Looking for top cornerbacks at the Senior Bowl
Which coach would be best for Josh Freeman?
Wembley announcement -
Kelly’s Heroes -
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
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.
Now comes the labour-
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
2012 winter club meal and golf day
Saturday 4th February -
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 -
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-
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-
The answers to the questions were as follows:-
1. Who was the leading receiver in the game -
2/. Which official got a tattoo of the trophy done the day after the game -
3. Which Buccaneer defensive back fell down on the Raiders’ first touchdown pass
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Players happy with Schiano
Jeremy Zuttah is one Buc who will know the new coach better than most from his college days at Rutgers.
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?
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.
It’s Greg Schiano!
The Bucs announced their ninth head coach yesterday afternoon and he will be introduced at One Buc today.
Greg Schiano’s introductory press conference on Friday was everything you could have
hoped for -
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