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"It looks like our lads, some of them, are a little bit shy of that intensity. Hopefully we're building through this month and we'll see the best of us in the next few games."

"It's been a thing now which I have said for a while, I am not a young lad anymore," he added.

"The lads laugh now when they see the footage of the games we played in," says West.

It is an event in the calendar they have all looked forward to for the past 64 years with some travelling from as far as South Africa to make the monthly "lads' night".

"He came in at 15 years old, a really tall, gangly, skinny lad - didn't look like a footballer at all in all honesty," he says.