| The Tractor Boys tag 14:14 - Aug 21 with 4741 views | Menton |
I’m pretty sure it was first used by the Birmingham fans in about 97 or 98 at Portman Road. They were singing ‘no noise from the Tractor Boys’ at us and when we scored we retorted with ‘1-0 to the Tractor Boys’. Can anyone confirm that? May have been Stoke (the mind is hazy) |  |
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| The Tractor Boys tag on 12:14 - Aug 22 with 723 views | BseaBlue |
I'm sure Liverpool were singing about us being 'Tractor Boy's in 2000 at PR and got the response 'I'd rather be a farmer than a thief' |  | | |
| The Tractor Boys tag on 12:25 - Aug 22 with 705 views | Freddies_Ears |
The first time I ever heard the term 'Tractor Boys' was away to Birmgham, probably 98 (possibly 99). I had never come across it previously, but that was very early in my time following Town. First was the 'No noise from the Tractor Boys' chant from Brum.
So, the term could have been used earlier for the first time, but it certainly hadn't caught on. |  | | |
| The Tractor Boys tag on 12:55 - Aug 22 with 669 views | CrayonKing |
I remember "no noise from the tractor boys" being sung against us fairly often, but the first time I remember us singing "1-0 to the Tractor Boys" in response was that Birmingham game. |  | | |
| The Tractor Boys tag on 13:55 - Aug 22 with 639 views | Kitman |
| The Tractor Boys tag on 14:32 - Aug 21 by franz_tyson |
It was coined by Warren Clarke in an episode of Lovejoy circa 1989.
Clarke was portraying a ITFC supporting refuse collector when a tractor sped past along a country lane. Atop the tractor were 3 Town fans clad in blue and white and , no doubt, heading to the game.
"Up the Tractor Boys" , roared Clarke's character - and hence, from that moment on, Town were then known as the Tractor Boys. |
Really? Drama channel have just re-run the whole series and I did pick up the episode 'Bin Diving' a few weeks back and must have seen these episodes repeated several times over the years. This one was 1991 by the way. Never picked up Warren Clarke's reference to Tractor Boys though.
This particular episode with Warren and his Town baseball hat is however, the reason those feeble minded fools north of the Waveney refer to us as 'binners'. |  |
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| The Tractor Boys tag on 20:10 - Aug 22 with 565 views | Mullet |
It's bad enough someone used it. Unforgiveable anyone still uses it.
As I said the other day, people should be shot with a rubber bullet at close range for every utterance of it to describe Town. |  |
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| The Tractor Boys tag on 22:34 - Aug 22 with 516 views | NthQldITFC |
| The Tractor Boys tag on 14:32 - Aug 21 by franz_tyson |
It was coined by Warren Clarke in an episode of Lovejoy circa 1989.
Clarke was portraying a ITFC supporting refuse collector when a tractor sped past along a country lane. Atop the tractor were 3 Town fans clad in blue and white and , no doubt, heading to the game.
"Up the Tractor Boys" , roared Clarke's character - and hence, from that moment on, Town were then known as the Tractor Boys. |
I may be wrong, but I rather think that it was first used by Aulus Plautius when the Romans first pushed into Trinovantian lands in about AD 45. The legions were chanting "Nulla vox a pueris tractor" until Pablo Cunobellin stuck one in the top corner, and the Septentriones Sto started singing back "unum nil ad tractor puerorum" in ironic mockery. |  |
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| The Tractor Boys tag on 03:17 - Aug 23 with 464 views | azuremerlangus |
| The Tractor Boys tag on 22:34 - Aug 22 by NthQldITFC |
I may be wrong, but I rather think that it was first used by Aulus Plautius when the Romans first pushed into Trinovantian lands in about AD 45. The legions were chanting "Nulla vox a pueris tractor" until Pablo Cunobellin stuck one in the top corner, and the Septentriones Sto started singing back "unum nil ad tractor puerorum" in ironic mockery. |
‘Romans they go the house’? [Post edited 23 Aug 2022 3:21]
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| The Tractor Boys tag on 07:57 - Aug 23 with 399 views | blueprint |
| The Tractor Boys tag on 20:10 - Aug 22 by Mullet |
It's bad enough someone used it. Unforgiveable anyone still uses it.
As I said the other day, people should be shot with a rubber bullet at close range for every utterance of it to describe Town. |
I hate it being used to describe us. Christ knows why anyone likes the the tag. |  | | |
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