Today's randoms are Brentford players I used to watch in the 82-83 season......
Paddy Roche - Goalie from Man Utd. Terry Rowe - Right back Graham Wilkins - Crap left back (brother of Dean and Ray) Alan Whitehead - Centre-back. Good for a headed goal. Jim McNichol - Centre-back with a rocket shot. Stan Bowles - Brilliant player and by no means obscure! Great penalty taker and a great laugh. Chris Kamara - A few goals and many tackles in midfield. Club captain. Terry Hurlock - Very hard but no more dirty than lots of others of that era. 100% every time he played. Gary Roberts - Speedy and had goals from left wing. Francis Joseph - Very fast and powerful up front. Tony Mahoney - Had a golden patch as Joseph's partner up front but got finished with a broken leg after about 3 months. Keith Cassells - Bought to replace Mahoney but didn't quite gel with Joseph. Keith Bowen - Son of Dave Bowen and a half decent forward. Did better when he went to Colchester. Terry Spencer - Left-back with a poofy Human League haircut.
Used to find it amusing to shout 'Your rubbish Charlton" at Simon Charlton when he played against us in the 90's. From me early days Dickie Rooks captained Bristol City in my first game also Ken Beamish and Alan Worboys always seemed to score against us
I would choose Greg Downs. Just remember getting his sticker in Football '86 and thinking he looked too old to be a footballer. And for some reason I still, to this day, associate him with a wheelbarrow.
Geez I just coughed my guts up reading this....bloody flu, thanks for the laugh though
Afonso Alves for Boro. Came from Heerenveen I believe, and had been scoring bundles. Turned out to be dog shit!
Carlos Marinelli, again for Boro. Was the new Maradona...... apparently.
Ruel Fox (norwich, spurs and newcastle). I have no idea why I remember him, and a couple of other from Norwich at the time, Darren Eadie and Jeremy Goss.
Afonso Alves for Boro. Came from Heerenveen I believe, and had been scoring bundles. Turned out to be dog shit!
Carlos Marinelli, again for Boro. Was the new Maradona...... apparently.
Ruel Fox (norwich, spurs and newcastle). I have no idea why I remember him, and a couple of other from Norwich at the time, Darren Eadie and Jeremy Goss.
Afonso Alves once scored seven goals in a game at Hereveen, and I didn't need to look that up.
I did look this up though, 10 goals in 42 league games for Boro. I know he was considered an expensive flop (something like 7m which seems so quaint), but that's not that bad a scoring record.
Afonso Alves for Boro. Came from Heerenveen I believe, and had been scoring bundles. Turned out to be dog shit!
Carlos Marinelli, again for Boro. Was the new Maradona...... apparently.
Ruel Fox (norwich, spurs and newcastle). I have no idea why I remember him, and a couple of other from Norwich at the time, Darren Eadie and Jeremy Goss.
Afonso Alves once scored seven goals in a game at Hereveen, and I didn't need to look that up.
I did look this up though, 10 goals in 42 league games for Boro. I know he was considered an expensive flop (something like 7m which seems so quaint), but that's not that bad a scoring record.
Three of those goals were in a last day of the season 8 1 romp v Man City. A result that was bizarre at the time and now seems impossible to fathom. Only ten years ago.
The reason for being on this thread is that I've never seen him play, but remember the name well as my Grandpa (whose inlaws were all Wrexham fans) always found it absolutely hilarious that he was nicknamed "Dai the Drop". I've got great memories of him laughing away at that or Ray Wilkins being called "Right-angle Ray".
Trevor Peake. When we were playing Coventry at Selhurst the ball went out for a clear throw to them and the ref gave it our way. Will always remember him bellowing "Ya must be joking ref!!"
Trevor Peake. When we were playing Coventry at Selhurst the ball went out for a clear throw to them and the ref gave it our way. Will always remember him bellowing "Ya must be joking ref!!"
I remember Peake when he was playing for Luton, getting riled by our chants of "old man, old man"!
The reason for being on this thread is that I've never seen him play, but remember the name well as my Grandpa (whose inlaws were all Wrexham fans) always found it absolutely hilarious that he was nicknamed "Dai the Drop". I've got great memories of him laughing away at that or Ray Wilkins being called "Right-angle Ray".
RIP Dai the Drop.
Sad to hear this . He has featured recently on The Big Match Revisited whilst at Everton and looked excellent
I feel I may have already mentioned our youth goalkeeper in the 90’s Ben Gotobed on this thread before. Such a shame he never made it (probs still sleeping)
Probably not too obscure to a certain generation, but Terry Brisley, if only because I remember my dad shouting at him, ‘F*ck off back to Millwall, Brisley!’
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Paddy Roche - Goalie from Man Utd.
Terry Rowe - Right back
Graham Wilkins - Crap left back (brother of Dean and Ray)
Alan Whitehead - Centre-back. Good for a headed goal.
Jim McNichol - Centre-back with a rocket shot.
Stan Bowles - Brilliant player and by no means obscure! Great penalty taker and a great laugh.
Chris Kamara - A few goals and many tackles in midfield. Club captain.
Terry Hurlock - Very hard but no more dirty than lots of others of that era. 100% every time he played.
Gary Roberts - Speedy and had goals from left wing.
Francis Joseph - Very fast and powerful up front.
Tony Mahoney - Had a golden patch as Joseph's partner up front but got finished with a broken leg after about 3 months.
Keith Cassells - Bought to replace Mahoney but didn't quite gel with Joseph.
Keith Bowen - Son of Dave Bowen and a half decent forward. Did better when he went to Colchester.
Terry Spencer - Left-back with a poofy Human League haircut.
Carlos Marinelli, again for Boro. Was the new Maradona...... apparently.
Ruel Fox (norwich, spurs and newcastle). I have no idea why I remember him, and a couple of other from Norwich at the time, Darren Eadie and Jeremy Goss.
I did look this up though, 10 goals in 42 league games for Boro. I know he was considered an expensive flop (something like 7m which seems so quaint), but that's not that bad a scoring record.
https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/dai-davies-the-colourful-wales-goalkeeper-who-became-a-druid-40074994.html
The reason for being on this thread is that I've never seen him play, but remember the name well as my Grandpa (whose inlaws were all Wrexham fans) always found it absolutely hilarious that he was nicknamed "Dai the Drop". I've got great memories of him laughing away at that or Ray Wilkins being called "Right-angle Ray".
RIP Dai the Drop.
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Unfortunately for us Brighton called him back and we recruited Jim Stannard who had a disasterous match for us against Cardiff.
He also seemed to score a lot of own goals