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Post by phillistine on Aug 23, 2014 7:04:49 GMT
I may be showing my age here but in the football comics I used to read there was always a sleepy football club with a long history going nowhere until......... a character like Roy of the Rovers arrived from nowhere and completely turned them round .
A romantic I may be but there must be a Roy out there who can transform our fortunes on the pitch and in so doing make themselves a hero for a whole generation of Rovers fans.
So come on Roy - please dont keep us waiting any longer -
Can we please have a hero to ride to the rescue and save us from the mire.
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Post by stapletongas on Aug 23, 2014 7:18:58 GMT
Or a Billy's Boots or a Hotshot Hamish?
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Post by Gastroenteritis on Aug 23, 2014 8:13:22 GMT
Havnt you heard Roy joined the hurricanes in the mid 90's.
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Post by empirebaypete on Aug 23, 2014 8:15:57 GMT
I think he signed on loan yesterday. He'll have 20 goals by Christmas. Sign on permanently in January.... The rest as they say is history.  |
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Post by seanclevedongas on Aug 23, 2014 8:38:49 GMT
Sadly if he scores 20 goals by Christmas there is no way we will be able to afford to sign him permanently......
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Post by cookinongas on Aug 23, 2014 8:46:59 GMT
We had a couple like that in the late 60's and 70's Carl Gilbert and Archie Stevens
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Post by empirebaypete on Aug 23, 2014 9:10:28 GMT
We had a couple like that in the late 60's and 70's Carl Gilbert and Archie Stevens Archie Stephens was in the 80's Mate. I'm going through some old VHS tapes and put them on hard drives before I chuck them. It was raining this afternoon, so i sat down and watched a tape I found yesterday. I knew it was one of the earliest I have. Some video of the Eastville days. There were some Archie goals. And Mickey Barrett on there too. I'll see about uploading some to youtube. |
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Post by phillistine on Aug 23, 2014 9:14:31 GMT
I think that its fair to say that since Lambert left - 5 years ago now- we haven't had a player who would be a hero to the kids or in fact to any of us. It says a lot that for the last couple of years our best player has been Smithy , a full back who was good at his job but he wasnt a flair player who made us excited when the ball came to him.
Lets hope that Cunnington might just be that man. No pressure or anything !!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2014 9:54:44 GMT
Lets hope that Cunnington might just be that man. No pressure or anything !! One of these would go down well on his debut!  |
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Post by Jon the Stripe on Aug 23, 2014 10:09:04 GMT
Lets hope that Cunnington might just be that man. No pressure or anything !! One of these would go down well on his debut!  ...slightly strange choice of words there TT, but i get what you mean  |
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Post by empirebaypete on Aug 23, 2014 10:09:57 GMT
Or a Billy's Boots or a Hotshot Hamish? Billy the Fish maybe? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2014 10:10:50 GMT
Roy was never the same once he and Penny divorced.
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