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Post by pirate on Jun 3, 2017 9:52:34 GMT
Geoff Bradford has ro be the best overall. Never saw him in League though so I'll go for Harold or even Stuart Taylor for their sheer length of service. But as Marshfield said, Smash and Grab for excitement and that season in 73/74 when they created a legend that will never die. UTG! Wally did the same trick over and over again for 3seasons yet nobody could stop him, he really was a class act even in his late thirties........Wally, wally Walters , wally, wally Walters.
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Post by abbeygas on Jun 3, 2017 10:05:15 GMT
I'm not old enough to have seen him play but from what I have heard from a few older gasheads is that Geoff Bradford was on another level to every other player that has played for the Rovers.
The best player I have seen was Marcus he was head and shoulders our best player from the moment he made his debut (when he virtually single handedly dragged us back from 3 down to draw 3-3 with Ipswich) until the time he left us. It was a real shame that he made no secret of the fact that he grew up supporting the sh** as I believe he would be even more highly regarded than he is now.
We have had some truly awful players too, Richard Evans and Andy Bond stand out for me but there have been plenty more.
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Post by gasstrictband on Jun 3, 2017 10:29:33 GMT
What about Andy Spring, couldn't trap a suitcase full of bricks.
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Post by abbeygas on Jun 3, 2017 10:50:51 GMT
What about Andy Spring, couldn't trap a suitcase full of bricks. He must have been bad as I can't remember him at all despite him playing for us at a time when i attended nearly every game so i googled him and it says he got done for burglary before moving to live in Ireland where he won the jackpot on the Irish lotto!
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Post by gasstrictband on Jun 3, 2017 11:09:48 GMT
He was at the club around 85 _86
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Post by abbeygas on Jun 3, 2017 11:24:50 GMT
That makes sense about 5 years too early for me to remember him.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2017 12:06:51 GMT
Hoyle.Bamford.Watling.Pitt.Warren.Sampson.Petherbridge.Biggs.Bradford.Lambden.Hooper take your pick quality throughout the side how many of our current team would replace the above Could put Dai Ward in there instead of Vic Lambden - maybe. Different type of player Lambden lead the line whereas ward was a poacher.and lambden was a team player and ward played for himself and didn't stay long
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Post by William Wilson on Jun 3, 2017 13:10:26 GMT
You have to act up, don`t you?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2017 13:18:26 GMT
Could put Dai Ward in there instead of Vic Lambden - maybe. Different type of player Lambden lead the line whereas ward was a poacher.and lambden was a team player and ward played for himself and didn't stay long 7 years at BRFC. 90 goals in 175 games.
Fell out with Bert Tann and asked for a transfer , according to wiki , he even threatened to pack up the game completely if Rovers wouldn't let him leave. Left to go to Cardiff city scoring 17 goals for them in division one (premier league)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2017 14:09:24 GMT
What about Andy Spring, couldn't trap a suitcase full of bricks. He must have been bad as I can't remember him at all despite him playing for us at a time when i attended nearly every game so i googled him and it says he got done for burglary before moving to live in Ireland where he won the jackpot on the Irish lotto! Burglar wins lotto, now there's a good advert for atheism!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2017 16:31:04 GMT
Different type of player Lambden lead the line whereas ward was a poacher.and lambden was a team player and ward played for himself and didn't stay long 7 years at BRFC. 90 goals in 175 games.
Fell out with Bert Tann and asked for a transfer , according to wiki , he even threatened to pack up the game completely if Rovers wouldn't let him leave. Left to go to Cardiff city scoring 17 goals for them in division one (premier league)
As I said not a team player
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2017 21:37:51 GMT
Different type of player Lambden lead the line whereas ward was a poacher.and lambden was a team player and ward played for himself and didn't stay long 7 years at BRFC. 90 goals in 175 games.
Fell out with Bert Tann and asked for a transfer , according to wiki , he even threatened to pack up the game completely if Rovers wouldn't let him leave. Left to go to Cardiff city scoring 17 goals for them in division one (premier league)
As part of the dai ward transfer johnny watkins who is a good friend of mine came to bristol rovers ,john played for cardiff in the top division having previously played for bristol city.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2017 21:41:07 GMT
It's got to be smash & grab for me, I was only a kid then but what a pairing! I watched the Brighton v Rovers 8 - 2 a couple of days ago, cracking watching Cloughie's face on the bench and little Nigel laughing his head off. The teds front line in the smash & grab days were called slash & crap weren't they? I cant remember paul cheesley and tom ritchie being called that but maybe they were?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2017 1:20:58 GMT
7 years at BRFC. 90 goals in 175 games.
Fell out with Bert Tann and asked for a transfer , according to wiki , he even threatened to pack up the game completely if Rovers wouldn't let him leave. Left to go to Cardiff city scoring 17 goals for them in division one (premier league)
As I said not a team player I took a look at dai wards amazing goal stats,he must have been some player whatever his faults were.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2017 14:07:23 GMT
How about 242 goals in 462 games how does that rate
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Post by 2nd May 1990 on Jun 5, 2017 14:23:11 GMT
How about 242 goals in 462 games how does that rate Obviously Bradford's stats are brilliant. A goal every 1.91 games and the ultimate Gas legend, probably never to be surpassed. Fair play to Ward, though. Not a one-club man like Bradford, Bamford, Pitt or Petherbridge, but he certainly knew where the back of the net was. 160 football league goals in 316 career appearances. A goal every 1.98 games also not to be sniffed at.
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