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Centre Back Nominations

Colin Hendry 89 votes - 50.28%
Mike England 59 votes - 33.33%
Henning Berg 9 votes - 5.08%
Derek Fazackerley 6 votes - 3.39%
Kevin Moran 5 votes - 2.82%
Glenn Keeley 3 votes - 1.69%
Matt Woods 2 votes - 1.13%
David May 2 votes - 1.13%
Graham Hawkins 1 votes - 0.56%
Stephane Henchoz 1 votes - 0.56%
John McNamee 0 votes - 0.00%
Tony Gale 0 votes - 0.00%


The second vote:
Mike England 85 votes - 64.89%
Henning Berg 22 votes - 16.79%
Kevin Moran 12 votes - 9.16%
Derek Fazackerley 8 votes - 6.11%
Matt Woods 1 votes - 0.76%
David May 1 votes - 0.76%
Stephane Henchoz 1 votes - 0.76%
Tony Gale 1 votes - 0.76%
Glenn Keeley 0 votes - 0.00%
Graham Hawkins 0 votes - 0.00%
John McNamee 0 votes - 0.00%

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[edit] Willie Kelly

billy - The greatest centre half, what a lucky person l am being old enough to have watched the rovers for so long. For excitement the best was Willie Kelly, 50-50 balls food and drink to him, 20- 80 still a doddle, that man was hard, the pitch was usually thick mud, the ball a big black pudding, the centre forward, for example Derek Dooley, 6" taller and a stone heavier , he used the shoulder charge as he's weapon, but it never worked on Willie, every charge he bounced off him, and he ended up lying in the mud, when play got a bit dirty Willie never complained, but the player who fowled him never went near him again. Willie was a real 'stopper' .


[edit] John MacNamee

bazza - Billy, when I started watching Rovers we were crap and had centre halves such as Holt and Holliday.(Sounds like a Monty Python sketch, doesn't it?) Then we bought Willie Kelly from Airdrionians. He was a brick wall and did the same job for us as John Macnamee years later.

92er - Very few people should vote for John Macnamee but very few people will know about him. When he came to us from Newcastle "his legs had gone" and we were very close to the bottom of the old 3rd division. He became an inspiration.It is said that before he arrived the defence were a soft touch and that the other teams could kick lumps out if Jones in the goal.No longer was this the case after he arrived-he made the penalty area his own and ensured the team were not victimised by the opposition.

One game I remember was against Brighton when he scored 2 goals. One appeared to be from around the half way line when he seemed to hit a shot in on the volley.Amazing.

He always excellent against Bournemouth. For 2 consecutive seasons they came up around Easter time and as quite an exciting side, under a young manager who later went to Norwich and Manchester City, they were confident of beating us and getting promoted to the old 2nd division. Each time their star striker, Ted MacDougall scored early on. Then Macnamee would go and have a"word with him" and he would do nothing else during the game.Each time we won 2-1 and John Bond eventually moved on.

[edit] Derek Fazackerley

BRFC4EVA - although ive grown up in the Hendry, Berg era I just couldnt resist voting for Fazackerley, all the effort he but into BRFC.

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G: Brad Friedel
65 votes [40%]

RB: Bob Crompton
78 votes [49%]

CB: Mike England
85 votes [65%]

CB: Colin Hendry
59 votes [50%]

LB: Graeme Le Saux
73 votes [48%]

RM: Bryan Douglas
102 votes [67%]

CM: Ronnie Clayton
109 votes [67%]

CM: Jimmy Forrest
107 votes [54%]*

LM: Damien Duff
161 votes [75%]

S: Alan Shearer
179 votes [82%]

S: Simon Garner
109 votes [51%]

* after 'shootout'

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