ABBEY Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Which one do you pick?...At least Bell scored a few times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Andyblue2 Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Good old Norman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McClarky Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Norman. What a prize donkey he was, not in the Brown class though and scored a couple at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotchrover Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Kuqi and Grabbi deserve a mention on this threat for interesting strikers . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roverandout Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Some strikers were quality at other clubs but @#/? at rovers, hakan sukur and Dwight Yorke spring to mind Also who can forget martin dahlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomphil Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Dahlin should never have been signed his back was shot to bits, good old Woy eh ! Yorke scored a few and was always a quality finisher but a lazy baresteward who was here for his pension, not the first or last one on that. Suker was quality but Souey showed his plot losing tendancies by dropping him after he hit a run of scoring form to pair up Yorke/Cole again away at Man Yoo. He wasn't happy to say the least and that was the end of that. Would have preferred to have kept him over Yorke anyday. Can't remember much about Bell apart from he wasn't that good and the old duffers around us used to call him ding dong. Didn't he have a testimonial or something because he broke his leg ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roverandout Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Good recall, back in them days we had decent strikers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABBEY Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 I always rember the old Deep Purle tune ...ne ne ne ne ne norman norman. It always got a chant on the coach when we picked up at Bell cottage near the tickled minge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1arC Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 At least Norman got an End named after him. I can't imagine for one minute we will remember Brown, once he leaves as being a Brown End! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jock Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Can't believe Kuqi gets mentioned in the Brown thread. He scored some Prem goals and scored some winners away from home. Bellamy worked well with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broadsword Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Yeah I liked old shefki. Top fella Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyonejackwalker Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Can't believe Kuqi gets mentioned in the Brown thread. He scored some Prem goals and scored some winners away from home. Bellamy worked well with him. Some simply cannot understand that there are different roles required within team structures. The effectiveness of the strike 'partnership' being key. Read Garners book and his comments about Norman Bell. Mocking paid professionals without ever wondering how they got to this level in the first place tells you more about the person mocking, than the player discussed. Lots of different ingredients required to make it as a pro. The more you have, the higher you go. Finished articles are few and far apart. Unless your a Portugese nobody or have a dad as an agent, the vast majority have done it the hard way and as someone good enough to get paid to play professionally, are worthy of a certain respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broadsword Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 How did Darren peacock make it then because he was out and out cap with a capital kerrrrrrrrrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backroom Mike E Posted April 25, 2015 Backroom Share Posted April 25, 2015 I can honestly say the classiest Rovers players I've met have been Short, Rhodes, Pedersen, and Kuqi. Met them all at least 3 times and held a decent conversation about Rovers and football in general for a good 5-10mins each time. Great blokes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBTF Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Which one do you pick?...At least Bell scored a few times. He is the 2015 version of........Terry Eccles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevidgeBlue Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 He is the 2015 version of........Terry Eccles. Lol. Good shout there, not many will remember him. As for Bell v Brown, Bell was poor but looked like Pele in comparison to Brown. Can only think of Paul McKinnon worse imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled in Toronto Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I don't remember Bell as being particularly bad at the time, he was no John O'Mara, just the standard we were signing in that era. I seem to recall he scored one or even two in an away cup tie at West Brom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevidgeBlue Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I don't remember Bell as being particularly bad at the time, he was no John O'Mara, just the standard we were signing in that era. I seem to recall he scored one or even two in an away cup tie at West BromIndeed. My hazy recollection of Bell was that he looked like he'd been a decent player in his prime but that and peak fitness were a very long way behind him by the time he arrived at Ewood.An O Mara v Brown comparison is extremely valid imo. Both very big men with zero ability. You'd have to say O Mara is shading that one at the moment in the scoring department. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threepenny Bit Foot Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Bell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backroom DE. Posted April 25, 2015 Backroom Share Posted April 25, 2015 I remember being quite alarmed when we signed Kuqi, but he did a decent job for us at the highest professional level. I can't comment on Bell, but I wouldn't put Brown in Kuqi's class. Not even close. Brown puts in the effort, I don't think anybody can fault him for that, but he's not much of a striker. Even target men score goals every so often. Unfortunately Bowyer seems intent on signing players who don't score goals at the moment, which is going to give us a big headache next season if it continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDRover Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Brown is a bad un, a real bad un. I'm struggling to see a redeeming feature in his game apart from workrate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1arC Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I remember being quite alarmed when we signed Kuqi, but he did a decent job for us at the highest professional level. I can't comment on Bell, but I wouldn't put Brown in Kuqi's class. Not even close. Brown puts in the effort, I don't think anybody can fault him for that, but he's not much of a striker. Even target men score goals every so often. Unfortunately Bowyer seems intent on signing players who don't score goals at the moment, which is going to give us a big headache next season if it continues. You were alarmed when we signed Kuqi? Then think of the alarm Bell caused! Brown is a ringer for Bell in my view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1864roverite Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Normal Bell could score NOW with the supply lines we have ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amo Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Kuqi had an awesome goal celebration. We'll never know what Browny's is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broadsword Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 More to the point, can he remember what his celebration is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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