BRFC - The Nostalgia Thread

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, Gav said:

Borrowed from Twitter, seemed appropriate:

 

Waddington and Fazackerly. That was an incredibly classy CB pairing for Division 3.

The Hansen and Lawrenson of the Lower Leagues.

Look how attacking that line up was as well Endean, Napier, OMara and Field. Ok they were all pretty crap apart from Field but thats not the point. Game hasn't necessarily changed for the better.

[Leonard Venkhater]

16 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Waddington and Fazackerly. That was an incredibly classy CB pairing for Division 3.

The Hansen and Lawrenson of the Lower Leagues.

Look how attacking that line up was as well Endean, Napier, OMara and Field. Ok they were all pretty crap apart from Field but thats not the point. Game hasn't necessarily changed for the better.

Blimey, Kit Napier wasn't crap! Neither was Johnny Price..

I remember that Rochdale away game too. Tony Field did score and he had pre-planned his celebration in front of the away end, actually forming 100 with his fingers!

That Rochdale win made it 5 wins in a row too. Promotion form..then....

[RevidgeBlue]

3 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Blimey, Kit Napier wasn't crap! Neither was Johnny Price..

Agreed on Price but he wasn't in the starting X1.

Remember Napier being described as "mercurial". Very good on his day but there weren't many of them at all to the best of my recollection.

[Leonard Venkhater]

2 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Agreed on Price but he wasn't in the starting X1.

Remember Napier being described as "mercurial". Very good on his day but there weren't many of them at all to the best of my recollection.

In my group, we loved Tony Field, Kit Napier and Johnny Price, whereas O'Mara was a misfit. A lot of Rovers fans had affection for Endean too, but he didn't light up a game like the other three.

Even after all this time, I can feel the pain of Ken Furphy's departure and the negativity around Gordon Lee's introduction and the poor end to a promising season. 

A few short months later, Gordon Lee was a football God!

[den]

Dumper Endean.
Didnt he nick or borrow a dumper off a building site to earn his nickname? Sure he did.

[Exiled in Toronto Mk2]

1 hour ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Blimey, Kit Napier wasn't crap! Neither was Johnny Price..

I remember that Rochdale away game too. Tony Field did score and he had pre-planned his celebration in front of the away end, actually forming 100 with his fingers!

That Rochdale win made it 5 wins in a row too. Promotion form..then....

He was about two feet in front of me when he did that. Was that the game where Endean kneed it over the bar from an inch out?

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RIP Tony Fields 💙🤍

Forever a Rover🌹

[alcd]

The best individual goals I've seen by a Rovers player were Tony Field v Watford in 1973 and Mike Ferguson Northampton in November 1965. In many respects they were similar and absolutely fantastic. 

[alcd]

14 hours ago, Exiled in Toronto Mk2 said:

He was about two feet in front of me when he did that. Was that the game where Endean kneed it over the bar from an inch out?

He did that quite often.