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| An Answer To Partisan; 70s players | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 11 2006, 11:14 AM (189 Views) | |
| Blacksmith | Nov 11 2006, 11:14 AM Post #1 |
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Jeff Hall
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You posted the following in the topic about the new board design in General Chat, and I felt it deserved its own thread here. BTW I liked the pics of Gazza Pendrey (The Blue Kung Fu) and a young TF in the old penguin strip but WHO is the player on the far right ?? I have no clue and the 70's was my favourite era .......it's not a young Joe Gallagher is it?? You are quite correct. It certainly is Big Joe Gallagher, and exactly as I remember him. You say that the 70s was your favourite era. Did you ever go to any of the FA Youth Cup matches at St Andrews when Joe and the others played? If memory serves me right, we had over 10,000 supporters to watch the kids play. Mind you, we had some real talent in our youth set up then, and I consider it to have been one of the finest in the country. It must not be forgotten however, what a big debt of gratitude we owe to one of Blues greatest servants, the late, great, Don Dorman. Dorman served us well as a player but it is as chief scout that he will be best remembered. He really brought some excellent players to the club and I don't think he has ever been adequately replaced. |
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| bedsbluenose | Nov 11 2006, 02:26 PM Post #2 |
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Olivier Tebily
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Indeed the 70's BLUES Were indeed a great team to watch They stole my heart that lot Bedsbluenose :D :D :D |
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| derryphilip | Nov 11 2006, 03:03 PM Post #3 |
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Geoff Horsfield
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mine too,went with my dad! Brings back good memoeries |
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| proserpine | Nov 11 2006, 04:24 PM Post #4 |
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Geoff Horsfield
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Someone mentioned 10,000 at reserve matches ? Don't lets get carried away by exageration folks :lol: It only happened once, when Trevor Francis came back from his operation ( the one that stopped him making his International debut under Don Revie). Trevor was slated to make his long awaited comeback in a particular reserves match, and the club was swamped. My dad couldn't get a cup of tea, I remember and he was really angry with all the new reserve fans. What made me laugh was because it was our first reserve match :lol: It used to be free as well. I would say that the average gate was closer to 500, when we played Man Utd reserves etc. A long way from 10,000 imo. :kiss: |
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| puds | Nov 11 2006, 05:42 PM Post #5 |
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Martin Grainger
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The TF comeback game I remember quite well. Reserve matches were always at St Andys and only the main stand was used, when we arrived the crowd had already overspilled into the Tilton and that was about half full at KO. I cant remember the opposition but I do recall the final score was a 4-0 win, and no, I dont remember who scored :D The 70's certainly supply my most memorable games and players. The 6-3 against Pompey, Paul Coopers first game, was a typical Blues game, being 3-1 down and then coming back to trounce the opposition. Francis, Latchford, Hatton, what a forward line! |
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| Blacksmith | Nov 11 2006, 06:06 PM Post #6 |
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Jeff Hall
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I think you need to check back on this. It wasn't a reserve match, it was the Youth Cup and I am sure you will find that my 10,000 is not far wrong. I know, I was there. |
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| PartisanBCFC | Nov 12 2006, 10:34 AM Post #7 |
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Jack Wiseman
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Thanks,folks for the answer I was only guessing at Gallagher 'cause the pic doesn't really do him justice as I really remember him....a 'pic' of Bob Hatton would have been more fitting IMO Bob was the classic 'unselfish' Blues player of that 'era' ....what a contribution the man made....I remember his passing and running off the ball and he did so much spadework for the more gifted Francis and Bob Latchford Well,Trevor was Trevor .........what more can be said about the 'Greatest Player' this club ever had And I fondly remember players like Howard Kendall,Gordon Taylor,Kenny Burns,Malcolm Page and big Roger Hynd too I rarely missed a game back then......one of my favourites was the 4-0 drubbing we gave Norwich City at SA in front of 40,000 on an atrocious rainswept winter day ....what a cracking game and Norwich where the eventual champions as we went up as runners up Oh Happy Days KRO **thumbup |
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| notsodeadlyellis | Nov 12 2006, 01:29 PM Post #8 |
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Ian Bennett
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oh happy days indeed, when celebrating avoiding relegation seemed like the highlight to a season, but as someone said the teams of the seventies stole your heart and kept it for ever, maybe thats what is missing now, once we got rid of the players who gained us promotion perhaps the players have never really felt like our team, still our club, but maybe the changing faces have yet to steal our hearts in the same way as the ones we consider our own. I bet there are stronger feelings about some of ex players from pre promotion and the promotion team than there are about the ones currently playing. |
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