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Post by gasheadnaboo on Nov 20, 2014 18:22:51 GMT
Looks a good signing, but he's only made cameo appearances so far this season and will bound to need a few games to build up some match sharpness.
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Post by gashead6 on Nov 20, 2014 18:24:28 GMT
Two potentially young canny signings today. Also v happy not to see journey man Easter come here just because it's close to home.
Blissett - raw but a real athlete. Won't be an enjoyable afternoon for whoever marks him and he's at the right age and speaks like he's hungry to succeed.
Different players for sure but when Jason Roberts joined he didn't look technically gifted but had pace and power - the rest on that is history.
Goldberg - looks like a real foil for a big man. Watching his highlight reel on youtube looks a little bit like curo with those looping volleys and curlers vchucked in with some neat finishes.
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Admittedly they are working their way up, but hopeful they could add something different to our strikeforce. Well played DC and NH
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Post by michaelb on Nov 20, 2014 18:49:58 GMT
Dai was very volatile . . . oh, and very determined as well. Dai Ward.Had some sort of pay dispute when he left us and sold ice -creams from a van .Think it was a Welsh team he went to but a very exciting inside forward alongside Bradford,Biggs and Meyer.Pretty sure he made the full Welsh team whilst at Eastville ,a rare occurrence for our team having a current international(Geoff Bradford played for England v Denmark and scored).Maybe Harry Buckle can confirm? He won two welsh caps, one with us and one with Cardiff after he left.
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Post by The Concept on Nov 20, 2014 18:52:39 GMT
'Goldberger, he's the man, the man with the Rovers loan'? "Goldberger <Da DAAA Da! da-da-da-da-dum> He's the man, the man with the Midas touch. He scores so much ..."
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Post by LJG on Nov 21, 2014 9:36:39 GMT
Dai was very volatile . . . oh, and very determined as well. Dai Ward.Had some sort of pay dispute when he left us and sold ice -creams from a van .Think it was a Welsh team he went to but a very exciting inside forward alongside Bradford,Biggs and Meyer.Pretty sure he made the full Welsh team whilst at Eastville ,a rare occurrence for our team having a current international(Geoff Bradford played for England v Denmark and scored).Maybe Harry Buckle can confirm? My dad has recounted to me that he saw Dai Ward, on seeing a defender stoop to head a ball back to the keeper, jump clear over the defenders bowed head and shoulders, collect the ball, round the keeper and score.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2014 10:19:45 GMT
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Post by harrybuckle on Nov 21, 2014 11:18:04 GMT
Dai Ward.Had some sort of pay dispute when he left us and sold ice -creams from a van .Think it was a Welsh team he went to but a very exciting inside forward alongside Bradford,Biggs and Meyer.Pretty sure he made the full Welsh team whilst at Eastville ,a rare occurrence for our team having a current international(Geoff Bradford played for England v Denmark and scored).Maybe Harry Buckle can confirm? He won two welsh caps, one with us and one with Cardiff after he left.
Yes Ward did fall out with manager Bert Tann over a new contract and was in dispute with Club for a while. He refused to play in one game and his days were numbered.
DAVID WARD b 16.7.1934 Barry d 12.1.1996 Barry 5’ 7”; 10 st 4 lbs IF Début: 16.4.55 v Nottingham Forest Career: local football in Barry; August 1950 Barry Town; 1952 Cardiff City (amateur); 24.11.54 Bristol Rovers (free) [175,90]; 21.2.61 Cardiff City (£11,000 plus John Watkins) [35,18]; May 1962 Watford (£7,000) [59,31]; 15.10.63 Brentford (£8,000) [47,11]; August 1965 Worcester City (£2,000); 3.8.66 Bath City; February 1967 Cambridge United (youth coach); Kettering Town (coach); 1972 Cambridge City (coach, to April 1974).
When Wales drew 2-2 with England at Villa Park in November 1958, inside-forward Dai Ward joined a rare breed of players to appear for their country whilst on Rovers’ books. The son of Dai Ward senior (1901-59), a former Merthyr Town, Coventry City and Newport County player, who played in the Merthyr side which defeated Rovers 1-0 at Penydarren Park in March 1925, he fully deserved his call-up, for in-form Rovers were riding high in the second tier and Ward was on course for 26 League goals in a productive League season. He won a second cap on October 1961, England once again being the opposition. Dai Ward had played in just two Southern League fixtures for Barry, scoring against Llanelli over Easter 1952, before signing for Rovers. Leading scorer at Eastville both 1956-57 and 1958-59, he scored in a club record eight consecutive League matches in the spring of 1956 and contributed a four-minute hat-trick in the 7-2 victory over Bury in December 1956 as well as scoring twice in a League game for Rovers on twelve further occasions. In addition, his goal after just seven seconds against Bristol City in the Gloucestershire Cup Final of May 1959 is the fastest ever recorded by a Rovers player. Top scorer as Cardiff were relegated from Division One in 1961-62, and registering a hat-trick in the snow when Watford beat Carlisle United 5-1 in December 1962, Ward scored after just six minutes on his Brentford début, scoring twice as the Bees defeated Wrexham 9-0 in October 1963 and, their top scorer that campaign, added a hat-trick against Mansfield Town later that calendar month. He played three times in the League for Watford against Rovers, scoring at Eastville in April 1963 and at Vicarage Road the following September, and in both Brentford’s game against Rovers during the 1963-64 campaign. After 22 goals in 43 Southern League matches at Worcester, he was injured after 53 minutes of Bath’s 2-0 Southern League defeat at Romford in January 1967, required five stitches in his right leg and retired from the game. A motor trade apprentice, who became a delivery driver in Cambridge, Ward attended Watford’s centenary dinner but, once he fell ill, returned to Barry from Cambridge and died in his native Wales at the age of sixty-one.
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Post by fanatical on Nov 21, 2014 14:11:39 GMT
He won two welsh caps, one with us and one with Cardiff after he left.
Yes Ward did fall out with manager Bert Tann over a new contract and was in dispute with Club for a while. He refused to play in one game and his days were numbered.
DAVID WARD b 16.7.1934 Barry d 12.1.1996 Barry 5’ 7”; 10 st 4 lbs IF Début: 16.4.55 v Nottingham Forest Career: local football in Barry; August 1950 Barry Town; 1952 Cardiff City (amateur); 24.11.54 Bristol Rovers (free) [175,90]; 21.2.61 Cardiff City (£11,000 plus John Watkins) [35,18]; May 1962 Watford (£7,000) [59,31]; 15.10.63 Brentford (£8,000) [47,11]; August 1965 Worcester City (£2,000); 3.8.66 Bath City; February 1967 Cambridge United (youth coach); Kettering Town (coach); 1972 Cambridge City (coach, to April 1974).
When Wales drew 2-2 with England at Villa Park in November 1958, inside-forward Dai Ward joined a rare breed of players to appear for their country whilst on Rovers’ books. The son of Dai Ward senior (1901-59), a former Merthyr Town, Coventry City and Newport County player, who played in the Merthyr side which defeated Rovers 1-0 at Penydarren Park in March 1925, he fully deserved his call-up, for in-form Rovers were riding high in the second tier and Ward was on course for 26 League goals in a productive League season. He won a second cap on October 1961, England once again being the opposition. Dai Ward had played in just two Southern League fixtures for Barry, scoring against Llanelli over Easter 1952, before signing for Rovers. Leading scorer at Eastville both 1956-57 and 1958-59, he scored in a club record eight consecutive League matches in the spring of 1956 and contributed a four-minute hat-trick in the 7-2 victory over Bury in December 1956 as well as scoring twice in a League game for Rovers on twelve further occasions. In addition, his goal after just seven seconds against Bristol City in the Gloucestershire Cup Final of May 1959 is the fastest ever recorded by a Rovers player. Top scorer as Cardiff were relegated from Division One in 1961-62, and registering a hat-trick in the snow when Watford beat Carlisle United 5-1 in December 1962, Ward scored after just six minutes on his Brentford début, scoring twice as the Bees defeated Wrexham 9-0 in October 1963 and, their top scorer that campaign, added a hat-trick against Mansfield Town later that calendar month. He played three times in the League for Watford against Rovers, scoring at Eastville in April 1963 and at Vicarage Road the following September, and in both Brentford’s game against Rovers during the 1963-64 campaign. After 22 goals in 43 Southern League matches at Worcester, he was injured after 53 minutes of Bath’s 2-0 Southern League defeat at Romford in January 1967, required five stitches in his right leg and retired from the game. A motor trade apprentice, who became a delivery driver in Cambridge, Ward attended Watford’s centenary dinner but, once he fell ill, returned to Barry from Cambridge and died in his native Wales at the age of sixty-one.
I was there - fantastic dribbling from the kickoff into the Bury net at the Tote end
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Post by Bridgeman on Nov 21, 2014 23:51:08 GMT
Yes Ward did fall out with manager Bert Tann over a new contract and was in dispute with Club for a while. He refused to play in one game and his days were numbered.
DAVID WARD b 16.7.1934 Barry d 12.1.1996 Barry 5’ 7”; 10 st 4 lbs IF Début: 16.4.55 v Nottingham Forest Career: local football in Barry; August 1950 Barry Town; 1952 Cardiff City (amateur); 24.11.54 Bristol Rovers (free) [175,90]; 21.2.61 Cardiff City (£11,000 plus John Watkins) [35,18]; May 1962 Watford (£7,000) [59,31]; 15.10.63 Brentford (£8,000) [47,11]; August 1965 Worcester City (£2,000); 3.8.66 Bath City; February 1967 Cambridge United (youth coach); Kettering Town (coach); 1972 Cambridge City (coach, to April 1974).
When Wales drew 2-2 with England at Villa Park in November 1958, inside-forward Dai Ward joined a rare breed of players to appear for their country whilst on Rovers’ books. The son of Dai Ward senior (1901-59), a former Merthyr Town, Coventry City and Newport County player, who played in the Merthyr side which defeated Rovers 1-0 at Penydarren Park in March 1925, he fully deserved his call-up, for in-form Rovers were riding high in the second tier and Ward was on course for 26 League goals in a productive League season. He won a second cap on October 1961, England once again being the opposition. Dai Ward had played in just two Southern League fixtures for Barry, scoring against Llanelli over Easter 1952, before signing for Rovers. Leading scorer at Eastville both 1956-57 and 1958-59, he scored in a club record eight consecutive League matches in the spring of 1956 and contributed a four-minute hat-trick in the 7-2 victory over Bury in December 1956 as well as scoring twice in a League game for Rovers on twelve further occasions. In addition, his goal after just seven seconds against Bristol City in the Gloucestershire Cup Final of May 1959 is the fastest ever recorded by a Rovers player. Top scorer as Cardiff were relegated from Division One in 1961-62, and registering a hat-trick in the snow when Watford beat Carlisle United 5-1 in December 1962, Ward scored after just six minutes on his Brentford début, scoring twice as the Bees defeated Wrexham 9-0 in October 1963 and, their top scorer that campaign, added a hat-trick against Mansfield Town later that calendar month. He played three times in the League for Watford against Rovers, scoring at Eastville in April 1963 and at Vicarage Road the following September, and in both Brentford’s game against Rovers during the 1963-64 campaign. After 22 goals in 43 Southern League matches at Worcester, he was injured after 53 minutes of Bath’s 2-0 Southern League defeat at Romford in January 1967, required five stitches in his right leg and retired from the game. A motor trade apprentice, who became a delivery driver in Cambridge, Ward attended Watford’s centenary dinner but, once he fell ill, returned to Barry from Cambridge and died in his native Wales at the age of sixty-one.
I was there - fantastic dribbling from the kickoff into the Bury net at the Tote end You were around in the Geoff Bradford and later Alfie Biggs era, I'm well jealous of you....
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Post by Carmarthengas on Nov 25, 2014 11:44:08 GMT
So was I!
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Post by Bridgeman on Nov 27, 2014 2:45:00 GMT
Hello Roy, how's things down there in West Wales.....and I'm jealous of you too !
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Post by Carmarthengas on Nov 27, 2014 9:20:28 GMT
Just think if you were there then you would be a lot older too.
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