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Post by garyh1961 on Feb 4, 2016 9:45:24 GMT
Hi
Bit of a long shot, but hopefully worth a try....as part of a project I'm involved in, I'm looking to track down a Rovers keeper from the early 70's. Malcolm Dalrymple.
If anyone out there has any information on where he might be now, I would be very interested.
Thanks in advance
Gary
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Post by The Gas on Feb 4, 2016 9:55:28 GMT
Ask Keith Brookman
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Post by irishrover on Feb 4, 2016 13:09:08 GMT
I seem to recall there was someone who occasionally posted under that name either on this board or the previous one. No guarantee there's any connection of course but might be worth a PM if it's still on the list of users.
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Post by jets4 on Feb 4, 2016 15:22:22 GMT
He was in goal v Oldham At (at Eastville) when we were 3-0 up at half time and drew 3-3!
I seem to remember a very poor goal kick lead to their second with about 5 minutes left, and they then promptly got the equaliser.
I went with my friend who had never been to a game before, and he was really pleased because he had seen six goals.
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Post by eastville1966 on Feb 4, 2016 17:36:06 GMT
He was in goal v Oldham At (at Eastville) when we were 3-0 up at half time and drew 3-3! I seem to remember a very poor goal kick lead to their second with about 5 minutes left, and they then promptly got the equaliser. I went with my friend who had never been to a game before, and he was really pleased because he had seen six goals. Crikey, remember that match. Oldham played in orange shirts I recall. I was behind Malcolm's goal at the Muller Road end in the second half and he got a load of grief at the end. Never really established himself in the team as far as I remember. |
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Post by dido on Feb 4, 2016 17:47:10 GMT
Who remembers that he also played 5 games for Watford and represented England Youth?
(Wiki certainly does).
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Post by harrybuckle on Feb 4, 2016 18:18:19 GMT
This may help ....he is in Lancashire
MALCOLM OWEN DALRYMPLE
b 8.10.1951 Bedford
6’; 13 st GK
Début: 22.4.72 v Wrexham
Career: September 1968 Luton Town (amateur); July 1970 Margate (loan); 24.8.71 Cambridge United (trial); 13.10.71 Bristol Rovers (free) [7,0]; March 1973 Margate; July 1973 Watford (free) [5,0]; November 1975 Hendon; August 1976 Colne Dynamoes; 1978 Southport; 1979 Colne Dynamoes; 1980 Pendle Forest; Nelson; Accrington Stanley; Padiham Wanderers (to 1991).
Previously an England Youth international goalkeeper who had played three times, once each against Scotland, Wales and Ireland, Malcolm Dalrymple enjoyed a brief career at Eastville. The middle son of Malcolm Dalrymple senior and Phyllis Reed, who married in Cambridge in 1947, he lived in Bedford until joining Rovers in 1971, but had appeared 46 times for Margate, his début coming in a 3-0 win at Telford in August 1970. After Watford had won three of his five League matches at Vicarage Road, Dalrymple appeared 67 times for Hendon, his début being a 2-1 home victory over Wealdstone in August 1975 and fifteen times in Southport’s first season outside the Football League, before helping Colne finish the 1979-80 season as runners-up to Clitheroe in the Lancashire Combination. A long-distance lorry driver who has been resident in Lancashire since 1976, he can look back on the FA Cup as producing great excitement and disappointment: his greatest game for Margate was the 1-0 win at Herne Bay in November 1970; he was in the Hendon side which shocked Reading 1-0 in the second round in December 1975; and he was Rovers’ keeper in the demoralising 1-0 defeat at Hayes on a grey Saturday afternoon in November 1972.
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Post by a more piratey game on Feb 4, 2016 18:32:05 GMT
This may help ....he is in Lancashire and he was Rovers’ keeper in the demoralising 1-0 defeat at Hayes on a grey Saturday afternoon in November 1972. was when it dawned on me that we weren't special after all. A blight on my youth it was  |
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Post by harrybuckle on Feb 4, 2016 19:02:15 GMT
This may help ....he is in Lancashire and he was Rovers’ keeper in the demoralising 1-0 defeat at Hayes on a grey Saturday afternoon in November 1972. was when it dawned on me that we weren't special after all. A blight on my youth it was I saw the defeat at Hayes as well who included the future Reading & Cardiff City cult hero....Robin Friday ...plenty of Chelsea fans at the game too the days of loads of football hooligans as well. Sheppard had been injured the match before and Malcolm stepped in and found it difficult to be honest. |
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 4, 2016 22:10:19 GMT
was when it dawned on me that we weren't special after all. A blight on my youth it was I saw the defeat at Hayes as well who included the future Reading & Cardiff City cult hero....Robin Friday ...plenty of Chelsea fans at the game too the days of loads of football hooligans as well. Sheppard had been injured the match before and Malcolm stepped in and found it difficult to be honest. Yes. What an embarrassment that was. The first real one in my time as a fan. In the car going to the game we were thinking how many we would score, someone said 10! Never looked like getting 1 if I remember right. Robin Friday didn't score the goal but he was the star of the team. Have you ever read the book "Robin Friday, the Best Footballer You Never Saw"? It was a really good read. Made George Best look like a choirboy. Happy Days.....just not that day!! UTG ! |
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Post by JeffNZ on Feb 5, 2016 1:40:57 GMT
This may help ....he is in Lancashire and he was Rovers’ keeper in the demoralising 1-0 defeat at Hayes on a grey Saturday afternoon in November 1972. was when it dawned on me that we weren't special after all. A blight on my youth it was I have one of those quirky memories of that result. I didn't go to the game but I was with some fellow Rovers mates coming back on the bus from town and from the top deck glanced into a TV shop just as the FA Cup results were being shown on Grandstand. "We lost 1-0" I said much to hoots of laughter from my mates who not only couldn't believe we lost but were even more disbelieving I could read the TV screen from that distance. Times have changed... these days I need glasses to see my hand in front my face! |
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Post by interceptor on Feb 5, 2016 8:21:18 GMT
Hearing all this talk about hayes beating us 1-0 does rather put the Chesham result in perspective. There will always be banana skins.
I know nothing of Malcolm Dalrymple but I like the 50's sound of his name. There will not be many children that would be given that combination now!
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Post by kingswood Polak on Feb 5, 2016 12:14:56 GMT
The Hayes defeat was the one that stayed with me as the single most embarrassing defeat and closely followed by the 9-0 defeat by Tottenham. I remember going over to Southey playing fields and the few teds, we're giving it some. I was only 8 or nine but got into several fights, both in & out of school over that.
Chesham ? It pi55ed me off but NOTHING will ever come close to the feelings of despair,anger and shame of THAT game. Yes, you know the one and being beaten by what looked like our own team.
One day that will be a question in a sports quiz. Who got beaten by a team wearing their own kit.
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Post by dally on May 15, 2016 11:04:21 GMT
If anyone knows the author of this thread I'm Malcolm Dalrymple son I've pm the author but not sure if they have received it.
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Post by brizzle on May 15, 2016 15:14:55 GMT
Somebody mentioned banana skins, so when do we get onto the Kettering game?  |
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Post by Portishead Pirate on May 15, 2016 16:39:24 GMT
I bumped into an ex-girlfriend of Malcolm's from way back, on the train to York. sorry, can't recall her name - we were already half way through our beer collection!
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Post by lympstonegas on May 15, 2016 20:20:38 GMT
He was in goal v Oldham At (at Eastville) when we were 3-0 up at half time and drew 3-3! I seem to remember a very poor goal kick lead to their second with about 5 minutes left, and they then promptly got the equaliser. I went with my friend who had never been to a game before, and he was really pleased because he had seen six goals. Crikey, remember that match. Oldham played in orange shirts I recall. I was behind Malcolm's goal at the Muller Road end in the second half and he got a load of grief at the end. Never really established himself in the team as far as I remember. It remember it well as well and whilst Oldham were quite physical in and around the box roughing him up I was gutted by his performance - and to rub salt into the wounds Monday's evening post headline for the match was 'Dalrymple says what 3 goals' |
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