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Post by Topper Gas on Sept 9, 2015 22:27:34 GMT
Probably more like 10, but yeh I could probably tell you about Rovers more at that stage of my life than I could about last season!
Me too. Give me a team pic from the 70s and I could probably name most-if not all- the players on there. Show me one from the past decade, and I would struggle to name any more than a handful. Me as well I could name virtually all our promotion squad but would struggle to identify all last team players, not even sure B-B actually existed!
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Post by Swedish Gas on Sept 9, 2015 22:44:32 GMT
Brian Cash was the winger that came in as sub, then was subbed. Fell out with fruitcake atkins and disappeared.
Bradley Andrews was a friend of Curetons that somehow got a game.
Alexander Jeannin was a french holding midfielder that played once in the Atkins/Osman days.
I could go on...
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Post by Foran for England on Sept 10, 2015 2:25:52 GMT
I'd suggest Fraser Forster as goalie - from memory he came in on loan, played one game, didn't like it and went on loan to someone else.
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Post by Gastafari on Sept 10, 2015 5:48:35 GMT
I'd suggest Fraser Forster as goalie - from memory he came in on loan, played one game, didn't like it and went on loan to someone else. He signed on a months loan, played in the first game of the season against Leyton Orient, then Norwich who had just got walloped 7-1 at home to Colchester offered him a season long loan, cant really blame him. Norwich went on to romp away with the title.
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Post by biggsy on Sept 10, 2015 7:55:29 GMT
Forster played four games for us and is still talked about by some as one we should have signed even though Norwich pinched him with the offer of a massive salary. A keeper who really only played once was Matt Glennon, recalled to his parent club and never seen again.
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Post by pirate49 on Sept 10, 2015 10:29:22 GMT
.....and we could play our games at Cheltenham Town..................
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Post by irishrover on Sept 10, 2015 11:32:27 GMT
Brian Cash was the winger that came in as sub, then was subbed. Fell out with fruitcake atkins and disappeared. Bradley Andrews was a friend of Curetons that somehow got a game. Alexander Jeannin was a french holding midfielder that played once in the Atkins/Osman days. I could go on... Yes, Bradley Andrews was the worst player I have ever seen in a Rovers shirt and sadly that is saying something.
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Post by irishrover on Sept 10, 2015 12:10:06 GMT
That's exactly right but I just have this memory of completely OTT posts on forums around that era of people saying that he'd have been a real difference maker if he hadn't gotten injured, that those 15 minutes showed exactly what we'd been missing etc. You couldn't have anything but total sympathy for the guy (in fact I think that was more or less the end of his career) but some of that sympathy was directed into bigging him up so much it began to seem like we'd missed out on seeing the second coming of Pele. I'm not saying he was a poor player at all - just a good example of how the possibility of what a player could be/could have been is sometime out of proportion with reality. Happens with England before every tournament where fans get into frenzied rows about which of 2 decent but very similar squad players should be selected. By the end of the argument people are convinced that if only England had picked Darren Anderton the entire history of English football would be different! I was at the Yeovil game and was quite looking forward to seeing Andrews play, I expected him to be rusty and he was. Clearly in 15 minutes he didn't have too much of an opportunity to shine, but he did show that he had a bit of class on a couple of occasions. Then Terry Skiverton clattered him in the centre circle of all places, like he was going to do too much damage from there, and that (as they say) was that. Wayne Andrews career was virtually finished there and then, and Skiverton got a yellow. Despite the fact that he was clearly reaching the end of his career, I've always believed that Wayne Andrews may well have turned out to be a good signing for us. I never was convinced by Darren Anderton, pretty to watch sometimes but that's about it. Pele on the other hand . . . Yeah I was at Yeovil too and I agree. I mean Andrew was clearly a decent player and may have been a good signing. But he was at the end of his career, we'd bought him in on a very short term deal, he was coming off a long injury layoff and we saw only 15-20 minutes - there were plenty of question marks there. Yet 6-9 months later I was still seeing posts proclaiming that all our attacking problems would have been sorted if only we hadn't had the bad luck of Wayne Andrew getting injured. The point is as time went on in some people's eyes he went from being a potentially decent signing who was worth a punt on to being the great missed opportunity to solve all our attacking woes. In other words the mystical 'potential Wayne Andrew' became 10 times the player that the real Wayne Andrew could possibly have been. I think forums have that effect - if Stuart Sinclair was to get injured for 10 months by the time he came back he would probably struggle to meet expectations because in the meantime people would have been talking about what a brilliant player he was and how he'd be the answer to all our problems etc etc. He could only disappoint in those circumstances. A half-decent eye catching player can become a borderline cult hero simply by not playing for a bit! I find it a bit odd - these days one of the best ways a reasonable player can boost his reputation with fans is to be injured while the rest of the team does badly.
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Post by dido on Sept 10, 2015 12:21:06 GMT
Quality before quantity. Who is this Wayne Andrew you speak of? Maybe a fast bowler?
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Post by gashead1979 on Sept 10, 2015 12:51:48 GMT
Good shout, I saw his only game away at Watford and he was never seen again. I used to go to school with his brother who was a horrible ***t
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Post by brizzle on Sept 10, 2015 16:14:48 GMT
I was at the Yeovil game and was quite looking forward to seeing Andrews play, I expected him to be rusty and he was. Clearly in 15 minutes he didn't have too much of an opportunity to shine, but he did show that he had a bit of class on a couple of occasions. Then Terry Skiverton clattered him in the centre circle of all places, like he was going to do too much damage from there, and that (as they say) was that. Wayne Andrews career was virtually finished there and then, and Skiverton got a yellow. Despite the fact that he was clearly reaching the end of his career, I've always believed that Wayne Andrews may well have turned out to be a good signing for us. I never was convinced by Darren Anderton, pretty to watch sometimes but that's about it. Pele on the other hand . . . Yeah I was at Yeovil too and I agree. I mean Andrew was clearly a decent player and may have been a good signing. But he was at the end of his career, we'd bought him in on a very short term deal, he was coming off a long injury layoff and we saw only 15-20 minutes - there were plenty of question marks there. Yet 6-9 months later I was still seeing posts proclaiming that all our attacking problems would have been sorted if only we hadn't had the bad luck of Wayne Andrew getting injured. The point is as time went on in some people's eyes he went from being a potentially decent signing who was worth a punt on to being the great missed opportunity to solve all our attacking woes. In other words the mystical 'potential Wayne Andrew' became 10 times the player that the real Wayne Andrew could possibly have been. I think forums have that effect - if Stuart Sinclair was to get injured for 10 months by the time he came back he would probably struggle to meet expectations because in the meantime people would have been talking about what a brilliant player he was and how he'd be the answer to all our problems etc etc. He could only disappoint in those circumstances. A half-decent eye catching player can become a borderline cult hero simply by not playing for a bit! I find it a bit odd - these days one of the best ways a reasonable player can boost his reputation with fans is to be injured while the rest of the team does badly. I finally understand where you're coming from on this one, it's taken me time . . . but then again it's good to talk. Mind you if you were at Yeovil that day then you've certainly gone up a notch in my estimation. Tipping down with rain all the morning, infernally cold and not a stitch of cover to be had anywhere. And all for a 0-0 draw. Such is life.
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Post by Swedish Gas on Sept 10, 2015 17:38:31 GMT
See also Andy Beasley, a loan keeper who played the final game only of the 92\3 relegation season. Polled highly in player of the season vote due to the gallows humor and sarcasm of gasheads at the time.
I voted for him...
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Post by chelt_gas on Sept 11, 2015 12:50:37 GMT
Ricky Shakes
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Post by davehuddscousin on Sept 12, 2015 5:43:31 GMT
John Tedesco - that's going back a bit - though 1970 not 1968. Even less successful as that other Plymouth lad Micky Evans. And eos anyone remember another 'star striker' we signed - Bob Lee? He did play a few games, but was even less effective than Derek Riordan. Talking of the McGhee era.....surely Gary 'sicknote' Kenneth deserves a place in this NYSTNYD starting eleven?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2015 9:37:08 GMT
John Tedesco - that's going back a bit - though 1970 not 1968. Even less successful as that other Plymouth lad Micky Evans. And eos anyone remember another 'star striker' we signed - Bob Lee? He did play a few games, but was even less effective than Derek Riordan. Talking of the McGhee era.....surely Gary 'sicknote' Kenneth deserves a place in this NYSTNYD starting eleven? Garry Kenneth scored for us, at least once. A stratospheric career with us compared to some of the numbnuts mentioned on this thread.
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