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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: anne honemous on December 20, 2017, 10:38:56 pm
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Once again many many thanks AH, for this thread :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
No problem at all.
There's about another 35 players on the list between 21 and 50 appearances, so here goes with those who fall into that category - starting with an easy one who made 45 appearances for us.
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Mitchell Lund
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Mitchell Lund
Correct.
He made seven more appearances than this fella...
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Nice real head on a digital body that. Dumbuya?
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Nice real head on a digital body that. Dumbuya?
Correct.
That was our kit launch for the experiment season. Glad things have improved digitally just a bit in the 6/7 years since.
Next...
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Cameron Stewart?
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The great Paul Barnes.
Correct.
Without his goals, and then Blundell's tireless work-rate in the latter stages of the last Conference season, I don't think we'd have got back into the FL as quickly as we did.
Both unbelievable, yet very different players.
That's all the players on the list too. I'll gather photos of all the other players who've featured for us since getting back in the league and do them at another time on this thread.
There's still some unbelievably rubbish players who've not yet featured as well.
Barnes’ goals were crucial but i don’t remember Blundell having that much of an impact that season - pretty sure he only made a handful of appearances and they were all off the bench. Of course he had quite an impact the following season...
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Cameron Stewart?
Correct.
Next...
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Bywater?
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The great Paul Barnes.
Correct.
Without his goals, and then Blundell's tireless work-rate in the latter stages of the last Conference season, I don't think we'd have got back into the FL as quickly as we did.
Both unbelievable, yet very different players.
That's all the players on the list too. I'll gather photos of all the other players who've featured for us since getting back in the league and do them at another time on this thread.
There's still some unbelievably rubbish players who've not yet featured as well.
Barnes’ goals were crucial but i don’t remember Blundell having that much of an impact that season - pretty sure he only made a handful of appearances and they were all off the bench. Of course he had quite an impact the following season...
Blundell only came off the bench to appear in the last four games of that season (for some reason I thought he'd signed earlier than that for us around March time), so he never had chance to nail down a place in the team.
If you ever get chance to watch any of the play off games when he was on the pitch though, his work rate was phenomenal - be it on or off the ball. He certainly gave us a different dimension to anyone else that we had up front at that time and proved his worth over the following couple of years.
I was gutted when he left, but in hindsight with Chester prepared to pay a six figure sum for him, it was completely the right decision and we cashed in at the right time.
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I knew a mate of his in Liverpool when he signed for us. I had a word with him and he was injured when he signed for us. That's why he played so little initially.
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Bywater?
Correct.
Next up, someone who joined us from Alcoholics Anonymous and would really love to play in a pub team!
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Alan Blayney
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Alan Blayney
Correct.
There's actually a good part to this interview with AB, where he specifically mentions his time with us...
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/irish-league/footballers-lives-with-alan-blayney-why-ive-been-gripped-by-selfdoubt-and-how-i-almost-died-after-training-36284956.html
Q. Do you have any regrets in your career?
A. I do regret going out and drinking in my later career in England when I was at Doncaster. I was getting injuries and was a bit disillusioned with the game. I regret it because people had opinions of me at that club which is not the real me. They only saw me behave like that for a few months. Any other clubs, like Brighton or Bournemouth, I enjoyed them on loan from Southampton until the club decided to sell me. I was home for a summer break when a phone call came through. It was Sir Clive Woodward, the former Lions coach who was a technical support director at the club, who said, 'We have sold you to Doncaster for £50,000'. My response was, 'Do I not have any say in this?' He said the deal was done but I didn't want to live in Doncaster. I loved it in Southampton. I didn't settle in Doncaster, they gave me an apartment but it was a tip. If I was getting those wages now I would bite your arm off but then it felt I wasn't getting much and it was a terrible time.
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Next, another player who did better elsewhere than he did for us...
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Can you give us a pointer?
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If he hasn't gone on to be a traffic warden I'll be very disappointed.
He was appalling for us as well, nevermind the pointing.
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If he hasn't gone on to be a traffic warden I'll be very disappointed.
He was appalling for us as well, nevermind the pointing.
Ha.
To Dickov's credit, one of the few good things he did was pointing James Harper towards the door.
Next up, someone who scored one very good goal and did absolutely nothing else...
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Rigly oh so or something like that
COYR
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Adriano Rigoglioso. Fantastic name. Had so much promise. Scored for fun in the reserves but rarely produced it when given the chance.
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The great Paul Barnes.
Correct.
Without his goals, and then Blundell's tireless work-rate in the latter stages of the last Conference season, I don't think we'd have got back into the FL as quickly as we did.
Both unbelievable, yet very different players.
That's all the players on the list too. I'll gather photos of all the other players who've featured for us since getting back in the league and do them at another time on this thread.
There's still some unbelievably rubbish players who've not yet featured as well.
Barnes’ goals were crucial but i don’t remember Blundell having that much of an impact that season - pretty sure he only made a handful of appearances and they were all off the bench. Of course he had quite an impact the following season...
Blundell only came off the bench to appear in the last four games of that season (for some reason I thought he'd signed earlier than that for us around March time), so he never had chance to nail down a place in the team.
If you ever get chance to watch any of the play off games when he was on the pitch though, his work rate was phenomenal - be it on or off the ball. He certainly gave us a different dimension to anyone else that we had up front at that time and proved his worth over the following couple of years.
I was gutted when he left, but in hindsight with Chester prepared to pay a six figure sum for him, it was completely the right decision and we cashed in at the right time.
Blundell was injured when we signed him. He was signed with the future in mind but actually provided a bit of an "X-Factor" in the play offs.
He was an excellent signing and played a huge part in our Division Three Championship season. That team was massively enjoyable to watch.
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Adriano Rigoglioso. Fantastic name. Had so much promise. Scored for fun in the reserves but rarely produced it when given the chance.
Correct.
Next...
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Adriano Rigoglioso. Fantastic name. Had so much promise. Scored for fun in the reserves but rarely produced it when given the chance.
Correct.
Next...
Rodders
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Adriano Rigoglioso. Fantastic name. Had so much promise. Scored for fun in the reserves but rarely produced it when given the chance.
Correct.
Next...
Rodders
Correct.
Next up, a player who I still rate quite highly...
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Adriano Rigoglioso. Fantastic name. Had so much promise. Scored for fun in the reserves but rarely produced it when given the chance.
Correct.
Next...
Rodders
Correct.
Next up, a player who I still rate quite highly...
Enda Stevens
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Adriano Rigoglioso. Fantastic name. Had so much promise. Scored for fun in the reserves but rarely produced it when given the chance.
Correct.
Next...
Rodders
Correct.
Next up, a player who I still rate quite highly...
Enda Stevens
Correct.
Next up, another of those type of players where if we'd signed them a few years earlier, they'd have been bloody good for us...
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Adriano Rigoglioso. Fantastic name. Had so much promise. Scored for fun in the reserves but rarely produced it when given the chance.
Correct.
Next...
Rodders
Correct.
Next up, a player who I still rate quite highly...
Enda Stevens
Correct.
Next up, another of those type of players where if we'd signed them a few years earlier, they'd have been bloody good for us...
Wayne Thomas?
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Wayne Thomas is correct.
Next...
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Meite. Good player.
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Meite. Good player.
Correct.
Meite made 21 appearances, which was the same amount as Wayne Thomas.
Next up, probably the most famous player to have ever pulled on a Rovers shirt...
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He looks the spitting image of El Hag Diouf.
He could certainly play.
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He looks the spitting image of El Hag Diouf.
He could certainly play.
Correct.
Here's another easy one of someone who currently features on the list...
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This MAY prove to be a bit too easy :thumbsup:
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This MAY prove to be a bit too easy :thumbsup:
;)
Next...
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J.J. Melligan?
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J.J. Melligan?
Correct.
Next...
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Conor Grant
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Conor Grant
Correct.
Next up, someone who could quite easily have stood in for Richard O'Brien on a Crystal Maze, despite being charged with homophobic comments later in his career.
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The thumb!
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Chaplow
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That's Chaplow, another disappointment for us.
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That's Chaplow, another disappointment for us.
Correct.
He was one of those players I think who would have flourished under SO'D but by the time he came to us, he was just collecting another pay packet and his best days were well and truly behind him.
Next up, someone tangling with someone who went on to play for us...
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Is that Jason Shackell? What could have been if we managed to sign him permanently...
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Is that Jason Shackell? What could have been if we managed to sign him permanently...
Correct.
He was a perfect replacement for Matt Mills and certainly helped us before the lure of more money took him elsewhere.
Looking back at that season as a whole, it's the one where Blackpool went up in the play-offs and we weren't a million miles off the play-offs (we finished in the top half).
It makes you wonder what could have been, had we won a couple of the games we drew and Martin Woods not skied that penalty at Newcastle as well!
Here is the other guy in that photo in our colours as well...
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Iain Hume
COYR
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Iain Hume
COYR
Correct. Always enjoyed his performances as he'd put a good shift in.
Next up, someone who achieved 'legend' status but actually wasn't very good at his job and made far too many errors, hence why he only made 34 appearances in total...
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probably the most famous player to have ever pulled on a Rovers shirt...
No, that has to be
(https://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_700,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/https://www.thornegazette.co.uk/webimage/1.7517029.1444916284!/image/2016556272.jpg)
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Jan Budtz
COYR
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probably the most famous player to have ever pulled on a Rovers shirt...
No, that has to be
(https://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_700,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/https://www.thornegazette.co.uk/webimage/1.7517029.1444916284!/image/2016556272.jpg)
Ha, good shout.
It'd be interesting to see which of the two have the most fame.
My guess is that Billy would win hands down based on fame in the UK, but globally I think Diouf would be more well known.
Either way, Billy was twice the man that Diouf will ever be.
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Jan Budtz
COYR
Correct.
Next up, someone who clocked up 23 appearances - all in one season...
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Jan Budtz
COYR
Correct.
Next up, someone who clocked up 23 appearances - all in one season...
Habib Beye
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Jan Budtz
COYR
Correct.
Next up, someone who clocked up 23 appearances - all in one season...
Habib Beye
Correct.
Next up, someone who took a while to find his form before suffering a terrible injury...
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Mcsporran
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Mcsporran
Correct.
Next, one of the current crop...
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Ben Whiteman
COYR
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Ben Whiteman
COYR
Correct sir.
Next...
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Duffy
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Duffy
Correct.
Next...
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Jamie price
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Still playing for Scarborough I believe
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Jamie price
Correct.
Next up, someone who made 36 appearances but was a disappointment by and large...
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Giles Barnes
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Giles Barnes
Correct.
Next...
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Sam Johnstone
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Sam Johnstone
Correct.
Next...
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Gareth Taylor
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Gareth Taylor
Correct.
For a bonus point, which was the game where he scored his only goal for us?
Next...
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Thorsten Stuckmann - a big effing German, we’ve got a big effing German
COYR
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Gareth Taylor
Huddersfield away in 2-2 draw?
Correct.
For a bonus point, which was the game where he scored his only goal for us?
Next...
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Thorsten Stuckmann - a big effing German, we’ve got a big effing German
COYR
Correct.
Also Idler, spot on with Gareth Taylor's goal. Under any of our other manager's since SOD, he'd have probably made a bigger impact but his style was completely the opposite of ours back then.
Next up, someone who made under 50 appearances since we rejoined the league, but a whole lot more in our Conference days...
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Marples
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Marples
Correct.
Next...
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Marples
Correct.
Next...
Ben Smith
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Marples
Correct.
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Ben Smith
Correct.
Next - a bonus point if anyone can also name the ground this photo was taken at...
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Marosi,
Cheltenham ?
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Marosi,
Cheltenham ?
Correct.
Marosi's currently on 42 appearances, which is already behind Lawlor but just more than other keepers we've had on loan since he's been here.
Still, he's a damn sight better than Gary Woods!
Next...
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Clue: This is one of the extremely few players to have ever scored in a World Cup and played for us; obviously neither occurred at the same time though.
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Bongs.
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Bongs.
Correct.
Next...
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Riccardo Calder, where's he at these days? Believe he went on loan to Lincoln last year.
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Riccardo Calder, where's he at these days? Believe he went on loan to Lincoln last year.
Cally thistle
COYR
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Riccardo Calder, where's he at these days? Believe he went on loan to Lincoln last year.
Correct.
Next up, an easy one...
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Lawlor
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Lawlor
Correct.
Next. Someone who played in the Conference and made under 50 appearances after we rejoined the FL.
And his defending still scares me now!
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Dave Morley. Great goal at Stoke.
People always remember the Sir Francis goal.
Dangerous Dave's was just as important.
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Dave Morley. Great goal at Stoke.
People always remember the Sir Francis goal.
Dangerous Dave's was just as important.
Absolutely correct.
He's one of those players who became a bit of a cult hero with us, then did the same thing when he went to Macclesfield and ended up playing as goalkeeper in an FA Cup game with Chelsea.
Next up, someone who was between the sticks on a more frequent basis...
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Turnbull
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Turnbull
Correct.
Next up, a player I've rated for a while stretching back to when he was at his old club.
There's a lot worse out there...
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Frenchy
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Frenchy
Correct.
For something a bit different, there's one player left on the list who made under 50 appearances.
Without any photo, can anyone guess who it is?
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John Ryan?
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John Ryan?
Nope.
I'll give a better clue...
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Dave Syers. Lower league Frank Lampard.