Friday time waster...

[GazLaz]

I was driving home last night and saw a sign saying "Wakefield Morley". It got me thinking, is it possible to put a ex Rovers team together just using place names. We have the two centre halves sorted but can we find the rest? I've thought of a few but see what everyone else comes up with...

[IDM]

Douglas..

[shaun from thorne]

Warrington

[IDM]

(Stoke) Mandeville..

[tommy toes]

Warrington
Lund
Foster
Albrighton
Irvine
Ripley
Leigh
Bentley
Sheffield
Jordan
Douglas

[Copps is Magic]

Are we limited to British place names?

Mitchell LUND
Sam JOHNSTONE

[tommy toes]

You could probably make several teams. Loads of names are from places.

[Copps is Magic]

Back Room XI

Ben ROME

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

I drove through a place called mandeville this week, so definitely in.

[auckleyflyer]

Place called fenton,
Always say "bloody awful fenton" as I pass.

[NickDRFC]

Fenton! FENTON!

Jesus christ.

[The Red Baron]

There's a village called MOSS near Donny. Ernie or David.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Keith RIPLEY.

[Filo]

Theres a place near Skeggy called Alford

[Filo]

And in that there London there is a place called Southall

[Yargo]

Little Houghton.  Dingle land

[ravenrover]

Jeez that brings back horrible memories of playing Houghton Main back in the day

[RedRover45]

Little Houghton.  Dingle land

I think Great Houghton would be more appropriate

[Donnywolf]

Peoples surnames generally (as a rule / potentially / not always you understand) derive in many ways but three of them are :

a) Where the person came from. My Maternal Grandad derived hs Surname directly from the place his ancestors lived

b) What trade a persons ancestors were involved with Turner Fletcher Cooper Baker etc are examples

c) Who they descended from Johnson Richardson Davidson Peterson

So it should be EASY to name about 33% of Rovers Players who are named after the place their ancestors came from Albrighton is in Shropshire for example (well its close to Telford

[PDX_Rover]

Snodin - that hill in Wales. Barry Roche Island?

[Surrey Rover]

Shipley
(Mark Shipley reserve keeper early eighties)

[i_ateallthepies]

Balderstone near Blackburn.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Ted Hemsley.

[Lincoln Rover]

Snods Edge in Northumberland. Boy that Ian sailed close to the that several times.
Then I believe there's Marples near sunny Stockport

[Dutch Uncle]

Looked at this a while ago

My favourite team was

Ken Oxford/Andy Warrington
Brian Caswell (Gower), Dave Crosby, Dave Morley, Dennis Leigh
Keith Ripley, Ricky Ravenhill (Belfast), Dave Bentley
Archie Irvine, Laurie Sheffield, Paul Barnes

Bench from:
Stuart Nelson, Ted Hemsley, Keith Lindsey, Colin Sutherland, David Cork, Justin Edinboro, Alfie Hale, Mark Sale, Terry Austin (Texas), Steve Burton

No place for Duane Darby and Jack Lester

Internationals included Simon Ireland, Darren France, Simon (or Tommy) Holland and Clarrie Jordan

[drfc1951]

Tony Wales

[BobG]

There's another Snod not too far from Gillnigham. Drove through it once on the way to a match. Perhaps that one is Glynn?

BobG

[NickDRFC]

Lovely little pub there, The Snod Inn.

[BobG]