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Title: Team photo 1969
Post by: bellevuebulgar on March 26, 2020, 11:54:59 am
The enforced confinement has given me the opportunity of going through old programmes and Football League Reviews. This is one of the 1969 winners, with a great view of the old Rosso End half time scoreboard.

Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: since-1969 on March 26, 2020, 12:01:11 pm
On me head !
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: bellevuebulgar on March 26, 2020, 12:09:14 pm
Ha ha ....sorry about that. No idea how that happened! 🍺
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Bentley Bullet on March 26, 2020, 12:12:19 pm
Are you in Australia by any chance?   ;)
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Post by: silent majority on March 26, 2020, 02:05:10 pm
Does that help??
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Bessie Red on March 26, 2020, 04:43:23 pm
There's my Father in Law 4th in from right!!
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Bentley Bullet on March 26, 2020, 07:17:37 pm
There's my Father in Law 4th in from right!!

Colin Clish?
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Bessie Red on March 26, 2020, 08:52:45 pm
There's my Father in Law 4th in from right!!

Colin Clish?
Yep
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: drfchound on March 26, 2020, 09:27:21 pm
There's my Father in Law 4th in from right!!

Colin Clish?
Yep








Just a long shot here, does your father in law post on this forum?
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: idler on March 26, 2020, 09:40:41 pm
Anybody remember the Colin Clish song to the tune of land of amthousand dances?
I saw him score a rare ( for him) goal away at Peterborough that season.
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: ravenrover on March 26, 2020, 09:42:38 pm
Was that a 1-1 draw? Distant memories of that game
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Bentley Bullet on March 26, 2020, 09:44:17 pm
Anybody remember the Colin Clish song to the tune of land of amthousand dances?
I saw him score a rare ( for him) goal away at Peterborough that season.
Na, na na na na, na na na na, na na na, na na na, see Colin Clish Hooo!
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: idler on March 26, 2020, 09:58:55 pm
That's it BB. Him and Harold Wilcockson were a great pair of full backs.
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: idler on March 26, 2020, 10:03:37 pm
Was that a 1-1 draw? Distant memories of that game
Definitely 1-0 to us Raven. We were on the side terrace on a cold Saturday. I think that Colin only got about two goals for us but he could certainly tackle.
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Colin C No.3 on March 26, 2020, 10:12:11 pm
That is obviously a section from the ‘Football League Review’ which was an added insert into your programme.

They are up there in my loft aside all my programmes, in a suitcase, ‘hidden’ away from my wife.

Colin Clish......my hero. Nuff said.
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Bentley Bullet on March 26, 2020, 10:12:28 pm
Was that a 6:45 kick off because they didn't have floodlights? Andy Wilson played for Chesterfield after leaving Rovers?
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: idler on March 26, 2020, 10:45:52 pm
No it was a normal 3 o'clock ko BB.
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Bentley Bullet on March 26, 2020, 11:04:59 pm
I'm thinking of the wrong game!
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Bentley Bullet on March 27, 2020, 09:00:53 am
That's it BB. Him and Harold Wilcockson were a great pair of full backs.
Swapping Dennis Leigh and Graham Watson for Wilcockson, Clish and Rabjohn turned out to be one of the best transfer deals in our history. I think Tommy Docherty's Rotherham lost out there.
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: idler on March 27, 2020, 09:38:01 am
They certainly did BB plus John Hazelden later joined us later. I always thought that Chris Rabjohn was very talented but never quite reached his full potential. More consistency and he would have played at a much higher level. I was at school with Willie Watson and was even more pleased when he rejoined us although I do think that he was underrated by a lot of our fans. There's a local lad called Graham Smith that played for Leeds and then Stockport that still blames Willie for ending his career with a tackle. He could be a little crude with some challenges.
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: ravenrover on March 27, 2020, 11:27:14 am
Was that a 1-1 draw? Distant memories of that game
Definitely 1-0 to us Raven. We were on the side terrace on a cold Saturday. I think that Colin only got about two goals for us but he could certainly tackle.
I was definitely there memory got the score wrong
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Bessie Red on March 27, 2020, 01:04:14 pm
There's my Father in Law 4th in from right!!

Colin Clish?
Yep








Just a long shot here, does your father in law post on this forum?
No, as with a lot of over 70's his IT skills are limited!! 🤣🤣
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: BiargeBob on March 27, 2020, 01:20:11 pm
Last time I saw Colin, he was a detective with BT police. I hope he is well. Keep safe everyone.
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Post by: sheffield exile1 on March 27, 2020, 06:23:25 pm
hardest tackler in my era I can remember was Alan Littlle (Animal). Anyone remember that tackle at Crewe away when their player went in with a reckless tackle with him, you heard the crack. He got carried off, Little had an egg on his knee and just carried on as if nothing happened. Would love to have him in the Belle Vue Bar evening chat as per Peter Kitchen night a couple of years ago...
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Bessie Red on March 29, 2020, 03:37:18 pm
Last time I saw Colin, he was a detective with BT police. I hope he is well. Keep safe everyone.
He is happy in retirement with his wife. One of his knees is knackered following a couple of failed replacements. Apart from that he is fine.
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Aisley Drfc Leeman on March 31, 2020, 09:28:28 am
Great photo - seeing a team photo without Copps in does seem oddly strange, however :D
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Donnywolf on March 31, 2020, 12:58:08 pm
-.... and a superb goal v Aldershot into the Rosse End net on that famous 7-0 night ?

Just outside box - inside left position - left footer all along floor

(PS Watching us v Daggers at Stoke recently and our goals were totally different to what I had filed them away as - so could be wrong again)
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Donnywolf on March 31, 2020, 01:02:37 pm
Anybody remember the Colin Clish song to the tune of land of amthousand dances?
I saw him score a rare ( for him) goal away at Peterborough that season.

I do now I played the song on Youtube. I was about to post - NO - and chalk it down to memory loss but then came the famous "bit" - sing Colin Clish OOOH

I was going to post I remember BBs one better but of course they are one and the same
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: ravenrover on March 31, 2020, 04:23:22 pm
-.... and a superb goal v Aldershot into the Rosse End net on that famous 7-0 night ?

Just outside box - inside left position - left footer all along floor

(PS Watching us v Daggers at Stoke recently and our goals were totally different to what I had filed them away as - so could be wrong again)
Can still see it spinning round and round in the back of the net
Title: Re: Team photo 1969
Post by: Donnywolf on March 31, 2020, 05:21:05 pm
Cheers - I didnt notice that. I was probably in orbit !