Furman International Appearances

[BillyStubbsTears]

Dutch/TRB

Grand stuff.

And the thread title sounds like a Fall B-side.

[wilts rover]

I thought it was on Half Man Half Biscuit's first LP?

[graingrover]

It would be good to see an International's Honour Board somewhere on the concourses for all fans young and old to see . I would also like to see some photos of match action from games over the years . There used to be a wall full of such photos in the pub that Alick Jeffrey ran , in the market place . The packed  terraces of Belle Vue in the 1950's used to captivate  me as a kid, though I saw those pics in the  Saturday Green U not in the Black Bull.

[Filo]

Grainge - sorry I did miss PD from the managers list - now edited

Steve Nicol had 'only'27 caps. A list of 86 internationals is on the PopStand website in Issue number 70. None of Bubalovic, Hayrettin or Maamria make the list.

2 names to be added are Gordon Greer and Luke McCullough (not capped when the list was made) to make a total of 88.

From that list in issue 70 I wondered how many different players were for each Country, so here goes:

Northern Ireland - 16
Wales - 12
England - 11
Republic Ireland - 7
Jamaica - 5
Scotland - 4
Australia - 3
Senegal - 3
South Africa - 3
Canada - 3
France - 2
Barbados - 2
New Zealand - 2
Mali - 1
Burkina Faso - 1
Guadeloupe - 1
Sierra Leone - 1
Montserrat - 1
St Lucia - 1
Congo - 1
Netherland Antlles - 1
Ivory Coast - 1
Martinique - 1
Romania - 1
Iceland - 1
Thailand - 1
St Kitts and Nevis - 1
South Korea - 1

[The Red Baron]

I thought it was on Half Man Half Biscuit's first LP?

That was "The bas**rd son of Dean Friedman," wasn't it? That album always raises a smile.

[ravenrover]

So who has been awarded the most International caps whilst actually a rovers player ie actually signed on not a loan and not counting caps awarded whilst playing for other teams?

[Dutch Uncle]

As in the OP, it is claimed on Vital Donny that Dean Furman has passed Len Graham's 14 Northern Ireland Caps with 15 for South Africa. IMHO this is wrong since 3 of the 15 caps counted for Dean were when he was still officially an Oldham player.

Issue 70 of PopStand gives a full list (as of last April so now out of date) of all caps won by players whilst at Rovers.   

Edit: I have now put a comment on the Vital Donny article.