Black Bank Legends Banner : 1960-1975 vote

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The vote for who should appear for the 1960-1975 period on the legends banner has now opened.

The candidates are :

   Albert Broadbent 1959-61 & 1693-66
   Colin Booth 1962-64
   Alfie Hale 1962-65
   Bobby Gilfillan 1965-71
   Laurie Sheffield 1965-66 & 1969-70
   Stuart Robertson 1966-72
   Alan Warboys 1966-68 & 1979-83
   Colin Clish 1967-72
   Graham Watson 1966-1973
   Brian Usher 1968-73
   Archie Irvine 1969-75
   Peter Kitchen 1970-77
   Steve Wignall 1972-77
   Brendan OCallaghan 1973-78

Fans can vote by clicking HERE

The banner is certainly taking shape with some great names on there.  Who is your favourite? 

[Nudga]

Steve Wignall? Really?

[RobTheRover]

I'm far,  far too young to have seen Yogi Broadbent play,  but a bloke I used to work with many years ago told me about how as a youngster he would go down to OBV and watch the players train. After everyone else had finished the drills,  Yogi would stay out by himself, and hammer a ball into the old concrete dugouts and as it ricocheted back to him he'd hit it first time into the other and carry on like this for 15 minutes. Boom,  boom,  boom,  boom. He said he'd never seen a player hit it as hard.

[NickDRFC]

I think everyone on this board is too young to have seen him if he played in 1693.

[The Red Baron]

Steve Wignall? Really?

He's got a few votes as well. At least I didn't have to agonise over this one. Peter Kitchen by a country mile for me.

[RobTheRover]

Warboys for me.  In his 2nd spell he was my favourite player.

[The Red Baron]

Warboys certainly deserves to be there. A proper  "mester". I think it was in 1981 when Warboys was playing in defence that I saw him and Tony Cunningham having a 90-minute ding-dong at Sincil Bank. The contest, like the game, was a score-draw and the two walked off arm in arm at the end.

A shame that Tony Cunningham had shot his bolt by the time he played for us. He was a proper footballer, just like Alan Warboys.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Tough one.

Big Bren was my first Rovers hero. I know he didn't have the pizazz of Kitchen, but he had as good a scoring record and played the thankless line-leader job. And he had a stronger overall career than Kitchen, playing 6 seasons in the top flight (which was unheard of for a Rovers player in those dark days and which on its own marks him out as the best of the era) and being a full international.

So on balance, Big Bren for me.

Whoever's put that list together needs to have another word with some old heads by the way. Steve Wignall, Archie Irvine and Brian Usher in before Mike Elwiss?

[BobG]

Yup. Three of the worst players, Billy, of that era that I can remember. Brian 'I can run fast but can't cross for toffee' Usher; Archie 'I hit a screamer once and never stop trying to repeat it' Irvine and Steve 'I really want to be a centre half' Wignall.. Next to useless all three of them.

As for Mike Elwiss - he was specifically bought by Palace, from Preston, to be a part of what was billed as the 'Team of the 80's' under Terry Venables.  A real quality player.

BobG

[ch-ch rover]

I played a lot of football with Mick Elwiss he was a fine player such a shame he got a career ending injury not long after going to palace

[The Red Baron]

I remember seeing Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley at BV in the early seventies. They sat a few rows in front of us in the main stand. Rumour had it that they came to have a look at Mike Elwiss. As I recall he had a bit of a mare that day and they went after about 70 minutes. Not long after that Elwiss signed for Preston.

I think he married the daughter of the Preston chairman and when his career ended he went to work in the family business.

[The Red Baron]

A fairly recent article about Mike Elwiss and his career at Preston. An interesting read.

http://m.lep.co.uk/sport/the-big-interview-mike-elwiss-1-138350

[idler]

I voted for yogi. He was a true character and with his passing skills and ability to hit a ball would be worth a fortune now.
I remember one game (possibly Bradford City at home in the league cup)
when we were worried Alick wasn't playing. Yogi ran the game and scored both goals as we won.
Ps Alan Hale was an American actor, we had Alfie for a few seasons.
Rumour had it that he was seeing Colin Booth's missus. We'd have been better letting Alfie go than Colin.

[goalkick]

I think everyone on this board is too young to have seen him if he played in 1693.not so nick. Was a class player.

[Al4475]

Before my time still this lot - but from what I hear laurie sheffield, peter kitchen, colin clish and brendan o'callaghan were all very good players! I am stabbing in the dark but I'll probably go for kitchen or sheffield! I bet warboys will be on the next list too!

[BillyStubbsTears]

Only one possible winner on the next list

[RedJ]

I think everyone on this board is too young to have seen him if he played in 1693.not so nick. Was a class player.

f**king hell, you were about to watch him play in 1693?

[goalkick]

Sorry misread the date. The old eyes are going.watched him play many times. Great player.

[BobG]

Only one possible winner on the next list

Ian!!

BobG

[RobTheRover]

Ps Alan Hale was an American actor, we had Alfie for a few seasons.
Rumour had it that he was seeing Colin Booth's missus. We'd have been better letting Alfie go than Colin.

Thanks idler.  Never spotted that.

[BobG]

Thank youi John. I've never seen anything about ME in print before. It's a good read.

Ch-Ch: Mike Elwiss was 2 or 3 years above me at Danum. In his last year there we used to see, quite regularly, the sports master there, a chap called Mr Bruce, loading him up with a back pack full of concrete (well, conceptually it was concrete anyway) and shouting encouragement as Mike relentlessly pounded up and down that quite steep bank in the middle of Danum's sports field. We all knew he was going to the Rovers at the end of the school year.

Cheers

BobG

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Again, very tough to pick. On balance, over and above my 2 favourite players of their time in Usher and Warboys, I'm going for Peter Kitchen. He played for longer and produced some magical moments and went on to prove he could do it at a higher level.

[ch-ch rover]

Bob G i remember being very surprised when he signed for rovers as he was nailed on to go to Coventry and i talked to him about it and Mick told me he was impressed by Maurice Setters and signed for rovers instead hed been watched by the Coventry scout for two years

[BobG]

Gosh! I never knew that ch-ch. I don't think any of us mortals knew tbh. I've no idea where it came from but we were all convinced he was going to BV. Maybe it was kids and their fantasies...  I don't know.

I'll have to go check what division Coventry were in at the time. I think it was probably a little after their rise to the top under Jimmy Hill?

Bob