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Rovers Inaugural ‘Hall of Fame’
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Old Darwen Blue
Prediction Champion 2021, 2022 & 2023
No he left years ago to do the official Rovers forum which is now defunct.
Old Darwen Blue
Prediction Champion 2021, 2022 & 2023
Venky cuts
davebirch
Senior Member
He was doing the Rovers web page wasn't he, not just the forum?
Old Darwen Blue
Prediction Champion 2021, 2022 & 2023
I thought he was just doing the forum but may be wrong pal.
Barmitzvah Boy
Global winner of the 2021 Christmas Quiz 👊🤩🤩
IT in general I believe. He also did the official MB but that was taken down by the Club at the height of the Steve K**n & Venkys fiasco.
Barmitzvah Boy
Global winner of the 2021 Christmas Quiz 👊🤩🤩
The 2nd Hall of Fame dinner is tonight, I am looking forward to it and am wondering if it will be salmon or chicken.
I understand the Tony Parkes interview for tonight was pre recorded some months ago when he was in better health.
It will be good to see a few from this MB there tonight. I will be the one with a large red wine in front of him. The event btw sold out without going on open sale.
I understand the Tony Parkes interview for tonight was pre recorded some months ago when he was in better health.
It will be good to see a few from this MB there tonight. I will be the one with a large red wine in front of him. The event btw sold out without going on open sale.
Barmitzvah Boy
Global winner of the 2021 Christmas Quiz 👊🤩🤩
Better than a red rose then!!I'll be there too. I'll be the one carrying a rolled up copy of the Times and with a red carnation in my buttonhole.
Wilpshire Blue
Senior Member
The Times will be rolled up so he can hit me on the head with it!
The evening afforded those present a little nostalgia and misty eyed memories as first Rob Coar and Richard Matthewman and then Tim and finally Kenny opened up on a few anecdotes from the Walker years. A big thank you must go to Hull City for giving us a whipping at Boothferry Park and a long drive home along a snowy M62 alongside his son in law. (Rem those days? We used to get that on numerous occasions before everyone wanted 4 holidays per annum to far flung destinations and then billions of chinese decided to join them and melt the poles in the process.) Sitting in the passenger seat that night allowed Uncle Jack plenty of time to savour the bitter taste of defeat, the hopelessness of being a BRFC supporter and for him to decide there and then to do something about it! Just think if we'd won away that night he might never have been spurred into action! Up the Tigers!
Throughout the meal the screens around the room showed old clips of Premier League action ........ One tends to forget just how good those players and that team was. The young Alan Shearer was just immense! He didn't score with every effort but the keepers HAD to make a save! Did he EVER miss the target?
Obviously with Jack and Ray Harford long gone and TP incapacitated by his illness much weight fell on Tim Sherwood and KMD to entertain us with their reflections and they certainly didn't disappoint.
A few incidents to reflect on, the dreadful decisions by the now long dead Gerald Ashby to send off Henning Berg for nicking the ball away from Lee Sharpe, and the almost criminal act of the little Ginger creep Paul Durkin to write off Sherwood's equalizer at Old Trafford for an alleged push by Shearer on Roy Keane in the build up! The Old Trafford masses were totally silenced and not one Man Utd player claimed for a foul did they? We in the crowd knew we'd been shafted as did everybody watching on TV and it's nice to discover 25 years on that the players were equally bitter about the apparent 'brown paper bag' influence and used their feelings of injustice to motivate and to see the job through! Just think..... with VAR we'd have lit a cigar and been home and dry long before the Anfield finale. Couldn't have played out any better in the end of course as that final day worked out perfectly but if Cole had managed to beat Miklosko just once our dreams would have evaporated faster than spit on a griddle and the corrupt Man Utd juggernaut would have rumbled on.
Oh and Andy Bayes did an excellent job as host to the speakers too.
Throughout the meal the screens around the room showed old clips of Premier League action ........ One tends to forget just how good those players and that team was. The young Alan Shearer was just immense! He didn't score with every effort but the keepers HAD to make a save! Did he EVER miss the target?
Obviously with Jack and Ray Harford long gone and TP incapacitated by his illness much weight fell on Tim Sherwood and KMD to entertain us with their reflections and they certainly didn't disappoint.
A few incidents to reflect on, the dreadful decisions by the now long dead Gerald Ashby to send off Henning Berg for nicking the ball away from Lee Sharpe, and the almost criminal act of the little Ginger creep Paul Durkin to write off Sherwood's equalizer at Old Trafford for an alleged push by Shearer on Roy Keane in the build up! The Old Trafford masses were totally silenced and not one Man Utd player claimed for a foul did they? We in the crowd knew we'd been shafted as did everybody watching on TV and it's nice to discover 25 years on that the players were equally bitter about the apparent 'brown paper bag' influence and used their feelings of injustice to motivate and to see the job through! Just think..... with VAR we'd have lit a cigar and been home and dry long before the Anfield finale. Couldn't have played out any better in the end of course as that final day worked out perfectly but if Cole had managed to beat Miklosko just once our dreams would have evaporated faster than spit on a griddle and the corrupt Man Utd juggernaut would have rumbled on.
Oh and Andy Bayes did an excellent job as host to the speakers too.
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Wilpshire Blue
Senior Member
It was great to see super Atko and Faz too 
Thanks again to BB for sorting my ticket.
My last memory was leaving at 23:45 and seeing drog still with two beers lined up in front of him
Thanks again to BB for sorting my ticket.
My last memory was leaving at 23:45 and seeing drog still with two beers lined up in front of him
Smells Like Kean Spirit
Senior Member
Thanks for the review lads; brought a tear to my eye. Do you think it might be officially available to watch online?
Wilpshire Blue
Senior Member
Well it was all being filmed so it's possible.
Some great memories and funny stories too.
The section where Andy Bayes and Kevin Gallagher interviewed Tony Parkes at his home was quite saddening to see how he's deteriorated.
Oh, and Kenny's nickname for Sherwood was "slippery"
"He was a great Captain for me. Shite player though!"
Some great memories and funny stories too.
The section where Andy Bayes and Kevin Gallagher interviewed Tony Parkes at his home was quite saddening to see how he's deteriorated.
Oh, and Kenny's nickname for Sherwood was "slippery"
"He was a great Captain for me. Shite player though!"
'Shite'!!!"! Wash out your mouth WB!
Tim Sherwood was a marvellous player for us. He seemed to have eyes in the back of his head in the way he collected the ball from one full back / winger and turned and passed to the other wing in one movement. That early delivery was what gave Ripley / Wilcox / Le Saux the 'yard' advantage to collect the ball before they were tackled or closed down. Allowing those lads to control the ball and face their defender was an integral part of the supply line to the SAS and why so much store was placed in their contribution to the cause.
Some of Sherwoods passes didn't work of course and it appeared that he gave the ball away cheaply at times but you won't win a raffle if you haven't bought a ticket will you? Tugay had an invisible friend too I recall. Might sound odd to some given that we've been lucky enough to see the likes of Tugay and 'Sid' Cowans but Tim Sherwood was the second best passer of a ball that I have ever seen in the blue and white halves. He is just what we need now alongside Trav in midfield.
btw The players in my all time list of best passers would be (and I'm sure I'll have to amend this list when others come up with more names but off the top of my head......
A ?
B. Tim Sherwood.
C. Tugay
D. Sid Cowans
No prizes but can anyone guess who 'A' in my all time 'passing' list is?
Tim Sherwood was a marvellous player for us. He seemed to have eyes in the back of his head in the way he collected the ball from one full back / winger and turned and passed to the other wing in one movement. That early delivery was what gave Ripley / Wilcox / Le Saux the 'yard' advantage to collect the ball before they were tackled or closed down. Allowing those lads to control the ball and face their defender was an integral part of the supply line to the SAS and why so much store was placed in their contribution to the cause.
Some of Sherwoods passes didn't work of course and it appeared that he gave the ball away cheaply at times but you won't win a raffle if you haven't bought a ticket will you? Tugay had an invisible friend too I recall. Might sound odd to some given that we've been lucky enough to see the likes of Tugay and 'Sid' Cowans but Tim Sherwood was the second best passer of a ball that I have ever seen in the blue and white halves. He is just what we need now alongside Trav in midfield.
btw The players in my all time list of best passers would be (and I'm sure I'll have to amend this list when others come up with more names but off the top of my head......
A ?
B. Tim Sherwood.
C. Tugay
D. Sid Cowans
No prizes but can anyone guess who 'A' in my all time 'passing' list is?
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Wilpshire Blue
Senior Member
Interesting that Tim said it raises a few eyebrows when people ask him who was the best midfielder he ever played with and he tells them Mark Atkins
It raised mine too. Said with feeling and in all seriousness too! Super Atko was a getter and a giver who covered every inch of the pitch and gave Sherwood the chance to control and create our play, but best midfielder hmmm. One things for sure lots of players in that squad rated Atko very highly and of course the record of points per game was higher than when we had an obviously 'better' player in Batty in the team. Atko didn't look last night like he has much running in him these days though given the amount of chins he has!
One things for sure lots of players in that squad rated Atko very highly and of course the record of points per game was higher than when we had an obviously 'better' player in Batty in the team. Atko didn't look last night like he has much running in him these days though given the amount of chins he has!
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