[Archived] Tony Parkes Returns

[Bennisfromheaven]

Welcome back Tones!!! The more people who know the clubs traditions the better as we are on the verge of a foriegn takeover!!

[Greedy_Crawford]

Great to hear he is back. Best caretaker manager in the world IMO. Also a top bloke. Old enough to remember his last game for us when he broke his leg....

[roversmum]

Wow! Such good news

[MickeFIN]

Tony Parke`s

blue white army, bang bang

Tony parke`s blue white army bang bang.

great news,welcome back tony parkes

[Blueandwhitemike]

I'd also like to say it is great to have a true Rovers legend back, Tony Parkes blue and white army

[cletus]

Great to hear Tony Parkes is back where he belongs.....Ewood Park

In this age of football mercinaries, there`s very few people like Tony who actually LOVE their club, & i reckon there`ll be even less people like Tony in the future. We should cherrish the return of a true Roverite!

[MarkBRFC71]

Welcome back Tony.

A seventh stint in the hot seat at some stage??!?

Probably next week when Allardyce goes to Villa .....

[adopted scouser]

Tony Parkes at Ewood, loads of cash to spend soon, have we been in the DeLorean ?

Better dust off me Rick Astley Cd and get a mullet

[T4E]

Come on Jim, I'm twenty four and I remember that!

I really hope you meant that. I +1'd just in case.

[Mr. E]

Good indeed.

[RoyRover]

Rovers through and through. A complete legend. Welcome back.

[Tim Southampton Rover]

Once a blue, always a blue.

[92er]

Tony signed a few duds when he was manager - Per Pedersen ?

Saw him make his Rovers debut as a young fresh-faced lad.

God I feel old.

Harsh about Pedersen-I'm pretty sure he got permission from Hodgson.

Didn't Pedersen's goal at Chelsea help keep us up?

[OhmiBRFC]

Glad he's back. Was once the face of the club. Didn't deserve the trestment he got last time. Shows the strength of the man to come back.

[steverovers]

Glad to see the old legend back - he should never have left in the first place. Good luck Tony, you probably won't need it!!

[JonnyH]

The best thing we ever did was get rid of Tony Parkes! For no other reason than his testimonial allowed me to see Alan Shearer once again scoring a goal in a Rovers shirt at the Blackburn End. Welcome back Tony. True legend.

[bazza]

The best thing we ever did was get rid of Tony Parkes! For no other reason than his testimonial allowed me to see Alan Shearer once again scoring a goal in a Rovers shirt at the Blackburn End. Welcome back Tony. True legend.

Wasn't it Tony's testimonial when Tugay put on a wonderful dispay of tricks; pretending to catch the ball and later pretending to pick it up?

Glad to hear Parksie is back where he belongs.

[Majiball]

Parkes speaks

[Doaksie]

Tony's job description may be changing a little in the near future:

from - "Tony, do you think Benjani's knee will fall apart any time soon?"

to - "Tony, pick a player, any player?"

Enjoy the challenge Tony.

[A cup of beans]

Should never have been let go in my opinion...

im big fan of parkes, but there may have been other factors, bacup. THIS IS ALL ALLEGEDLEY....

tony parkes nearly sold damien duff, david dunn and matt jansen in his last spell as manager! also heards he made a few sarcastic comments about souness leaving, which allegedley prompted mark hughes to replace him!

im pleased he's back,cos he's a true legend and gave debuts to many a rovers starlet! also did an amazing job in keeping rovers in the prem after ray harford left. heard him on radio lancs tribute to jack walker and he was moved to tears at 1 point! very moving!

welcome back, tony!

[Amo]

I know Tony is part of the furniture and all, but I question appointing a scout who wanted to sell our best three players of the last decade.

[Majiball]

I know Tony is part of the furniture and all, but I question appointing a scout who wanted to sell our best three players of the last decade.

Who did he want to sell????

[Amo]

Who did he want to sell????

We know he came close to selling Jansen, and the post above mine includes Dunn & Duff too.

[Majiball]

We know he came close to selling Jansen, and the post above mine includes Dunn & Duff too.

Ah well I never thought any of them were much cop anyway.

[roverwhelmed]

A bit late to this news but really glad he's back I have fond memories of waiting for autographs and him asking for my hat! Good old Tony!