Friedel

[den]

Don’t worry, he’s OK.

 

 

Edited October 23, 2018 by den

[old darwen blue]

One word, Hero. 

[Bigdoggsteel]

The man 

[K-Hod]

An absolute colossus of a goalkeeper. I never believed we'd get a better 'keeper than Flowers in my lifetime, then this guy came along.

Legend.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

I felt he was worth a goal start for us. Without any doubt the best I've seen at Roversand I go back to Fred Else.

[bazza]

Best goalkeeper I've ever seen at Rovers. Better than Elvy, Else, R Jones, Gennoe and Flowers.

That's why he was voted keeper in best ever Rovers team.

[davulsukur]

An unbelievable keeper.

[dingles staying down 4ever]

15 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I felt he was worth a goal start for us. Without any doubt the best I've seen at Roversand I go back to Fred Else.

What...even better than Matt Dickens?

[oldjamfan1]

In my time I've seen Jones, Arnold, Gennoe and Flowers and thought they were all magnificent. But none of them were as good as Brad.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

52 minutes ago, dingles staying down 4ever said:

What...even better than Matt Dickens?

Yes, even better than Darren Collier.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

21 minutes ago, oldjamfan1 said:

In my time I've seen Jones, Arnold, Gennoe and Flowers and thought they were all magnificent. But none of them were as good as Brad.

Yeah we've done ok for keepers over the years. Paul Bradshaw wasn't bad either.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Just now, renrag said:

I too have seen all those and I remember back in the 70’s having a long discussion with Alf Thornton, at Rishton CC, regarding the merits of Else and Jones. He had no doubt that George Marks was better than either of them. I saw Marks play but was too young to make any judgement. I personally think it’s hard to make a judgement between then and now, because of the protection today’s keepers get compared with the free for all of those days.

I never rated Fred Else. He was one of the reasons the brilliant attacking team of the early 1960's never won anything in my opinion. I only ever saw him play one outstanding game in all the games I saw him play. Brad was outstanding regularly.

[bazza]

I always forget Jim Arnold who I believe was a terrific keeper. I never saw him play unfortunately.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 hour ago, renrag said:

Fred Else was universally recognised as the best uncapped goalkeeper of his generation until he broke his collarbone. He was just unlucky to be in contention with Ron Springett and then Gordon Banks for the England jersey when in his prime

Not by me renrag. Even so that's not as great as it sounds. Eddie Hopkinson and Alan Hodgkinson, Tony Waiters all had caps at that time as well as Banks and Springett, Gordon West and Peter Bonnetti were coming through and got caps slightly later. Lots of other Div 1 teams had Welsh, Irish and Scots goal keepers.  

I didn't think he was big enough and I lost count of the times the ball ended up in the back of our net and I was stood there thinking " How did that get in there ? " A bit like Robbo in his last season with us.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

7 minutes ago, bazza said:

I always forget Jim Arnold who I believe was a terrific keeper. I never saw him play unfortunately.

Yeah Jim was good. A very calm and unshowy goalkeeper who was very consistent. He made that job look simple.

[JacknOry]

Obviously good for us is that Friedal was very underrated. Even now I look back and wonder why no clubs came in for him as he really was a fantastic keeper - the best in my lifetime at Rovers.