BRFC - The Nostalgia Thread

[wilsdenrover]

4 minutes ago, R0verb0y said:

Mea culpa, @wilsdenrover , so do I!😏

In mitigation, it's been a lo-o-ng day today.

Tomorrow will be shorter (as long as you remember to put your clocks forward!)

[R0verb0y]

 

18 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Tomorrow will be shorter (as long as you remember to put your clocks forward!)

I had thought it would be next weekend; but having seen the BBC News & weather forecast, I'm up to speed, thanks @wilsdenrover

As I'll need to be in the morning for my weekly verbal joust with my Burnleh-supporting old schoolmate in NZ!! (It'll be strange with no weekend games to discuss; but I'm sure we'll find some points of disagreement!

[oldjamfan1]

1 hour ago, R0verb0y said:

Incidentally, perhaps it was a bit too much of a "niche" statistic; but I was a bit surprised not to have heard any of the commentators last weekend mention that both of the grandfathers of Tommy Booth played for City in that 5th Round game.

They did mention it, at least once 

[jim mk2]

3 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Man City in the FACup in the late 1960’s was the last 40,000 plus gate. Yes, it was packed.

 

It was downright dangerous. We were sat safely in the Nuttall Street stand but I can still see the crowd on the Riverside now swaying back and forth. It only needed one of those barriers to collapse

[Gav]

10 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Man City in the FACup in the late 1960’s was the last 40,000 plus gate. Yes, it was packed.

Fans queuing for those precious City tickets Tyrone:

Edited March 26, 2023 by Gav

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

46 minutes ago, Gav said:

Fans queuing for those precious City tickets Tyrone:

I was probably back home and in bed by the time those photos were taken. Me and my pal Alec had queued up all night to get our tickets along with another half a dozen fools. 
When the game was originally scheduled we’d a full compliment of players to choose from. The game was postponed at least once because of the weather and when it was actually played both Billy Wilson our first choice left back and Eamon Rogers our midfield dynamo were suspended. Both were badly missed on the night. Unfortunately that was City’s best performance in the whole cup run and we couldn’t live with them. Their transition from attack to defence was really rapid, nothing like the pass-pass-pass of the Pep teams today.

The saddest thing for me to see the great Bryan Douglas coming on as sub when the game was pretty much gone. He was unable to affect the game against the new style of midfield player in City’s Colin Bell. It was like the changing of the guard - out with the ball players and in with the hard running athletes.

The team that night -

Blacklaw

Newton, Coddington, Mulvaney, Calloway

Metcalfe, Sharples, Martin, Connelly

Darling, Fryatt

Sub. Douglas.

 

[wilsdenrover]

17 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I was probably back home and in bed by the time those photos were taken. Me and my pal Alec had queued up all night to get our tickets along with another half a dozen fools. 
When the game was originally scheduled we’d a full compliment of players to choose from. The game was postponed at least once because of the weather and when it was actually played both Billy Wilson our first choice left back and Eamon Rogers our midfield dynamo were suspended. Both were badly missed on the night. Unfortunately that was City’s best performance in the whole cup run and we couldn’t live with them. Their transition from attack to defence was really rapid, nothing like the pass-pass-pass of the Pep teams today.

The saddest thing for me to see the great Bryan Douglas coming on as sub when the game was pretty much gone. He was unable to affect the game against the new style of midfield player in City’s Colin Bell. It was like the changing of the guard - out with the ball players and in with the hard running athletes.

The team that night -

Blacklaw

Newton, Coddington, Mulvaney, Calloway

Metcalfe, Sharples, Martin, Connelly

Darling, Fryatt

Sub. Douglas.

 

Who would have gone in goal if Blacklaw had been injured?

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

10 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Who would have gone in goal if Blacklaw had been injured?

Don Martin was the stand in keeper I believe. He certainly went in goal when Roger Jones was injured in the later Shrewsbury game. I once read that Pele was Brazil’s stand in keeper back in the day !

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

36 minutes ago, renrag said:

Liverpool FA Cup 1948/49 or 49/50, the abandoned Burnley FA Cup game 1959 and the Bolton v Preston 2nd replay 1959 are others I remember attending, as well as all those you have listed

Edit There was also a Burnley v Liverpool semi final at Ewood in 1947. I wasn’t there but I expect that would be over 50,000

Yes, you’re right about the Liverpool game in Jan 1950 - 52,468 at a 0-0 draw. 52,221 at the replay at Anfield. That was a 2-1 defeat. 
I’ve no means of knowing about games that don’t directly involve Rovers. Sorry.

[rigger]

1 hour ago, wilsdenrover said:

Who would have gone in goal if Blacklaw had been injured?

The Don.

[R0verb0y]

12 hours ago, oldjamfan1 said:

They did mention it, at least once 

They probably waited for me to go to the loo!!😏

[broadsword]

 

 

Can anyone name all of these?

Back row I have sellars, ???, Hendry, O'Keefe? Diamond?

Front row ainscow? Garner, Mackay, ???, Barker,sulley

Edited March 26, 2023 by broadsword

[Sweaty Gussets]

2 minutes ago, broadsword said:

 

 

Can anyone name all of these?

Back row I have sellars, ???, Hendry, O'Keefe? Diamond?

Front row ainscow? Garner, Mackay, ???, Barker,sulley

The one between Sellars and Hendry is Windy Miller I think?

[broadsword]

Think you're right there. If he still had his tache,I would've known right away never found out why he was called windy

 

 

 

[broadsword]

I think Wilcox inherited the nickname which doesn't make a great deal of sense but hey ho

[Neil Weaver]

No idea if it's where he got the nickname, but there was a character in Camberwick Green (kids TV) called Windy Miller.....

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/windy-miller/4005-82428/

[rigger]

2 minutes ago, Neil Weaver said:

No idea if it's where he got the nickname, but there was a character in Camberwick Green (kids TV) called Windy Miller.....

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/windy-miller/4005-82428/

Could it have something to do with the word Windmill ? " Sarcasm Warning".

Edited March 26, 2023 by rigger

[den]

Rovers record attendances

https://ewoodpark.jimdofree.com/attendances-record-attendances-1929-1960/

Record Attendance

61,783

v

Bolton Wanderers

2 March 1929

FA Cup 6th Round

Highest in the FA Cup at Ewood Park

60,011	v	Blackpool	4 March 1925	FA Cup 4th Round
54,400	v	Huddersfield Town	9 March 1939	FA Cup 6th Round [replay]
53,889	v	Burnley	16 March 1960	FA Cup 6th Round [replay]
53,000	v	Everton	25 January 1930	FA Cup 4th Round
52,920	v	Burnley	8 March 1952	FA Cup 6th Round
52,468	v	Liverpool	7 January 1950	FA Cup 3rd Round
51,223	v	Blackpool	30 January 1960	FA Cup 4th Round
51,177	v	West Bromwich Albion	23 February 1952	FA Cup 5th Round
51,000	v	Liverpool	1 March 1958	FA Cup 6th Round

Highest in the Football League at Ewood Park 

52,656	v	Preston North End	26 December 1921	Division 1 (Level 1)
48,000	v	Burnley	1 January 1914	Division 1 (Level 1)
46,847	v	Preston North End	4 October 1947	Division 1 (Level 1)
45,521	v	Leicester City	16 April 1954	Division 2 (Level 2)
44,612	v	Preston North End	4 November 1950	Division 2 (Level 2)
43,192	v	Wolverhampton Wanderers	13 September 1958	Division 1 (Level 1)
42,891	v	Preston North End	7 April 1950	Division 2 (Level 2)
42,000	v	Burnley	16 October 1926	Division 1 (Level 1)
41,830	v	Tottenham Hotspur	30 August 1958	Division 1 (Level 1)
41,789	v	Liverpool	22 February 1958	Division 2 (Level 2)

Edited March 26, 2023 by den

[wilsdenrover]

 

 

[berkshireblue]

23 hours ago, Neil Weaver said:

No idea if it's where he got the nickname, but there was a character in Camberwick Green (kids TV) called Windy Miller.....

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/windy-miller/4005-82428/

Yes definitely came from Camblewick Green 

[Ianrally]

On 26/03/2023 at 17:10, renrag said:

Windy is a common nickname for Millers in the armed services. I suppose it comes from when flour was milled in windmills

This is correct historically, Camblewick Green got it from there, so anyone called Miller got their nickname from millers of wheat etc., not from some kids programme. 

Edited March 27, 2023 by Ianrally

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

39 minutes ago, Ianrally said:

This is correct historically, Camblewick Green got it from there, so anyone called Miller got their nickname from millers of wheat etc., not from some kids programme. 

Yeah, just like anybody called White was always nicknamed Chalky.

[rigger]

30 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Yeah, just like anybody called White was always nicknamed Chalky.

Dusty- Rhodes

[Ianrally]

1 hour ago, rigger said:

Dusty- Rhodes

If you were called Albert Ennion Groucott Rhodes, I think you would take being known as Dusty all day. 

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

62,255 v Bolton Wanderers, FA Cup 6th round, 2 March 1929