Forgotten Players

[roversfan99]

  On 18/09/2024 at 20:17, Mike E said:

YES! Amoroso with a free kick and THE MAN that single-handedly saved us froym relegation only to achieve nothing else (Stead).

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That was a different game I think. That was the 4-3 and Sukur got 2 in a 4 nil.

[Andy]

The Sukur Fulham away game was on 12th April 2004 - I can never forget, as it was my 21st birthday (and I remember it being on the TV screens in the pubs I was in that evening) 😄

[simongarnerisgod]

  On 18/09/2024 at 21:12, Andy said:

The Sukur Fulham away game was on 12th April 2004 - I can never forget, as it was my 21st birthday (and I remember it being on the TV screens in the pubs I was in that evening) 😄

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an absolutely fantastic game,watched it with the lads,we were surrounded by bolton fans who were taking great delight at our struggles at the time,well we had the last laugh,bunch of cretins!!!!!!!!

[magicalmortensleftpeg]

  On 18/09/2024 at 21:12, Andy said:

The Sukur Fulham away game was on 12th April 2004 - I can never forget, as it was my 21st birthday (and I remember it being on the TV screens in the pubs I was in that evening) 😄

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Well, you have managed to forget.. Sukur played for us in 02/03, not 03/04. The ‘04 game was the 3-4.

[Admiral Nelsen]

  On 18/09/2024 at 21:27, magicalmortensleftpeg said:

Well, you have managed to forget.. Sukur played for us in 02/03, not 03/04. The ‘04 game was the 3-4.

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I remember 'watching' the 3-4 game on teletext. Nothing to go off apart from the scores updating every five minutes or so. Genuinely more exciting than most live games I've seen over the last 10 years!

[LeftWinger]

  On 18/09/2024 at 20:17, Mike E said:

YES! Amoroso with a free kick and THE MAN that single-handedly saved us from relegation only to achieve nothing else (Stead).

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You're confusing games.

 

[Andy]

  On 18/09/2024 at 21:27, magicalmortensleftpeg said:

Well, you have managed to forget.. Sukur played for us in 02/03, not 03/04. The ‘04 game was the 3-4.

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Ah yeah, it was definitely the 4-3 win, but it was the Andy Cole wasn't it?

Was convinced Sukur played in that one, until I just checked the stats.

[MarkBRFC]

  On 19/09/2024 at 18:37, Andy said:

Ah yeah, it was definitely the 4-3 win, but it was the Andy Cole wasn't it?

Was convinced Sukur played in that one, until I just checked the stats.

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Can see the confusion, as the 02-03 game was on April 7th 2003, and the 03-04 game was on April 12th 2004.

Scored 4 in both of them, both games were on Monday nights, and both were at Loftus Road!

Edited September 20, 2024 by MarkBRFC

[ABBEY]

Anthony Stokes had almost €4k cocaine in car after high-speed drink-drive pursuit, court told

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/30571546/anthony-stokes-cocaine-drink-drive-pursuit-court-celtic?utm_source=sharebar_app&utm_medium=sharebar_app&utm_campaign=sharebar_app_article

[rigger]

  On 20/09/2024 at 20:18, ABBEY said:

Anthony Stokes had almost €4k cocaine in car after high-speed drink-drive pursuit, court told

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/30571546/anthony-stokes-cocaine-drink-drive-pursuit-court-celtic?utm_source=sharebar_app&utm_medium=sharebar_app&utm_campaign=sharebar_app_article

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And he was still shit for us.

[DanielMB]

Wahlstedt carried off 15 minutes in to his debut for AGF after a somewhat random collision. Feel for the guy.

[bluebruce]

  On 25/09/2024 at 15:35, DanielMB said:

Wahlstedt carried off 15 minutes in to his debut for AGF after a somewhat random collision. Feel for the guy.

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Mad it's taken him this long to get his debut, or has their season only just started?

[DanielMB]

  On 25/09/2024 at 16:31, bluebruce said:

Mad it's taken him this long to get his debut, or has their season only just started?

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The season has been going for a couple of months. The first choice keeper is 39 and has been really steady  for a while. Today was a cup game which is why Leo was playing. 

[doctorryan]

  On 19/09/2024 at 18:37, Andy said:

Ah yeah, it was definitely the 4-3 win, but it was the Andy Cole wasn't it?

Was convinced Sukur played in that one, until I just checked the stats.

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  On 20/09/2024 at 12:24, MarkBRFC said:

Can see the confusion, as the 02-03 game was on April 7th 2003, and the 03-04 game was on April 12th 2004.

Scored 4 in both of them, both games were on Monday nights, and both were at Loftus Road!

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Just to follow up on Mark & Andy's straitening out which Fulham away game thing: Yeah, both were at Loftus Road during the confusion period over the future of the Cottage(We're gonna renovate; no wait......Yeah, we're gonna renovate).  Thankfully, they kept the place; it's my favorite away ground.  Sukur's brace came in the 03 one & 2 months later he was out of here.  I think he broke his leg in training if I remember correctly.

The 2nd one was the EPIC match of our survival struggle in 04.  I watched it at home with the satellite feed & was the source of updates on instant message (remember that?) for 2 others who couldn't get away from work(it was late afternoon here in the eastern US). Andy Cole got us 1 on a great pass from Tugs only for Fulham to level then get ahead before halftime. Right after the restart Jonathan Douglas volleyed one home off a headed throw-in, then Amo's free kick followed by another Fulham leveler, then a Cole flick-on for Stead to finally finish things off. 

I still have the tape of that game somewhere.

[ABBEY]

just listened to Nigel martyn on under the cosh, he said Geoff Thomas had signed for Blackburn.  Am I being thick in thinking he never actually signed for us and it fell thru?

[MarkBRFC]

No he never signed for us, he was very close and I'm guessing that's what he remembers and maybe thought it had gone through.

[Mattyblue]

I haven’t forgotten a single player from the 90s… since 2012? Most of them.

[doctorryan]

Yeah Matty, 92-2010 is locked in there; after that it's all a blur .

[KentExile]

Not sure if this is the best place for this, but just noticed that Ben Gladwin, who featured sporadically (trying to be kind) for Rovers in League 1 is now the (caretaker) manager of Crawley

 

[Upside Down]

  On 27/09/2024 at 10:10, Mattyblue said:

I haven’t forgotten a single player from the 90s… since 2012? Most of them.

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None of them have been worth remembering, maybe Szmodics is an exception.

[ABBEY]

another one for the under the who or was I drunk file.

personally not a clue about this former Blackburn "star" .

[MarkBRFC]

One game in the ZDS (Full Members) cup in 1990.

We lost 4-1 to Everton, then never seen again.

Hardly a former "Blackburn star" !

[bazza]

He was a goalkeeper.

Edited October 9, 2024 by bazza
Googled the answer to the question

[simongarnerisgod]

  On 09/10/2024 at 11:23, MarkBRFC said:

One game in the ZDS (Full Members) cup in 1990.

We lost 4-1 to Everton, then never seen again.

Hardly a former "Blackburn star" !

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on loan if i remember correctly,got sent back because we had the excellent mark grew on loan as well (this was during don mackays last years, we had no money,lots of injuries and he had to play a load of young players,most of them not good enough,darren collier,the goalkeeper was one such example)

[blondie]

  On 27/09/2024 at 08:54, ABBEY said:

just listened to Nigel martyn on under the cosh, he said Geoff Thomas had signed for Blackburn.  Am I being thick in thinking he never actually signed for us and it fell thru?

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Jack Walker pulled the plug on the transfer as overheard directors of Thomas's club laughing at ripping Rovers off.