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Blackburn Rovers Hall of Fame: Strikers
4:00pm Wednesday 11th July 2012 in Sport
CONTINUING the Lancashire Telegraph's Hall of Fame series, we are asking you to nominate your favourite Blackburn Rovers strikers.
We are giving you the opportunity to vote for your favourite players from Ewood Park, position by position, with a nominated shortlist of players featured every Saturday this summer.
Please nominate your strikers via the comment facility to be shortlisted for the vote.
Comments(99)
Crow27
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4:09pm Wed 11 Jul 12
A Darener
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4:13pm Wed 11 Jul 12
But! Simon Garner is a Blackburn Rovers legend.
RUinsane
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4:21pm Wed 11 Jul 12
On a serious note. Shearer number 1 and Mike newell number 2 those are my favourites.
givet82
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4:21pm Wed 11 Jul 12
the genuine cypruslad
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4:22pm Wed 11 Jul 12
markus365
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4:27pm Wed 11 Jul 12
flyingv1
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4:37pm Wed 11 Jul 12
bburnrover
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4:41pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Mickstew
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4:43pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Heart: Simon Garner will always be my favourite.
One for fun: Howard Gayle got the crowd going.
Hippocroccapig
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4:43pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Kevin Davies
Ivan Kalinic
David Goodwillie
hormerod
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4:45pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Billypieman
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4:46pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Hippocroccapig wrote:Who is Ivan Kalinic? If you insist on coming on here to take the p1ss, get the names right you moronic Dingle.
Corrado Grabbi
Kevin Davies
Ivan Kalinic
David Goodwillie
MxMave
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4:46pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Robbie
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4:47pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Maaaaaark
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4:48pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Andy McAvoy
Tommy Briggs
Craig Bellamy
Matt Jansen
David Speedie
Chris Sutton
juanbbien
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4:53pm Wed 11 Jul 12
makaveli96
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4:57pm Wed 11 Jul 12
He Looks So Good In Training
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4:57pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Or Donis - remember him - called 'the train' - yeah, because like Northern Rail, 9 times out of 10 he never bloody arrived......
MHUK
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5:18pm Wed 11 Jul 12
goldfinger59
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5:24pm Wed 11 Jul 12
happycyclist
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5:33pm Wed 11 Jul 12
lightamatch catcharabbit
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5:40pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Robbie wrote:Surely it has to be Shefki for the dive and Gallacher also for the dive.
Shearer, Garner, Newell, Jansen, Speedie, (for the dive)
Grovers
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5:42pm Wed 11 Jul 12
juanbbien
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5:48pm Wed 11 Jul 12
French Rover
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6:09pm Wed 11 Jul 12
cmbrovers
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6:20pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Redrosesrule
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6:24pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Remember SAS, they were unstoppable!!
Rhysp9
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6:26pm Wed 11 Jul 12
bburnrover
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6:29pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Maxwell-BrFc
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6:39pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Sutton
Jansen
Cole
All in my life time.
And of course Garner
egbutnobacon
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6:41pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Shearer of course, but Speedie was amazing (remember the play-off semi against Derby at Ewood?).
Bangkok Rover
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6:43pm Wed 11 Jul 12
MurphysBestBitter
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6:43pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Gaz M
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6:55pm Wed 11 Jul 12
champs95
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7:03pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Mickstew wrote:I agree with all 3 and your reasons. We have been blessed with good strikers over the years.
Head: Shearer is head and shoulders above everyone.
Heart: Simon Garner will always be my favourite.
One for fun: Howard Gayle got the crowd going.
RUinsane
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7:04pm Wed 11 Jul 12
merlinrabbit
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7:09pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Billypieman wrote:He's getting mixed up between Ivan Klasnic at Bolton and Nikola Kalinic at Blackburn. Bless.
Hippocroccapig wrote:Who is Ivan Kalinic? If you insist on coming on here to take the p1ss, get the names right you moronic Dingle.
Corrado Grabbi
Kevin Davies
Ivan Kalinic
David Goodwillie
My nominations are Shearer, Garner, Sutton, Bellamy
Mr-Blueanwhites
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7:13pm Wed 11 Jul 12
1800's John Southworth
1920's Ted Harper (43 goals in a season)
1950's Tommy Briggs (7 Goals in a Match & 2nd top scorer of all time)
1960's Andy McEvoy (5 hat tricks in a season)
1980's There's only 1 Simon Garner (Record goal scorer)
Just 1 season, but what a season David Speedie (Never forget his diving header at home to Newcastle).
Mike Newell Our 1st £1m player, Whst s difference he made, inc. penalty at Wembley.
Best striker I've ever seen Alan Shearer Maybe not the best Rover.
sonny
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7:17pm Wed 11 Jul 12
sonny
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7:20pm Wed 11 Jul 12
lightamatch catcharabbit
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7:30pm Wed 11 Jul 12
baldie
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7:51pm Wed 11 Jul 12
RoverKyle
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7:59pm Wed 11 Jul 12
baldie
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8:06pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Ronaldpetercooper
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8:06pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Peteyyy
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8:07pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Rishtonian
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8:26pm Wed 11 Jul 12
blue and white manc
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8:37pm Wed 11 Jul 12
ajpmacdonald
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8:54pm Wed 11 Jul 12
ajpmacdonald
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8:54pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Rover Pete
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9:14pm Wed 11 Jul 12
How many times did he not score in a game at Ewood?
Anybody out there got the stats?
We were always one goal up before the game started when Shearer was playing at home.
As a second choice Tommy Briggs frommy youth.
Roverstattoo
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9:57pm Wed 11 Jul 12
What a class player Newell looked when he first played for us, we just knew we could`nt go wrong with him and Speedie up front. Newell won the save of the year too, or should of!
Garner on bench im afraid with a heavy heart
garyintandem
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10:32pm Wed 11 Jul 12
It has to be Shearer and Garner.
Field, benni, speedie would be my next favourites
Arthur Labore
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10:53pm Wed 11 Jul 12
2 Garner
3 Speedie
4 Bellamy
Carswelldj
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11:04pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Blackburn have had some amazing strikers. Can't wait for Best & Gomes
eddie the eagle
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11:28pm Wed 11 Jul 12
r,Speedie.
Miller11
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12:11am Thu 12 Jul 12
Only 1 season, but I can't think of anyone who made a bigger impact in such a short space of time than Speedie.
garyintandem
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12:20am Thu 12 Jul 12
Matt Newcastle
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1:10am Thu 12 Jul 12
However I wonder what Tony Fields Market value would be in today's money played a bit like Suarez.
Donmac46
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2:52am Thu 12 Jul 12
globetrot
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3:39am Thu 12 Jul 12
globetrot
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3:43am Thu 12 Jul 12
globetrot
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3:49am Thu 12 Jul 12
Roverthere
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5:05am Thu 12 Jul 12
doughty1974
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7:22am Thu 12 Jul 12
doughty1974
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7:25am Thu 12 Jul 12
whappen
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8:07am Thu 12 Jul 12
I have fond memories of Newell, Jansen, Archibald, Sutton, Gallacher, Cole and McKenzie as well.
Bellamy, Santa Cruz and McCarthy were all brilliant one season wonders.
However, it is Shearer of course (and any of the above with him; it wouldn't really matter who).
A Darener
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8:11am Thu 12 Jul 12
We didn't shout Beamo, Beamo for nothing.
Shearer! Shearer!
Yesterdayman
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8:56am Thu 12 Jul 12
parkinsonc
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9:07am Thu 12 Jul 12
Shearer stands head and shoulders above the rest of course, simply unstoppable at his peak.
All very very good on the same level below him: Cole, Jansen, Sutton, & Newell.
Honourable mentions for becoming club legends in a short space of time:
John Stead! and of course Speedie.
Hilariously crap strikers: Ashley Ward, Nathan Blake, Nonda, Grabbi, Modeste, actually this list is huge too.
idlewally
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9:29am Thu 12 Jul 12
egbutnobacon
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10:11am Thu 12 Jul 12
tiojo
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10:52am Thu 12 Jul 12
juanbbien
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12:00pm Thu 12 Jul 12
tiojo wrote:He was a right winger not a striker.
Louis Bimpson
Iiii1111
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3:20pm Thu 12 Jul 12
Closely followed by John O'mara and Jimmy Quinn....only teasing
Iiii1111
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3:23pm Thu 12 Jul 12
tiojo
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3:32pm Thu 12 Jul 12
juanbbien wrote:He's described on Wikepedia and the Liverpool FC websites as an 'inside right/centre forward'.
tiojo wrote:He was a right winger not a striker.
Louis Bimpson
Jansen_10
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4:32pm Thu 12 Jul 12
Alan Shearer - simply unstoppable
Matt Jansen - most technically gifted forward I've ever seen
Simon Garner - top goalscorer at the club ever...cant argue with stats
3 worst:
Egil Ostenstad - dire
Kevin Davies - more dire
Ashley Ward - direst
Theo
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4:38pm Thu 12 Jul 12
juanbbien
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4:40pm Thu 12 Jul 12
tiojo wrote:Fair enough,but he played on the right wing for us,we got him from Liverpool for about six thousand he wasn't a bad player for us in the short time he was here
juanbbien wrote:He's described on Wikepedia and the Liverpool FC websites as an 'inside right/centre forward'.
tiojo wrote:He was a right winger not a striker.
Louis Bimpson
AndyW
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4:48pm Thu 12 Jul 12
idlewally wrote:Nah, Garner's goals were all lower league and over a huge amount of time.
while shearer is the best - has to go to Simon Garner - record goal scorer should be 1st striker in HoF
I appreciate that the older folk liked Garner because he smoked and drank beer with them or whatever, but in terms of ability, Garner wasn't fit to lace Shearer's boots.
As for the Spanish chap - Yordi.
Chipped in with a handful of goals too, pretty handy in the air.
samblue
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4:50pm Thu 12 Jul 12
"Shearer, garner, mcavoy, field, briggs. And, come on without come on within, you'll not see nothing like Don Martin.”
Actually it was Jimmy Quinn, not the Don.
It was a take on the old Manfred Mann song 'Mighty Quinn'.
angryandy
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5:33pm Thu 12 Jul 12
Iiii1111
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6:36pm Thu 12 Jul 12
angryandy wrote:scored the winner against Coventry(brown strip) in the Facup...Cov were top div- Rovers 3 div
If Andy Crawford had kept his head out of the clouds and not been living in 'cloud cuckoo land' he might well have been rated as highly as Simon Garner has always been. In my opinion there is only one Alan Shearer, one Simon Garner and who can forget the electrifying David Speedie. they're the three for me!! Always remember April 1980 at Gigg Lane, we needed a point to get promoted to the Div 2 and Crawford got a brace and the whole of Bury erupted. He did nowt after that, shame really.......
Rover since 1947
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6:40pm Thu 12 Jul 12
My youthful idol Tommy Briggs (2 goals every 3 games and over 30 goals every full season)
Marshals misfits, Pickering, McEvoy and Byrom.
Club legends like Garner, Speedie, Sutton and several others but the top pairing has to be the selfless Newall and Shearer for pure class.
Iiii1111
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7:26pm Thu 12 Jul 12
Rover since 1947 wrote:not going to argue with you.....how did you rate Derek Dougan?
From Westcott to Shearer I have seen some cracking strikers at Ewood.
My youthful idol Tommy Briggs (2 goals every 3 games and over 30 goals every full season)
Marshals misfits, Pickering, McEvoy and Byrom.
Club legends like Garner, Speedie, Sutton and several others but the top pairing has to be the selfless Newall and Shearer for pure class.
angryandy
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10:52pm Thu 12 Jul 12
bankhall
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1:30am Fri 13 Jul 12
tiojo
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11:21am Fri 13 Jul 12
juanbbien wrote:I think you are right too. I looked at the old films of the 1960 cup final and he was on the right wing for that and also in the earlier rounds.
tiojo wrote:Fair enough,but he played on the right wing for us,we got him from Liverpool for about six thousand he wasn't a bad player for us in the short time he was here
juanbbien wrote:He's described on Wikepedia and the Liverpool FC websites as an 'inside right/centre forward'.
tiojo wrote:He was a right winger not a striker.
Louis Bimpson
juanbbien
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1:51pm Fri 13 Jul 12
Iiii1111 wrote:Dereck Dougan who we signed from Portsmouth for about twelve thousand was a big favourite in his short time at Rovers shaving his head which was a big deal in the sixties and being a bit of a character on and off the field,driving around in a white jag which was very novel at the time,when very few people had cars and dating a local beauty queen called Valerie Martin,he left the rovers leaving a bit of a sour taste in our mouths by putting in a transfer request on the eve of the cup final and saying that he was fit to play in the match while carrying a injury and thus under performing,he left soon afterwards,on too greater things some might say.But I enjoyed his time with us.
Rover since 1947 wrote:not going to argue with you.....how did you rate Derek Dougan?
From Westcott to Shearer I have seen some cracking strikers at Ewood.
My youthful idol Tommy Briggs (2 goals every 3 games and over 30 goals every full season)
Marshals misfits, Pickering, McEvoy and Byrom.
Club legends like Garner, Speedie, Sutton and several others but the top pairing has to be the selfless Newall and Shearer for pure class.
andyp.
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3:25pm Fri 13 Jul 12
RoversNorthEast
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8:37pm Fri 13 Jul 12
SANTA CRUZ
MCARTHY
SUTTON
BELLAMY
DERBYSHIRE(JUST FOR SUPER SUB)
STEAD(AMAZING GOALS BACK IN 2004-2005 KEPT US UP)
Carswelldj
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9:34pm Fri 13 Jul 12
parkinsonc wrote:Not to forget Davies!
We have truly been blessed by some great strikers over the last few years.
Shearer stands head and shoulders above the rest of course, simply unstoppable at his peak.
All very very good on the same level below him: Cole, Jansen, Sutton, & Newell.
Honourable mentions for becoming club legends in a short space of time:
John Stead! and of course Speedie.
Hilariously crap strikers: Ashley Ward, Nathan Blake, Nonda, Grabbi, Modeste, actually this list is huge too.
Ralph Jones
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1:14am Sat 14 Jul 12
Donmac46
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3:30am Sat 14 Jul 12
juanbbien wrote:Loved Dereck Dougan, and as you say he was a great personality, and could certainly pull the girls. Remember Valerie Martin too, a real good looker, opening the Locarno Ballroom in Blackburn about 1960, whatever happened to her. Cheyenne could certainly pull the girls though, and was doing it well before George Best, became a legend at doing it.
Iiii1111 wrote:Dereck Dougan who we signed from Portsmouth for about twelve thousand was a big favourite in his short time at Rovers shaving his head which was a big deal in the sixties and being a bit of a character on and off the field,driving around in a white jag which was very novel at the time,when very few people had cars and dating a local beauty queen called Valerie Martin,he left the rovers leaving a bit of a sour taste in our mouths by putting in a transfer request on the eve of the cup final and saying that he was fit to play in the match while carrying a injury and thus under performing,he left soon afterwards,on too greater things some might say.But I enjoyed his time with us.Rover since 1947 wrote: From Westcott to Shearer I have seen some cracking strikers at Ewood. My youthful idol Tommy Briggs (2 goals every 3 games and over 30 goals every full season) Marshals misfits, Pickering, McEvoy and Byrom. Club legends like Garner, Speedie, Sutton and several others but the top pairing has to be the selfless Newall and Shearer for pure class.not going to argue with you.....how did you rate Derek Dougan?
Rovers75
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11:15am Sat 14 Jul 12
brypix
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1:53pm Mon 16 Jul 12
Those were the days!
Ianwhittam
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9:09am Tue 17 Jul 12
On behalf of all Rovers supporters, would you please ask Steve Kean why he has not felt the need to at least make a public apology regarding his abhorrent management of the club we love. In all honesty ( and sincerely) without malice, it makes my stomach turn when article after article mentions that kean has gone here or done this and that, shot over to Portugal etc. I cringe when the phrase 'Rovers boss' is applied to him. Surely Andy, every time the telegraph does approach Kean, or interviews him face to face, questions should constantly be put to him until answers are finally unearthedl. Their is no rocket science involved here. The supporters deserve to hear Kean say that he bogged up, they need to hear him say that in any normal football club his position would have been untenable months ago, and he would, by now, have been sacked. No true Rovers supporter, whether a mouthy dissenter like me, or the hundreds who have been worn down by the 'Lack of kean PR machine.' {catchy eh?) will ever be happy with kean in charge, because that would mean accepting, and, being a part of his sad delusional world. He has the job, he has the wage, but whilst at Rovers, unless he accepts that Northerners value honesty, pride and hard work and he crawls, begging for forgiveness and another chance. He will never have the kudos of a top rated football manager because his record at Rovers will haunt him as well as us. I could not live like that, no Lancastrian I know could live like that....... why should we have to put up with someone like that.
Every Match, let the Rovers Roar KEAN OUT!!!!!
AndyW says...
4:08pm Wed 11 Jul 12
Absolute superstar, scoring bucket fulls in the Premier League and helping us to a league title.
Some players have scored less over much longer periods, in the lower leagues, but Big Al was the real deal and it was a priveledge to have seen him week in and week out.