manilaseagull
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Did anyone ever witness Frank Stapleton play for the albion?
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Ernest
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BIG Frank only played 2 games and LEFT when he tried to get the Oldham managers JOB but I think ENDED up at QPR as COACH with BUTCH Wilkins
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Superphil
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I think Kerr was on loan from Celtic while Nicky Rust was injured.
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Icy Gull
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He was, and from being a promising keeper pre-injury he turned into a shit keeper when he returned, imo.
So he coached Graeme Smith
He was appointed by Jim Gannon so Smith had left then.
Jam The Man
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That was exactly the reason he came.. Brady was getting frustrated by the strikers not getting the rub of the green in the box, and thought his wily old mate might bring about a change of luck.
Jam The Man
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He lasted 1 1/2 matches (both games as a striker) and then disappeared to become a manager again...
blue'n'white
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Stewart Kerr was on loan from Celtic as Nicky Rust had broken his arm though Kerr only lasted a couple of games and Rust came back in well before he should have been fit.
Stapleton was frankly (sorry) dreadful - old and slow and I thought at the time that Brady had just got one of his old mates in to give him some money.
I was at both the games - Swindon at home and Cardiff away and he showed a couple of half decent touches at home but at Ninian Park he was awful. I was told by some friends of mine who lived near the hotel the Albion used in Cardiff that they were all up and on the piss till some unseemely hour in the morning which probably explained a hell of a lot about our performance that day
Stapleton was frankly (sorry) dreadful - old and slow and I thought at the time that Brady had just got one of his old mates in to give him some money.
I was at both the games - Swindon at home and Cardiff away and he showed a couple of half decent touches at home but at Ninian Park he was awful. I was told by some friends of mine who lived near the hotel the Albion used in Cardiff that they were all up and on the piss till some unseemely hour in the morning which probably explained a hell of a lot about our performance that day
BensGrandad
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He was awful for us as indeed he was for about 8 otrher clubs at the end of his career. He scored 135 goals during his 449 games for Man United and Arsenal but only 16 in his remaining 166 games at the end of his carreer.
house your seagull
Train à Grande Vitesse
i remember him.
it's one of those albion scenes you just 'remember', but i was very young and standing at the very front of the northstand.
he came in for a cross, or something, and as the ball was inevitably cleared he ran past the end of the potch and down the bank in front of the north.
i was very close, and i remember staring into his face and seeing sadness in his eyes.
i remember this clearly, i also remember kerr being quite good.
it's one of those albion scenes you just 'remember', but i was very young and standing at the very front of the northstand.
he came in for a cross, or something, and as the ball was inevitably cleared he ran past the end of the potch and down the bank in front of the north.
i was very close, and i remember staring into his face and seeing sadness in his eyes.
i remember this clearly, i also remember kerr being quite good.
Paskman
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Yes but Worthington was brillant - even when past it, always worth the entrance fee. When he wasn't playing he uesed to sit a couple of seats down from me, with his latest floozy, in the West Stand. Malcolm Macdonald used to come quite often as well - I believe he was running a pub in Worthing at the time.
Superphil
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The keeper, Jim Kerr, was on loan from Wales as Perry Digweed was decorating his hallway that weekend.
Malcolm McDonald did indeed have a pub in Worthing, it was in in Charmandean Road or Leigh Road (I think), and I also think that it is no longer there.
Malcolm McDonald did indeed have a pub in Worthing, it was in in Charmandean Road or Leigh Road (I think), and I also think that it is no longer there.
I saw Frank play for us - and I'm amazed to learn that he only played 2 games!
I thought he was with us much longer ... senility is an awful thing!
Me too. Had the same chat with a guy on the running track before the game on Saturday. We both thought Dickov had played more than 8 games and we were both convinced Keown played a whole season (but aparntly he didn't). As you say - the mind plays tricks!
Paskman
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Sounds like he might have drunk the profits!
I thought he played in a home game 0-0 against Bournemouth about 1994ish one of the worst games I ever saw at the Goldstone, maybe it was someone else though as no one else has mentioned it - seem to recall it was the same night Barcelona trounced Man Utd 4-0...might have the programme knocking around somewhere