[Albion] Happy birthday Barry Lloyd

[mjking73]

The Bristol Rovers game to get promotion will always be one of my favourites, "19,800" at the Goldstone, was way more than that it seemed

 

[vegster]

Not only did he produce one of the finest teams Worthing has ever had, he could pull pints behind the club bar as a bonus. Cornwell and Edmonds, so many great memories!

 

[amexer]

Just come up on my Facebook feed, 72 years young

Happy to say that time has been a great healer, when this is all over I look forward to sitting down with the old boy and talking football, he’s amazing company and extremely knowledgeable.

Made some good signings that are part of my early memories of Albion. Do you know if he attends games at Amex ?

 

[durrington gull]

Just come up on my Facebook feed, 72 years young

Happy to say that time has been a great healer, when this is all over I look forward to sitting down with the old boy and talking football, he’s amazing company and extremely knowledgeable.

Did an excellent job considering the circumstances we were in

 

[durrington gull]

Barry, Barry, Barry.
Out, out, out.

That 87/88 season was probably my favourite of all time.

Superb season/ - right up there with the very best

 

[DJ NOBO]

I remember where I was when I heard he’d been sacked.

Me too. In my bedroom! It was reported on radio five as an afterthought, as a premiership manager, Ron Atkinson I think, was sacked the same day.

 

[brianwade]

Happy Birthday Barry - that season when we went up with Gary Nelson and Kevin Bremner upfront - 92 goals between them in 272 games . Bremner used to fall over a lot but still managed to scoop it into the net . Nelson had a sublime touch way beyond what was League 2 in those days . Great days .

 

[Napper]

Got rid of Saunders . Tried to get non leaguers to step in. Didn’t like what he did or how he was.

1991 and the promotion from 3rd were good though .



Barry Barry Barry


OUT OUT OUT

 

[Pevenseagull]

It's highly unlikely that I'll ever go to more Albion games with us managed by anyone else.

I thought of him as an old man at the time. When he left he was several years younger than I am now.

Got a serious case of Goldstone nostalgia at the moment.

Happy birthday Barry Lloyd.

 

[Yes Chef]

Did he not say, after we got promoted back out of division 3, 'Now what?'.

I thought he was good.

I think he said, at the beginning of the post play off season, that we would not be in this division next year.

He was right of course.

Oh Barry. Not like that Barry.

 

[Easy 10]

I have (mostly) good memories of Barry, chain-smoking his way through games. Made some great signings - how can you dislike the guy that brought in Nelson, Bremner, Bissett, Codner, May, Chivers, Rougvie, Dublin, Gotsmanov...magnificent.

Supporting the Albion in the late eighties / early 90s was bloody brilliant fun.

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

It's highly unlikely that I'll ever go to more Albion games with us managed by anyone else.

I thought of him as an old man at the time. When he left he was several years younger than I am now.

Got a serious case of Goldstone nostalgia at the moment.

Happy birthday Barry Lloyd.

I am surprised he is only 72 , he did seem like an old fella, although must have been very young for a manager by today’s standards. Triple substitution anyone ?

 

[Pevenseagull]

I have (mostly) good memories of Barry, chain-smoking his way through games. Made some great signings - how can you dislike the guy that brought in Nelson, Bremner, Bissett, Codner, May, Chivers, Rougvie, Dublin, Gotsmanov...magnificent.

Supporting the Albion in the late eighties / early 90s was bloody brilliant fun.

I'd like to add Small and Byrne to that ... going to games knowing they were both playing was flippin' ACE.

 

[Easy 10]

I'd like to add Small and Byrne to that ... going to games knowing they were both playing was flippin' ACE.

I'm slightly ashamed to have missed them out tbh - particularly as John Byrne is one of my all time favourite players of all time ever of all time in the all time of evers of all time.

I had the pleasure of his company in The Sussex once, after I randomly bought him a pint of Guinness at half time during the England v Croatia qualifying debacle (the night of the Wally with the Brolly). As I was sloping out crestfallen after the game, he clocked me and asked if I fancied a pint. Which I accepted of course, and had a nice hour or so with him and 2/3 of his mates round the table. What a top, top bloke he is.

Lloyd really did bring some superbly iconic players to BHA during his time.

 

[Blue3]

Happy Birthday Barry, my memories of his time were on very limited funds and his knowledge of the local non league in finding some real gems, a late run of games that saw us get a trip to Wembley against Notts County to be honest we were never in the game and upon reflection just getting there was more than anyone could have asked such was the shoe string budget at the time.

A second spell was in desperation but by then the rot had set in and is best forgotten instead I prefer to remember that day out to Wembley and Wendy's free kick

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Certainly had an eye for a striker...... Can someone give Tony bloom his number?

 

[Peter Grummit]

I never really warmed to the guy as he appeared to have a charisma bypass and no sense of humour.

In hindsight, with the financial constraints, I am pleased to admit he did a decent job. He found two sets of strikers (Nelson/Bremner; Small/Byrne) that were right up there in the top 4 partnerships of my 50 years attending (Ward/Mellor; Zamora/Hart being the others). That 2nd half 3 goal spell destroying Millwall in the playoffs is possibly the best 7 minutes I ever saw at the Goldstone (or at least 2nd only to 2 goals against Liverpool in 84).

 

[Guinness Boy]

I have (mostly) good memories of Barry, chain-smoking his way through games. Made some great signings - how can you dislike the guy that brought in Nelson, Bremner, Bissett, Codner, May, Chivers, Rougvie, Dublin, Gotsmanov...magnificent.

Supporting the Albion in the late eighties / early 90s was bloody brilliant fun.

This. Like many others on this thread have a particular affection for 87-88 and the Bristol Rovers game in particular. My first away days with mates unsupervised as well.

Bazza managed to be both a frustratingly amateur, chansmoking non-leaguer, presiding over seemingly never ending losing runs and absolutely brilliant, getting promotions and playoffs and finding fantastic strikers. He was both of those things and very much of his time.

Happy birthday for yesterday Bazza.

 

[The Wookiee]

What was the story about him not playing Gary Nelson in the play off final

 

[Lenny Rider]

Made some good signings that are part of my early memories of Albion. Do you know if he attends games at Amex ?

He still does some scouting for the club, and famously recommended Dean Wilkins to sign Glenn Murray in 2007/08 on the strength of Muzza’s warm up at Rochdale.

So he has a part in one of the clubs greatest ever signings