Just who was your childhood Albion hero?

[Northstander]

Steve Foster, Garry Nelson in my teens

 

[Questions]

Kit Napier, Alex Dawson and the Nobby Horton.

I dont have heroes now........... I`m too old.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Adrian Thorne was my first then Bobby Smith, Bill Cassidy (can't remember why though), Barry Rees down, Alex Dawson, Harry Wilson and Sully. Quite liked Fred Binney but seeing someone named Ward playing in the reserves soon changed that. Favourite goalie was Geoff Sidebottom, Nobby Horton for skipper and Lawrenson is the best player I've ever seen in a Brighton shirt.
These days it'd be Cox - he actually cares.

 

[Mendoza]

this bloke for me

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Being (a) very old and (b) not an Albion fan until I reached my twenties, there is only one player who qualifies as my "childhood Albion hero" - and I bet no-one on NSC has ever heard of him.

Colin "Rock" Hudson. Just one appearance for the Albion (away at Bristol Rovers), but, before that, 21 goals in 81 appearances for Newport County. A real hero at Somerton Park, where his mazy runs on the right wing would get the whole crowd chanting "Rock! Rock! Rock!" as he flew past opposition defenders. County eventually swapped him for three players from Cardiff City, who then shipped him on to to the Albion, to play his one game before he was sold back to Newport, where he belonged.

 

[Slough Seagull]

Garry Nelson

 

[Trigger]

Terry Connor

 

[Curious Orange]

Terry Connor. I seem to remember that we always lost when he didn't play - but then again I was only 9 at the time...

 

[Questions]

Being (a) very old and (b) not an Albion fan until I reached my twenties, there is only one player who qualifies as my "childhood Albion hero" - and I bet no-one on NSC has ever heard of him.

Colin "Rock" Hudson. Just one appearance for the Albion (away at Bristol Rovers), but, before that, 21 goals in 81 appearances for Newport County. A real hero at Somerton Park, where his mazy runs on the right wing would get the whole crowd chanting "Rock! Rock! Rock!" as he flew past opposition defenders. County eventually swapped him for three players from Cardiff City, who then shipped him on to to the Albion, to play his one game before he was sold back to Newport, where he belonged.

So you were a Newport County fan and chucked them in for a 'BIG' team huh.

 

[Barrow Boy]

Jack Bertolini
Johnnie (Granny) Goodchild
Bobby Smith

 

[coventrygull]

Its Sully for me

 

[Barnet Seagull]

Never really had an Albion hero as such - in fact never had any heroes.

Probably my favourite player when I first started going consistently to watch the albion was John Byrne - obviously when Fozzie came back he was up there too.

 

[Playing On The Grit]

My first ever hero was Steve Penney and then Jimmy Case after watching him play in his first spell at the Albion and hearing the crowd sing the "Jimmy's gonna get you" song. I realised at that point that this man was the dog's nuts and watched him more closely and realised what a God he was.

When I was slightly older I loved Garry Nelson but the most recent hero was Danny Cullip (The first player I ever loved so much I wore his name and number on my shirt.)

 

[Sweeney Todd]

The driving force of our best-ever side is my hero. Brian Horton leading the Albion in the mud and sand of the Goldstone of the late-seventies, flanked by Sully, Sayer and Clark, is an image that will stay with me.

 

[Knotty]

Alex Dawson and Brian Powney.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Terry Connor.

Honourable mentions to Danny Wilson and Neil Smillie .

Very similar. Swap Smillie for Steve Penney.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

this bloke for me

Haha. That's quality. You haven't changed ONE BIT.

I have a very similar pic of me with Steve Penney, somewhere...

 

[The Large One]

Peter Ward.

Though big shout to Mark Lawrenson and Brian Horton for turning up at a Boys' Brigade night in about 1978.

 

[MattBackHome]

 

[Storer68]

Graham winstanley.........

mainly because he never played always being understudy to Lawrenson and Rollings. So I thought he needed some support.