Old Albion Squad Photos - please me help name the players!

[cunningplan]

and yes sorry - it was 1969-70

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Brighton & Hove Albion 1969 Football Picture

I think that settles it!

By jove! You've got it...

Thank you, everyone for all your suggestions and thought you brought to it.

 

[Superphil]

You should checkout [MENTION=118]Hiney[/MENTION] s programme website, bound to have that sort of info

 

[DumLum]

Few years before I was born and I don't know any players but what a great picture! The quality of the photo brings the past much closer to today for me.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

And the last one for now, from 1972/73...

Again, please help name those in the shot. Much appreciated if you can. Looks like Hove Park!

By the way, if anyone ever comes across colour squad photos of the Albion from 1974/75 and 1986/87 (the one with Barry Lloyd in charge, not the Alan Mullery pre-season one) please let me know....

 

[cunningplan]

?. kit napier, stewart henderson, ? , Brian Bromley, Brian Powney, Eddie Speartt, John Templeman, John Napier
Mike Yaxley, Bert Murray, ? Lunt?, Pat Saward, Ken Beamish, ?, Peter O’Sullivan, ?
?,?, ?, ?

 

[cunningplan]

Sorry - I can't resist it....

Soccer - Brighton and Hove Albion FC , Brighton - The Teams c/o PA Football Archive

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Thanks, that's really helpful, actually.

Ian Goodwin. Kit Napier, Stewart Henderson, Alan Dovey, Brian Bromley, Brian Powney, Eddie Speartt, John Templeman, John Napier
Mike Yaxley, Bert Murray, Norman Gall, Willie Irvine, Pat Saward, Ken Beamish, Bertie Lutton, Peter O’Sullivan, Ray Crawford
?,?, ?, ?

Looks like Ray Crawford, a few years after his exploits for Colchester against Leeds in the FA Cup

 

[northstandsteve]

And the last one for now, from 1972/73...

Again, please help name those in the shot. Much appreciated if you can. Looks like Hove Park!

By the way, if anyone ever comes across colour squad photos of the Albion from 1974/75 and 1986/87 (the one with Barry Lloyd in charge, not the Alan Mullery pre-season one) please let me know....

Goodwin, Napier K, Henderson, Dovey, Bromley, Powney,Spearitt, Templeman, Napier J,

Murray, Gall, Irvine, Beamish, Lutton, O'Sullivan,

Steve Piper, not known, Alan Boorn, not known.

 

[northstandsteve]

Yaxley, Saward, Crawford

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Thanks, that's really helpful, actually.

Ian Goodwin. Kit Napier, Stewart Henderson, Alan Dovey, Brian Bromley, Brian Powney, Eddie Speartt, John Templeman, John Napier
Mike Yaxley, Bert Murray, Norman Gall, Willie Irvine, Pat Saward, Ken Beamish, Bertie Lutton, Peter O’Sullivan, Ray Crawford
?,?, ?, ?

Looks like Ray Crawford, a few years after his exploits for Colchester against Leeds in the FA Cup

I reckon your gaps are: Steve Piper, Tommy Armstrong, Alan Boorn and Steve Breach according to the 1972/3 squad photo

 

[catfish]

Sitting on ground far right could be Ricky Sopp.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

I reckon your gaps are: Steve Piper, Tommy Armstrong, Alan Boorn and Steve Breach according to the 1972/3 squad photo

I think I will go with those ones. I went with Breach as his centre-parting is in both and he's already in the stripes, as opposed to Sopp, although I agree it looks quite a lot like Sopp too. Thanks, catfish, for making me study the grainy pic a bit closer.

 

[Brownstuff]

That old Albion squad photo from the late 60's has brought back good memories
Although before my time I remember having a Brighton team puzzle from the similar era (squad picture being in front of the stand behind the goal)
I'm sure the puzzle came in a round tin and I remember loving that puzzle

 

[sully]

I think I will go with those ones. I went with Breach as his centre-parting is in both and he's already in the stripes, as opposed to Sopp, although I agree it looks quite a lot like Sopp too. Thanks, catfish, for making me study the grainy pic a bit closer.

I'm pretty certain that the front right person is my cousin, Steve Breach, who went on to become a legend at Crawley Town

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

That old Albion squad photo from the late 60's has brought back good memories
Although before my time I remember having a Brighton team puzzle from the similar era (squad picture being in front of the stand behind the goal)
I'm sure the puzzle came in a round tin and I remember loving that puzzle

Ahhh, I'm guessing you're referring this classic from 1967-68...

 

[btnred]

Is that not tony towner in the front row 72 pic

 

[sully]

Is that not tony towner in the front row 72 pic

No. He didn't join until the following year.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Towner was taken on as an apprentice in December 1970 and made his debut in February 1973. He looks a bit like the player sitting down on the far left in the 1972/73 photo, and then gradually looked more like the player next to him as the years progressed!

 

[btnred]

Towner was taken on as an apprentice in December 1970 and made his debut in February 1973.

That's def him in that pic