Retro Albion photos: Can you help identify the players?

[Goldstone Rapper]

As you may know, I put together the Seagulls TV website at www.seagulls.tv featuring lots of videos of the Albion from the 1970s and 1980s.

I am currently adding a colour photo section hopefully featuring all the players who played for the club from 1976-83. This involves scanning in various pictures from magazines, stickers, programmes, other club publications etc. I am trying to do a little bit each day.

Yet I am stumped as to the identities of some of these players. Could you help identify them?

Top left: Peter Ward Top right: ?
Middle left: Peter Ward Middle: Brian Horton. Middle right: ?
Bottom Left: Eric Potts Bottom right: Gary Williams

 

[Deleted User X18H]

top right Mike Kerslake?

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Sadly, I don't think Mike Kerslake ever played for the Albion even though he featured in many team photos!

The line-up v Blackpool 1978 (which is where all these photos seem to be from) was Moseley, Tiler, Williams, Horton, Winstanley, Lawrenson, Towner, Ward, Poskett, Ruggiero, O'Sullivan Sub: Potts.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Oh, yeah, and if anyone can find a colour photo of Tony Vessey in the BCal shirt or a colour photo of Chris Rodon (who came on as sub in Albion's last ever top flight game) I'll buy you two pints!

 

[lighthouse]

tony towner
john ruggerio

 

[poidy]

Middle left peter ward
Middle centre looks like Brian Horton

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

tony towner
john ruggerio

Thanks! Can anyone back Lighthouse on this? I cropped the pre-season team photo for that season to get this photo of Ruggiero - must have been ordered to the hairdressers by Mullery!

 

[skipper734]

Top right. Lawrenson.

 

[the wanderbus]

lawrenson ( you can tell by the slack jaw)
ruggiero

 

[Mackenzie]

Top right is Towner isn't it?

 

[the wanderbus]

lawrenson ( you can tell by the slack jaw)

not really, its towner

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Lawrenson or Towner? I wish I knew! I thought Lawro was lankier, but not really sure.

 

[Icy Gull]

I too think top right is Tony Towner, guy behind Horton is Poskett

 

[Mackenzie]

Who is that following Nobby out of the tunnel in the centre picture?

 

[gjh1971]

Who is that following Nobby out of the tunnel in the centre picture?

Malcolm Poskett

 

[matt]

Who is that following Nobby out of the tunnel in the centre picture?

Poskett.


Towner and Ruggerio.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

I too think top right is Tony Towner, guy behind Horton is Poskett

Thanks! Until I hear otherwise, the photo is going into the website as Tony Towner. Great - especially as I didn't have any colour photos of Towner!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

And is the bottom right photo definitely Williams as opposed to it being Ruggiero too?

 

[matt]

And is the bottom right photo definitely Williams as opposed to it being Ruggiero too?

ja vol

 

[skipper734]

It's deffo Lawrenson. I am fairly sure Tone had a Tache when he was playing for Brighton. You could always phone him and ask him. Telephone: 01273 298137 or 07979 022660.