[Albion] Tonight, should the club announce it's 'retiring' the number 2 shirt?

[Albumen]

If the previous player died on the pitch, yes.
Other than that? Move on.

*edited as it made NO SENSE*

 

[schmunk]

If they the previous owner died on the pitch, yes.
Other than that? Move on.

Dick Knight...?

 

[WATFORD zero]

I quite like the idea. (although it's not a hill on which I'm prepared to die)

I'll keep running it up the flagpole, one day all you dinosaurs will have died off and I'll get my way!


I can just imagine the 'team' at the AMEX running rolling up the feckin great big banner. :lolol

You've achieved what Johnson can't - you've managed to unite Brexiteers and Remainers

Uniting the country, spouting bollox ? You'd be a shoo in.

Stat Brother for PM

 

[Is it PotG?]

If it was gonna go, at the end of Ken Tiler's time would have been appropriate.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

If retiring numbers became a thing, imagine the team line up announcements in a few hundred years time

In goal, wearing shirt number 1 .............hundred and ninety three is........

 

[Notters]

Corbyn.

 

[Bold Seagull]

No wallowing in the past is my view, of course we shouldn’t retire the no 2 shirt

Unless of course we are going to have marching bands, half time entertainment and commercial breaks every 15 mins with hot dog and burger sellers wandering amongst the crowd selling their wares and really really cheesy loud goal music *shudder*

Marching bands is an historically British thing though isn't? Wasn't that all part of the FA Cup final build up, the marching band ****ing up the turf before KO?

 

[BBassic]

No, great player, one of the best but "retiring " numbers should be a rare,ultimate accolade rather than a regular occurrence.

Agree we shouldn't retire but, to my knowledge, we've not ever retired a number so this would be a rare accolade. Unless you meant football in general needs to be a bit more tight fisted with this sort of thing.

 

[Sussexscots]

No. Wearing an iconic number should inspire those players that have it in future.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

No, never

 

[studio150]

No. And while we're about it, bring back 1 to 11 shirt numbers. At least then if a player wearing number 2 was in left midfield for example, you'd know he shouldn't be there

Not always true, I'm sure in the 70s or early 80s Liverpool were playing a Eastern Bloc team in the European Cup and got the players to swap their usual numbers in an attempt to confuse the opposition

 

[studio150]

Almost as bad an idea as Reading giving a number to the home crowd

 

[Meade's Ball]

No, the number 2 shirt should not be retired. RIDICULOUS idea.

Instead, the number 2 shirt should always carry the name Bruno. Regardless who's wearing it.

Or adapt their names to always have a Brunoness to them.
Montuno
Webstuno
Brunardo
etc

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

No. Else there would be a good (better?) case to retire nos. 8 and 25. Would be no end to it.

 

[Geestar]

Always been a fan of this in basketball

But not sure you can now start it in football

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[theboybilly]

No

 

[Eeyore]

Cucumbers

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Almost as bad an idea as Reading giving a number to the home crowd

Seem to vaguely recall that in the Withdean era the club did a thing whereby a fan - or somebody with more money than sense - paid to be allocated a squad number for the season. Or did I imagine that?

 

[Invicta]

No.

 

[The Rattler]

Should have retired it in 86-87 when Les Berry wore it. Preferably retiring him at the same time.