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Who Is In This Albion Team Photo??
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Is it just me or is that a very UNFLATTERING picture. Looks like a woman's head has been grafted onto a man's body.
Or maybe I'm just getting old
Or maybe I'm just getting old
Theatre of Trees
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Think it needs some authentic 1970s Hiney hair.
Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!
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I don't remember if there was ever anything behind this, it may just have been a nickname. In my circle of friends at the time we just always refered to TT as "Tosser", as did my dad's mates from the Post Office.
Always new him as 'Tigger' Towner, mind you when he used to run at the full back the shout used to go up "roast him Tigger", a whole new meaning regarding certain footballers these days!!
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Tony Towner was never Tosser, or even Tigger. He was Tiger Towner & he's a legend. The best winger I ever saw in the stripes, although others older than me tell me Frankie Howard (or Howerd) the old groundsman at the Goldstone, was even better in his day.
Tiger was a big favourite among the girls that used to go in the North Stand. Believe it or not there were a fair few, & they'd wear badges with the faces of their favourite players. Wardy & Tiger were the pin ups back then.
Tiger was a big favourite among the girls that used to go in the North Stand. Believe it or not there were a fair few, & they'd wear badges with the faces of their favourite players. Wardy & Tiger were the pin ups back then.
How does it go, never say never, you obviously didn't stand in the same area of the East Terrace as we did, we all called him 'Tigger', sorry.
Incredigull
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Goodwin,Napier.K,Henderson,Jennings?,Bromley,Powney,Spearitt,Templeman,Napier.J.
Yaxley,Murray,Gall,Irvine,Saward,Beamish,Lutton ?,Sully,Crawford.
Piper,Towner,?,?
Yaxley,Murray,Gall,Irvine,Saward,Beamish,Lutton ?,Sully,Crawford.
Piper,Towner,?,?
fosters headband
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Pictures from even further back...
Some good players in that picture that I remember.
Eric Gill, Roy Jennings, Jack Bertolini, Mike Tidey, Adrian Thorne, Steve Burtenshaw, Dennis Foreman and Glen Wilson are those I can pick out from that photo.
fosters headband
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The player people think is Lutton looks more like Dave Turner to me, but I could be wrong.
Here's the first pic:
and here's the pic from a programme from the start of the 72/73 season which seems to show similar hairstyles:
and here's the pic from a programme from the start of the 72/73 season which seems to show similar hairstyles:
skipper734
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Pictures from even further back...
Some good players in that picture that I remember.
Eric Gill, Roy Jennings, Jack Bertolini, Mike Tidey, Adrian Thorne, Steve Burtenshaw, Dennis Foreman and Glen Wilson are those I can pick out from that photo.
They appear to have black armbands. Do you think it was 1958 Munich, they were remembering.
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From Hiney's programme picture, can we assume that Bert Murray and Tommy Elphick are related?
Freddie Goodwin.
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This was the ill-fated 72-73 team. having won glorious promotion, Saward then decided that 4 senior players, the Napiers, Dave Turner & Stewart Henderson, were no longer needed yet look at the size of that squad. And, as if that wasn't enough, it seemed he soon fell out with Willie Irvive too, so he appeared to demolish the exciting team he had built.
The writing was on the wall pretty soon, with a 6-2 defeat at Blackpool but it was 12 defeats in a row that really sealed our fete, although they did rally and were not too far adrift at the end.
Indeed, it was the introduction of youngsters like Towner and Piper that was one of the few highlights of the season.
The writing was on the wall pretty soon, with a 6-2 defeat at Blackpool but it was 12 defeats in a row that really sealed our fete, although they did rally and were not too far adrift at the end.
Indeed, it was the introduction of youngsters like Towner and Piper that was one of the few highlights of the season.
