Pick your legend

[64]

For me Andy Flounders,his time coincided with the times we could drink and were getting cars.They went from being much older men we watched at OSG .Flounders was near our age,stylish as hell and we were following this team around the country.For the 1st we were following our heroes not just watching them at OSG

[ironingboard]

Tough one but I’ll go for Alex Calvo Garcia.

Good player, great guy, legendary goal.

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[cassidystash]

See avatar. Header at Hillsborough never forgotten.

[Deereyme66]

Got to be Steve Cammack for me. Genuine legend status but along with the likes of Paul O’Berg was one of few shining lights and someone to look forward to watching between 79 and 81 during those rough arsed difficult times.

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Lord Kitchener, lesgeo

[ironingboard]

Feeling quite nostalgic now. I do look back with a smile and think I’ve been spoilt with some of the Iron players and teams I’ve seen.

Even with some of the worst teams in crap leagues there has been a shining light of some kind.

[64]

The Oberg song is among the 1st ones I remember

[Iron-awe]

Terry Heath for me, best midfielder I ever saw play for the Iron, a First Division player in a Fourth Division team, I believe Keegan would have learnt a lot playing in the same team as Terry.

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inspector

[lesgeo]

RTH was a pleasure to watch. He made difficult manoeuvres look easy. My theory is that it was all done by terrific flexibility and smoothness in the way he moved his hips.

I loved watching Cammack cut across the edge of the penalty area and neatly crack those angled drives neatly into the corner.

[SUFC_IRON_ART]

Between the types who would throw themselves into 50/50 tackles or headers like David D’Auria, Michael Walsh & Chris Hope or the attacking midfielders/wingers with creativity & and eye for goal like John Buckley, Graham Alexander, Phil Clarkson, John Eyre & Alex. The one player younger than me I’d add to that list who recaptured those feelings is Cleveland.

Naming just one it has to be Alex though.

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[Apollo11]

Difficult to answer as there have been some really special players pass through the Club, that don’t even register on the personal ‘hero’ list.

[ironingboard]

Iron-awe wrote:

Terry Heath for me, best midfielder I ever saw play for the Iron, a First Division player in a Fourth Division team, I believe Keegan would have learnt a lot playing in the same team as Terry.

I think he became an artist?

Parents once bought a painting from cornwall. They thought it was a coincidence when they saw the signature in the corner.

[CMC]

Andy Keogh, the most skillful player I’ve ever seen for us. Sold for a ridiculously low £700,000.

[lesgeo]

Yes, all I have to do is look to the left hand wall from where I’m typing and there hangs a bucolic scene in oils by the man himself.

[RedMistTorpsFist]

Torps for me. Limited technical ability and got a lot of stick, but strikers alongside him usually ended up with 20 goals. Had some great battles with opposition defenders (the mullering of Futcher, winding up of Sodje, sly elblows in on Ellender etc) and scored a number of important goals. His 2005 era mullet was a joy to behold. Departed on a high in that championship winning L1 team.

Also, Kenny Milne – the club legend we were cruelly denied.

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[Deereyme66]

You could also add, ‘BBC Humberside ex-Iron expert summariser’ to his legendary status. Just don’t tell tell Neil…

[ironingboard]

Anyone know what happened to George Kerr? Not heard him for ages on Humberside.

[Siderite]

I guess this shows the age of most forum users. The nostalgia for youth and players of that time. Choices are fair, but I suspect those in their 30s would go for Cliffy Byrne, Hayes, Hooper, Sharp, Keogh, Joe Murphy or Grant McCann.

God knows who the youth of today would pick. We have been bereft in recent years. Though, get promoted this year and Cal Roberts, Whitehall and Fitzsimmons could etch their names onto the memories of today’s teens and 20 year olds.

[Rene Artois]

Ryszard Lech Krzywicki
8 Welsh caps and a goal for the dragons to boot.

Aka – Dick Krzywicki

[cassidystash]

Rene Artois wrote:

Ryszard Lech Krzywicki

“There’s only one …….” nah – never catch on!

[another fed up fan]

So many players impossible to choose but I would like to nominate Ron Ashman who saved us from non-league on more than one occasion and at that time I certain we would never got back in the football league.
Also given me a lift back on the team bus from numerous away trips.

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[BigLeftToe]

To score 20 goals in our Championship surviving season, it has to be Hooper for me.

[Deereyme66]

Big shout for Joey ‘knees ’em’ Neenan.

[Deereyme66]

‘Also given me a lift back on the team bus from numerous away trips.’

What a thoroughly decent chap. Love that.

[Gurnelista]

ACG, Russ, Beags, Billy Sharp, that Keegan bloke… and why do we never hear it for goalkeepers? Joe Murphy was a legend!

[64]

Legend singular.Cant people just follow a simple instruction?

[premier iron]

Barry Thomas best forward we have had. His scoring record against the games he played was phenomenal

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inspector

[Apollo11]

What about Simon Elliott?

[Lord Kitchener]

It’s Beagers for me. Iron Legend #1.

[BigLeftToe]

Unpopular opinion but I always thought Murphy was a tad overrated. There was a period where punching balls into his own net was quite a regular occurrence.

[billpuntonsghost]

Nigel Cassidy.

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