Steve Conroy- best keeper of the 1970s???

[Silent Blade]

I think there must more more players of Needham's and my avatar's era who would be in that list if anyone could still remember them given that it was the most successful team in our history.

Foulke, Harry Johnson, Bernard Wilkinson, Walter Bennett, Alf Common,Fred Priest, Bert Lipsham and Arthur Brown were highly rated players in Needham's era. Gypsy Rab Howell was an England International but his shenanigans soured his relationship with the players and the club. He was blamed for giving away goals that seemed to be done on purpose (I would imagine it was similar to Devlin "giving away" two goals against Watford at the time he and his agent, Rob Seagal, wanted him to move to Birmingham) and got transferred to Liverpool before we clinched the league title in 1897-98

 

[anglian blade]

Indeed Alf Common became the first £1,000 transfer signing

 

[Silent Blade]

Indeed Alf Common became the first £1,000 transfer signing

Common became a regular member of Sheffield United teams, and won the first of his three international caps in 1904, but in May of that year he refused to re-sign for United because he wished to return to Sunderland where he was reported to have 'business interests'.[2] United failed to persuade Common to change his mind and in the summer of 1904, he returned to Sunderland. The deal also took United's reserve goalkeeper Albert Lewis in return for a new record fee of around £520.

In February 1905, little more than six months after this move, he broke the transfer record again by moving to Middlesbrough for £1,000.

 

[Jonboy60]

Indeed. Conroy was the goalie when we got relegated to the 3rd division for the first time and never player in the top tier. How on earth he got in ahead of Brown. McAlister and Hope is beyond me.

Probably got a pub somewhere local.

 

[Jonboy60]

Mcfhail and Kenworthy spent too much time in the boozer(Stonehouse on Church St)

Not as much as me. Lightweights.

 

[Lane Ender]

Not as much as me. Lightweights.

Me an all