Alan Kelly and Simon Tracey at The Lane tonight.

[oldblade]

Wasn't it Basset who signed Tracey long after Warnock had left ?

No, you've got it the wrong way round. He signed him in the1988-9 promotion season. Long before Warnock arrived.

 

[Silent Blade]

Was she a big lass?

Yes, not seen her for years

 

[Booker4]

Tracey was asked about the Battle of Bramall Lane. Obviously he was first to be sent off but he was extremely critical of Warnock’s decision to send Santos on with the team down to 10 men given the history with Johnson. He also was critical of the actions after we were down to 8 men and said that if it wasn’t for Derek Dooley, Warnock would have been out.

Totally agree with Tracey there, it was obviously gonna kick off, even more than it had already.

But, what a decision it was from Dooley to stick up for Warnock. I've got less respect for Warnock since he left us for the reasons many others have but he still did a great job for us and I'll always be grateful for that.

 

[Vintage Shirt]

Gutted to have missed this, would have loved to go. Kelly was my hero growing up.

Mine too just scored the 1995 Keeper shirt. Kiss that chap

 

[Sparky]

Why did Nielsen get it in the neck?

He didn’t really. Somebody asked what the Norwegians were like. Basically Flo was a scruffy tramp and Nilsen was the polar opposite.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

He didn’t really. Somebody asked what the Norwegians were like. Basically Flo was a scruffy tramp and Nilsen was the polar opposite.

I once heard about Flo being seen in a pub in Sheffield, vomiting his guts up, night before a game. Fag, lit, dropped into urinal.
From Deano to that.
Unbelievable.
Bassett's worst ever signing.

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

I once heard about Flo being seen in a pub in Sheffield, vomiting his guts up, night before a game. Fag, lit, dropped into urinal.
From Deano to that.
Unbelievable.
Bassett's worst ever signing.

Nowhere near Bassett’s worst signing. Not even in the top 20.

From what I remember, Tracey was hardly the paragon of professionalism.

 

[YorkBlade]

We had (ex-)Scotland international Jim Leighton as fourth choice GK at the time too! [edit - I just checked and he was still playing for Scotland at the time, as his last international game was 1998!]



It's funny that people always cite Tracey's unpredictability; I always thought he was the more reassuring of the two. In terms of 'errors' (i.e. dropping a catch or letting a shot through his fingers), I'm not even sure that I can remember a single one from Tracey in his 13 years at the club. Kelly was more prone to those basic clangers (at home to Chelsea on the last day of the season in 1993 was an example). I suppose with Tracey, people are thinking about the occasions when he'd fly out of the box (e.g. Spurs away, or the Battle of Bramall Lane) and get sent off (and probably his off-field persona). Either way, you're right that both were truly fine goalkeepers - genuinely both in the top five in the country at the time, and leagues better than Chris Woods. Brave, commanding, fantastic shot-stoppers and both regarding quite correctly as club legends.

I remember an awful Tracey clanger at Huddersfield away when he let in roll under his body, routine save. We lost 2-1.