Trojan 67 wrote:I'm part way through writing a reply to John Fowler when WHOOSH ! the box empties and the post disappears.
What the f'ck's happening ? Is someone playing silly buggers at TF.com because it's happening on a regular basis.
Sadly, both Don Mills and Sammy Collins are before my time. Robin Stubbs and Tommy Spratt however, are fond memories. In their time they were the
* "Smash & Grab" of TUFC.
* "Smash & Grab" (Alan Warboys and Bruce Bannister, Bristol Rovers).
You think you're having a hard time of it Trojan I have had 3 attempts disappear into the ether so if this one doesn't get through I'm off to bed!
Don Mills and Sammy Collins I never saw either but I think when discussing legends in a football club it is not right to restrict it just to players you have seen. Don Mills was of course voted our best ever player in a supporters poll probably about 6 or 7 years ago. A former Leeds United player he captained us in that 4-0 FA Cup demolition of Leeds in 1955 when the legend John Charles of Juventus fame was the Leeds captain. Don stopped playing in 1962 but then became a member of the coaching staff and he was my youth team coach in the late 1960's. He retired from football when we ditched our reserve and youth teams for financial reasons and in 1974 became Torquay's friendliest traffic warden!
Sammy Collins scored 27, 40, and 30 league goals in successive seasons so would always have to be considered, and Robin Stubbs was the best player I have seen in a Torquay shirt, including future international Lee Sharpe and former internationals Chris Waddle, Bruce Rioch, and Neville Southall (albeit I am not too sure what Robin was like in goal!
).
I keep going waiting for the next one to come along, but everybody we sign Brucie reckons is sh*t!