Wanderers Legend of our lifetime

[Bruce Rioja]

'down' geddit?

Eider - 'down'



Oh just sod off! (steps fade to disctance and door slams)

Gary - we got it. But it was a little bit like landing a gudgeon

[Gary the Enfield]

'down' geddit?

Eider - 'down'



Oh just sod off! (steps fade to disctance and door slams)

Gary - we got it. But it was a little bit like landing a gudgeon

There's no need for that kind of language, young man!

[Puskas]

Was only a nipper myself in the 80s and I must admit that when doing my research trying to fill the spots for the 80s was more difficult. No doubt who ever wins that decade will get trounced in the final. Although Peter Reid did date my aunt for a bit - so I'm told every time I'm back in Bolton. So thats gotta count for something. Thanks for voting guys.

Like you, I'm too young to remember the 80s. Although, as the old adage goes, if you can remember the 80s you weren't there.

However I'm suprised to see Allardyce in there - from what my grandad tells me, he was shite when he came back.

Steve Thompson, Tony Philliskirk, Robbie Savage and Jeff Chandler are all possibles. However the winner from that dead decade has to be Dean Crombie. Not just because he was so much better than the other defenders we had at the time, but because he scored the greates goal ever scored at Wembley - relegating Ferenc Puskas's dinky drag-back to second place.

You all know I'm right.

[Worthy4England]

Tadeusz Nowak was still playing for Bolton in 1980...

[William the White]

Tadeusz Nowak was still playing for Bolton in 1980...

He was??? Feck... totally passed me by...

How often???

[BWFC_Wyles]

Was only a nipper myself in the 80s and I must admit that when doing my research trying to fill the spots for the 80s was more difficult. No doubt who ever wins that decade will get trounced in the final. Although Peter Reid did date my aunt for a bit - so I'm told every time I'm back in Bolton. So thats gotta count for something. Thanks for voting guys.

Like you, I'm too young to remember the 80s. Although, as the old adage goes, if you can remember the 80s you weren't there.

However I'm suprised to see Allardyce in there - from what my grandad tells me, he was shite when he came back.

Steve Thompson, Tony Philliskirk, Robbie Savage and Jeff Chandler are all possibles. However the winner from that dead decade has to be Dean Crombie. Not just because he was so much better than the other defenders we had at the time, but because he scored the greates goal ever scored at Wembley - relegating Ferenc Puskas's dinky drag-back to second place.

You all know I'm right.

Deano's lovely dink at Wembley was sublime! Therefore, a deserved nomination for legend of the 80s.
Steve Thompson & TP also deserve a shout

[Gary the Enfield]

Was only a nipper myself in the 80s and I must admit that when doing my research trying to fill the spots for the 80s was more difficult. No doubt who ever wins that decade will get trounced in the final. Although Peter Reid did date my aunt for a bit - so I'm told every time I'm back in Bolton. So thats gotta count for something. Thanks for voting guys.

Like you, I'm too young to remember the 80s. Although, as the old adage goes, if you can remember the 80s you weren't there.

However I'm suprised to see Allardyce in there - from what my grandad tells me, he was shite when he came back.

Steve Thompson, Tony Philliskirk, Robbie Savage and Jeff Chandler are all possibles. However the winner from that dead decade has to be Dean Crombie. Not just because he was so much better than the other defenders we had at the time, but because he scored the greates goal ever scored at Wembley - relegating Ferenc Puskas's dinky drag-back to second place.

You all know I'm right.

Deano's lovely dink at Wembley was sublime! Therefore, a deserved nomination for legend of the 80s.
Steve Thompson & TP also deserve a shout

Please edit this to Crombie or summat. 'Deano' and 'sublime dink at Wembley' are so diametrically opposed I feel like Marty Feldman trying to read your post.

[BWFC_Wyles]

Was only a nipper myself in the 80s and I must admit that when doing my research trying to fill the spots for the 80s was more difficult. No doubt who ever wins that decade will get trounced in the final. Although Peter Reid did date my aunt for a bit - so I'm told every time I'm back in Bolton. So thats gotta count for something. Thanks for voting guys.

Like you, I'm too young to remember the 80s. Although, as the old adage goes, if you can remember the 80s you weren't there.

However I'm suprised to see Allardyce in there - from what my grandad tells me, he was shite when he came back.

Steve Thompson, Tony Philliskirk, Robbie Savage and Jeff Chandler are all possibles. However the winner from that dead decade has to be Dean Crombie. Not just because he was so much better than the other defenders we had at the time, but because he scored the greates goal ever scored at Wembley - relegating Ferenc Puskas's dinky drag-back to second place.

You all know I'm right.

Dean "Deano" Crombie's lovely dink at Wembley was sublime! Therefore, a deserved nomination for legend of the 80s.
Steve Thompson & TP also deserve a shout

Please edit this to Crombie or summat. 'Deano' and 'sublime dink at Wembley' are so diametrically opposed I feel like Marty Feldman trying to read your post.

How's that?

[Verbal]

Was only a nipper myself in the 80s and I must admit that when doing my research trying to fill the spots for the 80s was more difficult. No doubt who ever wins that decade will get trounced in the final. Although Peter Reid did date my aunt for a bit - so I'm told every time I'm back in Bolton. So thats gotta count for something. Thanks for voting guys.

Like you, I'm too young to remember the 80s. Although, as the old adage goes, if you can remember the 80s you weren't there.

However I'm suprised to see Allardyce in there - from what my grandad tells me, he was shite when he came back.

Steve Thompson, Tony Philliskirk, Robbie Savage and Jeff Chandler are all possibles. However the winner from that dead decade has to be Dean Crombie. Not just because he was so much better than the other defenders we had at the time, but because he scored the greates goal ever scored at Wembley - relegating Ferenc Puskas's dinky drag-back to second place.

You all know I'm right.

Dean "Deano" Crombie's lovely dink at Wembley was sublime! Therefore, a deserved nomination for legend of the 80s.
Steve Thompson & TP also deserve a shout

Please edit this to Crombie or summat. 'Deano' and 'sublime dink at Wembley' are so diametrically opposed I feel like Marty Feldman trying to read your post.

How's that?

don't make me post this...ah for god's sake.

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[BWFC_Wyles]

don't make me post this...ah for god's sake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc6NujP_NCI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm sorry for uploading it!!!

[ovenmitboy]

So I'm back with a run down of the results and at the end of this post is a link to a second survey to produce an overall winner. 99 people voted in the poll so this should represent a decent cross section of BWFC fans.

1970s was a cake walk for Frank Worthington as he bagged 72.2% of vote - the largest proportion of any of the winners. Josh Byrom was his closest competitor with 12.2%. I'm not surprised that Worthington was so easily in front. For many younger Wanderers he would have been the only player they knew of that era having seen endless repeats of that goal, plus his appearances in Masters games.

The 80s was a close run race between Big West Spam Allerdyce (27.9%) and eventual winner Peter Reid who got 30 votes or 34.9%. The 80s was the most spread of all the voting, maybe because there were no stand out candidate in this dark period for the Trotters. Phil Brown and Neil Whatmore did well picking up nearly 30 votes between them. While Brian Kidd got 1 vote - and it wasn't me.

The clear winner of 90s was super John McGinlay with 69.1%. No surprises there really as the man was the talisman of the Whites during their rise under Bruce Rioch. The only other player from that period to garner any notable votes was our Icelandic captain Gudni Bergsson who got a respectful 29.1%.

If this poll was conducted under the AV system the 2000's may have gone to either Youri Djorkaeff or Ivan Campo who both picked up an equal 24.5%. However it was not and the winner by a mile was the assassin with a smile Jay-Jay Okocha with a deserved 49%.

I only added a 2010 section as I thought it would be fair for our heroic captain Kevin Davies to contend in the final round. However this nearly didn't come to fruition as the American midfield dynamo Stuart Holden chased him all the way to the end. Davies eventually start to pull away and finished with just over half the votes (53.6%) to Holden's 37.1%. Not bad considering he has only played in one full season.

So now its down to the final vote. The reason why I started this. Five greats, one winner. Who over the past 5 decades has embodied Bolton Wanderers more than any other player? Is it the skillful wonder goal scoring Worthington? The monkey faced hard tackling Reid? The salt of the earth free scoring Scotsman McGinlay? The charismatic Nigerian magician Okocha? Or the tough as nails target man Davies?

Happy voting:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3CV7KFG" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bruce Rioja]

Eric Snookes!

[CAPSLOCK]

Mike Ring

Nigel Jemson

[Bruce Rioja]

Peter Valentine.

Simon Rudge.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

In these instances, I usually cite Jemson and John Gregory.

[CAPSLOCK]

Sammy Lee and Paul Fitzpatrick

Tho, to be fair, I thought Fitzpatrick could play, in a Ricketty Twig kind of way