Roy Greaves

[Casino]

Aye, but i wasnt...trying to keep it, i guess, greaves years

Though i did 18 months of mr armfield

[FrancisFogarty]

Casino is right. I only mentioned big Frank as an aside to my Ralph Wright comment but he wasn’t Roy’s era.

[passmosster]

Hugh Curran was a master tactician. We were winning 2-0 at Sheffield Wednesday and got a free kick just outside their area. He took it and kicked the ball out of the ground via a tunnel. He could kick a ball.

[RONNIE PHILLIPS]

14 hours ago, Casino said:

Others who spring to mind...siddall, mcdonagh, jones x 2, taylor, thommo, whatmore, waldron, morgan, train

Think theyre still with us?

Who am i missing...limiting it to players before promotion, say 75 onwards

 

14 hours ago, FrancisFogarty said:

Stuart Lee ?

Have we missed Reidy? 

[Mounts Kipper]

Just been reading some of the comments on the Bolton News website, brilliant read.

[Duck Egg]

6 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Just been reading some of the comments on the Bolton News website, brilliant read.

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/24513055.bolton-wanderers-legend-roy-greaves-dies-age-77/

👍 

[onefinfrandsen]

9 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Just been reading some of the comments on the Bolton News website, brilliant read.

Ditto, getting emotional reading and seeing those pictures, in front of a packed Burnden. I bet he could have walked to the ground being from Farnworth, and pulling on the white shirt he really was living the dream.

[Mounts Kipper]

18 minutes ago, onefinfrandsen said:

Ditto, getting emotional reading and seeing those pictures, in front of a packed Burnden. I bet he could have walked to the ground being from Farnworth, and pulling on the white shirt he really was living the dream.

No doubt he’d of walked down to Burnden as an apprentice, he showed incredible loyalty to BWFC if rumours are true about the likes of Liverpool showing interest in him, when he joined the club we were still one of the leading lights in British football, he was at the club as we tumbled down the leagues, stayed loyal and was part of the climb back to the top flight, he must of been incredibly proud to lead us back to the top flight, he must of felt the pain like we all did in the early 80s as we tumbled down the leagues again. Shame he never did an autobiography, I’d of loved to of read it. 

[Traf]

Roy was a pub landlord, a football coach, a business partner and a very good friend of mine over the last 35 years or so and I'll miss him. 

An absolute rock of a man, dead straight, you always knew where you stood with him and although the word gets bandied about far too often, Greavo was a true Bolton legend.

[onefinfrandsen]

6 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

No doubt he’d of walked down to Burnden as an apprentice, he showed incredible loyalty to BWFC if rumours are true about the likes of Liverpool showing interest in him, when he joined the club we were still one of the leading lights in British football, he was at the club as we tumbled down the leagues, stayed loyal and was part of the climb back to the top flight, he must of been incredibly proud to lead us back to the top flight, he must of felt the pain like we all did in the early 80s as we tumbled down the leagues again. Shame he never did an autobiography, I’d of loved to of read it. 

Remember spotting Sam Allardyce and Ronnie Phillips working with a group of groundsmen( there may have been other players in the group)in walkden park around the early to mid 70s. The days when players had summer jobs. Roy may have been one of them but he’s a few years older than big Sam.

[onefinfrandsen]

5 minutes ago, onefinfrandsen said:

Remember spotting Sam Allardyce and Ronnie Phillips working with a group of groundsmen( there may have been other players in the group)in walkden park around the early to mid 70s. The days when players had summer jobs. Roy may have been one of them but he’s a few years older than big Sam.

Think ready was one of them

[paulhanley]

12 hours ago, Duck Egg said:

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/24513055.bolton-wanderers-legend-roy-greaves-dies-age-77/

👍

It's not often I'll take the plunge in to reading the BN comments sections but I'm really glad I did this time. There's some proper memories there. Not often you'll get such consensus these days. Speaks volumes.