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one nomination each please. loanees such as given are ineligble...

my vote goes for digby. so good i named my cat after him.

might as well lock this thread now.

Dont think theres much point in this for the keepers position is there?

There isnt anyone else worth mentioning in the same breath as Fraser in my time as a town fan.

Fraser Digby. No contest

brez, but he hasn't played 50 games...

Frank Talia?

Kenny Allen

Digby was better than Brez anyay

Nicky Hammond.

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Rhys Evans :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

easy one this one....next!

I would like to nominate this thread as having the most rhetorical question under the players section!

yeah, has to be digby.

Peter Downsborough was better than Digby.

was very well regarded from what i've heard reg.i didn't see him play though.

Fraser...but Downsborough should get a mention.

it's blatantly going to be fraser but i wanted to give the crusties like reg chance to reminisce ;)

One"crusty"vote for Peter Downsborough!

Ha Ha do people actually vote on these polls

 But the header calls for an all time XI, so you don't necessarily need to have seen them play.

   For me Donsborough was a better keeper, because he ddin't get protection from namby pamby challenges....didn't have gloves, played on mudheaps, with a fairly hard ball.

  All of which combined to give a higher range of skillls than just shot stopping.

Diggers please.

I loved the big postman Kenny Allen he was class!

But Downsborough, Digby and Jimmy Allan are the best for me.

We had a couple of international keepers in the 50's my dad tells me, a Scot who was not bad and Norman Uprichard a Northern Irish international who was very good too.

Downsborough has had a mention.  

Even my Mrs named her cat Fraser after Diggers, so Digby it is!!

i know what you mean. but people can only really comment on players that they have seen.

   For me a crustie, is a youthful person who lives in the countryside in shared accommodation......doesn't work,  and doesn't wash too often.

  But Pete Downsborough used to race pigeons.....which elevates him into the status of sporting all rounder.

But even Tracey Digby attained legend status after that fight she had, what about Mrs. Downsborough eh eh eh?

 My father used to regale me with tales of Sammy Burton....he also was a mate of Frank Boulton.   He took great pride in introducing me to Frank. "Son Frank saved a pen at Turf Moor in a 2-0 cup win....they finished 3rd in the league that season."

The scot may have been Frank Haffey who famously let in 9 against England at Wembley in 1963

 Can't have been Haffey, if he was supposedly not too bad....I recall him making a blinding save from a Frank Brogan pen in 64 on his first CG game v Ipswich.  Unfortunately like another Sweatie keeper Joke Findlay,  Frank liked the bottle.

Deliberate no further.

Bart Griemink.

Case closed.

Jimmy Allen for me- although bit of a problem on Sundays  :D

Although I have to say I liked Scott Endersby - saved an absolute blinder one year up at Carlisle in the FA Cup to earn us a 1-1 draw - then did them back here in the replay .... and that was when they were a pretty good side....

Fraser for me

I'd have to say Digby as well.

Jimmy Glass........


(Digby of course)

Whoops Scotty was fucking ace!

So small for a keeper..height wise but so acrobatic, the Carlisle away game was great, all the way up there on a wet winters saturday when they were in the old 2nd divison and we were in the 4th with about 600 town fans up there on the old special train....happy days....then turning them over in the replay at the CG!

I'd go for Downsborough as well

That's the trouble with internet polls, to many young 'uns on here !

From the ones I've seen I'd have to be boringly predictable and go for Digby.

Agree with Reg, Downsborough. Came back to Town years later with Bradford and won 1-0. He was unbelievable and the Town End chaired him off the pitch at the end even though we lost.

It was more fun the year we went from Div 3 to 2 when he played for Carlisle against us up there. I bet he remembers that one.

would have been jon sheffield it loans weren't ineligible, fraser it must be then

if we're talking loans then it has to be Shay Given, surely?

Or Tim Flowers ?

Wager we could make a decent 11 out of loan signings over the years.

No contest - Peter Downsborough ( another crustie vote...)

Has to be Fraser surely, he obtained legend status in his time here

Downsborough. Goalies don't know they're born nowadays......soft balls, (oh!), protection from charging forwards, good pitches, not much crowd violence.
Before him, Sam Burton, though not a great keeper, was adept at making sure that he would "accidentally" punch a rampaging CF instead of the ball, if threatened.   :)

it were all better in my day  :old:  :blahblahblah:

loans players are ineligble...

i'll close this and put up the poll this evening. i guess we can always have downsborough on the bench :--


p.s. the loan XI is a top idea. i'll do that too

Fraser Digby

And they didn't have big poncy gloves either.

:old: all this were just fields when i were a nipper :old:

Quiet, you young shaver.