Nicky Hammond

[Arriba]

The Watford game i was on about i'm sure was a league cup game at the county ground. Hammond booted the ball straight to their player after about a minutes play and we went 1-0 down. Dunno if there is any footage available of it?

[Ironside]

He went to Plymouth. I used to do busniess with a large insurer down there and their MD was a mad keen Argyle fan. He asked me what I thought of NH, i said he was absolute shite and anything in the air will put the defence in trouble. On his debut he punched a corner into his own net and it didn;t get any better.

Haha true, maybe I have rose coloured spectacles for those days and those players then.

[chalkies_shorts]

The Watford game i was on about i'm sure was a league cup game at the county ground. Hammond booted the ball straight to their player after about a minutes play and we went 1-0 down. Dunno if there is any footage available of it?

wasn't that Palace and their keeper returned the favour.

[Arriba]

wasn't that Palace and their keeper returned the favour.

Nah it was deffo Watford.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

The Watford game i was on about i'm sure was a league cup game at the county ground. Hammond booted the ball straight to their player after about a minutes play and we went 1-0 down. Dunno if there is any footage available of it?

It was posted earlier. It was what got the whole 'Flapper Hammond' discussion going:

He also did this against Watford in 87, not as bad as the above two though....

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

HAHA! That just about sums up Dave Bamber as well - Only just noticed that 

[Ironside]

It was posted earlier. It was what got the whole 'Flapper Hammond' discussion going:

Hehehe, I still like him if only because of teh era that he was a part of.

[Arriba]

Doh. What a nob i am. Didn't see it mentioned in another thread. Yeah that was the match

[skin_im_buzzer]

I always thought of Digby as the consistent, safe if unspectacular keeper.

Hammond was spectacular - sometimes spectacularly amazing, sometimes spectacularly awful. When the backpass rule was brought in, his confidence took a bit of a beating and he seemed to suffer.

Top fella though. I went to an Ossie Ardiles week-long soccer school (at the time I played left-back or left-mid), but Ossie couldn't make it that week. Nicky Hammond took the goalkeeper coaching separately from the rest of the other coaches & players. So I put my hand up and said I was a keeper, just so I could get to train with Nicky for the week.

He was a top fella and I learnt loads and became quite a decent keeper (for about a year) and then went back to playing left-back & left-mid averagely.

The end.