Popular Post Fordy62 Posted October 15, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 15, 2021 Imagine being invited to a corporate event: WBA versus Birmingham City. Free food, free drinks, free everything! After dinner speaker, you wouldn’t believe it! Like meeting a hero. We reminisced about the hat trick he scored against Crewe in my first game at Ashton Gate and he said that he still looks out for our result. Id like to have asked a little more. But I was a little star struck! cheers all! 29 1 4 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Great stuff mate! It bl**dy annoys me though how Baggies fans, and their club, try to claim credit for developing Bobby Taylor into a top striker - they totally dismiss our club’s role in making him the player he was - and that still rankles ... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyy66 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 One of my favorite City Players. Turner and Taylor - Magic 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacker Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Whoever that bloke is,Fordy,he does indeed look proper chuffed at meeting a true legend.Nice to see he dressed up for the occasion too in his natty suit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 God is also a top bloke. He signed my programme when I bumped into him in the pavement at Notts County and took the time to exchange a few words with a star struck young ‘ thirty - something ‘. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The turtle Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Part of my original city side. As a child when Leaning, Newman, Taylor left, I found each one difficult to accept, or even understand. It's an awful feeling when your original super heroes move on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ship and Castle Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Robbie Turner turning up at training for our Sunday side, I said **** me Kelv have I had 1 to many flagons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Bob is from the very end of the era when players related to fans and vice versa. He is an absolute Baggies legend & one down here, too. Lumsden’s decision to sell him (to replace him with you know who!) was amongst the worst of the last 30 years (& there have been plenty of bad ones) on a par with not putting a sell on clause in the Andy Cole deal a few years earlier. Great to see him looking so well, it would be lovely to see him in BS3 when we face WBA. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew-T Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Just now, GrahamC said: Bob is from the very end of the era when players related to fans and vice versa. He is an absolute Baggies legend & one down here, too. Lumsden’s decision to sell him (to replace him with you know who!) was amongst the worst of the last 30 years (& there have been plenty of bad ones) on a par with not putting a sell on clause in the Andy Cole deal a few years earlier. Great to see him looking so well, it would be lovely to see him in BS3 when we face WBA. I’m sure he’ll be there at the Hawthorns next week too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 10 hours ago, Fordy62 said: Imagine being invited to a corporate event: WBA versus Birmingham City. Free food, free drinks, free everything! After dinner speaker, you wouldn’t believe it! Like meeting a hero. We reminisced about the hat trick he scored against Crewe in my first game at Ashton Gate and he said that he still looks out for our result. Id like to have asked a little more. But I was a little star struck! cheers all! Who is the old geezer in the checked shirt? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashton_fan Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 I still don't understand why he lost form after we got promoted to Div 2. At the time people thought maybe he was just a great Div 3 player and couldn't make the step up but he showed at WBA he was just as good at that level, we really missed out there somehow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordy62 Posted October 16, 2021 Author Share Posted October 16, 2021 44 minutes ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said: Who is the old geezer in the checked shirt? Dunno. But he’s got a sore head from the free booze! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 53 minutes ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said: Who is the old geezer in the checked shirt? assumed it was Bob Taylor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 1 hour ago, ashton_fan said: I still don't understand why he lost form after we got promoted to Div 2. At the time people thought maybe he was just a great Div 3 player and couldn't make the step up but he showed at WBA he was just as good at that level, we really missed out there somehow. Been covered before, he lost his Mum around that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Army 75 Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Met him a couple of years ago in the lions. Top man. In my top 3 all time city players Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archie andrews Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 11 hours ago, Fordy62 said: Imagine being invited to a corporate event: WBA versus Birmingham City. Free food, free drinks, free everything! After dinner speaker, you wouldn’t believe it! Like meeting a hero. We reminisced about the hat trick he scored against Crewe in my first game at Ashton Gate and he said that he still looks out for our result. Id like to have asked a little more. But I was a little star struck! cheers all! Is alastair stewart still reading the news? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 @Fordy62how come you didn’t take photos and put them on OTIB when you met me? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offside Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Just like how games can still bring back horrible emotions many years later (like in the worst away games thread), the memory of Bob Taylor being allowed to leave so cheaply still rankles. What a player he was, as he went on to show throughout his career. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuffle Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Got a daughter called Tayler….. said idea came from singer Taylor Dayne & Mrs bought it & liked the name. 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pride of the west Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Went up there for the fa cup few years back. First baggie I bumped into thanked me for giving them god so cheaply. Told him he owed us a pint. He duly got them. Good lad 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 9 minutes ago, Shuffle said: Got a daughter called Tayler….. said idea came from singer Taylor Dayne & Mrs bought it & liked the name. Gavin for a girl would’ve been odd! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppyDAZE Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 3 minutes ago, Davefevs said: Gavin for a girl would’ve been odd! Bob would have been ok though. So your name's "Bob" ? Mmm Hi, Bob! (in Rowan Atkinson voice) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshtonGreat Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Can't believe how much he's aged! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, Davefevs said: @Fordy62how come you didn’t take photos and put them on OTIB when you met me? The police frown on their officers publishing pictures of dangerous criminals under investigation on social media. Edited October 16, 2021 by Lanterne Rouge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingswood Robin Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 11 hours ago, GrahamC said: Bob is from the very end of the era when players related to fans and vice versa. He is an absolute Baggies legend & one down here, too. Lumsden’s decision to sell him (to replace him with you know who!) was amongst the worst of the last 30 years (& there have been plenty of bad ones) on a par with not putting a sell on clause in the Andy Cole deal a few years earlier. Great to see him looking so well, it would be lovely to see him in BS3 when we face WBA. Wouldn't have minded him on the pitch today, even at his current age. He knew it had to go under the horizontal bar and in between the 2 vertical ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engvall’s Splinter Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 As a kid I wrote “Superbob” multiple times on my bedroom curtains as a kid, in honour of my favourite player. I don’t remember having tea that night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Oil Services Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 On 16/10/2021 at 09:04, ashton_fan said: I still don't understand why he lost form after we got promoted to Div 2. At the time people thought maybe he was just a great Div 3 player and couldn't make the step up but he showed at WBA he was just as good at that level, we really missed out there somehow. On 16/10/2021 at 10:05, GrahamC said: Been covered before, he lost his Mum around that time. As Graham says, Bob's mother died that year, 1990, possibly over the summer but I can't be sure now of exactly when that year. Bob was 23 at the time. He also had a six month old child, his first child, at the point we sold him. I think he had a house in Worle (others will remember) but his child at this point was with its mother, in Newcastle. Why were mother and child in Newcastle, not in Worle? To be close to her mother/family? Don't know. Bob was commuting Bristol - Newcastle - Bristol at the start of that season. He has said before that he was doing this commute "every day," which can only have had a negative impact, you would think. Joe Jordan, who signed Bob, and turned his career around, left for Hearts. So, Bob, recently bereaved, working away from his partner and first child, commuting the length of the country, then sees his mentor leave the club and the mentor's assistant, Jimmy Lumsden, appointed. That's Jimmy Lumsden who had himself lost his teenage son about 12 to 18 months prior to the start of the 90/91 season. I think there's enough here, @ashton_fan, to understand why Bob's form dipped after a great start to 90/91, and in my view why Lumsden made the, as Graham also says elsewhere, terrible decision to sell him. Bob is also on record as saying that when Lumsden told him about West Brom's interest/offer, he didn't want to leave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppyDAZE Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 (edited) On 16/10/2021 at 14:58, AshtonGreat said: Can't believe how much he's aged! People tend to, after 30 YEARS Edited October 17, 2021 by AppyDAZE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshtonGreat Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 26 minutes ago, AppyDAZE said: People tend to, after 30 YEARS :laugh: yeah but he looks like he's in his 70s in that pic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh Louie louie Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 I recall him scoring a beauty at old Trafford for Bolton I think might have been WBA. Not as good as the overhead kick against brum mind you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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