I’m sure a few of us in the 60+ age group will remember quite a lot of these squad players and youngsters from the 70’s especially.

To me as a youngster then, I expected them to make the grade with us but these choices pretty much flopped with us even if they played numbers of games at other clubs.

Ian Edwards

Derek Monaghan

David Rushbury

These were all lads I thought were going to be big when I was a kid.

Then in the 80’s,

Adrian Foster

Les Palmer (I see him at Lye Town matches watching his lad nowadays)

Steve Bull


In the 90’s,

Gary Piggott

Adam Oliver

And the ginger haired Bowen lad who scored a Worldy and was never heard of again.

Funny how random names of nonentity players stick in the memory!