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Another blast from the past. RIP Bobby. I think I remember him playing for Dale in a game v Leeds at Spotland. My first visit to the main stand, I think my Dad deemed the Sandy as a bit risky with Leeds's reputation. Hoy clenched his fist to the fans when he came off at half time, think we were drawing at that point.
On checking it could have been one of the (five) Bobbys we had at the time, Scaife or Scott??
Think the OP was referring to his time at Halifax?
A player who started my love affair with this club, alongside the likes of Bob Mountford, Tony Whelan and Paul Hallows etc. My abiding memory is sitting in the wooden main stand at Barnsley and watching him and Terry Owen destroy that Barnsley team in front of over 10,000 fans. It was a surreal game and obviously the season of the great escape. Later I saw Bobby performing his act at Littleborough Trades Hall Club and he was warmly applauded. Hoy was one of the best wingers we have seen at the club, he made attending games at Spotland worthwhile because he was a entertainer. RIP Bobby Hoy.
Brilliant player for Dale I remember from a throwing the ball bouncing behind him he flicked it with his heal over his own head and the defender, would be shown on tv over and over again these days. Then he used to do the Country and Western night at the Kingsway Hotel. Him and Terry Owen were worth the entrance money alone. If only we had them now we would certainly be in the play offs.
Was it Doug Collins who tried to get rid of him, he was probably one of a couple of decent players we had at the time. Its a long time ago so the old memory is not what it was. Something to do with discipline at an away game where they stayed overnight Bobby had his guitar and was playing it , somehow Collins got upset and came out with some excuse to try and get rid of him. Bobby and his sister ended up singing on a news / sports programme on Granada . after the incident .
I think it might have been Brian Green or Mike Ferguson who signed him, not sure which. Maybe TVOS might know. I vaguely remember the story about him playing his guitar at an away game.
There was an old fellow, did various odd bits of jobs on match days, including putting the club flag up at the Pearl St/ Willbutts corner and taking it down after the game in the sixties and seventies. Cant remember his name but always wore a white coat (like a lab coat) and he always went on to me about the players in the twenties (to be fair it was a great era for the club).
As you say, to me in my early teens it seemed like the land before time.
Great point. We didn’t mix in these circles but there could well have been old men sat in the Main Stand complaining that Tony Buck wasn’t a patch on Albert Whitehurst. When you think about it Bob Stokoe played for Newcastle in the early 1950’s so he could have been in the same dressing room as people who had played 20 years previously. I remember in the 1960’s the groundsman was Joe Duff (who actually lived in a house on Pearl Street) and he used to tell plenty of stories about football at Dale in the late 1930’s.
Joe still had his Geordie accent. Dale signed him from Newcastle but he was originally from Ashington and he used to say that when Bobby and/or Jack Charlton used to come over to see Uncle Stan that they used to pop in for a brew with him. Great character.
I'm with you on that. I didn't see the final, but that was the year/season that I started watching Dale regularly. Some great memories of some great players.
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