New targets?

I seem to remember Mike Newelll doing something similar in a Conference Boxing Day game against Scarborough when a grey-haired fan stood against the perimiter wall criticised him for 'playing like an old man'. He was playing as though he wasn't fit but didn't take kindly to being told!

I can still remember vividly "Yogi " Broadbent pulling someone over the wall into the Rovers tunnel at Belle Vue.

The fan was telling Albert that he,
( Albert) had been crap. Albert dragged him down and said, " I don't need you to tell me that, but if you can tell me where I was bad so I can get better, I'll listen. Not surprisingly the fan said nothing more and walked away with his tail between his legs.

Another "Yogi" incident involved myself. It was the Rovers players do at the Ridgewood in Edenthorpe, where I worked part-time, as I worked for Sam Smith's during the day.

The Rovers lost in the Cup on the Saturday when Fred Potter, who lived in a club house in Edenthorpe, let a shot go between his legs. Fred was a regular in the offy for crisps and pop for his kids.

Anyway, he and Yogi came in together and Fred ordered the drinks. I replied that after Saturday he didn't deserve any drinks, at which point Yogi dragged me over ther bar.

Fred then intervened, telling Yogi that I was friend of his and was only joking. At that, Albert picked me up, dusted me off and let me get behind the bar to serve the drinks.

Took things personally did our Albert "Yogi" Broadbent, but then again, would you expect anything else from the professional he was?

Alex.
My dad told me that about Harry, it may have been on the occasion when Donny were playing Liverpool (Not that those saints do owt wrong) Someone threw a knife at him which stuck in the ground near to him. My dad told me that one as he would have been there. MY DAD HAS GOT A LOT TO ANSWER FOR, I CAN TELL YOU. He always told me mam that all I did all game was run up and down the steps with other kids. Maybe one could have been John Ryan 1956 it was. I've no money so don't know where I went wrong cos I certainly like ladies upper parts and below their knecks as well Yankee (before you start).

Referring back to DBA's news re Mills - IF we could afford to bring him in on loan and IF he would like to help us out and IF we could play ionly alongside him - would that not be like having Syd Bycroft AND Charlie Willams in Central defence? Then I'd be confident that nothing would get within 25 yards of our goal and we WOULD survive in the Championship! Got to be worth a punt? £20k per week plus 5 lollipops and we take it in turns to carry the stretchers?
Whilst I'm at it, I'm just watching the Yorkshire Tea advert where they imply that the US doesn't understand the concept of a good cuppa - so NY, in return for fantastic tea on tap (plus the occasional pint), any chance that you'd come back to Donny on loan to the end of the season to develop the Commercial Team and double our commercial income? and Micky, maybe you could come back for a while to supply us with high quality alcohol and help us celebrate our survival?

Would love to Crazy, but it would cost more than ionly's 5 lollipops. Even then I think he is a bit on the dear side.

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Crazy:
Here in Portland we can get Taylor's Yorkshire plus more main stream ones such as Tetley and PG Tips, so there must be some who understand tea. Unfortunately we have all these "infusions" that are called tea.

However, I buy most of my Brit items (mainly Branston Pickle) in bulk on-line.

The best I've heard about Americans not understanding tea was about tourists in England buying a Devonshire Cream tea and putting the cream in the tea!

RTID

The other thing Mickey is when Americans think that Yorkshire pudding is a dessert.

NY, Micky, you need to come home for a while. You need Donny and it needs you!

Re ionly, if he can stay on the pitch for 75 minutes and keep everything away from the goal during the time he is on the pitch then 5 lollipops is small beer. The critical issue will be that DS must substitiue him before he gets sent off, perhaps replacing him with Beye.

Micky, I went to DGS and left in 1982. The school didn't play football but I had a colleague in the cricket team called Simon who I think has the same surname as you. He opened the bowling and his major claim to fame was hitting a teacher in the googlies during a school 1st XI .v. teachers match. Is Simon a relative of yours by any chance?

Crazy:
Not my family - except for my late mother, all the Beard side of my family were out of Doncaster by the mid-1970s. However I have plenty of resident Rovers fans on my wife's (Baker) side - nephews, great nephew and great niece. The last plays for the Belles Under 10s. I love Simon's claim to fame.
We should be back for a visit in 2013. Unfortunately, because of my wife's teaching, visits tend to be outside the football season. Maybe this time we can make the beginning of the season.

NY:
I well remember for Sunday lunch at my Grandmother's in Wath, Yorkshire Pudding and Gravy was always the first course. You had to wait for the roast beef.