Wayne Biggins

Mala591 · Post by **Mala591** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:34 pm

Bit of a Marmite player but I liked him. I remember sitting three rows behind his greatest critic and three rows in front of his mum and girlfriend.

'...Biggins you useless *******...'

'...leave him alone he's doing his best...'

and so the critique continued for 90 minutes much to the amusement and entertainment of all within hearing distance

in fact it was usually more entertaining than the actual game!

...happy days...

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:40 pm

The fact that he was brought in to replace Kevin Reeves didn't help but he did a decent job for us and went on to better things.

thatdberight · Post by **thatdberight** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:53 pm

Mala591 wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:34 pm
Bit of a Marmite player but I liked him. I remember sitting three rows behind his greatest critic and three rows in front of his mum and girlfriend.

'...Biggins you useless *******...'

'...leave him alone he's doing his best...'

Bit harsh when your mum's saying that about you.

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:01 pm

Better than Christopher Biggins.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:11 pm

37 goals in 94 games for us - not bad for a young player who had come out of non league at Matlock

Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:13 pm

Remember seeing him play for Matlock against Buxton (our Derby) , before he started his league career. Did a good job for us. Made a good go of playing football.
Ended his career here at Buxton. Think he might have been coaching Buxton too. Before a certain Nicky Law became Bucks manager.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:18 pm

Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:13 pm
Remember seeing him play for Matlock against Buxton (our Derby) , before he started his league career. Did a good job for us. Made a good go of playing football.
Ended his career here at Buxton. Think he might have been coaching Buxton too. Before a certain Nicky Law became Bucks manager.

He did coach at Buxton at one time

Woodleyclaret · Post by **Woodleyclaret** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:19 pm

He played for us v Gills away and ran one young Steve Bruce the Gills cb ragged as we had a rare win at the Priestfield

Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:26 pm

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:18 pm
He did coach at Buxton at one time

Thought he did. Buxton had sunk down the leagues at the time. Sure he left when Law became manager.
Presume Law is still with us? Never seem to hear about him.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:29 pm

Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:26 pm
Presume Law is still with us? Never seem to hear about him.

Not seen him for a while but I think he is. They've removed the academy staff from the club website recently although that was of no use, there were people on the list who have been gone well over two years.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:30 pm

Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:19 pm
He played for us v Gills away and ran one young Steve Bruce the Gills cb ragged as we had a rare win at the Priestfield

He did - think he might have scored that day in a 1-0 win.

dougcollins · Post by **dougcollins** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:31 pm

Stoke could have done with him tonight.

fatboy47 · Post by **fatboy47** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:34 pm

Biggins, Grewcock and Hampton.

Has a ring to it for the front 3.

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Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:34 pm

dougcollins wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:31 pm
Stoke could have done with him tonight.

Been watching. Sad to see Sam struggling in a toothless side.

Tricky Trevor · Post by **Tricky Trevor** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 10:10 pm

My eldests first Claret hero. Might have had more to do with his looks than his football but he did bag regularly for us.

mdd2 · Post by **mdd2** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 10:13 pm

He played at the highest level eventually didn't he? First Division with Norwich?

Herts Clarets · Post by **Herts Clarets** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 11:13 pm

More than decent for us. From memory we lost him, Hird and Alan Taylor and it went downhill at a rate of knots after that.

Wokingclaret · Post by **Wokingclaret** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 11:17 pm

He started slowly but got stronger the more he played, was lucky to have Grewcock and Tommy Hutch to provide for him. We should have all grown stronger but Burnley appointed Benson after Bond and we got relegated to the 4th Division with a very good squad on paper.

HB Claret · Post by **HB Claret** » Sat Feb 01, 2020 8:15 am

Wins at Gillingham were very rare and a good performance even more so - when we moved to Kent the Gillingham games were our “home games”

groove · Post by **groove** » Sat Feb 01, 2020 8:31 am

fatboy47 wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:34 pm
Biggins, Grewcock and Hampton.

Has a ring to it for the front 3.

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steve1264b · Post by **steve1264b** » Sat Feb 01, 2020 11:20 am

Always wonder what ex players are doing. Has his own pallet company in Sheffield according to linkedin.

Bumped into him after a game at Lincoln, we stayed over and he was out with friends.

He seemed a decent lad and happy to chat.

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Sat Feb 01, 2020 11:26 am

As mentioned above, I THINK he was bumming around in non league having not "made it" when we saw him and took a punt. He was more than decent at the level we were at and moved on to better things. Clearly something of a late developer and if I remember rightly David Eyres was very much the same.

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