Player pictures around Turf Moor

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:03 pm

You may recall that last August, starting on the day we played Leeds, a vote was held to select the players fans wanted to see on the stand walls around the exterior of Turf Moor. The result of the vote was announced but ten months on, nothing has happened and, out of the blue, I've had an email about it today.

It's not been forgotten and it is hoped to have the first pics ready for the start of the season - there will be more news soon.

The players chosen were

George Beel
Tommy Boyle
Jerry Dawson
Bert Freeman
Bob Kelly
Jack Yates
Jimmy Adamson
John Connelly
Jimmy McIlroy
Brian Miller
Ray Pointer
Harry Potts
Frank Casper
Ralph Coates
Martin Dobson
Willie Irvine
Leighton James
Peter Noble
Ian Britton
David Eyres
Billy Hamilton
Gary Parkinson
Andy Payton
Trevor Steven
Graham Alexander
Robbie Blake
Michael Duff
Wade Elliott
Glen Little
Jay Rodriguez
Kieran Trippier

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:09 pm

Is this going to be similar to the wall of players already up leading to the Turf or is this a replacement?

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:10 pm

No Tommy Cummings. After he not only won the league but also helped hugely in resurrecting the club, after the Orient match.

Funkydrummer · Post by **Funkydrummer** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:12 pm

No Brian O'Neil ?

That's a shame.

randomclaret2 · Post by **randomclaret2** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:15 pm

Great stuff....look forward to it.j

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:17 pm

The list was published last August - they were the ones who the supporters voted for. That was the easy bit, it's been a lot more difficult progressing that but hopefully the plan will get the go ahead from the club next week.

Pickles · Post by **Pickles** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:17 pm

This should look really nice, even though Gnohere's been inexplicably left off the list. The exterior (and interior!) needs a bit of a sprucing up.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:27 pm

Great stuff. Is the Jimmy mc picture on the entrance to 'his' stand part of this?

We need to do more to attract people to the turf on and off match day.

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:31 pm

Why is Jean Louis Valois not on the list?

randomclaret2 · Post by **randomclaret2** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:33 pm

Agree that the exterior generally needs a good clean. The Lettering on the BL in particular is also looking very shabby. Not sure if that is going to be addressed Tony ?

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:34 pm

Hoping the club have been in touch with the guy that did the one of Dyche for something a bit different

CharlieinNewMexico · Post by **CharlieinNewMexico** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 6:02 pm

No Alan Stevenson? no room for my boyhood idol *sigh

nil_desperandum · Post by **nil_desperandum** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 6:51 pm

Given that this was decided last August, I think consideration should now be given to adding Tom Heaton to the list. He is now a Championship winning captain and our first full English International for 40 years. He has now eclipsed Trippier in my view - and I've nothing against Trippier.

BFC Gold · Post by **BFC Gold** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 6:58 pm

I agree with Tom Heaton being added but Alan Stevenson missing out surprises me. Ohhh Alan Alan.....

claretabroad · Post by **claretabroad** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:03 pm

No Steve Harper? List ruined.

nil_desperandum · Post by **nil_desperandum** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:04 pm

If we're adding keepers, you wouldn't seriously have Alan Stevenson up there ahead of Colin McDonald, or indeed Adam Blacklaw?

paulus the woodgnome · Post by **paulus the woodgnome** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:04 pm

No Joe Gallagher?

TheFamilyCat · Post by **TheFamilyCat** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:10 pm

claretabroad wrote:No Steve Harper? List ruined.

His perm wouldn't fit on the wall.

claretandy · Post by **claretandy** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:13 pm

Far too many players on that list that most fans would have never heard of never mind seen play. I hadn't even heard of some of them.

nil_desperandum · Post by **nil_desperandum** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:28 pm

"Far too many players on that list that most fans would have never heard of never mind seen play. I hadn't even heard of some of them"
Your point being?
Out of interest, of all those legendary players, which have you seriously not heard of?

DCWat · Post by **DCWat** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:37 pm

Players from each era, voted for by the fans. I've never seen McIlroy play but it doesn't mean I don't think he should be up there and I'm sure the same applies to those from earlier in our history.

claretandy · Post by **claretandy** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:38 pm

Excuse my ignorance, Bob Kelly, Jack Yates.

nil_desperandum · Post by **nil_desperandum** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:47 pm

"Excuse my ignorance, Bob Kelly, Jack Yates."
It's not difficult to do a little reading / research, but Bob Kelly, (a regular England international) was the most expensive English footballer of all time, at the time Burnley sold him to Sunderland. [So he was the Gareth Bale of his time - except for Bale being Welsh!!!!!!).
Without "googling" him, I'm less secure about Yates, but I know he scored a hat-trick for England and became the landlord at the Brickmaker's Arms.
Maybe you haven't heard of them all, but is 2 "far too many"?

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:56 pm

Yates was our first ever international.

Voting was done last August, there were thousands of Clarets who voted. We all have favourites who are not on the list, and mine is Brian O'Neil, but the vote was done fairly and the names above are the ones who will be placed outside the ground.

ChorltonCharlie · Post by **ChorltonCharlie** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 8:59 pm

It's good news, but to echo the sentiments of Wilks, I hope that the club are going to do something artistic rather than the stuff they put up around 7 years ago which just looks tacky.

SGr · Post by **SGr** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 11:56 pm

No Remco Van Der Schaaf? Disgusting.

Belial · Post by **Belial** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 12:23 am

I'd have voted for John Gayle but he wouldn't fit on the wall

Dressinggown · Post by **Dressinggown** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 12:29 am

An image of George Oghani doing his ironing ?

Photos of Peter Leebrook beating up Officers of the Law ?

A panorama of Ray Deakin with the ball going out of play ?

A lock of Tony Hancock's hair in a frame in the Gents ?

I think we're missing a trick or two here.

Acting Claret · Post by **Acting Claret** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 6:20 am

Dressinggown wrote:An image of George Oghani doing his ironing ?

Photos of Peter Leebrook beating up Officers of the Law ?

A panorama of Ray Deakin with the ball going out of play ?

A lock of Tony Hancock's hair in a frame in the Gents ?

I think we're missing a trick or two here.

Surely a pint of Tony Hancocks Blood?

mdd2 · Post by **mdd2** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 6:22 am

IanMcL wrote:No Tommy Cummings. After he not only won the league but also helped hugely in resurrecting the club, after the Orient match.

I was not aware that TC was involved with the club post Orient

OSC Burnley '55 · Post by **OSC Burnley '55** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 6:44 am

claretandy wrote:Far too many players on that list that most fans would have never heard of never mind seen play. I hadn't even heard of some of them.

All the more reason to remember them.

OSC Burnley '55 · Post by **OSC Burnley '55** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 6:45 am

mdd2 wrote:I was not aware that TC was involved with the club post Orient

No me neither .. what was his role ?

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:08 am

OSC Burnley '55 wrote:No me neither .. what was his role ?

Nor me - other than Tommy used to do the ground tours on match days once he'd retired from running his pub.

Dom · Post by **Dom** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:33 am

I wanted Jean-Louis Valois.

Sausage · Post by **Sausage** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:46 am

paulus the woodgnome wrote:No Joe Gallagher?

Joe Gallagher should be honoured with a statue with his left leg hewn from finest mahogany.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:48 am

Sausage wrote:Joe Gallagher should be honoured with a statue with his left leg hewn from finest mahogany.

The firs t time I saw Joe Gallagher was when the players arrived for the game against St. Mirren in the Isle of Man. He was limping quite badly so I assumed he'd picked up a knock in training and wouldn't be playing. I didn't know that he walked like that all the time.

burnley007 · Post by **burnley007** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:55 am

Not one person has mentioned ooh George Oghani!

Pickles · Post by **Pickles** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:56 am

claretandy wrote:Far too many players on that list that most fans would have never heard of never mind seen play. I hadn't even heard of some of them.

You'd be perfect working for Sky "Football invented in 92" Sports.

Down_Rover · Post by **Down_Rover** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:53 am

SGr wrote:No Remco Van Der Schaaf? Disgusting.

Would be nice just so that we can remember what he looks like

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 11:08 am

claretandy wrote:Far too many players on that list that most fans would have never heard of never mind seen play. I hadn't even heard of some of them.

It's a couple of the ones that you have heard of which shouldn't really be there.

It's been a vote though so no complaints.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 11:12 am

We didn't want to make the mistake the club have made in the past such as when they launched the Wall of Legends there was no one there pre-1960. It was always intended to reflect the history and that's what it has achieved.

I do find it surprising that people haven't heard of some of those selected given their contributions to our club.

Blackrod · Post by **Blackrod** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:01 pm

No more reminders of Tony Hancock please. I saw far too much of him.

7decades · Post by **7decades** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:35 pm

Any chance of O Coyle ??

nil_desperandum · Post by **nil_desperandum** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 3:18 pm

"Any chance of O Coyle ??"
If he completes Agent Kean's mission then I think a minor tribute to them both in the men's lavatories would be in order.

Rick_Muller · Post by **Rick_Muller** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 3:26 pm

nil_desperandum wrote:"Any chance of O Coyle ??"
If he completes Agent Kean's mission then I think a minor tribute to them both in the men's lavatories would be in order.

in the form of a printed face at the bottom of the urinal so we can pi$$ on the ba$tard below...

2510 · Post by **2510** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 5:57 pm

Funkydrummer wrote:No Brian O'Neil ?

That's a shame.

No Dave Thomas either. Shame on them!

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 6:03 pm

2510 wrote:No Dave Thomas either. Shame on them!

Them should include yourself - everyone was given the opportunity to vote so there is no shame whatsoever because the most popular have been selected.

1968claret · Post by **1968claret** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:01 pm

I hope that in the picture of Glen Little, they include an image of Chris Waddle kneeling at his feet with a pair of sandals

Frenchclaret · Post by **Frenchclaret** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 2:41 pm

No Tommy Cummings - the scorer of the greatest goal seen on Turf Moor> That's according to my dad and Tommy Cummings of course!

Silkyskills1 · Post by **Silkyskills1** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 3:11 pm

1968claret wrote:I hope that in the picture of Glen Little, they include an image of Chris Waddle kneeling at his feet with a pair of sandals

or more appropriately lacing up his boots with Glenn Roeder looking on in awe.