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

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

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

No Brian O'Neil ?

That's a shame.

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

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.

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.

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.

Why is Jean Louis Valois not on the list?

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 ?

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

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

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.

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

No Steve Harper? List ruined.

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

No Joe Gallagher?

claretabroad wrote:No Steve Harper? List ruined.

His perm wouldn't fit on the wall.

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.

"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?

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.

Excuse my ignorance, Bob Kelly, Jack Yates.

"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"?

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.

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.

No Remco Van Der Schaaf? Disgusting.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

No me neither .. what was his role ?

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.

I wanted Jean-Louis Valois.

paulus the woodgnome wrote:No Joe Gallagher?

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

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.

Not one person has mentioned ooh George Oghani!

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.

SGr wrote:No Remco Van Der Schaaf? Disgusting.

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

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.

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.

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

Any chance of O Coyle ??

"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.

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...

Funkydrummer wrote:No Brian O'Neil ?

That's a shame.

No Dave Thomas either. Shame on them!

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.

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

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

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.