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Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 12:40 pm
by ClaretTony
Another of England’s World Cup team has passed away. Roger Hunt was 83.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:06 pm
by tiger76
RIP Roger a key member of that 66 squad.

And it was only a couple of days ago that Salah beat his record as the quickest Liverpool player to net 100 top flight goals.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:08 pm
by Bosscat
RIP Roger Hunt

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:30 pm
by Cirrus_Minor
Another top class striker of his age that we have lost. I do remember Hunt scoring against us at Turf Moor when Liverpool won 4-0 and 5-1 and used to dread them coming.

RIP Roger Hunt.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:31 pm
by Tribesmen
How many of the 1966 team are still alive ?

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:33 pm
by mkmel
Only Bobby Charlton,Geoff Hurst and George Cohen left of our 1966 World Cup winning team
RIP Roger

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:42 pm
by longsidetrumpet
mkmel wrote:
Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:33 pm
Only Bobby Charlton,Geoff Hurst and George Cohen left of our 1966 World Cup winning team
RIP Roger
What about the rest of the squad Mel?

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:44 pm
by ClaretTony
longsidetrumpet wrote:
Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:42 pm
What about the rest of the squad Mel?
Seven in total

George Cohan, Bobby Charlton and Geoff Hurst
Ian Callaghan, George Eastham, Ron Flowers and Terry Paine

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:45 pm
by longsidetrumpet
Ron Flowers, Terry Paine, Ian Callaghan, George Eastham, just checked

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:46 pm
by longsidetrumpet
Sorry tony quicker than me (but not on the pitch)

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:46 pm
by mkmel
I don't know about the rest of the squad apart from Jimmy Greaves who recently passed away. And wasn't John Connelly in the squad?

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:49 pm
by Ashingtonclaret46
One of my favourite non-Claret players who made the game look effortless because of his positional sense.
RIP Roger Hunt and thanks for the memories.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:51 pm
by ClaretTony
longsidetrumpet wrote:
Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:46 pm
Sorry tony quicker than me (but not on the pitch)
I only knew without looking it up because I'd done so recently when Jimmy Greaves died.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:55 pm
by JohnMac
Another great striker.

RIP Roger

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:56 pm
by Petersa
mkmel wrote:
Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:46 pm
I don't know about the rest of the squad apart from Jimmy Greaves who recently passed away. And wasn't John Connelly in the squad?
John played in the opener vs Uraguay. A dull 0.0 draw and never played for England again nor 1st Div football. He joined Rovers after the World Cup.

Used to pass Connellys Plaice a lot, just down the road from my Grandmothers in Brierfield.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 2:11 pm
by ClaretTony
Petersa wrote:
Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:56 pm
John played in the opener vs Uraguay. A dull 0.0 draw and never played for England again nor 1st Div football. He joined Rovers after the World Cup.

Used to pass Connellys Plaice a lot, just down the road from my Grandmothers in Brierfield.
We tried to buy Connelly back but he turned us down and went to Blackburn

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 3:06 pm
by lakedistrictclaret
ClaretTony wrote:
Tue Sep 28, 2021 2:11 pm
We tried to buy Connelly back but he turned us down and went to Blackburn
A decision which he, reportedly, came to regret.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 3:08 pm
by ClaretTony
lakedistrictclaret wrote:
Tue Sep 28, 2021 3:06 pm
A decision which he, reportedly, came to regret.
I'm not surprised given where he went. :D

He said at the time that he didn't think it was the best thing to do to go back.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 3:33 pm
by elwaclaret
mkmel wrote:
Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:46 pm
I don't know about the rest of the squad apart from Jimmy Greaves who recently passed away. And wasn't John Connelly in the squad?
John Connelly certainly was in the final squad… he used to tell how he spent the entire final on the bench holding Nobby Styles false teeth.. Nobby he thought wanted to commiserate that he had only made the bench, but instead he pushed his teeth into the palm of his hand… with no where to put them John Kept them the whole first half in his hand.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 7:18 pm
by conyoviejo
Back on track now with this thread.

R.I.P. Roger Hunt,a really good player who was always a pleasure to watch.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 7:26 pm
by bfcjg
RIP

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 7:55 pm
by Peter Loo
Certainly one of the players over the years that epitomise the saying “in the right place at the right time”.

No airs or graces about him either he just knew were the net was.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 8:07 pm
by ClaretTony
ClaretTony wrote:
Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:44 pm
Seven in total

George Cohan, Bobby Charlton and Geoff Hurst
Ian Callaghan, George Eastham, Ron Flowers and Terry Paine
Out of interest I checked the Germans and they still have eight of their team still with us and sixteen of the squad.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 8:09 pm
by Uwe Noble
Saw him late on in his career at t'Turf playing for Bolton about 1977. Very impressive, even then, out wide on the right.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 8:15 pm
by karatekid
ClaretTony wrote:
Tue Sep 28, 2021 8:07 pm
Out of interest I checked the Germans and they still have eight of their team still with us and sixteen of the squad.
I wonder if the German squad had a much younger average age than England.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 8:20 pm
by ClaretTony
karatekid wrote:
Tue Sep 28, 2021 8:15 pm
I wonder if the German squad had a much younger average age than England.
I think they might have had but I was still surprised only six have passed away including Hans Tilkowski, Helmut Haller & Lothar Emmerich who played in the final.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 8:29 pm
by Sarum
In 1957 Roger Hunt, whilst stationed at Larkhill Army Camp on Salisbury Plain, played for my local side Shrewton Utd (who also happen to play in claret and blue).

A few years later future England forward Mick Channon, a local lad, played for Shrewton Utd too, before joining Southampton.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 9:35 pm
by beddie
A privilege to see him play. RIP Roger.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 10:10 pm
by IanMcL
Another loss to our unique football squad.

Had a very good world Cup.
Thank you Mr Hunt.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 11:47 pm
by FCBurnley
Top quality player RIP.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 12:38 am
by BillyIngham'sShorts
Its time to tell my Roger Hunt story. In around 1998, I was a youngish solicitor working for a big law firm in North West and we had our annual golf day for clients at Sandiway golf club Cheshire. I turned up a bit late for a pre match buffet lunch with a client and joined a table full of solicitors I knew, and who were with their respective clients. One of my partners said to the table (looking at me , "Billy") : "well Billy used to play football to a decent standard , didn't you Billy" , beckoning me to regale them with my impressive history, so before I had as much as swig of my half a bitter...I reckoned I was coming in on the back end of a conversation that seemed to centre around the chap (a client) to the right of me about 60 who I didn't recognise... I told the table about how I had been on school boy forms , and played a few games as semi pro in my youth before playing London Amateur League from age 20 onwards, and the said guy to my right kept chipping in with questions like, "where in London" and "what position", so after a few minutes, one of the solicitors said "Roger played a bit aswell" nodding to the said guy, to which I said, "really, who did you play for?" . And you all now know the answer : Liverpool and England. Roger was selling his haulage firm and had used us to do the sale. I felt a ****.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:01 pm
by rufus lumley
The Livepool fans knighted him when the honours system only gave him a MBE.

Re: Roger Hunt RIP

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:55 pm
by Buxtonclaret
Another of the great players from my earlier years leaves us.
R.I.P Roger.