You're top five favourite 'glovesmen' - there I've said it!

[grecIAN Harris]

Re: You're top five favorite 'glovesmen' - there I've said it!

Was'nt he the guy in the late 80's/early 90's who we signed from Bideford Town on a emergency, I kind of remember that he came to us as our 1st 2nd and 3rd choice keepers were all injuried!! Am I right?

Yes, we signed him from Bideford. Did we get him in some kind of emergency? Not that I can remember but couldn't say that for certain.

 

[budegrecian]

Re: You're top five favorite 'glovesmen' - there I've said it!

Yes, we signed him from Bideford. Did we get him in some kind of emergency? Not that I can remember but couldn't say that for certain.

I don't remember him as being signed as an emergency. From memory, which I wouldn't rely on, he was signed at the start of our promotion season & played very well before being ousted, during the season, by a young Kevin Miller.
I know he played at Torrington & Bideford, but I thought we signed him from Yeovil. As I say, my memory may not be that reliable.....
He eventually returned to his roots to play for Putford, where I played against him in the North Devon Premier Lge.

 

[LOG]

http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/Walter-bridged-Devon-divide/story-13742628-detail/story.html#axzz2VvZ7dZvF

 

[grecIAN Harris]

Re: You're top five favorite 'glovesmen' - there I've said it!

I don't remember him as being signed as an emergency. From memory, which I wouldn't rely on, he was signed at the start of our promotion season & played very well before being ousted, during the season, by a young Kevin Miller.
I know he played at Torrington & Bideford, but I thought we signed him from Yeovil. As I say, my memory may not be that reliable.....
He eventually returned to his roots to play for Putford, where I played against him in the North Devon Premier Lge.

You and me both.

 

[budegrecian]

http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/Walter-bridged-Devon-divide/story-13742628-detail/story.html#axzz2VvZ7dZvF

Thanks Log, the memory is obviously better than I thought.

 

[Benguin]

Miller (Goes without saying)
Bond (my era)
Artur (agree with others, real strength to battle the boo boys and begin to prove them wrong)
Hamer ( will make it, had bags of confidence and ability to back it up)
O keefe (Bit of a character, fell like a felled tree into his own net while playing for Wrexham,resolutely clinging onto the ball!)

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

Re: You're top five favorite 'glovesmen' - there I've said it!

Was'nt he the guy in the late 80's/early 90's who we signed from Bideford Town on a emergency, I kind of remember that he came to us as our 1st 2nd and 3rd choice keepers were all injuried!! Am I right?

Terry Cooper signed Dave Walter around Nov 1988...He wanted to replace Mel Gwinnet.I recall when he came onto the away terrace at Hartlepool,saying that he would have a new keeper in place by the next week,which he did.Walter played in the next game at home to Colchester...Gwinnett did not feature for the Grecians again.

Walter has the rare distinction of playing in goal for all 3 Devon FL league teams

 

[Hants_red]

Bob Wilson
Key and Waugh for our promotion season
Kev Miller

 

[ECFC Music]

Re: You're top five favorite 'glovesmen' - there I've said it!

George Hunter was so far ahead of the rest that it is difficult to form any other comparisons. How the heck he didn't play for Scotland , even when he was with us, I'll never know (particularly when you think of Scottish goalkeepers!)

Go along with that.I remember him in an old 3rd Div South match outshining Reg Matthews of Coventry when he was choosen as the England keeper.

 

[budegrecian]

Bob Wilson
Key and Waugh for our promotion season
Kev Miller

I thought it was Baugh. John Baugh; came from St Lukes College when Key got injured IIRC.