Should the Number 9 shirt be retired for good?

[kellow's Cornflakes]

About 80% against, which is fair enough and me sitting on the fence....

 

[richard_portland]

Didnt realise Tony was a plymouth player as well?!

wonder if anyone who remembers from the time knows if there was much uproar when tony went to plymouth, he only played a short while and came back and rivalry was possibly different in the 80's but can only imagine exeweb today if something similar happened.

echo the thoughts of many here that 9 years is enough for number 9 but something should be done as tribute to kellow.

 

[Grecian_in_Plymouth]

no ---- pointless gesture

 

[grecIAN Harris]

I don't think for one second that Kells would want it retired. He was proper old school and the Number 9 shirt is still an integral part of any side.

 

[budegrecian]

wonder if anyone who remembers from the time knows if there was much uproar when tony went to plymouth, he only played a short while and came back and rivalry was possibly different in the 80's but can only imagine exeweb today if something similar happened.

echo the thoughts of many here that 9 years is enough for number 9 but something should be done as tribute to kellow.

Dissappointing as it was, there wasn't the uproar then as there simply weren't the all the communication channels available that there are today. Also it was much more common for players to switch between the three local clubs, in that era.
However, the rivalry was just as great but IIRC we had certainly had the best out the King by then & he wasn't featuring regularly in the side. One of his two goals for 'them' was against us.
He went down there as Johnny Hore his great mate was manager, but he did the decent thing & came back to us for a final hurrah.

 

[Grecian2K]

Either way, that "Number 9" is going to be a very heavy shirt to wear when it returns.

So bring it back in due course - but make sure that it goes to TRULY WORTHY successors?