FGR Heroes

Taken from “Something to Shout About, The History of Forest Green Rovers AFC”
Tempus publishing Ltd  ISBN 0-7524-4072-1, RRP £15-99

Overview :: Honours :: Legends :: Heroes :: Past Managers :: Ask Lady Magpie

How do you compare a hero of yester-year with a hero today?

Well you cant, but without those who have worn the colours in previous decades, the club would not be where it is and what it is today.

Rovers started life in the lower leagues but have regularly had players in the County team (a bigger honour in years gone by than it is today).

Occasionally over the years, players have gone straight from Forest Green Rovers into the Football League.

A J Lampard, the Rovers goalkeeper, moved to Bournemouth and Boscombe in 1929 as the first recorded player to make the leap, and Kayode Odejayi is the most recent in 2003.

Other notable examples include David Dangerfield in 1969, (to Swindon and eventually Charlton Athletic), and “Jack Brock, another goalkeeper who made the first team grade in the Swindon team in 1936.

Looking back over what is now nearly 120 years of existence, the club have moved on with the help of players who can be looked on as heroes, helping to forge the Club’s history.

Please also look at the Legends section elsewhere on this website.

1889-1899 - The Brinkworth Boys
1900-1914 - Walter Brown and Bob Ramsey
1919-1929 - The Brown Brothers and "Paper" Beale
1930-1939 - Jack Brock, The Vick Brothers and the Peacheys
The 1940s - Basil Newport, John Pearson and Marshall Woodward
The 1950s - Jim Turk, Wesley Stokes and Ray "Raggy" Bingle
The 1960s - John Duff, Peter Goring and Roger Vanstone
The 1970s - Brian Coates, John Evans, Andy Bish, Derroll Loveday and Mike Bruton
The 1980s - Bob Murcell and the VASE winning team, Andy Leitch, Kenny Norman and Steve Doughty
The 1990s - Russell Wilton, Rob Cook, Alex Sykes, Mike Kilgour and Gary Smart
The 2000s - Steve Perrin, Alex Meechan and Jim Harvey