Quote from: Deano's Mullet on April 15, 2020, 06:40:24 PMQuote from: Villan82 on April 15, 2020, 05:31:48 PMI enjoyed that Villa v Utd clip. Thank you.I cannot now remember, did Yorke immediately become our top striker after Little came in? BFR favoured Atkinson and Saunders to the end. Yorke probably should have been the star striker earlier than he was (based on that clip!)I think the first few games of 94/95 showed Ron's preference was for Fashanu and Saunders. I remember Andy Gray saying after a couple of games that it certainly made a difference to Saunders' game having a big man up front to win the aerial battles. Then Fashanu got injured around the time of the away leg with Inter and Dalian/Whittifngham/Fenton/Yorke all interchanged as Saunders' partner up until Ron was sacked. Lamptey made the odd cameo too.Wasn't Fashanu about 33 at that point? I just thought he came as back up rather than regular first choice. Bit like if Grant Holt had come in and regularly started when we loaned him in that January.
Quote from: Villan82 on April 15, 2020, 05:31:48 PMI enjoyed that Villa v Utd clip. Thank you.I cannot now remember, did Yorke immediately become our top striker after Little came in? BFR favoured Atkinson and Saunders to the end. Yorke probably should have been the star striker earlier than he was (based on that clip!)I think the first few games of 94/95 showed Ron's preference was for Fashanu and Saunders. I remember Andy Gray saying after a couple of games that it certainly made a difference to Saunders' game having a big man up front to win the aerial battles. Then Fashanu got injured around the time of the away leg with Inter and Dalian/Whittifngham/Fenton/Yorke all interchanged as Saunders' partner up until Ron was sacked. Lamptey made the odd cameo too.
I enjoyed that Villa v Utd clip. Thank you.I cannot now remember, did Yorke immediately become our top striker after Little came in? BFR favoured Atkinson and Saunders to the end. Yorke probably should have been the star striker earlier than he was (based on that clip!)
I was pleased when we signed Fashanu as I had always thought he was a decent and rather underrated striker and certainly a physical presence. I think his goals record was decent too. I think the problem was that he had already had different irons in different fires by that point in his football career. He had an office in London from where he ran a football agency (hence the first contact with BFR when Fashanu was trying to bring Nigerian players over into the Premier League) and had also started doing TV work.
Didnt we sign Whittingham that summer too? Then played him as a winger?
Wasn't it tough guy Ryan Giggs that did him at OT? I cant remember for sure, even though I was there!
Quote from: CT on April 16, 2020, 05:23:33 PMWasn't it tough guy Ryan Giggs that did him at OT? I cant remember for sure, even though I was there!It was. My claim to fame was that I was on Match Of The Day that evening - for some reason the cameras panned right in in on me while I was clapping as Fashanu was carried off after Giggs had "done him". I had no idea until i got home and found loads of messages on my answerphone (one of those old machines with a tape recorder fitted to capture messages). Good job I'd recorded MOTD ( on one of those old video machines).
Quote from: SoccerHQ on April 16, 2020, 01:41:46 PMQuote from: Deano's Mullet on April 15, 2020, 06:40:24 PMQuote from: Villan82 on April 15, 2020, 05:31:48 PMI enjoyed that Villa v Utd clip. Thank you.I cannot now remember, did Yorke immediately become our top striker after Little came in? BFR favoured Atkinson and Saunders to the end. Yorke probably should have been the star striker earlier than he was (based on that clip!)I think the first few games of 94/95 showed Ron's preference was for Fashanu and Saunders. I remember Andy Gray saying after a couple of games that it certainly made a difference to Saunders' game having a big man up front to win the aerial battles. Then Fashanu got injured around the time of the away leg with Inter and Dalian/Whittifngham/Fenton/Yorke all interchanged as Saunders' partner up until Ron was sacked. Lamptey made the odd cameo too.Wasn't Fashanu about 33 at that point? I just thought he came as back up rather than regular first choice. Bit like if Grant Holt had come in and regularly started when we loaned him in that January.Fashanu started the first five games or so of the season while Dalian was a sub so i am guessing he was either 1st choice or that Ron hoped this was spur Dalian on. It literally took an injury to Fashanu for Dalian to start games again. Fashanu's age was nothing surprising really as a fair few of the team were over thirty.