Pretty sure it is Tagg. Early in the season we got a couple of short term injuries and went up to derby who were reigning champions. Tagg and Ron Abbott played as centre backs that day. We all thought rangers would lose...but they went up there and won 5-1. Headline on the front of the Saturday night standard was QPR BEAT CHAMPS 5-1. All great stuff.
I thought Mculloch came in around 69/70? He was a hard worker but not that good at all. Not sure he played under Jago let alone sexton.
Greatest team I 've seen at rangers, pure around skill, just a shame we didn't win the league that year, I'll never forget the Norwich game away, was there & a disaster & that's why I hate them, bogey side to us,
Sorry is all I can say I was there too. Was a great Rangers side who I admired greatly. Letting the Scousers in was a travesty, but you always want your team to win, what can I say. If you hate us because of that, so be it. I prefer to remember your lot as a great side of that vintage, that's the only memory I hold.
I've just looked through the programmes from 75-76 and the photo appeared in the last one vs Liverpool, underneath it says : Back row Don Rogers, John Beck, Don Givens, Tommy Cunningham, Keith Pritchett, Danny Westwood, Dave Thomas Middle Row, Stan Bowles, Don Shanks, Martin Busby, Richard Teale, Phil Parkes, Ron Abbott, Mick Leach, Ian Gillard Front Row Dave Webb, Frank McLintock MBE, Dave Clement, Gerry Francis, John Hollins, Don Masson One of the amazing things about that season was the number of friendlies we played!
Nice post ncg..... I was there that day as well, it was a hell of a game, still think Boyer was offside for the 3rd goal but there you go, can't change anything now. Norwich were a decent side with McDougall and Boyer up front, didn't you have Martin Peters playing at that time as well plus you had the keeper Keenan or Keelan who always seemed to play a blinder against us...... Just recall the R's having huge support that day, helped to make a cracking atmosphere.
Don't remember Cunningham at all.....Pritchett that was him, I think i called him Pritchard in an earlier post. The only thing i remember about Westwood was the goal he scored on boxing day against Leicester when Parkes had a goal disallowed kicking down wind in a gale for offside on the half way lin. He then became the main attacking source and westwood scored when a punt landed in their penalty area and he beat the keeper to the ball......
From the programme from the Leeds match : Appearances (league and cup) (goals) up to 19th April : Abbott 7 Beck 5 Bowles 42 (11) Busby 1 Clement 45 (2) Francis 41 (12) Gillard 45 Givens 46 (13 Hollins 33 (1) Leach 37 (6) Masson 47 (9) McLintock 40 (2) Nutt 3 91) parkes 47 Shanks 2 Tagg 4 Thomas 45 (10) Webb 43 (6)
I was there too Jeff. Went up on the train with two of my mates. Poxy ground. Had to walk up some steep steps and to the entrance at the top of the terracing. The doors were like sliding steel shutters. The terracing was rammed full, so rammed that we ended up climbing over the wall at the front for a bit. Never seen so many Rangers fans at an away game. As you say, it was a disaster, I was right in line with that goal from Peter Morris ( I thnk he may have been an ex-Ipswich player and that it was the only goal he ever scored from Norwich) and when it went it knew it was all over; the tragedy was that we had been chasing Liverpool for weeks and by the time we went up to Norwich, for the first time our fate was in our own hands, but ......we blew it!
I was there too. As I remember it a sunny afternoon, but we were all crammed in a dark cage in a corner, and they got the sun light in all ways. Apart from when we scored the only good part of the day was the drive out there when so many vehicles were waving blue/white hoops. Were on the way back too, but then the title was no longer in our hands.
That's a remarkable statistic, 10 of the starting 11 played over 40 games that season, in fact the only one that didn't was John Hollins who still played 30 odd games. I would think that most of Micky Leach's appearances would have been as a sub but i may be wrong. We must have played 6 cup ties as well that season, crikey almost unheard of since......
plus Mick Lech's testimonial against Red Star Belgrade on 2/2/76 and Jimmy Wallbanks testimonial against Reading on 1/10/75 and I'm sure there were others too - we were the visitors to somewhere like Hillingdon when they unvieled their new floodlights or some such. When you think of the standard of the pitches back then these are amazing stats
