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Good, bad, indifferent : Qpr player nostalgia

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  1. Hoop-Leif

    Hoop-Leif Well-Known Member

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    Mark Dennis?
     
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    The great Mark Dennis, a red card on legs.
     
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    That’s the man. I saw him try to amputate both Ossie Ardiles’ legs in a single movement at White Hart Lane once. Ref didn’t appreciate it.
     
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    :emoticon-0102-bigsm This is testing my memory, the earliest days of my following the superhoops.

    Could he actually play football or was he just a so-called 'hard man'?
     
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    You'd have to be a proper old ****er to get this one. One of my first QPR heroes.....

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    He was a ****ing good full back, but definitively unhinged.
     
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    Looked him up, sent off 12 times but ‘only ten of those were straight reds’. In the days when sendings off were relatively rare and always extreme.
     
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    I remember when I was sat in Ellerslie Road and we were playing poorly, I was probably in my early twenties ( Late 80's? ). He was playing left back in the first half attacking the school end. I shouted out to him ' Mark get them to sort it out! ' He turned around and looked at me and said ... 'Shut it you ****! '
    I must say I was rather taken aback. Twenty minutes later ( I can't remember who it was against ) he was slammed into the advertising hoardings and he was screaming as I think he dislocated his shoulder and had to be stretchered off. Karma. Not a nice man.
     
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    Got into all sorts of problems on and off the pitch, including being knifed in Croydon while with us. I definitely remember him scything through Ardiles, but apparently he was sent off for elbowing him in the face. 8 game ban, and sent off again in his first game back in the reserves and we got rid of him to Palace.

    He could play though. Might have got away with some of the stuff 15 years earlier.
     
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    An educated guess at Brian Bedford.

    Nice thread Hoop Leif.
     
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    He was a proper nutcase, I didn't realise that he got stabbed. I don't think he played that many times for us, I think the club realised that he was a wrong 'un pretty quickly and got rid. We've had few wrong 'uns ... Dennis, Barton, Gavin Maguire and Rachid Harkouk.
     
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    John Collins?
     
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    Same era, but this was probably a year or two after Bedford left Rangers. It's John Collins, not a big QPR name really, but I had a remarkable moment many years later in the Season Ticket Holders' bar when I was recalling a game where Collins scored a hat-trick of headers against Hull City. A fella tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Do you remember John Collins then?' 'Yeah, I said, he was my favourite player when I was a kid'. 'He's my brother', he said.
     
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    Got him.
     
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    He came up through the academy and became a cult hero in the sixties. A Kevin Gallen of our times.
     
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    Who remembers this guy?
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    Just looked up his stats - 46 goals in 172 games for us, then went to Oldham and scored 33 in 39.
     
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    He moved in 1966/67. Just missed out on the league cup win. That must've hurt. I bet he wished he stayed with us whatever the circumstances of his move were.
     
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    We'd signed Les Allen and Rodney Marsh, so I guess he knew he wouldn't get a game.
     
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