Andy Rankin

[Joey66]

...I can't imagine it was live on telly, Jeff. Funny enough, somebody else reckoned he moved early. For some reason I had it in my mind that he saved to his left but somebody earlier has posted a clip of the shoot out and it was a save to his right. To be fair it wasn't the best penalty.

I thought I also noticed their keeper doing a wobbly legged Grobelaar thing.

the first ever pen shoot out in that competition we were in the park end when my hero Joe missed his first pen a pee roller, and they scored theirs fans like us started to leave as we did not no the rules - get back they shouted to many of us get back its five penslol
Luckily we did

 

[Khalekan]

Andy Rankin, David Lawson, Dai Davies, Jim Arnold, George Wood...all GKs who filled in the gap between West and Southall.

We've had some shockers down the years. It probably deserves its own thread - they've been that outrageous.

Martin Hodge......he was another one of our interregnum goalkeepers.

 

[Khalekan]

Some absolute wallopers have played in that goal for us.

It always seemed that Liverpool had all the decent GKs and we went to the bargain basement for ours...Southall and Martyn aside, we have been starved of decent keepers.

If I am honest with you Dave, I don't think they have had many particularly good goalkeepers either.

Ray Clemence and Pepe Reina the only two I would call exceptional (though Andy Johnson puts in the net, Pepe ).

Fat Tommy Lawrence wasn't all that good and Grobbelar was always an accident waiting to happen.

I can hardly even think of anymore besides Westerveld and the two goats they have now

Did Friedl play for them?

 

[dave abrahams]

I'm sure my old man has told me Rankin had an absolute blinder in the British Cup games v Glasgow Rangers 1963/64

Yes Andy had a two good games versus Glasgow Rangers, especially in the game at Ibrox Park where he saved a penalty in
a 3-1 win.

 

[davek]

If I am honest with you Dave, I don't think they have had many particularly good goalkeepers either.

Ray Clemence and Pepe Reina the only two I would call exceptional (though Andy Johnson puts in the net, Pepe ).

Fat Tommy Lawrence wasn't all that good and Grobbelar was always an accident waiting to happen.

I can hardly even think of anymore besides Westerveld and the two goats they have now

Did Friedl play for them?

Grobelaar was a good keeper though. A clown, but good in goal. Clemence was the best in the country apart from Shilton. Those two had longevity and maybe do overshadow some of the rubbish they've had down the years. Reina was ok too. But then there's James, Dudek, Kirkland, Westerveld etc.

 

[Khalekan]

Grobelaar was a good keeper though. A clown, but good in goal. Clemence was the best in the country apart from Shilton. Those two had longevity and maybe do overshadow some of the rubbish they've had down the years. Reina was ok too. But then there's James, Dudek, Kirkland, Westerveld etc.

That's what I mean.....not an impressive list by any means.

 

[tommytowne]

Wow. First time I have ever seen that footage on screen.
Missed half day from tech college at Carlett Park to get to Goodison to watch that match. Got a right bollocking from my personnel manager at work for doing so, the first of many for similar instances in times to come.
Worth it though.

 

[davids]

Yes Andy had a two good games versus Glasgow Rangers, especially in the game at Ibrox Park where he saved a penalty in
a 3-1 win.

All I can remember about the Rangers game was the carnage in the Spellow after the match (I was there with my Dad,I was on the Schofields)

 

[dave abrahams]

All I can remember about the Rangers game was the carnage in the Spellow after the match (I was there with my Dad,I was on the Schofields)

Everton fans have had their bad moments, upsetting people at football matches but those Rangers fans were of a different
breed, thousands of them in the city all day getting tanked up and causing fights wherever they went, a lot of them came unstuck when they kicked off after the game with quite a lot of them getting hiding by the ground and back in town, decent people when sober but drink made them less than sociable.

 

[Joey66]

Martin Hodge......he was another one of our interregnum goalkeepers.

Steve Simmingson from Tranmere under agent
Peter Johnson!
He was a shocking expensive keeper!

 

[Runcornblue52]

A great back up keeper who sometimes kept Westy out his performances were that good a keeper in his own right!

Not as I remember . Rankin was always regarded as a liability waiting to happen ......... suspect at best !

 

[Joey66]

Not as I remember . Rankin was always regarded as a liability waiting to happen ......... suspect at best !

So thats why he kept Westy out on occasions then - other than injuries he held his place down none of this of its our no 1 lets play him if our no 2 has kept clean sheets etc

 

[Jeff Wallace]

I don't think you play the amount of games he played and be a liability, plus receiving 2 players of the year awards.

 

[Khalekan]

Steve Simmingson from Tranmere under agent
Peter Johnson!
He was a shocking expensive keeper!

Yes....but he came after Neville, Joey.

@davek was talking about goalkeepers between the West era and Neville's

 

[Black Belt Jones]

That's what I mean.....not an impressive list by any means.

Before my time, but wouldn't it be rare for any team to have a consistently strong list of goalkeepers pre-1990 or so? Just seems like a position where standards have improved massively over time, and you used to get some really average performers turning out for all clubs. Which is why the strong keepers were so outstanding - the baseline performance was pretty ordinary.