Andy Rankin

[davids]

Our most underrated keeper? Had a stormer in this game and will always remember that historical penalty shootout.

 

[davek]

Our most underrated keeper? Had a stormer in this game and will always remember that historical penalty shootout.

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.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

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.

gerrard, stowell, mhyre were all bang avergae in nets i suppose

 

[davids]

http://www.11v11.com/players/andy-rankin-25039/
14 clean sheets in 20 games 5 conceded.............

 

[Eggs]

Our most underrated keeper? Had a stormer in this game and will always remember that historical penalty shootout.

...the goalie at the other end wasn't bad either. When you look at Rankin, he's not got the physicality of the modern day keeper but he was always a fine shot stopper. In a way, we were probably better off that he was involved in that famous penalty shoot out with Monchengladbach and I mean no disrespect to Gordon West when I say that.

 

[davids]

...the goalie at the other end wasn't bad either. When you look at Rankin, he's not got the physicality of the modern day keeper but he was always a fine shot stopper. In a way, we were probably better off that he was involved in that famous penalty shoot out with Monchengladbach and I mean no disrespect to Gordon West when I say that.

It's what made me think to post the thread,he didn't have the physical stature of modern keepers.But at a time when keepers didn't get the protection they do now,he produced decent stats,at a time when we didn't know what stats were.

 

[SailorBlue]

OTE="-wizard-, post: 5294007, member: 31708"]gerrard, stowell, mhyre were all bang avergae in nets i suppose[/QUOTE]

Don't forget Jim "Seamus" McDonough

 

[Papa Shango]

gerrard, stowell, mhyre were all bang avergae in nets i suppose

Myhre was miles better than either of them (Though don't have much to go off with Stowell to be fair)

Come to think of it I would have Myhre as my most underated goalkeeper. He tailed off towards the end but I thought he was great when he first came to us.

 

[kanie46]

Was'nt Rankin in goal against Forest when Ian Storey Moore knocked us out of the FA cup?

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Police Cadet I think, maybe wrong though, the memory is not what it was!!

 

[Eggs]

It's what made me think to post the thread,he didn't have the physical stature of modern keepers.But at a time when keepers didn't get the protection they do now,he produced decent stats,at a time when we didn't know what stats were.

..I was in upper Gwladys St that famous night against Monchengladbach. If I remember rightly Royle missed his. I'm not exactly sure of the sequence but I've always had a view that the first team to miss often wins. Rankin was brilliant in that shot out.

 

[Jeff Wallace]

I'd say underated, but I'm biased as he's a relation of mine. He's a legend at Watford played 300 Games and player of the year twice i think. Howard Kendall launched our book on the Rankin family and rated him very highly and said you don't get to play 500+ games in your career and not be a very good keeper.

 

[davids]

..I was in upper Gwladys St that famous night against Monchengladbach. If I remember rightly Royle missed his. I'm not exactly sure of the sequence but I've always had a view that the first team to miss often wins. Rankin was brilliant in that shot out.

 

[Eggs]

I'd say underated, but I'm biased as he's a relation of mine. He's a legend at Watford played 300 Games and player of the year twice i think. Howard Kendall launched our book on the Rankin family and rated him very highly and said you don't get to play 500+ games in your career and not be a very good keeper.

...if I remember rightly there's a good picture of him standing near the entrance to the Mersey Tunnel. It's in the picture thread.

 

[1966efc]

...if I remember rightly there's a good picture of him standing near the entrance to the Mersey Tunnel. It's in the picture thread.

He was halfway there for most of their pens as far as I remember!