Willie Kelly

billy - The greatest centre half, what a lucky person l am being old enough to have watched the rovers for so long. For excitement the best was Willie Kelly, 50-50 balls food and drink to him, 20- 80 still a doddle, that man was hard, the pitch was usually thick mud, the ball a big black pudding, the centre forward, for example Derek Dooley, 6" taller and a stone heavier , he used the shoulder charge as he's weapon, but it never worked on Willie, every charge he bounced off him, and he ended up lying in the mud, when play got a bit dirty Willie never complained, but the player who fowled him never went near him again. Willie was a real 'stopper' .

John MacNamee

bazza Billy, when I started watching Rovers we were crap and had centre halves such as Holt and Holliday.(Sounds like a Monty Python sketch, doesn't it?) Then we bought Willie Kelly from Airdrionians. He was a brick wall and did the same job for us as John Macnamee years later.

John MacNamee

92er - Very few people should vote for John Macnamee but very few people will know about him. When he came to us from Newcastle "his legs had gone" and we were very close to the bottom of the old 3rd division. He became an inspiration.It is said that before he arrived the defence were a soft touch and that the other teams could kick lumps out if Jones in the goal.No longer was this the case after he arrived-he made the penalty area his own and ensured the team were not victimised by the opposition. One game I remember was against Brighton when he scored 2 goals. One appeared to be from around the half way line when he seemed to hit a shot in on the volley.Amazing. He always excellent against Bournemouth. For 2 consecutive seasons they came up around Easter time and as quite an exciting side, under a young manager who later went to Norwich and Manchester City, they were confident of beating us and getting promoted to the old 2nd division. Each time their star striker, Ted MacDougall scored early on. Then Macnamee would go and have a"word with him" and he would do nothing else during the game.Each time we won 2-1 and John Bond eventually moved on.

David Fazackerley

BRFC4EVA - although ive grown up in the Hendry, Berg era I just couldnt resist voting for Fazackerley, all the effort he but into BRFC.