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Post by thecanary on Oct 29, 2012 15:15:47 GMT
As a regular visitor to this site and the history board, I am hopeful of getting some good responses to this thread. Found the attached picture of Hugh Brown on the Partick Thistle Archive site - he was a Scottish international who joined Torquay in the early 1950's - unable to find out much more than the bare stats on his career, can anyone post more information on his time at Torquay and have there been other Scottish internationals at the club? Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2012 17:17:06 GMT
As a regular visitor to this site and the history board, I am hopeful of getting some good responses to this thread. Found the attached picture of Hugh Brown on the Partick Thistle Archive site - he was a Scottish international who joined Torquay in the early 1950's - unable to find out much more than the bare stats on his career, can anyone post more information on his time at Torquay and have there been other Scottish internationals at the club? Brown joined Torquay two or three years after playing for Scotland. Partick Thistle had a decent side at the time and, in a book about Scottish internationals, I read that the transfer caused considerable surprise when it happened. |
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Post by Dave on Oct 29, 2012 19:59:25 GMT
Hi and a warm welcome to the TFF
Do we know the exact year he joined our club? we have eleven pages of programmes in our 50's to 60's programmes room and I'm sure there must be one or two in there where he is mentioned.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2012 22:50:16 GMT
Hugh Brown played for Torquay between November 1950 and March 1952. We've discussed him before and the fact that, according to the centenary history, Brown's Torquay career was curtailed by a bad knee injury.
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Post by Jon on Oct 30, 2012 0:26:15 GMT
Brown was signed up by director Ron Blindell whilst the club was managerless after the resignation of Welsh international Bob John - followed by his assistant England international Dick Hill. But there must have been a buy one get one free on Scottish internationals as Blindell followed up the signing of Brown with the unveiling of Alex Massie as manager. Brown's TUFC debut was exactly three and a half years after his last appearance for Scotland. Just under thirty years later, Bruce Rioch's debut for TUFC came less than two and a half years after his last appearance for Scotland. Just over twenty-eight years earlier, Tom Miller's debut for TUFC came less than seventeen months after his last appearance for Scotland. Of the three, Miller's signing must have been the most shocking. The description of TUFC as "obscure" may sound a little harsh, but we had just finished below halfway in the Western League - sandwiched between Cardiff Corinthians and Peasedown St John. More on Miller here: www.torquayfansforum.com/index.cgi?board=tufchistory&action=display&thread=4451Some WMN cuttings re Brown from 17,18 and 21 November 1950:     |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2012 0:31:55 GMT
Having seen Scotland recently, they are now so bad that you could almost imagine them capping a current - as opposed to a future - Torquay United player.
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Post by Jon on Oct 30, 2012 0:46:19 GMT
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