Happy Birthday Sir ......

Ronnie Glavin the greatest player to ever wear the red shirt.

 

Correct Happy birthday to the king

 

That’s a bold statement but I’m not arguing with it.

 

The very best!

 

Without a doubt the best player in probably the best team ever to grace our historic ground. I feel sorry for the young un's who missed that era. The football was magical the atmosphere was electric, the best I've ever seen at Oakwell.

 

Tommy Taylor (19 full international caps) Danny Blanchflower ? (56 int caps) John Stones (83 int caps) Ronnie Glavin ( 1 int cap). As good as RG was he wasn't the best to pull on that red shirt, in my humble opinion.

 

The best team? They never looked like getting to the top flight. They were good at the level they played, but not in our best ever teams.

 

We were in contention for promotion until Easter weren’t we? Given that we lost Derrick Parker for half a season that was pretty good

 

Ronnie was fantastic for us, but sorry, it has to be Neil Redfearn for overall ability, outstanding leadership and results/achievement.

 

Sorry but it’s like comparing Cantona with Roy Keane - neither could do what the other one did.
Ronnie was magic.

 

Like choosing between your children, innit? I suppose we were lucky to have them both?

 

Finished 6th didn't we which would have been play offs nowadays and then owt could have happened.

All down to who you have seen and which era you enjoyed most at the time in this thread I would say.

 

How old are you?

 

Ronnie Glavin, quite simply the very best player in all my years of watching Barnsley FC.
Happy birthday Ronnie.

 

Nobody got the crowd excited like The King did. Redfearn was great, a leader and had passion for the club but even he didn't create the buzz that Ronnie did. The player that came closest in the Premier League promotion team was John Hendry for me.

 

Subjective init I didn't go much in the Redfearns era work and family commitments but the buzz around Oakwell when Ronnie picked the ball up on or around the halfway line with a yard of space is something I've not experienced before or since.

 

Norman Hunters team played the best football I’ve ever seen a Barnsley team play and by a long way

 

Interesting. The great Scott Wiseman has 38 full international caps, so presumably that places him significantly higher up the list of Reds all time greats than The King?

 

“Shudder” - Scott Wiseman. Fair point that Glavin might not have been our greatest ever player and caps are only a factor.
Could also make a case for Benny Green or George Utley, both sold for record British transfer fees at the time, Eric Brook (Man City’s record scorer until Aguero) or Ernest Hine. But Glavin is one of the best if not the best in the last 50 years, with Redfearn up there too.

 

Eh?!? I suggest you brush up on your Reds history my friend. Wednesday 24 February 1982, Barnsley 0 Norwich City 1. Had that score been reversed we would have been promoted at the end of the season. We were within one game of promotion. That fact aside, Norman Hunter’s team were by far the best Reds team I’ve watched in my 48 years watching the Reds. And if we’d gone up that season I have no doubt that we were only a couple of players away from comfortably staying up. As we showed the following season, when we knocked three First Division teams out of the League Cup before drawing 0-0 at Liverpool in the Quarter-Finals.

Did you ever see Norman’s team yourself?