| Frank Yallop 18:41 - Dec 7 with 1637 views | nodge_blue |
Someone on one of the Ipswich YouTube debate thingies described Frank Yallop as an Ipswich legend.
I know he probably just said it lightly and didnt expect me to have a eyes roll moment about it all. But FY was at best an ok fullback. Not as good as say Tarricco, or Mings or Cresswell or Herman or Wilnis.
Not a legend.
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| Frank Yallop on 18:44 - Dec 7 with 1445 views | blueprint |
Legendary status isn’t all about ability. |  | | |
| Frank Yallop on 18:46 - Dec 7 with 1417 views | nodge_blue |
| Frank Yallop on 18:44 - Dec 7 by blueprint |
Legendary status isn’t all about ability. |
Interesting line of thought.
Maybe our worst ever players are legends too then. As they left a legend of sorts.
Paul Hirst. Legend. | |
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| Frank Yallop on 18:55 - Dec 7 with 1338 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
389 appearances in the top two divisions for Town suggests he has more claim to legendary status than pretty much any other player from the last 15-20 years.
What is the cut-off for a legend? Yes, he was a mainstay of a team that got relegated from the top flight rather convincingly and only a squad member of the team that won promotion to the Premier League but he was more than just an "OK full back". |  |
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| Frank Yallop on 18:58 - Dec 7 with 1299 views | monty_radio |
Yallop apps 389
Cresswell, Taricco, Herman all combined apps 371
Added to which he was Mr Reliable in unremarkable times |  |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:00 - Dec 7 with 1260 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Frank Yallop on 18:58 - Dec 7 by monty_radio |
Yallop apps 389
Cresswell, Taricco, Herman all combined apps 371
Added to which he was Mr Reliable in unremarkable times |
Unremarkable times in the old FIrst Division and the brand new Premier League. | |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:01 - Dec 7 with 1245 views | ITFC_Forever |
He might secure that status for his suggestion to Gamechanger than anything he did on the pitch. |  |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:05 - Dec 7 with 1225 views | Vic |
| Frank Yallop on 18:55 - Dec 7 by Nthsuffolkblue |
389 appearances in the top two divisions for Town suggests he has more claim to legendary status than pretty much any other player from the last 15-20 years.
What is the cut-off for a legend? Yes, he was a mainstay of a team that got relegated from the top flight rather convincingly and only a squad member of the team that won promotion to the Premier League but he was more than just an "OK full back". |
Good solid RB and a great servant of the club. But for me, not a legend.
And a little known fact - he got measured up for a suit in Burton’s at the same time as I did! |  |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:07 - Dec 7 with 1209 views | lazyblue |
Well he was a player of the season one year. | | | |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:10 - Dec 7 with 1184 views | Yallop |
| Frank Yallop on 19:05 - Dec 7 by Vic |
Good solid RB and a great servant of the club. But for me, not a legend.
And a little known fact - he got measured up for a suit in Burton’s at the same time as I did! |
Yeah this is about right. Solid, made the best of his ability but quite a way down our all time full backs list. |  | | |
| Frank Yallop on 19:13 - Dec 7 with 1154 views | nodge_blue |
| Frank Yallop on 19:07 - Dec 7 by lazyblue |
Well he was a player of the season one year. |
That was your Wilson pots type award. | |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:15 - Dec 7 with 1138 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Frank Yallop on 19:05 - Dec 7 by Vic |
Good solid RB and a great servant of the club. But for me, not a legend.
And a little known fact - he got measured up for a suit in Burton’s at the same time as I did! |
That is fair enough but, as I say, that also means there has not been a legend here for the past 15 years or more.
Yallop has more claim to legendary status than Chambers does in my book. So either they are both in or both out. For me, they are both borderline. | |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:15 - Dec 7 with 1141 views | nodge_blue |
| Frank Yallop on 18:58 - Dec 7 by monty_radio |
Yallop apps 389
Cresswell, Taricco, Herman all combined apps 371
Added to which he was Mr Reliable in unremarkable times |
And the reason for that quite simply is that those players were all wanted by bigger clubs or ones higher up the football pyramid. And went for decent fees. No one seriously ever looked at yallop. | |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:23 - Dec 7 with 1069 views | HighgateBlue |
| Frank Yallop on 19:13 - Dec 7 by nodge_blue |
That was your Wilson pots type award. |
Thoroughly deserved, and reflective of the fans' ratings of him online? :) |  | | |
| Frank Yallop on 19:25 - Dec 7 with 1041 views | nodge_blue |
| Frank Yallop on 19:23 - Dec 7 by HighgateBlue |
Thoroughly deserved, and reflective of the fans' ratings of him online? :) |
Online lol.
This is pre internet :-) | |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:30 - Dec 7 with 1018 views | HighgateBlue |
| Frank Yallop on 19:25 - Dec 7 by nodge_blue |
Online lol.
This is pre internet :-) |
Gosh, don't I know it! Don't know where the years go, though.
Shame we couldn't rate the players on Teletext. You'd have to wait about a minute for the next player to appear, and if you missed it, that would be another half hour until he came round again!
Sorry, I'll have a lie down... | | | |
| Frank Yallop on 19:35 - Dec 7 with 981 views | nodge_blue |
| Frank Yallop on 19:30 - Dec 7 by HighgateBlue |
Gosh, don't I know it! Don't know where the years go, though.
Shame we couldn't rate the players on Teletext. You'd have to wait about a minute for the next player to appear, and if you missed it, that would be another half hour until he came round again!
Sorry, I'll have a lie down... |
I watched the play off semi final on Teletext. That 3-3 moment was my greatest Teletext moment ever. | |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:37 - Dec 7 with 967 views | monty_radio |
| Frank Yallop on 19:15 - Dec 7 by nodge_blue |
And the reason for that quite simply is that those players were all wanted by bigger clubs or ones higher up the football pyramid. And went for decent fees. No one seriously ever looked at yallop. |
Mings played 57 times for us. Yallop was a player who, though seldom injured, was always someone who, over many years and in higher leagues would be in and around man of the match. | |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:38 - Dec 7 with 954 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Frank Yallop on 19:15 - Dec 7 by nodge_blue |
And the reason for that quite simply is that those players were all wanted by bigger clubs or ones higher up the football pyramid. And went for decent fees. No one seriously ever looked at yallop. |
Fair point, but they all left us while we were in the Champ. Yallop had 3 years in the Prem with us.
Back then there was also a limit on how many non-EU players you could field I think? Which may have put some clubs off. |  |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:42 - Dec 7 with 917 views | nodge_blue |
| Frank Yallop on 19:37 - Dec 7 by monty_radio |
Mings played 57 times for us. Yallop was a player who, though seldom injured, was always someone who, over many years and in higher leagues would be in and around man of the match. |
Mimgs played 57 times only because he was picked up by a premier League club and now plays for England.
No one came in for yallop because he was just an ok full back.
He was committed and tried. But ahuge down grade on burley and mills. We have had many better before and since.
Not a legend. | |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:47 - Dec 7 with 866 views | eastangliaisblue |
| Frank Yallop on 19:15 - Dec 7 by Nthsuffolkblue |
That is fair enough but, as I say, that also means there has not been a legend here for the past 15 years or more.
Yallop has more claim to legendary status than Chambers does in my book. So either they are both in or both out. For me, they are both borderline. |
Anyone thinking of Chambers as a legend is laughable. |  | | |
| Frank Yallop on 19:48 - Dec 7 with 863 views | nodge_blue |
That's a good goal to be fair can't even remember that.
But even chambers scored one like that v Blackpool. | |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:48 - Dec 7 with 848 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Frank Yallop on 19:48 - Dec 7 by nodge_blue |
That's a good goal to be fair can't even remember that.
But even chambers scored one like that v Blackpool. |
......Blackpool...... | |
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| Frank Yallop on 19:52 - Dec 7 with 804 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Doesn't look like Chambo... | |
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