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We were away at Derby, lunchtime kick off. It was Darren Peacock and Andy Tilsons debut, most notably though it was the first time I had seen a team come out 30 minutes before kick off and do a training session, Bobby Gould had recently joined the coaching staff and it was one of his innovations, we led 1-0 right up until the 90th minute only to be undone by a Dean Saunders equaliser. For the younger reader teams used to come out at five to three and hit a few balls at the keeper, and that was the warm up.
Sat next to a chap who kept asking my father & i what we thought of Andy Tilson . We said he was doing ok but that Peacock looked the better stronger player , towards the end of the game he revealed himself to be Tilson's father . Always disliked Saunders after the late leveller .
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35 years ago today on 18:51 - Dec 23 with 974 views
35 years ago today on 18:27 - Dec 23 by losethedrum
Sat next to a chap who kept asking my father & i what we thought of Andy Tilson . We said he was doing ok but that Peacock looked the better stronger player , towards the end of the game he revealed himself to be Tilson's father . Always disliked Saunders after the late leveller .
Just remembered that was also the week that the allegations came out about shilton, I kept reminding him about it, after about the tenth time as he was about to take a goal kick,he looked me straight in the eyes and said “ I’ll fǔcking punch you in a minute”
What some younger fans may not realise is that in those days, no-one had names on their shirts and with no social media etc, it was difficult to know who was who
Plenty around us at that game didn’t know which one was Tilson and which one was Peacock to begin with!
Tilson looked much classier at the start of their partnership, and then scored the winner at Sunderland away, but peacock went on to be the star and big sale to Newcastle
Met peacock a few times and he was good as gold
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35 years ago today on 20:17 - Dec 23 with 801 views
What some younger fans may not realise is that in those days, no-one had names on their shirts and with no social media etc, it was difficult to know who was who
Plenty around us at that game didn’t know which one was Tilson and which one was Peacock to begin with!
Tilson looked much classier at the start of their partnership, and then scored the winner at Sunderland away, but peacock went on to be the star and big sale to Newcastle
Met peacock a few times and he was good as gold
He got a chorus of “get your haircut for the lads that day”
The signings of Peacock, Tillson and Brevett saved us.
Andy Tillson was just pure silk. I cannot remember why his career never hit the heights that it should have. Myself and another lad in our number raved about him and we dubbed the lad “the poor mans Alan Hansen”.
Gould and Howe were a great double act. Blimey….thirty ‘kin five bloody years ago?! My word!!
Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal
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35 years ago today on 23:19 - Dec 23 with 490 views
Before QPR signed Tilson, Peacock and Brevett, they were playing with Gus Ceasar as a CB and had lost at least 6 in a row (might have been more).
Without those 3 players, QPR would almost certainly have been relegated that season. I think it was Bobby Gould who had spotted them because they were signed within a week or so of his arrival to assist Don Howe.
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35 years ago today on 00:43 - Dec 24 with 435 views
100% Bobby Gould, at the time the media said that he arrived at QPR with his little black book which listed all of the players that had impressed him.
I was at the game but my memory of it is very different. Peacock was superb! He had arrived from Hereford who were two or three divisions below us and he marked the experienced Derby striker, Mick Harford, out of the game.
Tilson was poor, I remember he missed a free header with no other players anywhere near him. He only ever played a few dozen games for us before becoming a Bristol Rovers leg end.
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35 years ago today on 06:24 - Dec 24 with 347 views
We'd been on horrendous losing run (I want to say 7 straight defeats) and had been relying on Gus Ceasar on loan. Bobby Gould, Peacock and Tilson came in and transformed us otherwise we would have been relegated that season
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35 years ago today on 08:46 - Dec 24 with 266 views
Mentioned before that I think Tilson was extremely under rated in QPR ‘folklore’ in general. He would have been close to being an international if he’d been around now . 30 years ahead of his time as a ball playing centre back . Oozed class on the ball which was very rare . Both he and Darren Peacock became 2 people I really looked up to and held in really high esteem , not just because of their different playing qualities but because 2 more down to earth likeable and approachable footballers you could not find . Tilson especially was one of the few who would openly come and find you and ask how you are which is and was almost unheard of. There is a lot to be said for that era of our history but one of the reasons for the success was the mix of established seasoned pros and lower league , down to Earth players that were brought in at the same time . Tilson , Peacock, Holloway, Penrice (to an extent) , Impey , Les (again to an extent) , older pros who were finishing their career like Ray , Garry Thompson, bought a humbleness to the obvious professional football team dressing room.
On the coach to an away game , they were the ones who would choose to sit next someone like me (16 year old apprentice / lackie) rather the card school with Macca , Bards , Barker , Sinton , because they wanted to talk to me and ask how I was .
That stuff stuck with me .
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35 years ago today on 09:24 - Dec 24 with 219 views
Just remembered that was also the week that the allegations came out about shilton, I kept reminding him about it, after about the tenth time as he was about to take a goal kick,he looked me straight in the eyes and said “ I’ll fǔcking punch you in a minute”
TINA! TINA!
He used to laugh about that in later years. I recall a home (v Saints?) when he was getting some fairly mild reminders, he just thought it was a laugh, waved us off at the end and got a big cheer from us.
I need a SAGA. What’s the SAGA? It’s ….. Queen’s Park Rangers.
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