Dougall the new Billy Robson

Nah, Billy kicked the opposition players far more.
He was just over 5ft 4, and he would kick anybody regardless of their size.
I think Paul Scholes may have modelled himself on Billy 😉
In one game he was drifting over to the left wing and about the lay the ball out wide, when he got kicked.
He let the ball roll away in to touch whilst he ran back to kick the guy - I miss him!
 
Billy Ronson was a great player for the Seasiders and also Barnsley. That's some tribute if he's being compared to him
 
I've got, on DVD, the ITV highlights of us against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in 76/77(?). At the end it kicks off a bit between a couple of ours and theirs. Looks like Ronson and Spence being the culprits on our side.
 
Billy Ronson was a totally different player to Dougall. Interesting line up in that Chelsea game two left backs in Bentley and Harrison with Mickey Walsh playing more on the right. It's in the 2nd half when it kicks off.
 
Ronson was great but one of my all time faves could be seen in the Chelsea v Pool game playing for Chelsea, Ian Britton was a class act when he joined us and was gutted when he went in the same direction of many Pool players to Burnley - and had a few good seasons for them - diminutive midfielders always seem so busy, their low centre of gravity just gives them an edge that makes up for any lack of height or bulk and always so comfortable on the ball - Messi anyone!
 
I remember the Chelsea fans waiting for us before the game carrying chains, wood clubs and bricks. Not the best of welcomes, but that's how it was in the 70's...fighting on the way in and fighting on the way out!
 
Certainly a class above our present incumbents although I never rated Curtis.He and Gardner who was the better right back interchanged that season. After that season Gardner became the regular right back and Curtis left.

Ronson started with us as a right winger but lacked pace and became a much more effective player when he moved inside.
 
The 76/77 Fulham game is also on You Tube with George Best playing for the opposition. Ronson put over a peach of a cross for Walsh's winning goal. I remember that.
 
Steve Harrison would probably have had a three game ban nowadays, after video play back. Ian Brittain was later to become a favourite at Bloomfield Road. Another player, who like Ronson lacked inches, but more than made up for that with skill and a massive work rate!
 
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