Guest sandbachowl Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 I understand he was quite an expensive signing at the time-did he live upto expectation; Look forward to your replies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurujuan Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 From what I understand, not initially, but then settled to become a quality midfielder who ran the show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul.. Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Worth it though, there's only one Brackenreid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 in 74-75 we were a side with fighting chance of avoiding relegation ,we then sold tommo in dec and in the next 21 games won 1 and scored 3 goals .....he was a brilliant player in a very very bad team . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage owl Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 My first Wednesday hero when I was a young lad . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatter Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 A skillfull cultured player who took quite a while to slot into his role in the team. Eventually stood out as the best player in what you have to admit though was a pretty average Wednesday team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmciverslovechild Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Was a real out of the blue signing. Us spending £100,000 on an 18 year old kid? But, yes, he could play. Saw his debut at home to Spurs....last game of the 1968/69 season. Tried a shot from the edge of the centre circle.....unreal. Probably his best games were in the early part of the 1972/73 season when he ran the show and scored a few penalties; that night match when we beat Huddersfield 3-2 still stays in my memory. But selling him in December 1974 was an admission that we were going down. Saw him play for Newcastle at Arsenal in about 1978. He scored the only goal....unfortunately it was for Arsenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justbeanz Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 38 minutes ago, sage owl said: My first Wednesday hero when I was a young lad . ^^^^^^^^this. Can remember him bending a free kick around the wall, first time I'd seen it done and was mesmerized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurujuan Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 44 minutes ago, fredmciverslovechild said: Was a real out of the blue signing. Us spending £100,000 on an 18 year old kid? But, yes, he could play. Saw his debut at home to Spurs....last game of the 1968/69 season. Tried a shot from the edge of the centre circle.....unreal. Probably his best games were in the early part of the 1972/73 season when he ran the show and scored a few penalties; that night match when we beat Huddersfield 3-2 still stays in my memory. But selling him in December 1974 was an admission that we were going down. Saw him play for Newcastle at Arsenal in about 1978. He scored the only goal....unfortunately it was for Arsenal. Who did we beat for his signature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 3 minutes ago, gurujuan said: Who did we beat for his signature villa i think ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Darth Sturrock Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 1 hour ago, sandbachowl said: I understand he was quite an expensive signing at the time-did he live upto expectation; Look forward to your replies Aye, he was a very good player, my hero as a lad..... Very good at free kicks and penalties, and could pick a good pass. He stood out, in what was a pretty poor team in all honesty.... We had a couple of decent seasons with him in the early seventies, when we had Willie Henderson and Brian Joicey et al in the side, where we looked like we might be building towards a promotion side (I think we came 10th or 9th one season) but all that optimism fell away and we soon looked like relegation fodder, and when Tommy left, we were down and out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 tommo was a penalty expert as well ....think he only missed one, in a easter relegation battle against preston missed it early on but didnt let it bother him as he scored the winner later on from the spot ....he was ice cool in everything he did and all that stopped from being a great player at a much higher level was he had no pace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelowl Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 I was there for his debut it's hard i suppose for kids on here to understand what a massive amount of money 100k was for a youngster too never seen so many photographers it was a hell of a big deal He was a superb player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheriwozgod Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 1 hour ago, torryowl said: in 74-75 we were a side with fighting chance of avoiding relegation ,we then sold tommo in dec and in the next 21 games won 1 and scored 3 goals .....he was a brilliant player in a very very bad team . This..............................he was John Sheridan before John Sheridan.........even walked / ran like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyboy66 Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 12 minutes ago, sheriwozgod said: This..............................he was John Sheridan before John Sheridan.........even walked / ran like him. Up to Sheridan arriving we'd only had two outstanding passers of the ball McCalliog and Tommo...Shez was the best of the three Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owl Capone Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 1 hour ago, fredmciverslovechild said: Was a real out of the blue signing. Us spending £100,000 on an 18 year old kid? But, yes, he could play. Saw his debut at home to Spurs....last game of the 1968/69 season. Tried a shot from the edge of the centre circle.....unreal. Probably his best games were in the early part of the 1972/73 season when he ran the show and scored a few penalties; that night match when we beat Huddersfield 3-2 still stays in my memory. But selling him in December 1974 was an admission that we were going down. Saw him play for Newcastle at Arsenal in about 1978. He scored the only goal....unfortunately it was for Arsenal. I remember his debut against Spurs. We had a lot of possession that night and Tommo took all the corners. Everyone was placed right under the bar. Unfortunately Spurs had the great Pat Jennings in goal then (in my opinion the best keeper in the country at the time) and he took every one. A more experienced player would have used theat accuracy to mix it up and try something different, but it was a clear sign of things to come from him. He could drop a ball on a tanner from 40 yards. Instead though he usually dropped it onto the heads of our strikers who couldn't usually hit a barn door from point blank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroswfc Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Tommy Craig Wednesday legend Tommy Craig's Wednesday record Apps 233 Goals 40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buxtongent Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Excellent footballer for us , like his former namesake -Bobby Craig.Almost certain I saw him once playing for Scotland against England at Wembley, where he mesmerised the then England defence. Record at Wed - played 1968-74 - p 214 scored 38 goals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s.armo Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 A great player much too good for the side we had then. he got frustrated playing passers in to the areas where I players should have been but we had no one on his level. Great left foot and very good at taking pens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trotter Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Good player but hampererd by the fact that there were only two other footballers in the side...Mick Prendergast when fit and the great Willie Henderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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