BlueandWhiteOwl Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Short article on When Saturday Comes looking back at his career, mostly focusing on his time at Wednesday, with some nice photos in there too. Incredible to think that he played a full game for Sweden then flew back and played the FA Cup final replay the very next day – such a classy player to watch. https://www.wsc.co.uk/stories/14190-focus-on-roland-nilsson-sheffield-wednesday-s-swedish-cult-hero 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Meadows Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 best full back we've ever had? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewsburyowl58 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Majestic, he has to be one of my all time favourite defenders , what times those were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royalowlisback Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Best Owls defender in my Lifetime (I'm 43). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asteener1867 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 14 minutes ago, Mr Meadows said: best full back we've ever had? I'd go for best player...for his position....Simply fluid, professional, reliable, hardly ever injured. I can remember all the rage about Lee Sharpe in '91, Roland had him on toast, with help from Johnny Harkes admittedly, You know when one of our full backs these days is on the ball, with a forward behind him, or whatever? You shout "Clear it, Out it..." all sorts of advice...When it was Rolly............. I simply took another bite of me pie......... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animis Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 15 minutes ago, asteener1867 said: I'd go for best player...for his position....Simply fluid, professional, reliable, hardly ever injured. I can remember all the rage about Lee Sharpe in '91, Roland had him on toast, with help from Johnny Harkes admittedly, You know when one of our full backs these days is on the ball, with a forward behind him, or whatever? You shout "Clear it, Out it..." all sorts of advice...When it was Rolly............. I simply took another bite of me pie......... Brilliant that Andy - summed him up perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HOOTIE AND THE SHIT TU Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 56 minutes ago, Mr Meadows said: best full back we've ever had? You must not have seen Jon Beswetherick 2 Just a bloke, who used up all his luck in one go when he met his wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOOTIE AND THE SHIT TU Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 52 minutes ago, royalowlisback said: Best Owls defender in my Lifetime (I'm 43). And mine, I'm 60 1 Just a bloke, who used up all his luck in one go when he met his wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PortlandOwl Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Can't believe we were the last team outside the top flight to win a major trophy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damianb1 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 The only ones in my lifetime who I'd argue were better we're Maldini and Lahm. Roland was world class! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sham67 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 2 hours ago, Mr Meadows said: best player we've ever had? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 all time favourite player if he was in his prime playing now he'd be worth £100 million he was that good 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneTheOwl Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 A different level. Totally class that man. One great memory if it serves me right was cup semi final second leg at home. We were 0-1 and he passed back to Woods, woods missed it (it was a little wild the pass) and it struck the post. Would have been 0-2 and level on aggregate. Am I right here or is my memory playing tricks ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthefish2002 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 I remember him v Blackburn 2nd leg League Cup semi at home 1993 and he tried a fancy pass with side of his foot across the area, he totally mis hit it and hit his own post. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthefish2002 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 1 minute ago, WayneTheOwl said: A different level. Totally class that man. One great memory if it serves me right was cup semi final second leg at home. We were 0-1 and he passed back to Woods, woods missed it (it was a little wild the pass) and it struck the post. Would have been 0-2 and level on aggregate. Am I right here or is my memory playing tricks ??? Ha ha. Put the same thing at the same time. Yes I remember it like it was yesterday. All 30,000 plus crowd went quiet for a second until it came back off the post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pale Rider Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 We all wax lyrical about Waddle, Shez and Hirsty, and rightly so. But this guy was pure class. It’s also overlooked how stupid we were to let Palmer and Worthington go to Scum, both Mr Reliable. Whilst it would have been difficult to replace the first 3, we replaced the the latter 3 badly and the slide began. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the monk Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Please can we look forward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanharper Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 1 hour ago, WayneTheOwl said: A different level. Totally class that man. One great memory if it serves me right was cup semi final second leg at home. We were 0-1 and he passed back to Woods, woods missed it (it was a little wild the pass) and it struck the post. Would have been 0-2 and level on aggregate. Am I right here or is my memory playing tricks ??? Yep, he was so good that he used to play his back passes perfectly via the inside of the post. Actually perhaps the only real mistake that I remember him making was in the LC semi first leg the following year away at Man Utd, his bad back pass led to the only goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akbuk Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 3 hours ago, HOOTIE AND THE poo TU said: And mine, I'm 60 I'm 68 and agree 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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