Don O’Riordan & Peter Beagrie

Don O’Rightoff was just not worth the effort of calling him anything. He was terrible and I for one think he would have been the first Boro player to have the clubs entire support clambering to drive him to another club free of charge irrespective of the situation at the time.
 
coluka said:
Don O’Rightoff was just not worth the effort of calling him anything. He was terrible and I for one think he would have been the first Boro player to have the clubs entire support clambering to drive him to another club free of charge irrespective of the situation at the time.
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We would have hired a mini bus & all got in mate 👍🚌 with DOR stuck on the roof rack
 
Erimus74 said:
Peter Beagrie made his debut away to charlton 2nd october 1984, he played 32 games, 8 as sub, scoring 2 goals, which both were memorable for reasons
1st away to Shrewsbury to stay up 11th May 1985 & 2nd home to Millwall, our final home game before liquidation came 26th April 1986
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Really surprised that’s all he played. I was 12 when I was first aware of him and at school we all called him Peter Perfect - copied from a computer game character at the time I think
 
O’Riordan scored an absolute class goal from a free kick. Unfortunately thats all I can remember about it. Think someone might have flicked it up for him to volley home but not sure.
 
O'Riordan was not crap from what I remember of him, but I always thought there was another 10% in him which was what WM was probably referring to. He needed some of Hammy's steel. DOR was comfortable with the ball, decent touch and had a nice shot - I remember a beauty goal at Stoke a volley from 20 yards out. I think he got a contract at Grimsby who were Championship (Division 2 then). We did over pay for him (£50k?)

Beagrie always looked a very good young player - he only broke into the team in 1985. 1985/6 was really his first full season. He could be frustrating he would beat his marker and then try and beat him again. At worse like the kid at school that would hang onto the ball all the time, but never want to pass. With experience you could see he would develop into a decent player and a snip @ £35k - the nearest equivalent today would be Spence and selling him for £1m.

In 1987/8 we played Beagrie's Sheffield United and beat them 2-0 away and 5-0 at home. The home game in particular you'd see players like Ripley wanting to show Beagrie a lesson.
 
asredastheycome said:
O’Riordan scored an absolute class goal from a free kick. Unfortunately thats all I can remember about it. Think someone might have flicked it up for him to volley home but not sure.
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As he only scored 2 goals at home for us I'm sure it was the one against Sheff Utd in the league (lost 1-2)
 
O'Riordan certainly played better for Notts Country and was part of that midfield of Draper and Harding and himself that took teams apart for fun when they beat us in the play offs. He was anonymous for us and that's being kind.
 
Redwurzel said:
O'Riordan was not crap from what I remember of him, but I always thought there was another 10% in him which was what WM was probably referring to. He needed some of Hammy's steel. DOR was comfortable with the ball, decent touch and had a nice shot - I remember a beauty goal at Stoke a volley from 20 yards out. I think he got a contract at Grimsby who were Championship (Division 2 then). We did over pay for him (£50k?)

Beagrie always looked a very good young player - he only broke into the team in 1985. 1985/6 was really his first full season. He could be frustrating he would beat his marker and then try and beat him again. At worse like the kid at school that would hang onto the ball all the time, but never want to pass. With experience you could see he would develop into a decent player and a snip @ £35k - the nearest equivalent today would be Spence and selling him for £1m.

In 1987/8 we played Beagrie's Sheffield United and beat them 2-0 away and 5-0 at home. The home game in particular you'd see players like Ripley wanting to show Beagrie a lesson.
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6-0 at home, Ripley hattrick, Senior got 2 I think, can't check as I'm at work
 
Thank you E74 - I forgot the sixth one - weren't we 6-0 up after around 53 minutes?

The Holgate kept reminding Beagrie of the score in the second half - he didn't look amused.
 
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