| Bannister & Byrne 10:59 - Jul 22 with 1729 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
When I was a very young boy my favourite players were Gary Bannister and John Byrne, is anyone on here, of a certain age, who can say why they were both sold?
I was heartbroken when Bannister especially was sold, but to young to know why. Its his birthday today, so it jogged my memory. Cheers. |  |
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| Bannister & Byrne on 12:18 - Jul 22 with 1580 views | CiderwithRsie |
It's a good question - at the time, I just took it for granted that every few years our strikers would move on, same as Goddard and Allen or Bowles and Givens before.
But Goddard and Allen both went for good hard cash, I don't recall B & B raising a lot of money or having notable careers after QPR.
Decades on, but we never really replaced them IMO. Obviously we had Ferdinand just a few years later and other successful strikers since but we never had a pairing like that who were more than the sum of their parts.
(Always felt Gerry Francis made a rare mistake in binning off Wegerle, and that the combination of his skill and Les's goals would have been like B & B upgraded, but so it goes.) | | | |
| Bannister & Byrne on 12:30 - Jul 22 with 1546 views | daveB |
Byrne was in and out of the team when he left so think they wanted to move him on. With Bannister they signed Falco and Trevor Francis around then plus Mark Stein so again think it was a case of taking the money. Was a shame Bannister went as he was such a good forward.
I loved John Byrne but not sure if he was as good as I think he was, like others I'd heard all about the number 10 shirt, had loved Stainrod and he was my first one really with the long mullet and some stepovers, I was obssessed with him
Couple of videos on the pair of them here
https://www.qprhistory.co.uk/videos/player-profiles/garybannister
https://www.qprhistory.co.uk/videos/player-profiles/john-byrne |  | | |
| Bannister & Byrne on 12:38 - Jul 22 with 1512 views | Gloucs_R |
Two players I adored when I was a lad. Byrne because of his Irish roots and my family being from the Emerald Isle, he was always a favourite. Comes across a lovely guy on Twitter too. Works for the NHS as a physio. |  |
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| Bannister & Byrne on 12:46 - Jul 22 with 1477 views | bosh67 |
| Bannister & Byrne on 12:38 - Jul 22 by Gloucs_R |
Two players I adored when I was a lad. Byrne because of his Irish roots and my family being from the Emerald Isle, he was always a favourite. Comes across a lovely guy on Twitter too. Works for the NHS as a physio. |
I remember Byrne playing for York? Was it York City in a cup match at QPR and thinking, this lad has got everything, he's a typical QPR maverick player. It felt like 5 minutes after that match we signed him. He didn't score an awful lot of goals for us but he assisted in many.
Gary Bannister scored like 1 in 2.5 matches or something and was a bit of goal machine. He also had a bit of a Helguson type leap for a smaller player which made him good in the air, but he was very very quick and his finishing was lethal.
Two wonderful players, amazingly now in their mid 60s. Where does the time go? |  |
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| Bannister & Byrne on 12:49 - Jul 22 with 1467 views | Gloucs_R |
| Bannister & Byrne on 12:46 - Jul 22 by bosh67 |
I remember Byrne playing for York? Was it York City in a cup match at QPR and thinking, this lad has got everything, he's a typical QPR maverick player. It felt like 5 minutes after that match we signed him. He didn't score an awful lot of goals for us but he assisted in many.
Gary Bannister scored like 1 in 2.5 matches or something and was a bit of goal machine. He also had a bit of a Helguson type leap for a smaller player which made him good in the air, but he was very very quick and his finishing was lethal.
Two wonderful players, amazingly now in their mid 60s. Where does the time go? |
Funny, I look at those two how my kids will no doubt look back on Austin one day.....as many of you do with Marsh, Bowles, etc
Great memories of watching Rangers with my Dad. | |
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| Bannister & Byrne on 12:54 - Jul 22 with 1458 views | flynnbo |
| Bannister & Byrne on 12:46 - Jul 22 by bosh67 |
I remember Byrne playing for York? Was it York City in a cup match at QPR and thinking, this lad has got everything, he's a typical QPR maverick player. It felt like 5 minutes after that match we signed him. He didn't score an awful lot of goals for us but he assisted in many.
Gary Bannister scored like 1 in 2.5 matches or something and was a bit of goal machine. He also had a bit of a Helguson type leap for a smaller player which made him good in the air, but he was very very quick and his finishing was lethal.
Two wonderful players, amazingly now in their mid 60s. Where does the time go? |
Yep, Mullery signed him following that York City cup tie, I believe. The strange things that you remember are that Bannisterās sister was a hockey player for England and he had one leg longer than the other. |  | | |
| Bannister & Byrne on 12:56 - Jul 22 with 1453 views | Gloucs_R |
| Bannister & Byrne on 12:54 - Jul 22 by flynnbo |
Yep, Mullery signed him following that York City cup tie, I believe. The strange things that you remember are that Bannisterās sister was a hockey player for England and he had one leg longer than the other. |
As did Darren Peacock! | |
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| Bannister & Byrne on 13:02 - Jul 22 with 1435 views | CiderwithRsie |
| Bannister & Byrne on 12:30 - Jul 22 by daveB |
Byrne was in and out of the team when he left so think they wanted to move him on. With Bannister they signed Falco and Trevor Francis around then plus Mark Stein so again think it was a case of taking the money. Was a shame Bannister went as he was such a good forward.
I loved John Byrne but not sure if he was as good as I think he was, like others I'd heard all about the number 10 shirt, had loved Stainrod and he was my first one really with the long mullet and some stepovers, I was obssessed with him
Couple of videos on the pair of them here
https://www.qprhistory.co.uk/videos/player-profiles/garybannister
https://www.qprhistory.co.uk/videos/player-profiles/john-byrne |
I was also a huge Stainrod fan, in fact I remember thinking "what's the point of that?" when we signed Budgie. But he won me over pretty fast
He wasn't in the Bowles or Marsh class, despite the long blond hair, but I think he was genuinely pretty damn good. After all:
- Full Irish International, 23 caps in the teams that got to Euro 88 and Italia 90 (no appearances in those but tbf I think Stapleton, Quinn and Cascarino were much more jack Charlton's sort of players)
- 120+ appearances and 30 goals for us in the top flight in a period when we more than held our own (rumour has it we got to Wembley but memory is foggy on that)
He always loved a game against Them and played a big part in the Easter Monday 6-0. OK, maybe fans of my age go on about that a bit much but CFC were supposed to be challenging for the title at the time, it's not nothing that Byrne was different class to anyone in their side that day.
I always got the impression that Jim Smith was less impressed with flair players than us fans were and it seemed to me Budgie was usually the fall guy whenever things weren't going well and a change of strikers was in the air. | | | |
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| Bannister & Byrne on 13:33 - Jul 22 with 1355 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| Bannister & Byrne on 12:54 - Jul 22 by flynnbo |
Yep, Mullery signed him following that York City cup tie, I believe. The strange things that you remember are that Bannisterās sister was a hockey player for England and he had one leg longer than the other. |
I had a mate at uni who was a York City fan and he tipped me off that JB was on his way before the league cup game. We'd been tracking him for some time apparently. I met JB shortly thereafter in Natwest in Ealing. He was paying in a lump of wodge of cash that can best be described as, 'sizeable'.
GB was very underrated in my humble, did a great job replacing Clive Allen, whom we sold for Ā£750k. That said, GB was 'only' Ā£200k. Imagine what they'd be worth in today's transfer market. |  |
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| Bannister & Byrne on 13:49 - Jul 22 with 1314 views | LongRanger |
| Bannister & Byrne on 13:33 - Jul 22 by PlanetHonneywood |
I had a mate at uni who was a York City fan and he tipped me off that JB was on his way before the league cup game. We'd been tracking him for some time apparently. I met JB shortly thereafter in Natwest in Ealing. He was paying in a lump of wodge of cash that can best be described as, 'sizeable'.
GB was very underrated in my humble, did a great job replacing Clive Allen, whom we sold for Ā£750k. That said, GB was 'only' Ā£200k. Imagine what they'd be worth in today's transfer market. |
Loved those two, both total heroes for me...Bannister was 5'8.5 tall according to Panini and I always wanted to be the same, was gutted the day I went taller.
That easter bashing they dished out is one for the long term memory | | | |
| Bannister & Byrne on 22:07 - Jul 24 with 741 views | qpr_1968 |
both class acts... | |
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| Bannister & Byrne on 22:18 - Jul 24 with 707 views | colinallcars |
Many years ago I was in SA Rd buying some tickets and I bumped into Gary.
He said ā hello, my name's Bannisterā
I said ā yes, I saw you on the stairsā |  | | |
| Bannister & Byrne on 22:23 - Jul 24 with 707 views | oldmeadoniansR |
Now we are talking. Absolute legends to me. John Byrne probably my favourite ever player. Very skilful. Who can forget when he skipped past 33 Chelsea players in the astral asto pitch and slotted home in our 6-0 thrashing of the scum. Bannister was super clinical but Byrne had the flair. I remember Byrne being injured for a few games coming on as sub Tapping in from roughly three inches and shouting 'I'm back' to the loft. Happy, happy days. | | | |
| Bannister & Byrne on 22:54 - Jul 24 with 659 views | Andybrat |
| Bannister & Byrne on 13:02 - Jul 22 by CiderwithRsie |
I was also a huge Stainrod fan, in fact I remember thinking "what's the point of that?" when we signed Budgie. But he won me over pretty fast
He wasn't in the Bowles or Marsh class, despite the long blond hair, but I think he was genuinely pretty damn good. After all:
- Full Irish International, 23 caps in the teams that got to Euro 88 and Italia 90 (no appearances in those but tbf I think Stapleton, Quinn and Cascarino were much more jack Charlton's sort of players)
- 120+ appearances and 30 goals for us in the top flight in a period when we more than held our own (rumour has it we got to Wembley but memory is foggy on that)
He always loved a game against Them and played a big part in the Easter Monday 6-0. OK, maybe fans of my age go on about that a bit much but CFC were supposed to be challenging for the title at the time, it's not nothing that Byrne was different class to anyone in their side that day.
I always got the impression that Jim Smith was less impressed with flair players than us fans were and it seemed to me Budgie was usually the fall guy whenever things weren't going well and a change of strikers was in the air. |
Stainrod was the one for me, clearly remember a goal against Boro at HQ that kept us in the FA Cup, basically walked past the whole team into the net and forced a replay. In my head it was the year we went to the final.
Loved Byrne and Bannister, wonder what Mr Elbow thinks | | | |
| Bannister & Byrne on 00:02 - Jul 25 with 575 views | SydneyRs |
| Bannister & Byrne on 22:23 - Jul 24 by oldmeadoniansR |
Now we are talking. Absolute legends to me. John Byrne probably my favourite ever player. Very skilful. Who can forget when he skipped past 33 Chelsea players in the astral asto pitch and slotted home in our 6-0 thrashing of the scum. Bannister was super clinical but Byrne had the flair. I remember Byrne being injured for a few games coming on as sub Tapping in from roughly three inches and shouting 'I'm back' to the loft. Happy, happy days. |
I have a vague memory of him dribbling past their defence a second time in that game but messing up the finish.
Chelsea lost 4-0 to West Ham and 6-0 to us in quick succession to blow a very realistic title chance, when them winning the league would have actually meant something rather than them purchasing it later on. | | | |
| Bannister & Byrne on 07:23 - Jul 25 with 397 views | NorthantsHoop |
| Bannister & Byrne on 22:54 - Jul 24 by Andybrat |
Stainrod was the one for me, clearly remember a goal against Boro at HQ that kept us in the FA Cup, basically walked past the whole team into the net and forced a replay. In my head it was the year we went to the final.
Loved Byrne and Bannister, wonder what Mr Elbow thinks |
Simon Stainrod a fantastic player, disappointed when we sold him to Sheff Wed in 1985, he had already started a decent partnership with Bannister who was signed after Clive Allen left in the summer of 1984. Byrne liked him as well sort of similar player to Stainrod, think we signed him from York City. A good partnership with Bannister, they both kept us competitive in the old 1st division. Back in the days when two up front was seen as a key component of the strikers role. |  | | |
| Bannister & Byrne on 08:13 - Jul 25 with 318 views | Sharpediver |
Circa 1985 my brother went into the barbers with a cut out pic of Bannister and said I want one like that.
In 1990s I used to work with Johnny Byrne's elder brother he had a bit of a mullet too.
Now I'm bald I'd love hair like either of them... | | | |
| Bannister & Byrne on 21:16 - Jul 25 with 114 views | 7374Ranger |
They were a very good partnership. The 6-0 game was a special and memorable performance.
Wish we had a pair of strikers like them today (or even just one of them). | | | |
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