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22-08-2015 09:32 AM #2
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22-08-2015 09:43 AM #3
A player who would be worth a fortune these days. A wand of a left foot. A privilege to have seen him play.
You can tell by the comments under the story how he well he was respected.
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22-08-2015 10:00 AM #4
It's amazing to think that a player that played in a good Hibs team then Arsenal and Villa, has to work as a Taxi Driver for a living.
I wonder how much a player as good as he was would be making today.
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22-08-2015 10:27 AM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-08-2015 11:05 AM #6
Echoed echoed and echoed.
He was my first Hibs hero, and still up there as my favourite ever.
My oldest played with one of his sons in London. Am I jealous?
Too freaking right :)
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22-08-2015 11:22 AM #7
Fabulous memories. Favourite came from the TV. David Coleman waxing lyrical at Cropley's passing(Elland Road) as we played Leeds off the park twice in the UEFA cup. "You don't see passes like that every day" Yes you did!
I've used this before but he was put practicing his golf at Portobello and Towerbank were playing. I got a "Well played wee man" from someone I'd having trouble talking to today such was his status.
Interesting wee anecdote about the shooting targets at Ibrox too.
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22-08-2015 11:34 AM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-08-2015 11:41 AM #9
Alex, and big brother Tam used to be regulars in the Sunday morning kick about on the pitches up from Portobello Golf course back in the mid 60's when we were all about 14/15 years old.
It was all very informal ,no refs, strips or anything. We'd all be wearing gym shoes or baseball boots except Alex.
He'd have his football boots with inch long steel studs. He did'nt take prisoners even then !
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22-08-2015 12:00 PM #11
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Talk about great players. Crops used to live in Tarvit Street when playing for Hibs and sometimes came down to the Meadows for a kick about with everyone else on a Sunday. I was a few years younger than him and still remember how small and slight he was "in real life" but a giant of a player on the field. What a talent.
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22-08-2015 12:11 PM #12
Crops and Pat Stanton are my all time favourite players. I met him at a wedding a number of years back and was awe struck. Then quite dumbfounded one night to find myself being driven by him in a taxi. If it had been Pele, I wouldn't have felt more honoured.
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22-08-2015 12:49 PM #13
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22-08-2015 01:17 PM #15
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22-08-2015 01:49 PM #16
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22-08-2015 01:56 PM #17
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Crops v s allen night & day apart. Heart of a lion gracefull and skillfull.his brother Tam was a coach at Nittengrange a great guy.I bet SA will not be driving taxies when he chucks it AC made it down south enough said
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22-08-2015 02:04 PM #18
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I was at his book launch at ER and a group of Arsenal fans turned up to pay tribute.
Also I am certain that I read in shoot or a similar magazine that Ossie Ardiles described him as his most difficult opponent in a Q&A.
Nobody ever believes me when I say that but I am 100% certain. Anyone else see that or am I going mad???
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22-08-2015 02:44 PM #19
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Maybe this is why my generation moan about the mediocrity that's being accepted at Easter Road the past several years and the blind faith defence by many of any criticism of current players. It really is difficult watching some of our players (especially defenders) this past few seasons being held up as great signings /re signings. Jeez..
As examples, Stanton and Cropley were top drawer midfielders who were considered highly skilled players in their day. But - they were fierce, committed, hard tacklers too and it's no exaggeration to say they could easily teach some current defenders on how to time a tackle. Because, they had technique and bottle..
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22-08-2015 02:44 PM #20This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
....and Stanton, and Blackley.
Pat put it down to Aberdeen's Chairman and son more or less running the SFA in the early 80's (remember he was there as Ferguson's assistant, so experienced both aspects).
Read the last chapter of his book "The Quiet Man", and he's in no doubt that if Hibs had had that kind of representation in Glasgow we would never have suffered some of the SFA's more ridiculous suspensions.
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22-08-2015 03:26 PM #21
An exceptional talent that I had the privilege to see as a young teenager.
He was also in a team of the most talented footballers that have graced Easter Road.
Pretty sure this link has been posted many times but I never tire of watcing.
Crops goal is something special.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzt4r_IIKVM
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22-08-2015 04:14 PM #22This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Also, anyone who is hard enough to break John Greig's toe in a tackle has my utmost admiration. I don't think it was deliberate BTW. Cropley just went in hard.
He was quite fearless for a slightly built guy. Tremendous player. Even had a team named after him - Liberton Cropley.
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22-08-2015 06:04 PM #23This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Loved him great player and central to a great footballing Hibs team. Best I have seen by some way.
"I did not need any persuasion to play for such a great club, the Hibs result is still one of the first I look for"
Sir Matt Busby
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22-08-2015 07:15 PM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Based on your very detailed description of those players and your comments on your generation, I'd guess your a similar age to my old man, who often waxes lyrical about the Tornadoes, 40 odd years later can rhyme them off without hesitation. And also is rather underwhelmed with the current lot.
also, Alex and Tam are my dad's cousins
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22-08-2015 07:50 PM #25
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22-08-2015 07:58 PM #27This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We were in the opposite far corner of the backgreen. No really a green at all evil gravel stuff and four metal poles every 12ft or so.
"I did not need any persuasion to play for such a great club, the Hibs result is still one of the first I look for"
Sir Matt Busby
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22-08-2015 08:52 PM #28
Alex Cropley was a great player, hard,greater passer and good shot on him too.
Don't know if he was very quick or not but was supremely fit and got up and down the park easily
I think that the route of travel since the Tornadoes has been pretty steadily downhill with the odd blip.
I think one of the telling factors in that time is how relatively few players we have picked up from other Scottish clubs that made an impact at ER.
Certainly post Alex Miller days they have been few and far between.
I count myself privileged to have watched the Tornadoes and there style of football and some of their games will stay with me till I die.
GgtthLast edited by BSEJVT; 23-08-2015 at 10:35 AM.
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22-08-2015 09:47 PM #30
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