Game in which Mark Grew got injured?

[arthur_sir]

Does anyone remember a game in which Grewy got injured and Trevor Wood replaced him? It was around 89/90 at Vale Park and I seem to remember it was against a south coast team, maybe Pompey or Plymouth.

 

Any help regarding team/scorer/goal scorers would be appreciated.

 

Cheers

[bogie12secs]

Pretty sure was Rotherham at home 1 all draw. long time ago tho lol.

[sandyford_valiant]

Rotherham I was the mascot.

[Santa]

There was a game when Grew got injured at Oxford, first day of the 90/91 season. I think he might have stayed on that day though. We lost 5-2.

 

Wood played the next game and kept his place for a few months until Oldham away he went off injured on the Boundary Park plastic. on that day Paul Millar went in goal.

[arthur_sir]

Cheers.

 

Any idea what season it was?

[The Kalamazoo Kid]

Pretty sure was Rotherham at home 1 all draw. long time ago tho lol.

 

Yeah, think that was a couple of games into the start of the 86-87 season (maybe even the first home game?) so it would have been August/September 1986. Not sure if Andy Jones went in goal to replace the injured Grew, and was it Richard O'Kelly that scored as he had a purple patch of goals in his first few games for us (got 5 in his first 5 games, or something like that).

 

Grew was then out for a long time. We signed Alex Williams as his replacement (good keeper from what I remember) but he, too, got injured and had to retire. Did we then get Jim Arnold back out of retirement for a short spell to cover?

[londonvale]

didnt he get injured first match of a s eason..on debut v mansfield and andy jones went in goal..think we managed 1-1?

[Tosh]

It was August 30th 1986, our first home game against Rotherham, think Grewy did his knee in and was out for most of that season if not all of it, Andy Jones went in goal and we also lost Alan Webb for a period during the game while he got a bad cut to his head stitched up but he returned later bandaged up and covered in blood.

[gavcradd]

Wood played the next game and kept his place for a few months until Oldham away he went off injured on the Boundary Park plastic. on that day Paul Millar went in goal.

 

1990? Really, 23 years ago? Wow, I remember that day clearly - I was only 10, sitting in the upper tier of a stand along the side of the pitch, Trevor Wood in goal to my right. He gets injured but tries to carry on, eventually takes a goal kick and collapses onto one knee, then is carried off.

 

Now If only I could remember where I left my slippers...

[arthur_sir]

Thanks for the help but it wasn't the Rotherham game I'm thinking of, that's too early.

 

Definitely either 88/89/90, any other ideas? Could have been Grew replacing Wood instead.

[pjg1876]

I know he got injured once against Portsmouth when he was kicked by Guy Whiitingham. Can't remember whether he came off or not though. Most probably at Vale Park on 28th April 1990 in a 1-1 draw and Darren Beckford scored.

[arthur_sir]

I know he got injured once against Portsmouth when he was kicked by Guy Whiitingham. Can't remember whether he came off or not though. Most probably at Vale Park on 28th April 1990 in a 1-1 draw and Darren Beckford scored.

 

I think that could be the game. Thanks.

[Marmaduke]

Wood played the next game and kept his place for a few months until Oldham away he went off injured on the Boundary Park plastic. on that day Paul Millar went in goal.

 

Wood did OK as I remember. He made one great save and wasn't at fault for the goals though we lost the game.

[robf]

It was August 30th 1986, our first home game against Rotherham, think Grewy did his knee in and was out for most of that season if not all of it, Andy Jones went in goal and we also lost Alan Webb for a period during the game while he got a bad cut to his head stitched up but he returned later bandaged up and covered in blood.

 

I remember that game too. At the time, it seemed like Rudgie was having bad luck with injuries to keepers because Alex Williams was always getting crocked too. With Grew injured just a few games into his Vale career it looked like it would be two injury-prone goalies in a row, but thankfully Mark bounced back to make 200-odd appearances.