Davey Hodgson scored his 1st Boro goal this day 1979

[Erimus74]

When Boro travelled to QPR for a 1st divison fixture

Manager John Neal gave Hodgy the No12 shirt for the 3rd time that season, including one game when he started as No9, it was his 4th appearence

John Craggs had picked up an injury in the 2nd half & was replaced by Hodgy, who promptly scored the equaliser to bring the score level at 1-1, the game finished a draw & stopping our losing away run, which went back to the 27th October

John Neals team

Jim Stewart
John Craggs
Ian Bailey
John Mahoney
Stuey Boam
Tony McAndrew
Terry Cochrane
Mark Proctor
Billy Ashcroft
Micky Burns
Davey Armstrong
Sub
Dave Hodgson

 

[indeedido]

I loved Hodgy, smashing player and lad.

 

[Wiseman_Vaughn]

Him and proc really added Panache to a really good team!

 

[Erimus74]

I loved Hodgy, smashing player and lad.

Brilliant 1st spell, not so the 2nd spell mind, 2 & a half games

 

[Erimus74]

Him and proc really added Panache to a really good team!

A team that should have changed our history

 

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One from my collection of press photos, Hodgy trying to get hot headed Cochrane from getting a good beating

 

[Transitarmy]

Hodgson in the Holgate.

 

[Erimus74]

Hodgson in the Holgate.

v WBA FAC 1981, we won 1-0 with an Ian Bailey 35 yarder thunderbolt that nestled in the top righthand corner of the Net, with the keeper clutching at thin air as the holgate suckled the ball in

Well that's what he'll be telling his grandkids with no cameras there on the day, we all know it was a daisy cutter from just outside the box were the keeper could have throw his cap on it but somehow it went under Goddens body for the only goal if the game

 

[zzzzz]

Top player and throughly decent man. How he coped with George Reynolds at Darlo and maintain his decency only he knows.
He has some really scary stories none of which can be told while George is still with us.

 

[Wiseman_Vaughn]

Top player and throughly decent man. How he coped with George Reynolds at Darlo and maintain his decency only he knows.
He has some really scary stories none of which can be told while George is still with us.

Heard some of those too

 

[Erimus74]

Baileys winning goal that Hodgy watched from the holgate end

 

[Canyoudigit]

Brings back great memories that last picture Erimus,superb,.Hodgy was my first Boro hero,I was gutted when he left.

 

[Maccarone]

Great era for me, Hodgson, Proctor, Armstrong etc, should have actually achieved a lot more than we did, the team was very good.

 

[zzzzz]

Great era for me, Hodgson, Proctor, Armstrong etc, should have actually achieved a lot more than we did, the team was very good.

Big Jack always said we were two signings away from the being Champions. Nobody liked coming to Ayresome. We played hard fit solid football. As a schoolkid kid watching it was magical, for me better times than the Robson era.

 

[Erimus74]

Big Jack always said we were two signings away from the being Champions. Nobody liked coming to Ayresome. We played hard fit solid football. As a schoolkid kid watching it was magical, for me better times than the Robson era.

Agree

 

[Erimus74]

He made his Boro debut away to Forest September 1978 in a 2-2 draw