Quote Originally Posted by Moodybluebird View Post
Ah Dickie Rooks, now there's a blast from the past. Played for the wurzels too if memory serves me right.

I'm sure somebody on here will know if any other centre half has scored a hat-trick against us although I don't know of any.

There can't be too many centre halves who've scored a hat-trick full stop but I remember Chris Nichol scored 4 times in one match, 2 for his own side and 2 own goals !
Sadly Middlesbrough won it 4-3, after we'd been 3-1 up. And Frank Parsons saved penalty, and then went missing and we let in three, two were his fault. He was dropped for the following week's game and Jim Eadie brought in, and only played about 5 more games for us in the next two seasons. I was in the Canton stand so saw close up how we threw it away.