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Just looking for any of our fans of a certain vintage who might remember him from his time at hearts ,he was a distant relative but always called him uncle Tommy,another poster was sound enough to post a wee snippet from a hearts book on the furthest travelled thread, just thought some fans could remember what he was like as a player?

 

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Remember him well - good tricky wee winger. Wish we had someone of his ilk now

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Gonny no dae that...I thought it was another RIP thread.

He passed away in 1993,

 

49 years old :vrface:

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Gonny no dae that...I thought it was another RIP thread.

If we had kick back in 93 it would have been, unfortunately he passed away in Australia 1993 from a heart attack.

 

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He passed away in 1993,

 

49 years old :vrface:

 

I wasn't trying to be "funny", I honestly didn't know that.

 

There's no end to it!

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Don't remember him from Hearts (too early for me) but do remember him from his days at Dundee Utd.

 

Came back to haunt Hearts right enough in 74

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It's no problem a long time ago now ,I only met him once when he comes home bout 91/92 when I was 14 I was star struck even though I never saw him play just heard the stories from my dad, a top bloke , but I was pretty shy so never really grilled him for info on his time with is.

 

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He passed away in 1993,49 years old :vrface:[/quot Oops sorry didn't know.
  

 

I wasn't trying to be "funny", I honestly didn't know that. There's no end to it!

 

Forget it.

 

You both didn't know, that's obvious.

 

Not a big thing.

 

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Tommy Traynor was a Hearts regular when I first started going to matches in the early 60s. I really liked him and even tried to copy his hairstyle (I was only 11). What I remember most about him was the way he always stuck his arm up in the air as he was about to cross the ball, a bit like Dennis Law did after scoring! I was quite disappointed when he left, to join Dundee Utd, I think.

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Good stuff, my gran always said his hair was always immaculate and well dressed ,think that impressed her more than him playing football for hearts lol

 

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jambos are go!

A very good player who could play on either wing but played mainly on the left. Tricky with an awkward but effective style to get past defenders. Latterly he had a succesful spell as a striker and his transfer to Dundee United was bewildering. Credit to himself and the club.

 

His spikey haircut was a bit different but tame by todays standards.

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A very good player who could play on either wing but played mainly on the left. Tricky with an awkward but effective style to get past defenders. Latterly he had a succesful spell as a striker and his transfer to Dundee United was bewildering. Credit to himself and the club.

 

His spikey haircut was a bit different but tame by todays standards.

Cheers[emoji106] good to hear he seems to have been well thought of by the fans.i knew he moved to utd , didn't know he banged in a hat trick against us in his first game back against us though.[emoji34]

 

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A nice story I was told about Tommy was that when hearts came to his house in Bonnybridge to ask him to sign , John Cummings and Tommy walker I think, spoke to him and they had a sort of gentleman's agreement that he would come into tynecastle and sign, a day or so later Sean fallon and the local priest came to his house to talk to him about signing for celtic , but he wouldn't hear them out told them he'd shook hands with Mr Cummings and Mr walker and that he was signing for the hearts ,he was a celtic fan growing up so they were well pissed off he wouldn't go to them

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Remember Tommy Traynor well skipping down the touch line holding his cuffs Denis Law style.

He was a bit lightweight but he was a fans favourite.

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Son Of Anarchy

I love seeing the old adverts in the programs.

Funny that, me too. Remember never really paying them any attention at the time but now they bring a smile.

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Brilliant lads thanks a lot for your posts on Tommy, does anybody remember a fairs cup tie v laussane sports which took 3 games to finish as there were no away goals, I'm sure he might have got 2 or 3 goals over the games?

 

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Looking at Darin's programme posts it makes me think of Scandinavian players that played at that era.

 

Jensen & Miller, Morton had Nielsen, Jensen & Bartram. Persson at Rangers.

I'm sure there were a few more. It it seems they stopped coming over after this time.

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I liked Tommy Traynor. He was fast, tricky and a good crosser. He probably suffered because we had both Johnny Hamilton and Roald Jensen on the books at the same time.

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The Real Maroonblood

Remember Tommy Traynor well skipping down the touch line holding his cuffs Denis Law style.

He was a bit lightweight but he was a fans favourite.

This.
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"Tricky Tommy Traynor" was one of my early favourites. TT and Johnny Hamilton on the wings meant we could exploit the width of what was then one of the widest pitches in the country

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millerjames398

Before my time as a player but I was always told he was a distant relative of ours too, on my grandmothers side.

 

All that generation are dead now but will ask my brother who has done a bit of genealogy.

That's quite interesting,tommy married my grans niece she was from a wee village called Cowie just outside stirling ,he was from Bonnybridge ,but my gran moved from Cowie when she was a young child so lost touch with a lot of her family there,so I never really got to know them, and I was just told of my "uncle tommy" who played for the hearts, until early 90s when I met him when he came to visit,really nice guy, but as I posted earlier I was a bit shy so never really asked him a lot about hearts and his time with us,wish I had now as he passed away a year or so after his visit.

 

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Looking at Darin's programme posts it makes me think of Scandinavian players that played at that era.

 

Jensen & Miller, Morton had Nielsen, Jensen & Bartram. Persson at Rangers.

I'm sure there were a few more. It it seems they stopped coming over after this time.

 

Johansen and Sorenson (goalkeeper) played for Morton and Rangers and Hearts had Rene Moller.

 

Another who was at Morton was John Madsen who moved to Hibs.

 

Henning Boel played for Aberdeen and Finn Dossing a striker who scored 76 goals in 115 games for Dundee Utd.

 

There were one or two decent Icelandic players around then too one being Edvalsson who played for Celtic.

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"Tricky Tommy Traynor" was one of my early favourites. TT and Johnny Hamilton on the wings meant we could exploit the width of what was then one of the widest pitches in the country

Tricky tommy...I like that, those type of wingers are a dying breed now a days ,I take it he was a sort of John colquhoun of his day?

 

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http://www.londonhearts.com/scores/games/196802171.html

Plays for the famous in this game, but doesn't score.

Famous 1968 Cup Tie at Tannadice, 6-5 scoreline

 

Thanks mate I've seen this before but didn't realise he played, my dad said it might have been one of the first game utd and Dundee both played at home, think Dundee played rangers at dens park.

 

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http://www.londonhearts.com/scores/games/196802171.html

Plays for the famous in this game, but doesn't score.

Famous 1968 Cup Tie at Tannadice, 6-5 scoreline

 

Thanks mate I've seen this before but didn't realise he played, my dad said it might have been one of the first game utd and Dundee both played at home, think Dundee played rangers at dens park.

 

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Thanks mate I've seen this before but didn't realise he played, my dad said it might have been one of the first game utd and Dundee both played at home, think Dundee played rangers at dens park.

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I don't know how to post links but if you watch Hearts 90 goals v Hibs on YouTube there is great footage of Tommy near the start in the 5-3 game in 1964, including him heading in the 5th goal!

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I don't know how to post links but if you watch Hearts 90 goals v Hibs on YouTube there is great footage of Tommy near the start in the 5-3 game in 1964, including him heading in the 5th goal!

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Thanks for posting, trouble is once you start watching it you can't stop till you've seen them all!

 

Yeah, that's what I have just been doing but it brings back some great memories.

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thanks for posting that.remember Tommy Traynor well a hearts great imo.Brought back great times.Tiny Wharton the ref in the 5-3 game.
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I've seen this game on 90 goals before, great to see him score in a good old fashioned hibs pumping, can't wait for normal service to resume next season IF they come up , still hope there's a collapse before the end of season.

 

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Thanks to the folk who've posted there thoughts on Tommy so far , good to hear he was well thought of by fans who got to see him play, and the tales my dad told me about him weren't just family bias

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gowestjambo

Tommy Traynor was a Hearts regular when I first started going to matches in the early 60s. I really liked him and even tried to copy his hairstyle (I was only 11). What I remember most about him was the way he always stuck his arm up in the air as he was about to cross the ball, a bit like Dennis Law did after scoring! I was quite disappointed when he left, to join Dundee Utd, I think.

 

I remember Tommy Traynor well. always had a Buzz cut flat top hairstyle iirc. He did go to Dundee Utd, and I think we swapped him for Wilson Wood.

 

Dundee Utd certainly got the better of the deal!!

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Francis Albert

Tricky tommy...I like that, those type of wingers are a dying breed now a days ,I take it he was a sort of John colquhoun of his day?

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more of an out and out winger. My memory is of tommy and johnny rarely straying far from the touchline but obviously from the goals they scored they must have at times. Tommy Walker's controversial switch from the trafitional 3-2-5 to what was then considered a defensive 4-2-4 spelled the beginning of the end for having two specialist wingers in a side. JC like most of TTs successors (roald jensen and rab prentice perhaps excepted) was a wide player but much more involved in the centre - a combination winger and inside forward

 

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more of an out and out winger. My memory is of tommy and johnny rarely straying far from the touchline but obviously from the goals they scored they must have at times. Tommy Walker's controversial switch from the trafitional 3-2-5 to what was then considered a defensive 4-2-4 spelled the beginning of the end for having two specialist wingers in a side. JC like most of TTs successors (roald jensen and rab prentice perhaps excepted) was a wide player but much more involved in the centre - a combination winger and inside forward

 

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Cheers Francis good to hear your thoughts, imagine playing 3 at the back with 5 forwards in today's game, folk would act like there was revolution in the air[emoji23]

 

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Remember him well, tricky left winger. When John Hagart took over we lost 4 - 1 at home to Aberdeen, then the next week at Tannadice he destroyed us playing for United 5 - 0, October 1974 I think.

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more of an out and out winger. My memory is of tommy and johnny rarely straying far from the touchline but obviously from the goals they scored they must have at times. Tommy Walker's controversial switch from the trafitional 3-2-5 to what was then considered a defensive 4-2-4 spelled the beginning of the end for having two specialist wingers in a side. JC like most of TTs successors (roald jensen and rab prentice perhaps excepted) was a wide player but much more involved in the centre - a combination winger and inside forward

 

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2-3-5 rather than 3-2-5.  Not that it matters.  I remember the stick Hearts got in the press (what's new) when they changed to the "ultra defensive" 4-2-4.  I've been wracking my ageing brain since this thread started to remember Tommy Traynor's nickname.  I don't remember it being used by the fans but I remember Willie Wallace shouting to him at the back of the stand and I'm sure he called him Wispy.  Maybe someone else can confirm.  I only heard him called that once despite the fact I used to stand outside the players entrance every home game getting my programme signed.  I'm sure the players must have been sick of the sight of me.

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2-3-5 rather than 3-2-5.  Not that it matters.  I remember the stick Hearts got in the press (what's new) when they changed to the "ultra defensive" 4-2-4.  I've been wracking my ageing brain since this thread started to remember Tommy Traynor's nickname.  I don't remember it being used by the fans but I remember Willie Wallace shouting to him at the back of the stand and I'm sure he called him Wispy.  Maybe someone else can confirm.  I only heard him called that once despite the fact I used to stand outside the players entrance every home game getting my programme signed.  I'm sure the players must have been sick of the sight of me.

Was "wispy" not Willie Wallaces nickname

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Was "wispy" not Willie Wallaces nickname

Yes. He was apparently very soft spoken and had Wispy stitched into the Giant woollen Fishermans Polo necks they wore  for training in those days.

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