[St Charles Owl]

Dave Rushbury, young central defender in the 70s who srepped in when Ally Rob was injured. Looked a class act to me but couldn't keep his place and wss eventually sold, I think to Sheff Wed.

Correct, spent 3 years with us making 112 appearances.  This was around the time when I got my first season ticket and we were a very poor team in 1976 when he joined us.  Big Jack came in as manager in 1977 and turned us around but Rushbury left for Swansea the season before we got promoted back to Division 2 in 1980.  I remember him getting one of the goals in the 3rd replay in the 3rd round of the FA Cup against Arsenal!!  We drew that game 3-3 at Filbert St and this was the middle game of three replays played in Leicester in a tie that took 5 matches to find a winner!!!

Did you rate him, Charlie? (Doesn't sound as if Big Jack did.) I thought he was cool and too good a footballer for a "no.6".

I'm not sure, I was quite young back then!! I remember him signing and thinking he was a definite upgrade and he was a regular while he was with us but apart from that I don't know. We paid 60k for him, so back in 1976 and with us in Div 3 that sounds like a bit of a splash!! Don't remember why we sold him to Swansea either or even if we got a fee but in the seasons he was with us we finished distinctly mid table!! Our promotion year he was replaced by Mark Smith, a local academy lad who went on to make nearly 300 apps for us and we also by then had the likes of Mick Pickering and Peter Shirtliff in the squad as well, so he was obviously down the pecking order.