This week's Subs Bench sees the duo chat with Bristol Rovers historian Mike Jay about a player that has gone down in Gas folklore.
Alfie Biggs, nicknamed the Baron, spent eight years at the Gas between 1953 and 1961 before a season at Preston North End.
Yet Biggs, from Knowle West, returned to Rovers a year later, staying at Eastville until 1968.
Having made over 200 appearances in both of his spells at the Gas, Biggs was a popular figure but, as Jay reveals, he almost took a very different footballing past.
"Straight away you could tell you had a good footballer on your hands," said Jay about the teenage Biggs.
"Alfie, at a young age, around 16, caught the bus from Knowle and went to Ashton Gate for a trial that had been pre-arranged.
"The story goes that Aflie was being messed around by being made to hang around for the trial.
"He decided enough was enough and caught the bus to Eastville.
"So he left Bristol City in the lurch, turned up at Eastville and said he wanted a trial.
"Straight away they gave him a trial and they'd heard about him already and knew he was a good footballer, so he signed for Bristol Rovers.
"He initially signed as an amateur but it wasn't long before he was a professional."
Biggs' time at Rovers was full of many brilliant tales, to the extent that Jay is set to write a book about the striker, who died in 2012 at the age of 76.
Jay said: "One fantastic story I've heard from ex-players is that Alfie was never a committed trainer.
"He liked playing games but never really put any effort into training.
"There was one day they had to do a cross-country run from Eastville Park over Purdown and back to Eastville Stadium.
"On this particular day, Alfie was the first one back at Eastville Stadium and Bert Tann was there to greet him.
"Bert couldn't believe it because Alfie wasn't a cross-country runner, then one of the Rovers directors pulled up into the car park, got out the car and revealed he'd seen Alfie catching a bus from the top of Muller Road.
"So he'd got on the bus in all his training kit to Eastville pretending to have run!"
