Graeme Wiles has nominated Dave Thomas to be included in the Hall of Fame.

Graeme wrote the article below and was assisted by Geoff Wiles (a Rangers fan for over 40 years)

Rangers were looking for a left-winger and were thought to be about to buy Les Barrett from Fulham. Then at Fulham, Martyn Busby broke his leg on the 17th of October. Gordon Jago then switched ideas and bought Dave Thomas who was a right-winger from Burnley for £165,000 to replace Busby.

He (Dave Thomas) made his debut the following Saturday at home to Sunderland. Rangers won 3-2, but for the next four games Thomas was so ineffective that they dropped him for the Portsmouth game. Jago then brought him back for the next game at home to Oxford and played him on the left wing.

As he was right footed it seemed a ridiculous thing to do. Slowly he settled down in this position. By the turn of the year he began looking like a good player and was starting to score. From February onwards he ran riot down the left flank and in a period of 16 games (Won 13 Drew 2 and Lost 1) Rangers scored 33 goals and conceded 6, six of which were scored by Thomas.

This helped Q.P.R to get promoted to the top division for the second time in their history. Rangers started the following season slowly and only won 2 of the first 11 games.

It was during the 12th game of the season at Wolves, when Parkes threw the ball to Thomas who ran the length of the field, crossed it to Stan Bowles and he put it in the back of the net. This was shown on T.V over and over again as the ball went from goal to goal in about 10 seconds.

Suddenly Rangers were being noticed and Thomas was now seen to be one of the star players in the league. Dave Thomas was extremely quick and had the ability to push the ball past the defender and run. This meant that he could either cut inside or go wide.

He scored some great long-range goals when he cut inside and just hit it like a howitzer! One at West Ham and one in the first minute at Leicester come to mind. It wasn't long before he was in the England international side.

In a two-year period (1975-1976) he won his 8 caps. Again had he been with a bigger club he probably would have got more. Dave Thomas was an integral part of probably Rangers best ever side. His crossing, corners, pace and his shooting from distance were all part of his all round game.

Dave was a great sight pounding down the line with his socks rolled down and will be remembered with fondness by all Rangers supporters of that era but not by many right-backs who he terrorised. In all he played 182 games for The Rangers scoring 29 goals before leaving for Goodison Park.