Your ****test Charlton X1

It had to be done in recognition of the other thread. Limit it only to players that you have seen,

Here is mine;

Lily Thuram

Dan Seabourne

Danny Butterfield

Martin Crainie

Graeme Murty

Amdy Faye

Souleymayne Diawara

Lloyd Sam

Milne (Ralph to his mates )

Pawel Abbot

Andy Gray

 

Jim Stannard
Dietmar Bruck
Ray Tumbridge
Peter Shaw
Traore
Hugh McAuley
Amdy Faye
Billy Landsdowne
Ralph Milne
Barry Endean
Dick Plumb

 

GK - Coco the Clown (Thuram)

RB - Butterfield
CB - Traore
CB - Cory Gibbs (not that anyone did see him)
LB - Kelly Youga, (never liked him, I'm sorry I know others did but for me he wasalways a liability)


CM - Omar Pouso
CM - Amdy Faye

ST - Chris Iwelumo (couldn't time a jump to save his life)
ST - Marcus Bent
ST - Hasselbaink
ST - Reza


Yes quite an attacking formation

 

GK - Ross Worner (a bit harsh, but I never saw Thuram play)

LB - Dan Seabourne (because his performance at home to Ipswich is the worst I've ever seen from a Charlton player)
CB - Gary Doherty
CB - Miguel Llera (I will love him forever for that Swindon Boxing Day equaliser but he could be such a liability)
RB - Simon Francis

LM - Kyle Reid (started well but got worse and worse. His right foot was comically bad)
CM - Alan McCormack
CM - Emanuel Frimpong
RM - Keith Gillespie (over the hill, the most pointless loan in history)

CF - Izale MacLeod
CF - Andy Gray

 

I think Francis gets a bad wrap, yeah he wasn't class but he was following on from Richardson who had had a cracking season, anyone following on would be bad, same as when Solly goes (when he retires aged 34 having played 1000 games for us) whoever follows will have a tough act.

And Llera i will always rememeber for the Swindon goal AND when he took one for the team at the Playoff semi final against Swindon, taking down Charlie Austin in the 120th minute sacrificing his possible place at Wembley.

 

After the carthouse got turned on the halfway line.

Simon Francis had it in his locker, but it was a difficult time for the club in general. I read in the summer that a Premiership side were chasig him, though my memory lets me down as to who.

 

We have certainly had a collection of very bad full backs in the last 6-7 seasons. I nominated the likes of Pardew's best mate from Reading, Graeme 'the crock' Murty, but what about other luminaries like Kelly Youga, Danny Butterfingers, and Greg "Shank it to Row Z" Halford

 

P.S:

More mature followers like dick, mike, typical & AHLL might remember a player called Mike Small (a real oxymoron, if ever there was one....) from our exile season at Upton Park

For those who never saw the guy,recall the Bond film Live and Let Die... & think of the way Roger Moore kills the main villain.

 

What do you think has been worse - full backs or strikers?

 

Strikers post Curbs, without a doubt. We spent £10m alone on the likes of Hasselbaink, Varney, Izzy McLeod, Andy Gray...then you get onto the real chaff....Hayes...Benson....Abbott...Match fixer Sodge....Carlton Cole.....Simon Church

 

Carlton Cole was a curbs signing, but yep agree with you fully. We really have gone through some tripe to get to a Vetokele - which makes it all the sweeter when you watch him.

 

DON'T YOU DARE PUT AKPO DOWN AS BAD!

That Swindon game when he was on his own for 60 minutes up top as we had 9 men, I'll always remember him running and running and running, and then practically crawling off, man was a machine that day, and ever since then I have respected him over must other strikers... his brother though yeah, he's a match fixer and was over rated

 

Wasn't Akpo also involved with match fixing? I reckon Efe kept the money under his doo rag.

 

If Akpo was done in, my bad, but I still respected him as a player, he didn't seem to do anything stupid and get sent off like Sam, Sam was defo fixing it when for us, think of the stupid mistakes or sending offs he got?

 

I remember him at Millwall resembling a statue. It was amongst the worst displays i have ever seen by a Charlton player. Miguel Llera's display at Colchester was up there too.

 

Surely the strikers would have to be Tresor Kandol and Frankc Nouble

 

Wood
Francis
Evina
Berry
Llera
Mcormack
Pardew
Milne
Walker
Andy Jones
Goldorp

 

My worst nightmare looks something like this...:

GK: Lily Turam

RB: Jimmy Traore
CB: Souleymane Diawara
CB: Phill Chapple
LB: Cedric Evina

RM: Chris Bart-Williams
CM: Brendan O'Connel
CM: Neil Redfearn
LM: Ricky Otto

CF: Carl Leaburn
CF: Kim Grant

Subs:
Mark Bright
Jimmy Floyd Hasslewank
Francis Jeffers
Carlton Cole
Pawel Abbott
Amdy Faye
Andy Gray

 

Agree with most of that list, but I'm not having Hayes on it. His finishing was weak but he was a very good link-up player for us until Yann arrived. Watch BWP's goal at home to Exeter for the best example of what he and Hayes together could do.

 

Franco and I are going to have a falling out over the merits of Super Carlo. The guy was vastly underrated and will always be a legend.

I thought Mark Bright did a good job for us; his goal (deflected off Jamie Clapham) at Ipswich in the play-offs is one of my fondest memories.