Curbs weren't the only one!! I really rated Rowett. A good solid defender who for me would've been one of the first names on the team sheet had he stayed injury free. I wouldn't personally class him flop though. I saw enough in the games he did play to know he would've been quality for us.
His name was............ Nicola Berti He`s getting past 30 He plays for a team from the lane Tottenham great song. wasnt bad at spurs. i dont consider that he was ever professionally engaged by charlton...we paid him some money for some publicity. he wasnt interested in playing for us worst signing under curbs has to be carl tiler. he was peeeshpot
also...i agree with killer re neil redfern. i went to most of the games that season (all home, 50% away) and redfern is a highlights player (a rene howe shall we say mike t?) ask anyone at Oakwell if he got them promoted single handedly and they`ll laught their faces off. he was great at popping in difficult chances from edge of the D. remember his effort for us against wimbledon at selhurst. however, in order to score these, u need someone else to create them, some way of building up pressure. he couldnt create anything himself because he was far too slow. 1 hollywood ball and 1 ripping volley per game and that was it, total contribution for 90 mins
I worked for a fella who was a Palace fan. He took us to S**tHurst to watch them play Barnsley. I only agreed to go because we were in a box and it was going to be a good p**s up. Anyway, we were sat on the seats outside the box watching the most pathetic game of football I've ever seen. It was 0:0 and I was willing Barnsley to nick it. Up step Neil Redfearn with an absolute thunderbolt from the edge of the box... Queue the delirious, drunken celebrations of little old me. I went proper crazy jumping round like a madman. The numb nuts sat in front of me were giving me pelters, when a suited chap appeared in the doorway of the box and politely asked me to watch the remainder of the game inside... I didn't need asking/telling twice, Especially as they'd just replenished the beer fridge. Barnsley held on for the win and to this day i can't recall celebrating a non Charlton or England goal with such vigor.
Barry Endeamn £20,000 from Watford 1 goal in 20 games. John Sneddon defender signed from Aresenal for £8500 in '66 (cost of three god house0 played about 8 games of which the 1st half of his first game was any good Two Danish players Vigo or what ever and another called Jansen? Boy were they bad. Ray Tumbridge didn't do it for me either full back in 70's Peter Wakeham a goalie from Sinderland who dived over the ball!!!!!!!!!!! Including a penalty by Allen of Palace in hone game in Sept '64 The Kimbles. The winger from Dundee United fat sod no pace, in the 80's who then moved to Man U and scored against us in a game at Old Trafford. Ouch. John Barnes well past his best but we took him on. Why Curbs?
56...im going to defer to you as you obviously been following the addicks much longer than me and interesting to hear some flops from a different era hwvr, john barnes??? got to disagree. he was class for us. remember him bossing a game against liverpool at the valley. completely different player to the winger of Watford and Liverpool days, but his influence in centre mid was valuable. didnt matter he was 20 stone, he knew what was going to happen in a game whilst the others were still lacing their boots.
I honestly never dreamed I'd read the words 'class for us' from someone attempting to describe John Barnes time in a Charlton shirt... . It is a Friday afternoon Cal, so I'll assume you've been out on the sauce during an extended lunch break
ha ha...look i probably have dismissed his bad games from my memory. but i remember watching him boss the field against his old paymasters. he was sensational....overall, no fees, lowish wages, 12 games played, i certainly dont regard him as a flop...
Garth Crooks, there was a man who knew how to finish a career at a club. Whatever we paid him he deserved, compare Garth to Jimmy Floyd Piggybank......... no contest
Let's go back into the mists of time for a moment... (1) Roger Smart, Ralph Milne, and a bloke with amazingly bandy legs who played in midfield in the early 70s (but not for very long). (4) Viggo Jakobsen and Johnny Ostergard. I was going to put them into 3) but Jakobsen displayed so little of anything except a propensity for being caught in possession and an inability to stand up straight in a strong wind that he goes into 4) instead. A bit harsh on Ostergard, who scored one of the best goals I've ever seen vs. Wrexham away but generally he was just way out of his depth. Good on frozen pitches though, as he was an Ice Hockey international...Hugh Macauley, Paul Davies, David Campbell (barring one sensational game vs. Sunderland). (5) Barry Endean, Tony Towner, Terry Brisley.
Most of these fall neatly into one or other of my five categories. Ha Ha, Barry Endean the "Northern Scoring Machine". I thought I was the last person alive on the face of the planet to remember him. He was an awkward, gangling oaf who kept tripping over the ball or over his own legs. Scored a lot for Watford, though. Hey, I won't hear a word against the Kimble twins. Both had solid careers, and Alan played a great part in Cambridge Utd's rise from non-league to within a point or two of making it into the top division. Then was a regular with Wimbledon at the top level. We would have been better off with him than without. The JFH of his day. A total embarrassment, sad to watch that tub of lard puffing and blowing down the wing. With the horror story of our post-Curbs decline, it is easy to forget that Saint Curbs dropped some real clangers in his later years.
Don't recall Barnes ever playing on the wing in his stint with us. Agree he was a poor signing though...
Maurice Setters. I remember his very first pass going to an opposition player, and it got worse from there. Tremendous player in his time though. Regrettably, that was some time before he joined us.
Mention of Setters reminds me of Colin Appleton. Wonderful player for Leicester alongside Frank McLintock but when he joined us his legs had totally gone. He was only 30 but in those days there no was no sports medicine in the modern sense and the tackles came flying in from all angles so the legs took some terrible punishment. Just checked on Wikipedia and found he played 28 games for us. Not sure how because what I can remember it was like playing with ten men. He just stood in the midfield watching the game ebb and flow around him. Sad, really.
Whilst on this era, and he as by no means a flop, anyone (tewkes and 56, you will) - remember Charlie Wright? - for those of you a bit younger, he was our goalie in the sixties and when he got a bit bored he'd end up climbing on the bar- and pretending to be an ape - he was a nutter - good goalie though.
Why is this poster polluting my thread about flops by mentioning a legend? Unless he can answer this question I suggest he is suspended for three days: Wright was one of our only two players to have played for Hong Kong. Who was the other? Clue: same era.
