The worst I have seen:- GK: Lenny Pidegely RB: Patrick Blondeau CB: Leigh Bromby CB: Ramon Vega LB: Matt Sadler MF: Dominic Blizzard (bambi on ice) MF: Jamie Hand MF: Clint Easton ST: Steve Kabba CF: Devon White ST: Joe Garner (she fell ova) Jordan Stewart, Gary Fisken, Nathan Lowndes and Iwelumo all narrowly miss out
Mitch, you have named a side of recent players of utter mediocrity but perhaps you are not old enough to have watched true dreadfulness! Your side above would have beaten many of the teams that Watford put out in the 60s & early 70s (promotion years excepted). When I look back and think of the likes of Roger Hugo, Charlie Woods, Brian Greenhalgh, John Hamilton, Guy Bristow, David Pygall, Andy Porter, Alf Stokes, Peter Walker and goalies like Frank George and Peter Goy, ........I shudder when recalling such awfulness. For every Endean, Blissett, Helguson & Graham, we have had a Fraser, Ryden, Kenning & Lawton. For every Bolton, Sims, McClelland & Mariappa there played in the same shirt (figuratively) a Meldrum, Packer, Markham & Pate. For every Jennings, Rankin, Sherwood & Coton, there were such aberrations between the posts as Gibbs, Dalrymple, Cowen & Edmonds. I would suggest that we have had very few players in the last 35 years that have plumbed the depths of those above that I have mentioned, and there were many, many more, the memories of which I have mercifully erased. No doubt there are those Watford fans who go back to days of the Blues and even more atrocious players (from the side that had to apply for re-election in the early 50s, perhaps?).
Crikey, there's a name from my childhood. He was 2 years below me at primary school (St Meryl) and never stood out in playground football, apart from being one of those lads who filled out young and could bustle about about and knock some of us more skillful players off the ball. I couldn't believe it when he got signed . Did he actually play first team football?
Guy Bristow made 18 first team appearances for us (& came on 5 times as substitute). In fact all those I listed above made first team appearances (of varying numbers but unvarying quality!). Bristow became a milkman in Sarrat after his lengthy and distinguished career (some of which was in Norway). Lloydinio, if Nathan Ellington (rotund & lethargic though he appears to be) is the worst Watford player that you have ever seen, then you have indeed been fortunate!
Thanks Vic. Must have missed that when I went away to Uni. Canterbury might as well have been the other side of the universe!
