The lowest for a League match I've been to was around 3600 against Halifax in 1963 - just after the Big Freeze as well as a run of horrendous home defeats, and it was peeing down that day too IIRC. I think there was at least one lower around 1975 when in Div 4 - 3200 against Hartlepool. And, of course, against L*t*n in 1885/6 a massive 200 turned up....
I remember seeing watfrod play against Halifax away in the old fourth div.. .and we won 2-0 and there were 1,500 there
C'mon Mr Clever Author arent you going to add Bond to your miserable list of goalkeepers after the 3rd goal yesterday?.Completely failed of course to mention the difficult circumstances the other two were thrown into .Rather than bring the fine name of Jenkins (Senior of course) into disrepute could you change your name to Bassini for any other similar articles? To others, no more disparaging remarks about the Unique Jim Lawton if you please.
Ho Ho! See my other thread "No Mr Bond, I expect you to dive" Bothrossjenkins are fine upstanding players doncha think??? ....just call me twobentleys.....
March '76. Workington Away, 1209 paid to get in to see us win 3-1. Rochdale Southport and Halifax in the 70's had <2000 at home .
Silly me - I thought you originally meant home attendance. Workington's ground was certainly never packed to the rafters, have been there a few times when the attendance was under 2000. I think that Southport may take the cake though - the same season as that 1209 at Workington, we only managed to attract 1046 there - with your namesake scoring the winner in a 2-1 victory.
FF's right foot only (straight out of Nigel Winterburn's leftfootedness school) and I hasten to add Fabbrini and prehaps Faraoni as the most underwhelming players we have ever had, given recent hype, damn their confidence must be rock bottom.
Ok Mex, here we go 5) "Fatty" Murfin has been edged out of number 5 spot by Fabrinni 4) Jamie Moralee, awful striker and cost a lot to buy him 3) Ellington, another awful striker 2) Scott Loach, never saved a single shot from outside the box 1) I feel bad about this due to his youth and huge inexperience but, he was absolutely useless and prevented our promotion..........my top spot for the most dreadful player I have ever seen at VR goes to Jack Bonham. Alex Chamberlain should also take some of the blame for my top two as his experience should have realised that both Loach and Bonham (in my view) didn't have what it takes.
Re 2) Not correct - eg, you either blinked or weren't there for this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XmQkM_KgI4 Re 1) Hugely unfair on Bonham to entirely blame him for us missing out on promotion on the basis of his performance in the only 70 minutes he played in the whole season - in fact, the only 70 minutes in his career. Why not, for example, blame Vydra for the three months he 'went missing' and played like an absolute wally? And if Loach 'didn't have what it takes', why is it that he regularly plays for a team six positions above us in the table....
I agree BB - if we're going down that road then it has to be Gary Plumley and I wouldn't do that either.
If you're looking at keepers on only 1 game, Plumley had retired for about 5 years, Bonham wasn't even on the bench an hour before kick-off so definitely worse than those 2 was Tony Meola. At the time, he was a current international with over 100 caps, had played in the last World Cup and in 1 Full Members Cup (or whatever it was called) match, he had such a shocker he never played for us again - I'm still trying to work out how Bristol Rovers only beat us 2-1.
Not strictly true - he never played for us again as he couldn't renew his work permit. A bit odd really, given that he gained two international caps whilst on our books. There's a quiz question in there somewhere...
I remember seeing him at Boreham Wood pre season and thinking it must be a fan who had won the chance to play for Watford. He wins my vote as the player who least looked like a professional athlete. Bit harsh on Bonham and Dickinson was also tat.
Keepers. Bonhams failure to make a routine save vs Weeds cost us a place in the Premier League. Pozzos put money into Granada when they were promoted and would have done the same to us. The man let down a town. Plumley should have politely declined. Good point about Meola.
I know it's hard to believe but he bossed a game at home to Arsenal for us the year we stayed up in the Prem. Somewhere deep down there is a footballer in there but he's probably too much of a nutcase for it to ever happen again.
