If I had the time I would create a deck of Top Trumps cards, with the 52 most injured Charlton players of all time. With stats such as Consecutive games missed Proportion of games injured compared to those fit Recurring injuries Variety of injuries Number of games missed through having a 'knock' or as a precaution Game management The most crocked player would trump any slightly less injured colleague. Any thoughts on who would make it into the pack? A couple of obvious ones to start with; Chuks Aneke Jake Forster-Caskey If other members can suggest a few more I might look up their stats and draw up a Crocks' league table.
The 'best CAFC team' thread has reminded me I was going to create some CAFC Top Trumps. Originally it was the Worst 52 players of all time, Now I think I'll work on the Best 52 players of all time as well. Will post initial results soon. Any further suggestions - particularly on candidates for the worst 52 - are welcome...
His programme notes were legendary. That was the season before I got my first ST, but a friend had got me a good birthday present - a programme for every home game. What LR wrote about each previous disaster bore absolutely zero resemblance to reality. I understand he's a really decent bloke. Just never cut out to be a manager. That season was the board's fault, for hiring the useless Boot Face as manager. There were dozens of better candidates than him.
Polish Pete will be difficult to beat. The object of the game will still be the same - win all the cards. But in this case the poorer stat will be the winner.
Polish Pete wasn't good enough to play, fit or unfit. There was also Christensen, a Danish player who never played because we'd have had to pay his club £250,000 if he had played. Karim Bagheri, played once I think but wasn't injured. Pouso played once, waved his arms about a lot and was hooked at H/T.
Here's a couple of draft versions, best & worst players. I've kept the stats as simple as possible, or it would take forever to compile the information... #1 I'll try to post a new pair of these every few days
#2 Sam Bartram is an almost invincible card. Only Keith Peacock could beat him, for number of seasons played. Or Derek Hales / Stuart Leary for goals / clean sheets.
