Players you might have forgotten played for us...

[ExiledShrimpa]

If you couldn't find anyone better than Kellock to be your hero, you have my sympathy.

Cheeky :-) It was my first ever game we won 3-1 and he scored what more could a wide eyed 9 year old want!

 

[Zeuss]

Julian Bennett. Very brief career with us before going over the barrier into the North Bank in a cup game, never to be seen again

Sorry to be pedantic but I remember it well and I don’t think he went over the wall and it was definitely on the east side touchline,just north of the half-way line.

 

[Napster]

Richard Jobson

almost joined us on a perm but his wife didnt want to move down South.

 

[ExiledShrimpa]

This ones tinged with some sadness - Martin Aldridge, I recall he was on loan at the back end of the 1997-98 season I remember him scoring in a fine 3-0 home win over Plymouth - he was killed in a car crash a couple of years later.

 

[eastling]

Sorry to be pedantic but I remember it well and I don’t think he went over the wall and it was definitely on the east side touchline,just north of the half-way line.

Ah yes Mr Bennett. Poor chap, only appearance for us, gets into a good position and momentum from his run leads him to smack into the advertising boards on the East near to the away stand I thought.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

If you couldn't find anyone better than Kellock to be your hero, you have my sympathy.

Certainly not a hero of mine but I always thought he was quite a useful player.I'd often see him out on the town, back in the day,usually at the Aristocrat.

 

[fbm]

Sorry to be pedantic but I remember it well and I don’t think he went over the wall and it was definitely on the east side touchline,just north of the half-way line.

East side certainly, nearer the North bank wall. Don't recall it being near halfway.

 

[wivs]

East side certainly, nearer the North bank wall. Don't recall it being near halfway.

I was at the game and my memory tells me that it was the East side of the North bank goal line ?

 

[fbm]

I was at the game and my memory tells me that it was the East side of the North bank goal line ?

That's my recollection too. In my mind's eye I can see him getting treatment off the pitch there.

 

[leeblue]

Anthony wordsworth????

 

[wivs]

That's my recollection too. In my mind's eye I can see him getting treatment off the pitch there.

Same here but I am starting to lose my marbles so I could be wrong. :winking:

 

[Suffolk Blue]

Wherever it was that he hit (and it was the East side of the North Bank wall :)) he got a healthy shove from the Yeovil player. You see the same sort of thing every week at Roots Hall with the walls being so close to the pitch and it's a wonder that we haven't seen more injuries as a result.
I looked up the date of the incident and was amazed to see that it was only August 2013, and that it was under Phil Brown that he was eventually released.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leke_Odunsi

He was awful, but on his best game for us I remember him scoring, then breaking his leg and he never kicked a ball again :sad:

Odunsi was far from awful.

His team-mate Jamie Fullerton may be a shout (as forgotten, not as awful).

To be fair, a lot of those wouldn't have been well enough known to have been "forgotten" if you know what I mean... but Codner is a good example.

Are you meaning know by Southend fans or known by football fans?

 

[C C Csiders]

Kevin Lock ex Wet Spam - we always seemed to get the worst brother as his brother Gary was a great full back for Chelsea.

Other bad brothers - Dave and Bob Worthington (brother Frank), Terry Nicholl (brother Chris), Tes Bramble (brother Titus - err maybe we didn't get the worst brother in that instance!

Except it was Gary Locke and not Kevin Lock's brother - and Kevin was a better player than Gary anyway.

Graham Wilkins (as a worse brother) and surely Blair must have had a better Sturrock brother/sister - almost impossible not to have had

EDIT: Always read the previous page!!

 

[blues exile]

Alan Foggon

 

[amsemp]

Kerrea Gilbert springs to mind. Came on loan with a huge reputation after playing both legs in Arsenal’s league cup semi-final and providing a great assist for a Thierry Henry goal. Made 5 appearances, didn’t impress at all and then began a steady descent down the leagues!

 

[Blue Whale]

Kevin O'Callaghan from Escape to Victory

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Sorry to be pedantic but I remember it well and I don’t think he went over the wall and it was definitely on the east side touchline,just north of the half-way line.

I sitting in the East Stand and really thought it was into the North Bank he went

 

[davewebbsbrain]

I was at the game and my memory tells me that it was the East side of the North bank goal line ?

That's my recollection too. In my mind's eye I can see him getting treatment off the pitch there.

Totally my recollection. Glad it's not only me that thought that was what happened

 

[OldBlueLady]

Totally my recollection. Glad it's not only me that thought that was what happened

Me too, East side of the North Bank.

Kerrea Gilbert springs to mind. Came on loan with a huge reputation after playing both legs in Arsenal’s league cup semi-final and providing a great assist for a Thierry Henry goal. Made 5 appearances, didn’t impress at all and then began a steady descent down the leagues!

Really good friends with our son-in-law, same Academy era, who also played with Michael Turner at Charlton.