Every crap SUFC player has had one decent game...

[ColinMorrisWalksOnWater]

Everytime we do this there is one name that plunges the depths more than any other player I have ever seen who we signed permanently.............

Once again, Able to miss from any angle, with head or foot................

I give you...................

The one..................

The Only...................

PETER ABBOTT

 

[Chairman Trigg]

never saw Beanland,but Mel Slack was not that bad.
Maybe Kevin Fallon...Ian Cowan......

Slack scored our only goal in our 9-1 drubbing at Brighton the highlight of his time with us according to my dad back then!! .
After being spoilt with solid keepers like Trevor Roberts .....Brian Lloyd definitely also springs to mind ...... due to the number of times he dropped crosses resulting in goals and yet he ended playing for Wales .

 

[WestyReturns]

Joe Pigott and Ben Reeves. Not necessarily crap players but both scored big goals in their brief spells at the club and did little else.

Piggott did really well and scored goals in several games at the beginning of his loan spell. Reeves looked decent also. Not sure it's fair to include them albeit they did score very significant goals.

 

[HUMBLEPIE]

He never played for Southend

Oops thanks for correcting me.

 

[JD]

Phil Gridelet.

Couldn't shoot, couldn't tackle without fouling, couldn't pass, couldn't really head the ball (in case it messed up his hair).

The only attribute he seemed to have was fitness.

He scored 2 goals in a game once, v Preston on a wet evening at the Hall IIRC. We won 3-2 having come back from being behind. One of his goals was a mis hit daisy cutter that the keeper let through his arms and legs, and the other bounced off his standing leg on the goal line, him having missed the ball with the other foot.

I'm sure he must have had a good game at some point, but I didn't see it.

How…… very …….. dare ……. You!

 

[leeblue]

Gordon connelly

One half against Brighton if I remember

 

[GNH]

Reading this thread is like a giant game of **** top trumps.

Most of these I had erased from the memory banks but they are being awakened!

 

[fbm]

How…… very …….. dare ……. You!

You are Phil Gridelet and I claim my £5

 

[JD]

You are Phil Gridelet and I claim my £5

I did see him score an absolute belter up at Middlesbrough. One of the best away days I did. He’ll always have a special place in my Southend heart purely on that basis.

 

[Marriss]

Bedsente Gomis… at home to Exeter I 2014!

 

[Tommy2holes]

For Keepers Mark Prudhoe was not very good!

His performance away Barnet was the stuff of nightmares. Got subbed at half time, with Mel capleton replacing him. We weren't blessed for keepers back then.

 

[Tommy2holes]

Trevor fitzpatrick was a striker who was complete garbage.

 

[fbm]

I did see him score an absolute belter up at Middlesbrough. One of the best away days I did. He’ll always have a special place in my Southend heart purely on that basis.

And that's what probably makes him qualify... one or two really decent games, the rest of it mainly meh.

I do think that Ronnie Whelan got the best out of him and that's when he probably played his best football. Unfortunately that season was one I missed a lot of the games through work, so the only games I saw him play was without Whelan and I wasn't at all impressed with any of his performances! I am happy to be convinced that he was a really good player by people that saw him a lot more than I did!

 

[Gt Yarmouth Shrimper]

Where do I start?

 

[sufc4life21]

1 that springs to mind is Matt Harrold, was terrible for us but always scored against us..... Talk about rubbing it in.

 

[fbm]

So we have the makings of a decent squad for this fun exercise. Top heavy on strikers and short on defenders, but let's see what sort of team we can put out. This doesn't cover every name mentioned on here... some never played a decent minute, some only played part of a game and some are just too controversial as they were generally better than being a one or two game wonder (in most people's opinions I would guess).

Anyhow, here's the squad so far -

Keepers - Paul Smith, Brian Lloyd

Central defenders - Mark Warren

Full backs - ?

Wide midfielders/wing backs - Gordon Connelly, Steven Clark

Central midfielders - Phil Gridelet, Nathan Ferguson, Graham Bressington, Sam Mantom

Central strikers (here we go) - Mark Salter, Barrington Belgrave, Neville Roach, Peter Abbott, Trevor Fitzpatrick, Neil Campbell, Peter Daley, Jamar Loza, Micky Tuohy, Tony Richards

So let's try and eliminate some of the strikers as there are way too many and we also need to strengthen in some areas. Remember, the criteria isn't that they are rubbish, but they are generally poor or average but must have had the odd game of brilliance to make people think they were worth their place in the side.

Here's some names up for discussion - the trouble is that I can't remember any really good games they had that made them stand out as having any brilliance about them:

Full backs - Johnny Herd, Peter Gilbert, Paul Roberts, Steve Collins
Central Defenders - Warren May, John Walker
Wide Players - Andy Rogers, Kevin Betsy
Central Midfielders - John Spicer, Mickey Spillane
Forwards - Charlie MacDonald, Alex Burns, Matt Harold


Thoughts and suggestions please people

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

I can't decide between Micky Tuohy or Peter Abbott, both were very underwhelming.

 

[mfurok]

And that's what probably makes him qualify... one or two really decent games, the rest of it mainly meh.

I do think that Ronnie Whelan got the best out of him and that's when he probably played his best football. Unfortunately that season was one I missed a lot of the games through work, so the only games I saw him play was without Whelan and I wasn't at all impressed with any of his performances! I am happy to be convinced that he was a really good player by people that saw him a lot more than I did!

Far better than some give him credit for and therefore doesn’t fit your definition - just like Graham Bressington (superb) and Sam Mantom, who was excellent over a long spell for Sir Chrissy.

Two most obvious are Connelly and Paul Smith.

 

[Hawkwell Blue]

Fans of a certain age always go on about Owen Simpson. Known as “Oh, oh, oh Wen Simpson” I think. Late 1960s and was a full back.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

The striker with the biggest disparity between his best performance and his normal performance was probably Sada N’Diaye. He apparently had a great debut in a 3-2(?) win at Plymouth and looked the answer to all our striking woes but that was an aberration as he was abject.