Players most past their peak

[Yorkshire Blue]

Similar to fbm's thread, but not those who had the best career but those who were furthest from their peak when they played for Southend.


GK Southall
RB Sutch
LB Lampard Sr
CB Ramsey
CB Newman
CM Parris
CM Dailly
RM Byrne
LM O'Callaghan
CF Whymark
CF Ricketts

Subs Freedman, Eastwood, Harris, Goater

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Rob Newman?

 

[GrumpyBlue]

Rob Newman?

Did he have a peak ?

 

[SupaBlues]

Ricketts must feature somewhere

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Did he have a peak ?

Probably when Norwich were marching through Bayern Munich and he was being pushed for international recognition. So yes, he did.

 

[South Bank Hank]

Kightly and Hooper

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Rob Newman?

Possibly. I just feel that we had some really washed up centre-halves who were slower than even Super Rob Newman. He was still very much a serviceable centre-half.

Obviously Bressington's peak was with us so he wasn't one of them.

Ricketts must feature somewhere

Yeah, I was thinking of him for fbm's thread. Don't know why I didn't include him ahead of Goater.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

I agree that Super Rob did a job for us, but I rated him very highly in his Norwich days, he was, as Butch would say, a 'super little player'.

 

[Pak Power]

Tony Currie ?

 

[GrumpyBlue]

Probably when Norwich were marching through Bayern Munich and he was being pushed for international recognition. So yes, he did.

Yes I`d forgotten about that

 

[Tampa Blue]

Ronnie Whelan, Mike Marsh, Keith Dublin, Chris Ramsey, second coming of Fredy Eastwood, Derek Spence, Alan Foggon, Ken Foggo, Tony Taylor - this list could go on and on and on............

 

[Phil_in_blue]

Spencer Priors second spell at the club perhaps?

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Ronnie Whelan, Mike Marsh, Keith Dublin, Chris Ramsey, second coming of Fredy Eastwood, Derek Spence, Alan Foggon, Ken Foggo, Tony Taylor - this list could go on and on and on............

I think Dublin was just crap rather than past it. Eastwood's already on the bench.

Whelan and then Marsh was still the best player on the park even though they their mobility had gone.

You'll have to regale me with tales of the others - both crapness and former glories before I'm prepared to include them (also need some positions for some of them).

Spencer Priors second spell at the club perhaps?

He was majestic in his second spell. Probably better than his first spell.


Simon Coleman? Was he that good at Middlesborough? I think Newman was far better at Norwich and so think I'm being won round by Rusty's arguments.

 

[Firestorm]

This post is for Harry
Chris Ramsey. ..he played in a cup final y'know
Trevor Whymark
Kevin "dead on arrival" O'callaghan
Frank Lampard
Neville Southall
Ricketts
And the winner is...TONY CURRIE

 

[DTS]

Neil Harris must be right up there and at the risk of XXXXXXL hanging himself Darryl Sutch was massively crap when we got him.

 

[DTS]

This post is for Harry
Chris Ramsey. ..he played in a cup final y'know
Trevor Whymark
Kevin "dead on arrival" O'callaghan
Frank Lampard
Neville Southall
Ricketts
And the winner is...TONY CURRIE

Stop the contest - Kevin O Callaghan wins with Tony Parkes as a close second.....Maybe also Ron Fearon too.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

This post is for Harry
Chris Ramsey. ..he played in a cup final y'know
Trevor Whymark
Kevin "dead on arrival" O'callaghan
Frank Lampard
Neville Southall
Ricketts
And the winner is...TONY CURRIE

:smile:

I know Harry's looking down approvingly at that list. :thumbsup:

 

[buffalowolf]

Im trying to think of the goalkeeper Southend signed way back when, it was after Harry Threadgold was pensioned off, im thinking Eddie Fermani, short in stature old in years , ran on to the pitch with a walking stick under his arms ,:omg::smile:

 

[DTS]

Im trying to think of the goalkeeper Southend signed way back when, it was after Harry Threadgold was pensioned off, im thinking Eddie Fermani, short in stature old in years , ran on to the pitch with a walking stick under his arms ,:omg::smile:

Could be totally wrong here as not my era but was Eddie Fermani not a forward?

 

[McNasty]

Im trying to think of the goalkeeper Southend signed way back when, it was after Harry Threadgold was pensioned off, im thinking Eddie Fermani, short in stature old in years , ran on to the pitch with a walking stick under his arms ,:omg::smile:

Ian McKechnie ?