BlueMonday Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Nicky Reid for me. Fit as a butchers dog, could run all day, but usually round in circles chasing his own tail. Norman Bell, as well, can't ever remember him scoring. In those days we played with a lone striker of Garner & Bell!! Yet everytime Kevin Stonehouse came on as sub he scored. You beat me to it. You couldn't fault him for trying but was useless with the ball. Richard Brown was cut from the same cloth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ABBEY Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 id have nicky reid over this sorry arsed team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanks Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Nicky Reid for me. Fit as a butchers dog, could run all day, but usually round in circles chasing his own tail. Norman Bell, as well, can't ever remember him scoring. In those days we played with a lone striker of Garner & Bell!! Yet everytime Kevin Stonehouse came on as sub he scored. I loved the way Reid would lead the team out by charging full pelt at the riverside. As for Norman Bell he was a "Tryer" but left us for Dawen at the age of 28(possibly due to injury) He did score 10 goals in sixty appearances surprisingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABBEY Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 ne ne neeeee neeneeee norman norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Petrovic when we got tonked by 7 at Arsenal last season will take some beating for an individual performance. But God we've had a lot of @#/? down the years. Grabbi must head the lot given the transfer fee. Villa at home was the worst 45 minutes I've ever seen a professional footballer make at Ewood in all my years, so much so even Kean took Petrovic off at half time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T4E Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Modeste must be up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkturner Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Was this the same guy or did he do a Mark Morrison and send a lookalike to Rovers? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1347079/Manchester-United-Tottenham-courting-Radosav-Petrovic.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrone Shoelaces Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Certainly not the worst Centre half we have had but not popular at the time, John Coddington. What is certain though is that he took the worst penalty I have seen in my life, against Palace in the late 60's. He had two attempts and missed them both, after taking a twenty yard run up he mishit it and it barely reached the Keeper. For some reason the referee ordered a retake and he repeated the long run up again and again it only just reached the keeper. Yeah, that was funny. He was probably too tired to hit the ball by the time he actually got to it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hasta Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I'm going to go against the grain and disagree with the OP here. Not that for one second I'm saying Palmer was great but he did an ugly job well in some games. I remember going to Elland Road on New Years Day 1996 for a dire 0-0 draw. Despite the likes of Speed, McAllister, Shearer, Yeboah, Ripley and Bohinen playing in that game, the one memory I have was that every time we got the ball in midfield this big, long, skinny leg came from miles away and bundled us off it. Technically Palmer was poor for sure but could be effective. Take a look at this http://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic/164733-how-good-was-carlton-palmer/ . I presume that, like before we signed Batty or Savage, he's a player you didn't see anything in until he was in your side. The problem is a lot of the really, really chaff players like Tommy Widdrington, who played 75 times for Southampton in the top flight before leaving aged 25 and going on to Grimsby, Port Vale, Hartlepool and Macc Town, are just forgotten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McClarky Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 If Nicky Reid was at Rovers now he would be our best midfielder by miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pick32 Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Steve harper the old Newcastle goalkeeper, seen a lot better at pleasington on a Sunday morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cn174 Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Kaba diawara! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreyski Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Didn't Nathan Blake have a worse scoring record than Ward? Javier De Pedro only played 45 minutes, he was so out of shape! Fettis was league 2 level - got player of season a couple of times at York City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hasta Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Didn't Nathan Blake have a worse scoring record than Ward? Javier De Pedro only played 45 minutes, he was so out of shape! Fettis was league 2 level - got player of season a couple of times at York City. Blake was OK as a striker when he put the effort in - he just didn't do it often enough. 13 goals in 37 starts compared to Wards 13 in 52 starts. That's a better strike rate than Leon Best has had at Coventry or Newcastle (I can't work his strike rate at Ewood out because I get a 'Division by 0' error.) Blake's winner at Anfield in the FA Cup that time was a great finish. Had that been Ward he would have tried to trap it and then tamely headed the mis-control straight at their keeper whilst falling over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T4E Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 De Pedro is a good shout. He was good at Sociedad though. Yordi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backroom Mike E Posted May 16, 2013 Backroom Share Posted May 16, 2013 De Pedro is a good shout. He was good at Sociedad though. Yordi? Nah, Yordi put in a legendary performance in the dressing room after the Worthington Cup win. Just running round in his pants, like ABBEy probably would Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john.leigh Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Has anybody mentioned Tony Finnigan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Marky Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Has anybody mentioned Tony Finnigan? Aye..spot on. Sean Curry Tony Diamond David Hamilton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
47er Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 'Dat' cross for Pedersen's goal vs Fulham! And 'dat' brace vs West Brom Kuqi also terrorised the Manu defence in that glorious 4-3 win at Ewood! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
den Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Pedersen_(footballer) http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/soccer-brentford-football-club-photocall-griffin-park/Memory/982db90b-7f3d-496d-8a03-a00a00ddcc8e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruggles1995 Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 that lanky piece of p!$$ that played for rovers Martin Taylor. USELESS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T4E Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Nah, Yordi put in a legendary performance in the dressing room after the Worthington Cup win. Just running round in his pants, like ABBEy probably would The final was his debut wasn't it? I remember he won absolutely everything in the air when he came on, thought he was going to be brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamDingle Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Looking at some of the names on this thread, all I can say is your education in the world of s**t players has only just begun. Believe me, it gets a lot worse than this as you'll soon discover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majiball Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Saw some balding ginger @#/? playing in portugal once, bloody rubbish couldn't even run without tripping over his own two feet. And all he kept moaning about was how there was never any dew on the grass in portugal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amo Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Saw some balding ginger @#/? playing in portugal once, bloody rubbish couldn't even run without tripping over his own two feet. And all he kept moaning about was how there was never any dew on the grass in portugal. Sounds like management material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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