It went pear shaped in the end, but it is easy to forget that Jason was a star for us for about three seasons. Before he scores aganist us on Saturday, anyone got any good memories?
How about that drive he lashed in in injury time against Blackburn years ago, I think we had started really badly and that was a great victory. The days of Parker, Rufus, Kiely, Fish etc..
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*runs down bookies and chucks a monkey on Jason Euell to score*
didnt realise that - excellent
Good player who worked hard for the team. You don't get to be top scorer three years on the trot, even in our low scoring side without having something.
Are you trying to make a point there AFKA : - )
Loved his goal in the Chelsea 4-2 on Boxing Day and the one against Arsenal at Highbury.
Also seem to recall him sponsoring the matchball every week when he first joined?!
Joking aside, i hope he get's a good clap on Saturday from all that go to the game.
Also remember how sympathetic the fans were to him when he had his "tragic moment" just after he joined
Curbishley really did ruin him.
Best memory is definetly the Blackburn thunderbolt that Salad mentioned. Great goal.
Then he had that awful family thing where his newborn child died, finally when he reappeared he was able to get on with his career. Not the best "player" but for a long time he was great for us and without his goals we would have been in the poo. Seemed a genuine top bloke as well.
He and Lisbie were ok together and both had the merit of being willing and mobile enough to track back and defend.
In other words we defended from the front which enabled us to play a reasonably attacking 4-4-2 without exposing the midfield and defence.
He was dropped after a sending off and was never the same player again. Completely lost his way and could barely trap a ball by the end of it. All footballers get dropped or have spells out of the side at some stage, its how you react that's important. Curbs isn't stupid, if Euell was shining in training and in the ressies, then he would of got back in pronto.
He was a decent player on form, not brilliant though, and when off form was awful.
Always fought to get the ball back if he had lost it, that's what I remember most about him..
I don't know how accurate that was though.....
moan and sulk about it, or get your head down and work your arse off to prove him wrong ?
So why did Curbisley turn down a £2.5m bid from palace for him?
If you don't rate a player or he's not doing the business, fair enough get rid, but to turn down decent bids for him and let him rot in the reserves was totally unnecessary.
If that's not ruining a player, then I don't know what is!!