Born: 9/1/1963 Wrexham
Debut: Sheffield Wednesday Away 26/9/1987. Final Match: Barnsley Home 29/9/1990
Honours: Six Wales full caps, three whilst at Charlton.
Andy Jones joined from Third Division side Port Vale for a club record fee of £350,000 in September 1987 after beating off numerous sides for his signature including Manchester United and a certain Alex Ferguson. Jones had an impressive record of 49 league goals in 90 appearances for the Valiants during his 2 years.
His time at Charlton has him scoring 20 goals in 79 league and cup appearances. During the 88/89 season Charlton were willing to sell Jones back to Port Vale for a £175,000 fee, but he refused the move. However he did end up back on loan there along with another loan spell at Bristol City. He was sold to Bournemouth for £80,000 in October 1990.
Further spells at Leyton Orient, Poole Town and Havant occurred. After leaving the game due to injury, Jones became a financial advisor. He later took up residency in Ringwood, Dorset, working as a director of his own food waste recycling company.
I remember Andy's spell of the club but what do other lifers remember of his time in South East London
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Ultimately a disappointment though.....
Used to get a lot more excited about charlton than I do now.
Jonah should have buried it but didn't expect Southall to cover that much ground so quickly.
Had the pleasure of a round of golf with Andy a few years back - lovely fella and by christ can he hit a golf ball! Plays off either 4 or 6 handicap if I recall correctly
They then spent the rest of the evening watching a video - of all the goals he'd scored.
As I say I'm sure it is only a rumour and can't be true. Any normal bloke would at least have bought her a big mac rather than just a bag of crisps wouldn't they?
Didn't we opt to sign him over Steve Bull or something????
Given chances he could score goals but fitness was clearly an issue and his career petered out.
Think Ablett made a crazy back pass - with the score at 0-0 - and Jones fluffed an open goal when he scuffed his shot straight at Grobelaar.
Not long after Barnes bamboozled Johnny H and set up Beardsley for their opener and our chance to make history was gone.
Very good header to equalise late on at Nottingham Forest in a 2-2.
The curling effort from outside the box at home to Spurs.
The two headers away to Luton when were 5-0 down (he was a sub that day).
A near post side foot at home to Norwich on Mortimer's (or "Mortimore's"..) debut.
The aforementioned close range header at home to Derby.
John Humphrey gave me his honest opinion the night before the Soccer Sixes and felt that Andy wasn't quite good enough and that's why he didn't get in the team. Shame because I thought he was ok and he'd cost us a massive amount of money!!! (£325k?).
I guess when we went down we were kind of expecting Andy Jones to score a hatful of goals and to get us straight back up. It didn't happen and we were reliant on Gordon Watson's goals to keep our heads above water.
Also dishonourable mention to the Palace "away" match in the relegation season and the yellow shorts he must've painted on.
I was a pig-in-muck excited kid when he signed for us, and couldn't believe we paid 300k+ for him as we really didn't have the proverbial pot to micturate in back then. A Guardian preview of a game at West Ham (I think) not long after he joined said that their defence would need to be on their guard against Jones and Garth Crooks. I remember thinking 'why?', so he obviously hadn't made much of an impact even at that early stage.
I always liked Jonesy - probably because we paid real money for him - but watching him and David Campbell trying to play up front together really was like watching two individuals completely divided by the language of football. Problem was, we couldn't afford an interpreter.
that Oldham miss was one where you had to rub your eyes to believe you witnessed it , although in those days I , thankfully, was always pissed watching us away from home