Well, it didn’t grip the nation in an X-Factor style frenzy, but it certainly got a few of you thinking.
We asked Lennie Lawrence who, with hindsight, would be the first three names he would put on his teamsheet from his time as Charlton manager, and asked you to try and match it.
Of the 51 entries, two of you failed to match any, 19 matched one player, 26 of you matched two players and just four of you matched all three. Sadly one of them was Mrs AFKA and she still isn’t talking to me after telling her she wasn’t eligible to win the prize !
The top three that Lennie gave was as follows:
1. Peter Shirtliff
2. John Humphrey
3. Robert Lee
Congratulations to Andrew Skinner, Welling who emerged victorious from the draw of the final three. He didn’t supply a photo so you can guess that he is no oil painting.
The breakdown of votes were as follows:
John Humphrey – 32
Bob Bolder – 29
Peter Shirtliff – 26
Robert Lee – 25
Colin Walsh – 8
Mark Aizlewood – 5
Mark Reid – 4
Steve Gritt – 4
Nicky Johns – 3
Jim Melrose – 3
Carl Leaburn – 3
Andy Peake – 2
Steve Thompson – 2
Derek Hales – 2
Colin Pates – 1
Paul Williams – 1
John Pearson -1
Alan Kernaghan -1
John Robinson – 1 (WTF ??)
Thanks to everyone who entered, and also to Green Umbrella Publishing for supplying the prize.
“Lennie” is out now, available from all good bookshops and also via our Charlton Life Amazon link.
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that means I hit the post........
I reckon shipping costs would have been more that the book....
I went for Humphrey, Bolder and Shirtliff and so obviously did loads of other people.
History will record we are all losers ;-)
Cant believe i didnt even think of Shirtliff !!!!!!!!!!!
couldn't decide between lee and johnny h
dammit!
That was his job.
Should he have paid over the odds then?
he should have bid what would be considered a slightly below reasonable value for him(maybe £500-600k) not a piss take £250k test the water to a club that was in desperate need of cash to get back to the valley, a club he supposedly liked, he knows he fcuked up and he admits it but £250k was derogatory imo from someone who had walked away from us to join boro and knew how much the money meant to us in getting us to return to the valley... i'm not saying he should have bid a million but what he did was rude imo
Still never mind he wasn't and thats a FACT!
Thanks for organising Danny.
Yeah, someone ring Lennie up and tell him he was wrong! And who the heck voted for Robbo???
Also like to add my thanks to Len's.
After your done with it let me have a butch......LOL
PS
Andy have you told anyone that Lennie is your uncle?
I thought Bobby Bolder was a shoe-in. Picked Johnny H and Walshie too.
After your done with it let me have a butch......LOL
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Andy have you told anyone that Lennie is your uncle?[/quote]
Thought you might have went to enough games in that era to have picked his 3 as well ;-)
Also had Bolder as my fourth choice.
Humprhey - hardly missed a game
Shirtliff - Play off games and attitude towards Mervyn Day
Lee - Some games at Selhurst he won on his own.
Cheers Smudge,
Speak Soon
I thought LL would go for Reid over Shirtliff, but should have given more weight to the Leeds playoffs matches.
1st Div 86/87 including cups;
Rob Lee 42 apps 7 goals
Colin Walsh 45 apps 9 goals
1st Div 87/88 including cups;
Rob Lee 23 apps 2 goals
Colin Walsh 14 apps 5 goals (broke leg in November 87)
1st Div 88/89 including cups;
Rob Lee 36 apps 6 goals
Coln Walsh 5 apps 0 goals (missed most of season with injury)
1st Dv 89/90 including cups;
Rob Lee 44 apps 2 goals
Colin Walsh 34 apps 3 goals
Now I've looked into the stats (and I know they don't mean everything) I understand Lennie's choice of Rob Lee because he was a regular in the team for so long and from such a young age. Here I've only covered the 1st Div period but Lee was also very effective under Lawrence in Div2. What is clear, is that Walsh's broken leg at Newcastle prevented him from being one of the all-time great performers at Charlton. We only really got to see the best of him for just over a year and maybe a year's brilliance wasn't enough to get him into Lennie's top three...and that I can understand. I am convinced that if he had not have suffered such a bad injury then he would have been difficult to separate from the great John Humphrey.
Thanks for the competition....it's been good to remember some excellent players and an excellent manager.
have been away all weekend so didnt manage to enter in time my top three were
Peter Shirtliff
John Humphrey
Robert Lee
Bugger bugger bugger, what a coincidence