I am always surprised by the fact that Ray Crawford only played 21 games for Charlton and Cliff Holton only played 18 games. I have very clear memories of these two wearing the red shirt. Can anyone think of others in this category?
Vic Halom comes to mind as well, although I suspect my aging brain either remembers his appearances in the reserves (I never missed a reserve game in those days) or his appearances for several other clubs such as Sunderland, Luton and Fulham.
non cafc has to be goalkeeper, jimmy glass, for our opponents on saturday, carlisle.
scored the goal in the last minute of the season to keep them as a football league side. think he only played about 5 games for them.
David Madden, I think he was ex-palace. I'm not sure why he left, not sure we sold him, but I remeber Spurs in the cup (80's?) and at WHL he ran the show against their midfield superstars. Played half a season I think.
On the basis that I think he played less than 25-30 games for us I'd suggest Gordon Watson might be a player who made an impact both in terms of the goals he scored and the fee we got for him.
Oh dear, time to show my age again: My first visit to the Valley was the occasion of Hans Jeppson's last game for us after scoring 9 goals in 11 games and thus keeping us up in '50;'51. And yes, we went by tram!
Dave Madden came from Arsenal , played one whole season and then left. Looked pretty good in a bad team. He went to Crystal Palace after and did ok.
Jeppson Simonsen Costa
....would have to be the main three positives who played less than one season. There have been plenty of negatives discussed on previous threads (Mike Small, Mickey Paye, Jim Stannard etc!!!)
Jorge Costa by far the best for me with Simonesen a close second.
What about Bart Williams? Also, who scored a screamer in a friendly against Liverpool? What about the Vin Nuygen (sic), Kimbles - and the really bad players that Mullery signed?
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He almost singlehandedly saved us from relegation that season.
Other names: Allan Simonsen and Jorge Costa for me.
Lee Power (5 games, including back to Valley)
Neil Heaney (6 games, including PO semi legs & final)
However we're still feeling the effects of his 'impact' today.
scored the goal in the last minute of the season to keep them as a football league side. think he only played about 5 games for them.
Also the guy from Middlesbrough Kernaghan (?spelling).
EDIT: just noticed Shirty has aleady mentioned McDonald!
Whatever happened to him?
Jeppson
Simonsen
Costa
....would have to be the main three positives who played less than one season. There have been plenty of negatives discussed on previous threads (Mike Small, Mickey Paye, Jim Stannard etc!!!)
What about Bart Williams? Also, who scored a screamer in a friendly against Liverpool? What about the Vin Nuygen (sic), Kimbles - and the really bad players that Mullery signed?
Pates? Caton?
Cyril Davies
Maurice Setters (the bandiest legs I've ever seen!)