Morning, I need to find the worst 5 CAFC strikers ever, ideally the most consistently bad should top the list, with the odd example of their lack of ability wuld be appreciated.
From recent years I'd say Francis Jeffers or Carlton Cole. The one that the old timers always mention is Barry Endean, but I never saw him so can't comment.
Barry Endean was very poor. Signed from Watford as I remember. Scored a wonder header for them v Liverpool in an FA Cup match and I think his whole career was built on that. The goal might even be on YouTube. As already said we've had some right stinkers.
Henry, you just 'know' you're going to start off the Leaburn debate again don't you!!!
So here goes...good footballer and leader of the front line held the ball up very well and laid it off equally as well. However he was a pizz poor striker/goal scorer....that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
I loved matt svensson, but didn't think he was all that good. Mind you, that was in the prem so I guess that rules him out. Mooney deserves a shout for sure, though I thought he tried hard
I loved matt svensson, but didn't think he was all that good. Mind you, that was in the prem so I guess that rules him out. Mooney deserves a shout for sure, though I thought he tried hard
The fact he tried hard and was still completely useless says it all. That goal against gillingham was one good moment in a sea of utter dog shit.
I'm willing to believe Andy Gray had an injury which stopped us seeing the best of him, although it does raise the question of why we signed him when we did. Lawrie Abrahams, Mark McCammon, Mike Small and Frank Nouble were all poor, but I'm still wondering what Leon Clark was all about last year. Mooney was a classic case of a player who started OK but just seemed to wither away into total ineffectiveness as time went on.
I was talking to a fella who I thought had no interest in football, but who surprised me by saying he used to go to Charlton, he said watching Lawrie Abrahams finished him off. Some of these guys cast a long shadow......
Paul Gorman - just not up to the level we were playing at
Not the worst though, surely Dave? At least he tried, unlike JFH?
Agree Algarve, a bit unkind that....saw him play in an away game at Cambridge and he was really good that day firing in shots from all over.....thought he might have gone on to do a lot more. Sadly the club didn't see it that way and didn't persevere with him for all that long, so he never got a run in the side, comes under the heading of a 'what might have been.' Could certainly strike a ball, that's for sure!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSxN6-csiNA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Mike Small
Barry Enden
Frank Nouble
Carl Leaburn
So here goes...good footballer and leader of the front line held the ball up very well and laid it off equally as well.
However he was a pizz poor striker/goal scorer....that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
I'd take Allen, Grant and Gray over him
Pawell abbot you got what you paid for thirty grand is a piss take we should never have signed a player that cost that
I was talking to a fella who I thought had no interest in football, but who surprised me by saying he used to go to Charlton, he said watching Lawrie Abrahams finished him off. Some of these guys cast a long shadow......
Sadly the club didn't see it that way and didn't persevere with him for all that long, so he never got a run in the side, comes under the heading of a 'what might have been.'
Could certainly strike a ball, that's for sure!