Has to be Jimmy Floyd and Marcus bent. Mercenaries that just couldn't be bothered. Someone above mentioned Bradley Allen for some reason. He was a cracking little striker that was blighted by injuries. I liked Pringle too . Both had more desire than Bent or JFH ever had.
Pringle may have had more desire........but he was still useless!!
Well i didnt think so. Scored twice as many goals as Jimmy fat boy Hasslebank. Give me a player with passion & desire who isn't any good over a player who has neither and is still no good. ( and is on 30k a week)
Beds. Matter of opinions. Agree with you there, but effort alone is not enough at the highest level. Don't really know what happened to JFH, but you are right...... he was dire for us
Izale McClown Kakpo Sodje Chris Dickson Leon Clarke
Have to agree with all of these.
I don't know why ralph milne is included under this thread, he wasn't a striker. He needs to be added to the 'worst midfielders to wear a charlton shirt' thread...
For sheer out right smug arrogant waste of spaceness my vote goes to Marcus Bent, there are many that were technically worse but he was the biggest.......... ever to play for us in my humble opinion.
For sheer out right smug arrogant waste of spaceness my vote goes to Marcus Bent, there are many that were technically worse but he was the biggest.......... ever to play for us in my humble opinion.
100% this......he genuinely strutted around like he was Charlie Big Potatoes. When in fact he was utter *****.
Barry Endean was absolutely hopeless. Regrettably, he turned down Millwall in favour of a transfer to us in our 1972 relegation season. I remember him getting absolutely vitriolic abuse at the Den as a result in the days of unsegregated crowds.
Dick Plumb and Bobby Hunt were honest guys and both tried extremely hard but were amongst the most technically limited forwards that I have seen in Charlton shirt.
For sheer out right smug arrogant waste of spaceness my vote goes to Marcus Bent, there are many that were technically worse but he was the biggest.......... ever to play for us in my humble opinion.
100% this......he genuinely strutted around like he was Charlie Big Potatoes. When in fact he was utter *****.
I remember having a really bad feeling when David Moyes, who never says a bad word against anyone, basically did an interview saying £2.5 million for Marcus Bent was an unbelieveable offer and he was perfectly happy to be shot of him. Obviously he didn't word it exactly like that but it set off alarm bells. He scored the equaliser with the back of his head against Chelsea on his debt and then did nothing else ever. Useless
For sheer out right smug arrogant waste of spaceness my vote goes to Marcus Bent, there are many that were technically worse but he was the biggest.......... ever to play for us in my humble opinion.
100% this......he genuinely strutted around like he was Charlie Big Potatoes. When in fact he was utter *****.
I remember having a really bad feeling when David Moyes, who never says a bad word against anyone, basically did an interview saying £2.5 million for Marcus Bent was an unbelieveable offer and he was perfectly happy to be shot of him. Obviously he didn't word it exactly like that but it set off alarm bells. He scored the equaliser with the back of his head against Chelsea on his debt and then did nothing else ever. Useless
I remember Moyes making a point of how honourably we conducted the transfer etc, etc. I think it was a ploy to keep the media listening while one of their players (probably Big Dunc, no-one would try mugging him) was sent to cash the cheque before we saw MB play. They were terrified Curbs would say "you sure he's Darrens twin?"
Leaburn was voted Player of the Year in 1994 which people often overlook, he should not be mentioned here, always tried hard and was thrust into a struggling team too soon at Selhurst coz there wasn't anyone else. My vote goes to Jimmy Floyd Piggybank and Pawel Abbott. Pardew spending £1.5M on Izale McLeod wasn't funny, but that wasn't the players fault.
Somebody higher up the thread suggested Andy Jones lacked talent, that's not true.
He was a talenter player, certainly good enough to play at the top-level (and actually scored goals for us too) but his real problem was a lack of dedication as a pro.
If long suffering fans remember rightly he arrived looking like a lean, tough as teak middleweight and by the time he left he looked like a podgy light-heavyweight.
You didn't have to be a genius to work out the problem.
Chris Jones was well past his best when he joined Charlton. But he certainly wasn't Tommy Langley bad. Tommy failed to recapture his Chelsea form when he played for Palace around this time.
David Whyte Clive Mendonca Andy Hunt Darren Bent Bradley Wright Phillips O sh#t....for some reason after reading all the above threads i thought of the last 5 strikers to score 20+ plus goals in a season
Now to continue the thread... Martin Pringle (MIGHT BE HARSH) Matt Svensson Jason Lee Francis Jeffers Izale McLeod IMO
Iain Ferguson played one game away at Derby in late 1989 on loan from Hearts I think, this cannot count here though as this was more of a trial and he wasn't our player.
He was hailed as the new Mendonca when he signed for a surprising £3m by Chris Powell (should never have been sacked in my opinion). Only scored an own goal.
I'm just glad that Capello tried Evina up front in his first game in charge as without those 37 goals we would never have been champions.
Please don't include Leaburn - I raged a war against the idiots who didn't undertsand his worth to the team at the time and don't wan't to go back there!
He was hailed as the new Mendonca when he signed for a surprising £3m by Chris Powell (should never have been sacked in my opinion). Only scored an own goal.
I'm just glad that Capello tried Evina up front in his first game in charge as without those 37 goals we would never have been champions.
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I don't know why ralph milne is included under this thread, he wasn't a striker. He needs to be added to the 'worst midfielders to wear a charlton shirt' thread...
Dick Plumb and Bobby Hunt were honest guys and both tried extremely hard but were amongst the most technically limited forwards that I have seen in Charlton shirt.
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izale mcleod
He was a talenter player, certainly good enough to play at the top-level (and actually scored goals for us too) but his real problem was a lack of dedication as a pro.
If long suffering fans remember rightly he arrived looking like a lean, tough as teak middleweight and by the time he left he looked like a podgy light-heavyweight.
You didn't have to be a genius to work out the problem.
Marcus Bent
I McC
Chris Dickson
Luke Varney
Poor in talent rich in wages........
Clive Mendonca
Andy Hunt
Darren Bent
Bradley Wright Phillips
O sh#t....for some reason after reading all the above threads i thought of the last 5 strikers to score 20+ plus goals in a season
Now to continue the thread...
Martin Pringle (MIGHT BE HARSH)
Matt Svensson
Jason Lee
Francis Jeffers
Izale McLeod
IMO
George Hope
Barry Endean
JFH
mARCUS bENT
He was hailed as the new Mendonca when he signed for a surprising £3m by Chris Powell (should never have been sacked in my opinion). Only scored an own goal.
I'm just glad that Capello tried Evina up front in his first game in charge as without those 37 goals we would never have been champions.