We have never had a player like it since. One who would regularly pop up in the box and smash one home. That last season at Upton Park, he was phenomenal!
Funny though, a lot of fans didn't take to him with his Palace connections.I remember to the tune of Al Al Super Al the song was Big nose Big nose C**t .I for one appreciated him as a box to box player,the next one we had was Lee Bowyer followed by Scotty Parker.
I got the impression that he and Curbs/Gritty didn't always see eye to eye and thuswas not always "inked in" on the team sheet.
I remember the Southend Game, when Peter Taylor managed them and we were pegged back to 3-3 and Pards scored the winner in the dying seconds. What a game that was.
i remember we were lacking goals and bite in midfield, then he signed and in one of his first few games (maybe his debut) he scored, then got sent off for spitting. was it away at bristol city? anyway 24 goals in 104 appearances cant be bad.
fair point actually, Bowyer is probably the only attacking midfielder since who mustered a decent goal ratio. You've only got to see the worth of Lampard to know how crucial a goalscoring midfielder can be.
Sorry, so far think he's a much better manager than player. He was another in a series of relatively average midfield players (and I'd put Curbs as a player in the same bracket). The best 'popping up in the box' midfielder I've ever seen for us has to be Graham Stuart.
Graham Stuart scored 22 goals in 148 games for Charlton, so not as good as Pardew but most of Stuart's games were in the Premiership whereas Pards played all his in the second tier. Even Mark Kinsella scored only 20 goals in 208 games for us, which is quite an interesting stat because John Robinson scored only 35 goals in 332 games and Shaun Newton 20 goals in 240 games so that means Pardw scored more or less one goal every five whereas his successors were only scoring about one in ten!!! I don't think I would call Pardew a "great" midfielder for us, he was certainly extremely good value for money though and I would place him as a "very good" Charlton player and reserve the "great" label for others like Bowyer who really were a bit special seeing as an 18 year-old he scored a quite amazing 14 goals in 57 games, a one goal in four games ratio in his first ever season of senior football which is outstanding.
[cite]Posted By: bingaddick[/cite]I got the impression that he and Curbs/Gritty didn't always see eye to eye and thuswas not always "inked in" on the team sheet.
I remember the Southend Game, when Peter Taylor managed them and we were pegged back to 3-3 and Pards scored the winner in the dying seconds. What a game that was.
He got two that day, gorman and leaburn also. He fell out with Curbs after he was dropped to the bench for the Portsmouth game.
Yeah, that's right. I remember Garry Nelson saying in LFF that Pardew got labelled as the "Ice Man" because he was so far out in the cold with Curbs at one point. Apparently Pardew had a real presence about him even in those days and you can just see him rubbing Curbs up the wrong way!
He got two that day, gorman and leaburn also. He fell out with Curbs after he was dropped to the bench for the Portsmouth game.
I thought it was something like that. His record looks pretty good though. I guess it was the Palarse connection which in the end did not endear him to us as much as it should.
I remember that he was always called "clean shorts" as he was seen as rarely getting stuck in or sliding into tackles. True but good players play on their feet.
I think that there is a little bit of revisionism going on here as he wasn't a crowd favorite in the way Bowyer/Robinson/Newton were. Still a good player for us and scored goals as well as bringing some experience.
Pards scored a lot of goals for us from midfield - but I seem to remember he was often also our penalty taker, which might explain his high goals to games ratio.
[cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]Pards scored a lot of goals for us from midfield - but I seem to remember he was often also our penalty taker, which might explain his high goals to games ratio.
Good shout Oggy. I was looking up Home and Away and I saw that he scored quite a few pens.
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I remember the Southend Game, when Peter Taylor managed them and we were pegged back to 3-3 and Pards scored the winner in the dying seconds. What a game that was.
How did Graeme Stuart compare ?
Even Mark Kinsella scored only 20 goals in 208 games for us, which is quite an interesting stat because John Robinson scored only 35 goals in 332 games and Shaun Newton 20 goals in 240 games so that means Pardw scored more or less one goal every five whereas his successors were only scoring about one in ten!!!
I don't think I would call Pardew a "great" midfielder for us, he was certainly extremely good value for money though and I would place him as a "very good" Charlton player and reserve the "great" label for others like Bowyer who really were a bit special seeing as an 18 year-old he scored a quite amazing 14 goals in 57 games, a one goal in four games ratio in his first ever season of senior football which is outstanding.
He got two that day, gorman and leaburn also. He fell out with Curbs after he was dropped to the bench for the Portsmouth game.
I thought it was something like that. His record looks pretty good though. I guess it was the Palarse connection which in the end did not endear him to us as much as it should.
I think that there is a little bit of revisionism going on here as he wasn't a crowd favorite in the way Bowyer/Robinson/Newton were. Still a good player for us and scored goals as well as bringing some experience.
Good shout Oggy. I was looking up Home and Away and I saw that he scored quite a few pens.