Maybe I should put a survey together instead and you guys can vote for your eleven by position. Might wait until the end of the season though in case there are anymore heroes.
Di Canio vs Aston Villa - never seen one man make a group of so-called top-flight defenders look so much like schoolboys. "Don't panic Mr Mainwaring, Don't panic!"
Colin Walsh,for being the best passer of a ball this club has had,Check his 4 assists against peterborough .Woiuld have got many Scottish caps if had not suffered two broken legs.
John Hendry - Winner v Millwall 1992 Kim Grant - A brace v Millwall 1995 Carl Leaburn - Goal in a win v Millwall 1996 Lee Bowyer - Goal in a win v Millwall 1996 Paul Kitson - Winner v Palace 2000 Dennis Rommedahl - Winner v Palace 2004 Dean Kiely - Penalty Save v Palace and Charlton win 2004 Jon Fortune - Goal that relegated Palace 2005 Svetoslav Todorov - Winner v Palace 2007 Matt Spring - Winner v Palace 2009
John Hendry - Winner v Millwall 1992 Kim Grant - A brace v Millwall 1995 Carl Leaburn - Goal in a win v Millwall 1996 Lee Bowyer - Goal in a win v Millwall 1996 Paul Kitson - Winner v Palace 2000 Dennis Rommedahl - Winner v Palace 2004 Dean Kiely - Penalty Save v Palace and Charlton win 2004 Jon Fortune - Goal that relegated Palace 2005 Svetoslav Todorov - Winner v Palace 2007 Matt Spring - Winner v Palace 2009
Thuram- for putting off the QPR player magnificently
Nego - great little side shuffle in the Wigan game Fanni - giving us all a laugh when his name was announced Johnson - showing commitment by coming back to the club 3 times Tex - for hitting Steve Morison
Reza - his wonder goal against Leeds LePoint - made a mazy run Ceballos - amazing corner v Derby Crofts- the master of the sideways pass. He knew what it was like to be patient.
Tucudean - nearly scored v Millwall Watt - held the ball in the corner for 2 minutes
Dean Kiely - Being a gent and a legend when we met him at Anfield with my then 8 year old son Andy Hunt - Perfect hatrick away at Stockport County Clive Mendonca - Play off Final Gary Nelson - Palace away play off semi final last game in a Charlton shirt and a gent in the players lounge when I met him after the game Colin Walsh - First goal back at the Valley Jon Fortune - The goal that sent Palace down Dennis Rommadhal - Winner at Palace Peter Shirtliff - The part he played at St Andrews that night Johnnie Jackson - For all those JJ moments Kevin Lisbie - The hatrick against Liverpool Alan Simonsen - For signing for Charlton
And number 12 SCP for so many moments as a player and a manager and as an all round top bloke
this is in no particular order just as I plucked them from my memories
I'm going to have to go for a different slant here. Half these players would come into contention for my all-time Charlton XI, and I think that means you can't really remember them by one moment. I'll give a team a go, restricting it to moments I was alive for:
RB - Yassin Moutaouakil. Can't remember who the opponents were, but in about his third or fourth game he made an absolute monster of a tackle when the bloke had beaten him two yards for pace and came away with the ball to launch a counter attack. Was a great challenge.
CB - Jorge Costa, for when he thighed the ball back to the keeper. I'd never seen that before and dad had to explain why it didn't constitute circumvention of the back pass rule.
CB - Jon Fortune. Obviously.
LB - Tareiq Holmes-Dennis, for that dirt move on Barry Bannan:
Illic for the lead up to the play off final and the final itself, closely followed In the keeper stakes by Steve Brown at Villa.
Pitcher (!) for actually managing to pass the ball 6 yards for Walsh to score on the 5th December, Walsh had to point to him where to put it mind.
Webster for the many times he put his head where he shouldn't have but also that Volley at upton park which is still the most I've ever won on a football match.
Costsa, just for being Costa
Powell, for scoring at the end of a great career with us
DiCanio for the penalty chip
Mortimer, can't remember the game but he ran almost the length of the pitch and riffled it in
Jensen for the chip against Arsenal
Parker for the 4-2 game at Chelsea
Bartlett for his goal of the season
Mendonca for, well, as if I need to say
and of course last but not least on the subs bench, myself, for had I not took the money and gone to Newcastle we'd probably still not be back at the valley
1. Bob Bolder...for the penalty save v Wimbledon at Selhurst when we were fighting relegation. 2. Paul Curtis....for his late poked winner at Fulham in '83 (my first away win in god knows how many games!) 3. Paul Mortimer...for his slalom goal at Norwich. 4. Paul Miller...for his goal at Chelsea that saved us from the relegation play-offs. 5. Peter Shirtliff...for this diving header winner at St Andrews v Leeds (and his knee into the back of Ian Baird's head...) 6. John Robinson....for his equaliser v Manchester Utd. 7. Colin Walsh....for his last minute equaliser v Norwich in the Full Members Semi Final (sorry...wasn't at the Valley for his goal v Portsmouth) 8. Claus Jensen...for the chip at Hignbury. 9. Scott Parker....for destroying Makele and Chelsea on Boxing Day 4-2. 10. Paulo Di Canio....for the chipped penalty v Arsenal. 11. Alan Simonsen....for the first of the two slalom goals v Chelsea at The Valley.
Subs; 12. Ben Hamer....for the penalty save at Leeds. 13. Derek Hales...for keeping cool and sliding the ball past the keeper to put us 2-1 up v Bolton (the big relegation match in '83) 14. Kevin Lisbie...for the last minute header at Chelsea 1-0. 15. Bryan Hughes...for staying calm in the penalty shoot-out at Stamford Bridge. 16. Darren Pitcher....for the winner at Blackburn in the FA Cup.
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Yes, I’m struggling too.....
Dean Kiely - for a wonder save v Spurs at home.
John Humphrey - beautiful cross on run for Andy Jones' header at Maine Road.
Peter Shirtliff - diving header v Leeds at St Andrews.
Richard Rufus - busting tackle on Les Ferdinand at White Hart Lane.
Chris Powell - goal v Coventry in his last game.
John Robinson - last minute goal v Manchester United.
Steve Mackenzie - brilliant solo goal v Arsenal at Highbury.
Peter Garland - long range goal v Wimbledon at Selhurst.
Andy Reid - beautiful curling ball for Chris Iwelumo's last minute header at Bristol City.
Andy Hunt - last minute winner at Coventry.
Alan Simonsen - the first of his two slalom wonder goals v Chelsea at The Valley.
Neil Heaney for a great strike on Mauricio Tarrico.
JJ's bicycle kick vs West Ham
Di Canio's Penalty vs Arsenal
Holmes-Dennis for killing Barry Bannan
Kim Grant - A brace v Millwall 1995
Carl Leaburn - Goal in a win v Millwall 1996
Lee Bowyer - Goal in a win v Millwall 1996
Paul Kitson - Winner v Palace 2000
Dennis Rommedahl - Winner v Palace 2004
Dean Kiely - Penalty Save v Palace and Charlton win 2004
Jon Fortune - Goal that relegated Palace 2005
Svetoslav Todorov - Winner v Palace 2007
Matt Spring - Winner v Palace 2009
Nego - great little side shuffle in the Wigan game
Fanni - giving us all a laugh when his name was announced
Johnson - showing commitment by coming back to the club 3 times
Tex - for hitting Steve Morison
Reza - his wonder goal against Leeds
LePoint - made a mazy run
Ceballos - amazing corner v Derby
Crofts- the master of the sideways pass. He knew what it was like to be patient.
Tucudean - nearly scored v Millwall
Watt - held the ball in the corner for 2 minutes
Goal 1947
Andy Hunt - Perfect hatrick away at Stockport County
Clive Mendonca - Play off Final
Gary Nelson - Palace away play off semi final last game in a Charlton shirt and a gent in the players lounge when I met him after the game
Colin Walsh - First goal back at the Valley
Jon Fortune - The goal that sent Palace down
Dennis Rommadhal - Winner at Palace
Peter Shirtliff - The part he played at St Andrews that night
Johnnie Jackson - For all those JJ moments
Kevin Lisbie - The hatrick against Liverpool
Alan Simonsen - For signing for Charlton
And number 12 SCP for so many moments as a player and a manager and as an all round top bloke
this is in no particular order just as I plucked them from my memories
GK - Nick Pope, for this double save:
RB - Yassin Moutaouakil. Can't remember who the opponents were, but in about his third or fourth game he made an absolute monster of a tackle when the bloke had beaten him two yards for pace and came away with the ball to launch a counter attack. Was a great challenge.
CB - Jorge Costa, for when he thighed the ball back to the keeper. I'd never seen that before and dad had to explain why it didn't constitute circumvention of the back pass rule.
CB - Jon Fortune. Obviously.
LB - Tareiq Holmes-Dennis, for that dirt move on Barry Bannan:
RM - Dennis Rommedahl. "Dennis, in the last minute..."
CM - Amdy Faye, for the following. No-one said the moment had to be good...
CM - Matt Spring, for the solitary goal in a 1-0 vs Palace which broke I think a winless run of about a million games.
LM - Dany N'Guessan, for that cross-cum-shot that rocketed in when no-one expected it.
CF - Reza Ghoochannejhad, for the goal vs Leeds:
CF - Svetoslav Todorov, for a solitary goal in a 1-0 vs Palace.
Pitcher (!) for actually managing to pass the ball 6 yards for Walsh to score on the 5th December, Walsh had to point to him where to put it mind.
Webster for the many times he put his head where he shouldn't have but also that Volley at upton park which is still the most I've ever won on a football match.
Costsa, just for being Costa
Powell, for scoring at the end of a great career with us
DiCanio for the penalty chip
Mortimer, can't remember the game but he ran almost the length of the pitch and riffled it in
Jensen for the chip against Arsenal
Parker for the 4-2 game at Chelsea
Bartlett for his goal of the season
Mendonca for, well, as if I need to say
and of course last but not least on the subs bench, myself, for had I not took the money and gone to Newcastle we'd probably still not be back at the valley
Please note Robinson - I'm playing 442!