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Worst Substitue Appearances on debut

To begin this isn't slating Jordan Botaka after yesterday's inauspicious start. Let's see how that works out but it is fair to say on that one showing he wasn't great and it made me think of other players who made their debuts off the bench in slightly underwhelmimg fashion.

From my time I remember:

Mark McCammon - went on to have a decent lower league career but looked awful for us

Tom Hovi - came on v Derby as we lost a 3 0 lead to lose 4 3 I think. Spooning an attempted clearance high in the air is all I remember

Mike Small - lived up to expectations of a charlton player at Millwall

Any others?
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  • Frank Nouble
  • Leon Clarke
  • edited August 2016

    To begin this isn't slating Jordan Botaka after yesterday's inauspicious start. Let's see how that works out but it is fair to say on that one showing he wasn't great and it made me think of other players who made their debuts off the bench in slightly underwhelmimg fashion.

    From my time I remember:

    Mark McCammon - went on to have a decent lower league career but looked awful for us

    Tom Hovi - came on v Derby as we lost a 3 0 lead to lose 4 3 I think. Spooning an attempted clearance high in the air is all I remember

    Mike Small - lived up to expectations of a charlton player at Millwall

    Any others?

    Think Hovi's debut was the game before Derby. 5-1 hammering at Bolton.



  • Polish Pete
  • Omar Pouso
  • Mike Small started at Millwall didn't he? We loaned him in to replace injured Carl Leaburn, then sent him back to West Ham next day.

    Polish Pete gets my vote anyway
  • Omar Pouso

    Started I think and was subbed at half time.
  • Missed It said:

    Mike Small started at Millwall didn't he? We loaned him in to replace injured Carl Leaburn, then sent him back to West Ham next day.

    Polish Pete gets my vote anyway

    I hate to say I saw that performance at Millwall, to paraphrase Winston C " never on a football field has someone so large done so little to aid a football team". He did start but I can understand why people thought he came on as a substitute
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  • Lepoint

    Sorry, can't count that. He got an assist!
  • Jim standard v cardiff

    Not a sub
  • Way back when................A guy called Franklin in goal.
  • shirty5 said:

    Jim standard v cardiff

    Not a sub
    If we're gonna splut hairs.. Worst loan player debut..? ;)
  • shirty5 said:

    Jim standard v cardiff

    Not a sub
    If we're gonna splut hairs.. Worst loan player debut..? ;)
    Mike Small.
  • Sweaty Balmer.
  • Sweaty Balmer.

    2 own goals in 3 games. Thought about that after McNair notched Man City's winner yesterday.
  • Mikel Alonso
  • To begin this isn't slating Jordan Botaka after yesterday's inauspicious start. Let's see how that works out but it is fair to say on that one showing he wasn't great and it made me think of other players who made their debuts off the bench in slightly underwhelmimg fashion.

    From my time I remember:

    Mark McCammon - went on to have a decent lower league career but looked awful for us

    Tom Hovi - came on v Derby as we lost a 3 0 lead to lose 4 3 I think. Spooning an attempted clearance high in the air is all I remember

    Mike Small - lived up to expectations of a charlton player at Millwall

    Any others?

    Think Hovi's debut was the game before Derby. 5-1 hammering at Bolton.



    I was at that game,i think he came on when were 3-1 down on a pudding of a pitch.He was on a hiding to nothing....it pissed down,two of my mates got kicked out and as you say we got stuffed 5-1.
  • Addickted said:

    Mikel Alonso

    This
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  • LenGlover said:

    Leon Clarke

    This . x 100.

    Emblazoned in my mind for ever and will never be forgotten.

  • Alonso without a doubt. Didn't look like a professional footballer.
  • vffvff
    edited August 2016

    Omar Pouso

    Pouso was very poor and that was his only game.

    Christophe Le Point player debut was the best impression for a headless chicken though through the sheer chaos he caused to helped assist a goal.

    I think Charlton supporters are on the whole being sensible, calm & charitable in their response to Botaka's debut yesterday.
  • LenGlover said:

    Leon Clarke

    Absolutely. Ball played through, simple chance to run on, slot it in and become an instant hero. Instead, he runs as if he's running through treacle. While still recovering from a hip replacement. In lead shoes.
  • Too easy- Lapoint. He had no idea. Could not run, pass or control the ball.
  • There are two categories really - subs who were awful on day 1 because they awful full stop (e.g. Lepoint).

    In a different, rarer, category are those equally hopeless in game 1, but did actually improve (e.g. Balmer). Jerome Thomas springs to mind, he looked like Bambi on ice I seem to recall, couldn't see how Arsenal could possible have given him a pro contract.
  • Tahar El Khalej
  • Has to be Scott Sinclair or Leroy Lita. Absolute pair of shithouses.
  • Jesper Blomquist
  • A young lad in the late 70s/early 80s, surname of Browne, I think. Came on, beat a couple of men down the right wing but fell over as he was about to cross. Never saw him again
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