Purrington isn't the worst but he's also nowhere near as solid as is claimed. Evidence for the prosecution: Blackpool away when he got sent off and Maatsen dealt with Hamilton effortlessly, and worse still the Gillingham defeat when he basically let them shoot for their winner and Bowyer said a certain player would never play for him again (a typically embattled dick move on his part admittedly)
I always presumed that was Oshilaja - Neither played for Bowyer again (Although it was only two games)
But Purrington did come back into the team, Oshilaja on the other hand never played again
Okay, I've checked now. It was after the Blackpool game a couple of weeks later that Bowyer said this. Oshilaja was confined to the bench. Purrington was dropped from the entire squad
Is this the same Ben Purrington who only missed one match and played 90 minutes pretty much every other game last time we got promoted from league one?
Only got signed January 2019 though... But that was when we went on the stonking run
Purrington was a game changer. After losing Grant we had to become better defensively to go up, Purrington ensured we were able to do that.
You can't honestly call Purrington a game changer
Someone missed Wembley...
One swallow doesn't make a summer
That was very much tongue in cheek. I've given my reasons in a different post, if you disagree that's cool. Like I said, I don't disagree we need something else today but absolutely stand by the impact he had 2 and a half years ago.
The only two times I've ever seen Purrington truly blossom on a football pitch were when he played at being Beckenbauer for 20 minutes against Sunderland (an experiment Bowyer should have repeated) and when he and Maatsen both played the last 20 minutes against AFC Wimbledon and he kept getting in the box
Is this the same Ben Purrington who only missed one match and played 90 minutes pretty much every other game last time we got promoted from league one?
Only got signed January 2019 though... But that was when we went on the stonking run
Purrington was a game changer. After losing Grant we had to become better defensively to go up, Purrington ensured we were able to do that.
You can't honestly call Purrington a game changer
Someone missed Wembley...
One swallow doesn't make a summer
That was very much tongue in cheek. I've given my reasons in a different post, if you disagree that's cool. Like I said, I don't disagree we need something else today but absolutely stand by the impact he had 2 and a half years ago.
The criticism of Purrington is unfair as the average marks for the season given on this site put him higher than: Gunter, Oshilaja, Pearce, Gilbey, Washington, Matthews, Morgan, Maatsen, Watson, I have left out some of the lower marked players but really why give him so much stick and not the others
The criticism of Purrington is unfair as the average marks for the season given on this site put him higher than: Gunter, Oshilaja, Pearce, Gilbey, Washington, Matthews, Morgan, Maatsen, Watson, I have left out some of the lower marked players but really why give him so much stick and not the others
We've moved on from Purrington..now discussing the finer points of Josh Parker
Don't want to sound like an arse here but please stop talking about Purrington. It's deadline day and the thread is getting flooded with Purrington comments. The link to the Purrington thread is further up, please just use it
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We don’t want to be lighter in that area now
https://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/91607/statbank-charlton-0-1-peterborough#latest
TBF, as can be seen, he came back in under Adkins and did quite well, although Maatsen had the position back by the end of the season
PARKER LEAVES BURTON
Josh Parker has left Burton by mutual consent, seven months after joining the club in January.
Is our lucky charm coming home ?
The link to the Purrington thread is further up, please just use it
Imagine being a striker with two play off winners medals and not scoring a goal at all either season.
All the DNA of a Charlton striker, bring him home.