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Paddy Powell Appreciation thread.
Bournemouth Addick
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Thought I'd start a shiny new thread for everyone to express their appreciation for Paddy's achievements on and off and with the pitch. Please try to keep other chat about the circumstances of Paddy's leaving to the other thread.
As a kid growing up and watching us in the 70's I had the joy of watching Paddy in sides containing Flash, Killer and Keithy Peacock. It's testimony to Paddy's quality as a player that he comfortably could be talked about alongside such quality players.
They say don't meet your heroes but I've had the pleasure of meeting Paddy several times throughout my live and he has always been an absolute pleasure to speak to and generous with his time.
Thank you so much for everything you've given to our club over so many years Colin and I wish you nothing but a long, healthy and very happy retirement if that's the case or every success in any new role you take on in the future.
As a kid growing up and watching us in the 70's I had the joy of watching Paddy in sides containing Flash, Killer and Keithy Peacock. It's testimony to Paddy's quality as a player that he comfortably could be talked about alongside such quality players.
They say don't meet your heroes but I've had the pleasure of meeting Paddy several times throughout my live and he has always been an absolute pleasure to speak to and generous with his time.
Thank you so much for everything you've given to our club over so many years Colin and I wish you nothing but a long, healthy and very happy retirement if that's the case or every success in any new role you take on in the future.
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Top bloke, down to earth, loved his pitch and loved Charlton. Glad i met him once!0
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Top man . top player, top groundsman3
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Sad day.
I hope that Paddy will still be around in the future as a match day host or similar
Echo Ooh Ahh's words
Top man, top player, top groundsman.1 -
The only person, I believe, to get an assist award for goal of the season on ITV - the one that Killer scored against Hull if I remember correctly.2
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thats exactly what i would have written here here Paddy !Bournemouth Addick said:Thought I'd start a shiny new thread for everyone to express their appreciation for Paddy's achievements on and off and with the pitch. Please try to keep other chat about the circumstances of Paddy's leaving to the other thread.
As a kid growing up and watching us in the 70's I had the joy of watching Paddy in sides containing Flash, Killer and Keithy Peacock. It's testimony to Paddy's quality as a player that he comfortably could be talked about alongside such quality players.
They say don't meet your heroes but I've had the pleasure of meeting Paddy several times throughout my live and he has always been an absolute pleasure to speak to and generous with his time.
Thank you so much for everything you've given to our club over so many years Colin and I wish you nothing but a long, healthy and very happy retirement.
just dont retire from Umpiring at Downham and Bromley though
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Great guy, CAFC legend, met him a few times - great company. Good luck, hope to see u at the Valley soon.0
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Played for the supporters club XI against him as part of the staff team twenty five years ago - smashing bloke and an amazing player!0
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A real Charlton man and true gentleman. Really felt for him last season trying to work miracles with that pitch when previous regime's let him down by not investing in the pitch. All the best for the future Paddy.1
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I also had the pleasure of watching him play, and as others have said, he is a gentleman and a true legend! Sad to lose another real Charlton man!
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One of my earliest memories was watching Paddy, Peacock and Derek Hales at the Valley. My dad bought me signef hotos of Paddy anf Arthur Horsfield and they instantly became my favourite players. Yhanks for the memories Colin, and good luck for the future.0
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One of my all-time favourite Charlton Players. He'd always be in my top Charlton 11. And I Was There when he scored with a header. Good Luck, Paddy.1
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All the best Paddy, enjoy your retirement, you are a Charlton legend.
Will always remember your link-ups with Killer and Flash ... great days.0 -
Admired you as a footballer; admired your work as a groundsman; met you once and found you to be a top bloke. Have a long and happy retirement and hope you will be a regular visitor at the Valley for years to come.0
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Watched him when I was a boy, delivered some fantastic balls for Killer and Flash.
Good luck.0 -
Nice comments folks, he will really appreciate them. His health is fine and he hasn't retired, he was offered a redundancy package and decided to take it. I'm quite glad in a way as he has always stressed about the pitch but the last couple of years have been really hard on him. He has a couple of irons on the fire, but I really hope the club I love get him involved with some matchday hospitality stuff as i really want him to still be involved in some small way.5
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Was great watching him as a player and a big thanks for all you have done for Charlton throughout the years. I will miss seeing you on the pitch with fork in hand.0
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Taking the cheque just before retiring is a bloody good touch normally
I hope this is the case for paddy top top top man0 -
I rarely post on these tribute threads. I had the immense pleasure of watching Powell in his heyday. A quality player. I always felt somewhat saddened, when you recognize the immense contribution he made to the early careers of Hales and Flanagan, he did not get a chance to enjoy the rewards or the opportunity of playing at a higher level.
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Sad day, i never got to see him as a player but he is my dads favourite Charlton player of all time and so i have grown up being taught just how much of a legend he is to this club, im just as gutted that he wont be around anymore, as it was nice having a former player in such an important job.
I hope he has not been treated as harshly as it reads.1 -
This has come on the day I needed to find someone to dedicate my 2,000 tweet to
thanks for everything you gave us Paddy you will be missed0 -
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If only we had a Paddy, killer and Flash in the team these days. Loved the 70's watching them play. Couldn't defend for toffee but you knew there was going to be goals. All the best, Colin. CAFC legend.... FACT0
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Paddy himself once modestly said of his time on the wing: "I didn't even have to look up - I'd just lob it into the box, knowing Killer would score." Those who are old and lucky enough to have seen him play will not forget a strong and powerful winger in an exhilarating, attacking side.
I've never met Paddy, but the many comments on this thread pay tribute to a thoroughly likeable man. Here's wishing you a happy and healthy future.0 -
Good luck Paddy, and thanks for all you have done for CAFC over the years.
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Colin was one of my all-time favourite players and I have known him personally since 1988 and I was proud to be the Chairman of his Testimonial Committee last Summer. I can't do better than to reproduce the article that I wrote for the match programme:
''When I was asked if I would be part of Colin Powell’s Testimonial Committee I had no hesitation in accepting as, like many Charlton fans, Colin was one of my favourite players of all time; the legendary forward line of Powell, Hales and Flanagan has to be one of the greatest in the Club’s history and to this day, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better or more accurate crosser of a ball.
This was emphasised by Derek Hales when, speaking to the legendary commentator Brian Moore on the Big Match just after his transfer to Derby County in 1976 about his goal for Charlton against Hull City being voted ‘Goal of the Season’ he said that, he ‘wished he could take Colin with him to Derby’!
However my own association with him goes back to 1988 during my first spell at the Club when I was Commercial Manager and together with the then General Manager, Arnie Warren, I visited Colin at his former place of work, Westminster School to offer him the role of Head Groundsman at Charlton Athletic. I remember to this day that all the while I was there with Arnie and Colin I couldn’t quite believe that I was actually talking to Colin Powell, one of my football heroes.
Colin had met the then Chairman Roger Alwen at a cricket match and basically offered him the chance to come back to, initially, become the groundsman at the Sparrows Lane training ground. Whilst I suppose Arnie and I were there to ‘interview’ Colin, as it was conducted in the middle of a football pitch I don’t recall us asking him too many searching questions!
Later in my career when I was on the Playing Surfaces Committee at The Football League, I regularly visited Colin at The Valley as he was more often than not a regional winner of the ‘Groundsman of the Year’ Awards.
I’ve also been lucky enough to have played many times with Colin for the Charlton Athletic Veterans Team and I once turned out for him in a Veterans match at Margate FC where he was team manager. It was testimonial game for a Margate player and I played up front with Mike Flanagan. It was 50-50 between them as to who moaned at me the most throughout the whole match!
I have known Colin or ‘Powelly’ – it’s funny but I’ve never called him Paddy - for over 30 years first as a revered player then as a friend and colleague and I am delighted that I have been able to assist him with his very well deserved second testimonial''.
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Really enjoyed watching Paddy play. Tricky, creative player, comfortable on the ball. He made the difficult transition from non league football to wearing the Charlton shirt look easy - there’s not been many who have done that.0
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Best of luck Paddy, I'm lucky that my first memory, aged 8, of Charlton was witnessing Hales goal of the season that you brilliantly set-up against Hull.0
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I was also lucky enough to see Paddy in his heyday. I often remember him flying down the wing (winning free kicks for obstruction when in the main he had run into the defender!!!) and putting crosses in for the strike force of Hales and Flanagan to convert, what an era that was!
Good luck Paddy and thanks for some truely great memories and all the work you did on the hallowed Valley Turf.0 -
I once saw him in The Crossways in New Eltham, and offered to buy him a pint. He refused and offered to buy me and my girlfriend a drink instead. Along with Killer, one of my favourite players of that era. That goal of the season by Killer was made by Paddy0
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I remember Paddy's debut in 1973 against, I think, Rotherham. He was sensational in the first half before he ran out of puff (rather like the rest of the team, I'm afraid). Once he got up to speed, however, with the benefits of full time training, he cut a swathe through most defences that he came up against - all through pure skill and crossing ability.
Another great Theo Foley signing, Paddy was one of the reasons the Valley was such an entertaining place to watch football during those free-scoring years. It was great to see him return as our groundsman and, if he fancies it in due course after the dust has settled, I'm sure that he would, as others have suggested, make an excellent match day host.
If Roland is serious about making match days a real community highlight (rather like going to church in the old days, as he put it), he needs to understand the regard in which we hold our old heroes and (at the risk of veering off point) our craving for some continuity in the players we're watching, rather than witnessing the fruits of a revolving door approach.
Thanks a million, Paddy, and all the very best for a long, happy and healthy future. You'll always be revered in these parts.3 -
Thanks Paddy for all the good memories and a mostly tip top playing surface0
