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Macauley Bonne - now at Maldon & Tiptree (p36)

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  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,548
    He was actually quite good for us in the Championship, 11 goals but his all round game was ok too. Obviously he was never amazing, but ever since then he has been absolute toilet. 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    cafcsinger said:
    He was actually quite good for us in the Championship, 11 goals but his all round game was ok too. Obviously he was never amazing, but ever since then he has been absolute toilet. 
    He had a decent half a season at Ipswich too, scored 11 in 16 I think... then 1 in 30 the rest of the season, just before we decided to sign him again.

    In fact, can probably chalk that up as another awful signing of an Ipswich reject, along with Penney, Fraser, Camara and Ladapo (and probably Ahadme).
  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,210
    What he does do for me though is to give me hope of still making it as a professional footballer. I am 59, dodgy knee and back but I still think I could do a job for a team (league 1, let's be realistic) still waiting that call. Bet Bonne is earning more than me.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
    cafcsinger said:
    He was actually quite good for us in the Championship, 11 goals but his all round game was ok too. Obviously he was never amazing, but ever since then he has been absolute toilet. 
    Think he peaked when scoring 2 goals in our 3-2? win over Bristol City at home.
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,347
    To the tune of: The Beatles - Baby You Can Drive My Car 

    Macauley Bonne can't drive a car
    (do do do do)
    2 million pounds, ha ha ha!
    (do do do do)
    You thought you'd had the last laugh
    (do do do do)
    But Macauley you're non-league

    Beep beep, f*** off, yeah
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,347
    edited October 2024
    Swisdom said:
    I said it when we first signed him.  I said it when we sold him.  I said it when we re-signed him.  I said it when he left again.

    Bonne is a terrible footballer.  Worse than Simon Church and I don;t say that lightly about ANYONE.
    He's an arrogant prick too.
    Yeah I have to say even when he was scoring goals in the Champ his all-round game was so poor, I remember saying it was like playing with 10 men and there were a lot of disagreements but I won't pull out the receipts... (Just about). Not to mention some of the clearcut chances he missed that would have kept us up. There were endless disagreements over him at the time because he was scoring, but he benefitted from a purple patch and a team that was laying on great chances for him. Same happened in a brief stint at Ipswich. But as a player he has always been useless. 
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    I can recall Chunes and myself pointing out he was utter dog turd early on and the usual let’s wank off anyone Charlton crew living in denial of what we could see with our eyes , twas ever thus 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    Chunes said:
    Swisdom said:
    I said it when we first signed him.  I said it when we sold him.  I said it when we re-signed him.  I said it when he left again.

    Bonne is a terrible footballer.  Worse than Simon Church and I don;t say that lightly about ANYONE.
    He's an arrogant prick too.
    Yeah I have to say even when he was scoring goals in the Champ his all-round game was so poor, I remember saying it was like playing with 10 men and there were a lot of disagreements but I won't pull out the receipts... (Just about). Not to mention some of the clearcut chances he missed that would have kept us up. There were endless disagreements over him at the time because he was scoring, but he benefitted from a purple patch and a team that was laying on great chances for him. Same happened in a brief stint at Ipswich. But as a player he has always been useless. 
    A more recent version of Paul Benson. He was even more limited.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Garrymanilow said:
    I don't know what it is about him but he's just a very annoying person who draws anger. Even when he's scoring he winds his own fans up and I can't remember a player like him where every single set of fans has turned on him before he's even left. Thinking about it, Taylor and Bonne might have been one of the most unlikeable front twos in Football League history

    Yet, bizarrely it's a shame when Bonne was half decent and scored double figures in the Championship that Lyle Taylor (pre big school) wasn't fit enough to play alongside him for many games. 
    Bonne peaked at 23, later QPR paid 2 million for him and now at 28, other than scoring against Charlton at Gillingham, his career has nosedived quicker than Nile Ranger. (Kettering Town)
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  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Swisdom said:
    I said it when we first signed him.  I said it when we sold him.  I said it when we re-signed him.  I said it when he left again.

    Bonne is a terrible footballer.  Worse than Simon Church and I don;t say that lightly about ANYONE.
    He's an arrogant prick too.
    And have we learnt from this, no we now have Ahadme 
  • YannTheMann
    YannTheMann Posts: 1,032
    MarcusH26 said:
    Surprised he can still get a national league club , would have thought it would be some big spending Isthmian club for him by now. 
    No doubt that will be his next and final move in football considering he loves to burn any bridge he gets near to
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    eaststandmike said:
    Swisdom said:
    I said it when we first signed him.  I said it when we sold him.  I said it when we re-signed him.  I said it when he left again.

    Bonne is a terrible footballer.  Worse than Simon Church and I don;t say that lightly about ANYONE.
    He's an arrogant prick too.
    And have we learnt from this, no we now have Ahadme 
    Yes, there was a big race to be the first to write him off and spot that he’s useless.

    In fact, because of the £1m fee Sky Sports talked about, some questioned him before he even signed.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    £1 or £1m Ahadme is not showing anything like a promotion winning striker would at present , where as Godden looks like one to me 
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,223
    Swisdom said:
    I said it when we first signed him.  I said it when we sold him.  I said it when we re-signed him.  I said it when he left again.

    Bonne is a terrible footballer.  Worse than Simon Church and I don;t say that lightly about ANYONE.
    He's an arrogant prick too.
    Significantly worse than Simon Church... how he got 11 championship goals should be studied, he looked like a pub footballer, even I'm that season
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,223
    Scoham said:
    Chunes said:
    Swisdom said:
    I said it when we first signed him.  I said it when we sold him.  I said it when we re-signed him.  I said it when he left again.

    Bonne is a terrible footballer.  Worse than Simon Church and I don;t say that lightly about ANYONE.
    He's an arrogant prick too.
    Yeah I have to say even when he was scoring goals in the Champ his all-round game was so poor, I remember saying it was like playing with 10 men and there were a lot of disagreements but I won't pull out the receipts... (Just about). Not to mention some of the clearcut chances he missed that would have kept us up. There were endless disagreements over him at the time because he was scoring, but he benefitted from a purple patch and a team that was laying on great chances for him. Same happened in a brief stint at Ipswich. But as a player he has always been useless. 
    A more recent version of Paul Benson. He was even more limited.
    Paul Benson over Bonne every day of the week
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,273
    cafcsinger said:
    He was actually quite good for us in the Championship, 11 goals but his all round game was ok too. Obviously he was never amazing, but ever since then he has been absolute toilet. 

    He was a truly dreadful footballer even in that first stint.  Scored goals surely and as a striker that is what he was paid for of course but you could see at the time it was a purple patch that would end and that his all round game was simply woeful.
  • jams
    jams Posts: 1,219
    Unbelievable really that QPR paid £2m. Can only think they looked at the goals scored without watching a second of footage
  • DubaiCAFC
    DubaiCAFC Posts: 2,461
    Swisdom said:
    I said it when we first signed him.  I said it when we sold him.  I said it when we re-signed him.  I said it when he left again.

    Bonne is a terrible footballer.  Worse than Simon Church and I don;t say that lightly about ANYONE.
    He's an arrogant prick too.
    100%
  • cafcwill
    cafcwill Posts: 1,286
    edited October 2024
    Swisdom said:
    I said it when we first signed him.  I said it when we sold him.  I said it when we re-signed him.  I said it when he left again.

    Bonne is a terrible footballer.  Worse than Simon Church and I don;t say that lightly about ANYONE.
    He's an arrogant prick too.

    the logic behind why we resigned bonne always baffles me
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  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,608
    Simon Church was bloody terrible though. Bonne was lucky with the career he has had. 
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,000
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY said:
    Simon Church was bloody terrible though. Bonne was lucky with the career he has had. 
    Church was crap but at least put a bit of effort in and seemed a likeable enough person.

    Lyle Taylor was a dickhead of the highest order but a very good player (at the time.)

    Bonne was a dickhead.... and also a terrible player.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617


    Not even sure if this would do.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    At the end of the relegation season under Bowyer he was pretty hopeless, the miss from under the crossbar at St Andrews for example, that defied the laws of physics. I didn't want him back, but was quite shocked by how much worse he seemed to have got.
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,881
    Big William said:
    At the end of the relegation season under Bowyer he was pretty hopeless, the miss from under the crossbar at St Andrews for example, that defied the laws of physics. I didn't want him back, but was quite shocked by how much worse he seemed to have got.
    And if he scored it, we stayed up. It was easier than the goal he scored. I also remember him
    missing a fairly easy chance against Millwall at 0-0.  Having to play Bonne at all shows how badly Roland and Southall stitched us up
  • Bostonaddick
    Bostonaddick Posts: 813
    His worst trait was when he pressed the opposing center half, he would do that slowly arc towards defender like he was closing down some imaginary passing lane- all the while hunching over. Looked absolutely ridiculous
  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,314
    They got through in the cup today…
  • southamptonaddick
    southamptonaddick Posts: 4,054
    Southendaddick said:
    They got through in the cup today…
    Boo. 
    I wanted Eastleigh away in the first round.
    So BOO again.
  • MintoHumbugs
    MintoHumbugs Posts: 753
    The winning scorer replaced Bonne

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