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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Bailey Vickerage on January 24, 2023, 05:10:17 pm
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Seen this posted on Twitter and got me thinking for half hour or so, only used players that I have seen.
Name your clubs:
Best ever player:
Worst ever player:
Best value for money signing:
Biggest ever flop:
Player who never reached his potential:
Mine is:
Best ever player: James Coppinger/Brian Stock/Richie Wellens
Worst ever player: Thiago Cukur/Jordy Hiwula
Best value for money signing: James Coppinger
Biggest ever flop: Jordy Hiwula
Player who never reached his potential: Federico Macheda/Liam Mandeville
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Best ever player: can’t split redfearn and wellens
Worst ever player: wow loads comes to mind but pick Guy Ipoua
Best value for money signing: James coppinger
Biggest ever flop: justin Jackson/Carl Alford
Player who never reached his potential: keiron brady due to injury
Of course some subject to change
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Best player-King Alick; world class
Worst player-Thiago Cukur
Best value for money-Copps
Biggest flop-Carl Alford
Player who didn't reach his potential-King Alick; had he not broke his leg, he would probably have captained Man Utd, and possibly England too.
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Best ever player: Ian Snodin
Worst ever Player: Denis Souza, Mirsad Bubolovich
Best Value for money Signing: James Coppinger
Biggest ever flop: Carl Alford, Justin Jackson, Tommy Tynan (we were a strikers graveyard)
Player who never reached his potential : Steve Brooker due to injury
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Best Player - Peter Kitchen
Worst Player - Harry Worley
Best Value for money - Copps
Biggest flop - Carl Alford
Player who didn’t reach his potential - Ian Snodin
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Best ever player: Ian Snodin
Worst ever player: David Smith
Best value for money signing: Copps
Biggest ever flop: Alford
Player who never reached his potential: Andy Watson
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Best ever player: Ian Snodin
Worst ever Player: Denis Souza, Mirsad Bubolovich
Best Value for money Signing: James Coppinger
Biggest ever flop: Carl Alford, Justin Jackson, Tommy Tynan (we were a strikers graveyard)
Player who never reached his potential : Steve Brooker due to injury
Denis Souza , you know for a season he was immense at the heart of our defence , played magnificently in the FA cup wins in 2008 against Liverpool and Chelsea .
Funny old game .
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Best ever player: Ian Snodin
Worst ever Player: Denis Souza, Mirsad Bubolovich
Best Value for money Signing: James Coppinger
Biggest ever flop: Carl Alford, Justin Jackson, Tommy Tynan (we were a strikers graveyard)
Player who never reached his potential : Steve Brooker due to injury
Denis Souza , you know for a season he was immense at the heart of our defence , played magnificently in the FA cup wins in 2008 against Liverpool and Chelsea .
Funny old game .
The only Brazilian that couldn’t play football, he was awful for us
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Carl Alford scored 139 goals in 219 games before joining us
His club Stevenage who we paid £50.000 to he scored 42 goals in 39 games.
He has to be the biggest flop we have had. 1 goal in 17 games
Best ever player Ian Snodin ( never saw King Alick )
Best value signing has to be Copps at £30.000
Player who never reached potential Liam Mandeville but he is one of many.
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Best Player - Peter Kitchen
Worst Player - Harry Worley
Best Value for money - Copps
Biggest flop - Carl Alford
Player who didn’t reach his potential - Ian Snodin
If Ian Snodin had not had so many bad injuries he would have been an England international, he could have even captained the side
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The only goal Alford scored for us was a penalty, against Hayes. Away as well. Never scored for us at Belle Vue. Amazing really.
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Best ever player: Billy Sharp
Worst ever Player: Curtis Main
Best Value for money Signing: James Coppinger
Biggest ever flop: John Sheridan
Player who never reached his potential : Kieran Brady
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Alford's successes everywhere else does make you wonder just what our manager of the time was playing at doesn't it?
BobG
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Best ever player: Wellens
Worst ever player: Hiwula
Best value for money signing: Copps
Biggest ever flop: Darren Byfield
Player who never reached his potential: Brooker
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Best ever player: Ian Snodin
Worst ever player: The Pointer Man
Best value for money signing: Colin Douglas
Biggest ever flop: Alford
Player who never reached his potential: Andy Watson
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Best Player - Peter Kitchen
Worst Player - Harry Worley
Best Value for money - Copps
Biggest flop - Carl Alford
Player who didn’t reach his potential - Ian Snodin
If Ian Snodin had not had so many bad injuries he would have been an England international, he could have even captained the side
That’s the reason I put him in the never reached his potential
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Best ever player: Ian Snodin
Worst ever Player: Billy Stubbs
Best Value for money Signing: Tommy Gaynor
Biggest ever flop: Terry Austin
Player who never reached his potential : Alan Brown. Was absolutely outstanding for us during the half season he was with DRFC until injury finished him off
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Best ever Billy Sharp / Chris Nicol
Worst ever Weavers goalkeeping neighbour
Vfm can only be copps
Flop. Mike Newell
Potential Chris Brown
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Best ever Billy Sharp / Chris Nicol
Worst ever Weavers goalkeeping neighbour
Vfm can only be copps
Flop. Mike Newell
Potential Chris Brown
Not sure you can say Chris Brown didn’t fulfil his potential. I would have said quite the opposite.
I said Mandeville but someone said Andy Watson. Would agree about him. Plucked from Garforth Town by Ian Snodin. On his day he was a match winner but he so rarely produced it. Loads of ability. Such a shame he wasted it. Same with Mandeville. He should have gone on to play at Championship level 100% imo.
It’s all about attitude and desire. So many players don’t fulfil their potential. We have had our fair share.
Mile Newell as a flop. 100%. He was hopeless.
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Best ever Billy Sharp / Chris Nicol
Worst ever Weavers goalkeeping neighbour
Vfm can only be copps
Flop. Mike Newell
Potential Chris Brown
Not sure you can say Chris Brown didn’t fulfil his potential. I would have said quite the opposite.
I said Mandeville but someone said Andy Watson. Would agree about him. Plucked from Garforth Town by Ian Snodin. On his day he was a match winner but he so rarely produced it. Loads of ability. Such a shame he wasted it. Same with Mandeville. He should have gone on to play at Championship level 100% imo.
It’s all about attitude and desire. So many players don’t fulfil their potential. We have had our fair share.
Mile Newell as a flop. 100%. He was hopeless.
Noted I think I've made an error there , but for life of me can't think who I mean !
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Steve Nicol. What a player.
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Best: Alick Jeffrey
Worst: Either Dave Smith or Mirsad Bubalovic
Flop: Alford
Did not reach potential: Controversially Alick, without injury he would have been world class
Value: Although obviously Copps, another way of looking at things might suggest Marquis (Free), Wellens (Free), Whiteman (150K) and Mills (300K) all produced huge profits on resale. However my left field choice - Dennis Leigh. He and Watson were transferred for Wilcockson, Rabjohn and Clish +8K. A year later Watson was bought for 8K meaning effectively Leigh was sold for those three great players all on his own :lol:
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Best : John Ryan
Worst : Louis Thomlinson
BFM : Legend
FLOP : Steve Brooker
POTENTIAL : Steve Brooker
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Steve Nicol. What a player.
Conference was a doddle for him. He had so much time when on the ball and was Bobby Moore esq with his tackles and interceptions.
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He certainly was Campsall. Very intelligent player. Was blessed to watch him play for the Rovers
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Best ever Billy Sharp / Chris Nicol
Worst ever Weavers goalkeeping neighbour
Vfm can only be copps
Flop. Mike Newell
Potential Chris Brown
Not sure you can say Chris Brown didn’t fulfil his potential. I would have said quite the opposite.
I said Mandeville but someone said Andy Watson. Would agree about him. Plucked from Garforth Town by Ian Snodin. On his day he was a match winner but he so rarely produced it. Loads of ability. Such a shame he wasted it. Same with Mandeville. He should have gone on to play at Championship level 100% imo.
It’s all about attitude and desire. So many players don’t fulfil their potential. We have had our fair share.
Mile Newell as a flop. 100%. He was hopeless.
Noted I think I've made an error there , but for life of me can't think who I mean !
Did you mean his dad Alan? If he'd have stayed fit we'd have been close to promotion that season.
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Best player I've seen Ian Snodin.Got me thinking about Mike Newell.Had an open goal at Dover in the Trophy and put it against the cross bar.Got beat 1-0 . Got the Donny Star on the Monday he'd been transferred to Blackpool.Remember Andy Watson Best roofer in Garforth.Best value Duggie. Biggest flop Justin Jackson was one of the biggest.Potenial Tommy Gaynor if he'd kept off the drink.
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Best player I've seen Ian Snodin.Got me thinking about Mike Newell.Had an open goal at Dover in the Trophy and put it against the cross bar.Got beat 1-0 . Got the Donny Star on the Monday he'd been transferred to Blackpool.Remember Andy Watson Best roofer in Garforth.Best value Duggie. Biggest flop Justin Jackson was one of the biggest.Potenial Tommy Gaynor if he'd kept off the drink.
Drink never did Douggie any harm lol!
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Best player I've seen Ian Snodin.Got me thinking about Mike Newell.Had an open goal at Dover in the Trophy and put it against the cross bar.Got beat 1-0 . Got the Donny Star on the Monday he'd been transferred to Blackpool.Remember Andy Watson Best roofer in Garforth.Best value Duggie. Biggest flop Justin Jackson was one of the biggest.Potenial Tommy Gaynor if he'd kept off the drink.
Drink never did Douggie any harm lol!
How good would Duggie have been if he didn’t drink? That’s the question.
Possibly the drink actually made him play better, but i don’t think that would apply to 99% of footballers.
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OK. I go back a long way!
Best player - King Alick, no question.
Worst - any one of the 97/98 team apart from Lee Warren.
VFM - has to be Copps.
Flop - Long list but I'd go for either Aiden Butterworth or Justin Jackson.
Potential - Alick, (still head and shoulders above the rest even after injuries), John Nicholson, (tragically), and Tony Coleman - fantastic player but his own worst enemy.
Hard to pick out individuals after following Rovers for 60 odd years, different eras and all that. I've seen some brilliant players in our colours and some that were poor beyond belief. All part of being a Rovers fan I guess.
RTID
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OK. I go back a long way!
Best player - King Alick, no question.
Worst - any one of the 97/98 team apart from Lee Warren.
VFM - has to be Copps.
Flop - Long list but I'd go for either Aiden Butterworth or Justin Jackson.
Potential - Alick, (still head and shoulders above the rest even after injuries), John Nicholson, (tragically), and Tony Coleman - fantastic player but his own worst enemy.
Hard to pick out individuals after following Rovers for 60 odd years, different eras and all that. I've seen some brilliant players in our colours and some that were poor beyond belief. All part of being a Rovers fan I guess.
RTID
No way Aiden Butterworth. He was a worker if nothing else. He also scored the winning goal at Valley Parade v Bradford City when we were down to 10 men ( man sent off ) Boxing Day game. Can’t remember the exact season. 1980’s obviously under Bremner.
He always gave 100% effort.
We have had 100’s worse than him imo. As you say the entire 1997/98 team bar Lee Warren just for starters.
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Sorry Camps. If you mean the Boxing Day game at Valley Parade where we were down to 8 men, it was Glynn who scored the winner - free kick, of course, just before half time. Butterworth came on as a sub in the second half - and, I am reasonably sure, was sent off about 3 minutes later.
That match was Ian Snodin's finest hour. A stellar performance marshalling 7 outfielders to repel a side who were top of the old third division. Parker, on loan from Barnsley, ran his nuts to water chasing everything that moved up front, and Ian organised a line of 6 strung across the pitch. The cheeky bugger was even goading them. 'Come on then!'
BobG
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Sorry Camps. If you mean the Boxing Day game at Valley Parade where we were down to 8 men, it was Glynn who scored the winner - free kick, of course, just before half time. Butterworth came on as a sub in the second half - and, I am reasonably sure, was sent off about 3 minutes later.
That match was Ian Snodin's finest hour. A stellar performance marshalling 7 outfielders to repel a side who were top of the old third division. Parker, on loan from Barnsley, ran his nuts to water chasing everything that moved up front, and Ian organised a line of 6 strung across the pitch. The cheeky bugger was even goading them. 'Come on then!'
BobG
I think Bob you are thinking of the game at Lincoln when we had 2 sent off. We then scored with 9 men & won 1-0 Ian Snodin scored.
Was it Billy Russell and Dixie Deans that got sent off. Or was Terry Cooper one of them?
I don’t remember us being down to 8 men at Valley Parade. It was Boxing Day 1984. I was stood on the open terrace behind the goal with Tony Elder who we sadly lost last May.
Maybe Butterworth didn’t score, I thought he did, maybe he got sent off as you say after coming on.
So are you saying we had 3 sent off? Don’t recall that at all.
Think Glynn did score with that free kick. It’s vaguely coming back to me.
I was certain we only had 1 sent off though in that game. Maybe my memory is playing tricks!
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It was 2-0 at Lincoln that Tuesday night and Glyn Snodin was sent off not Billy Russell with Dixie Deans.Yes Ian Snodin had a right game.Remember the win at Bradford.Don't know whether I've seen them win away with 10 men never mind 9 since.
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The match I am referring to was Bradford City away. Boxing Day. City were top of Div 3. Rovers were about 3rd. Glynn scored the only goal, direct from a free kick, before half time. In the second half Rovers ended up with 3 sent off. That led to Ian's finest ever performance.
And Butterworth was one of those sent off.
26th December, 1984.
BobG