This season we have scored 59 goals Colchester 58. Interestingly he has scored 17 in a struggling side and has no doubt been involved in many assists confirming what many of us thought that he would have been rather good at this level.
Humble pie this summer?
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Most people were glad to see the back of him. Yes he's had a good season and we'll see if he can have a good season in league 1.
Anyone remember that cracker he scored for us away at Ipswich?
Good to see Lisbie say he doesn't want to leave colchester as he feels he owes them something as they were the team to give him a chance.
I also believe if he had have stayed with us, he wouldn't have scored anywhere near that many, he just needed a new start somewhere else.
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Except he left on a free...
Agreed. He had no confidence playing for us, and our fans would've been on his back the first time he missed a chance this season. He needed a change, new surroundings and a chance to re-build his career, which he's done.
Agree, he must be wondering why he never dropped down a division and left us 5 years ago - he's almost 30 now.
Kevin Lisbie was never given a decent run in the team and was obviously a decent centre forward for this league. Everyone who booed him and said he was no good have now been proved wrong.
The argument given by stoneroses & chris from sidcup is ridiculous because we'd just dropped into a new league and as a loyal Charlton player and experienced professional with talent, he should have been our first choice centre forward.
Any replies can be made to me and I'll call my mother to see what she thinks!!!
I know that my mother here would ask for you to quote the stats. Her argument is that people quote the number of games that he played in, but that these include 5 minutes as a substitute. Therefore 18 appearances is really only one game.
I agree with my Mum at this point of the argument:
1. Crap - obviously not looking at his Colchester record
2. Never scored - ditto
3. Eternally injured - not so at Colchester and not sure that he really was with us. He got injured straight after his Liverpool hat-trick and then, like many other players, had a difficult spell getting fit again.
Mum told me that you'd say that, and I agree with her that it's a crazy argument. Of course he wouldn't have scored if he hadn't played. What kind of an argument is that?
I personally think (not Mum) that he HAS proved people wrong and that you just refuse to accept it. Otherwise you'd be able to come up with something better than that.
No, Mum says we shouldn't have got rid as he would have scored as many for us this season. He wouldn't - FACT. Why - because he wouldn't have played. There isn't really an arguement to be had here. He could have stayed, Pards said he could, but he decided to move on, rightly in my opinion. On the other hand you could say he showed scant loyalty to a Club that stood by him through numerous injuries and illnesses and ten years of underachievemnt.
You said it. I'm going to bed.
He wouldn't have scored many goals with us this season, but with our midfield, neither would Kevin Phillips ;)
He wouldn't have scored many goals with us this season, but with our midfield, neither would Kevin Phillips ;)[/quote]
LOL!!
spot on as well...
But that is the thing about Lisbie. He can operate with a cr*p midfield. His weakness has always been his finishing. He has always created plenty of chances both for himself and others.
In the Colchester game at The Valley Lisbie won the ball for himself before showing the gulf in class that exists between him and Paddy McCarthy leaving Paddy to concede a penalty which SuperKev duly despatched himself.
I always liked Lisbie because he could make opportunities for himself even if he fluffed them! The only striker we have remotely similar in being able to create for himself is Varney and Pardew has probably alienated him.
I have always been a Lisbie fan and defended him to the hilt.
No revisionism from me!
As someone said earlier in this thread, he wouldn't have got into double figures for us this season simply cause he wouldn't have played.
Good luck to him, but the Liverpool hat trick aside, he's a very very lucky boy to have earnt an excellent living with us for 10 years basically doing nothing.