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First ever Charltonized player?

Who do you recall being the first ever player to come to our club with a great record only to be Charltonized and turn sh*t when playing for us?
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  • Barry Endean
  • I'm sure there were more before him but the first that springs to mind for me was Neil Redfearn. Scored loads for Barnsley and was great for them. Came to us and i think he scored about 3-4 goals all season.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,601
    John Barnes
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,092
    Andy Jones
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,357
    Neil Redfearn
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,867
    Tony Towner
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 6,079
    Clive Mendonca

    *runs off*
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,480
    would have to be an American player if they were "Charltonized"

    Now if they were "Charltonised" then Mosky Mills
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,716
    edited July 2017
    Rommedahl was the first player I remember being called 'Charltonised'.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,437
    Andy Jones springs to mind, Joe McLaughlin?

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  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,716

    I'm sure there were more before him but the first that springs to mind for me was Neil Redfearn. Scored loads for Barnsley and was great for them. Came to us and i think he scored about 3-4 goals all season.

    To be fair he was about 40 when we spunked £1m on him.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,437
    Bradley Allen was a bit of a disappointment too
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 8,015
    edited July 2017

    I'm sure there were more before him but the first that springs to mind for me was Neil Redfearn. Scored loads for Barnsley and was great for them. Came to us and i think he scored about 3-4 goals all season.

    To be fair he was about 40 when we spunked £1m on him.
    Was well-liked and successful at Bradford after he left us, don't think you can blame it on age. He just couldn't come to terms with our sophisticated Southern ways - it's rumoured that he spent his first CAFC paycheck on a horse and cart to get him to and from training, and received a formal warning from Greenwich Council after his neighbours complained about him crapping in the garden and forcing his children to wash in a tin bath on the driveway.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited July 2017
    MrOneLung said:

    Andy Jones

    Andy Jones springs to mind, Joe McLaughlin?

    Jones had only played at (then) Division 3 or below level and we signed him for a club record fee to play in Division one - was a real gamble at the time.

    McLaughlin (also a record signing) was absolute toilet. I seem to remember in his first 3 games we didn't concede, after that he became truely Charltonised.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    sam3110 said:

    John Barnes

    Barnes is harsh. He did ok in his 12 games (probably only started 5) Had a great game at West Ham and calmed us right down in the 4-3 win at Villa.

  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,436
    Ralph Milne
  • twiggyaddick
    twiggyaddick Posts: 1,588
    Gary Poole
  • Simon Francis
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,947
    Not the first, but JFH and his backside.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,292
    Peter Parsley, 26 goals in 48 appearances for De Grafshaap and ringing endorsement from Underpants Boy. How could it have gone so horribly wrong?

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  • Ashers
    Ashers Posts: 427
    Johnny Ostergaard - was excited that we had signed a Danish international. The problem was that he was an international at ice hockey.
  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,425
    Tahar El Khalej - or was he just very pony.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,970

    Bradley Allen was a bit of a disappointment too

    Really . It was dIsappointing that he was always injured but overall I thought he was a really good player.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,970
    Terry Bulliivant
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited July 2017

    Ralph Milne

    A classic. Good for Dundee Utd, shit for us, then goes to Bristol City and does enough to join Man Utd (and score against us - I think?)
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,749

    Ralph Milne

    A classic. Good for Dundee Utd, shit for us, then goes to Bristol City and does enough to join Man Utd (and score against us - I think?)
    And scores against us
  • Ralph Milne

    A classic. Good for Dundee Utd, shit for us, then goes to Bristol City and does enough to join Man Utd (and score against us - I think?)
    Didn't Sir Alex say that Milne was his worst ever buy? Which is some going seeing as he also signed Taibi and Bebe.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,676
    Adam
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,330
    For me its a toss up between:

    Bradley Allen
    Neil Redfern
    Franny Jeffers

    all Curbs signings..........s**t manager !! :smile:
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,822

    Bradley Allen was a bit of a disappointment too

    Really . It was dIsappointing that he was always injured but overall I thought he was a really good player.
    He was ok, but I had bigger expectations of him. Jeffers was a disapointment for sure.