Church has to be front and centre of this conversation.
He ran around lots simply so that he wouldn’t get pelters for being able to deliver absolutely zero quality from a footballing perspective. He would run after players with no intention of wanting to tackle them - it always just felt like running for the sake of running.
1 Jim Stannard 2 Paul Cutis 3 Dietmar Bruck 4 Alan Ellis 5 Maurice Setters 6 Bobby Goldthorpe 7 Tony Towner 8 Mike Small 9 Ray Crawford 10 Barry Endean 11 Hugh McAuley
GK: Yohann Thuram-Ulien RB: Martin Cranie CB: Roger Johnson CB: Tahar El-Khalej LB: Djimi Traore RM: Keith Gillespie CM: Amdy Faye CM: Chris Bart-Williams LM: Jesper Blomqvist ST: Izale McLeod ST: Andy Gray
I'd say this is probably bad in terms of expectation vs performance, though maybe not necessarily the worst actual players per position. Still crap though.
GK: Yohann Thuram-Ulien RB: Martin Cranie CB: Roger Johnson CB: Tahar El-Khalej LB: Djimi Traore RM: Keith Gillespie CM: Amdy Faye CM: Chris Bart-Williams LM: Jesper Blomqvist ST: Izale McLeod ST: Andy Gray
I'd say this is probably bad in terms of expectation vs performance, though maybe not necessarily the worst actual players per position. Still crap though.
Bit harsh on Bart-Williams there.
Yes, I suppose so - not that he was any good, mind.
I think Christophe Lepoint has to come in instead, but he didn't come to mind at the time. I'm not convinced he was actually a footballer - more of a money laundering ploy...
Novak had been a half decent striker before he came to Cafc but was consistently poor in his time here. Simon Church tried hard but was limited with a lack of power. Polish Pete only ever played 5 minutes as a sub but as he was the replacement for Yann; he must qualify.
Thurman was poor with his feet but was even worse with his hands.
Harriott who was a headless chicken most of the time Doesn't make this team as he did have half a dozen good games.
Ray Tumbridge, Peter Shaw, Mike Rose, Gary Churchouse, Leon Clarke, Tom Hovi, Robbie Mustoe are all in the running. Thuram, of course, must be captain of this side.
1 Jim Stannard 2 Paul Cutis 3 Dietmar Bruck 4 Alan Ellis 5 Maurice Setters 6 Bobby Goldthorpe 7 Tony Towner 8 Mike Small 9 Ray Crawford 10 Barry Endean 11 Hugh McAuley
manager The Laundry basket boy
I get most of your suggestions, but Ray Crawford might have been slow and past his best but he was very skilled. Dietmar Bruck wasn't the greatest, but was fairly solid. I'd forgotten about Hugh McAuley - he was always busy but didn't do anything useful.
Church has to be front and centre of this conversation.
He ran around lots simply so that he wouldn’t get pelters for being able to deliver absolutely zero quality from a footballing perspective. He would run after players with no intention of wanting to tackle them - it always just felt like running for the sake of running.
I don't think I would include Church in the list of worst ever. He wasn't a great player by any stretch but given the non-budget we were working with at the time he was whole-hearted in his approach and did have a tendency to pop up with important contributions. He scored important goals against Blackburn, Doncaster and Barnsley in a season where we barely stayed up and scored the winning goals against Huddersfield and Sheffield Weds in what would have been looked on as a great cup run if not for the manner of the Sheff Utd match. I wouldn't take him back if you told me we'd get paid for the privilege, but I remember his contribution as small but useful as opposed to some of the absolute clowns we've seen listed here. When i think of Church I think of the winner against Wednesday in a match where it felt like everything was conspiring against us at the time but we still had that Charlton spirit. When I think of McLeod I think of him throwing his elbow into the face of a non-league Northwich Victoria player like a coward in what might have been his only effective attack for Charlton ever. And he cost £1.5m! I see Churchy as a symptom of the malaise the club has been suffering from rather than a cause.
Also I'd like to change Tresor Kandol out for McLeod, he's wound me up again.
Eggert Jonsson in 12/13 season was on loan from Wolves and featured in one game at Burnley for just more than the 1st half, he was sort of midfielder and was rubbish
Souleymane Diawara best centre half you have never heard of...............
I'd say he was one of the best defenders I've seen play for Charlton once he'd adjusted to the hoofball we were playing. He had an excellent career in France.
1 Jim Stannard 2 Paul Cutis 3 Dietmar Bruck 4 Alan Ellis 5 Maurice Setters 6 Bobby Goldthorpe 7 Tony Towner 8 Mike Small 9 Ray Crawford 10 Barry Endean 11 Hugh McAuley
manager The Laundry basket boy
he was no world-beater, but it's a bit harsh on Hughie McAuley - a tidy goal in our 4-1 win over Spurs, plus anyone involved in a win over the Spanners (i think he scored?) surely gets a pass
I don't feel like I've ever seen a player worse than Christophe Lepoint at any level. He looked like he'd won a competition to play alongside a football club.
a) I've tried to select players that played 'a few games' at the very least for us. Thuram is one exception because he is overwhelmingly the worst goalkeeper I have seen in more than 56 years represent us so has to be included.
b) Bullivant is in there because he cost a lot by our standards at the time yet delivered little or nothing from what I saw.
c) Roger Johnson is included for being Roger Johnson
d) Another day it might be different. We've had a lot of rubbish over the years!
1 Jim Stannard 2 Paul Cutis 3 Dietmar Bruck 4 Alan Ellis 5 Maurice Setters 6 Bobby Goldthorpe 7 Tony Towner 8 Mike Small 9 Ray Crawford 10 Barry Endean 11 Hugh McAuley
I don't feel like I've ever seen a player worse than Christophe Lepoint at any level. He looked like he'd won a competition to play alongside a football club.
Pre car accident he was decent; when he came to Charlton he was a write off.
Ray Tumbridge, Peter Shaw, Mike Rose, Gary Churchouse, Leon Clarke, Tom Hovi, Robbie Mustoe are all in the running. Thuram, of course, must be captain of this side.
I agree, Peter Shaw was absolutely woeful at one point but miraculously, bit by bit, he improved out of sight (much to mine and most people’s amazement), to become a pretty decent player and well worthy of being on the team sheet. Pleased for him......he attends most home games I believe.
A lot of players included in this list were patently unfit when they played for us and some only played once or twice so its hard to judge them. Pouso, Lepoint, Rhys Williams, Alonso definitely fall into this category.
Amdy Faye was certainly shocking given he was supposedly a Prem player and Thuram was shocking by any standard.
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I thought JFH was utter shite closely followed by Francis Jeffers, Nicky weaver, Waghorn, Redfearn and John Barnes
His sole appearance was THE worst display in the history of our club imo. Poor lad.
He ran around lots simply so that he wouldn’t get pelters for being able to deliver absolutely zero quality from a footballing perspective. He would run after players with no intention of wanting to tackle them - it always just felt like running for the sake of running.
2 Paul Cutis
3 Dietmar Bruck
4 Alan Ellis
5 Maurice Setters
6 Bobby Goldthorpe
7 Tony Towner
8 Mike Small
9 Ray Crawford
10 Barry Endean
11 Hugh McAuley
manager The Laundry basket boy
I think Christophe Lepoint has to come in instead, but he didn't come to mind at the time. I'm not convinced he was actually a footballer - more of a money laundering ploy...
Polish Pete only ever played 5 minutes as a sub but as he was the replacement for Yann; he must qualify.
Thurman was poor with his feet but was even worse with his hands.
Harriott who was a headless chicken most of the time Doesn't make this team as he did have half a dozen good games.
Also I'd like to change Tresor Kandol out for McLeod, he's wound me up again.
Murty
Hazell
Johnson
Ferns
Gillespie
Churchouse
Bullivant
Mullen
Endean
Dickson
A few explanatory words:
a) I've tried to select players that played 'a few games' at the very least for us. Thuram is one exception because he is overwhelmingly the worst goalkeeper I have seen in more than 56 years represent us so has to be included.
b) Bullivant is in there because he cost a lot by our standards at the time yet delivered little or nothing from what I saw.
c) Roger Johnson is included for being Roger Johnson
d) Another day it might be different. We've had a lot of rubbish over the years!
Pleased for him......he attends most home games I believe.
Amdy Faye was certainly shocking given he was supposedly a Prem player and Thuram was shocking by any standard.
Paul Curtis, Goldthorpe, Williams, Seabourne
Setters, Lepoint, Smart
Kandol, Small, Endean