Lennie at the Museum

killerjerrylee

The great Lennie Lawrence spent 90 minutes visiting the Museum today. Great to see him and to remember his time at Charlton. He told us that of all the players he signed through his long managerial career three of the top five were at Charlton.  Names please

blackpool72

Melrose 

cafc999

Ralph Milne 

JohnnyH2

Shirtliff, Humprhrey, Williams

iaitch

Colin Walsh

cafckev

Paul Miller

shirty5

Bolder, Shirtliff, Walsh 

DaveMehmet

Jeez, take your pick. In addition to those already mentioned you could add:

Mark Reid
John Pender
John Pearson 
Steve Thompson

Plus he resigned Flash, who was a very important part of that promotion team.

alan dugdale

Shirtliff, Humphrey and Walsh

killerjerrylee

Good tries but nobody has got the three names so far.

Richard J

Shirtliff, Melrose and Miller

SporadicAddick

Humphrey, Walsh, Shirtliff

Edit Alan Dugdale was first...

JohnnyH2

Humphrey, Shirtliff, Bolder

killerjerrylee

JohnnyH2 said:

Humphrey, Shirtliff, Bolder

You got it.They were the three that Lennie stated were among the very best five signings  of his career.

Valiantphil

I’ve told Lennie this in person. 

I never expected my team to be in the top division during my lifetime. 

He got us there, and we were back on the map. 

Richard J

killerjerrylee said:

JohnnyH2 said:

Humphrey, Shirtliff, Bolder

You got it.They were the three that Lennie stated were among the very best five signings  of his career.

Who were the two from other clubs? 

Lazy_eye_metaphor

Gosh I wish I was there to meet him. Such a hero of mine.

Henry Irving

killerjerrylee said:

The great Lennie Lawrence spent 90 minutes visiting the Museum today. Great to see him and to remember his time at Charlton. He told us that of all the players he signed through his long managerial career three of the top five were at Charlton.  Names please

Former Palace coach caught red-handed vandalising Charlton timeline.

@stig will have to update it now

Bolderhumphreyreid

Nothing wrong with Bolder, Humphrey and Reid.

Addickted

killerjerrylee said:

The great Lennie Lawrence spent 90 minutes visiting the Museum today. Great to see him and to remember his time at Charlton. He told us that of all the players he signed through his long managerial career three of the top five were at Charlton.  Names please

Henry is looking a bit rough nowadays. 

killerandflash

Richard J said:

killerjerrylee said:

JohnnyH2 said:

Humphrey, Shirtliff, Bolder

You got it.They were the three that Lennie stated were among the very best five signings  of his career.

Who were the two from other clubs? 

You imagine they were when he was at Boro

golfaddick

killerandflash said:

Richard J said:

killerjerrylee said:

JohnnyH2 said:

Humphrey, Shirtliff, Bolder

You got it.They were the three that Lennie stated were among the very best five signings  of his career.

Who were the two from other clubs? 

You imagine they were when he was at Boro

The defender that he was going to sign for us & then done a Bowyer and signed him for Boro. 

SporadicAddick

killerandflash said:

Richard J said:

killerjerrylee said:

JohnnyH2 said:

Humphrey, Shirtliff, Bolder

You got it.They were the three that Lennie stated were among the very best five signings  of his career.

Who were the two from other clubs? 

You imagine they were when he was at Boro

Kernaghan and Peake...

DaveMehmet

golfaddick said:

killerandflash said:

Richard J said:

killerjerrylee said:

JohnnyH2 said:

Humphrey, Shirtliff, Bolder

You got it.They were the three that Lennie stated were among the very best five signings  of his career.

Who were the two from other clubs? 

You imagine they were when he was at Boro

The defender that he was going to sign for us & then done a Bowyer and signed him for Boro. 

Alan Kernaghan

SporadicAddick

golfaddick said:

killerandflash said:

Richard J said:

killerjerrylee said:

JohnnyH2 said:

Humphrey, Shirtliff, Bolder

You got it.They were the three that Lennie stated were among the very best five signings  of his career.

Who were the two from other clubs? 

You imagine they were when he was at Boro

The defender that he was going to sign for us & then done a Bowyer and signed him for Boro. 

Kernaghan? He didnt sign him for Boro, he was already a Boro player on loan to us (in exchange for Colin Walsh). Always remember Walsh playing against us for Boro at Selhurst - seemed so wrong.

DaveMehmet

SporadicAddick said:

golfaddick said:

killerandflash said:

Richard J said:

killerjerrylee said:

JohnnyH2 said:

Humphrey, Shirtliff, Bolder

You got it.They were the three that Lennie stated were among the very best five signings  of his career.

Who were the two from other clubs? 

You imagine they were when he was at Boro

The defender that he was going to sign for us & then done a Bowyer and signed him for Boro. 

Kernaghan? He didnt sign him for Boro, he was already a Boro player on loan to us (in exchange for Colin Walsh). Always remember Walsh playing against us for Boro at Selhurst - seemed so wrong.

and they beat us 1 0

charltonnick

I was fortunate to be in the museum today and met Lennie. He spent a couple of hours with us and particularly enjoyed watching the centenary DVD.
  One thing he spoke about was the very important part Jimmy Hill played in that promotion season when we left The Valley. His football knowledge was a great help to the club. He was disappointed that in Jimmy Hill's book there was not one mention of his time at Charlton.
 Killer Hales , he had to be managed but he found a way. Talked about the Bolton match , last game of the season. How important it was to stay up that season. We won 4-1 sending Bolton down.
 He also talked about Derek Ufton and what a lovely guy he was.
 Leaving the Valley , he was told the night before the Palace game , where we were handed the leaflet. He told the players before the match.

aliwibble

Did you manage to tap him up for any particularly niche memorabilia?

killerjerrylee

He gave us dozens of VHS video tapes of the matches that were recorded for his use as manager, rather than for commercial sale. Once we get them converted to DVD, we will have an enormous archive of games from the eighties.

Bilko

Lennie saved us from folding, especially through the Shithurst Park era.

Henry Irving