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Who is the fastest player you have seen play for Charlton ?

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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,420
    Danny Haynes and Denny Rommedahl were the most rapid I've seen in a cafc shirt. Darren Bent and Leroy Lita were both quick too however Dazza didn't use it as much as he could.
  • uncle
    uncle Posts: 4,209
    How quick was John Barnes when he came to Charlton?
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    uncle said:

    How quick was John Barnes when he came to Charlton?

    Not very, probably due to the extra few stones he was carrying.
  • uncle
    uncle Posts: 4,209
    I thought that might be the case.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    uncle said:

    How quick was John Barnes when he came to Charlton?

    Put it this way, TV cameras never had to use the slow motion replay function with him.
  • Norfolk_Addick
    Norfolk_Addick Posts: 2,289
    Scone.

    But seriously the fastest, most effective in my lifetime had to be Bent.
  • SHoare93
    SHoare93 Posts: 169
    Pawl Abbott had something behind him...
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,912
    The magical thing about Paul Williams is that he seemed to arrive from nowhere in the blink of an eye. The opposing defenders would be calmly passing the ball around at the back, waiting for the next opening up front, and Willo would cover fifteen yards like a shot and make an interception. He went to Sheffield Wednesday for £600,000 in 1990 - good money in those days.
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    Not much mention of Newts on here, but he was absolute lightning. Can't remember who it was against, but I once saw him get done by a fullback, then turn round and chase him straight back the other way and catch him within ten yards.

    Not so sure about Newts being the quickest Leroy, after all he came out with the classic below

    ‘Do you remember when we played in Spain in the Anglo-Italian Cup?’
  • Terry Naylor
    Terry Naylor Posts: 2,126
    Bob bolder

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  • PeakieRocket
    PeakieRocket Posts: 2,420
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    Not much mention of Newts on here, but he was absolute lightning. Can't remember who it was against, but I once saw him get done by a fullback, then turn round and chase him straight back the other way and catch him within ten yards.

    Think that was against Michael Gray in the home game against Sunderland the year we won the play-offs. Considering Gray was no slouch himself, it was pretty impressive show of speed.

  • I_Saw_Semedo_Score
    I_Saw_Semedo_Score Posts: 1,632
    Eddie Youds.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,202
    Newts was seriously quick and he could maintain it over a distance too - I forget the opponent and the game, but I remember him making up what seemed like about 30 yards on one player to prevent a cross from our right back position after our right back got caught in possession in attack. He somehow didn't look quite as quick as he really was though.

    Haynes and Rommedahl were probably the ones who 'looked' the fastest, they both just seemed to eat up the yards at an unfeasible rate, maybe had something to do with having better acceleration than Newts. Rommedahl seemed to go from on his heels to olympic 100m speed in about 2 paces. Why did we never just drop the ball in behind the fullback?

    Bent is probably the one who utilised his pace best, especially when we had Murphy threading all those lovely through balls. The goal vs Melchiot and Brum is one of my favourite Charlton goals.

    The daddy of them all though was pre-injury Rufus - quicker than most of the supposedly quick strikers he marked and quick to an extent very rarely seen in defenders.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,872
    Scott Parker when he was a teen would made storming runs down the middle...curbs slowed him down eventually, bless.him.
  • ashley
    ashley Posts: 531
    Martin Pringle was also very fast but lacked many other attributes to make him a quality striker .
  • queensland_addick
    queensland_addick Posts: 7,550
    Jimmy Gauld was the quickest according to my dad.
  • cafcrocky87
    cafcrocky87 Posts: 421
    Has no one mentioned Mark McCammon? Seem to remember that as well as a shite player he was a 100m sprinter for GB.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,661
    queensland_addick said:

    Jimmy Gauld was the quickest according to my dad.

    Only when he had the winnings!

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-413243/Peter-Swan-talks-games-notorious-corruption-scandal.html

    :-)
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,052
    Am I right in remembering that we once gave John Regis a trial? We wasn't very good apparently. But fast!
  • DeeBee
    DeeBee Posts: 1,033
    Kyel Reid for me

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  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,476
    Shaun Newton was quick.
  • GRAY9
    GRAY9 Posts: 1,085
    Plaaayer said:

    I still daydream about Bent leaving Melchiot for dead after giving him a 5 metre head start.

    After the highlights on MOTD Gary Lineker said "It's fair to say Darren Bent is faster than Mario Melchiot"

  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,622
    Martin Pringle was very rapid, don't think there'd be much in it between him and Rommedahl
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,989
    Ricky Otto when he's running away from OB
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    Danny Mills against Hull, a few years ago.
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    Paul Gorman was a little on the rapid side.
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,964
    Steve Jones running away from CL members
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,907
    rommedahl id say
  • sralan
    sralan Posts: 2,031
    JFH, heading for the burger van.
  • Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight Posts: 916
    I remember Mickey Bennett absolutely skinning the Everton back four at Selhurst for Paul Williams to score in the late 80's when they were considered to be amongst the best defenders in the Country. Shame injuries ruined his career.

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