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Worst Substitue Appearances on debut

DamoNorthStand
DamoNorthStand Posts: 11,109
edited August 2016 in General Charlton
To begin this isn't slating Jordan Botaka after yesterday's inauspicious start. Let's see how that works out but it is fair to say on that one showing he wasn't great and it made me think of other players who made their debuts off the bench in slightly underwhelmimg fashion.

From my time I remember:

Mark McCammon - went on to have a decent lower league career but looked awful for us

Tom Hovi - came on v Derby as we lost a 3 0 lead to lose 4 3 I think. Spooning an attempted clearance high in the air is all I remember

Mike Small - lived up to expectations of a charlton player at Millwall

Any others?
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  • Bubble
    Bubble Posts: 1,543
    Frank Nouble
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,720
    Leon Clarke
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited August 2016
    DamoNorthStand said:

    To begin this isn't slating Jordan Botaka after yesterday's inauspicious start. Let's see how that works out but it is fair to say on that one showing he wasn't great and it made me think of other players who made their debuts off the bench in slightly underwhelmimg fashion.

    From my time I remember:

    Mark McCammon - went on to have a decent lower league career but looked awful for us

    Tom Hovi - came on v Derby as we lost a 3 0 lead to lose 4 3 I think. Spooning an attempted clearance high in the air is all I remember

    Mike Small - lived up to expectations of a charlton player at Millwall

    Any others?

    Think Hovi's debut was the game before Derby. 5-1 hammering at Bolton.



  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,720
    Polish Pete
  • twiggyaddick
    twiggyaddick Posts: 1,588
    Omar Pouso
  • Missed It
    Missed It Posts: 2,735
    Mike Small started at Millwall didn't he? We loaned him in to replace injured Carl Leaburn, then sent him back to West Ham next day.

    Polish Pete gets my vote anyway
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,569
    twiggyaddick said:

    Omar Pouso

    Started I think and was subbed at half time.
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    Missed It said:

    Mike Small started at Millwall didn't he? We loaned him in to replace injured Carl Leaburn, then sent him back to West Ham next day.

    Polish Pete gets my vote anyway

    I hate to say I saw that performance at Millwall, to paraphrase Winston C " never on a football field has someone so large done so little to aid a football team". He did start but I can understand why people thought he came on as a substitute
  • covered_end_junior
    covered_end_junior Posts: 4,557
    Lepoint
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,425
    Jim standard v cardiff

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  • East_Stand_Loopy
    East_Stand_Loopy Posts: 2,205
    covered end junior said:

    Lepoint

    Sorry, can't count that. He got an assist!
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,424
    swords_alive said:

    Jim standard v cardiff

    Not a sub
  • Daggs
    Daggs Posts: 1,344
    Way back when................A guy called Franklin in goal.
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,425
    shirty5 said:

    swords_alive said:

    Jim standard v cardiff

    Not a sub
    If we're gonna splut hairs.. Worst loan player debut..? ;)
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    swords_alive said:

    shirty5 said:

    swords_alive said:

    Jim standard v cardiff

    Not a sub
    If we're gonna splut hairs.. Worst loan player debut..? ;)
    Mike Small.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,677
    Sweaty Balmer.
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,051
    ShootersHillGuru said:

    Sweaty Balmer.

    2 own goals in 3 games. Thought about that after McNair notched Man City's winner yesterday.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Mikel Alonso
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    ricky_otto said:

    DamoNorthStand said:

    To begin this isn't slating Jordan Botaka after yesterday's inauspicious start. Let's see how that works out but it is fair to say on that one showing he wasn't great and it made me think of other players who made their debuts off the bench in slightly underwhelmimg fashion.

    From my time I remember:

    Mark McCammon - went on to have a decent lower league career but looked awful for us

    Tom Hovi - came on v Derby as we lost a 3 0 lead to lose 4 3 I think. Spooning an attempted clearance high in the air is all I remember

    Mike Small - lived up to expectations of a charlton player at Millwall

    Any others?

    Think Hovi's debut was the game before Derby. 5-1 hammering at Bolton.



    I was at that game,i think he came on when were 3-1 down on a pudding of a pitch.He was on a hiding to nothing....it pissed down,two of my mates got kicked out and as you say we got stuffed 5-1.
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 8,042
    Addickted said:

    Mikel Alonso

    This

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  • Fortune 82nd Minute
    Fortune 82nd Minute Posts: 8,517
    LenGlover said:

    Leon Clarke

    This . x 100.

    Emblazoned in my mind for ever and will never be forgotten.

  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,030
    Alonso without a doubt. Didn't look like a professional footballer.
  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,915
    edited August 2016
    twiggyaddick said:

    Omar Pouso

    Pouso was very poor and that was his only game.

    Christophe Le Point player debut was the best impression for a headless chicken though through the sheer chaos he caused to helped assist a goal.

    I think Charlton supporters are on the whole being sensible, calm & charitable in their response to Botaka's debut yesterday.
  • Powell Is Pleasant
    Powell Is Pleasant Posts: 1,443
    LenGlover said:

    Leon Clarke

    Absolutely. Ball played through, simple chance to run on, slot it in and become an instant hero. Instead, he runs as if he's running through treacle. While still recovering from a hip replacement. In lead shoes.
  • rememberbillybonds
    rememberbillybonds Posts: 762
    Too easy- Lapoint. He had no idea. Could not run, pass or control the ball.
  • redlanered
    redlanered Posts: 2,223
    There are two categories really - subs who were awful on day 1 because they awful full stop (e.g. Lepoint).

    In a different, rarer, category are those equally hopeless in game 1, but did actually improve (e.g. Balmer). Jerome Thomas springs to mind, he looked like Bambi on ice I seem to recall, couldn't see how Arsenal could possible have given him a pro contract.
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    Tahar El Khalej
  • Covered_End_Lad
    Covered_End_Lad Posts: 5,757
    Has to be Scott Sinclair or Leroy Lita. Absolute pair of shithouses.
  • ashley
    ashley Posts: 531
    Jesper Blomquist
  • alan dugdale
    alan dugdale Posts: 3,096
    A young lad in the late 70s/early 80s, surname of Browne, I think. Came on, beat a couple of men down the right wing but fell over as he was about to cross. Never saw him again

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