Top 10 Charlton players of all time
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Typical Charlton. Not even enough favourite players to make a team.3
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Not sure how you can include the likes of Bartram if you never saw him play? Maybe he was rubbish and the stories of his greatness are highly exaggerated.0
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S Bartram
C Duffy
D Welsh
S Leary
H Jeppson
C Jensen
J Robinson
S Parker
E Firmani
C Powell
D Hales
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Kiely
Bonds
Humphrey
Leary
Tees
Glover
Parker
Hales
Curtis
P Walsh
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Absolutely disgraceful that you've left out our greatest ever player STUART LEARY.Henry Irving said:Mosley Mills
Scotty Kingsley
Norman Smith
George Tadman
Don Welsh
Sam Bartram
Chris Duffy
Gordon Hurst
Eddie Firmani
Hans Jeppson
WTF!!!0 -
Sam Bartram
Keith Peacock
John Hewie
Norman Smith
Steve Gritt
Brian Kinsey
Stuart Leary
Billy Kiernan
Les Berry
Mike Flanagan1 -
Who would you drop for him?SoundAsa£ said:
Absolutely disgraceful that you've left out our greatest ever player STUART LEARY.Henry Irving said:Mosley Mills
Scotty Kingsley
Norman Smith
George Tadman
Don Welsh
Sam Bartram
Chris Duffy
Gordon Hurst
Eddie Firmani
Hans Jeppson
WTF!!!
It was a selection from the first 50 years of the club.
Hewie would get in before Leary imho0 -
My top 10 (in my lifetime):
Mark Kinsella
Richard Rufus
Chris Powell
Darren Bent
Shaun Newton
Scott Parker
Claus Jensen
Clive Mendonca
John Robinson
Yann Kermorgant0 -
Sam Bartram
John Humphrey
Marvin Hinton
Richard Rufus
SCP
Scott Parker
Clauss Jenson
Mark Kinsella
Colin Walsh
Stuart Leary
Clive Mendonca
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Bellotti
Friar
Doherty
Hazell
Ferns
Churchouse
Bullivant
Reeves (Ben not the great Peter)
Endean
Abbott
Wilson (Richard)
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John himself would often refer to Stuart as “the governor!”Henry Irving said:
Who would you drop for him?SoundAsa£ said:
Absolutely disgraceful that you've left out our greatest ever player STUART LEARY.Henry Irving said:Mosley Mills
Scotty Kingsley
Norman Smith
George Tadman
Don Welsh
Sam Bartram
Chris Duffy
Gordon Hurst
Eddie Firmani
Hans Jeppson
WTF!!!
It was a selection from the first 50 years of the club.
Hewie would get in before Leary imho
In Colin Cameron’s book The Valiant 500 Colin described Stuart as the best he ever saw.
Plus he was the most voted for player in the books favourite player listing!
All good enough for me, plus what I saw with my own eyes.0 -
So I'll go with the "best" XI. Caveats - my lifetime that I've seen, based on how they played for Charlton. (So no John Barnes or Di Canio, for instance)
GK: Kiely
RB: Gomez
CB: Costa
CB: Rufus
LB: Powell
CDM: Parker
CM: Smertin
CM: Jensen
RW: Gudmundsson
LW: Lookman
ST: Bent
Despite JBG/Lookman/Gomez playing at a lower level, they looked absolute class and are proving it at their current clubs. As for a favourite XI:
GK: Kiely
RB: Solly
CB: Costa
CB: Rufus
LB: Powell
CDM: Kishishev
CM: Kinsella
CM: Jensen
CAM: Di Canio
ST: Mendonca
ST: Kermorgant0 -
Sam Bartram
Chris Duffy
Derek Hales
Clive Mendonca
Keith Peacock
Chris Powell
Colin Powell
Richard Rufus
Graham Tutt
Don Welsh0 -
Mark Kinsella
Paul Mortimer
Chris Powell
Graham Stuart
Dean Kiely
Scott Parker
Claus Jensen
John Robinson
Di Canio
Radostin Kishishev1 -
Have to agree with most of the selections but one seems to have been left out ( I know he was only here for a short period), but the finest footballer I saw in a Charlton shirt was Alan Simonsen.0
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Kinsella
Powell
Rufus
Minto
Robinson
Parker
Jackson
Yann
Solly
Mendonca
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Kiely
Costa
Gomez
Elliott
Powell
Lee
Parker
Jensen
Di Canio
Simonsen
P Walsh
My fav players like Hales and Flanagan would not cut it I’m afraid. Older players would never have been fit enough in modern day football. I watched a 1985 Liverpool v Man U game the other day. Some legends of the game who would never have been up to modern day football.
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Hard to say, the ball is a lot softer now and Football is a F/T role for the majority of players with zero distractions - There is a lot more emphasis on fitness work which would put them on a par in that respect with the modern player?masicat said:Kiely
Costa
Gomez
Elliott
Powell
Lee
Parker
Jensen
Di Canio
Simonsen
P Walsh
My fav players like Hales and Flanagan would not cut it I’m afraid. Older players would never have been fit enough in modern day football. I watched a 1985 Liverpool v Man U game the other day. Some legends of the game who would never have been up to modern day football.1 -
Kiely
Rufus
Powell
Parker
Kinsella
Jensen
Jackson
Bent
Kermorgant
Mendonca
Subs
Romedahl
Fortune
Salmon
Kim Grant. ( I know he was shit but always tried along with leaburn )
Andy Hunt.
Garland
Balmer
Fish
Wagstaff
Costa
Young
That still a quality team.0 -
Some picking teams without Allan Simonsen . Aaaaarrrrggghhhhhh0
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Who's going to compile a team of team from all the vote then ....0
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Pls, no more Powells or C Powells, Paddy (or Colin) or Chris, I thank you1
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I really don't think that's relevant. It's just your favourite players from any era. The current side would probably thrash the FA Cup winning side from 1947 because the game has progressed and fitness levels have increased, but they were a great team at that time and deserve recognition. They're comparatively way better than the current side in terms of their relative status.masicat said:Kiely
Costa
Gomez
Elliott
Powell
Lee
Parker
Jensen
Di Canio
Simonsen
P Walsh
My fav players like Hales and Flanagan would not cut it I’m afraid. Older players would never have been fit enough in modern day football. I watched a 1985 Liverpool v Man U game the other day. Some legends of the game who would never have been up to modern day football.
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How would the current side do with the tackles of that era? The challenges on the keeper?JamesSeed said:
I really don't think that's relevant. It's just your favourite players from any era. The current side would probably thrash the FA Cup winning side from 1947 because the game has progressed and fitness levels have increased, but they were a great team at that time and deserve recognition. They're comparatively way better than the current side in terms of their relative status.masicat said:Kiely
Costa
Gomez
Elliott
Powell
Lee
Parker
Jensen
Di Canio
Simonsen
P Walsh
My fav players like Hales and Flanagan would not cut it I’m afraid. Older players would never have been fit enough in modern day football. I watched a 1985 Liverpool v Man U game the other day. Some legends of the game who would never have been up to modern day football.
Good players are good players in any era.3 -
Well JS thought the Spurs team of the 50's would hammer the 1921 cup side because of changing fitness levels. If you transferred JS of the 20's to the Spurs team now he'd struggle. But perhaps the muddy pitches and robust challenges of that era would be a great leveller, you're right.Henry Irving said:
How would the current side do with the tackles of that era? The challenges on the keeper?JamesSeed said:
I really don't think that's relevant. It's just your favourite players from any era. The current side would probably thrash the FA Cup winning side from 1947 because the game has progressed and fitness levels have increased, but they were a great team at that time and deserve recognition. They're comparatively way better than the current side in terms of their relative status.masicat said:Kiely
Costa
Gomez
Elliott
Powell
Lee
Parker
Jensen
Di Canio
Simonsen
P Walsh
My fav players like Hales and Flanagan would not cut it I’m afraid. Older players would never have been fit enough in modern day football. I watched a 1985 Liverpool v Man U game the other day. Some legends of the game who would never have been up to modern day football.
Good players are good players in any era.
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Pouso
Gibbs
Francis
Weaver
Fox
Cranie
M.Bent
Mustoe
Scott Sinclair
Church0 -
Kiely
Humphrey
Reid
Bailey (Mike)
Rufus
Shirtliff
Peacock
Hales
Mendonca
Parker
Glover0 -
I never saw the Magnificent Magyars play but they beat England 6-3 and 7-1 and stuffed W Germany 8-3 at the '54 World Cup so I'm happy to accept the stories of their prowess. Similarly for Bartram. It's either that or believe in a UK-wide conspiracy amongst all the newspapers, authors of football books, etc. done just to wind up us Charlton supporters.se9addick said:Not sure how you can include the likes of Bartram if you never saw him play? Maybe he was rubbish and the stories of his greatness are highly exaggerated.
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I certainly didn't leave him out and I think there's one before me who didn't either.addick05 said:Have to agree with most of the selections but one seems to have been left out ( I know he was only here for a short period), but the finest footballer I saw in a Charlton shirt was Alan Simonsen.
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