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Andy Reid

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  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
    Saoirse is pronounced like inertia.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    edited July 2019
    Addictedoldgit said:
    Yep a super guy on and off the pitch, we haven't seen a player of his ability since he left.

    Very unusual body shape, reminds me of a Charlton player of the 1960's called Cliff Durant who was also a play maker, just not so good.   
    Durandt played the first season I went down there. He was a short chubby little bloke. We got him from Wolves and, as a very young naive boy, I remember saying earnestly to my father and grandparents that Charlton had got this really good first division footballer so we wouldn't get relegated.

    They told me gently that the fact he had come from Wolves did not necessarily mean he was any good and they were right. However, ironically enough, so was I as he scored the winner against Southampton in the last minute at The Valley, a game we HAD to win to avoid relegation. We then had a winner takes or loses all match away at Walsall the following week which we managed to win so stayed up on goal average at Walsall's expense.

    There's a term the youngsters won't know!
  • Aethelstan
    Aethelstan Posts: 542
    Durandt was South African but did not take the direct route to us like the others.
  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    Wonderful player but he's only 36!!!!???,
  • SpicedAddick
    SpicedAddick Posts: 737
    stop shouting said:
    MrOneLung said:
    stop shouting said:
    Just showed my missus that as we’re having a girl pretty soon and that’s want I want to call her. Cue, “I’m not having a child called say-orse-ee”!
    Unless you are Irish why give her a name she will constantly have to explain how to pronounce? 
    That’s what my wife says 😕
    Also, if she's (of all things) English, it would be a desperately ironic name.
  • Clontarf65
    Clontarf65 Posts: 16
    Sirshah.Now repeat after me.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,633
  • Pringle
    Pringle Posts: 464
    Aw, shucks.  
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    Great through-balls for Benty - never forgotten. 
  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,451
    edited August 2019
    Looking at wiki (I know it can be edited but) it states he only played 38 games for us. 

    That cant be right can it?
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  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    Watching Oztumer tonight (and I’m not saying for a second he is as good as Reidy) but I felt like I was seeing a style of player who could bring some of the stuff Reidy was so good at
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,851
    Stewart said:
    Looking at wiki (I know it can be edited but) it states he only played 38 games for us. 

    That cant be right can it?
    Only a season and a half with us, and was injured for some of his time too
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,810
    Andy Reid was the only ray of light during that nightmare period, what a great footballer, different gravy.

    Little did we know that within two years we’d be in League One thinking that Kyle Reid was half decent.
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,033
    edited November 2020
    Si Ferry meets Andy Reid . He doesn't discuss us much but it is clear that Andy really didn't want to leave .

    Watch from 1.04.00 for the Charlton bit . He praises Dowie and Pardew .

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3072OjkLbUk
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,055
    That made me feel bad all over again about losing him.  We’d taken in over £23m in the summer, mostly from the sale of Benty to Spurs and spent about £5m.  Forcing him out in January, when he obviously didn’t want to go and we were well placed was just so short-sighted.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    Iirc (and it might have come from Richard Murray) Sunderland offered him 4x what he was earning with us. He might not have wanted to leave but money talks.......
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,568
    Loved watching him play
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,055
    Same can be said for Richard Murray.  Sunderland’s money talked and he took it.  All ifs & buts, still seems very short sighted to flog off your captain & playmaker in January when you’re well placed.
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 11,986
    Remember the goal at Bristol city he set up for Chris Iwelumo. Reid was a kind of an old fashioned player. Really enjoyed watching him. 
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    Andy Reid has got Captain Spock ears.

    I never knew that. :smile:


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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    Valley11 said:
    Remember the goal at Bristol city he set up for Chris Iwelumo. Reid was a kind of an old fashioned player. Really enjoyed watching him. 
    Great evening. Didn't Luke Varney have a stormer that match....?
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,633
    Taken over Forest's U23s
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,230
    So he's not the one in charge of Kansas City Chiefs then!!!! 
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    One of my favourite players.  Absolutely great player and a really nice chap too by all accounts.  Good luck to him
  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,342
    Still a classy individual both on and off the pitch
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    Very surprised and sad to see him go.......he genuinely loved the Addicks.
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,148
    When he left didn't he go to the training ground and The Valley, and personally thank every member of staff for their help and support.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    Chippycafc said:
    When he left didn't he go to the training ground and The Valley, and personally thank every member of staff for their help and support.
    Correct.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,807
    Still think we would have gone back up if he hadn’t of left 
  • Addictedoldgit
    Addictedoldgit Posts: 1,826
    We were only half the team we had been once he left. Real quality player.

    And as others have said, apparently a great guy off the pitch.

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