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Slowest Charlton Player You've Seen

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  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,758
    Harry Cripps by a country mile.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,990
    Peter Shaw, for all you late 70's and early 80's fans who were in awe of his girth.


    And doesn't the legendary Peter 'who ate all the pies?' Garland get a mention?

    And for Johnny Come Lately's *smiley winky thing* , Andy Reid never remotely looked like breaking the world land speed record.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,757
    Thinking about it, Shelvey isn't particularly quick. Just we have slower players at the moment and he's always finding space so it doesn't show as much as it does with others.
  • SE7 Expat
    SE7 Expat Posts: 280
    If staff counts definitely Merv Day
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,810
    Rothko....

    Oh, you meant CAFC not CIFC.
  • petetheaddick
    petetheaddick Posts: 375
    Chapple for me, or Primus last year
  • h
    h Posts: 144
    Peter Shaw - yes - and Bent Marcus.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,148
    I know I've previously voted for Chappie but can I also throw Maurice Setters into the equation. Well past his best by the time he joined us.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,425
    He's fat, He's round, His a*** is on the ground, Ralphy Milne, Ralphly Milne.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,980
    Easy - by a mile - Nicholas James Weaver

    runs like he's on roller skates

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  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,818
    Alex Dyer - Saw him get outpaced by a 39 year-old Alvin Martin against Wet Spam at Upton Park in 1992. Ridiculous.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,532
    Ray Crawford must be a contender
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,576
    Mmmm difficult one this because some players LOOK like they are slow but in fact aren't (if you get my meaning) Jorge Costa being a classic example.
    However it must be said that Hasselbaink was slow in all departments....though the same couldn't be said of his agent!
  • East Kent Addick
    East Kent Addick Posts: 1,352
    Lawrie Madden
  • danny777
    danny777 Posts: 223
    Chris Bart-Williams

    He could play well in midfield either behind the strikers or just in front of the defence, but never both in the same match.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,124
    JJ was about as fast as my Nan.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,757
    Matt Svensson another one without much pace.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,990
    [cite]Posted By: North Lower Neil[/cite]JJ was about as fast as my Nan.

    Nope, don't agree.

    JJ had a reputation as pacy at Glasgow Rangers (you know, the blue Celtic).

    ;o)

    And he had a fair turn of speed here at Charlton too.
    I think you have to give the player a little credit.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,723
    edited July 2009
    [cite]Posted By: SoundAsa£[/cite]Mmmm difficult one this because some players LOOK like they are slow but in fact aren't (if you get my meaning) Jorge Costa being a classic example.
    However it must be said that Hasselbaink was slow in all departments....though the same couldn't be said of his agent!

    Very true that some players look slow but are not.

    Leaburn is perhaps the best example of that. Slow leg speed but massive stride.

    I remember a game (Newcastle away I think) where Leaburn, Micky Bennett (pre injury) and Paul Williams broke virtually the length of the field leaving all the Newcastle players for dead. Carlo matched Micky Bennett for pace whom, before his injury, would be a candidate (although not my personal choice) for fastest Charlton player.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,990
    Was that our 3-0 away win at Newcastle, where Leaburn broke his duck ?

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  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,723
    [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]Was that our 3-0 away win at Newcastle, where Leaburn broke his duck ?

    We won the Newcastle game, not sure if it was 3-0, but I thought Carlo broke his duck at Villa Park when it pinballed off nearly every other player on the pitch but he claimed it anyway!
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,868
    When we had Primus and Hudson together last year it was like watching two continents drifting apart.
  • PeakieRocket
    PeakieRocket Posts: 2,428
    Steve MacKenzie
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,124
    [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: North Lower Neil[/cite]JJ was about as fast as my Nan.

    Nope, don't agree.

    JJ had a reputation as pacy at Glasgow Rangers (you know, the blue Celtic).

    ;o)

    And he had a fair turn of speed here at Charlton too.
    I think you have to give the player a little credit.

    Firstly, I think anyone who rated him after the first too months or so is giving him too much credit - slow, weak and a poor finsher.

    Secondly, have you ever sen my Nan run? Then you can't disagree!
  • Morts-Genius
    Morts-Genius Posts: 967
    DARREN PITCHER always wins my vote!
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 27,157
    Steve Brown is a total hero, and could get up a head of steam once he got going, but someone (Mick Collins? Kevin Nolan? Airman Brown?) once described him as having "the turning circle of the Ark Royal", and I really couldn't disagree.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,022
    Shaun Newton was pretty slow - as was Kim Grant.
  • Charlton Till I Cry
    Charlton Till I Cry Posts: 198
    Gotta be Phil Chapple...He always looked like he was running on the spot

    Ah come on man be fair....most of the time he was just running on the spot.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,569
    [cite]Posted By: North Lower Neil[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: North Lower Neil[/cite]JJ was about as fast as my Nan.

    Nope, don't agree.

    JJ had a reputation as pacy at Glasgow Rangers (you know, the blue Celtic).

    ;o)

    And he had a fair turn of speed here at Charlton too.
    I think you have to give the player a little credit.

    Firstly, I think anyone who rated him after the first too months or so is giving him too much credit - slow, weak and a poor finsher.

    Secondly, have you ever sen my Nan run? Then you can't disagree!

    Smart Fcker!
  • StrikerFirmani
    StrikerFirmani Posts: 2,758
    How comes no one has mentioned McCarthy. Seeing him turn and run was like watching a tanker manouvering.

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