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Who was the fastest?

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  • Gary Poole
    Gary Poole Posts: 1,874
    Joe Gomez was pretty quick
  • Gary Poole
    Gary Poole Posts: 1,874
    Exiled_Addick said:
    Shaun Newton was pretty rapid in his day. And Rufus pre knee injuries. I still remember once, away at Birmingham, Rufus making up so much ground on a Birmingham player that was through one-on-one on our goal, that he started outside my field of vision before catching up with the striker and dispossessing him with a perfect sliding tackle. I think Rufus is certainly the fastest centre back we ever had. Not fast enough to outrun the law though!
    Since giving up football both Newton and Rufus have been running down a different kind of wing. 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,587
    North Lower Neil said:
    Although I will always like Rommedahl, obviously:

    https://x.com/CafcFacts/status/1599675715435188225?s=20
    5th December, an historic day for more than one reason. 
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,576
    Talal said:
    Not Romm level but Pringle was nippy. 
    Part of Pringles problem was his brain was not always in control of his legs, hence christened Bambi on Ice! 
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,656
    Usain Bolt played for Australian A-League Central Coast Mariners for a brief time as a matter of interest.  He wasn’t much good at football though.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,030
    Blackheathen said:
    Usain Bolt played for Australian A-League Central Coast Mariners for a brief time as a matter of interest.  He wasn’t much good at football though.
    “a touch like a trampoline”
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,198
    seth plum said:
    Phil Chappell had the fastest leg movement in ratio to the least distance travelled.
    I’ve never seen a professional footballer cover the ground so slowly. It was like some sort of special effect. 
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,658
    Alfie Doughty was rapid.
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,503
     Pre-injury, Mickey Bennett was really quick and really powerful. 
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,372
    The two that always spring to mind are Danny Haynes and Nathan Ecclestone.
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  • WhenIwasLittleBoy
    WhenIwasLittleBoy Posts: 5,430
    Steve Downman….like s##t off of a shovel 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,435
    Rommedahl probably the fastest

    But Blackett-Taylor uses his pace exactly how Dennis should have done.
  • pettgra
    pettgra Posts: 1,572
    Anyone who watched Charlton in the late sixties may remember Paul Hince.
    Very rapid; however, most of the time he never had the ball at his feet.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,211
    Cory Gibbs was so fast that nobody could see him!
  • theeenorth
    theeenorth Posts: 2,280
    Talal said:
    Not Romm level but Pringle was nippy. 
    Especially trying to get away from Jaap Stam's evil glare. Ran right off the pitch he was going so fast. Useless bastard.
  • Isawlearyplay
    Isawlearyplay Posts: 273
    Clearly Dennis . Gordon Hurst quick in his time but how many recall seeing him play ?
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,462
    Shaun Newton could shift.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,280
    Dennis, no question. 

    Lost count the amount of times he'd run from deep, only for whoever was on the ball at the time to look up, then pass sideways instead. He'd then jog back into position only for us to then pass to him once he'd been faced up by his full back. 

    So frustrating.

    Top speed wise Darren Bent was absolutely rapid too, remember him absolutely creaming Melchiot in a foot race. 
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited September 2023
    blackpool72 said:
    cafcpolo said:
    Dennis absolutely. Fastest we've ever had.

    He was actually fast enough over 100 metres to have qualified for the Olympics. 
    I doubt any other Charlton players we're faster. 
    He was fast.  Last seen running over the goal line, past the Jimmy Seed, up Floyd Road and heading towards the Blackwall tunnel, having lost the ball somewhere around the edge of the six yard box.
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,345
    Rommedahl the fastest but many years ago Sewell was a champion schoolboy sprinter. 
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  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,656
    Isawlearyplay said:
    Clearly Dennis . Gordon Hurst quick in his time but how many recall seeing him play ?
    I did.  Many times. His bald head flying down the right wing.
  • queensland_addick
    queensland_addick Posts: 7,547
    Super Kevin Lisbie was quite rapid.
    100 m Dennis in the last minute.
    5-10 yards Killer.
    Once in motion, over a longer distance, Benty (Dazza)

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