Your favourite rubbish BFC player?

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Poolman

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So who was really rubbish at Blackpool and yet has a soft spot in your heart. Chris Mallon for me - lovely bloke, utterly useless!
 
Tangojack said:
Love the guy, one of my favourite ever football players. It must be said that he was certainly not technically gifted 🤣
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When I worked in Worsley, I used to work with a United fan who went to school with BBB.
He said that Ben was streets ahead of everyone in the schools of Buxton. Most thought he would be a regular PL player.
He couldn't believe it when I said BB didn't always make the first 11 (although it was towards the end of his career)

To answer the o/p I could suggest Armand, although to me he wasn't rubbish at all. I know he used to split opinions on AVFTT.
I liked Armand, even though he had the turning circle of a tanker and, when fouled, he seemed to hit the ground in slow motion sometimes.
But he always put a shift in and helped the defence with headed clearances countless times.
 
Mike Davies. Two decades of service to the club when we were really on our uppers. Started as a winger but made the right back slot his own, with his trademark lob down the line for the forwards to chase, using the banking on the touchline to keep it in play. Plus the original answer to the question, Who put the ball in the Preston net...
 
Wizaard said:
Mike Davies. Two decades of service to the club when we were really on our uppers. Started as a winger but made the right back slot his own, with his trademark lob down the line for the forwards to chase, using the banking on the touchline to keep it in play. Plus the original answer to the question, Who put the ball in the Preston net...
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Wiz

I don't whether to commend you for including the great man or complain for classing him as rubbish.

I thought he was unlucky to get the Ballon d'Or for his goal against PNE and let's not forget his strike at home to Chesterfield the season before - I think ?

On a serious note, he gave 100% every time he put a tangerine shirt on and will always be one of my all time favourite BFC players even if he wasn't the best.
 
Mike Davies & Andy Gouck were the two that popped into my head first . . . 100% commitment every game from both of them 👍
 
SEASIDE2020 said:
Wiz

I don't whether to commend you for including the great man or complain for classing him as rubbish.

I thought he was unlucky to get the Ballon d'Or for his goal against PNE and let's not forget his strike at home to Chesterfield the season before - I think ?

On a serious note, he gave 100% every time he put a tangerine shirt on and will always be one of my all time favourite BFC players even if he wasn't the best.
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Exactly that. Not the most talented, but gave his all.
 
Now i am aware this might not go down to well but in my mind David Fox was a bit rubbish, however my opinion is somewhat tainted by a poor miss from him against Doncaster that ruined my coupon and cost me a fair few quid.....
 
Being a Carlisle lad, with all my mates big Carlisle fans I was over the moon we snatched their talisman and player of the season, Tony Caig.

I lost count the amount of times I was told how brilliant he was by them ( and to be fair, he was exceptional for several seasons as the Carlisle No.1 ).
However, that optimism of having a lower league world beater between our sticks was pretty much tarnished after a couple of games in.

I desperately wanted him to prove me wrong, but never did.
 
Alfie Conn said:
I wouldn't go as far as saying he was rubbish,what a scoring record he had at York Bless him,but the way Keith Walwyn used to climb all over defenders usually resulting in a free kick was a likeable kind of rubbish.
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Ha!! What a shout Alfie - Keith was a top player for us when we were slumming it round the lower divisions and also by the way a lovely bloke. RIP Keith - ledge.
 
Alf " Unlucky" Pratt. Scored an own goal on his debut 20 seconds after kick off. In his13th and final game he was killed by a bomb dropped by a Zeppelin that flew over Bloomfield Rd on Good Friday April 13 th 1916.He was the only casualty.
 
Dave62 said:
When I worked in Worsley, I used to work with a United fan who went to school with BBB.
He said that Ben was streets ahead of everyone in the schools of Buxton. Most thought he would be a regular PL player.
He couldn't believe it when I said BB didn't always make the first 11 (although it was towards the end of his career)

To answer the o/p I could suggest Armand, although to me he wasn't rubbish at all. I know he used to split opinions on AVFTT.
I liked Armand, even though he had the turning circle of a tanker and, when fouled, he seemed to hit the ground in slow motion sometimes.
But he always put a shift in and helped the defence with headed clearances countless times.
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And on Saturday, we'll discuss Scott Darton
 
Templeton_Peck said:
Ha!! What a shout Alfie - Keith was a top player for us when we were slumming it round the lower divisions and also by the way a lovely bloke. RIP Keith - ledge.
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Tony Cunningham was the real quality player you could see exactly why he played for the likes of City and Newcastle. We had TC, Keith Walwyn,Mark Taylor and Craig Madden in our squad for 87/88 Centenary season and it all just fizzled out to midtable mediocrity. Maybe the depth of squad wasn't good enough?
 
Gnands, looked like Bambi on ice at times and then turned into prime Maradonna, without his goals we would have been in a relegation battle that season
 
Willie McGrotty. Remember going to the reserves as a young lad with my dad & laughing at someone who's surname was grotty (humour of a 8yr old). Made 4 appearances for us over 3 years at the club so must have been a bit shit.
 
David Ferguson... tried his best/ likeable lad.... apart from his equaliser against the florists... was totally crap. Being made captain by Ronald McDonald summed up the shit state of our club at the time!
 
Since1967 said:
I always thought Paul Gardner was a really poor full back. One for the older fans I think
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Paul Gardner was ok. Decent enough IMO.After injury ended his career in his late 20’s he joined the fire services. He became manager of the England Fire Services football team who had some success in European tournaments.
 
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