Who is the worst player you have seen at morecambe ?

[Christies Child]

Just as well that the majority of SVs have only worn the red shirt on the terraces...

[Wild Bill]

Phil(ja) Atkinson. How that carthorse got in the squad a few years back is any ones guess!

[morecambe mick]

Julian Dowe couldn't even hit the back of the net when it was empty and in training.

I know, I watched him for 15mins after the rest of the team went to change, he kept training.

Sorry, I mean he kept trying, I was gob-smacked at how bad at volleying a simple ball he was.



Better than me though

[mr dog]

any want to submit a morecambe fc worst XI ?
that would be some team...

[Robert Jackson]

Graham Gill would probably top my list. 6ft 2" unless he jumped, in which case he could reach 5ft 9". At Hyde Utd (on their plastic pitch) he actually stopped and looked up at a jumbo-jet that flew over as it was landing at Manchester Airport. This was as the game went on around him!

Can someone just refresh me, when did he play at Christie? I remember he played at City and Sean Gallagher really rated him and to be fair, City and the Shrimps were much on the same level in those days.

[Keith]

I think Joe Woj brought him to Christie Park, but I await the stattos.

[mr dog]

shame every player mentioned is better than everyone writing on sv then isnt it?

[Keith]

Can someone just refresh me, when did he play at Christie? I remember he played at City and Sean Gallagher really rated him and to be fair, City and the Shrimps were much on the same level in those days.

1985 to 1988. Played 100 league matches scoring 24 goals.

'A Light At The End Of The Tunnel' by Lawrence Bland & Derek Quinn

[Castaway]

any want to submit a morecambe fc worst XI ?

I'll start one off:

Gregoire,

Cresswell, Mickey Waller, Carl Ruffer ...........

Dave Gardner, Alan Morgan, Jimmy Kelly, .........

........... ............

[Keith]

any want to submit a morecambe fc worst XI ?

I'll start one off:

Gregoire,

Cresswell, Mickey Waller, Carl Ruffer ...........

Dave Gardner, Alan Morgan, Jimmy Kelly, .........

........... ............

____________Banks____________________

Cresswell, Mickey Waller, Carl Ruffer ...........

Dave Gardner, Alan Morgan, Jimmy Kelly, Elam*
____________Gill Dowe__________________



*'cause he's a twat!

[marky]

Banks

.......... Hughes ........... ...........

Sang Gardner Stringfellow ...........

Walters Holden/Norman (I know he's a controversial choice but it is a personal opinion afterall)

[USA Shrimp]

Norman (I know he's a controversial choice but it is a personal opinion afterall)

Are you taking the piss ? You have to offer supporting arguments and evidence to justify including Sir John in a worst XI.

See Keith's earlier post - he included a very sound and well thought out reason for including Elam.

[Martin]

Julian Dowe couldn't even hit the back of the net when it was empty and in training.

I know, I watched him for 15mins after the rest of the team went to change, he kept training.

Sorry, I mean he kept trying, I was gob-smacked at how bad at volleying a simple ball he was.


Better than me though

He didn't exactly set the world alight! I think we all hoped he'd be a successor to Justin Jackson, but instead barn doors and banjos sprang to mind.

I remember he was in the team that beat the then league side, Cambridge United in the FA Cup. It was on Match of the Day and the caption named him as Julian Doe - it would have been more accurate to spell it D'OH!

[marky]

Are you taking the piss ? You have to offer supporting arguments and evidence to justify including Sir John in a worst XI.

Read my comments on ye olde olde olde board for supporting evidence To summarise, disliked him as a player and disliked him as a person even more.

[Robert Jackson]

Can someone just refresh me, when did he play at Christie? I remember he played at City and Sean Gallagher really rated him and to be fair, City and the Shrimps were much on the same level in those days.

1985 to 1988. Played 100 league matches scoring 24 goals.

Thanks. Surprised at that as he played for City round about 1977-8, so he must have been knocking on a bit by this time!

[P/T Indie]

Paul Compstive (I think his name was)was he a striker?

[P/T Indie]

Right here goes I have managed to get 10/11 players:-


Gregoire

Cresswell Ruffer Meadowcroft ?

Gardner Morgan Kelly Sang

Dowe Compstive


Sure if I looked back at old programmes I could find some more.

[Howe Magic]

paul comstive was a central midfielder ex burnley player...my worst 11 would be as follows gk gregoirre df ruffer df waller df hughes df cresswell mf watt mf kelly mf allen mf gardner cf dowe cf parry

[Mark S]

There is no way you could have a worst eleven and not include Alan Morgan.

Might even throw Jim Harvey in there as well. We used to collectively groan when he used to bring himself on as sub.

[Hodgie]

Anyone remember Leighton James playing in a some league game because we had a injury crisis

[mounse mk2]

Anyone remember Leighton James playing in a some league game because we had a injury crisis

I know others who have watched The Shrimps for far longer than I, will know of worse times in the clubs history but that felt like a particular low in my time as a fan.

I don't know whether that's because of Leighton James playing, Leighton James in general or the apathy of the local people towards going to a game at 'The Pie'. It did seem or seems to me now like there was a very low crowd that day.



Was there a Darren Hughes that played at left back for a few games mid to late 90's? I seem to think that was his name, anyway if that was his name he quite possibly had the single worst performance i've seen away at Alty once. I'll go for him.

I'll also go for Mark Hilditch more for the fact that he had grey hair and a black 'tash than anything he did or didn't do in a Morecambe shirt.

I'll defend Andy 'Banksy Banksy' Banks purely for the fact that beyond the fact that he could let in the most innocuous looking shot, he could at times look like a genius shot stopper.

[Dids]

Jason Walker - Now at Barrow

[P/T Indie]

but doing very well for Barrow and scoring quite a few goals

[Keith]

To summarise, disliked him as a player and disliked him as a person even more.

60 years old tomorrow, the International Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19 states...

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Doesn't mean you're not talking bollocks though!!!!

Sir John is probably my third favorite player and certainly would walk in to my all time top eleven...

Sod Declaration of Human Rights... I feel a ban coming on!

[Crooky MFC]

Jimmy Kelly, awful.