[Archived] The Worst Ever Rovers Player?

[Flopsy]

Peacock saved himself in my eyes with the display against Liverpool in the FA Cup when we beat them 1-0.

Other than that - useless

Blake - theres another useless striker

[MCMC1875]

Those Quinn knockers may like to be reminded of a large following at Bramall Lane carrying aloft tabloid-size full colour posters of 'The Mighty Quinn'.

After that, all my memories are of his giraffe-style clumsiness - even when he scored, he usually fell over!

[FourLaneBlue]

VOTE FOR THE WORST PLAYER EVER

Rather bizarrely...the player nominated by Coventry City as their worst ever is Craig Bellamy...what the hell is that all about?

[Billy Castell]

VOTE FOR THE WORST PLAYER EVER

Rather bizarrely...the player nominated by Coventry City as their worst ever is Craig Bellamy...what the hell is that all about?

My friend is a Coventry fan, and he hates him intensely. He was a replacement for Keane, and did eff all but complain about how crap the city was, how he was too big and great for the club etc. His goal to game ratio was probably up there with Grabbi. In short, at that time he was an arrogant, lazy, mouthy ____ who was a huge waste of oxygen.

[blue/white]

In short, at that time he was an arrogant, lazy, mouthy ____ who was a huge waste of oxygen

And this is the man for us?? Just how much maturing has Bellamy done in the meanwhile ?

[youandwhosearmy]

VOTE FOR THE WORST PLAYER EVER

Rather bizarrely...the player nominated by Coventry City as their worst ever is Craig Bellamy...what the hell is that all about?

My friend is a Coventry fan, and he hates him intensely. He was a replacement for Keane, and did eff all but complain about how crap the city was, how he was too big and great for the club etc. His goal to game ratio was probably up there with Grabbi. In short, at that time he was an arrogant, lazy, mouthy ____ who was a huge waste of oxygen.

They probably voted for him in the same way that some people on this board would probably vote for Ferguson. Not because he was the worst player, but because he was the most hated.

If Bellamy came to us and started banging them in, I for one wouldnt complain one bit if he was arrogant.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Martin Britt was an England youth international who came to Ewood with a great reputation, apparently he made mince-meat out of the great Tommy Smith in a youth cup semi-final in the mid sixties. He played 8 games in the league without scoring in the 1965-66 season. At the start of the next season he started in the Central League and scored 12 goals in 12 games playing with a knee he had injured early in that season, he had to retire at the age of 21.

One or two other Rovers who had to retire or leave early early because of injuries were- Jimmy Kerr, saw him at Bury before he came to Ewood , he was a real player , could have been a star but he did his knee as well.

Steve Agnew, great at Barnsley, never had a chance at Rovers.

Alan Gilliver, great goalscorer at Huddersfield but came with a bad back, had the operation and couldn't bend at all after that.

One or two nominations for you to think about for worst player- Francis Kopel, Brian Hill, John Coddington ( anybody remember the penalty he took against Palace ? I've never seen anything like it , he had a longer run up than any fast bowler and when he actually got to strike the ball his shot was so soft the goalie could have saved it by throwing his cap on the ball !!! Unbelievably the ref made him take it again because the keeper had moved and he did exactly the same thing, the ball only just made it to the goalkeeper he had to dive forward to save it !!!!!!!!)

[Hanks]

John Coddington ( anybody remember the penalty he took against Palace ? I've never seen anything like it , he had a longer run up than any fast bowler and when he actually got to strike the ball his shot was so soft the goalie could have saved it by throwing his cap on the ball !!! Unbelievably the ref made him take it again because the keeper had moved and he did exactly the same thing, the ball only just made it to the goalkeeper he had to dive forward to save it !!!!!!!!)

Remember it well,in fact better than 90% of the goals we scored from that era. He was once aptly described as the rock on whom rovers floundered. his other claim to fame was than in over 300 appearances for huddersfield he never scored, within a few weeks of joining us he rectified that by scoring an own goal when we met them in the league!

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Sorry to spoil your story Hanks but he did actually score 17 goals for Huddersfield , some of which believe it or not were penalties, he also scored 3 goals for Rovers.

[rog of the rovers]

Inspired by a thread on the Football365 Forum.......''Worst Ever XI''

I have dug up this beauty from 11 years ago, partly to see what people said 11 years ago, and also to see how little we knew back then that those would be 'the good old days' of recent times.

Pre Venkys, a phrase that will only be exacerbated as time goes on.

Please enjoy reading back through the comments, some funny in our current situation, some obviously that won't have changed. As for worst XI, any team nowadays

Based on several (or alas) more appearances.....

Steele.

Henley-Peacock-Rekik-Williams.

Etuhu-Lowe-Petrovic.

Goodwillie-Brown-Varney

[donnermeat]

Swap Orr for Williams?

[Norbert Rassragr]

From my time watching Rovers, Dailly was bought for a massive fee and was pants,Fowler was pointless and Fettis was simply awful. Since the Raos bought the club there have been so many dodgy agent picks and strange names to choose from.

[Al]

Swap Orr for Williams?

and Andrews for Petrovic.

[DP]

Nice to see such an old thread dug up. I was thinking about this the other day when someone mentioned it was the worst Rovers team they'd seen in 40 years of watching them. I then thought well that 90-91 team was pretty awful....

having a look at the squad though, such a contrast in abilities throughout back then compared to today. Now they're all just kind of average with a couple of players who might be able to do better but need a good manager/coach to tell them what to do

Back then we had Sellars, Garner, Stapleton, Gayle who all got injured/old but were a cut above the rest in the division (also had an ageing Jim Beglin) and had to throw lots of youngsters and loanees in

Atkins, May and Wilcox all took a lot of stick but then we also had Bob Dewhurst, Craig Skinner and John Millar.... then loanee signings like Bernie Gallacher, Jason Beckford and Phil Starbuck !

I would say we had much worse players back then, we just had a sprinkling of excellent ones too!

[tomphil]

Fettis

Orr Peacock Duffy Matteo

Feeney Murphy Frandsen So crap i forget his name, Souness signing think.

Ward Brown

Edited December 21, 2016 by tomphil

[Norbert Rassragr]

Is Frandsen the Souness signing, or is that another player like Barry Ferguson?

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Fettis

Orr Peacock Duffy Matteo

Feeney Murphy Frandsen So crap i forget his name, Souness signing think.

Ward Brown

Was it De Pedro Or Del Pedro ?

[jim mk2]

Who was that big Spanish lump from the Souness era - Yordi ?

And there was a Spanish left winger whose name escapes me.

Orr wasn't a bad player but probably had the worst attitude of any player I've seen at Ewood. I'd have lumped him in training in my playing days.

[Rover_Shaun]

Who was that big Spanish lump from the Souness era - Yordi ?

Do you mean the man with a League Cup Winners medal?

If he's the worst you can think of you're not trying

Surely todays team is the worst ever? You can't compare anyone from the prem era to this bunch of talentless bottlers

[Jock]

Do you mean the man with a League Cup Winners medal?

If he's the worst you can think of you're not trying

Surely todays team is the worst ever? You can't compare anyone from the prem era to this bunch of talentless bottlers

He had a good scoring record 😄

[JohnD]

No brainer, Goodwillie

[JBiz]

Easy - Edinho Jnr, closely followed by Diego Rosado, Leon Best, Dixon Etuhu, Danny Murphy and many more of the past 6 years. Previous to this I would've said Kaba Diawara or Keith Andrews!

[rigger]

It's all subjective!

[frosty]

23 years old and Chris Brown is the worst Rovers player I've ever seen, though there are some from the last few years that aren't too far behind.

[Amo]

Fettis

Orr Peacock Duffy Matteo

Feeney Murphy Frandsen So crap i forget his name, Souness signing think.

Ward Brown

I remember getting strips torn off me for bashing Matteo back in the day.