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[Archived] worst striker you have seen at ewood?

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Maceo Rigters was pretty bad

Yes, he was; wasn't he? He was one of the few exceptions to the rule that Sparky's signings were gems. One good tournament [European u-21s Championship]; thereafter bobbins. Now still only 28, but playing in Australia.

One name I'd like to add from way-back-when is Allan Gilliver, as much for the way he didn't fulfil expectations when we signed him in 1966.

Mind you, that may have had something to do with the slipped disc discovered 9 games into his Rovers' career. Apparently Huddersfield Town hadn't disclosed that to Rovers so he may well not have had a [sufficiently thorough?] medical before we signed him. The case went to a League Tribunal; Huddersfield had to repay us £18,000 of the [£30,000?] transfer fee and all transfer deals thereafter had to include a medical examination.

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In the early 70's we signed a striker (or centre forward as they were then known) from Brentford called John O'Mara for around £30k. A few weeks before I saw him score a couple of goals against us at Griffin Park and thought how good it would be if we had a player like that. It was like Christmas for me when he joined us and I told all my mates about this 'worldie' we had signed. To be blunt he was crap and only managed a few games before the manager (Furphy I think) put him out of his misery.

As a footnote some time later I went with my mates to see a soft porn movie at the Odeon called Three Dimensions of Greta (probably the first 3D film) and Brentford FC was used for some of the scenes. One of the actors mentioned Big John O'Mara in his lines and my mates reminded me of how bad he was again.

Just looked it up and O'Mara scored 10 in 35. Maybe it was the expectations thing. I rmember he cost 30,000 which might have been Furphy's biggest purchase

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Yeah there's plenty of crap there alright. Nobody mentioned Bothroyd ! What a tired illegitimate he was. The only thing I remember him doing was kicking that Norwich defender up the arse at Carrow Rd and getting an early bath. Gilliver and Britt could have been top players but came to Ewood carrying serious injuries. Britt had been an England youth international and had absolutely pulverised Tommy Smith in the F A youth cup final but did his knee. Gilliver had been a tremendous prospect at Huddersfield but slipped a disc and had his disc fused. He literally couldn't bend his back, I remember a ball coming over at waist high in front of an empty net right in front of him and he couldn't bend to head it. He just watched it sail past.

Any thoughts on John Radford and Norman Bell ?

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None of this lot can hold a candle to John O'Mara and Brian Conlon

Frank Lord could. Alan Gilliver and Jim Fryatt weren't much cop either. All we could afford at the time. No wonder Ewood crowds shrunk to 6-7000.

These youngsters who think the likes of Per Pederson Ward and Blake were bad know sweet FA about whats in store for them.

None of this lot can hold a candle to John O'Mara and Brian Conlon

Frank Lord could. Alan Gilliver and Jim Fryatt weren't much cop either. All we could afford at the time. No wonder Ewood crowds shrunk to 6-7000.

These youngsters who think the likes of Per Pederson Ward and Blake were bad know sweet FA about whats in store for them.

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Frank Lord ! I'd forgotten about him. Saw him make his debut at Ewood against Millwall on a freezing cold day. He was the scourge of the old Div 4 that never made the step up. Just one more of the long list of replacements for Fred Pickering, we got £ 85k ( a record transfer at the time between two British clubs ) for Fred but we must have spent twice as much in penny packets trying to replace him.

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Barry Endean was another who came with a good rep and was useless; still can't believe we swapped Eamonn Rogers for him

Good 'dumper' driver though !

We have seen some real shyte !

Really, really ineffective goes to Curry, Mckinnon & Diawara - Modeste not too far behind. Those four made John O'Mara look decent and that was fecking difficult to do !

Biggest waste of money : Davies, Ward, Grabbi - 20 million down the toilet.

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1. Paul McKinnon - signed from a non league club and didn't have enough energy to track back with the cente half for corners

2. John O'Mara - signed for highish fee for us in those days.

3. David Hargreaves - signed from Accy Stanley and never up to the pace.

4. Brian Conlon - didn't look like a footballer/centre forward.

5. Frank Lord - overweight and lacking in every department.

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I hated andy Kennedy.

Kevin Davies

Want keen on Stapleton for us either

Ward but he always worked harder than any one I've ever seen

Fowler

Modeste

Grabbi

Always thought Andy Kennedy was a ponce. I kept expecting him to pull out a comb to re-do his hair.

As Tyrone says above, after watching the likes of Fred Pick and Andy McEvoy it certainly concentrated the mind to have to put up with Frank Lord.

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Blimey, we've had some bad ones.....

Worst has to be a toss-up between Frank Lord and Bryan Conlon, probably Conlon because he was downright ugly too.

I liked Jim Fryatt, the gait of a Herefordshire farmer but one of the best headers of a ball I've seen.

In the modern era, Grabbi and Modeste stand out for their uselessness.

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I liked Jim Fryatt, the gait of a Herefordshire farmer but one of the best headers of a ball I've seen.

Fryatt seemed to win headers from corner kicks with ease but he invariably headed them down to colleagues (who hadn't the gumption to get close to him) rather than toward the goal. Shame really cos he could head it harder than he could kick it.

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