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Post by jdrobbo » Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:56 pm

Paul Crichton
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Used to be a big fan of his. Thought his kicking was excellent for a keeper at that level. Occasionally left stranded off his line. A key player in our 2000 promotion side, but not good enough for the next level up at that stage.

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Post by ClaretTony » Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:57 pm

A master of a goalkeeper at not being where he should be although why on earth we replaced him with Nik Michopoulos I don't know.

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Post by welsbyswife » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:40 pm

No idea how tall Crichton actually was but he always looked short for a keeper. And he didn't have a great spring in his legs either. Average but did a job at the time.

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Post by jdrobbo » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:42 pm

Despite my earlier comment Tony, about Crichton not being good enough for the next level up, I totally agree about Michopoulos.


Back to Crichton, I remember Ipoua of Scunny and Evans of Brentford, very much catching our keeper in the wrong place!

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Post by ClaretTony » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:45 pm

jdrobbo wrote:Despite my earlier comment Tony, about Crichton not being good enough for the next level up, I totally agree about Michopoulos.


Back to Crichton, I remember Ipoua of Scunny and Evans of Brentford, very much catching our keeper in the wrong place!
Never known a goalkeeper out of position so much but at least he could see the ball coming at him, Nik the Greek couldn't.

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Post by jdrobbo » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:49 pm

He certainly couldn’t that night at the City Ground....shudder!

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Post by Reecey1987 » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:49 pm

What about Luigi Cennamo did he even get a run out ?

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Post by jdrobbo » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:51 pm

Cheltenham away! His first, last and everything!
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Post by ClaretTony » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:57 pm

Reecey1987 wrote:What about Luigi Cennamo did he even get a run out ?
Stan wouldn't even put him on the bench after that game at Cheltenham

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Post by EarbyClaret » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:57 pm

Is my (failing) memory playing tricks on me or was there an away game where PC got stuck in traffic and couldn't make KO, as a result NTG stood in, had something of a blinder and kept his place - Huddersfield maybe?

That night at the City Ground ranks amongst one of the worst goalkeeping performances at the second tier of English football I ever recall.

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Post by jdrobbo » Sat Jul 13, 2019 12:00 am

Huddersfield is correct and on that occasion, NtG was outstanding
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Post by Lord Beamish » Sat Jul 13, 2019 12:10 am

A key part of the last Burnley Team to play in the 3rd Tier; and one get us promoted automatically. He’ll always be fondly remembered by this Claret fan.
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Post by chipbutty » Sat Jul 13, 2019 12:18 am

jdrobbo wrote:Cheltenham away! His first, last and everything!
Went to that game, he came on after Nik got injured and was absolute bobbins! I rememeber a uote from Stan saying something like " Yeah, these european lads go for a coffee on Deansgate on their days off!"

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Post by ClaretTony » Sat Jul 13, 2019 12:21 am

EarbyClaret wrote:Is my (failing) memory playing tricks on me or was there an away game where PC got stuck in traffic and couldn't make KO, as a result NTG stood in, had something of a blinder and kept his place - Huddersfield maybe?

That night at the City Ground ranks amongst one of the worst goalkeeping performances at the second tier of English football I ever recall.
It's a strange one with this story coming out that NTG stepped in for Crichton at Huddersfield because he stuck in traffic, which might have been the case. NTG had played in the previous game, albeit the League Cup and everyone was expecting him to play in any case.

It was at Forest that we first realised just how bad he was. I think three flew past him that night when he didn't bother to move and within a month or so he'd done the same in two other games. That night at Forest, they had a terrific player in their side, from memory I think he was on loan from Bradford City and called Robbie Blake.
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Post by Buxtonclaret » Sat Jul 13, 2019 5:41 am

ClaretTony wrote:It's a strange one with this story coming out that NTG stepped in for Crichton at Huddersfield because he stuck in traffic, which might have been the case. NTG had played in the previous game, albeit the League Cup and everyone was expecting him to play in any case.

It was at Forest that we first realised just how bad he was. I think three flew past him that night when he didn't bother to move and within a month or so he'd done the same in two other games. That night at Forest, they had a terrific player in their side, from memory I think he was on loan from Bradford City and called Robbie Blake.
Robbie did play well for them that night.
But I remember Jack Lester, not for the only time, running us ragged.
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Post by Fretters » Sat Jul 13, 2019 7:30 am

Am I right in thinking Crichton came in on loan, then went back before joining us permanently? Think Gavin Ward came in on loan in the meantime and he was really good for that level.
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Post by Inchy » Sat Jul 13, 2019 7:51 am

Paul Crichton was decent at the level we was at. He was certainly consistent where NTG, Beast, and Gabor in the following years were certainly not.

Most keepers at league 1 and Championship level have their limitations and throw a few clangers in every so often. We have been very lucky with Heaton and Pope in recent years. Two outstanding keepers in comparison

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Post by Papabendi » Sat Jul 13, 2019 8:28 am

Luigi didn’t get a fair shake but that was Stan.

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Post by BFCmaj » Sat Jul 13, 2019 9:20 am

Didn’t he play every game in the ‘99/‘00 promotion season?

I remember him trotting out for one game with his name misspelled as “Chrichton” on his shirt. Made me and my brother chuckle.

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Post by ClaretTony » Sat Jul 13, 2019 9:23 am

Buxtonclaret wrote:Robbie did play well for them that night.
But I remember Jack Lester, not for the only time, running us ragged.
We couldn’t handle the pair of them but we were actually the best team in the first half. We wore a new kit that night but it never saw the light of day again, the players refused to wear it.

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Post by burnmark » Sat Jul 13, 2019 9:27 am

ClaretTony wrote:We couldn’t handle the pair of them but we were actually the best team in the first half. We wore a new kit that night but it never saw the light of day again, the players refused to wear it.
Bright yellow and navy sleeves.

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Post by ClaretTony » Sat Jul 13, 2019 9:30 am

burnmark wrote:Bright yellow and navy sleeves.
It was yellow but I’m not sure of the sleeves. I think I’ve got a pic somewhere of Kevin Ball in that shirt, will see if I can dig it out.

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Post by ClaretTony » Sat Jul 13, 2019 9:46 am

burnmark wrote:Bright yellow and navy sleeves.
You are spot on - and I know it's not Bally :D
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Post by Steve1956 » Sat Jul 13, 2019 9:51 am

ClaretTony wrote:You are spot on - and I know it's not Bally :D
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I quite like that,any reason we never wore it again?

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Post by jdrobbo » Sat Jul 13, 2019 9:58 am

Here is said game at Forest....

Disclaimer: good to watch through slightly parted hands over face.

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Post by Royboyclaret » Sat Jul 13, 2019 10:02 am

On the subject of goalkeepers I was chatting to Mick Finn yesterday in Accrington and he reminded me of his debut for us at Stamford Bridge in 1974.......Time flies.

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Post by ClaretTony » Sat Jul 13, 2019 10:12 am

Steve1956 wrote:I quite like that,any reason we never wore it again?
As I posted above, we got stuffed 5-0 and the players wouldn't wear it.

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Post by BFCmaj » Sat Jul 13, 2019 10:18 am

jdrobbo wrote:Here is said game at Forest....

Disclaimer: good to watch through slightly parted hands over face.

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It’s ok, we did the same a few years later. Great goal by Jay as well!
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