Place 1-11 “Relative” to the highest division they played in for Burnley .

Chris Wood
John Gayle
Mick Conroy
George Oghani
Danny Ings
Billy Hamilton
Frank Casper
Robbie Blake
Roger Eli
Kurt Nogan
Paul Fletcher

Mine

Kurt Nogan
Roger Eli
Billy Hamilton
Mick Conroy
Paul Fletcher
Danny Ings
Frank Casper
Chris Wood
Robbie Blake
George Oghani
John Gayle

Ings top

Untinted Glasses wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 9:02 pm

Place 1-11 “Relative” to the highest division they played in for Burnley .

Frank Casper
Danny Ings
Paul Fletcher
Chris Wood
Robbie Blake
Billy Hamilton
Mick Conroy
Roger Eli
John Gayle
George Oghani
Kurt Nogan

I'm not sure how you've arrived at that '11', but John Gayle? He'd finish bottom of any relative list even if we'd been unfortunate enough to play as low down as the eighth tier. Truly awful, who stragely remains popular with burnley fans for scoring a goal with his shoulder on TV and nearly breaking an opponents leg into 36 pieces.

...and a few I'd have on that list way above most:

Dele Adebola
Charlie Austin
Andre Gray
Andy Gray
Gareth Taylor

... and one who wouldn't make the list no matter how long it was:

Tony Hancock

Transpennine wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 9:39 pm

I'm not sure how you've arrived at that '11', but John Gayle? He'd finish bottom of any relative list even if we'd been unfortunate enough to play as low down as the eighth tier. Truly awful, who stragely remains popular with burnley fans for scoring a goal with his shoulder on TV and nearly breaking an opponents leg into 36 pieces.

Lol yea I suppose he couldn’t of been in there. Genuinely interested how others viewed that bunch though. Was imgs in the premier league as effective as Nogan in the 2nd division?
I know he’s a better player but relatively ? Gota be Nogan

Claret Toni wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 9:43 pm

...and a few I'd have on that list way above most:

Dele Adebola
Charlie Austin
Andre Gray
Andy Gray
Gareth Taylor

... and one who wouldn't make the list no matter how long it was:

Tony Hancock

I wasn’t picking the best players or anything . Just players I were interested in

Looks to me like pstotto has a duplicate account....

No Ian Helliwell on the list...

In my years of supporting the clarets-not fully in order of preference

Willy Irvine
Ray Pointer
Frank Casper
Jimmy Robson
Andy Lochead
Paul Fletcher
Danny Ings
Charlie Austin
Ray Hankin
Robbie Blake
Billy Hamilton

Ralph Coates (started as a winger), Taffy, Dave Thomas, Mac, Connelly, Pilky

Danny Ings is best striker out of the original list

I Thought the question might be a bit too complicated for this board tbh. I’ll make my next one a lot simpler

Untinted Glasses wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 9:43 pm

Lol yea I suppose he couldn’t of been in there. Genuinely interested how others viewed that bunch though. Was imgs in the premier league as effective as Nogan in the 4th ?
I know he’s a better player but relatively ? Gota be Nogan

Nogan didn't play for us in the 4th division.

Not sure how we got this far without mentioning `JRod or Ade. Maybe not top but high up on my list.

Untinted Glasses wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 9:43 pm

Lol yea I suppose he couldn’t of been in there. Genuinely interested how others viewed that bunch though. Was imgs in the premier league as effective as Nogan in the 2nd division?
I know he’s a better player but relatively ? Gota be Nogan

You probably confused those not as clever as you by getting Nogan and the division wrong

When they interviewed people for tv around Burnley I thought they always searched for them ‘special’ people on purpose. I now know they don’t

A few other good ones missing are Andy Payton, Paul Barnes and Ray Hankin.
Anyway from the original list:-

Frank Casper (By a country mile)
Danny Ings
Paul Fletcher
Robbie Blake
Chris Wood
Billy Hamilton
Mick Conroy
Oooh George Oghani
Kurt Nogan
Big Bad John Gayle

I’m not sure I feel intellectually qualified to contrition this thread.

Purely for enjoyment value (I've put Casper, Fletcher and Hamilton in the middle as I've never seen them play)

Robbie Blake
Mick Conroy
Danny Ings
Roger Eli
Chris Wood
Frank Casper
Paul Fletcher
Billy Hamilton
Kurt Nogan
George Oghani
John Gayle

Frank Casper
Robbie Blake
Danny Ings
Chris Wood
Paul Fletcher
Billy Hamilton
Kurt Nogan
Mick Conroy
Roger Eli
George Oghani












John Gayle

Danny Ings
Robbie Blake


Mick Conroy
Roger Eli
Chris Wood
Frank Casper
Paul Fletcher
Billy Hamilton
Kurt Nogan
George Oghani
John Gayle

Danny Ings and Robbie Blake quite a bit ahead for me in terms of quality and enjoyment of watching us during those periods.
Casper, Fletcher only that low down as I was too young really to see much of either - I’m sure they were both a lot better players than Eli and Conroy but with the latter two I was going to every home and away game and within the poor division that we were in at this time it was a great time for us to be seeing players who were better than what we had been used to for a while.

John Gayle - strange inclusion but at least it was easy to position him in the list !!

No one remember the great Les Lawrence!!

Ric_C wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 05, 2021 10:24 am

Purely for enjoyment value (I've put Casper, Fletcher and Hamilton in the middle as I've never seen them play)

Hamilton would be right up there if it were home performances but if it were based on away performances he'd be close to the bottom.

Impossible to rate a player you haven't seen but not sure otherwise how Frank isn't top.

My top 11 Burnley forwards I have seen

1/ jimmy Mac
2/ Willie Irvine
3/ ray pointer
4/ Willie Morgan
5/ Andy Lochhead
6/ Frank Casper
7/jimmy Robson
8/ Ralph Coates
9/ Peter Noble
10/ Danny Ings
11/ Brian Pilkington / Robbie Blake