Name the most obscure Burnley player

[SkiptonClaret]

Not sure Andy Lawson ever got close to the first team.

Apologies, Andrew Leeson not Lawson. Unused sub Notts Forest (A) 21st April 2003. Mark Rasmussen got on the pitch that day.

[IanMcL]

Billy O'Rourke

[IanMcL]

Pugh the Obscure

[SkiptonClaret]

Whatever happened to Phil Ray and Steve Kennedy?

[ArmchairDetective]

Paul Rachubka

[ClaretTony]

Apologies, Andrew Leeson not Lawson. Unused sub Notts Forest (A) 21st April 2003. Mark Rasmussen got on the pitch that day.

Andy Leeson the full back and Andrew Waine were both on the bench at the end of 2002/03, both for three of the last four games. Neither of them ever got on the pitch for the first team.

[Fretters]

Has Frank-Petter Kval been mentioned, he of the infamous Darlington game?

[Herts Clarets]

Eric Potts

[Herts Clarets]

Stuart Robertson

[EarbyClaret]

For anyone who used to collect those football cards that came in packets with bubble gum from the early 1970s - David Wilson

There's a whole host of goalkeepers who had fleeting Burnley careers - Rod Jones, Jeff Parton, Tony Norman for example

The latter went on to be a Sunderland regular

[Goliath]

Karl Bermingham.

[Culmclaret]

Whatever happened to Phil Ray and Steve Kennedy?

On Phil Ray see p2 of the thread. Kennedy had potential but was blighted by injury

[Petersa]

Has Tony Woodworth been mentioned

[CyrilEbokiPoh]

Used to live on Olympia Street. Always remember my dad telling me as a kid (maybe 5) that a Burnley keeper lived around the corner (Grew up on Mitella.) Couldn’t believe it.

I used to regularly see him in the chippy at the top end of lyndhurst road (And Adie Randall lived at the other end)

[Hanoverusaclaret]

Some stiff competition David Jones just gets my vote for the worst I ever saw

Had the "pleasure" of seeing both... Caughey was constantly offside. Jones was a giant who when he jumped for the ball he appeared to be shorter than if he'd just stood still. He was statuesque.

[Hanoverusaclaret]

Was present for Tony Woodworth's one and only game in goals. Poor lad. 6 nil defeat at home. Still say it was my fault. It was my 13th birthday and insisted on the whole family going to the game with me. The joke was that my mum was banned from Turf Moor after that (although she did go to the Orient game)
I'll throw out some other names:
John Smyth- came from Liverpool and looked fantastic in the friendlies and reserve games I saw. Don't think he ever played in the first team.
Tony Parks- Euro Cup Winners Cup winning GK with Spurs who played a few games.
Derek Parlane- former City player. Not sure if he ever played a first team game proper.
Phil Murphy- played in the Orient season- seemed to score every game I saw him, yet in the days of no social media it was a bit of a mystery why he didn't play more. Anyone know the story? Maybe he was crap, looked good to me back then. Especially away at Blackpool in whatever cup that was. I was too young to fully appreciate tbh.

[ecc]

Was present for Tony Woodworth's one and only game in goals. Poor lad. 6 nil defeat at home. Still say it was my fault. It was my 13th birthday and insisted on the whole family going to the game with me. The joke was that my mum was banned from Turf Moor after that (although she did go to the Orient game)
I'll throw out some other names:
John Smyth- came from Liverpool and looked fantastic in the friendlies and reserve games I saw. Don't think he ever played in the first team.
Tony Parks- Euro Cup Winners Cup winning GK with Spurs who played a few games.
Derek Parlane- former City player. Not sure if he ever played a first team game proper.
Phil Murphy- played in the Orient season- seemed to score every game I saw him, yet in the days of no social media it was a bit of a mystery why he didn't play more. Anyone know the story? Maybe he was crap, looked good to me back then. Especially away at Blackpool in whatever cup that was. I was too young to fully appreciate tbh.

Tony Parks, if I recall correctly, won a medal at Burnley with our U21s or whatever they were called at the time.

[Cornwallclaret]

Tony Hancock.. looked to be a real talent… he wasn’t.. was just a gobby overrated player who probably thought he was better than he was… sold him back to Preston I think

[jedi_master]

Wayne Dowell

I used to play at the Thompson Centre for Junior Clarets as was and in about 1993 we were all very excited to be told that a couple of Burnley players were coming along to watch us and give out awards. My hopes of David Eyres, Steve Davis and Adie Randall were dashed by the appearance of Wayne Dowell (who at that point I don't think was even in the first team) and John Mullin who had perhaps played a handful of games. I was only about 7 or 8 so I can't remember much of him except he had curly blonde hair and was left footed.

[dandeclaret]

Have either

1) Mark Robertson

or

2) Carl Smith

been mentioned?

[Culmclaret]

Just remembered Billy Wright. 1 appearance: in the ill-fated Group Cup match at Wimbledon in 81/82.

[bigdavethemaddog]

Anthony Shandran

[ClaretTony]

Anthony Shandran

Came on as a sub in a 4-2 defeat at Crewe. Stan said he did well and his first start wasn't far away. That's over 24 years ago and he's not played for us since.

[matttheclaret]

Anyone mentioned Luigi Cennamo? They created the phrase "rabbit in the headlights" especially for him apparently

[boatshed bill]

Gascoigne.

[CyrilEbokiPoh]

Have either

1) Mark Robertson

I did

[bigdavethemaddog]

Came on as a sub in a 4-2 defeat at Crewe. Stan said he did well and his first start wasn't far away. That's over 24 years ago and he's not played for us since.

i remember him playing briefly on loan at York

[ClaretTony]

i remember him playing briefly on loan at York

He had a loan at York I think but then disappeared although I think he might have suffered an injury

[brexit]

tresor

[bigdavethemaddog]

Rune Vindheim

[ŽižkovClaret]

Lee Howey

[Frenchclaret]

Alan Shackleton, born in and lived in Padiham. Scored 18 goals in 32 appearances as a fierce, battling centre forward. Played all his games in the First Division but was sold to second division Leeds and was replaced by Ray Pointer in 1958. He scored in the famous victory against Man Utd which was shortly after the Munich air disaster in 58. We won 3-0 with other scorers being McIlroy and Cheesebrough.
I saw nearly all his matches for Burnley as he had married my sister.

[sjb]

Rune Vindheim

When he left the headline on the back page of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph read 'Gone With The Vind'.

[Petersa]

Ronnie Welch, 1 appearance about 1970? I think went to Chesterfield

[ClaretTony]

Ronnie Welch, 1 appearance about 1970? I think went to Chesterfield

Very early 1971 - against Newcastle. He went to Brighton from Burnley, signed by Brian Clough, but then moved to Chesterfield.

[DingleDangle]

Not sure if they've been mentioned........

John Stewart (goalkeeper)
Rick Holden
Ian Muir

[LDNBFC87]

Jelle Vossen / Fred Nimani