• Players you used to dread us facing

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 12:27 am**

We had some real bogey players in the lower leagues. Some names that were great at that level. Some that werent. Loads that seemed to either score, play well or both!

Shaun Goater
Carl Asaba
Jamie Cureton
Kurt Nogan

Bob taylor (x2)
Jon Macken
Ricardo Fuller
Dave Bamber

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 12:28 am**

John Pender OG used to always seem to score too!

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 12:29 am**

Darren Huckerby.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 12:41 am**

Fairly recent but I've always hated Knockaert playing against us.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 12:46 am**

Cureton!!! Yeah

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 12:48 am**

Kyle Lightbourne

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 12:52 am**

David Nugent

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 12:59 am**

Malcolm Macdonald

Phil Stant

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 2:09 am**

Helguson seemed to be a player that always looked like tearing us apart when he was at Watford .... And then again he scored for Pompey.

Another odd one from me was Jamal Campbell-Rice haha.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 2:26 am**

Paul Ifill at Millwall, remember him?

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 2:44 am**

Snodgrass and Howson when they were both at Leeds.
Leon Clarke at Sheff Weds

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 4:57 am**

Ronnie Jepson. Always seemed to score against us. I went to Bury in 96 with a mate, saw his name on the teamsheet and said if Bury score, it will be him. Cue a 1-0 defeat, with the inevitable scorer.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 7:23 am**

cricketfieldclarets wrote:We had some real bogey players in the lower leagues. Some names that were great at that level. Some that werent. Loads that seemed to either score, play well or both!

Shaun Goater
Carl Asaba
Jamie Cureton
Kurt Nogan
Bob taylor (x2)
Jon Macken
Ricardo Fuller
Dave Bamber

Good list!

Goater was the first one that popped into my mind.

I would probably add Jason Roberts to the list. Cureton and Roberts was an awesome front pairing for Bristol Rovers in Division 2 and Roberts also got goals against us for the Baggies too.

I imagine if you asked the same question to opposition supporters who were in the same division at the time I think that they would have Glen Little on the list.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 7:25 am**

Kevin Francis

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 7:51 am**

Trevor Whymark

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:11 am**

Billy whitehurst! Always a horror.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:14 am**

Funnily players who we have had-Austin, Nugent, Alexander

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 9:52 am**

Jimmy Greaves
Bobby Charlton
Ian Helliwell (Yes him!!)

Kurt Nogan
Ian Huckerby
Peter Thompson
Eddie Gray
Joe Baker

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:06 am**

Bull and mutch
Another vote for Phil stant

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:10 am**

Simon Garner
Imre Varadi

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:11 am**

Chic Bates

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:14 am**

Colin Henry

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:19 am**

Michael Chopra
Rasiak and Peschisolido when they were at Derby.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:24 am**

When I started going on It wasn't uncommon to dread all the players we faced

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:25 am**

Andy Preece.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:30 am**

Has to be Nugent from modern era I would say. Scored against us repeatedly for Preston, Portsmouth and Leicester I think.

Alexander too but that goes without saying as for the period between about 1999 and 2009 (i.e, until they became a total irrelevance to both us and the wider footballing community) Preston used to get 67 penalties a game against us. Grezza gobbled those up.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:35 am**

Peter Thompson
Eddie Gray
Tony Currie
Alan Hudson
Alan Clarke
Malcolm MacDonald
Ron Davies

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:39 am**

In the mid 80s just about all of them!

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:46 am**

Forster
Cureton
Doyle
Convey
Thorne
Thorpe
Eyres
Taylor (Bob)
Taylor (Rob)
Nogan
Wanchope
Berkovic
Bernabia
Defoe
Kavannagh
Dunn
Stein
Bull
Asaba
Rhodes
Harewood
Snodgrass
Gallagher
Nugent
Preece and Francis
Marshall (Dwight)
Helgusson
Tudgay
Fuller
Alexander

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 11:05 am**

Peschisolido, Robbie Keane and Nugent always seemed to score against us.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 11:10 am**

David Lee, Winger at Bolton.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 11:16 am**

Marcus Stewart.

UTC!

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 12:23 pm**

Shaun Goater is the big one.
Graham Kavanagh. Couldn't stand the bloke.
Andy Hassenthaler. Another odious individual.
Pretty much any player from that Preston side that won promotion with us, up until the mid 2000's. Appleton, Murdoch, Alexander, Macken, Basham..

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 12:59 pm**

Kevin Phillips

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 1:13 pm**

Jimmy Greaves.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 1:29 pm**

How many times did George Best grace the Turf?

You'd have thought he'd have given us the run around, but can't remember him having
much joy against us. He played in the game where Frank Casper smacked Francis Burns
In the mush in 1967 (I think) and we won 2-1.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 2:19 pm**

Some excellent ones above but Jimmy Greaves stands out for me.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 2:29 pm**

Yep.
Jimmy Greaves needs to be on that list.
Steve Bull was a bugger too.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 4:31 pm**

I missed Peschi... always did us, as did Barry Hayles and Jason Roberts!

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 6:31 pm**

Another vote for Bull and Mutch

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 7:19 pm**

paul peschisolido!!!!!!!

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 7:53 pm**

djt2006 wrote:David Nugent

Makes me sick just thinking about him

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:02 pm**

Robbie Blake

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:08 pm**

Steve Bull almost made me pathological

Rob Earnshaw

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:09 pm**

Bryan Douglas, Jackie Sinclair, Harry Burrows. All used to rear us apart.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:43 pm**

RocketLawnChair wrote:David Lee, Winger at Bolton.

Already picked this one only to find it mid thread. When playing for Wigan too, seemed like he was on steroids every time. Remember an eventful trip to Springfield Park, with a certain Mr Shackleton strolling around before hand and Mr Lee tearing us a new one as we went down something like 3-0. Heady days!

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:57 pm**

Craig Bellamy for me.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 9:01 pm**

Dele Adebola always used to worry me for some reason

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 9:08 pm**

ksrclaret wrote:Dele Adebola always used to worry me for some reason

Even more so when we signed him

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 9:09 pm**

Jordan Rhodes lately.

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