I've received a request for the names of everyone on this team picture taken in 2001 but there are one or two I'm not certain of.

Can we put together a complete list please?

ClaretTony wrote:I've received a request for the names of everyone on this team picture taken in 2001 but there are one or two I'm not certain of.

Can we put together a complete list please?

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Shandran Mullin Thomas Little Michopoulos Davis Cennamo Taylor Branch Cox ???
??? Payton McGregor Papadopoulos Cook Armstrong Gnohere Briscoe Ellis? Moore
Moore Johnrose Ball Ternent Kilby Ellis West Weller Maylett

UpTheBeehole wrote:Shandran Mullin Thomas Little Michopoulos Davis Cennamo Taylor Branch Cox ???
??? Payton McGregor Papadopoulos Cook Armstrong Gnohere Briscoe Ellis? Moore
Moore Johnrose Ball Ternent Kilby Ellis West Weller Maylett

You've got the same two question marks as I have but I'm wondering if the one on the left, middle row, could be Mark Rasmussen and is the one top right John Williamson?

ClaretTony wrote:You've got the same two question marks as I have but I'm wondering if the one on the left, middle row, could be Mark Rasmussen.

Looking at the squad list for that year I wouldn't be able to pick out Rasmussen or John Williamson.

Could it be those two?

Also at the club at that time were Alex Kevan (left in November) and Paul Smith, but Smudger isn't on there.

So one could possibly be Kevan?

I give you, John Williamson:

IAmAClaret wrote:I give you, John Williamson:

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Excellent work.

He looks like he could be Gareth Taylor's younger brother.

and Mark Rasmussen

It must be great to have played for a league side but hardly anybody knows
who you are.

Can we please stop it with these colourised pictures and respect history as it was meant to be seen?

This part of the Stan era was the high point of being a Claret for fans my age, at that point.

There's a lot of experience on that picture, but many of them were really good players.

Mitchell Thomas, Stevie Davis and Ian Cox were the best defenders I'd seen, Little is still the best winger I've seen, Arthur was hilarious, Payton was clinical, Taylor was a beast in the air, Ball was rock hard, Cook was classy as, Branchy was good fun, Armstrong was solid, Niko was part-brilliant-part-terrible, West was dependable, Alan Moore occasionally was majestic, and Stan was a fruitcake who gave us some great times.

Agree Walton. When Glen was on his game he was worth the entrance money alone. We do currently miss somone of his ability.

Walton wrote:West was dependable

Have I really just read that?

ClaretTony wrote:Have I really just read that?

It's true.

He had some great seasons for us.

We're spoilt these days but think what came before.

Rowls wrote:It's true.

He had some great seasons for us.

We're spoilt these days but think what came before.

West was with us for four seasons and the best one we had defensively was 2000/01 when he didn't get a game until April.

Dean West - Player of the Year 2001/02.

He was the most reliable part of that defence.

Can't believe Kevin Long and Tom Anderson aren't on the pic! They've been here years !

I thought the chap on the top right was a very young Michael Duff but then realised it was too early for him. Does look like him though.

My son was in awe when we saw Dean West in the Spar shop at the top end of Padiham..........

Walton wrote:This part of the Stan era was the high point of being a Claret for fans my age, at that point.

There's a lot of experience on that picture, but many of them were really good players.

Mitchell Thomas, Stevie Davis and Ian Cox were the best defenders I'd seen, Little is still the best winger I've seen, Arthur was hilarious, Payton was clinical, Taylor was a beast in the air, Ball was rock hard, Cook was classy as, Branchy was good fun, Armstrong was solid, Niko was part-brilliant-part-terrible, West was dependable, Alan Moore occasionally was majestic, and Stan was a fruitcake who gave us some great times.

It was all reading so well and I was nodding away in agreement......until "Alan Moore occasionally majestic". Are you VERY drunk???

I was in awe when Dean West scored that outside of the boot smasher at Stoke City that year.....what a finish my son!!!! Worth the drive and entrance fee alone!!!

Dark Cloud wrote:It was all reading so well and I was nodding away in agreement......until "Alan Moore occasionally majestic". Are you VERY drunk???

If occasionally is code for he had one good game, "Alan Moore was occasionally majestic" (and as I remember it he came on as a sub that day at QPR(???) even... though might be mis-remembering)

Dean West was the best full back we'd had for years to that point. Sadly he was never the same player after his long injury and peoples memory of him have been sullied due to the amount of time it took for the management team to realise he was never going to get it back.

mybloodisclaret wrote:I was in awe when Dean West scored that outside of the boot smasher at Stoke City that year.....what a finish my son!!!! Worth the drive and entrance fee alone!!!

Oh yes oh yes.

In an otherwise dull game that was a scorcher!

I was sat directly behind it and from my perspective the ball didn't appear to have any movement other than to be rapidly getting smaller as it travelled further away.

It was one of those you knew was in the millisecond it left his boot.

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Dark Cloud wrote:It was all reading so well and I was nodding away in agreement......until "Alan Moore occasionally majestic". Are you VERY drunk???

I saw him have some shockers, some real 'you're not fit to wear the shirt' games, but I also saw him have some great games showing class and invention we'd rarely see from anyone else. That's why I said 'occasionally'

Anyone remember Fred's thumping volley at Stoke?
I remember around a dozen voices all shouting "hit it" in unison as the ball fell towards him and boy did he hit it.
Who remembers the player who scored a similar stunning volley at the same end a couple of season's later?

Walton wrote:I saw him have some shockers, some real 'you're not fit to wear the shirt' games, but I also saw him have some great games showing class and invention we'd rarely see from anyone else. That's why I said 'occasionally'

One game that stands out for me was Alan Moore's performance at Deepdale in our 3-2 win, and in particular his shot from near the halfway line that hit the bar and Ian Moore headed the follow up straight at the goalie.

Didn't Alan Moore score the winner in the last second at Deepdale in that 3-2 win?

Arthur Gnohere scored the winner, latching on to a back heel pass from Alan Moore.

Ally Pickering?

Woodleyclaret wrote:Didn't Alan Moore score the winner in the last second at Deepdale in that 3-2 win?

You're thinking of Neil Moore in the Waddle season I think. Last minute header.

SandyLaneClaret wrote:Ally Pickering?

Spot on. Both right backs, both screamers at the same end of the same ground.

According to wikipedia, Mark Rasmussen is still in football. Has been playing in Australia the last few years.

elwaclaret wrote:Dean West was the best full back we'd had for years to that point. Sadly he was never the same player after his long injury and peoples memory of him have been sullied due to the amount of time it took for the management team to realise he was never going to get it back.

What long injury?

ClaretTony wrote:What long injury?

Unless I'm mis - remembering it didn't he get an injury towards the end of the season he won player of the year and so missed the pre-season start of the following campaign?

As I say I may be mis-remembering but in my minds eye I can remember the difference being almost like the change that occurred to Ian Measham (though it wasn't as obvious or long winded as his injury had been).

If I'm wrong as always I will hold my hand up but in my minds eye I remember West looking bloody good and then not being, and I don't think it was just that better came along (if memory serves Briscoe).

elwaclaret wrote:Unless I'm mis - remembering it didn't he get an injury towards the end of the season he won player of the year and so missed the pre-season start of the following campaign?

As I say I may be mis-remembering but in my minds eye I can remember the difference being almost like the change that occurred to Ian Measham (though it wasn't as obvious or long winded as his injury had been).

If I'm wrong as always I will hold my hand up but in my minds eye I remember West looking bloody good and then not being, and I don't think it was just that better came along (if memory serves Briscoe).

Briscoe played left back, not right back.

West played from 1999/2000 to 2003/04 but he hardly got a game in 2000/01 when we played with three central defenders and Paul Weller played there. He was in the reserves for most of that season and didn't feature in the first team until April.

Overall, just didn't rate him at all. Once we went to a back four, when he got back into the side, we conceded goals for fun and he was very much a part of that.

Fair enough with Briscoe I can see him on the left now. So no debate there.

As for West mainly I remember the gap.... him winning the Player of the year award being out and being crap when he came back. So I'm not going to argue I was struggling to remember some one their names on the pic.... which tells you all you need to know of my memory, as I'm sure you remember around that time there was little else I thought about at that time.

ClaretTony wrote:Have I really just read that?

Glen Little was at his best when he played along side West.
West did all the hard work fetching and carrying for Little.
Dean West never got the credit he deserved.

West got back in, in April 2001, after we lost 5-0 to the Bastards, We won the next game 3-0 against PNE with him in the team and he got a beauty of an assist I seem to remember.

I liked him but he was better offensively (working with Little) than defensively.

Weller was great at right wing back and worked well with Glen, I thought.

He played as a wing back though and was far more offensively minded than a right back, understandably. West was decent going forwards but was pretty shocking defensively - but that is effectively just a fair description of Stan's entire time as our manager (bar the 00/01 season where, if memory serves, we were actually pretty solid with Davis, Cox, Thomas, Briscoe and Ball just in front).

West was a good Division 2/League One defender and an average Championship one.

He was a big improvement on the majority of full backs we’d had over a long period of time.

jedi_master wrote:Weller was great at right wing back and worked well with Glen, I thought.

He played as a wing back though and was far more offensively minded than a right back, understandably. West was decent going forwards but was pretty shocking defensively - but that is effectively just a fair description of Stan's entire time as our manager (bar the 00/01 season where, if memory serves, we were actually pretty solid with Davis, Cox, Thomas, Briscoe and Ball just in front).

You are right, that was the season we played with a back three of Davis, Cox and Thomas with Weller and Briscoe as wing backs. It was certainly our best season defensively under Stan after promotion, we conceded 54 goals. In the next three seasons we conceded 62, 89 and 77 although by the last of those seasons West was sharing right back duties with Lee Roche.

Totally agree jedi - Weller and Glen worked really well together down that right hand side.

Bordeauxclaret wrote:West was a good Division 2/League One defender and an average Championship one.

He was a big improvement on the majority of full backs we’d had over a long period of time.

The ones before him were Ian Measham, Gary Parkinson, Richard Huxford, Chris Brass and Ally Pickering.

Don't forget Mark Monnington

Dean West and Glen Little. My favourite pairing down the right hand side of a Burnley team.

When you think in the space of ten years we went from Dean West to Kieran Trippier, you realise just how well we have done.

Two big memories of West was that scorcher at Stoke and watching Stewart Downing absolutely laying waste to him wat the SOL hen on loan at Sunderland.

Just looked up Ally Pickering's details and was surprised he's called Albert and not Alastair like I'd thought.

Albert. Now that's a proper name.

welsbyswife wrote:I thought the chap on the top right was a very young Michael Duff but then realised it was too early for him. Does look like him though.

Ditto