Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:56 pm
Can't think of a better player, and he had the ability to hang around in the air!
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Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:59 pm
Andy lochead was great header of the ball.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 2:02 pm
Noble scored a few good uns with his head,So too did big Billy.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 2:02 pm
Steve Blatherwick
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 2:07 pm
Didn't see any pre 88 players but Gareth Taylor was the best in the air I have seen. Jay Rod was very good and Austin the best at finding the net with his head.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 2:19 pm
Lochhead.
Although Fletch was very good.
Although Fletch was very good.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 2:27 pm
Gareth Taylor for me.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 2:48 pm
Woody is a later day Lochead but Fletch was up there in a top two with Andy.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 2:51 pm
Steve Davis was good in the air. I remember him scoring a late equaliser at Oxford from the edge of the penalty area with his head.
Fletcher had a fair old leap on him and had to, as he wasn't the tallest.
Fletcher had a fair old leap on him and had to, as he wasn't the tallest.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:00 pm
Before my time and only played 25 times for us but Tommy Lawton has to be mentioned.
I always love this "hang in the air" stuff- as if gravity can be defied by certain special people. I think the perception is just down to great timing of the leap.
I always love this "hang in the air" stuff- as if gravity can be defied by certain special people. I think the perception is just down to great timing of the leap.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:06 pm
Agree about Austin, he was clinical in the air, but then he did have Trippier firing crosses over. Before that, Rocket Ron Futcher.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:06 pm
What about Claudie Lambie 'The Leap' ?
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:10 pm
Fletch was absolutely brilliant in the air, but Gareth Taylor and Austin both run him close in my book. My dad was taking me on in the 60's when Lockhead was at his peak, but I was bit too young to remember it properly.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:32 pm
Remember seeing him trouble the much taller Larry Lloyd ( Forest?) at Turf Moor. On one occasion craftily made a back for Lloyd who fell for it, jumped and was not amused as he hit the deck. The ball was irrelevant on this occasion!
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:37 pm
Vokes
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 4:56 pm
Carlisle
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 5:37 pm
Andy Lochead time froze for a second..then bang it was in the net!!
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 5:39 pm
Hankin was extremely good in the air
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 6:01 pm
Yes and Hankin was actually a very good all round player too who is rarely mentioned or remembered on here, but he was fantastic for us for two/three seasons and when we lost him to Leeds it was a big blow and yet another push on the slide to eventual obscurity.CharlieinNewMexico wrote:Hankin was extremely good in the air
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 6:15 pm
In my 30years it had to be Austin
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 6:33 pm
Spijed wrote:Can't think of a better player, and he had the ability to hang around in the air!
Andy Lochhead by a mile and at a time when there really were a lot of good headers of the ball around.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 6:38 pm
As mentioned Gareth Taylor was prolific in the air.
Think I recall him missing a penalty once and the bloke behind us joked that maybe he should have taken it with his head
Think I recall him missing a penalty once and the bloke behind us joked that maybe he should have taken it with his head
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 6:42 pm
Non of you have a Phookin clue..
It's Willie Irvine by a mile..
It's Willie Irvine by a mile..
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 7:08 pm
1) Lochhead
2)Taylor
3)Fletcher
4)Hankin
5)Futcher
2)Taylor
3)Fletcher
4)Hankin
5)Futcher
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 8:02 pm
Ray Hankin signed for Arsenal at one point but hardly played. He was a dirty bugger that would make Andy Carroll look saintly:
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Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 9:11 pm
First goal I ever saw scored by a Burnley player was Paul Fletcher with his head.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 9:18 pm
Another one for Andy Lochhead.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 9:39 pm
Andre Gray 
Seriously : Austin was very good scored a peach 1:11 in the link below:
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Vokes is good, when he is fast enough to get to the ball
Seriously : Austin was very good scored a peach 1:11 in the link below:
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Vokes is good, when he is fast enough to get to the ball
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 9:40 pm
Hankin was good but Noble was better, I will always remember him scoring a hatrick v Newcastle and I’m sure they were all headers.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 9:42 pm
I’d say Fletcher was as good as any player I’ve seen in the air. For a player only around 5’9” his technique was superb.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:40 pm
Frank Sinclair was always good for a laugh with his 50p head.
Re: Paul Fletcher - best header of a ball we've ever had?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:54 pm
Is this a thread just about forwards...James Tarkowski is putting in a shift with his head.