No, not the Chesney Hawkes song, but on the back of my "Name the Claret" post earlier, where Billy Wright had made his one and only Burnley appearance away at Wimbledon, how many others can we name who played just a single game for the Clarets? I don't know the answers, so opening up to nominations. 2 from me to start the ball rolling:

Tony Woodworth played his only game v Hereford Utd in 86/87 season and conceded 6 goals
Doug Hodgson who we had on loan from Sheffield United and I think fractured his cheekbone on his debut mid 1990s.

Ronnie Welch about 1970
Paul Mckenzie about 1994

Remco Van Der Schaf

Did Graham Coughlan play for us whilst on loan?

Neil Edwards

Marco Gentile

Shane Duffy?

Ian Duerden
Lee Palin
Shay McCartan ?

Dane Richards?

Diego Penney?

Who was the lad from Telford.

Duane Courtney

Scratch that wiki says he played 7 times.

Don’t recall Danny Drinkwater making many appearances for us

Wasn’t it Sunderland in the cup defeat?

Frank-Petter Kval

Ryan Noble

Stuart Hooper

Luigi Cennamo?

Petersa wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 04, 2025 12:52 pm

Ronnie Welch about 1970
Paul Mckenzie about 1994

I played cricket against Paul McKenzie on Ringstone Crescent and clean bowled him first delivery

Rick Holden

Leigh Palin

Herts Clarets wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:51 pm

I played cricket against Paul McKenzie on Ringstone Crescent and clean bowled him first delivery

I bet the matting had a wrinkle in it!

Herts Clarets wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:51 pm

I played cricket against Paul McKenzie on Ringstone Crescent and clean bowled him first delivery

If memory serves me correct that would be appropriate as he was a postman prior to joining Burnley

Dave Burnley made one appearance

Alex Cisak?

Petersa wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 04, 2025 12:52 pm

Ronnie Welch about 1970
Paul Mckenzie about 1994

McKenzie played at the back end of our fourth division championship season which was 1991-92. I seem to remember he conceded a penalty at Rochdale in our rearranged final game.

Conroy92 wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:19 pm

Who was the lad from Telford.

Duane Courtney

Scratch that wiki says he played 7 times.

When the lad made his debut off the bench , I was sat near the home dugout , Steve Cotterill put his arm round the lad as we attacking the Bee Hole End and gave him the following tactic pointing at the Bee Hole End
“Duane , when you get the ball , run like f—ck that way “
True story

One playing against us tomorrow - Bobby Thomas

Dave Burnley made his one and only appearance as a substitute in Spain and scored twice, no other player has done that

Micky Wardrobe

Doug Hodgson

distortiondave wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:04 pm

Diego Penney?

As well as the opening day thumping at Hillsborough didn’t Penney also come on in the home game (v Wigan?) when Beast got injured (some doubted this) when conceding a soft goal ? At least that’s how I remember it.

John Borland?

Ginger midfielder that played away at York (my nearest game!) in the mid-90s - don’t remember any other times he featured

Penny also played the League Cup game at Hartleppool.

I think I can recall John Borland coming on one evening on the Turf (against Crewe?) when the Longside was being redeveloped. I was sitting next to some old geezers who were clearly scouting. After Borland's first touch, they shook their heads, tutted and upped and left.

That's how I remember it, but no idea how accurate the memory is.

Edit - Wikipedia says he only made the single appearance so looks like that my memory here is shady.

Ian Patterson

Played one game for us at Bristol Rovers in the Jimmy Mullen era. He later became a property developer in London and was a client of mine at one time. His son, Willem Tomlinson, played a few games for the 'stewards down the road.

Willie Brown, centre forward in the youth cup winning team, played once as substitute, probably in 69.

Can we make a team? I-XI or thereabouts?
I suppose it lives or dies by a one app goalkeeper so Tony Woodworth which is before my time but serves as a starting point takes the Keeper spot.

Can we get the rest done?