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In honour of Barry Bannan who may well be exhibiting his last ever masterclass at Loftus Road tomorrow before his legs and/or hair gives up, what other players did you always look at with a sly fondness?
I always liked Mick Harford in his pomp, gave Alan McDonald some of his toughest tests. Would have loved him playing for us.
Ryan Woods the ginger centre midfielder at Brentford when they were getting good was another one
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Opposition players you always rated on 15:13 - Jan 4 with 1393 views
Opposition players you always rated on 09:14 - Jan 4 by dmm
True but I'm thinking before that. For example, the first time we played ManU in the 68/69 season they beat us 3-1 at LR with Best scoring twice. He was Utd's leading scorer that season with 19.
I remember a match on the plastic pitch in 1986 where Spurs beat us 5-2 (Clive Allen scored 2 for them) and Hoddle was outstanding. Always seemed to play well against us even in his later years as a sweeper for Swindon.
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Opposition players you always rated on 15:20 - Jan 4 with 1359 views
Quite a lot to choose from in the 40 plus years of me going
Just off my head
Mickey Hazard Johnny metgod Scott sellers Peter Beagrie Cyril Regis Neville Southall Paul Bracewell Rod Wallace Ian Bishop Alan Devonshire Craig Bellamy Nial Quinn Kevin Sheedy
And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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Opposition players you always rated on 15:24 - Jan 4 with 1349 views
Opposition players you always rated on 15:45 - Jan 4 by Match82
I go back and forth on that, part of me thinks well if you havent got booked in 600 games, you're probably not really getting stuck in enough
It was very different when Gary Lineker played. He would definitely have got several yellows if he played today, particularly in his Tottenham days. He loved to backchat at the ref and that was at a time when it was nowhere near as rife as it is these days. Nobody's a bigger Venables fan than me, but let's not pretend his teams were strangers to the dark arts. His Spurs team were the best in the country (or should that be worst?) at gaining every possible advantage. And Lineker was a key part of that. He was constantly in the ref's ear. Spurs were a team of dirty gits under Venables. Van Den Hauwe, Fenwick, Durie, Howells, Gascoigne, Edinburgh, Samways and yes Lineker were all partial to an off the ball shove, kick or shirt pull when the ref wasn't looking. Anyone that was there will remember the match where Gurnham Singh was the ref but there were several earlier games between us & Spurs that were similar and where their gameplan seemed to be foul / injure poor old Andy Sinton and blindside the ref. Fergie's Man United watched & learned from Venables' Spurs & then took all that cheating / surrounding the ref to another level in the 90s. The only reason Lineker never got booked was because it became such a well-known thing that no ref wanted to be the first to book him.
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Opposition players you always rated on 17:29 - Jan 4 with 1094 views
Opposition players you always rated on 15:20 - Jan 4 by paulparker
Quite a lot to choose from in the 40 plus years of me going
Just off my head
Mickey Hazard Johnny metgod Scott sellers Peter Beagrie Cyril Regis Neville Southall Paul Bracewell Rod Wallace Ian Bishop Alan Devonshire Craig Bellamy Nial Quinn Kevin Sheedy
Greenford boy Alan Devonshire - another one right under our nose that we missed. Lovely player.
I need a SAGA. What’s the SAGA? It’s ….. Queen’s Park Rangers.
Matt Le Tissier, fantastically gifted footballer, one minute you'd think he was asleep the next minute he'd destroy you In a heartbeat whether at LR or the Dell I must have seen him play live a fair few few times, he looked so lethargic but that's when he was at his best. One time at the Dell we were giving him and his nose some stick and to be fair to the bloke he took It In good spirit, a few minutes later after he scored he ran down the touchline pointing at his nose with a big grin on his face, fair do's he'd done us again. Skill In abundance.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
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Opposition players you always rated on 18:51 - Jan 4 with 987 views
Mark Wright, based on one game at LR where he exerted an unprecedented gravitational pull on aerial balls that physicists to this day are unable to explain. I think he won every single header in his own half.
Somewhat similarly, Graham Kavanagh for (I think) Sunderland. Ran the midfield like it was dads v toddlers, we couldn't get near him.
The Doug played for Peterborough against the R’s in 1963, then Leicester in 1966; then for Wolves, Villa, Birmingham and he always seemed to score when playing against us.
Led the line really well. Like him a lot.
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Opposition players you always rated on 09:11 - Jan 5 with 644 views
Opposition players you always rated on 15:20 - Jan 4 by paulparker
Quite a lot to choose from in the 40 plus years of me going
Just off my head
Mickey Hazard Johnny metgod Scott sellers Peter Beagrie Cyril Regis Neville Southall Paul Bracewell Rod Wallace Ian Bishop Alan Devonshire Craig Bellamy Nial Quinn Kevin Sheedy
Hazard was the first name that sprang to my mind too.
Probably because I felt there were a couple of times when we could have matched his transfer fee; like Devonshire he felt like "one who'd got away".
I was also in the Le Tissier fan club and again when we bought Colin Clarke I wished we'd bought Le Tiss instead (though subsequent history suggests he wouldn't have wanted to move)
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Opposition players you always rated on 10:05 - Jan 5 with 543 views
Frank Worthington wonderful player sublime skill and vision. on the opposite end of the skill set scale Billy Bonds, dragged those West Ham teams forward with the considerable help of Trevor Brooking.
It might have been a one off but he showed up for Burnley in 2008, got a verbal roasting from the Ellerslie faithful and proceeded to bang in a hattrick turning 2-1 into 4-2. When he was subbed towards the end he got an ovation from all sides.
You can see him in the celebration of the first goal Shhhhh'ing R Block
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Opposition players you always rated on 22:22 - Jan 5 with 267 views
Graham Kavanagh at Stoke and Cardiff (I think?) a few decades back. At the level, the way he strolled around running the midfield and spraying it about. It was everything we lacked in a central midfielder at the time.
Ryan Woods, at Brentford, about a decade ago, was another who whenever we played Brentford used to just stand in the middle of the pitch spraying diags out to his wingers hugging the touchline, pulling us this way and that. We could never stop him . Career seems to have died a death since, mind.
Lewis Dunk and Aidan Flint were made for this league too.
I’d classify the above as all “underrated players I rated”, if that makes sense. Steered clear of the greats!
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Opposition players you always rated on 03:27 - Jan 6 with 184 views
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