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He gets a lot of flack - honest question as I was too young to really judge - was he that bad, or in hindsight; is his ‘memory’ blighted by quite stiff comparators at the time (McDonald, Peacock, Yates, Maddix)?
Means diddly. It was a pretty low bar. He was up against the likes of Kulcsar and Scully remember, a pretty low point in our history although it would get lower. Our lowest league finish in over 30 years in a season we only stayed up due to the great work of Jamie Pollock. He was absolutely gash.
An example of his usual crap play here from the disastrous 95-96 season. 2-0 up early in the second half against Spurs and absolutely cruising, a typical clumsy penalty box challenge from him hands them a penalty to get them back in it, turns the game and they end up winning 3-2.
Significant that after leaving us on a free he had one season with Motherwell in the SPL and when they released him he never played higher than non league in England. He was another Coco The Clown Roberts who QPR managers had a blind spot over.
Bardsley, Sinclair, Maddix, Kennedy, Langley, and Gallen were also in that side!
Utterly useless, I could never understand how he was anywhere near the team considering the quality of the other players barring Tony fkn Roberts. If both of those were in the team together oh dear
Mind you I could never understand how Tony Roberts could ever play again after his 'debut' v Coventry on that Friday night (1-2 7,299)
Bardsley, Sinclair, Maddix, Kennedy, Langley, and Gallen were also in that side!
Bardsley was out injured most of that season and only played twelve of the last thirteen games, he wasn't the same player after his achilles injury where he'd been out nearly eighteen months and was let go at the end of that season.
Sinclair had half a season before getting his move back to the Premier League. Up till then he'd been mostly phoning it in. Certainly didn't put in the shift he did the previous season.
Maddix I'll give you but he wasn't quite the player he had been and was in decline.
Kennedy was on loan for eight games.
Langley didn't make his debut until the following season once Gerry Francis was back.
Gallen scored three times in 27 games that season.
FWIW I think Gavin Peacock should have got it although his was a tale of two different halfs of the season. Up to Christmas he'd been very good (eight goals) but his goals dried up second half as the team plummeted. Still, nine goals in thirty nine games from midfield in that awful team probably deserved POTY.
Bardsley was out injured most of that season and only played twelve of the last thirteen games, he wasn't the same player after his achilles injury where he'd been out nearly eighteen months and was let go at the end of that season.
Sinclair had half a season before getting his move back to the Premier League. Up till then he'd been mostly phoning it in. Certainly didn't put in the shift he did the previous season.
Maddix I'll give you but he wasn't quite the player he had been and was in decline.
Kennedy was on loan for eight games.
Langley didn't make his debut until the following season once Gerry Francis was back.
Gallen scored three times in 27 games that season.
FWIW I think Gavin Peacock should have got it although his was a tale of two different halfs of the season. Up to Christmas he'd been very good (eight goals) but his goals dried up second half as the team plummeted. Still, nine goals in thirty nine games from midfield in that awful team probably deserved POTY.
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Gavin Peacock then? Even Sheron? Ian Baraclough? There were 20 other players to pick from.
For what it's worth, I think he was a limited player but I think we love to demonise our own players in hindsight. Wilkins was a victim of this too.
Statistically some of the bemoaners on here must have voted for him!
Met him a couple of times, he used to drink in my mates bar in Ealing.
Seen to remember him getting into trouble in Barbados.
Yes, I had great sport with the Barbados incident. For the younger viewer - Karl sexually propositioned a local taxi driver, the man took umbrage and gave him a spanking
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