Single Worst Performance By A Bees Player
Ray Reeves? Loooong before my time, but had a few minutes spare to do some geeking. Was a legend at Reading but played just five times for us apparently.
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Ray Reeves? Loooong before my time, but had a few minutes spare to do some geeking. Was a legend at Reading but played just five times for us apparently.
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Thanks for that Streetboy - I do believe this is the player hence the very few games he played for us
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As has already been mentioned David Geddis on loan from Birmingham missing those 3 chances at ER end but also Paul Mortimer in the Anglo Italian cup final home to Derby
Horrible memories
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That unforgettable image of PM leaning down to tie up his boot whilst Kitson or Johnson or some other Derby striker was scoring a goal unchallenged
lol
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Peter Beadle...
Fat...ginger and sent off within 13 mins of his league debut for us?
Fat...ginger and sent off within 13 mins of his league debut for us?
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lol now but NOT at the time it was very :sad:
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That's the guy. As you say, only played five games for us. One was at Northampton in the 61/62 relegation season - he was up against a winger called (I think) Barry Lines who went past him for fun. Reeves was reduced at one point to grabbing him by his collar as he went past and literally throwing him into the third row of the stand. One of the more embarrassing moments of that season, out of many. We lost that game 5-0.
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I am sure that was Kitson who was doing his boots
:sad: he saw the ball in front of him scored then knelt down to finish his boots
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I am sure that was Kitson who was doing his boots
I think you're right. Never noticed it at the time but it was highlighted on TV.
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That Bradford game sticks in my mind as one of the worst ever. Aside from Rollings, I remember Danis Salman playing whilst half fit and being out paced by an ageing Terry Yorath. Also Paddy Roche had just been named player of the month and let in one of the softest goals I've seen at GP
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Reeves was a legend at Reading but was sadly well past his sell buy date when he signed for us. We seemed to have a habit of doing that - Glazier was another who comes to mind & He cost us money - £10k iirc, a lot of money in those days.
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My father and grandfather both claimed that the worst ever performance they saw was a bloke called Verdi Godwin making his debut for the reserves in, I believe, the early 50s. I think he played a few first team games but put in similar performances and disappeared from the scene. Anyone here remember him?
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I think he became a very respected scout and my memory says that he was responsible for putting Allan Mansley our way - if so he did us a big favour.
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I'll forgive him anything for that!
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Pead v Barrow, Pead at home to Rochdale last season or Pead at Peterborough?
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Do I see a recurring pattern here? How about Simon Brown at peterborough too
...........not enough time to evaluate his complete performance.................
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the only positive I took out of his performance that day was that he could kick the ball a long way.
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Some people seem to have forgotten about this and think he 'did OK' whenever he played this season.
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Some people seem to have forgotten about this and think he 'did OK' whenever he played this season.
True, but a career ending knee injury cuts him a bit of slack for being so gash IMO
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Winger called Tony Finnegan who had 1 game, can't remember who against, but was awful.
Paul Davis, Murray Jones, David Green, Joe Omigi have to be contenders as well. Think John Halls vs. Chesterfield this season is one of mine as well...
Paul Davis, Murray Jones, David Green, Joe Omigi have to be contenders as well. Think John Halls vs. Chesterfield this season is one of mine as well...
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Anybody who played in the 5-0 v Cheltenham, 6-0 v Swansea, 7-0 v Posh
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Fred Ryecraft in goal vs Bristol Rovers, 12 October 1963 in a 5-2 home defeat. One of the most inept goalkeeping performances I've ever seen.
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Some people seem to have forgotten about this and think he 'did OK' whenever he played this season.
The only games I saw him play live this season were Dagenham and Redbridge and Wycombe where he did well against Dagenham and recieved 37 votes for man of the match in the second.
https://griffinpark.org/forums/showthread.php?t=65936&highlight=match+wycombe
I didn't go to Barrow but did watch it on the tv. Fair play to those who took hoilday for it etc and saw it live, where i'm sure they got a much better insight to who played well. But for most of us in the games we saw he did do well this season as he barely played. I'm not suggesting he should of played more or that he played well at Barrow but it is a tad unfair to have a go at a few people who saw him play well twice and then never saw him again due to his knee injury.
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i seem to remember a poor performance from alan julian in the ldv game vs mk dons a few years back in the MA era on a cold rainy tuesday night at GP. looked like a rabbit caught in headlights. although the whole 'understrength' team was shocking that night!
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Anyone who played in
a) 6-0 at Swansea
b) 5-0 at Cheltenham
a) 6-0 at Swansea
b) 5-0 at Cheltenham
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Very astute was our Fred.
After that we brought Gerry Cakebread back into the team, went out and signed Dai Ward, and made a number of other changes for the midweek home fixture versus Wrexham.
We won that one 9-0!
In those days I had also watched dear old Fred play for our Juniors and Reserves many times, and, frankly, many of those performances would have qualified for the 'worst ever performance category'.He was the only Brentford goalie I know of who used to turn to the crowd behind the goal and ask "How long to go, mate?"!
Us locals used to comfort ourselves in the knowledge that Gerry Cakebread was not only consistently excellent, but was virtually indestructible.Unfortunately, even Gerry had injuries etc that finally caught up with him and Fred was called upon for first-team duty, where his deficiencies were more damaging.Sadly, several of his first-team games would also have vied with that performance against Bristol Rovers, though he was surprrisingly agile for such a big fella.
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Paul Brooker vs Bristol City in the Carling cup a couple of years ago when he had a strop and started arguing with Terry Butcher, completely ignoring the ball landing 5 yards away from him -JOKE!!
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Although coming on as a sub, Callum Willock must have been a contender for looking so out of his depth, particularly with his infamous 'air shot' that somehow gained us a penalty.
2005/6. I think it was the Barnsley home match.
The rest of the side purred like a Rolls Royce that day.
Poor old Callum was more like a clapped out Smart Car...
2005/6. I think it was the Barnsley home match.
The rest of the side purred like a Rolls Royce that day.
Poor old Callum was more like a clapped out Smart Car...
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Although coming on as a sub, Callum Willock must have been a contender for looking so out of his depth, particularly with his infamous 'air shot' that somehow gained us a penalty.
2005/6. I think it was the Barnsley home match.
The rest of the side purred like a Rolls Royce that day.
Poor old Callum was more like a clapped out Smart Car...
Harsh Geoff, surely that was one of the Pillock's better performances?lol
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Add Shipperley to that list; never seen three strikers do so little running.
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anyone who played in the 4-0 boxing day loss at the hands of millwall. 2006- 07
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Yes, NLB, Upon reflection, perhaps that was one of Pillock's better performances.
The fact that it is still a close contender for the 'worst BFC performance' speaks volumes for the bloke!lol
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Any one remember Alan Nelmes in the 70's??
Can only recall one good performance (V Exeter City) and I think he scored a beauty in a 5-0 home win.
Can only recall one good performance (V Exeter City) and I think he scored a beauty in a 5-0 home win.
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Yes, mate.I do.
Although I often eulogise about players from that era, I cannot honestly do so about Nellie, though I concede that he did have a good season in 1971/72 when he played in all 46 games in a promotion winning season from Division Four.
Although always an honest trier, I believe he was very fortunate to have played a large number of games for the club. I recollect that he also had the good luck to have had a great testimonial season, when the late Eric White, plus others, put in a huge amount of work on his behalf in season 1977/78( some seasons after he retired). We again won promotion from the old Fourth Division , plus Chelsea agreed to visit us , in May 1978 for his testimonial, and hence he had a bumper attendance for that match, which was preceded by a match involving a host of former Bees legends, including the great Gerry Cakebread. Chelsea thumped us, though, by 8-2, and I believe I am right in saying that Nellie glanced home a flying header-into his own net!
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He scored as an emergency centre forward at Notts County and also a late equaliser against S****horpe at GP when a young K. Keegan played. He made a slow start at GP but settled into a competent CB although it did help having Peter Gelson alongside him. Got a snorting OG in the mad 6-4 against York. NLB and myself are founder members of his fan club and will not hear a word said against him.
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I too have fond memories of "Nellie," who my dad used to call, somewhat sarcastically, "The Junior Bobby Moore." He grew into a very solid player and fully earned his testimonial where, completely characteristically, he scored an own goal. Sign me up for membership in the fan club.
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Plymouth away a few years ago was pretty bad-the whole back three (yes i know!) that day were pretty awful:Frampton and Somner were two of them I think.
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Spider look like Bambi on Ice when he joined us but developed into a pretty solid player. The Bees on TV DVD shows one of his performances & he was pretty effective - not Bobby Moore but a solid 4th Division player. Similar to Gus Hurdle, he didn't 'look' the part, but both of these players did a good job for us.
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Should have been a striker, he was deadly in the six yard box. Unfortunately usually at the wrong end.
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Always amazed me old Paddy, could make a point blank double save then let one trickle between his legs from 45 yards....utter sh*te!!!
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i dont like this thread.....it gives me far to many options!!!! its like pondering the meaning of life....what really was the 'sh*tiest performance' i have ever seen!!!!
(cue: look into the distance whilst rubbing chin all philisophical like).
(cue: look into the distance whilst rubbing chin all philisophical like).
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Always amazed me old Paddy, could make a point blank double save then let one trickle between his legs from 45 yards....utter sh*te!!!
Played a blinder in the 1-1 draw with Portsmouth, terrific atmosphere that day, then fumbled a shot for an easy tap-in equaliser.I think he got hit by a missile that game as well. We have had some crap keepers over the years though so Paddy would be nowhere near the worst.