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Dean Clark - why didn't he make it given his ability- discuss!!
Was he another Paul Walker?
Was he another Paul Walker?
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Brain-dead Bee
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Dean Clark
Don't think he was quite in that class: as a player or as a waster. Walker looked to have the potential to be the best home grown player I've seen in 40+ years watching the Bees, but let himself go completely. Clark showed some promise but didn't play enough to prove whether he was good enough and has, I think, just slid down the non-league clubs since
Bee H
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Dean Clark
From memory, I think the Club weren't impressed with a supposed lack of dedication/desire to the cause etc., and they duly released him.
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bigmac
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Dean Clark
Hayes and Uxbridge, Northwood too i believe. Played for my sunday side last season.
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So my Paul Walker analogy is not too far off the mark then.
He was scoring goals for fun a couple of seasons ago from midfield and some league/conference teams were apparently watching him but nothing transpired
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hanworthbee
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Brentford Bob
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Edmundo
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Dean Clark
Given what he has done since, I think the club has been proved right, don't you? When did we last make a serious mistake in this regard, ie letting go a junior who turned out to be a good player at our level or above?
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True
Kelly Haag, Fielwick, Traynor, Blackman, Hughes, Julian. None have come back to haunt us. I did like Hughes but he never developed. Julian could still make it but I doubt it.
Wise old Bee
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Clark never had the opportunities that Walker had so you can hardly compare the two on performances for us. I can't remember much about him other than he looked a bit like Rodney from "Fools & Horses". Walker was an England schoolboy international, I believe, who was going nowhere under Dodgin but Callaghan gave him a decent run in the side when he rebuilt the team in the early 80s. He turned in some good performances for a while but, for whatever reason, couldn't sustain it which was a shame because he could have achieved more than he did. Remember the goal he scored at Walsall when the highlights were televised? The ball was rolled to him from a corner and he hit it like a shell from the corner of the penalty area.
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bigmac
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Nah, he didn't go to our school. It was Mark McCammon who was in the year above us, and he was rubbish then.........still he hasn't got any better has he.
rebus
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bigmac
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What school did you go to?
Uxbridge High School - its fitting that McCammon ended up as a Supermarket Trolley, because most of the people that went to that school have probably ended up working in Supermarkets
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Uxbridge High School - its fitting that McCammon ended up as a Supermarket Trolley, because most of the people that went to that school have probably ended up working in Supermarkets
lol
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Uxbridge High School - its fitting that McCammon ended up as a Supermarket Trolley, because most of the people that went to that school have probably ended up working in Supermarkets
Dirty bastard Ben Thatcher went there too!!!
bigmac
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Dean Clark
Oh your talking about Nathan Clarke, who didn't play football outside of school, even though he was sh*t hot. He was a really good player. Lee Tunnell was in the year below us was at the Bee's in the youth team, but last I heard he now plays at Uxbridge.
Yeah Thatcher did go there think we missed him by a year though, the dirty swine!!
Russell
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Dean Clark
Micky Adams said at one of the "Evenings with..." if you could get Charlie Oatway's attitude and committment into Dean Clarke you'd have a fantastic player. MA reckoned Clarke had all the ability but questioned his desire to be a pro footballer. Sure, Clarke had all the technical attributes but everytime I saw him he was coming out of the chip shop stuffing his face.
Walker, not unlike far more illustrious footballers had, it's been said, a "refuelling" problem. He had more opportunities than Clarke at Brentford and played a key role in saving us from relegation when Fred Callaghan took over from Bill Dodgin and then at the start of the following season. He then seemed to lose his way and sank pretty much with a trace. I wonder if the presence of Barry Silkman was a bad influence?
Anyway, both could've been someone, both pissed their talent up the wall. What a shame.
Walker, not unlike far more illustrious footballers had, it's been said, a "refuelling" problem. He had more opportunities than Clarke at Brentford and played a key role in saving us from relegation when Fred Callaghan took over from Bill Dodgin and then at the start of the following season. He then seemed to lose his way and sank pretty much with a trace. I wonder if the presence of Barry Silkman was a bad influence?
Anyway, both could've been someone, both pissed their talent up the wall. What a shame.
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Dean Clark
nicked from the Northwood FC web-site ;
Dean Clark moves on
Dean Clark, golden boot winner at Northwood for the past two seasons, has left the club and joined Wealdstone today. The popular 26-year-old has scored 42 goals in 87 matches in two spells with the Woods and has been a crowd favourite over the years. His goalscoring form has dipped in recent weeks but he is still joint top scorer this season with four in fourteen games and also bagged half a dozen in pre-season. He leaves for tenants Wealdstone with the best wishes of all at the club.
Dean Clark moves on
Dean Clark, golden boot winner at Northwood for the past two seasons, has left the club and joined Wealdstone today. The popular 26-year-old has scored 42 goals in 87 matches in two spells with the Woods and has been a crowd favourite over the years. His goalscoring form has dipped in recent weeks but he is still joint top scorer this season with four in fourteen games and also bagged half a dozen in pre-season. He leaves for tenants Wealdstone with the best wishes of all at the club.
Bee H
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Now at Northwood ;
Lee was signed from Uxbridge in July 2006, after having enjoyed many successful years at Honeycroft, scoring over 100 goals in around 300 appearances.
He has also played for Brentford and Chertsey Town
NORTHWOOD RECORD (as at 3 November 2006)
Games: 12
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Dean Clark
Walker played a bit in our promotion of 77-78 didn't he. Can hardly remember. I do however remember him being really fat at one stage, not just tubby like gazza or micky quinn, but actually lardy and flabby like matt lucas out of little britain. He would never get selected nowadays!
He was from slough and a few of my friends saw him in a pub in cippenham where he had 2 pints before driving to GP to play in an fa cup game. Not being bees fans they remember the incident far more than who we were playing. To be the captain of england schoolboys, a team that included the likes of clive allen, you have to say he thought he was untouchable and pi55ed it well and truly up the wall!
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He was very small and had the worst acne ever but he was some footballer at 15/16 and seen as Brentfords one for the future with highre clubs all interested in him. Unfortunately like so many others over the years with real ability, not sure why but sadly he didn't fufil his potential.
Not sure whether he didn't have the right support behind him and unsure about his refuelling habits but he always struggled with his weight. By the time he did play for the first team he was already nowhere near the footballer he had looked less than 2 years before. Anyone know what he ended up doing and who else he played for?
Not sure whether he didn't have the right support behind him and unsure about his refuelling habits but he always struggled with his weight. By the time he did play for the first team he was already nowhere near the footballer he had looked less than 2 years before. Anyone know what he ended up doing and who else he played for?
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Dean Clark
Played in South Africa after leaving the Bees.
Saw him in the bar, all tracksuited up downing a pint, at half time in a mid season friendly at Slough Town early in Callaghan's reign. He came on in the second half.