[hilly81]

Spire-Power, on 16 January 2015 - 02:18 PM, said:

Destroyed by Rushbury?

I remember Algar looking decent when he first broke into the team and he looked a reasonable prospect. Seem to remember some sort of Cruyff turn in either his own or the opposition box that came off and the crowd loved but got him a real rollicking from the sidelines.

[Tha Knows...]

hilly81, on 16 January 2015 - 02:31 PM, said:

I remember Algar looking decent when he first broke into the team and he looked a reasonable prospect. Seem to remember some sort of Cruyff turn in either his own or the opposition box that came off and the crowd loved but got him a real rollicking from the sidelines.

He looked great on his debut, super turn in pen box at cross st end, not sure if he played for us again

[brianclose]

hilly81, on 16 January 2015 - 02:31 PM, said:

I remember Algar looking decent when he first broke into the team and he looked a reasonable prospect. Seem to remember some sort of Cruyff turn in either his own or the opposition box that came off and the crowd loved but got him a real rollicking from the sidelines.

Seem to remember him being a more promising version of Chris Bettney.

[Trigger]

Spire-Power, on 16 January 2015 - 02:36 PM, said:

He looked great on his debut, super turn in pen box at cross st end, not sure if he played for us again

Was that vs bury? Was excellent in that game.

[JonB]

Spire-Power, on 16 January 2015 - 02:36 PM, said:

He looked great on his debut, super turn in pen box at cross st end, not sure if he played for us again

Did ok in one of those friday night games we tried at Saltergate when we had a bit of an injury crisis i think but never really featured again. Whoever was manager then and after were slated for not playing him and then letting him go but he's never been anywhere near a football league club again!

[Wooden Spoon]

JonB, on 16 January 2015 - 02:39 PM, said:

Did ok in one of those friday night games we tried at Saltergate when we had a bit of an injury crisis i think but never really featured again. Whoever was manager then and after were slated for not playing him and then letting him go but he's never been anywhere near a football league club again!

Richardson wasn't it?

[Tha Knows...]

a kick in the balls, on 16 January 2015 - 02:43 PM, said:

Richardson wasn't it?

Yeh that figures lol

[JonB]

Spire-Power, on 16 January 2015 - 02:53 PM, said:

Yeh that figures lol

Algar hardly went on to make him regret releasing him!!

[Tha Knows...]

JonB, on 16 January 2015 - 02:54 PM, said:

Algar hardly went on to make him regret releasing him!!

true

[Goku]

Well it's hardly a shock that people at the time slated him for it, he played a game, looked very impressive (set up one of Fletcher's goals with a cross from the left side in front of the Kop if memory serves) and was then barely seen again. At the time, it made sense to question why he was suddenly removed from the team after a promising performance.

[brianclose]

Goku, on 16 January 2015 - 03:27 PM, said:

Well it's hardly a shock that people at the time slated him for it, he played a game, looked very impressive (set up one of Fletcher's goals with a cross from the left side in front of the Kop if memory serves) and was then barely seen again. At the time, it made sense to question why he was suddenly removed from the team after a promising performance.

Didn't play again until the last game of that season. Very odd.

[Mr Mercury]

Goku, on 16 January 2015 - 03:27 PM, said:

Well it's hardly a shock that people at the time slated him for it, he played a game, looked very impressive (set up one of Fletcher's goals with a cross from the left side in front of the Kop if memory serves) and was then barely seen again. At the time, it made sense to question why he was suddenly removed from the team after a promising performance.

Remember the game , and Algars performance. Wasnt something said about his poor attitude to training etc?
Apologies if Im wrong

[Goku]

possibly but id prefer to blame the bloke who failed to even get the playoffs with a strike force of lester, ward and fletcher with leven behind them.

[Bankrobber]

A better strike force & midfield than when we eventually did go up, in my humble opinion.

[lindo-spireite]

Didn't algar hit the bar with a free kick in the jpt too?

[h again]

Goku, on 16 January 2015 - 04:08 PM, said:

possibly but id prefer to blame the bloke who failed to even get the playoffs with a strike force of lester, ward and fletcher with leven behind them.

Attack, midfield and defence. Getting one right isn't too hard, getting two right is a real achievement, but getting all three needs luck as well as genius.
Our defence was dire, behind a Championship strike force and a fairly average midfield.

[lindo-spireite]

That defence was the worst I've ever seen.

[Trigger]

lindo-spireite, on 16 January 2015 - 05:43 PM, said:

That defence was the worst I've ever seen.

I don't think I could name 1 of our defenders from that season. I'll have a stab at Steve Payne? Help anyone?

[Bankrobber]

Page?

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

Goku, on 16 January 2015 - 04:08 PM, said:

possibly but id prefer to blame the bloke who failed to even get the playoffs with a strike force of lester, ward and fletcher with leven behind them.

Infact he guided us to our worst league position in the last twenty years.

Despite having one of the better budgets in the division and seeing no fewer than four rivals docked points.

Then there was the squad full of has beens, never beens and never would be's that he left.

Forty grand and a double-your-money, two and a half year gig for Martin Gritton?

On a par with Rushbury and McMenemy as one of the worst appointments in my time watching Town.

This post has been edited by MDCCCLXVI: 16 January 2015 - 07:00 PM