Best and Worst Albion Player You Ever Saw

[Lenny Rider]

Mark Lawrenson is without doubt the best player to ever play for the club.

Worst one, has to be Ashley Neal, although Glenn Thomas did give him a run for his money.

 

[Napier's Knee]

Another one for:
Best - Lawrenson by a country mile
Worst - Ashley Neal

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Best - Vicente just then Gotsmanov
Worst - Ashley Neale but Leon Best runs him close.

 

[Miximate]

Best : Lawro

Worst: Kemy

 

[Two Professors]

Best : Joe Corrigan

Worst : O'Gravy (sorry)

 

[ManOfSussex]

Best: Vicente
Worst: Best

 

[Weststander]

Best - Vicente

Perhaps not the Worst ever (But awful and no one has mentioned) - Ryan Harley

Ryan Harley was the most scared of opponents and his own shadow. Should have been a ballerina.

 

[Weststander]

Vicente

Obika- an absolute joke

Ohika was hopeless at football. Incredible that deluded Spuds held on to this 'talent' until his early 20's!

 

[Weststander]

Maybe I'm looking back on him harshly but I only ever saw him play a handful of times and he never impressed me. I could well be confusing him with Joe Gatting.... Saying that, they were both better than Holroyd so maybe I was a little hasty

I forgot about Holroyd. Couldn't score in a brothel.

 

[Murray 17]

I think Knockaert is good, but if he was as good as Lawrenson or Vicente, he wouldn't be playing for us!

Best, that I've seen- Vicente.
Worst: Anyone from that first year at Gillingham.

 

[wigman]

Best Lawrenson.


Worst Les Berry.

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

Best - Bobby Zamora
Worst - Glen Murray

 

[withdeanwombat]

Peter Ward was the best I saw.

McCammon was the worst outfield player, but goalkeeper. Graeme Smith was laughably poor.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Your club’s worst player... EVER! As voted for by the fans.



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The striker arrived at the Albion on loan from QPR, playing a grand total of four games. Those four games ended 0-0, 0-2, 0-0 and 0-0
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Not seen this anywhere else

 

[DJ NOBO]

Worst: Billy Paynter . Leon Best highly commended.
Best : Antony Knockaert. Bobby Zamora highly commended.

 

[drew]

I think Knockaert is good, but if he was as good as Lawrenson or Vicente, he wouldn't be playing for us!

Best, that I've seen- Vicente.
Worst: Anyone from that first year at Gillingham.

Lawrenson played for us for four years, two of which were in the old second division!! We go up then Knockaert will be the same so I don't understand your comment.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Best: Peter Ward, with an honourable mention for Jimmy Case

Worst. . . . well I think last time I posted on the thread I picked someone from the Gillingham era who played only 3 games. I think, to be fair, it needs to be someone who played at least 20 times for the club. So I'm now going to plump for . . . . Alan Duffy (50 games - how).

 

[Murray 17]

Lawrenson played for us for four years, two of which were in the old second division!! We go up then Knockaert will be the same so I don't understand your comment.

Lawrenson signed for us as a 20 year old, having played for Preston for a couple of years in the lower leagues. He was a talented player who was at the very beginning of his career.

Knochaert is 25. He's played for Leicester in the Championship, but just 9 times in the Premier League. I know the story about them offering him a new contract, etc.

Don't get me wrong, he's a good player, and will probably do well in the Premier League (despite his form being hot and cold).

However, Lawrenson was a world-class player who performed week in, week out, and unless AK makes a huge step up he's nowhere near that, and at the age of 25 is nearing his peak.

I'd be absolutely amazed if AK gets anywhere near the level and consistency of Lawrenson.

 

[Blue3]

Best: Vicente, but being closely pushed by Knocky at the moment.

Worst: Andy Ansah, would've made Mark McCammon look like Ronaldo if they played along side each other.

Agree Vicente as the best he was so gifted but best is so subjective if you were judging it on not just ability but included number of games played over a given period and impact on the team and end results while at the Albion then Vicente falls a long way down the list and above him I would put Peter Ward, Bobby Zamora, Gary Nelson and many others above him.

Worst: Andy Ansah cannot argue with that

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Again, to be fair, its hard to label a player our worst if they hardly ever played. In fact we clearly have even worse players who played even less or not at all. For years we had some bloke called Flood who was a perennial sub. He can't have been any good. So there ought to be a threhsould number of appearances threshold.

As for best, I get why people say Vicente, but he was almost permanently crocked and had, what, 3 fabulous games, and the one when he did those worldy runs? Yes I creamed my jeans, but there is a big difference between a 30 second knee-trembler and lifetime of bliss . . . . so for me, Vicente is OUT.