Brighton's worst XI

[Deleted User X18H]

Phil Hadland

 

[Megazone]

Liam Dickinson can play alone upfront he was that bad. Surprised no one has mentioned him.

 

[Gwylan]

Fair enough, all I could find online was from Wiki(!) so I'll happily defer to your better info. What are your views on David Cameron (the footballer not the ham-faced incompetent PM)? I'd forgotten about him until someone mentioned him in this thread and he's definitely another worth debating.

Silky Dave? I mentioned him earlier as one of the worst I remember.

But no-one absolutely no-one - not even Ashley Neal nor Valur Gislason nor Silky Dave - was as bad as Michael Mahoney-Johnston. I've mentioned him already but words can't really describe how bad he was.

Actually the whole team that played against Donny on 14 Feb 1998 could be included - a truly, truly terrible football match, it looked something you'd see on Hackney Marshes

 

[big nuts]

McKenna
Hoyte
Tuck
Neal
Thomas
Gislarsson
Briley
Mills
Andrews
Hilton
Stapleton

6 out of the 11 played during the abysmal 97/98 season which almost seems too low, we were that bad.

Feel a bit bad picking Tuck as at least he was committed despite having zero quality.

 

[Gary1]

Mahoney - Johnson was bloody awful as was Gislason. Just remembered that CB name from the Priestfield times - Glenn Thomas

 

[Keith Patel]

Didn't Turienzo score the first ever goal in 'The Championship'?

Molango scored after 12 seconds up at Reading on the first day. Not sure if there was an early kick off on that date otherwise he holds that record.

There was an early kick off, It was (obviously) Leeds Vs Someone. I remember watching it in the concourse at the Madjeski that day, and I think Frazer Richardson scored the first goal of "The Championship" era.

I have no idea how or why I remember it so well! Think it was Leeds' first game after relegation so Sky made a big deal of it!

 

[el punal]

Willie Young

#shudder

. . . and Mick Ferguson.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Lewis was a decent player, and an important part of the team that won the 3rd division in 2002.

There are are number of names missing from the 97/98 team - our first season at Gillingham. I think that most conference teams would've torn that side a new one.

We were sooo shit that year

 

[GloryDays]

From memory I was going to say Lorenzo Pinamonte. Then I watched some videos and decided he wasn't that bad. See goals on/around 1:19 and 3:08. I don't recall any of that magic for us though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDmdmGs0t_Q

 

[grummitts gloves]

Tuck was decent until he got injured. I liked Jarret and Bertin at the time. But I'll see you a Mark Farrington and raise you a Dirk Lehmann. He was proper dog turd!!

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[Austrian Gull]

It's a game of opinions, but Harding? Bertin? Meade? Way, way better than this thread.

Smith

O'Cereal Dolan Neal Campbell

Davies L. Gislasson Moralee Jarrett A

Adekola Mahoney-Johnson

 

[Invicta]

Farrington & Tiltman have to be in the squad

 

[Skaville]

Feel a bit bad picking Tuck as at least he was committed despite having zero quality.

So you should, given that the vast majority of his games were played on cortisone injections in his groin. Bellotti and Archer wouldn't sanction an operation and he wanted to save the club. Playing on ultimately cost him his professional career but he was a highly regarded semi professional despite his injuries, showing the class he truly had.
My list would include
Ashley Neil
Glenn Thomas
Micky Bennett
Les Berry
Billy Paynter
Leon Best
Henderson
Jason Jarrett
Peake
Sami as manager






So

 

[Buzzer]

Reading this thread it seems we've been fairly lucky with keepers. Henderson is a good shout because his distribution was routinely bad, he often flapped at fresh air and he just wasn't very good but he was never awful in the same way that Dixon, Farrington, Hoyte and Best were awful. Thinking of very recent dodgy keepers, Ankergren is a guaranteed blunder or two a game but is very good at Poyet's tippy-tappy style and his distribution isn;t bad (nowhere near as good as Stockdale but still not bad) and Sexy Pete may have been prone to daydreaming and suicidal passes but his shot-stopping can't be faulted.

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Ludicrously harsh - Bertin was FAR, FAR better than any of the real shite suggested on this thread.

Poor mans Alexis Nicolas.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Reading this thread it seems we've been fairly lucky with keepers. Henderson is a good shout because his distribution was routinely bad, he often flapped at fresh air and he just wasn't very good but he was never awful in the same way that Dixon, Farrington, Hoyte and Best were awful. Thinking of very recent dodgy keepers, Ankergren is a guaranteed blunder or two a game but is very good at Poyet's tippy-tappy style and his distribution isn;t bad (nowhere near as good as Stockdale but still not bad) and Sexy Pete may have been prone to daydreaming and suicidal passes but his shot-stopping can't be faulted.

Graeme Smith was the worse keeper I've ever seen. He dived to the ground after the ball had passed him, letting in a goal that I could have saved at my age. It was like watching in slow motion.

 

[Perkino]

Chris Holroyd, a striker who turned us down before we offered him a better contract and when he signed we discovered not only was he small and weak but he also couldn't score in a competitive side.

 

[lawros left foot]

Andy 'the dog' Kennedy
As inept a striker as you will ever see

 

[Lower West Stander]

Graeme Smith
Okiba
Hoyte

All three consistently poor to shockingly awful, in their particular roles, in every single game. I remember supporters sitting in the Withdean South Stand fuming with Hoyte's play and letting him know about it.

Incredible that Spuds held onto inept Obika until he was 24, when he possessed little talent and even less application.

I was one of them.

I can never ever remember seeing a player as bad as Hoyte. It is just a mystery how anyone paid to manage a football team to put him in it.

And what was the name of that massive centre half with the long throw who played a few games at the Withdean then disappeared?

 

[Gwylan]

Andy 'the dog' Kennedy
As inept a striker as you will ever see

Do behave.

Just checked his stats: the bloke played 204 league games (most of them in the second tier, with a few in the 1st division) and scored 57 goals - that's not the record of a striker who's anywhere near inept

His record for Brighton is 10 goals in 42 games, slightly inferior to his overall record but that's really not the record of an incompetent