Fastest Albion player you've ever seen?

[Seagullible]

seem to remember Peter Smith was quite quick for some reason

 

[maffew]

I've only been watching since the mid-60s

bad fan

10.53 is bloody quick for a footballer

 

[Arthur]

Quite surprised 3 pages in and Bomber Canning hasn't got a mention!

We've got Bomber Bomber Canning on our wing on our wing
BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMBBBBBEEERRR BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMBBBBBEEERRR Canning Bomber Canning on our wing!

 

[BensGrandad]

A similar thread to this was started a few months ago and I think that you're all wrong.

The fastest Albion player has to be Frankie Howard, (please, no "Ooohh Missus" jokes), who, when receiving the ball, would push it 30 yards past the opposition fullback and then absolutely leave him for dead.

Any other fans who watched the Albion in the mid fifties should be able to verify this.

Frankie was like greased lightening but it appearred that Freddie Jones was faster but I may be wrong. If you saw Frankie you would also have seen Freddie no doubt.

 

[Buzzer]

I'm with lanky seagull.

Clive Flash Walker.

 

[BensGrandad]

I'm with lanky seagull.

Clive Flash Walker.

I didnt think that he was that quick barely average, and his nickname had nothing to do with his speed. A lot of players before and after him and even JR now is quicker in my opinion.

 

[Buzzer]

Jakey may be quicker, I really don't know but the Walker I remember really did have pace.

Might just be what I want to remember though but it's all subjective, I used to love watching ol' slaphead and I'm sticking with him!

 

[steward 433]

Anyinsah looked sharp Wednesday.

 

[nobody's dupe]

Frankie was like greased lightening but it appeared that Freddie Jones was faster but I may be wrong. If you saw Frankie you would also have seen Freddie no doubt.

I go with the original poster, BG. Frankie is certainly the quickest player I've ever seen play for the Albion. I agree Freddie was fast, but he didn't have the speed of the joker Frankie Howard. Frank clocked just over 10 seconds in a 100 yard athletic sprint whilst representing his forces team, and that was very very fast in the fifties.

 

[British Bulldog]

seem to remember Peter Smith was quite quick for some reason

I think it was just the length of his legs that made him look fast, They seemed to create some kind of optical illusion.

 

[Buzzer]

And probably in plimsolls too

Frankie it is then

 

[Paxton Dazo]

Wayne Gray My Lord!

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Wayne Gray My Lord!

Last call for Yeovil

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Which is why he came off the bench so often..... frightened tired defences with his speed... think after a while they realised they could leave him out there running as he really wasn't going anywhere... neither he nor his crosses. Pity. There was another player who was fast and came off the bench like Towner in the mid-early-late seventies... not Potts but someone else... who was it? I know he never made the grade but was good off the bench in 76-77 I think.

I think you could mean Gerry Fell? very quick for a big man. Whatever happened to him?

My vote for fastest asgain goes to dave Armstrong. Shame he often ran out of pitch!

 

[Spunk Bubble]

Steve Penney, when he first joined

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Been watching full time since 1988 and the quickest I have seen has to be Mark Gall.

 

[Icy Gull]

Peter Sayer

Correct answer, I think he was touted as being a (British) Olympic 100 metre prospect but chose football, at which he really was quite shit, but he was very very quick.

 

[HP Seagull]

Albert Jarret was lightning

 

[clapham_gull]

Frank Worthington

 

[dougdeep]

At Withdean, how about Rod Thomas?