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[roytonmike]

Some notably dreadful players would be:
GK:  Wayne Baker, Nick Stephens
Defenders:  Dave Swannick, Greg Challender
Midfield:  Brian Croft, Steve Carroll,
Attack:  Chris Young, Michael Twiss,

Few there from the dark Unibond days of early 2000's. Was that team of 2002/3 arguably the worst Altrincham side ever? In terms of league placing I think it is.

If you were to say 'the worst ... in recent times' I might go along with you, but historically Alty were twice bottom of the Cheshire League & finished next to bottom twice. That's pretty poor. In my watching time the Les Rigby side of 1975-6 would take a lot of beating in the Useless Stakes - when you read the names of John Wood, the so-called goalkeeper & Dave Furnivall, a real liability of a centre-forward in some of these selections that's the time they came from. Thank God I was in my last year at Uni & saw relatively little of Rigby's Disasters!

[SW]

I've distanced myself a bit from this thread on compassionate grounds for those who might read it but finally the name Dave Furnival appears, even as a youngster I could see how totally useless and slow he was, he had the turning circle of the QE2 and the speed of a sleeping dog.

[Leon]

1. lee spencer
2. a strange brother  forgot there names but they were awful
3. andy  lee
4. marc josphe
5. karl munroe
6. Darren royle
7. danny Heffernan
8. lutel james
9. Mcailsky
10. steve pennington
11. Justin bowler

Hash you have a different memory of andy lee to me I thought he was a very good right back also very harsh on Munro

Incredibly harsh on Munroe.

It depends whether you're picking players based on their average level of performance or on a period of exceptional awfulness. Munroe did ok for a while with Stephen Rose but he was also hellishly bad at times. Munroe at his worst alongside Joseph at his worst is the central defensive partnership of our collective nightmares.

[taxi Phil]

I have to confess that I'd forgotten all about Dave Furnivall. He scored shedloads for Lancaster before we had him, but turned out to be unable to even find our banjo, let alone wallop the cow's arse.

Almost as bad was Eric Shreeve, who arrived from South Liverpool with an outstanding goalscoring record, couldn't reproduce it for us, and ended up being released after a long term injury throughout which we were paying his wages and medical fees.

[RocketDan]

Twiss is in most people teams we have had worse but the problem was his 2 year contract and his probable high wages and lack of effort and fitness

Twiss turned up preseason two stone over weight, and left 2 years later about three stone over weight.

As shocking as Ryan Brooke was, at least he tried, and was by all accounts a top lad in the dressing room.

Also I've Peter Thompson was terrible.

[catherinestreet]

Has nobody mentioned Collings yet?!

Dreadful keeper every time I saw him. I loved it. 😄

[Jimmy]

Fair keeper most of the time also the keeper in the best side we have had in the last 20 odd years

[taxi Phil]

Has nobody mentioned Collings yet?!

Dreadful keeper every time I saw him. I loved it.

If you thought that about Collings, you obviously never saw Wood, Frankish, or Schofield.....though they may have been before your time. Or Dick "Teflon" Johnson.

[Nom de plume]

Is there any room for Andy Scott in anyone's team?

Joined in 2007 and was dumped when we won the AGM Cup. Truly awful.

[bighairedmike]

Is there any room for Andy Scott in anyone's team?

Joined in 2007 and was dumped when we won the AGM Cup. Truly awful.

He's my first choice left back. I hear Cult still wakes up in a cold sweat after nightmares about one of his "back passes".

[Nom de plume]

Is there any room for Andy Scott in anyone's team?

Joined in 2007 and was dumped when we won the AGM Cup. Truly awful.

He's my first choice left back. I hear Cult still wakes up in a cold sweat after nightmares about one of his "back passes".

Sorry, didn't spot that. Yes, the stuff of nightmares.

[Hale Alty]

Peter Stanier in goal.

[MadFrankie]

Peter Stanier in goal.

Baywatch....did he ever play a first team game?

[roytonmike]

Peter Stanier in goal.

Baywatch....did he ever play a first team game?

Nope.

[bighairedmike]

Is there any room for Andy Scott in anyone's team?

Joined in 2007 and was dumped when we won the AGM Cup. Truly awful.

He's my first choice left back. I hear Cult still wakes up in a cold sweat after nightmares about one of his "back passes".

Sorry, didn't spot that. Yes, the stuff of nightmares.

No worries, I haven't done mine yet, I get to the left wing position and have a nervous breakdown. Somebody above has mentioned him though.