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Whats the worst ever performance you have seen from a Saints player?

Recency bias, and assuming Jankewitz cameo doesnt even count as a performance but I will start with Charlie Austin away at Fulham in the 3-2 defeat. Have never seen less effort from a pro, was embarassing.

Remember some shockers from Gazzaniga too...and Alan Bennett and Olly Lancashire a bit further back.

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Crikey, there have been many. But one which has always stuck in my mind as a recurring nightmare was Alan Bennett at home to Palace in 2007. 

Hoedt away at Fulham in 2018, absolute shambles. He was an embarrassment.

Oliver Barnard in any of the games he played for us, he didn't know where a left back was meant to be.

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1 hour ago, Dusic said:

Whats the worst ever performance you have seen from a Saints player?

Recency bias, and assuming Jankewitz cameo doesnt even count as a performance but I will start with Charlie Austin away at Fulham in the 3-2 defeat. Have never seen less effort from a pro, was embarassing.

Remember some shockers from Gazzaniga too...and Alan Bennett and Olly Lancashire a bit further back.

Oh dear! What a thoroughly depressing post. Cheer up for goodness sake Dusic. Remember the good ones not the bad - glass half full!

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44 minutes ago, danjosaint said:

Lemina v chelsea

Agreed. Wembley cup semi final, live on tv, biggest stage possible, and the useless Lemina strolled around in a way that I don’t think could have said “I don’t give a f*ck” more clearly.

Useless oxygen thief whose ego was massively greater than his ability shown with Saints…😡

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God, there has been many over the years. Some very mediocre players not even showing any effort. 

But I have to go with Bart Bialkowski.

This guy was a good number two. Always filled in well. Never moaned.

Then, as we approached an absolutely amazing period in our history, the chance to go a whole calendar year undefeated at home in the league. 

Step up the no armed goal keeper, who seemingly couldn't possibly use his hands to save any shots at goal. 

Fuck knows what was said to him before this game that lead to that performance, but is was bizarre. 

I'm still baffled, right now. 

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despite there being so many, the answer is of course Steve Baker.

But for flavour, the McQuashie abomination at QPR, Ian Andrews, also away at QPR and the Hungerford fat lad's display away at Fulham all deserve a mention. 

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1 hour ago, tunit said:

Crazy to think because of how good he's been since but Mane in the cup against a league 1 Sheffield United

In a similar vein, I'd like to throw in Schneiderlin's display away at Bristol City many moons ago. Pathetic limp performance where he showed no strength, bottle or fight. I never thought he would become the player he did after seeng that display. 

I'm hoping I am equally wrong about Smallbone, who to date has been just as passive. Young players often need time to blossom.

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Steven Caulker against Liverpool in the League Cup back in Koeman’s day.

Apart from the fact he couldn’t run, he couldn’t turn, he couldn’t mark anyone……

Honourable mentions for Lee Todd in any game he played and Bennett home to Palace

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Paul Wotton missing 2 penalties in one game deserves a mention. Can't remember if he was terrible for the rest of the match but he was never better than painfully average in any match I saw.

Phil Warner against Arsenal is another terrible performance, although a bit unfair because he was young and massively inexperienced up against some world class players.

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25 minutes ago, beatlesaint said:

Steven Caulker against Liverpool in the League Cup back in Koeman’s day.

Apart from the fact he couldn’t run, he couldn’t turn, he couldn’t mark anyone……

Honourable mentions for Lee Todd in any game he played and Bennett home to Palace

Didn't Liverpool actually sign him shortly after that game?

They used him as a supersub striker weirdly.

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16 minutes ago, LiberalCommunist said:

Sent off incorrectly. Later rescinded. Penalty awarded incorrectly. 

Holy grail of inaccurate posts..........

Why was the penalty awarded incorrectly? It stood. 
 

How about the own goal? 
 

Seem to remember Kelvin Davis having a nightmare at home to QPR in 2006, made a couple of errors, the late Ray Jones scored. 
 

Leon Best against Derby in the playoff semi final at Pride Park stands out too. 

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17 minutes ago, Pilchards said:

Oscar Goburn vs Bournemouth.

Anyone of us could of played better than him that day but I will add that was some red card he got :D

 

went into Saints folklore with that challenge.

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3 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

Crikey, there have been many. But one which has always stuck in my mind as a recurring nightmare was Alan Bennett at home to Palace in 2007. 

Hoedt away at Fulham in 2018, absolute shambles. He was an embarrassment.

Oliver Barnard in any of the games he played for us, he didn't know where a left back was meant to be.

Was Bennett the loan signing who had a shocker on debut at home at the start of the season?

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2 minutes ago, egg said:

Was Bennett the loan signing who had a shocker on debut at home at the start of the season?

That's the one. We got him on loan from Reading for 6 months, we'd just lost Baird and Claus too and that was one hell of a regression.

We did blurt £1m on Wayne Thomas that window as well.

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9 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

That's the one. We got him on loan from Reading for 6 months, we'd just lost Baird and Claus too and that was one hell of a regression.

We did blurt £1m on Wayne Thomas that window as well.

Cheers. That was up there with the worse performances I've ever seen. Looked like a Wessex league player, at best.

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As mentioned, Alan Bennett v Palace was an absolute moment of reality of how bad we might be that season. I was in a private box for the match at St Mary’s with my pals, a fairly even saints and palace split between us. Watching Alan Bennett get outpaced by James bloody Scowcroft to score, then see Scowcroft score a hattrick, was humbling.

David Speedie was an embarrassment on the pitch for saints and a complete cunt to boot, so any of his low number of “performances”. Thankfully I’ve purged most from my memory.

Ali Dia lives on in memory. I’m still amazed at the ineptitude of Graeme Souness to actually bring him on, shocking managerial decision and Souness doesn’t get called up it enough for how terrible a managerial choice it was after seeing Dia in training for a few days previous.

And spare a thought for Keith Granger, bless him. Called up from the youth team when the season was dead and we were safe but had no goalkeepers. We got spanked. Twice.

But for me the champ is any of the games that Paul Moody played in. Just completely and utterly awful.and so far out of his depth it was a bit cruel, he knew and we knew it. And so, deep down, did Branny Branfoot.

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30 minutes ago, Appy said:

Leon Best against Derby in the playoff semi final at Pride Park stands out too. 

Another shout for this one. He had a shocker and it was s bizarre OG he scored. Then watching him step up to take the first pen in the shootout, I just knew we were toast.

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I too will go Bennet Vs Palace, he somehow made Shefti Kuchi look like Ronaldo in his prime that day. Honourable mentions go to Lundekvam against Portsmouth, Olly Lancashire away at QPR (I saw that red coming a mile off) and Boric against Arsenal when he tried to dribble pass Giroud twice (to be fair he was normally decent). I’d also put the ‘erratic’ performance of Grobellar away at City down but think that falls into a different bracket.

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Anyone that was unlucky enough to witness some of the defensive displays by Patrick Colleter will have seen some pretty atrocious individual performances.

Im still scarred by my one trip to St James Park where I got there a couple of minutes late and we were already 2-0 down. He got hauled off at half time he was so shit.

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1 minute ago, bpsaint said:

Anyone that was unlucky enough to witness some of the defensive displays by Patrick Colleter will have seen some pretty atrocious individual performances.

Im still scarred by my one trip to St James Park where I got there a couple of minutes late and we were already 2-0 down. He got hauled off at half time he was so shit.

I wasn’t at the game but listening on the radio, I heard the commentator describing how Colleter went down under a “challenge” and Saints players were berating him and telling him to get up.

Different times.

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3 minutes ago, The Kraken said:

I wasn’t at the game but listening on the radio, I heard the commentator describing how Colleter went down under a “challenge” and Saints players were berating him and telling him to get up.

Different times.

He was shocking. Will never forget it, at that point it was only my second ever away game and having only been to The Dell I was overawed by the size of SJP. Finally climbed all those stairs to the away section to step out and see us already 2-0 down thinking well that was a waste of time.

Think it was the following year I went back and the game got called off when we’d already arrived in Newcastle due to snow. Haven’t bothered trying to make that trip again, fuck that.

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Thierry Small v Coventry last season.

Yes it was his debut, yes he has potential, fingers crossed he will get better but to have four or five players proper laying into you for being crap, out of position and weak within the opening fifteen minutes of a game against a mid table Championship side must’ve been one hell of an eye opener for him 😅

Subbed off for Stu McArmstrong at HT who went on to score a thunderbastard of a goal.

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30 minutes ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

Yes it was his debut, yes he has potential, fingers crossed he will get better but to have four or five players proper laying into you for being crap, out of position and weak within the opening fifteen minutes of a game against a mid table Championship side must’ve been one hell of an eye opener for him 😅

Yep wasn't pretty but to be fair to him the whole team was utter gash that half.

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10 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

 

We did blurt £1m on Wayne Thomas that window as well.

Whoever was involved in that panic buy should have been sacked a few weeks into the season. Up there with the Carrillo signing in terms of scouting.

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Scott Marshall a centre back signed from Arsenal in the mid 90s for a fair amount of money at the time- Played for us twice lost the first game 3-0, he scored and own goal, his next and final game we lost 4-0 and he scored an own goal in that too. He never played for us again

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12 minutes ago, Chez said:

Whoever was involved in that panic buy should have been sacked a few weeks into the season. Up there with the Carrillo signing in terms of scouting.

I think the story was at the time that the selling club (Burnley?) Would have taken less than half what we paid. Absolutely terrible signing.

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Calumn Davenport at home to Villa 2005 relegation season, Came on at half time with us 2-0 up, was absolutely woeful as we somehow managed to lose 3-2. 

Another game where we let a lead slip, the worst that season being 2-0 going into injury time at home to Boro and drawing 2-2.

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11 hours ago, The Cat said:

Paul Wotton missing 2 penalties in one game deserves a mention. Can't remember if he was terrible for the rest of the match but he was never better than painfully average in any match I saw.

Paul Wotton's best was pretty much everyone else's worst. Never fault him for effort though, just ability to play football. Almost became a cult hero at the Brentford game. "Paul Wotton football genius...." 

There's perhaps three categories here.

1. had a mare, made mistakes, possibly went out on the lash the night before

2. had a mare, made zero effort, probably went out on the lash the night before

3. had a mare, but was shit full stop and way out of their depth, possibly always on the lash, but if they weren't, they may as well have been. 

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4 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Calumn Davenport at home to Villa 2005 relegation season, Came on at half time with us 2-0 up, was absolutely woeful as we somehow managed to lose 3-2. 

Another game where we let a lead slip, the worst that season being 2-0 going into injury time at home to Boro and drawing 2-2.

I love this type of thread. We all get to remember the good times.

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