Ex Players You Had No Idea Or Forgotten Were Once A Hornet

And from the same game, I give you Doug Allder who also only played for us once.

 

he was possibly the slowest player ever to play for us - and that is up against some pretty stiff competition

 

Wasn't Iroha the guy with bunions? Decent though if I remember right.

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yes exactly that, we even signed him knowing he had bunions!

 

You could say the same thing about Dave Woodfield, our record buy at the time £27,500 got about 70 minutes out of him (could have been less) got a career ending injury, came back after many months, completely broken, made coach (as we had to keep paying him)

 

I think the fight was with Jamie Hand!

 

Gary Fisken. Like Jamie Hand, was seen as the big breakthrough from the youth team and got decent game time (under Vialli). Seemed to contribute nothing and disappeared from view. Played a few games for Swansea and that was that.....

 

Think he played more games than Svarc !

 

Liam Henderson - if he had been any less mobile they would have started watering him

 

15 games - just checked

 

Oh yes he played more games, it was the injury on his debut I was likening to Svarc!

 

Adam Griffiths, Aussie defender. Actually went on to have a fairly decent career in Asia and Oceania.

 

And obviously left back Jure Travner, who I got far too excited about thanks to YouTube before he never played for us and got sold to St Mirren.

 

Was he a good signing ? Fair to say the Jure was out.

 

Dominic Ludden

 

Don't hear anything about left back Willie falconer... Decent player

Richard Flash

 

Yes! Pretty sure he played really well in a 3-0 home win (want to say Tranmere) during an otherwise terrible season and then promptly vanished.

 

Lionel Ainsworth

 

Willie played in midfield but was pretty versatile. Ended up playing for Boro and Celtic amongst others.

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Great one here, does anybody remember any of Carlton Palmer’s 5 appearances in 2000/01?
I know he was a favourite of GT but he didn’t exactly set The Vic alight!

 

Yes, included the Boxing Day thrashing at Craven Cottage ☠️

 

I think we’ve all tried to forget that! Maybe thats why I couldn’t remember Carlton

 

Away at Barnsley

 

Lars Melberg
Eddie Denton
Junior
Darren Caskey
Danny Rose

 

Danny Rose and Andros Townsend both of who had very undistinguished loan periods with us but both played for England!

 

If we’re going down the England route can we add Harry Kane (trials as a kid)
Jadon Sancho (youth)
Raheem Sterling (used to kick a ball about in Cassiobury Park as a kid)
Along with loanees Rose and Townsend it looks like half the England team owe it to what they learnt at Watford??

 

It was Lars Melvang. Scored on his debut vs Brentford (?) in GTs promotion season from Div 1 and that was pretty much that.

 

Les Ferdinand and Alan Devonshire

 

Tony Currie

 

Tony Currie was a phenomenal player. He joined Watford Juniors when he was released from Chelsea. He made his first team debut the following season (1967-8) and, as a 17 year old midfield player, scored 6 goals (including a hat-trick) in his first four games for Watford in the old Third Division (now Division 1). He scored a second hat-trick in his ninth game in a 7-1 win against Grimsby (for whom Graham Taylor was playing).

Jim Bonser (Watford Chairman) told Ken Furphy (the manager) that he had to choose between selling Stewart Scullion or Tony Currie to Sheffield Utd., who were in the old Division 1 (now Premier League). Furphy decided to sell Tony Currie (after only 18 games for Watford) who was rumoured to have had an attitude problem, although I do not know whether this rumour was true. Keith Eddy (Watford captain at the time) said afterwards that he told Furphy that the sale was a mistake because Currie was such an exceptional young talent. Currie had a great career at Sheffield Utd. (where Ken Furphy later became his manager) and at Leeds Utd. He also made 17 appearances and scored 3 goals for the England national side.

 

Alex Kacaniklic.

Surprisingly still only 28.