Memory Lane Who were the best strikers seen wearing an SUFC shirt?

[Shrimper Neil]

For sheer ability and excitement it would be Stanley followed by Freddie. However, i first went to games regularly when David Crown was the main man and he will always be up there for me as a boyhood hero.

Angell and Benji were not exactly gifted in the same way as the others mentioned but legends all the same.

 

[Firestorm]

Stan
Fred
Billy Best

are the standout 3 for me, With Garner, Guthrie, Phillips, Crown and Cadette following behind.

Whymark , Young, Walsh and Welch require caresful consideration too

 

[canveyshrimper]

Stan
Fred
Billy Best

are the standout 3 for me, With Garner, Guthrie, Phillips, Crown and Cadette following behind.

Whymark , Young, Walsh and Welch require caresful consideration too

"Whymark I've see milk turn quicker than you" - Firestorm 1984 :hilarious:

 

[Billy Best]

ulrikakakakakakaka

She deserves to be beate........................oops. Cant say that!:winking:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I'm suprised nobody's mentioned Barry Corr yet.Last seen wearing a SUFC shirt in season 2010/11.:winking:

 

[GrumpyBlue]

I'd have Bill Garner, Dave Crown or Richard Cadette ahead of Phillips & Spence.

I would agree with that and Gary Moore bubbling under :cricko:

 

[davewebbsbrain]

For 12 games at the end one season, it was Gary Jones....scored for fun and couldn't put a foot wrong. Single handedly kept us up that season.

Would never be in my top 5 though.

From my years supporting:

Stan
Freddy
Angell
Benjamin
Barnard

 

[* ORM *]

Someone said Benji brought the best out of Angell. I'd argue it was the entire team we had at the time. They truly were happy days and the most complete team I've seen. Funny how Angell and Cadette and you could argue Freddy never really cut it when they left. Contrast with Hooper and to a lesser extent the ginger ****. Unpredictable but that's what makes football fun. Take the technology out of the game. If we can't moan at refs that's half the fun gone!

 

[Gt Yarmouth Shrimper]

Someone said Benji brought the best out of Angell. I'd argue it was the entire team we had at the time. They truly were happy days and the most complete team I've seen. Funny how Angell and Cadette and you could argue Freddy never really cut it when they left. Contrast with Hooper and to a lesser extent the ginger ****. Unpredictable but that's what makes football fun. Take the technology out of the game. If we can't moan at refs that's half the fun gone!

Matt Harrold hasn't exactly ripped up any tree's since he left:hilarious:

 

[Beardoblue]

best combination has to be freddy and shaun goater.with wayne gray on the bench.that season we scored goals for fun and were league one champions.best ever season of my life.

 

[tommy tucker]

Billy best bill Stuart Brace were two of my all time greats in a Southend shirt

 

[Skyblue]

Would love to see how Billy Best would fit in and cope with todays game. He had imagination and flair and would carve deffences open ..but those were in the old days before sweepers and midfielders sitting in front of the back fours and single players up front. When you look at formations today you wonder just how anybody manages to score with all that in front of them. My best ever would be Bill Garner quite easily the best header of A ball i've ever seen and Richard cadette for his trickery. What a combination those two would have been in the same side.

 

[Bernie Friend]

Best partnerships, McDonough and Cadette, McDonough and Crown, Benji and Brett, all day long.

Whether you love or hate Big Roy, he certainly enjoyed a career of helping his sidekick to a plethora of goals, with Alan Buckley, Ian Allinson, Kevin Bremner and Steve McGavin also benefiting from his battering-ram style to plunder 20-plus a season. Can't be just a concidence!

I would love to see Big Roy play now, he would have a field day. Is Andy Carroll really £35million better, don't think so!

And if Matt Harrold managed 17 or 18 this season, the standard must be a lot poorer, as McDonough was a far better player.

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

John Gymer super sub!!!

 

[GodblessArthurRowley]

I would agree with that and Gary Moore bubbling under :cricko:

Bless you sir for mentioning Gary Moore a true goal scoring legend but also a legend of the great miss. I've seen the fellow hit the corner flag from inside the penalty area and miss when it would be easier to score.But nothing compares to his greatest triumph when standing on the goal line a corner is swung in and our hero manages to scoop the ball from under the crossbar and it arcs over the goal and into the crowd and beyond.
Old ladies fainted at the sight of it and young children where led crying from the ground. scientists are still trying to work out a mathmatical formula to explain it.
God bless you Gary a true Southend legend

 

[Billy is the best]

Bless you sir for mentioning Gary Moore a true goal scoring legend but also a legend of the great miss. I've seen the fellow hit the corner flag from inside the penalty area and miss when it would be easier to score.But nothing compares to his greatest triumph when standing on the goal line a corner is swung in and our hero manages to scoop the ball from under the crossbar and it arcs over the goal and into the crowd and beyond.
Old ladies fainted at the sight of it and young children where led crying from the ground. scientists are still trying to work out a mathmatical formula to explain it.
God bless you Gary a true Southend legend

But fair play to Gary. He then sat in the back of the net and laughed with all the other fans. That year we were scoring goals for fun.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Bless you sir for mentioning Gary Moore a true goal scoring legend but also a legend of the great miss. I've seen the fellow hit the corner flag from inside the penalty area and miss when it would be easier to score.But nothing compares to his greatest triumph when standing on the goal line a corner is swung in and our hero manages to scoop the ball from under the crossbar and it arcs over the goal and into the crowd and beyond.
Old ladies fainted at the sight of it and young children where led crying from the ground. scientists are still trying to work out a mathmatical formula to explain it.
God bless you Gary a true Southend legend

Gary was a great bloke, but he was guilty of a better miss than this. I think I've referred to it on here before. We were playing Chesterfield IIRC for some reason the Chesterfield goal was completely open, a cross came in from the right and big Gary came steaming in arm aloft celebrating the inevitable goal. He met the ball with his head, the ball proceded to loop into the North Bank and Gary intio the back of he net, which was met with roars of laughter from the faithful. :hilarious:

 

[Billy is the best]

How about Brentford away (do not know the year) when gary shot and scored a grat goal only for it to be dissalowed as the ball finished outside the net. Cue all the players pulling at the net trying to find the hole that the ball had gone through.

With Gary Moore it probably is a case of the older i am, the better he was.


But Billy Best, He was the greatest striker i have seen playing for Southend. (i never saw Sammy Mc Crory, as i suspect have most fans who post on here).

 

[Crawliano]

Alan McCormack when he went off on holiday rather than doing any work for the club. Great strike that.

 

[Napster]

Best partnerships, McDonough and Cadette, McDonough and Crown, Benji and Brett, all day long.

Whether you love or hate Big Roy, he certainly enjoyed a career of helping his sidekick to a plethora of goals, with Alan Buckley, Ian Allinson, Kevin Bremner and Steve McGavin also benefiting from his battering-ram style to plunder 20-plus a season. Can't be just a concidence!

I would love to see Big Roy play now, he would have a field day. Is Andy Carroll really £35million better, don't think so!

And if Matt Harrold managed 17 or 18 this season, the standard must be a lot poorer, as McDonough was a far better player.

It's almost like you have a book to promote.