Nigel Taylor very slow, and made John Cornforth look slender.
Gary Toll painfully slow striker.
Neil Price had little short chubby legs that appeared to move quite quickly, but actually didn't.
Steve Wicks short spell for us, was probably the slowest unfittested defender I've seen, Sean Price the Red head we signed from Wokingham would push him close.
Poor Old Ray Wilkins would have been one of the slowest as he got a crick in his neck watching the ball go over his head and Rob Lee was immense without leaving the centre spot much.
For forwards seem to remember Rendell and others turning slower than a battleship but we've had a whole range of geriatric strikers. Tyson seemed to get quicker as he got older. Wait til he's 50 and he can try out for the Olympics.
Good player but it was truly very sad to see the spirit being willing and the body just refusing to have any truck with it. I remember one game at AP seeing him getting the ball and by the time he had girded himself to get going...someone had just run up and taken it off his toes....
An excellent reader of the game, but I just can't get that cock-up at Luton out of my head - when he tried a 180 in his own box and gifted them a goal.
If my memory serves me correct (quite often at my age, it doesn’t) I think we signed on a player called George Cleary in the late 70s. He was a forward who was quite useful for awhile at Bedford Town. Another player who, by the time he reached us, went from 0 to 2 mph in 10 minutes. I also struggle to remember him even having a shot on goal, let alone scoring.!
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Quick quiz, which former Wycombe player has the same birthplace as Trevor Aylott?
Jordan Ibe ?
Sean Devine was from nearby Lewisham.
Was he really slower than Akinfenwa?
Certainly slower turning, but it would be an interesting 100 metre sprint between those two, in the unlikely event that either finished it.
Not a striker, but I think Darren Currie might have been slower than both
I think midfielder Nigel Taylor was the slowest midfielder I have seen, and Nigel Gray the slowest defender, both from the 80s.
Nigel Gray was like a creaky old wardrobe.
Nigel Taylor very slow, and made John Cornforth look slender.
Gary Toll painfully slow striker.
Neil Price had little short chubby legs that appeared to move quite quickly, but actually didn't.
Steve Wicks short spell for us, was probably the slowest unfittested defender I've seen, Sean Price the Red head we signed from Wokingham would push him close.
Jordan Ibe is correct
Cornforth has to be the slowest lard arse midfielder that graced Adams Park apart from Jan Molby who never left the centre circle.
Max Müller was pretty pedestrian.
Poor Old Ray Wilkins would have been one of the slowest as he got a crick in his neck watching the ball go over his head and Rob Lee was immense without leaving the centre spot much.
For forwards seem to remember Rendell and others turning slower than a battleship but we've had a whole range of geriatric strikers. Tyson seemed to get quicker as he got older. Wait til he's 50 and he can try out for the Olympics.
Sam Vokes
Love the kid in shades and green jacket. Would love it if he was a gasroomer
A young @bluntphil ?
Hmm similar cool look but don't think so. Right era mind
The green jacket lad looks like he is on the pitch. What a boy
Paul Hayes in his final few games.
Excellent leisurewear elsewhere in that pic
Dev?
Good player but it was truly very sad to see the spirit being willing and the body just refusing to have any truck with it. I remember one game at AP seeing him getting the ball and by the time he had girded himself to get going...someone had just run up and taken it off his toes....
Oliver, Westwood and Duberry could be a decent race, just from the centre back options of one season alone.
Adam El-Abd had the turning circle of the Queen Mary 2
Small ish and weak in the air, very slow. He really had to be strong in other areas to play at the level he did!
An excellent reader of the game, but I just can't get that cock-up at Luton out of my head - when he tried a 180 in his own box and gifted them a goal.
When the legs go they go. Sacrilege alert: both Gaz and Blooms looked like they were running in treacle at the end.
Not sure if the Onion Bharji was slow or not but certainly didn’t show much movement in the penalty area
Was talking about Nigel Taylor the other week. He was my 'most pointless ever Wanderer' - I don't recall him having any abilities at all.
John Cornforth - I still refer to the centre circle as the corn circle. So named, because he operated solely within its boundaries.
Jimmy Kelman strangely loved Nigel Taylor, kept picking him in a variety of positions. Once said he was the fittest man at the club.
Most of us Loakes Park regulars could not grasp what Kelman saw in Taylor.
If my memory serves me correct (quite often at my age, it doesn’t) I think we signed on a player called George Cleary in the late 70s. He was a forward who was quite useful for awhile at Bedford Town. Another player who, by the time he reached us, went from 0 to 2 mph in 10 minutes. I also struggle to remember him even having a shot on goal, let alone scoring.!
I thought Blooms was actually having a renaissance in the season he had his injury @perfidious_albion