Nominate your worst Port Vale strikers

[TJHValiant]

On 28/04/2020 at 13:52, Joe B said:

Simply has to be Reggie.

I took 5 Uni friends to our game away to Coventry; we got the train from Brum to the Ricoh and sat in a 95% empty stadium as the Vale crumbled to a 2-1 defeat.

My friends were English, French, Malaysian, male, female, football nuts and novices, fans of Manchester United, Lincoln City, and Bolton Wanderers.

They were unanimous in that Rigino Cicilia was THE worst professional footballer they had ever seen in their life. It was comical.

Martin Paterson, Danny Glover, and Tobias Mikkaelson get the Champions League places.

Tyrone Barnett was quite poor too.

Whilst Hooper was a bottlejob there was undoubted talent, just a woeful attitude. Gall was poor but I saw his debut away at Macc (?) and thought he looked rather tasty. Calvin Andrew was never a striker but was a promotion winner with 22 games that year, and has carved out a very decent (if profligate) League 1 career since, so I personally wouldn't include him.

It feels harsh but the entire saga of Carlos 'I've seen him on Youtube and he will take League 1 by storm' Saleiro is worth a mention; arrived overweight, played in a loss away at Carlisle in the JPT, went home, and retired at 30, 5 years removed from playing 39 games for a massive club like Sporting Lisbon.

He was pretty awful in the Cov game but was actually ok in a few home ones. Admittedly far from great but not the worst ever

[TJHValiant]

10 hours ago, JRC said:

From the 70's -

Derek Brownbill played a lot of games to little effect

John Allen big but pretty useless

John Frogatt - why did we pay a fee and how did we get some of the money back!

1980s

Les Lawrence - always looked ok at Torquay did nothing for us, not sure if he played 10 games

1990s

Marcus Bent - a bit like Ricky Miller a good player who never justified his fee for us and looked disinterested in being at Vale. I suspect he was a negative influence in the dressing room. Poor signing with hindsight, not helped by sacking Rudge as soon as we signed him. Maybe if we'd kept Rudge!

2000s

Simon Eldershaw - always looked too lightweight

2010s

Achille Campion - everyone's favorite until they saw him play

Last season

Scott Quigley - didn't do much

Ricky Miller - for the fee we paid got pretty much the same goals return as big Reggie. Not the worst forward but his overall behaviour was negative for the team I suspect. With hindsight a poor signing.

The others I could think of have been mentioned.

Scott Quigley was dire when he did play but didn’t play enough to give me enough bad memories. Heard he was on a rather decent wage too...