Disliked Saints Players

[beatlesaint]

Nathan Redmond - arrogant looking little twerp, blamed everyone including the tea lady when a pass went astray.

Jack Stephens

David Speedie

Mark Hughes

Olivier Bernard

Danny Fox

Lee Todd

Stewart Ripley

[Marsdinho]

On 22/06/2025 at 15:50, StrangelyBrown said:

Paul Telfer - the most bang average footballer of all time

Telfer never put in a 9 or 10 out of 10 performance, but he also never put in a 4 or 5 out of 10 performance. Bang average was he forte. 

Cant believe weve got this far without anyone mentioning Matt Le Tissier. Idolised him during his playing career, now strongly dislike him for his recent views. Massive bell end.

[Patches O Houlihan]

On 25/06/2025 at 11:55, Gloucester Saint said:

Good question - is a player more dislikable for not being able to do what the club signed them to do for good money and wages - Wesley Hoedt, David Lee, Lee Todd, Gavin Bazunu, Guido Carrillo - when they are clearly ability-wise League One players (Hoedt probably Championship tbf but never PL in a million years) or is that the manager, DoF and club scouts who should take the flak and it isn’t the players’ fault?

Or are the players who are plenty good enough and have a dreadful attitude - Osvaldo, Lemina - the ones we should really dislike? 

I think we should note that Hoedt falls very easily into both these groups... monumental bell end.

For me attitude is the cruicial one, otherwise you'd end up hating half the team for the last 8 years

[Patches O Houlihan]

On 25/06/2025 at 11:55, Gloucester Saint said:

Good question - is a player more dislikable for not being able to do what the club signed them to do for good money and wages - Wesley Hoedt, David Lee, Lee Todd, Gavin Bazunu, Guido Carrillo - when they are clearly ability-wise League One players (Hoedt probably Championship tbf but never PL in a million years) or is that the manager, DoF and club scouts who should take the flak and it isn’t the players’ fault?

Or are the players who are plenty good enough and have a dreadful attitude - Osvaldo, Lemina - the ones we should really dislike? 

ahhhh 😠

Edited Thursday at 14:31 by Patches O Houlihan
double post

[Patches O Houlihan]

stupid internet

Edited Thursday at 14:30 by Patches O Houlihan
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[Holmes_and_Watson]

5 hours ago, SoberSaint said:

Will Smallbone is the modern day incarnation of Lew Chatterley!

They're related, as revealed in torrid football expose, Lew Chatterley's Lover. 🙂

[Farmer Saint]

39 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

They're related, as revealed in torrid football expose, Lew Chatterley's Lover. 🙂

 

[CB Fry]

1 hour ago, Farmer Saint said:

 

Tub of Lard.

[Farmer Saint]

10 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

Tub of Lard.

 

[Jaime]

On 22/06/2025 at 16:38, RedWillie said:

David Speedie. He never wanted to be here and let everyone know it. 

Not just that... he was in place of a sell-on clause on Shearer. 

A £300k signing that cost £1.5 - £2m.

[RedArmy]

Surprised nobody has mentioned Ricardo Fuller yet. 
 

 

[Willo of Whiteley]

14 hours ago, RedArmy said:

Surprised nobody has mentioned Ricardo Fuller yet. 
 

 

Tony Pulis never stopped raving about him. Talks about how he could fly abroad against club orders, come back, be benched as punishment, subbed on and score a hat trick. 😂

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Delgado and Osvaldo.

[franniesTache]

There's been quite a few for me down the years, Colin Clarke Paul Moody, Dixon and Speedie, Telfer, Lee Todd, Paul Wooton, at times Kelvin Davis and Franny (both ridiculously error prone) and Ward Prowse 

[Mr Saints]

Lyanco. A defender who celebrated to the fans after blocking the ball out for a corner.

[Gloucester Saint]

On 26/06/2025 at 09:43, SoberSaint said:

Will Smallbone is the modern day incarnation of Lew Chatterley!

Before my time as a player but I heard he was known as Lady Chatterley by the Milton and Archers in the early 70s?

[Mixedkebab]

On 27/06/2025 at 12:32, franniesTache said:

There's been quite a few for me down the years, Colin Clarke Paul Moody, Dixon and Speedie, Telfer, Lee Todd, Paul Wooton, at times Kelvin Davis and Franny (both ridiculously error prone) and Ward Prowse 

Clarke? I could never hate a player who scored a brace for us at Fratton 

[Gloucester Saint]

15 minutes ago, Mixedkebab said:

Clarke? I could never hate a player who scored a brace for us at Fratton 

Agreed, not the quickest but decent player. Ended his career colliding with a goalpost for their reserves v ours ironically. 

On FT’s list agree on Speedie (ugh) and Dixon, although if you’ve read his book he was a professional gambler by that stage. Lee Todd hopelessly out of his depth. Moody good league one player, scored last minute vs us for Oxford later on in the cup. Can’t agree with him on Telfer, JWP or Wotton, all good pros giving their best and ok for level we were at.

Franny - can see both sides, and 1997 onwards he was much more solid and far less errors. Decent PL defender by then. Terrible early-mid 90s though. Top bloke and really admire what he’s done with the iron man. Amazing to think he was an England schools striker and prolific partner to Shearer in our youth side!

 

Edited Sunday at 11:13 by Gloucester Saint

[Cabrone]

I never particularly liked Anders Svensson, people would often rave on about him but personally I never saw it.

Michael Svensson on the other hand was a beast....

[Kenilworthy59]

On 27/06/2025 at 12:32, franniesTache said:

There's been quite a few for me down the years, Colin Clarke Paul Moody, Dixon and Speedie, Telfer, Lee Todd, Paul Wooton, at times Kelvin Davis and Franny (both ridiculously error prone) and Ward Prowse 

What is there to hate about Clarke? Hat trick on his debut and 36 goals in 82 games. How I would love a forward who could do that for us in the top division now.

[Kenilworthy59]

Can I add to the mix Paul Jones. Brought in by his mate David Jones and displaced Maik Taylor, a fine player who could easily have been our keeper for the next decade. Jones was absolutely brilliant for half a season and then became complete rubbish.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, Kenilworthy59 said:

Can I add to the mix Paul Jones. Brought in by his mate David Jones and displaced Maik Taylor, a fine player who could easily have been our keeper for the next decade. Jones was absolutely brilliant for half a season and then became complete rubbish.

I liked Taylor a lot but slightly harsh on Paul Jones IMHO. POTS 97/98, not quite at that level afterwards but still made one of the best saves seen in a Saints shirt at Old Trafford in the 3-3, which was on a par with Kelvin at Leeds.

Only displaced by Niemi, one of our best ever after Shilts, and Liverpool took him on loan.

Other than not getting shots quite far enough from the central area of his box when parrying, not many obvious flaws and since he left, only Niemi, Wright, Boruc and Ramsdale are better than Paul Jones for me. I wouldn’t have displaced Maik Taylor, yes, but Paul Jones was value for money and miles better than McCarthy or Bazunu, that’s for sure. 

Wales and Finland played each other when they were competing for the #1 jersey under WGS and it was the most lively 0-0 since Saints v Everton and the Southall/Flowers masterclass. Paul and Antti matched each other with top drawer save after save with Litmanen and Bellamy astonished at certain goals kept out acrobatically. 

[OldNick]

On 26/06/2025 at 20:14, RedArmy said:

Surprised nobody has mentioned Ricardo Fuller yet. 
 

 

I feel he was treated appallingly by us. Ok he came from Pompey and we didnt like it as he was a cheap price,we still had thoughts of grandeur after being in the PL/Division one for decades. 

[Midfield_General]

21 hours ago, Kenilworthy59 said:

What is there to hate about Clarke? Hat trick on his debut and 36 goals in 82 games. How I would love a forward who could do that for us in the top division now.

My first ever game at The Dell.

We win 5-1 on the opening day and our brand new striker scores three on his debut.

He instantly became my hero. 

[Chez]

I don't hate any Saints players. That terminology is reserved for the likes of Heath and Bailey.

That said, I never really liked Claus. I wasn't a big fan of Frannie either. There, I've said it.

Claus, how can I say it, looked a bit gormless and played that way sometimes. Him and Bednarek seem very similar to me. I struggle to warm to CBs at the best of times. Yeah, I know, proper club man and all that....
I've nothing against Frannie - and I really like how he presents himself and represents the club now. He's a top guy. However, at the time, I thought he was out of his depth in the top flight and having mediocre (at best) players like him explained why we struggled year on year.
 

[franniesTache]

On 29/06/2025 at 14:56, Kenilworthy59 said:

What is there to hate about Clarke? Hat trick on his debut and 36 goals in 82 games. How I would love a forward who could do that for us in the top division now.

Wasn't really hate just randomly disliked him, no idea where it came from either but the folly's of youth and all that.

On 29/06/2025 at 12:04, Gloucester Saint said:

Can’t agree with him on Telfer, JWP or Wotton, all good pros giving their best and ok for level we were at.

Ward-Prowse is simple for me, i thought he was a fairly ponderous player, slow and nothing more than a "good pro" but a section of our support held him up as being on par with Le Tiss which pissed me off.

Well that and the fact that he's a skate who was once a season ticket holder there, a mascot for them and called their cup final win one of his favourite days.

Edited 14 hours ago by franniesTache

[qwertyell]

I remember a game at the Dell against Sheffield United where, after a clumsy but not malicious tackle, the crowd were screaming in unison for Iain Dowie to get sent off.

The Saints crowd. He was playing for us. Mostly.

Probably a nice enough fella, but a slow, lumbering donkey epitomised the team's style under Branfoot, and Dowie became a bit of lightning rod for his manager's failures. 

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, qwertyell said:

I remember a game at the Dell against Sheffield United where, after a clumsy but not malicious tackle, the crowd were screaming in unison for Iain Dowie to get sent off.

The Saints crowd. He was playing for us. Mostly.

Probably a nice enough fella, but a slow, lumbering donkey epitomised the team's style under Branfoot, and Dowie became a bit of lightning rod for his manager's failures. 

Mind you, the ‘Donkey Dowie, Deadly Dixon’ chants from the opening day v Spurs soon turned around those players’ names….