ArmchairOwl Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 Just now, ka58 said: I think you're just on the wind up. Anyway back to the op, foresthefairy is the softest cos he's all ways on his arse crying to the ref. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesteel Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 (edited) Jeffers. There are examples of players neshing tackles etc but at least they were on the pitch. Jeffers got to the point where he was scared of actually going out there at all. After he left us he went on trial at Blackpool and asked Ian Holloway to leave him out of a friendly because they had too many big lads and he might get injured. Edited June 20, 2017 by Bluesteel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simaniac Owl Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Darren Potter. Despite his carapace, softest tw@t to play for The Wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meadowview owl Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Wim jonk kenny Lunt patrick blondeau sibon scott Oakes jay bothroyd lee briscoe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudio Tankisco Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Not read the thread thus far but Michael Morrison gets my vote the soft get. He didn't like getting pulverised by Megson either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank_owl Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 I can see what you're saying about FF but I can't agree to him being in the softest category just because of hi work rate in tracking back and getting challenges in on opposition centre backs etc. I also can't think of any instances of him meshing challenges. However Rudi, Reach and Potter the list would be substantial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmchairOwl Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 (edited) 8 minutes ago, meadowview owl said: Wim jonk Lenny K unt patrick blondeau sibon scott Oakes jay bothroyd lee briscoe That's better. Edited June 20, 2017 by Owling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meadowview owl Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 1 minute ago, Owling said: That's better. Kenny c**t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dooogs Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Soft lads from last decade that come to mind: Paul Gilbert Brad Jones They both seemed scared of the ball... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowl Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Paul McLaren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dooogs Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 I remember McLaren more as a nasty, vicious player than a wuss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChinaOwl Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 3 hours ago, steveger said: FJ9, headbutted a stoke or port vale player and he ended up getting stretchered off himself......... Aye, headbutting members of Mad Frankie Fraser's family would have seen you carried off in a bin liner and deposited somewhere in the English Channel in days gone by. Not the smartest thing to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewsburyowl58 Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Wish Kirkland hadn't stayed down for so long from a push by that scum Leeds tvat !! I would put that in the " soft " bracket !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 You should have seen some of them we had in the mid 70's. Part of the reason why we were so gash, there was no fight in any of them except for Ken Knighton and Hugh Dowd. They were so soft that Tony Toms ended up taking them up on the moors in the middle of January to try and toughen them up a bit. By the way if Dunsby is looking in, are you by any chance able to post some of the cartoons on here that came out at the time? We may have been bottom of the old Div 3 but the national press had an absolute field day with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinOwlMan Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Hard or soft - is a hard player someone who dishes out firm challenges? For me that's only part of it. The real test is when the player is on the receiving end, and does that player continue to turn in a performance when some bonehead is trying to bully them out of their stride. Sheridan didn't let anyone bully him out of the game from what I remember. Anyway, my vote for softest player goes to Adam Proudlock. Never challenged for a header, even when there was no defender in sight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last_Great_Hope Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Anyone not saying Scott Oakes is not a Wednesday fan. Watched him absolutely sh it himself playing Right Wing away at Notts Forest up against Stuart Pearce. From what I remember, Carbone came on and scored the winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartman Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Recent times...Joao ....hands down ....if ever a player fitted the cliché 'not suited to the physicality of the English game' Before that..... Nsungu ...as above And ... Ermm ....Waddle...best Wednesday player I have ever /will ever see....in the context of this thread tho....big girls blouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevthelodgemoorowl Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 4 hours ago, keefdave said: Phil Henson Excellent choice Keefdave, think he was another one from Man City. Made his debut Feb 1975 at Hillsborough, the crowd audibly gasped as Henson ran onto the pitch for the first time . He was slightly built and knock kneed and he had arms and legs like pipe cleaners. When he got knocked off the ball he went down hard. However, as time progressed he learnt to earn himself a little room and became a decent ball player. Went to Rotherham after about 60 odd games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Phil Henson nicknamed "the flying chip" because he was built like one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shezzas left peg Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Nigel Worthington, wouldn't say soft, but could be a bit of a fairy when it came to ariel challenges.was known to duck headers or just let it go over him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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