Intesresting twist for Walton game

[michaelSTFC]

Great memories of Abbott, especially when he scored hattricks against Rushden (5-0) and Bath (5-2) in the first five games of the 1996-97 season.. held the ball up well and delivered some superb goals. Westy had more mileage as he seemed to work harder (?) to get into the box. Didn't he score something like 37 goals when we finished 2nd behind Enfield in the Diadora League? To score 85 goals for us in a handful of season, even at this level, was just superb. He just oozed class and made scoring goals look easy. Lloyd was always full of potential. Such a shame he did a Defoe and wanted away from Slough as soon as the going got tough in the summer of '98.

 

I will always remembering Andy "Leo" Sayer with much fondness. He joined us just as I was starting to watch Slough on a regular basis. Dave Kemp signed him. Enough said. Went on to become a jinking inside right forward (I remember a spectacular scissor kick from the rotund marksman against Welling?), who had the comical propensity to occasionally dive like Superman to win a penalty. Ever since the squad was dissolved from 1998, only Ian Hodges comes close to the great strikers from yesteryear. OK, Sammy was good, but I think Hodges holds it up much better and doesn't spend half the time whinging to the ref. Definitely the best header of the ball since Gary Abbott.

 

Shame we don't still have someone like Garry Smart to take the right back position.

 

 

Have we signed Jamie Furmage?

[Martin]

Mark West was an absolute legend and I will not hear a word said against him. I remember him before the injury and trust me he was different class. But even so he came back from an injury would have threatened the career of a full time pro to still score lots of goals.

 

Just before an old timer jumps down my throat I am only twenty three so have not seen any of the players from the seventies and can't remember any from the early eighties.

 

From 1987 onwards we have not had a better striker than Mark West.

 

Abbo was a quality player who scored goals for fun. I suspect our style never fully suited him as he never got anywhere near the goalscoring feats he produced for Enfield and Aldershot.

 

In many ways the partnership of West and Abbo is very similar to Hodge and Boot. So draw your own conclusion.

 

Abbo never works back so he won't get near enough to me to have any stick, not that I would give him any....