Mark Rawle

[Jimmy]

Now "giving it his all" for Alfreton Town.

[Gally221263]

There are certain things that you can rely on during our time on this earth, dead, taxes and Alfreton getting rid of Rawle. The worst, so called, professional footballer I've ever see.

 

Now that should start some arguement but I don't care, he was, in a fleet shirt, absolutely c**p.

[Stu M]

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Gally221263 said:
Now that should start some arguement but I don't care,

It sure will. Rawle may not have set the world on fire but no way was he one of the worst players at the club.

Did you never see Omari Coleman, to name just one who was a lot worse than Rawle in the last five years.

[Fleet4Ever]

Not sure whose worse, Danny Ekoku or Mark Rawle!

 

Imagine them as a partnership!

[Harry J Allstars]

Mmmm Danny Ekoku or Mark Rawle? Well one I've seen play only twice, once as a sub, and the other was meant to be Charlies ideal partnership. People will never have seen the benefit he gave this team without lining up alongside Charlie, which he never did as his debut was Charlies replacement when he came on as sub in Charlies last game for us last season away at Cambridge.

[jc]

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Gally221263 said:
There are certain things that you can rely on during our time on this earth, dead, taxes and Alfreton getting rid of Rawle. The worst, so called, professional footballer I've ever see.

Now that should start some arguement but I don't care, he was, in a fleet shirt, absolutely c**p.

Hilarious hyperbole.

Were you the individual behind the goal at the Margate KSC match last season who was complaining that Rawle was unable to get on the end of his own cross?

[Gally221263]

No, I was one of the people standing, watching, wondering how on earth this man had the cheek to turn up and pull on 'our' shirt. I wouldn't have minded if he had put in a cross, I'm still not sure he knew how to even kick the football, every time it came near him he was like a rabbitt caught in some headlights thinking he was about to be run over.

 

I agree Coleman was also awful, but Rawle was the wosrt yet.

 

We deserved better and thankfully this season so far we're getting it.

 

I stand by my earlier comment, absolutely c**p.

[Hempstead Gaz]

Mind you Gally, there were a few of that ilk, last season. How many fans had to duck one of Watkins or Goodings sliced, shovel footed clearances?

[Fleet4Ever]

Thought Watkins was a good player..probably just me though.

[jc]

A competent defender, whose crosses, on the rare occasions he got forward, were actually quite reasonable. His passing did lack a little variety at times though.

 

Of course, mikefleet thought he was 'crap'.

 

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Gally221263 said:

No, I was one of the people standing, watching, wondering how on earth this man had the cheek to turn up and pull on 'our' shirt. I wouldn't have minded if he had put in a cross, I'm still not sure he knew how to even kick the football, every time it came near him he was like a rabbitt caught in some headlights thinking he was about to be run over.

 

I agree Coleman was also awful, but Rawle was the wosrt yet.

 

We deserved better and thankfully this season so far we're getting it.

 

I stand by my earlier comment, absolutely c**p.

 

Oh, how easy to write such puerile snide comments from the sanctuary of one's keyboard.

 

As Stu says, there have been far worse Fleet players in recent years.

 

Maybe one should look less at the ability that Rawle was able to show and more at the fact that the lack of service on many occasions last season meant most forwards were inevitably going to (and indeed did) struggle?

[Hempstead Gaz]

I think we are all united with the team we now have, though. Full of highly competitive players, all appear adept at actually passing the ball to a colleague, as opposed to attempting to blast it into orbit, hoping that re-entry with be in the general area of Luke of Rawle.

It will be interesting on Saturday, as St albans, albeit still finding the feet at this level do actually appear to prefer a passing game as well.

Should make for an enertaining game.

Sadly I'm working again, so it'll have to be the dulcit tones of Lord Chas again.

 

[Harry J Allstars]

Footballs a beautiful game isn't it? At one end you have a fan blaming a non league club for having his radio nicked along with world hunger and Africa's aids problem and at the other end you have a group of fans seeing a completely different game with regards to a player.

 

For me though Mark Rawle gave it his all, a popular phrase with me and amongst my follow 'Fleet watching colleagues. Not only because it rhymes but also because we thought it were true.

 

Like I have said if Charlie and Rawle had played together you would have seen his benefit, they unfortunately though never did. Rawle was Charlie’s replacement on his debut away at Cambridge United. At that time we thought we still had a sniff at the play offs (unfounded comments that were never going to come true) and as far as we knew Charlie was only a few weeks away from fitness so when we saw the performance Rawle was putting in we were pleased.

 

However that’s the way it goes, people see things differently, Grays didn't think Mark De Bolla was Conference standard, we did that’s the way it goes. On the same subject I know a lot of people on here rated Bradley "Bradders" Johnson, I thought he was crap, that’s the way it goes. Someone must like him because he gets three minutes for Northampton every week, Rawle is now at Alfreton Town so perhaps I was wrong about him and every player finds their level.

 

Now lets deal with which non league club we should lay the blame of global warming on, Forest Green Rovers (names can be deceiving) anyone?

[Gally221263]

As usual, jc, your defence of everyone and everything connected with the Fleet is entirely admirable and has pricked my conscience, especially now that I've had the temerity to voice my 'little minded' rant against Mark Rawle. My own words, not anyone else's.

 

I greatly admire your stance in relation to this matter and indeed others and can I say that I always look forward to reading your comments on this forum and, indeed, your comments on the official forum as well. You truly are GNFC through and through but, I'm sorry to say, that we will just have to agree to disagree

 

But, in my attempt to put some sort of closure to this discussion concerning Rawle's lack of performances last season, and trying therefore to be as fair as I think I can, I have to repeat that in my opinion he was the worst player to have pulled on the shirt for a long long time. When I'm asked which football team I support I don't say some premiership side then GNFC, I say GNFC and then have to explain where and who we are, the fun of supporting a non league side I suppose. I have been watching the Fleet on and off for about 30 years since my Dad took me as a kid, even travelling to San Stonebridge when I was silly enough to live in Essex, and since I've moved back to Kent, I haven't missed a home game for the last 3 and a bit seasons and he has been, if not the worst, certainly amongst them.

[Stu M]

You must have had your eyes shut when Eddie McCluskey's Dream Team was carrying all before it in the Southern Monkey League if Rawle's the worst.

 

Remember Amade Chababe? Louis Affor? Derek Bryant? And they're just off the top of my head. I reckon I could do worse...!

[Hempstead Gaz]

I'm afraid, whilst I never wholly condemned Rawle, he was never my favourite. He just appeared to be going through the motions, a journeyman player who could do some decent stuff at times, but not at the consistent level required as a full time professional centre forward.

We probably never saw the best of him, but there again there appears to be a number of clubs to whom that applies.

Quite what makes a player have a "special" relationship with a club is hard to define, but who can forget that 110% that Protheroe made when he first came here on loan.

As Gally said, Rawle is history, time for closure and to move on, in the knowledge that we have no mundane journeyman players in the squad now.

We may have a couple of players who will not make the grade, but we can be assured it will not be for the lack of effort.

It is that effort that defines a "good" player from the mundane.

[Jeff]

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Stu M said:
Amade Chababe?

That's a blast from the past. He was trult awful.

[jc]

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Harry J Allstars said: I know a lot of people on here rated Bradley "Bradders" Johnson, I thought he was crap

Mikefleet-esque analysis Harry? I'm disappointed. His frequently impressive shooting from set-pieces means he doesn't deserve the above description.

That said, I also felt he was somewhat overrated when it came to more general aspects of open play.

[Nagasaki]

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Jimmy said:
Now "giving it his all" for Alfreton Town.

From the GNFC forum to the Fans Focus Forum. Its like changing the channel from the BBC to the ITV.

Mark Rawle – Date of birth 27/4/79. Striker.
A hugely experienced and often prolific goalscorer, Mark, 5’11’’, joined the Reds on Friday, September 15th, 2006, after trialing with Crawley Town in the summer. He ended the 2005/06 campaign playing 11 games on loan at Gravesend and Northfleet from fellow Conference outfit Woking where he had 21 appearances and whom he joined in August 2005 after being released by Kidderminster Harriers.
A quick, all action front runner, he began his career with Rushden & Diamonds before moving onto Boston United, then in the Conference, and to the Football League with Southend United for £60,000 and Oxford United where he made 39 appearances over 16 months before joining Tamworth on loan. Man of the match display on his Reds debut in a 3-0 win over Moor Green.

It looks as if he has found a side that suits his current abilities, in the Nationwide North.

I say good luck to him and Alfreton, lets hope it all works out.

He never cut it for me at the fleet, but he was probably the best option at the time, until he got injured.

I've heard this somewhere before, the lights are on but is anyone at home?

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