Opposition players that you love to hate

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This makes interesting reading: it outlines a few players who always tend to score against Walsall.

As part of a wider debate (turning the negativity onto Walsall’s opponents), who is a player that you think, ‘Here we go again’ when they rock up at the ground?

Players I have hated include Dennis Wise, Tommy Black, Steve Hayward and Stoke City (the whole team that tried to injure our star playmaker Alex Taylor, back in the late 1980s) but in slightly more recent times, Henderson and Hanson (Downing still has nightmares) come as little surprise.

Maybe, Harry McKirdy as an irritating little so and so. What other names spring to mind? Any current league two players wind you up or fill you with impending doom?

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Keigan Parker.

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Pretty bang on, Nardiello, Hanson, Cureton and Henderson all stand out for me too.

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Lee Hughes

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Tom Pope and Paddy Maden.

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Any player that used to play for us. Even the ones who never score manage to when they play us.

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Tony Naylor and Craig Hignett. Especially Naylor after Crewe crushed us in the play offs.

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One player sticks in my mind straight away when asked this Graham Kavanagh of stoke and cardiff horrible to play against but also a sore loser

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Kenny Lunt, not particularly him but still have bad memories of him tearing us a new one a few times when he was at Crewe.

Cureton, yep he was a menace when he was at Bristol Rovers

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Also andrew johnson of crystal palace when he scored that hatrick against us and the worldy of a goal from an impossible angle he put us to the sword that day a complete masterclass in putting the ball in the net

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Current day is Andrew “fallover” Williams at Gillingham. Hated him at Swindon as well. The amount of times he fell over trying to get a so called foul. I know most do it but this bloke takes the pee. He’s never on his bloody feet

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Old days was Steve Maynard i think it was who played for Fulham. Remember reading he broke Stuart Ryder’s leg in a reserve game. Never contacted Stuart to apologise, never showed any remorse. It’s one thing to break a players leg in a competitive fixture but a bloody reserve game??

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It was Steve Hayward. A Walsall lad who’s family have a business that sponsors the corner box at The Poundland ironically.

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Will Grigg lol

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He was in the year above me at Pelsall Comp. Used to play football on a break time against him sometimes. He took no prisoners in a friendly playground kick about!

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Andy Cook always gets a warm welcome whenever he plays against us. :lying_face:

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Colin Miles…. I understand Darren Wrack never even got an apology after he broke his leg

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I worked with a kid at work that was best mates with him
And i told him that if i ever saw him i would kill him :joy:

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Was it Paul Warne? scored for Rotherham to send us down? then raced around the pitch looking like they had won the FA cup :rage:

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My Grandad rest his soul was the most mild mannered gentleman you are ever likely to meet. I don’t think I saw him get angry once in all the time I knew him.

Until that day, he was livid about the Rotherham supporters celebrating us getting relegated. I’ve never forgotten it, I even gave it a mention in the eulogy I did at his funeral, much to the disgust of my Mother :rofl:

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