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I think that is right. The attitude of him in that season, when others either downed tools, or hid away, earned him a lot of respect.

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Agree. He had a real purple patch in the January and February of '99 when he really stepped up. Iā€™d have to have a look at who we played to remind me but a couple Iā€™m thinking of are Gillingham at Home, a real backs to the wall job to defend our lead, and that great night at Northampton, he was brilliant in those. And didnā€™t he get the winner at money-bags Reading around that time?

I always thought he had more quality than he was sometimes given credit for, weā€™d see him trying to get retribution on John Gayle following his assault on Jimmy, or that brutal (but unpunished, unless I misremember) foul on a Bolton player at the Reebok, and it was easy to forget that he could play a bit too.

Taundry did o.k job as a utility player when he first broke through under DD. Trouble was about 4 years later and he wasnā€™t really kicking on as a CM (very similar to Kins now) I remember turning up for I think the first game of 2011 when the club had actually made a decent amount of midfield signings that summer and was amazed he was still a first choice at CM. It was the game where Chambers scored a 30 yarder into top corner on his debut.

Didnā€™t he get cut in a club hours after a heavy defeat and that was pretty much the end for him and he soon went into non league?

It was the away game at Coventry that did for him.

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He wouldnā€™t have been in the team if Joe Edwards hadnā€™t got that bad injury.

Were talking last week about lacking a Mantom type who can break into box from midfield and Edwards would fit that bill nicely.

Went to plymouth and helped them get back up straight away and regular starter in league one again so heā€™s fully got over his injury by looks of it as that hampered him when he came back in 18/19.

Joe Edwards just scored for Plymouth tonight ten minutes after typing that!

Wonder what his quiff is looking like these days @P.T.

:joy::joy:
Heā€™d be great for us. I think my description of him was a ā€œbang average third division playerā€. Which would make him head and shoulders our best player right now. Weā€™ve a couple of top fourth division players, a lot of below average fourth division players and quite a few who are lucky to call themselves professionals.

Oh for Joe Edwards!

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We could try Sinclairā€¦ he errrrā€¦ is good atā€¦ errrrā€¦ has a beardā€¦ n that.

I agree on this this point, to say he was a poor footballer rankles with me a bit.

The League two winning season sticks in my mind more than others as i was a bit older, but he took all the free kicks and scored a fair few, and all the pens. He had matured himself into a very good footballer, His legs had gone a bit so he couldnā€™t do all the chasing he used too. He made us tick all year long. I think people forget how good he was for us that season.

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Joe Edwards, one of the most under rated players in a long time.

I loved his floppy quiff as he marauded his way through Sheff Utds defence. :grin:

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Jose is 60 today, bound to have some happy memories of that special night at the Bescot. Sure everyone at upthesaddlers will join me in wishing him a very happy 60th birthday.

He will have written that night down is his diary as ā€œA Special Audience with the Special Oneā€. :+1:

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Didnā€™t Jose want to have both changing rooms for his Chelsea team at the Bonksā€™, as theirs wasnā€™t big enough ?

Creep

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