Ashley Ward

Currie was ****** about by Mad Mel, played one week dropped the next or stuck out on the wing....however Melvin can thank Currie for saving his neck in latter half of the 91/92 season as he played a major part in our 9 game unbeaten run that eventually contributed to us getting out of trouble, reight player!!........sithi.

 

Very very underrated was Currie, brought a bit of magic to Clarkies decent but workman like side of late 80's, loved him myself .......sithi.

 

Red Hot Currie

 

Barnsley's Number 1 Takeaway

 

those were the days. Remember my dad buying me that from shirley in the hut in the west stand

 

Currie needed the ball playing through to run on to. Many of his goals in his first stint were scored on the counter attack. Ward on the other hand was able to play one up top, if needed & could hold a ball up, or flick it on to a runner. When Currie returned from Forest we were playing more of a slow build up style & it didn't suit him. I enjoyed both in their heyday.

 

Remember playing Birmingham at home and Mel had benched Currie ...We absolutely mullered an awful Brum side in one of the most one sided games I've ever witnessed, must have had 20 shots on target all kept out by a brilliant performance from Les sealey....Redfearn, Biggins and big daft Jon Pearson amongst others all denied an opener. Currie comes on half through the second half takes the ball and goes on a run then tw@ts the ball straight in the top corner from 25 yards out, uffft!!......reight player..........sithi.

 

remember this match , class

 

Although at the end of his career, Alan Clarke was pretty decent. In terms of best for us, I can’t see past Ashley Ward despite loving the flair of David Currie. A real shame what happened to him at Forest.

 

Autograph. To Janie
Best wishes
Ashley Ward
Plus John Hendrie and one other.

 

I know I’ve said this before (and I know it’s unpopular) but I refuse to believe that Ward was our best striker ever (he was basically a toe poker in the prem). Hendrie was unreal in that promotion season, despite his age and lack of height and still excellent the following season. Ward always got a glowing write up from the chron however he played in the prem matches and having been to all those matches, I just didn’t agree with the reputation he earnt. He used to go missing then toe poke in someone else’s goal bound shot in my memory. Yes I know I’m in a small minority on this but there you go.

 

Loved barnsleys red hot currie. He was great 2 watch

 

I'm glad you've mentioned this, and that goal he got the following season against Birmingham as well.
That's what he was made to do by Mel though isn't it, inconsistent selections and played out wide a lot which didn't suit him.
As I say, we didn't get to see him as good as in his first time at the club, for various reasons.

 

Mel liked players who "ran around alot" that wasn't Curries game, he had different qualities....he could make summat out of nowt and created plenty for the team as well chipping in with a few goals but he was never going run around all over the shop like O’Connell and Redfearn, Mel pissed the Aggie/Tiler money up the wall, £250 grand on John Pearson for a team that struggled to score, Christ on a fc*king bike !!.........sithi.

 

This could be a new thread subject Monkey, because I could also go on and on about it lol.
How to ruin all that years good work in just a few weeks, by Mr Melvin Machin.