All time standout performances from Notts players

[ThaiPie]

What's the best "standout" performance you can think of? Not necessarily the best player. I mean a player who raised their game way over expectations. I struggled to answer my own question, but Don O'Riordan 's performance against Spurs in 90/91 came to mind. Cracking goal and for the first half at least bossed a midfield including the likes of Gascoigne.

[matt_magpie]

What's the best "standout" performance you can think of? Not necessarily the best player. I mean a player who raised their game way over expectations. I struggled to answer my own question, but Don O'Riordan 's performance against Spurs in 90/91 came to mind. Cracking goal and for the first half at least bossed a midfield including the likes of Gascoigne.

I was right behind the goal for that beauty, bittersweet with Gazza not getting sent off.
Really hard question, maybe not right up there but Bostocks performance for me is up there somewhere at Wembley. He not only played extremely well he more importantly calmed down the whole team who looked liked they were choking and that game would have been an absolute hammer blow if we’d lost it.
I’d go as far to say personally that would have been the worse defeat I would ever had experienced, just the thought of being doomed to getting out of that league.

[upthemaggies]

Good question.

With most of them, I'm probably recalling a player having two or three stand out moments rather than having an outstanding 90 minutes (Adrian Thorpe v Northampton, McP a few times circa 85-86, Rob Matthews).

Anybody who was there couldn't argue with Steve Cherry v Man City though, that was a truly epic performance.

[Pie-eyed&legless]

Too many to list and categorise

[M0ufMk3]

Good question.

With most of them, I'm probably recalling a player having two or three stand out moments rather than having an outstanding 90 minutes (Adrian Thorpe v Northampton, McP a few times circa 85-86, Rob Matthews).

Anybody who was there couldn't argue with Steve Cherry v Man City though, that was a truly epic performance.

Agree. However, annoyingly it let MotD create a narrative which revolved around that rather than the whole gam, where I felt we were better.

Moments are much easier

I'm going to go for a Darren Ward point blank save from a bullet header away at Cambridge. It was so good that the ref gave a goal kick. I can only assume that he couldn't believe he'd saved it presumably because he couldn't understand how he saved it. I had a perfect view, and he did.

Honourable mention to an Adi Thorpe cross away at Aldershot, after cork-screwing the full back more than once (a Thorpe speciality), crossing it for Stuart Rimmer to sidefoot in from about 4 feet in the air.

For an entire game, there was an away win At Bootham Crescent where I'm sure their left back would have needed counselling after chasing the absolutely unplayable Stevie Finnan's shadow all game. I wouldn't have been surprised if he'd handed his notice before leaving the pitch. Tom Ince away at Walsall (NYD) and Grealish had a few as a precocious 17 year old. Whatever became of that lad?

[since41]

Ian Scanlons 165 second hatrick .
We still only drew the game by a wedgie 3-3

[forwardmagpie]

Iain McCulloch at home to Newcastle in a night game.

We lost 2 -1 but Iain was almost unstoppable.

[upthemaggies]

Ian Scanlons 165 second hatrick .
We still only drew the game by a wedgie 3-3

Something must have been in the water at Meadow Lane around that time as Notts scored twice in the opening ten minutes of the next home match v Millwall to win 2-1 and then in the next home game after that we scored three in almost as quick time as Scanlon did, an Aitkin og on 69, Randall 71 and Stubbs 73, to win 3-2 v Bristol Rovers. In the two home games prior to Scanlon's hat-trick, we'd won 4-1 and 5-0!!! On the road during that period we won at Aston Villa and not too many weeks later won 2-0 at the Spitty Ground.

It's been mentioned here a few times but we can't let this thread go without mentioning Chris Short keeping Ryan Giggs quiet to the point Giggs was subbed in the Jan 92 1-1 draw with Man Utd.

[since41]

Something must have been in the water at Meadow Lane around that time as Notts scored twice in the opening ten minutes of the next home match v Millwall to win 2-1 and then in the next home game after that we scored three in almost as quick time as Scanlon did, an Aitkin og on 69, Randall 71 and Stubbs 73, to win 3-2 v Bristol Rovers. In the two home games prior to Scanlon's hat-trick, we'd won 4-1 and 5-0!!! On the road during that period we won at Aston Villa and not too many weeks later won 2-0 at the Spitty Ground.

It's been mentioned here a few times but we can't let this thread go without mentioning Chris Short keeping Ryan Giggs quiet to the point Giggs was subbed in the Jan 92 1-1 draw with Man Utd.

I don't know about the water but we had a great team then Was the Milwall game when K Randall scored virtually straight from the kickoff? Most of us were just settling in our seats

[upthemaggies]

I don't know about the water but we had a great team then Was the Milwall game when K Randall scored virtually straight from the kickoff? Most of us were just settling in our seats

v Millwall it was Ian Bolton on 2 mins and Randall on 9 with a Pedro Richards own goal in-between on 8.
You must be thinking of 11th November 1972 in which Randall scored in the first minute (55 seconds) v Charlton, going on to win 3-1.