Players?

[Elite_Pie]

The last "little rat" we had was Liam Noble.

Liam Noble is one of the last players I would put in the "little rat" category. He was lightweight and wasn't capable of getting stuck in to a tackle. Most of his cards were for petulance rather than crunching tackles.

[countygump]

Liam Noble is one of the last players I would put in the "little rat" category. He was lightweight and wasn't capable of getting stuck in to a tackle. Most of his cards were for petulance rather than crunching tackles.

Agreed, apart from the odd worldy goal, he was useless. Massive sigh from me when we re-signed him. Ravenhill and Bishop? Were they our last effective, 'little rats'. ?

[Carlton_Pie]

Liam Noble is one of the last players I would put in the "little rat" category. He was lightweight and wasn't capable of getting stuck in to a tackle. Most of his cards were for petulance rather than crunching tackles.

A little rat that can't or doesn't want to tackle.

Little weasel would be a better description

[Elite_Pie]

A little rat that can't or doesn't want to tackle.

Little weasel would be a better description

Putting a 'p' in front of rat might be more accurate.

[jackal2]

Liam Noble is one of the last players I would put in the "little rat" category. He was lightweight and wasn't capable of getting stuck in to a tackle. Most of his cards were for petulance rather than crunching tackles.

Agreed. I think he fancied himself more as a 'fancy dan' creative midfielder, but he was nowhere near good enough at that side of the game or the tackling side to be any real use. There was no way we should ever have brought him back.

Ricky Ravenhill was the archetypal little rat.

Another one of my favourites in years gone by, even though he never played for us, was Andy Hessenthaler.