Joe Garner

[BSPECIAL]

He was,is and always will be shite

 

[sr1983]

He used to run about the park screaming at players trying to put them off.

A name from the past.

First thing that came to my head when I seen his name, he was fucking mental

 

[Big D]

We spent nearly £2m on him and he wasn't very good.



Tried hard that was it.

Gave Little Mix a run for their money tho!

 

[mark hateley]

Met him once, nice enough fella.

Just not the type of player we wanted or needed. One goal wonder.

12 clubs and 4 spells with Carlisle.

If ever there was a journeyman.

 

[IrvineLoyal]

I still, to this day, can’t believe he wasn’t sent off for his tackle against Hamilton Accies, I was bang in line with it and thought that is an absolutely horrific tackle.

I was in Govan front that day about 10 yards away was an absolute shocker.

 

[westenclosurebear]

We’d have been better with Stacey Solomon

She's a complete midden as well and earning money under false pretences.

 

[Stockport bear]

Waghorn and garner played in 442 would have down very well but that didn't happen once

 

[Blue Lew]

We spent nearly £2m on him and he wasn't very good.



Tried hard that was it.

I was in Preston just after he signed and spoke to a couple of young PNE fans who said they couldn’t believe they got the money they did for him and basically said he was shite.

 

[ca100]

He was awful. Decent with his head, Genuinely struggled to kick a ball cleanly at times. Such a strange signing, in a summer full of them.

 

[Ray Von]

Scored a hat trick. Missed 15 minutes of the second half getting his head bandaged. Volleyed Dougie Imrie into oblivion.

A complete performance

Still probably the strangest individual performance I've ever witnessed.

 

[WATP_74]

He summed up a dismal period for us.

 

[Rbmckie3]

Our fans are the best at everything we do.































You couldn’t make up the fact we had a spat with Little Mix fans and had a genuine battle to keep them off number 1 































Most though it was little micks

 

[Molly Sugden's Bridesmaid]

Beyond hopeless.

 

[Bear84]

I don’t think he was playing with a full deck.

Sort of guy you’d want in your team at school to avoid playing against him but would sit and eat his pencils during class time.

 

[Kentbear]

Scored a hat trick. Missed 15 minutes of the second half getting his head bandaged. Volleyed Dougie Imrie into oblivion.

A complete performance

I remember him having a mad 2nd half, thanks.

 

[Bulletproof]

What a diddy he was. Warburton doing dodgy deals for himself and his daughter. Garner was the antithesis of the system his manager wanted to play.

Antithesis you say...

 

[Batigol]

Such an odd signing at the time, he seemed to be the opposite of everything Warburton was trying to do

The same with virtually all the signing that season. We went from younger players, done of whom had maybe lost their way after early promise, to signing washed up has beens like Barton, Krancjar and (if you're being very charitable) Sender's

 

[Gheorghe_Hagi]

I wonder if there was any truth to the rumour we could have got Tammy Abraham on loan for a season for a similar outlay.

 

[CooperBlu11]

Got to be probably one of the most ill thought out signing ever. At a time where money was tight we spent nearly 2 mill on a guy who never fit the set system at the time.

 

[MCMLXXXI]

Nowhere near good enough but a genuinely nice guy who always gave his best.

 

[Maxi1872]

Genuinely frightening how far we have come as a club. Joe garner mans rotten and that was only 5 years ago

 

[jierobinson92]

Sure I remember being at Partick and he scored a late goal there is that correct?

 

[LoyalRanger86]

Sure I remember being at Partick and he scored a late goal there is that correct?

You not thinking of Joe Dodoo, came on as a sub and scored the equaliser and the winner

 

[Whitehorse]

Met him at York races in 2018, his mates kept saying ”how could you guys even think of making up a song about him?”

Decent guy, happy to chat to us as we were all bears.

First ever cool story bro

He cost more than Alfie. And over half of Hagi. It was a roller-coaster for sure

Was there not some story that warburtons daughter ran the agency he was associated to

 

[ssblue]

You not thinking of Joe Dodoo, came on as a sub and scored the equaliser and the winner

Easy to confuse the 2 of them.

 

[Cuellar]

Will never forget him kicking the accies player up in the air at Ibrox, sensational stuff.

Came on at half time scored twice. Injured at least one Hamilton player and got man of the match. What a 45 mins he had

 

[Blutoe]

I had erased him from my memory. Thanks.

 

[thenorthseabear]

We played Celtic in the new year game and he was giving the centre backs a hard time, he went off injured Waghorn went centre forward and Celtic dominated the rest of the game.
Garner was never a world beater but he was a decent centre forward that wasn’t used properly by the manager.

 

[OneManTagTeam]

What game was it when he came on at half time, gets a goal, sends someone 10ft in the air, another boy off on a stretcher after sticking the nut in him, goes up the tunnel for 10 minutes to do a jobby & comes back to complete his hat trick?

 

[LoganBear]

Actual spit

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Sure I remember being at Partick and he scored a late goal there is that correct?

He did, a header. IIRC, Miller ran past about 6 players to cross it.

That took us into Europe.

McKay scored our equaliser.

 

[Brant Hurley]

A lot of short memories on here. Even diddy teams took liberties with us back then. Not with Garner.

Nice guy off the park. Limited player. Lived my dream.

 

[barrheadbear]

We spent nearly £2m on him and he wasn't very good.



Tried hard that was it.

A truly dreadful player with a tendency to overstep the mark.

How he survived not seeing a red in the game at Ibrox v Hamilton, where he scored a hat trick, still amazes me to this day.

 

[55TeddyBears]

Have you ever seen him and Joe Swash in the same room? Just throwing that out there

 

[MarcoNegri]

Always just think of this when I hear Joe Garner's name now:

 

[RandyMac]

He was awful. Decent with his head, Genuinely struggled to kick a ball cleanly at times. Such a strange signing, in a summer full of them.

This pretty much sums up my memory of him. That and backing into players and throwing himself to the ground. He didn’t do subtlety our Joe.

 

[JMCK]

A lot of short memories on here. Even diddy teams took liberties with us back then. Not with Gardner.

Nice guy off the park. Limited player. Lived my dream.

Brilliantly put.

 

[jierobinson92]

You not thinking of Joe Dodoo, came on as a sub and scored the equaliser and the winner

No mate as someone said above he scored the header that got us into Europe

 

[LoyalRanger86]

.

 

[Chris01]

Did he not end up in Cyprus playing for a while?

He was awful - and his song was even worse

Hat trick v Hamilton tho

 

[SuperA II]

yes he was bang average, but by god I loved him.

If every Ranger had that heart we would be in a better place.

The Hamilton game is a classic

 

[muz73]

Seems his latest ‘victim’ may have a broken ankle.

 

[Eddie Doc]

Some goal he scored for Preston right enough.

 

[MCMLXXXI]

We played Celtic in the new year game and he was giving the centre backs a hard time, he went off injured Waghorn went centre forward and Celtic dominated the rest of the game.
Garner was never a world beater but he was a decent centre forward that wasn’t used properly by the manager.

Let's not pretend he was a world beater & he wasn't anywhere near good enough to play for us but he wasn't as bad as some on here make out.

 

[Harry316]

At the Carlisle game and Joe is brought on for the last 10 minutes.1 minute to go and the bold Joe puts in a tackle that sees the Hartlepool player stretchered off in a leg brace.
Old age isn't calming him down much

It happened right in front of me, great tackle & perseverance from joe.

 

[TCWNS1872]

I’ve seen some donkeys in my time and fortunately not too many of them plied their trade in royal blue, but Joe Garner is right up their with one of the worst ‘footballers’ I’ve ever seen playing for us.

His inability to do the basics well was horrendous to watch. One instance close to the corner flag near our end and the main stand at Rugby Park lingers in the memory whereby I was genuinely dumbfounded as to how he had made it in the professional ranks due to his inability to control the ball. Yes, he could put himself about and was reasonable in the air for his size, but other than that he was truly woeful.

A classic example of the power of Sky Sports whereby his volley for PNE in League One had a lot of people taken in as to the quality of English league football. He even had the brass neck to slate the standard of the Scottish Premeir League when he pitched up at Portman Rd or the DW or wherever after he left.

A footnote of abject mediocrity that sullies our reputation as a serious football club.

P.S. No harm to him personally btw.

 

[muz73]

It happened right in front of me, great tackle & perseverance from joe.

Big Menayese has a double fracture and ligament damage.

 

[TN8]

He used to run about the park screaming at players trying to put them off.

A name from the past.

I'd totally forgotten about that (who can blame me). Fucking hell

 

[Harry316]

Big Menayese has a double fracture and ligament damage.

I'm not saying he didn't get injured, but Joe definitely won the ball, the ref didn't give a free kick either. I hope he makes a speedy recovery, he looks like a good player aswel.

 

[BulletProofBear]

Genuinely frightening how far we have come as a club. Joe garner mans rotten and that was only 5 years ago

Have you seen Matondo?