5. Tyreece John-Jules
Unlucky, yes. But still disappointing. The Arsenal loanee arrived as Tyler Walker’s successor in January 2020—big boots to fill. He scored on debut against Blackpool, but that was it. One goal in seven games, a string of missed chances, and then injury struck.
For me, he was tainted by that defeat at Southend against a backdrop of them being utterly terrible. Still, COVID cancelled the season while he was injured, and that was that. Since then, he’s drifted: spells at Doncaster, Blackpool, Ipswich, Derby, and Crawley—scoring just nine league goals in five years. Not always a bad player, probably a decent lower league career awaits, but for us, wrong time, wrong expectations, and the wrong kind of replacement.