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Post by meatandpotatopie on Jul 22, 2014 21:12:24 GMT
I'm not necessarily talking 'biggest' signings - or even those who went on to be most successful - but who were you most excited to be signing at the time?
Tuncay? Gudjohnsen?
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Post by YounginStoke on Jul 22, 2014 21:14:47 GMT
This is going to sound strange but personally at the time I was really excited by Palacios, on paper he was the perfect TP player and he was a good footballer too. Shame it didn't work out the way I was hoping!
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Post by southcarolinastokie on Jul 22, 2014 21:18:55 GMT
To be honest. The most I have been excited by a signing was Patty Berger, bloody Pulis
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Post by RipRoaringPotter on Jul 22, 2014 21:22:10 GMT
Surely nothing was more ball-achingly spunktastically exciting as Rikki Dadason signing, was it?
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Post by stokiejoe on Jul 22, 2014 21:22:21 GMT
Very few will ever equal re-signing Stan, everything changed after that.
Just checked; he was 46 and cost £3k we paid him £50 per week, double his Blackpool wages. First match crowd went from 8.4k average to over 39k.
Nobody has ever come close to that effect
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Post by Stoke711 on Jul 22, 2014 21:23:25 GMT
Peter Hoekstra for me but Bojan isn't far behind.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 21:24:50 GMT
Alan Hudson in my time.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jul 22, 2014 21:25:51 GMT
Matthews, Viollet, Banks and Hudson. Yet my favourite player was Greenhoff - but I wasn't overly excited until I saw him play - then I was hooked. Happy days.
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Post by DansViews on Jul 22, 2014 21:26:39 GMT
Owen, Crouch, Taggart, Andy Griffin, Lee Hendrie, John Halls all at the time were quite exciting but a different kind. This recent spate is orgasmic.
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Post by pyrus on Jul 22, 2014 21:29:45 GMT
Hudson turned out to be the best, but Hurst really was a massively exciting signing as I remember.
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Post by gothicstokelover on Jul 22, 2014 21:30:31 GMT
In terms of excited when I heard was Peter Crouch, seeing a footballer that had played for England was something I didn't think I would see in my life time.
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Post by PotteringThrough on Jul 22, 2014 21:36:09 GMT
10 years ago, the 2004-05 season, our only two summer signings were Dave Brammer and Steve Simonsen. I'm slightly more excited about the players we've signed this summer.
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Post by crapslinger on Jul 22, 2014 21:41:33 GMT
See why  but you are forgetting Jimmy Greenhoff what a player , loved Huddy but Greenhoff was so special, oh forgot Top cat could we be on the verge of getting near that era again ?, solid at the back creative midfield etc god I hope so. |
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Jul 22, 2014 21:44:08 GMT
Tony Dorigo and Chris Greenacre were really exciting signings for a club of our stature at the time (for me at least). Also Hoekstra, De Goey, Bangoura, Etherington, Pennant, Crouch, Tuncay, Arnautovic. I think I was pretty excited about Palacios too.
I haven't got as excited as those about any of our signings so far this summer, however, when the overall picture is taken into account the group of players we've signed so far is very exciting.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 21:44:46 GMT
The biggest shock and surprise for me remains walking home from primary school in 67 and standing gobsmacked gawping at Senul poster outside Sneyd Green newsagents saying, 'STOKE SIGN GORDON BANKS.' There was no knowing that such a rush transfer was in the offing in The Sixties.
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Post by harryburrows on Jul 22, 2014 21:45:07 GMT
Surely nothing was more ball-achingly spunktastically exciting as Rikki Dadason signing, was it? it was the long wait we had with rikki months of speculation . before he arrived , what a let down |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 21:45:33 GMT
See why but you are forgetting Jimmy Greenhoff what a player , loved Huddy but Greenhoff was so special, oh forgot Top cat could we be on the verge of getting near that era again ?, solid at the back creative midfield etc god I hope so. They both rank at the top of my list but Hudson was a Rolls Royce but both incredible players. |
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Post by march4 on Jul 22, 2014 21:46:35 GMT
I remember us getting very excited on here about the signing of Andy Cooke.
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Post by localloser on Jul 22, 2014 21:49:25 GMT
Very few will ever equal re-signing Stan, everything changed after that. Just checked; he was 46 and cost £3k we paid him £50 per week, double his Blackpool wages. First match crowd went from 8.4k average to over 39k. Nobody has ever come close to that effect Quite right mate. Not only that but it completely changed the atmosphere across the whole city of SoT. I will never forget the buzz that went around the Vic every time Stan got the ball. "Go on Stan" times 38000. Astonishing. Nothing like it in my lifetime. On the other hand, when Rikki Dadason scored that goal on his debut that was pretty exciting too! |
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Post by jonah77 on Jul 22, 2014 21:53:43 GMT
I was made up when Hendrie came on loan. Hooky was another that I was shocked by.
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Post by takeshikovacs on Jul 22, 2014 21:59:53 GMT
I remember being pretty excited when Loek Ursem joined.
I remember he spurred me on to scoring loads of goals in the school playground (with a tennis ball).
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Post by Beardy200 on Jul 22, 2014 21:59:56 GMT
This is going to sound strange but personally at the time I was really excited by Palacios, on paper he was the perfect TP player and he was a good footballer too. Shame it didn't work out the way I was hoping! Embarassing to admit but me too  I'll tread a lot more carefully from now on. They're all shit until they prove otherwise |
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Post by scfcbiancorossi on Jul 22, 2014 22:01:43 GMT
Bojan shortly followed by Tuncay Sanli |
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Post by takeshikovacs on Jul 22, 2014 22:03:59 GMT
This is going to sound strange but personally at the time I was really excited by Palacios, on paper he was the perfect TP player and he was a good footballer too. Shame it didn't work out the way I was hoping! Embarassing to admit but me too I'll tread a lot more carefully from now on. They're all shit until they prove otherwise Thought he was going to be awesome for us too.  |
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Post by The Red and White Baron on Jul 22, 2014 22:04:41 GMT
Peter Hoekstra for me but Bojan isn't far behind. Pretty hard to argue that most us were shocked that a full Dutch international was willing to play in the second division. And what a player he was. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 22:04:52 GMT
Mickey Thomas. Always rated him at Man U and couldn't believe it when we signed him.
He didn't let me down.
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Post by Linx on Jul 22, 2014 22:08:06 GMT
I just remember lots of people who had already been accustomed to the heady successes of the early 70s being very excited by the Alan Hudson signing. It really felt like we had gone up a level. Ominously, we were relegated three years later.
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Post by tonedepear on Jul 22, 2014 22:11:18 GMT
Michael Tonge. I live in Sheffield and all the blunts fans were furious they'd let him go and not fussed about Beattie. Before that probly Greenacre.
With that record, I don't allow myself to get excited anymore.
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Post by redwhite on Jul 22, 2014 22:13:16 GMT
Demba Ba. Oh wait.
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Post by Linx on Jul 22, 2014 22:17:56 GMT
And Popov! I was in the middle of France on a dodgy internet connection. I was ecstatic that we had finally signed a left back and spent days of ignorant bliss imagining our great season ahead. When I got connected again a few days later I found out he was a West Brom player. WTF? |
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but you are forgetting Jimmy Greenhoff what a player , loved Huddy but Greenhoff was so special, oh forgot Top cat could we be on the verge of getting near that era again ?, solid at the back creative midfield etc god I hope so.
