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Post by wardrobe monster on Feb 22, 2004 20:09:03 GMT
Which player that we have signed, either permanently or on loan, has really got your juices flowing only for them to be the biggest pile of cack going?
I can think a couple..gerry mcmahon from spurs..on the fringes of their first team and I thought he would develop into a cracking player. How wrong can you be.
Also thought Paul Stewart would be a good signing, with plenty of experience at the top level, chance to prove a few people wrong, but again no...obviously just here for the bacon and cheese oatcakes...and plenty of them too.
Any others?
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Post by RipRoaringPotter on Feb 22, 2004 20:10:09 GMT
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Post by wardrobe monster on Feb 22, 2004 20:13:06 GMT
mind you we didnt really know a lot about him before he came did we? What about someone well known who has proven to be a flop?
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Post by RipRoaringPotter on Feb 22, 2004 20:15:13 GMT
I seem to remember we knew quite a lot about from our Icelandic friends on this M/B. We knew his goalscoring record, who he played for, his shoe size, what pants he wears.................you get the point  ;D |
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Post by Hooky on Feb 22, 2004 20:16:05 GMT
apart from dadasson
Oulare
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Post by kajshdfsiuf on Feb 22, 2004 20:39:52 GMT
Can't help likeing oulares arse! came in hand to beat the Taffs
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Post by cambs_stokie on Feb 22, 2004 22:19:13 GMT
This thread is along the same lines as the worst stoke player thread i suppose so i'll go for the same as i did on that. Keith Scott!
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Post by stubbo on Feb 22, 2004 23:16:05 GMT
Its got to be Chris Kamaras inspire £500,000 swoop for Kyle Lightbourne.
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Post by spiderpuss on Feb 23, 2004 0:09:33 GMT
At the time and being so Naive about football I would say Kyle Lightbourne. Remember it was 1/2M of money we could ill afford, spent by a twat who still graces the Sky tele screens. Suffice to say Kyle was that bad that someone lost the plot and tried to twat him after yet another rubbish performance. (and not for the last time it would seem)
Kyle Lightbourne, the biggest waste of 1/2M ever to graced this earth! If I ever see that prat Kamara....
Spider
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Post by wardrobe monster on Feb 23, 2004 1:21:15 GMT
yeah lightbourne got to be up there, especially after paying 500,000. also when you consider, as someone pointed out on another thread, goater was bought for 400,000 a few weeks later.
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Post by wardrobe monster on Feb 23, 2004 1:26:57 GMT
can I just say the difference I wa strying to make with this thread and the worst stoke player ever, is that we can all think of crap players who've played for stoke , but who when signed seemed like an inspirational signing or someone who seemed like a real prospect for the future but turned out to be crap.
what got me thinking was the loan signing of taggert and the success he brought and got to thinking of the other end of the spectrum
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Post by wanchaiwarrior on Feb 23, 2004 6:39:35 GMT
I reckon Chris Greenacre must be right up there with Lightbourne. Okay, he didn’t cost half a million, but he was much hyped after his exploits at Mansfield, we sneaked in to get him ahead of Forest (who were play-off material at the time) and by all accounts, we paid him (and still do  ) a pretty penny in wages because he arrived on a Bosman. He put 4 in against Newcastle Town (okay it was only Castle Town but he did look impressive) and we were all ready to anoint him as the successor in the line of Biggins, Stein, Sheron and Thorne. Then what!?!??! He got injured and came back to universal disappointment - where was the penalty box predator we thought we had purchased? With little pace, not much physical presence and a lack of any serious goal threat, he was a poor man’s Andy Cooke. He was about as predatory as next door’ fat old moggy.  Never mind, we are told he is a nice lad. Well, excuse me, but I know plenty of nice lads who would give their all for Stoke and run around every so often for a few grand a week. No sireey, we wuz robbed. Somewhere, in a parallel universe, there is the real Chris Greenacre, the one we heard so much about, who scored goals for fun at Field Mill, banging in 30 goals a season for Stoke and getting us promoted to the Premiership. Unfortunately, in this reality, he is a mediocre trier to whom we are paying far too much money and who needs to go back to his level in the Third Division. |
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Post by SamB_SCFC on Feb 23, 2004 13:26:44 GMT
For me it's got to be either Gerry McMahon or Kyle Lightbourne, who get the nod over the other big contender Rikki Dadason by virtute of them both costing £500,000!!
McMahon I really had high hopes for, he was on the fringes of the Spurs 1st team, had made a couple of very impressive outings for them and in Match footy magazine (I was only about 12 or 13 when he signed) he was voted one of the 20 most promising youngsters in the Prem at the start of the 96/97 season. What a pile of cack he turned out to be!!
Lightbourne is similar, had a great scoring record with Walsall and I thought he'd turn out to be a great signing who if he couldn't keep us up, would certainly shine in the 2nd and get the goals to take us back up! While overall he wasn't as cack as McMahon and he did have a good partnership with Thorney for half the 99/00 season for £500,000 he was a waste of money!!
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Post by dude on Feb 23, 2004 14:57:54 GMT
Jez...a bit harsh on next door's fat moggy comparing him to Greenacre.
Gerry McMahon a good shout....really was excited about him coming.
Dennis Tueart was a strange one. he was over the hill but was a real tidy midfielder. The season we signed him , we stuck him in the reserves and started playing long ball tactics.
Kyle had a tremendous record at Walsall and we signed him after Sheff U rejected our Gareth Taylor bid.
Greenacre gets my vote though surprisingly.
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Post by stonetezza on Feb 23, 2004 15:12:06 GMT
Steve Q or Brain Little
Both filled me with great optimism, both let me down like a sack of the brown stuff
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Post by wardrobe monster on Feb 23, 2004 15:37:54 GMT
stone tezza...nice one I hadnt thought about managers, but they fit the catagory perfectly.
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Post by medog on Feb 23, 2004 15:54:36 GMT
Got to be Oulare!
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink my arse
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Post by AlliG on Feb 23, 2004 19:36:20 GMT
Alex Elder. The last defender Stoke for whom Stoke paid money for 10 years. His performances showed why. Peter Shilton. Never really performed consistently to the level of which he was capable. Dave Gregory. The Chris Greenacre of his time.  Paul Randall. Scored something like 30 goals in the season before we signed him. Unfortunately, no one seemed to notice that only 1 or 2 were scored away from home. As stoke didn't play at Eastville, he was a big disappoinment. Alec Lindsay. Back in those days it was a given that any old player let go by Liverpool was burnt out and Lindsay just proved the point. Paul Dyson. When Coventry sold there entire back 4 in one summer, it was obvious that in a team that regularly struggled at the bottom, there would be one Lemon. Stoke of course found him! Robbie James. Came with a reputation as a goalscoring midfielder possessing a rocket of a shot. The bizarre tactics of Richie Barker meant we never saw him at his best. Simon Stainrod. Paul Williams on horse tranquilizers. Oops! Seem to be rather more than 1. |
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Post by melbournepotter on Feb 23, 2004 20:26:53 GMT
There are so many...but reading Alec Lindsays name reminded me of John Tudor and Alan Suddick.
Tudoe did nothing, and I believe Suddick was meant to supply the crosses for him. Both were past it....
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) a pretty penny in wages because he arrived on a Bosman.
