Ring Of Steel
Well-Known Member
I think Oggy, Borrows, Peake & Emerson could have been internationals... that 88/89 season was also the season of David Speedie having a personal ‘chip of the season’ competition with himself, Wimbledon was the best
They were abject weren't they?!? Even Ray Woods looked alright. Love the bit of skill by Borrows to set one up, though. He should have played for England too!
Ray Woods... good game against us for Wigan which had more to do with us being awful that day, Butcher immediately runs out and signs him..
Aside from Peter Atherton I don’t recall a single good signing by Butcher... Rosario was a disaster until Gould converted him from a target man to a provider & it didn’t take a genius to identify Kenny Sansom as a good player.
There was no bigger gaff, signing the best goalscorer in scotland at that moment in time who was absolute guff anywhere other than Scotland, and its not like he didnt miss chances either he had............ahh fk it!Sillets biggest gaff along side signing Drinkell
He wasnt a disaster tho was he, it was a general malaise, you could of picked any of that team\squad put them elsewhere and they would perform, Rosario flitted from MF to AM to CF and his best games always came as a midfileder whether attacking or not, being asked to play in the role he was signed to was a complete and utter, yep take it back, disaster!Rosario was a disaster until Gould converted him from a target man to a provider
Regarding the signing of Kevin Drinkel, we had two others in the frame John Aldrich who was playing in Spain and Nial Quinn, in fairness at the time Drinkell was scoring for fun at Rangers and had done so at Norwich and he scored 4 in his first six games here then the wheels came off big timeThere was no bigger gaff, signing the best goalscorer in scotland at that moment in time who was absolute guff anywhere other than Scotland, and its not like he didnt miss chances either he had............ahh fk it!
While I'm here, special mention for Micky Gynn-11 goals from midfield in the 90-91 season at that level. He was immense.
We lost the game but this was how David Smith was for that season, nobody could stop him. Theee goals, three assists, waltzing past people seemingly at will
That MF role really suited himHe wasnt a disaster tho was he, it was a general malaise, you could of picked any of that team\squad put them elsewhere and they would perform, Rosario flitted from MF to AM to CF and his best games always came as a midfileder whether attacking or not, being asked to play in the role he was signed to was a complete and utter, yep take it back, disaster!
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