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Worst ever signing? (2 Viewers)

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Monners

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #71
Grendel said:
If I had to I’d say the worst signing was Eastwood.

There were rumours about his fitness and attitude before he joined. The idiot Coleman said he wanted him on loan first and McCarthy refused knowing he’d lose the sale.

Coleman and the even bigger idiot Ranson then bought him with a 5 year contract basically blowing a large chunk of the budget on a known dud
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Yep. I would go with that. The club management strategy (if you can call it that) as described here makes it the worst that I can remember. It's easy to pick players that didn't work out for whatever reason, but for the club to be so poorly clued up on what a lot of us new smacks of incompetence.
 
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Sky_Blue_Daz

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #72
Scott shearer

Kevin Kyle

Eddie Johnson

Keith O’Neil
 

vow

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #73
John Gayle


End of discussion...



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ccfc_ukr

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #74
Robccfc87 said:
The Ricoh?
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thats our worst "not" signing as the case turned out to be lol
 
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Skybluefaz

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #75
Sky_Blue_Daz said:
Scott shearer

Kevin Kyle

Eddie Johnson

Keith O’Neil
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Eddie Johnson scored the winner once against Sunderland therefore gains immunity from this.
 
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DannyThomas_1981

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #76
More random disasters:

Terry Butcher. £400K. 6 games. Paid highly as both a player and manager. Destroyed the team.

Pressley (who I have respect for as a manager) was a total disaster for us as a player.

Davie Bowman. Previously mentioned. Lots of hype. Very poor on the pitch.

Isaias. Not sure if we paid a fee. I liked him. Never seemed to be given a chance.
 
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DannyThomas_1981

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #77
Monners said:
Yep. I would go with that. The club management strategy (if you can call it that) as described here makes it the worst that I can remember. It's easy to pick players that didn't work out for whatever reason, but for the club to be so poorly clued up on what a lot of us new smacks of incompetence.
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Coleman was very poor for us - very little homework/planning (except if there was a bar nearby). Reid - just as bad - missed a game due to a family party.
 

DannyThomas_1981

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #78
Cobi Jones. Mainly because I purchased the ‘Cobi’s in town’ t-shirt from the club shop. Probably imagined at the time it was cool to be wearing something with an American type slogan. Wore it once to much hilarity from my mates. Never seen again. A bit like Cobi’s career with us.
 

eastwoodsdustman

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #79
vow said:
John Gayle


End of discussion...



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I’d disagree on this. Three nil down, away from home and pissing down with rain and on he’d come. At least you’d get some entertainment watching him try to end someone’s season
 

Liquid Gold

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #80
 
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eastwoodsdustman

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #81
Can I say Reece brown and ask for the thread to be closed.
 
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Covstu

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #82
Bellamy, just a twat
 
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kapowaz

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  • Jul 4, 2019
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Nick

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #84
DannyThomas_1981 said:
Cobi Jones. Mainly because I purchased the ‘Cobi’s in town’ t-shirt from the club shop. Probably imagined at the time it was cool to be wearing something with an American type slogan. Wore it once to much hilarity from my mates. Never seen again. A bit like Cobi’s career with us.
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I got a green and black away top with Jones on the back cheap because they had printed it on the wrong size and needed to get rid
 
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Mcbean

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #85
This thread can
Never be long enough !
 

Greggs

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #86
skyblue93 said:
Getting Allsop and Coulibaly from Bournemouth in the Wilson deal. Two atrocious players in one swoop.
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Don't forget Mqwank. Those 3 and 400quid for Wilson!
 

Paul Anthony

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #87
DannyThomas_1981 said:
More random disasters:

Terry Butcher. £400K. 6 games. Paid highly as both a player and manager. Destroyed the team.

Pressley (who I have respect for as a manager) was a total disaster for us as a player.

Davie Bowman. Previously mentioned. Lots of hype. Very poor on the pitch.

Isaias. Not sure if we paid a fee. I liked him. Never seemed to be given a chance.
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If I remember, Isaias struggled to get a chance because he seemed to be forever injured. Hard to believe that we had the first Brazilian to play in the Premier League.

As for worst signing, well let's be honest we have a plethora of contenders. I think Sherwood was the one I was most annoyed by. All that experience, and then that one game he cost us a goal because just stopped waiting for the ref to give a decision. No decision was given, and he looked like a total idiot. For a player who'd won the Premier League, that was amateur hour.
 
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The Philosopher

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #88
AStonesThrow said:
Ysrael Zuniga
Yakubu
Onandi Lowe
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Zuniga - I thought was quite good.

Lowe. 1 game. 1 goal. Not bad. Previous record was 1:2 for a poor team in our division.

Could play as defender as well.

Got charged with something, got off (rightly or wrongly). Innocent until guilty (in this case found not guilty).

Mistake to let him go.

If I were a defender, would I want to face a huge Yardie type with a point to prove who had a goal and win bonuses to win to fight a legal case?

Mistake to let him go. Bad signing? Bad handling of the situation? You decide.
 

Colin Steins Smile

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #89
Sandy Robertson - absolutely useless
 
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Sbarcher

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #90
twistandshout said:
Keith ONeil was one of our top earners
.He was always injured, 7 appearances in 2 years,he even was out injured once after breaking his hand on a fairground punch bag.
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Come on now, he kept several drinking establishments in Leamington going for the time he was here. Those poor landlords were unable to holiday in St Lucia when he retired.
 
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mds

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #91
Drinkell without a shadow of a doubt. Never forget the excitement and expectation when we signed him, what a let down, fucking carthorse!
 
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CV8_SkyBlues

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #92
Onandi Lowe has to be in with a shout.
Turned up late after international break, and then got arrested for trafficking Crack Cocaine after only 2 appearances
 

DannyThomas_1981

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #93
Worst signing but we somehow got our money back:

I give you Garry Borrowdale. Signed for 650 "bags". You read that right, 650K for a full back in the Championship. Thanks Dowie! Confidence seemed to be shot and he performed the worst impression of a professional footballer I personally have seen at the Ricoh. 22 games for us. Somehow then sold for 750 bags by Ranson to QPR, his best ever deal.

After 21 games for QPR he was loaned out. Within a couple of years and multiple loans later he signed full time for Tonbridge Rangers.
 
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SkyBlueSid

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #94
A few have mentioned Gary Collier. Yes, he was rubbish and cost a fortune. But....we offloaded him to somewhere like Portland Timbers and actually made a profit on him somehow.

I think the player we also signed for big money at that time was even worse, and played very few games. Step forward David Jones.
 

DannyThomas_1981

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #95
Worst makeweight:

Alan Brazil as part of Terry Gibson's move to Man Utd. Arrived injured and overweight. 15 appearances and 2 goals later was released on a free. A disaster. Within 1 year was playing for Witham Town (yes I've never heard of them either).
 

shmmeee

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #96
kapowaz said:
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Saved for future signing/match threads.
 
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Rodders1

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #97
DannyThomas_1981 said:
Isaias. Not sure if we paid a fee. I liked him. Never seemed to be given a chance.
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Awesome on championship manager though !
 

Alan Dugdales Moustache

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #98
Julian Darby . He was asleep for much of any game.
 
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Tile Hill Phil

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #99
Peter Barnes, thought he was a big let down but he was well past his best i suppose
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #100
Colin Hendry, absolutely past it yet Strachan kept him the next season where we were eventually relegated
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #101
eastwoodsdustman said:
I’d disagree on this. Three nil down, away from home and pissing down with rain and on he’d come. At least you’d get some entertainment watching him try to end someone’s season
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I remember seeing him playing for us at Wycombe in he 90s, think that's where they got the idea for Akinfenwa from
 
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no_loyalty

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #102
Josh McQuoid
 

Manchester_sky_blue

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #103
Leon McKenzie cost us a million quid and returned just 12 goals over 62 appearances. Not sure it makes him our worst ever signing but he wasn't good value whichever way you look at it.
 
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stay_up_skyblues

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #104
PurpleBin said:
Sure I remember him coming on as a sub against Forest after a long while out. He then went off again injured a short while after!
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This is my memory of him. I was sat a few rows behind the dug out ages about 14/15. Actually got a cheer when he came on but not so much when he came back off. Based on the wages and his previous relatively high profile he is well up there. Similar to Sherwood. But Yakubu has to be the winner.
 
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JulianDarbyFTW

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  • Jul 4, 2019
  • #105
Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
Julian Darby . He was asleep for much of any game.
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I don't like this post.
 
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