Yorkshire Canary 118 Posted May 18, 2010 Here we are agaain in the close season looking forward to nice new signings. remember when they all went horribly wrong.Darren Beckford, Neil Emblem,Helveg, Jonnsonn. Sure there are many more out there in peoples memories Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yellow blood 0 Posted May 18, 2010 Jarrett, Strivhaka, Theolokitos... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greg Downs Hairpiece 0 Posted May 18, 2010 All hail Dean Coney. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
marvin the martian 0 Posted May 18, 2010 Trevor Hockey, lots of hair, nothing else. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GJL Mid-Norfolk Canary 2,032 Posted May 18, 2010 [quote user="Yorkshire Canary"]Here we are agaain in the close season looking forward to nice new signings. remember when they all went horribly wrong. Darren Beckford, Neil Emblem,Helveg, Jonnsonn. Sure there are many more out there in peoples memories[/quote]Arsene Wenger once famously said that he would never buy players out of summer tournament football. Matias Jonson was a classic example of why not to when Worthington signed him off the back of Euro ''04. at 30 years of age for a Swede to have never played outside of Scandinavia should have raised suspicisions as anyone who''s any good from that part of the world would have long since moved, at 1.5 mil must ate as pound for pound our worst ever signing?He managed to go through a whole premiership season without scoring or perhaps more tellingly for a winger creating any assists. A truely dreadful signing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
singing canary 0 Posted May 18, 2010 helveg ???..he was a decent player Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bungay Canary 0 Posted May 18, 2010 Mark rivers should have been known as Bone Idol . Anthony Mc Namee is a clone of the afor mentioned Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mister Chops 7 Posted May 18, 2010 Clint EastonJason JarrettJulien BrellierIan Murray (people who think Doc was bad should recall this loser) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jed exodous 0 Posted May 18, 2010 Jonson took a long while to adapt. He was a poor signing but i do remember that game with head bandage. Thought he was like a rabbitt in headlights for first 3 quarters of the season but done ok last couple of months, even voted player of the month i think,Other poor signings or disapointing signings, in no particular order,Victor Segura, Jean yves de blassis, Raymond de waard, steve walsh, tony cottee, mike Sheron, Graham Stuart, Zema Abbey, Neil Emblem, cedric anselin, troy archibald henville, trevor benjamin, Julien Brellier (wonder where the flag is), carl cort, patrick boyle, owain tudor jones, jason jarrett, ian murray, des hamilton come on downUlf ottoson, louis-jean, peschisolido, peter thornSo many crap players and these are from the last 10-15 years, must be loads more from before my time, (i''m late 20''s) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Crafty Canary 545 Posted May 18, 2010 Yoy want bad?Try Gerry Howshall, Jimmy Blair and Drazen Muzinic for three. Utter crap the lot of ''em. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John 0 Posted May 18, 2010 [quote user="jed exodous"]owain tudor jones[/quote]I''d like to think the jury is still out on that one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Levi Stubbs 0 Posted May 18, 2010 Willie Young, & Martin Chivers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jed exodous 0 Posted May 18, 2010 The jury may still be out, but judging by Lamberts reaction when his loan finished, i.e no where near the first team, hes made his verdict. The guy is not good enough for our team. I wish people could get their heads round this. He couldn''t get into our league 1 team, why do you want to give him a chance in the champ? i''m now waiting for the replies about injuries, he was injured when he signed and had managed around 50 games in 4 years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DDD In The Fine City 1 Posted May 18, 2010 OJ Koroma - did he ever play for us? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Old Shuck 280 Posted May 18, 2010 If, IF Neil Emblen had been fit, he would have been a quality player. But another crock when he signed, we''ve done that a few times.Martin Chivers scored on his debut and looked good, then it all went a long way downhill. Willie Young, yes, that was particularly disappointing, he''d been a helluva player-OK, short on skill but big on physical presence-for Arsenal, but treated us, I think, as his retirement fund.Sean Elliott was another decent''ish centre back who we signed who was a bit of a let down as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jim blair 0 Posted May 18, 2010 [quote user="crafty canary"]Yoy want bad?Try Gerry Howshall, Jimmy Blair and Drazen Muzinic for three. Utter crap the lot of ''em.[/quote]Hey!! I was a great player Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yellow blood 0 Posted May 18, 2010 OJ Koroma - did he ever play for us? Yes. away at MK Dons in the cup. Missed a sitter! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 0 Posted May 18, 2010 Really can''t believe some of the suggestions on here!I think you should go for an 11 of worse ever signings and then you have to discount players who barely played for us due to career threatening injuries. So that takes out the likes of Giallanza who scored 2 goals in 11 appearences and was not a bad player, Emblen who was injured so badly that he was never able to recapture the form he had for Wolves etc.My 11 would be:GK: Theoklitis (is there really any doubt?!!)RB: BriggsCB: Archibald-Henville - Who?CB: McGovern (this may be the start of a trend, a Hamilton signing)LB: Derveld (oh look, another Hamilton signing)LM: De Ward (guess who? Hamilton again)CM: Des Hamilton (would that be a Hamilton signing again?)CM: Jarrett (don''t care if it was injuries, the fact that he has never reached the heights of playing for us says it all to me)RM: Whaley (so what he is fast, a chicken can get up a good speed, doesn''t mean its brain works any better)STR: Thorne (some say he was unlucky, I say he was pants)STR: ConeySubs: Garry Brady, Paul Dalglish . . . . Manager: Bryan Hamilton.The sad thing is out of that lot half of them are still playing - and some of those that arn''t have been forced to retire through injury like Dalglish and Des Hamilton.You could easily put another 11 together of injury plagued flops if we put our minds to it which I think is farer than saying they are crap. And in fairness I based my 11 on the fact that the players were crap in the first place. If you were going on ''poor signings'' as in they were not good signings but had been good players prior or post signing for us then I would throw in the likes of Walsh, Cottey, Sibierski etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Levi Stubbs 0 Posted May 18, 2010 [quote user="Old Shuck"]If, IF Neil Emblen had been fit, he would have been a quality player. But another crock when he signed, we''ve done that a few times.Martin Chivers scored on his debut and looked good, then it all went a long way downhill. Willie Young, yes, that was particularly disappointing, he''d been a helluva player-OK, short on skill but big on physical presence-for Arsenal, but treated us, I think, as his retirement fund.Sean Elliott was another decent''ish centre back who we signed who was a bit of a let down as well.[/quote]Agreed.Add to the ''decent-ish centre back'' list, who could have been a decent signing,a certain Steve Walsh from Leicester.Tony Cottee has just sprung from my ''not fond of'' memory bank,also! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheGoogler 598 Posted May 18, 2010 I never saw any speed out of Whaley. His one ability was he could shoot. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drazen Muzinic 1,497 Posted May 18, 2010 [quote user="yellow blood"]OJ Koroma - did he ever play for us? Yes. away at MK Dons in the cup. Missed a sitter![/quote]What a shame we didn''t have Teddy Sheringham on the books at the same time.I quite liked the idea of a forward pairing of Sheringham & Koroma...Ok, I''ll get me coat... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Woman in the Stands (WITS) 0 Posted May 18, 2010 That French bloke with a funny name Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tim Allman 1 Posted May 18, 2010 [quote user="yellow blood"] OJ Koroma - did he ever play for us?Yes. away at MK Dons in the cup. Missed a sitter![/quote]He also started in the away game at Southampton (lost 0-2 and Stefanovic was sent off) in one of the most corrupt selections I have ever seen. Nowhere near the first team and injured for ages and suddenly from nowhere gets a game at the nearest away ground to his parent club. I''ll leave it to all to draw your own conclusions about the reasons for his selection.OJ Koroma did come on as a sub against Coventry in the first game of that season, ran around very quickly and missed a couple of very good chances. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drazen Muzinic 1,497 Posted May 18, 2010 Not sure who you mean WITS...Marc "13 seconds" Libbra?Cedric "Bordeaux To Dereham in 6 Easy Steps" Anselin?Julian "YouTube" Brellier?Jean Yves "Nothing Interesting" De Blasiis?... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Woman in the Stands (WITS) 0 Posted May 18, 2010 De Blasiis - that''s the one. Cheers DM [Y] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Fantastic 0 Posted May 18, 2010 Fotheringham Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Croydon Canary 0 Posted May 18, 2010 How about a really great signing of yester year.MARTIN PETERS ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites