Blades that didn’t deliver.

[MCRBlade]

I’ll go first... Henri Camara. Had massive hopes for him when he signed for us. Think it was only 4 goals he ended up scoring?

Any others?

 

[Digs blade]

We will have probably had a few vegetarian players over the years.

Oh sorry misread the title

 

[Digs blade]

Richard Cadette. 160,000 (I think) signing from Southend which was big money for us in those days. Always seemed to me like he was about to fall over his own feet every time he got the ball

 

[Digs blade]

I’ll get this one in before everyone wakes up in the morning. John Ebbrell from Everton.

Cheers John that 45 first half minutes kicking towards the lane end will live in my memory for ever. Outstanding value for money

 

[Dimyan93]

To be fair I remember Henri Camara being really unfortunate in some games

Recent times surely it's got to be Leon Britton or James Beattie (2nd time)

 

[niktheblade]

Most of my expectation was based on Football Manager, but I expected Luton Shelton to be brilliant. Turns out he was just really fucking fast.

Other notable inclusions based on my expectations of them turning up and being good;
- Hai Hao Dong (The Chinese Alan Shearer)
- Michael Twiss
- Ahmed Fathy
- Ben Woodman

 

[bromtom]

In before Dronnie Blade says McBurnie

 

[diode_blade]

Who's that one that plays for us now, who used to work for McD's, never delivered the ferking burger on time...what a waste of money....

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

In before Dronnie Blade says McBurnie

And you beat me to it!!!

 

[Tezza1889]

Nathan Dyer

Crying all the way back to Swansea, then making it to the prem..

 

[S64 Blade]

Brian Howard
Barry Hayles
Dean Hammond
Geoff Horsfield
Leon Britton (probably more down to Blackwell!)

All came in with a decent reputation and relative recent success. None of them did a thing.

 

[LondonBlade89]

Luke Beckett. Thought we should try and get him for ages. Then we finally did. Did absolutely nothing, barely even played.

Even looking at his career now, he was prolific at every single club except us.

 

[bromtom]

Ben Woodburn recently has to be the worst of the lot.

Was it Norwich fans who were crying over him not going there? He was pretty shite at everything but holding the ball in the corner towards the end of the QPR away game.

Didn't seem to be able to kick a ball further than 25 yards.

Went back to Liverpool and was on the bench in a Champions League final, now at Oxford and I imagine will be released by Liverpool at the end of his contract and hang around relegated Prem teams in the Championship hoping someone still thinks he's worth £35k a week or whatever.

 

[Geordie Blade]

Barry Hayles

When we signed him, I thought we’d be unstoppable. He seemed like the final peice of the jigsaw. He’d always seemed deadly against us, and ended up being such a let down.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

I’ll get this one in before everyone wakes up in the morning. John Ebbrell from Everton.

Cheers John that 45 first half minutes kicking towards the lane end will live in my memory for ever. Outstanding value for money

I saw Ebbrell's golden 45 minutes too! We were so excited to have signed him at the time weren't we? He wor famous like and he'd been on our telly! 45 minutes later he was no more. Gone. Off into the hall of legends, for being the shortest serving player ever. (Watch SilentBlade come back now with some facts about a player called Herbert Foreskin from the 1897 season who only played for 37 minutes).

 

[CarlMcBlade]

If Wilder couldn’t do owt wi Woodburn nobody can.

 

[S64 Blade]

When we signed him, I thought we’d be unstoppable. He seemed like the final peice of the jigsaw. He’d always seemed deadly against us, and ended up being such a let down.

What was the exact story behind it? Never really known what it was so short-lived. Fell out with Warnock?

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

If Wilder couldn’t do owt wi Woodburn nobody can.

And now he's got a bigger challenge with McBurnie!

 

[Bath Blade]

This thread could be longer than the Twats, the lot of ‘em thread.

John Brayford (mk ii)

 

[bromtom]

And now he's got a bigger challenge with McBurnie!

McBurnie has already scored more, and done more than Woodburn.

Woodburn was so disappointing I almost forget he was here. Honestly thought we'd signed a 10/15 goal Brooks replacement on loan and pocketed £12m, thought we'd played a blinder.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

James Harper.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

When we signed him, I thought we’d be unstoppable. He seemed like the final peice of the jigsaw. He’d always seemed deadly against us, and ended up being such a let down.

What was the story of him leaving the Lane again, I can't remember.

 

[raimond]

What was the story of him leaving the Lane again, I can't remember.

Cockerney who couldn't stand the north as far as I remember. Chuffed off back dahn sarf within weeks

 

[Birdwell Blade]

Daniel Bogdanovic

 

[Willglynning]

Ricky Holmes- especially after he’d looked so good against us in the previous season

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

Phil Thompson, Peter Withe, Jostein Flo, Jon O’Connor, Bruno Ribeiro, Patrick Suffo, and Ravel Morrison

 

[McGrath]

James Harper.

I had really high hopes that he'd be the missing piece in the puzzle

 

[McGrath]

I am going to cause controversy here. But, I am going to say...

Ched Evans

Record signing in the Championship, didn't live up to the hype in that division, lack of goals helped us get relegated. Had a great season in League One until you know what happened... but we didn't spend millions on him to be great in League One. Did nothing once resigned (which seemed to be a McCabe thing).

I don't wish him ill-will. But I am glad we've moved on.

 

[DronnieBlade]

In before Dronnie Blade says McBurnie

 

[Tony]

Owen Morrisson, made a world class run first time on the ball then disappeared.