First impressions...

[Houso]

... are often wrong.

**Close Season Thread Alert**

Name one player who you thought was going to be a star for us, and turned out... well... dogshit. And name another who you were gutted to sell, but turns out we made an unusually good call.

I'll start with Brian Howard. Was awesome for Barnsley and then in that brief sub appearance on debut, looked like we'd pulled off a stormer.

Sadly he was work shy, ball shy and well... dogshit.

On the other hand, I thought selling Olivier Tebily for just 1.25 million was awful bit of business and we should have held on longer. Turns out he peaked in that handful of games and was derided wherever he went after. Lovely turnaround on the couple hundred k we paid.

Yep; dogshit.

 

[Birdwell Blade]

Jordan Slew

 

[BigBed]

Hammond. Adkins told us he was the best, he was DOGSHIT, but the unseen type, like the furry white stuff you sometimes see on the park.

Brayford. Was a little sad to see him go, as he'd been decent for us.
Turns out Burton is his level, and was probably the right time for him to move on.
Gave Freeman a chance to prove he was better too.

 

[Dec]

Michael Higdon looked a proper handful on his first game where he was captain and scored.

Turns out he was more than two handfuls of shite.

 

[Blade56]

Luton Shelton
Lee Morris

 

[SwitchBLADE Smiles]

Arturo Lupoli. When he signed (albeit on loan) I thought "wow, we've bagged ourselves an Italian, Arsenal academy product. This is going to be excellent"... Nope.

Might be a bit obvious, but David Brooks. Still leaves a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth as I think we undersold him quite considerably, however the money that was raised from his sale funded the signings of Egan & Norwood which effectively sealed our promotion to the Prem.

Good call Mr Wilder.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

... are often wrong.

**Close Season Thread Alert**

Name one player who you thought was going to be a star for us, and turned out... well... dogshit. And name another who you were gutted to sell, but turns out we made an unusually good call.

I'll start with Brian Howard. Was awesome for Barnsley and then in that brief sub appearance on debut, looked like we'd pulled off a stormer.

Sadly he was work shy, ball shy and well... dogshit.

On the other hand, I thought selling Olivier Tebily for just 1.25 million was awful bit of business and we should have held on longer. Turns out he peaked in that handful of games and was derided wherever he went after. Lovely turnaround on the couple hundred k we paid.

Yep; dogshit.

Chris Guthrie

 

[ShorehamRevolution]

... are often wrong.

**Close Season Thread Alert**

Name one player who you thought was going to be a star for us, and turned out... well... dogshit. And name another who you were gutted to sell, but turns out we made an unusually good call.

I'll start with Brian Howard. Was awesome for Barnsley and then in that brief sub appearance on debut, looked like we'd pulled off a stormer.

Sadly he was work shy, ball shy and well... dogshit.

On the other hand, I thought selling Olivier Tebily for just 1.25 million was awful bit of business and we should have held on longer. Turns out he peaked in that handful of games and was derided wherever he went after. Lovely turnaround on the couple hundred k we paid.

Yep; dogshit.

Are we Counting loan players? If so that ginger lad from Middlesbrough, Andy Campbell was it? The next big thing allegedly.

Agree on Tebily and Howard too.

Also another slight twist on your question and through no fault of his own I thought John Ebbrell would be a good signing....in fact he was.

 

[BettingBlade]

Most recently I would say either Leonard or Holmes. We’d chased them for so long and especially Holmes who had looked so good in that Charlton side when we played them at home. Wouldn’t say either were dogshit just a mixture of not getting the opportunity and just not being quite good enough.

Agree with the fella who said Jordan Slew and also when we let Lee Evans go so close to the deadline last year. How wrong I was with that one.

 

[Carlton Blade]

A but harsh but Dellas had all the ability but circumstances made him next to useless for us. Shame because as we saw, there was a fantastic player in there

Barry Hayles scored goals everywhere. Awful for us. Also looked about a foot shorter and 2 stone lighter then he did before

Nobody could have thought Ian Rush would be that bad

 

[Carlton Blade]

Are we Counting loan players? If so that ginger lad from Middlesbrough, Andy Campbell was it? The next big thing allegedly.

Agree on Tebily and Howard too.

Also another slight twist on your question and through no fault of his own I thought John Ebbrell would be a good signing....in fact he was.

Andy Campbell = Forrest Gump

 

[cjx blade]

Was it brian howard from barnsley looked fantastic on his debut but never looked the same after that?

 

[Houso]

In a similar vein to Brian Howard, Leon Britton. Great little sub cameo debut.

Mind you, I'm not sure he was entirely dogshit. Just dogshit for us.

 

[Houso]

Was it brian howard from barnsley looked fantastic on his debut but never looked the same after that?

Well... yes?

 

[niktheblade]

Luton Shelton
Lee Morris

This was going to be my exact answer!

So, i'll give another;

Claude Davis
Curtis Woodhouse

 

[Brian Blessed]

David White

Wayne Quinn

 

[KoppedOff]

At the risk of blashpemy, how about a certain Mr Sharps second spell? By no means all his fault and definitely a victim of circumstance; the idiots we had in charge at the time deciding to play him on the wing for example., But he was the great white hope at the time; a genuine goal scorer, one of our own that could become a legend. Thankfully, he got there, just about 8 years later than expected.

 

[Houso]

At the risk of blashpemy, how about a certain Mr Sharps second spell? By no means all his fault and definitely a victim of circumstance; the idiots we had in charge at the time deciding to play him on the wing for example., But he was the great white hope at the time; a genuine goal scorer, one of our own that could become a legend. Thankfully, he got there, just about 8 years later than expected.

No, I think that's fair and Billy has said it never worked out for him prior to his time now.

Aside from the match against QPR, he was always just too bloody eager. Never seen a player caught offside more than Billy in that spell at the club.

 

[dazzlingblade]

Higdon aswell for me, just come off a season scoring 15 goals in the dutch top flight for a relegated side, If my memory serves me right

really thought he was a great signing for us at the time, how wrong could i have been

 

[KoppedOff]

No, I think that's fair and Billy has said it never worked out for him prior to his time now.

Aside from the match against QPR, he was always just too bloody eager. Never seen a player caught offside more than Billy in that spell at the club.

Apart from the hat trick, my overriding memory of that spell was him regularly battling out wide, winning the ball and crossing it to nobody where he should have been.

 

[dazzlingblade]

In a similar vein to Brian Howard, Leon Britton. Great little sub cameo debut.

Mind you, I'm not sure he was entirely dogshit. Just dogshit for us.

right player wrong time, Britton would have been a perfect fit for the Coutts/Norwood role, our system just didn't suit that kind of player

 

[Grappler]

Daniel Bogdanovic. Went from scoring an average of a goal every three games (Barnsley) to scoring a fantastic, goal every seven games, for us.

Claude Davis, didn't we sell him to Derby for the same as he had cost us?, great bit of business if so.

 

[Red Hot Currie]

Alan Young. Came with a big reputation and at a big price in the Porterfield era. He was made of broken biscuits. A bit like Ashley Ward....

 

[Carlton Blade]

David White

Wayne Quinn

Quinn was very, very good for a fair amount of time. Seems a little harsh

 

[Carlton Blade]

Daniel Bogdanovic. Went from scoring an average of a goal every three games (Barnsley) to scoring a fantastic, goal every seven games, for us.

Claude Davis, didn't we sell him to Derby for the same as he had cost us?, great bit of business if so.

Regularly listed as Derbys worst ever player.

 

[Houso]

Quinn was very, very good for a fair amount of time. Seems a little harsh

Brian is probably commenting on the fact that he thought selling him was a bad idea, but he was dogshit for Newcastle and every club that followed.

Problem with Wayne was that he was a fantastic wing back, just not a very good full back. Him and Vas on either side for Spackman ❤

 

[Grappler]

Regularly listed as Derbys worst ever player.

Lovely stuff, just checked and yep, we signed him for 3 million quid, a record signing for us, luckily we sold him to Derby for 3 Million quid.

A Derby supporting bloke who used to go in our local was forever banging on about how we sold Claude "Donkey" Davis to them, used to love hearing him moan (he always referred to the manager, at that time, Billy Davies, as "the poison dwarf").

 

[ben1987]

Seem to remember Connor Sammon having a stormer at Peterborough away. Then the embarrassing feed the fish stuff.

Turned out we’d have been better with some tinned salmon upfront.

 

[shorehamview]

Lee Hendrie. At his best he was a cracking player, when he signed for us he had roughly three or four good five minute spells. Could have been great, but wasn’t.

I too was disappointed to see Brayford go, but the loan spell he had with us before signing permanently was probably the best he’s ever been.

 

[Houso]

Seem to remember Connor Sammon having a stormer at Peterborough away. Then the embarrassing feed the fish stuff.

Turned out we’d have been better with some tinned salmon upfront.

Indeed, this song has three players more than suitable for the OP...