Players Who Were Great And Then............Not!

[Bayingblade]

Following on from the threads about players who were shit and the brief brilliance post, I was trying to think of players we had who started brilliantly only to fall from grace and prove themselves to be.......well.......not so great. I remember Phil Starbuck looking pretty useful when on loan but once he signed permanently, his performances deteriorated rapidly. Nick Montgomery also looked like a world beating wing wizard (yes.....he did........really!) on debut but turned out not to be.

Over to you

 

[LurkerBlade]

Christian Nade

 

[coaxingstar71]

John Hope, although he's already featured in a similar thread.

 

[Tyler Durden]

David Cotterill

Brilliant in his initial loan spell and then not much cop when we signed him.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Matthew Kilgallon

A crucial part of our squad for quite a while, then as soon as he saw a big money move, he took the absolute piss out of us with his gash performances and general couldn't care less attitude.

Detest the bloke, right up there with Slew and McNulty as my most hated player.

 

[pommpey]

Wayne Quinn

Looked good. Was good. Played shit.

I remember seeing him in Tobago, when we played their 1st XI. Warnock asked if anyone wanted to go on, he was sat well away from the team on a football and ignored Warnock's call. Warnock asked me if I had any boots (he did, by the way). In the end, Blackwell went on.

Quinn just couldn't be fucked.

pommpey

 

[Highbury_Blade]

John Brayford

 

[FTPE]

Michael Tonge.
Lost his eye for goal, lost his creativity and forgot how to beat a man.

 

[Bayingblade]

Contentious maybe but Michael Tonge. Brilliant on the wing but had delusions of grandeur about being a central midfielder. Warnock unusually succumbed and he was never the same (IMHO).

 

[Bayingblade]

Michael Tonge.
Lost his eye for goal, lost his creativity and forgot how to beat a man.

Great minds FTPG!

 

[Tyler Durden]

Gareth Taylor

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Define : Brilliant.

No player stands out enough.

 

[FlamingLip]

Contentious maybe but Michael Tonge. Brilliant on the wing but had delusions of grandeur about being a central midfielder. Warnock unusually succumbed and he was never the same (IMHO).

maybe this coincided with his feet seemingly shifting 90 degrees on their axis.

that said, fond memories 'tongey' !

 

[FlamingLip]

Define : Brilliant.

No player stands out enough.

true. but we did go through an era of some real cults .... as opposed to this prolonged period of real cu...

 

[1danewhitehouse]

Wayne Quinn
Phil Starbuck
John Harley (to a lesser extent)
Connor Sammon (Remember that 4 game winning run?)
John Brayford?????? (I hope not)
Bob Harris
Stefan Scougall
Michael Higdon (was good for 45 minutes)
Petr Katchouro
Michael Vonk
Dave Kitson
Dean Windass
Danny Webber



We managed to get rid of some before it all went south though

Curtis Woodhouse
Lee Morris
Martin Smith
Jordan Slew

 

[Revolution]

Peter Kachouro had an odd career:

Start of 1996-7 - mostly terrible, until he scored at Wolves

Rest of 1996-7 up to playoff final - good or very good

Playoff final and all of 1997-8 - terrible

October and November of 1998-9 - excellent, until he gets badly injured

Rest of 1998-9 after his comeback and all of 1999-2000 - bad to terrible

It's rare you see one player have such peaks and troughs in the space of a few seasons.

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

Jean Calve.

That goal. Then that level of mediocrity.

 

[Revolution]

Contentious maybe but Michael Tonge. Brilliant on the wing but had delusions of grandeur about being a central midfielder. Warnock unusually succumbed and he was never the same (IMHO).

Tonge was with us for seven and a bit seasons but was never as good as in his second season, sadly.

Paul Tomlinson and Tony Philliskirk were others who started well and never got better, though Tonge was better than the pair of them.

 

[DifferentClass]

Ian Rush- fucking brilliant until injuries caught up with him, well well past his best during his brief Lane spell.

 

[BusheyBlade]

John Harley, absolutely sensational during his initial loan spell. Recall him virtually running a game at Reading (???). Utter tosh once he did sign.

 

[Keef Chedwyn]

Obvious one.

James Beattie.

 

[BushBlade]

Tonge was with us for seven and a bit seasons but was never as good as in his second season, sadly.

Paul Tomlinson and Tony Philliskirk were others who started well and never got better, though Tonge was better than the pair of them.

Tomlinson and Philliskirk were part of our promotion side in 84 and I think Division 2 was a bit above them.

 

[Revolution]

Tomlinson and Philliskirk were part of our promotion side in 84 and I think Division 2 was a bit above them.

Philliskirk, probably. Tomlinson adjusted and had a number of good years with Bradford at that level.

 

[BushBlade]

Philliskirk, probably. Tomlinson adjusted and had a number of good years with Bradford at that level.

Yes, he was very young. If I remember correctly (and I usually don't) he made his debut at 17 and saved a pen.

 

[Revolution]

Yes, he was very young. If I remember correctly (and I usually don't) he made his debut at 17 and saved a pen.

That was his league debut against Southend. I think he was 18. We won 5-0 and he saved it when it was 0-0, at the Kop end.

We'd won 5-1 in his full debut in the cup at Wrexham the week before.

King Keith scored 7 of the 10 goals we got in those 2 games.

Long reminds me of Tomlinson a bit, in that he's stalled after early promise.

 

[BushBlade]

That was his league debut against Southend. I think he was 18. We won 5-0 and he saved it when it was 0-0, at the Kop end.

We'd won 5-1 in his full debut in the cup at Wrexham the week before.

King Keith scored 7 of the 10 goals we got in those 2 games.

Long reminds me of Tomlinson a bit, in that he's stalled after early promise.

I was at the game but couldn't remember who it was against, or that we'd won 5-0.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Through probably no fault of his own, Shaun Miller.

At his best he could make all the difference in a game and I rated him very highly. Sadly his injury put him into a nosedive after that.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Chè

 

[crucialkneeligaman]

Marcus Bent.

 

[Jon Bon]

Alan Whittle