| Favourite 'cr*p' players? 13:43 - Jan 19 with 13877 views | Swailsey |
Players who probably weren't very good but you liked them anyway? Players who others seemingly hated, but liked?
I know there's been similar threads like this before, but with all the hatred JD is getting, it's worth remembering that far worse players have been strangely liked, without any reason.
For me?
Colin Healy (still maintain he was a good player, ruined by injury)
Manual Thetis
ALB
Ben Thatcher*
N'Daw
*mainly because I signed him on FM years ago and he was ace for me. [Post edited 19 Jan 2017 13:57]
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| Who said: "Colin Healy made Cesc Fabregas look like Colin Healy"? | We miss you TLA |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 13:57 - Jan 19 with 1741 views | Radlett_blue |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 13:53 - Jan 19 by GlasgowBlue |
I was thinking about Colin Healy earlier. H e put that ball through for Priskin's goal against Arsenal.
Healy would be an improvement on what we have in the middle of the park at the moment.
Recently it would be:
Gary Roberts
Stern John
Leadbetter (Slated by 90% of posters on here) |
Stern John deserves to be on the list for his name alone.
I also quite liked Gary Roberts, although the problem was when he was with us, he was probably playing 1 league too high. |  |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 13:57 - Jan 19 with 1739 views | GeoffSentence |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 13:56 - Jan 19 by SWGF |
You'd be better off putting something akin to that in your signature thingy. Save posting it every time.
And ALB's career really did take off after he left us which further backs up your opinion... |
Had he stayed at Bolton and been first choice keeper, rather than being relegated they may have been challenging for the play-offs as in the 38 championship games he played, we averaged 1.58............ |  |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 13:59 - Jan 19 with 1721 views | IpswichIrish |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 13:50 - Jan 19 by RobTheMonk |
Priskin - Convinced there's a player somewhere in there.
Shumi - Random unknown foreigner with a cool name.
ALB - I didn't actually think he was as terrible as he's made out to be.
Balkenstein - Cultured left foot but that's about it.
Fallon - No reason. Just liked him! |
Alun Armstrong brilliant finisher |  | | |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 13:59 - Jan 19 with 1719 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 13:57 - Jan 19 by Radlett_blue |
Stern John deserves to be on the list for his name alone.
I also quite liked Gary Roberts, although the problem was when he was with us, he was probably playing 1 league too high. |
Gary Roberts always gave 100%. I met him as well and he was a really nice guy. Think he couldn't believe he was at such a big club. |  |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:00 - Jan 19 with 1702 views | BackToRussia |
JET is the ultimate. |  |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:02 - Jan 19 with 1675 views | GeoffSentence |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 13:50 - Jan 19 by RobTheMonk |
Priskin - Convinced there's a player somewhere in there.
Shumi - Random unknown foreigner with a cool name.
ALB - I didn't actually think he was as terrible as he's made out to be.
Balkenstein - Cultured left foot but that's about it.
Fallon - No reason. Just liked him! |
YES! GET IN! You are spot on, ALB was nowhere near as terrible as he was made out to be. Which is why I like to point out, on any suitable occasion that in the 38 games he played for us we averaged 1.58 points per game which, if those games had been over the course of a single season, would have seen us pushing for the play off places. This at a time when our defence was terrible and we were otherwise more likely to be struggling against relegation. [Post edited 19 Jan 2017 14:04]
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:04 - Jan 19 with 1664 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:02 - Jan 19 by GeoffSentence |
YES! GET IN! You are spot on, ALB was nowhere near as terrible as he was made out to be. Which is why I like to point out, on any suitable occasion that in the 38 games he played for us we averaged 1.58 points per game which, if those games had been over the course of a single season, would have seen us pushing for the play off places. This at a time when our defence was terrible and we were otherwise more likely to be struggling against relegation. [Post edited 19 Jan 2017 14:04]
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Didn't ALB have two current Premier League central defenders in front of him? | |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:04 - Jan 19 with 1660 views | Disco_Inferno |
I wouldn't say these were crap but they weren't star performers but all became cult heroes.....
Mich D'Avray
Adrian Paz
Phil Whelan
Gus Uhlenbeek
Manu Thetis (obviously) |  | | |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:05 - Jan 19 with 1644 views | Swailsey |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:04 - Jan 19 by GlasgowBlue |
Didn't ALB have two current Premier League central defenders in front of him? |
Do you know what our average PPG ratio was with him though? [Post edited 20 Jan 2017 14:03]
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| Who said: "Colin Healy made Cesc Fabregas look like Colin Healy"? | We miss you TLA |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:07 - Jan 19 with 1624 views | LeoMuff |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 13:57 - Jan 19 by GlasgowBlue |
Priskin was so badly managed by both Keane and Jewell that by the end he had totally given up.
I recall him getting seven consecutive man of the match awards under Keane and the whole Portman Road singing "you don't know what you're doing" when Keane took him off in one game.
Now he is remembered as an awful player. Probably doesn't help that he was bought with the Rhodes money. |
Priskin had an abysmal strike rate for a foward everywhere he has been, apart from the Bratislavan league, so I doubt it was Management that was the issue. |  |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:07 - Jan 19 with 1617 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:05 - Jan 19 by Swailsey |
Do you know what our average PPG ratio was with him though? [Post edited 20 Jan 2017 14:03]
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I'd hazard a guess it was 1.58 but I could be wrong ;-) | |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:09 - Jan 19 with 1601 views | GeoffSentence |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:04 - Jan 19 by GlasgowBlue |
Didn't ALB have two current Premier League central defenders in front of him? |
He played behind the same defences as Wright, Begovic, Fulop, Stockdale and McCarthy. Yet with him in goal we averaged 1.58 points per game which if they had been over the course of a single season......... | |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:10 - Jan 19 with 1595 views | King_of_Portman_Rd |
Drissa Diallo..... Now there is a man who knew how to take a throw in |  | | |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:12 - Jan 19 with 1559 views | Smithy |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 13:48 - Jan 19 by Disco_Inferno |
Micky Stockwell
Was never the best, terrible throw-ins but 110% effort and blue and white blood in his veins |
wtf??????? |  |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:13 - Jan 19 with 1549 views | Radlett_blue |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:07 - Jan 19 by LeoMuff |
Priskin had an abysmal strike rate for a foward everywhere he has been, apart from the Bratislavan league, so I doubt it was Management that was the issue. |
Priskin had one really good season at Watford in the Championship when Brendan Rogers realised he was very effective if they played the ball to his feet & used his pace. Then we signed him & lumped long balls at him, presumably because he was 6'1". Classic mismanagement. | |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:14 - Jan 19 with 1539 views | hoppy |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 13:47 - Jan 19 by Josebadleg |
Jay Tabb |
I respectfully request that you re-read the OP subject title and that would then allow you to edit your post to correct it. |  |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:15 - Jan 19 with 1526 views | hype313 |
Pablo, actually that's a lie, I didn't even like him. |  |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:15 - Jan 19 with 1524 views | urbanblue |
Without doubt ... Boncho. Not actually that good but we all loved him! |  | | |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:17 - Jan 19 with 1506 views | GeoffSentence |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:15 - Jan 19 by hype313 |
Pablo, actually that's a lie, I didn't even like him. |
You got this entirely the wrong way round. You seem to have misread it as 'players that were very good that you didn't like anyway' | |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:17 - Jan 19 with 1497 views | tractorshark |
Bajner....just for the chant
Shumi I liked but he never really delivered.
But the ultimate has got to be Sergei Baltacha.
I hero-worshipped that guy, bought an old-style CCCP replica shirt in homage and even painted a hammer and sickle on my inflatable, er, banana. (Those were the days).
But apart from his debut when he played totally out of position but scored, he was constantly injured and a shadow of the footballer he once was.
Even now, I look back fondly on his time at Ipswich despite the fact I know it was tosh. |  | | |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:18 - Jan 19 with 1489 views | hype313 |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:17 - Jan 19 by GeoffSentence |
You got this entirely the wrong way round. You seem to have misread it as 'players that were very good that you didn't like anyway' |
He was awful.
I'd prefer Best. | |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:19 - Jan 19 with 1460 views | GeoffSentence |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:18 - Jan 19 by hype313 |
He was awful.
I'd prefer Best. |
Now you are back on track. | |
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:21 - Jan 19 with 1444 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:17 - Jan 19 by tractorshark |
Bajner....just for the chant
Shumi I liked but he never really delivered.
But the ultimate has got to be Sergei Baltacha.
I hero-worshipped that guy, bought an old-style CCCP replica shirt in homage and even painted a hammer and sickle on my inflatable, er, banana. (Those were the days).
But apart from his debut when he played totally out of position but scored, he was constantly injured and a shadow of the footballer he once was.
Even now, I look back fondly on his time at Ipswich despite the fact I know it was tosh. |
I've always said that if you haven't painted Soviet iconography onto your banana, you haven't lived
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| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:21 - Jan 19 with 1443 views | NORFOLK_BLUE |
Jonas Axeldal - cool name
Nabil Abidallah - Again, cool name.
Reggie Lambe - no reason other he was beast on one FM game.
Dan Harding |  | | |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 14:21 - Jan 19 with 1435 views | PJH |
| Favourite 'cr*p' players? on 13:59 - Jan 19 by GlasgowBlue |
Gary Roberts always gave 100%. I met him as well and he was a really nice guy. Think he couldn't believe he was at such a big club. |
I met him once at one of the 'meet the players' evenings that the Club used to do for shareholders prior to ME take over.
I was getting the players autographs and Tommy Miller(I think) passed my sheet of paper or whatever on to Gary Roberts and I said "I don't want his"-he looked a bit bewildered and then we both laughed.
He did seem to be a very nice guy. |  | | |
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