| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 16:38 - May 7 with 4304 views | Keno |
I mentioned Kevin Bru earlier and it got me thinking, I know thats not usually a good thing, about some of the seemingly random, obscure, WTF type signings over the past few years and came up with
GK Begović
RB Sito
CB Santos
CB Thetis
LB O'Dea
RM Le Pen
CM Bru
CM Shumi
LM Civelli
ST Rory Fallon
ST Jason Scotland
Please feel free to make alternative suggestions |  |
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 19:01 - May 7 with 1233 views | MB26 |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 18:50 - May 7 by GlasgowBlue |
What was wrong with Jason Scotland? |
Fantastic signing at the time I thought. 1 in 2 striker with Swansea in L1/Championship before a tough season in the Prem with Wigan. We seemed to be obsessed with playing one striker who'd often be left isolated alone up top. Can't remember seeing us play with a front two at that time. I can name at least 10 botched striker signings worse than Scotland. |  | | |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 19:23 - May 7 with 1207 views | Keno |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 18:55 - May 7 by ronnyd |
Or Asmir Begovic, always rated him. |
When I see where’s he’s played I think “woah” he played for us once or twice | |
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 19:47 - May 7 with 1181 views | Keno |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 18:50 - May 7 by GlasgowBlue |
What was wrong with Jason Scotland? |
fair comment
I'll swap him for Nathan Ellington | |
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 19:57 - May 7 with 1173 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 17:05 - May 7 by Swansea_Blue |
In terms of obscure (i.e. needed to look most of them up to jog my memory), we've had some crackers. The Jewell years being the best for unearthing unheard ofs who would go on to have a short and unprosperous time with us.
Devann Yao (I couldn't even tell you what position he played)
Shane O'Connor
Brian Murphy
Ryan Stevenson - I remembered him fairly well, but he wasn't around for long
Ibrahima Sonko
Jason Brown
Anthony Wordsworth
Aaron McLean
Freddie Veseli
Alex Henshall
Frazer Richardson
Jack Collison
Josh Yorwerth
Adam McDonnell - genuinely can't remember him, don't even recognise the name
Larsen Touré
Kevin Foley
Paul Digby
Mustapha Carayol
A few of those were loans, but all utterly forgettable. |
A good effort, but you don't get full marks if you miss out the Australian who was released from his contract with us because he was homesick and simply HAD to go back to Australia, and then within a matter of months had signed for a club in Cyprus:
Tommy Oar
Or the intellectual German who must be good because he was on loan from Fulham, liked riding bikes and had a blog.
Moritz Voltz
Or the Arsenal youth whose Mum used to ring MicMac up and give him a b******ing if he hadn't played enough minutes:
Ainsley Maitland-Niles
Or the Norwegian PE teacher who is brilliant at Cross Country skiing:
Vermund Brekke-Skard
The banter era has been going on for decades! |  | | |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 19:57 - May 7 with 1173 views | Superblue95 |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 17:05 - May 7 by Swansea_Blue |
In terms of obscure (i.e. needed to look most of them up to jog my memory), we've had some crackers. The Jewell years being the best for unearthing unheard ofs who would go on to have a short and unprosperous time with us.
Devann Yao (I couldn't even tell you what position he played)
Shane O'Connor
Brian Murphy
Ryan Stevenson - I remembered him fairly well, but he wasn't around for long
Ibrahima Sonko
Jason Brown
Anthony Wordsworth
Aaron McLean
Freddie Veseli
Alex Henshall
Frazer Richardson
Jack Collison
Josh Yorwerth
Adam McDonnell - genuinely can't remember him, don't even recognise the name
Larsen Touré
Kevin Foley
Paul Digby
Mustapha Carayol
A few of those were loans, but all utterly forgettable. |
Adam McDonnell was the Irish kid we signed under Mick who we couldn’t play for about a year because of “Fifa red tape issues”. Mick claimed he wanted to put him on the bench for a game we only named 6 subs.
After he was allowed to play he never did and we shipped him off to Aldershot. It’s probably somewhere on the banter era thread.
Anyway Conor Sammon is a good shout for this, a signing each and every one of us knew would be awful and inevitably was |  |
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 19:59 - May 7 with 1164 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 18:50 - May 7 by GlasgowBlue |
What was wrong with Jason Scotland? |
Wrong colour innit. Sorry, channeling my inner Old Git there.
The only thing wrong with that signing was that it was about 4 years too late, which seemed a common thread in those Keane/Jewell wilderness years. Agreed it's a bit odd to have him in this list as he was here about 3 years. |  |
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 20:02 - May 7 with 1148 views | J2BLUE |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 19:59 - May 7 by Swansea_Blue |
Wrong colour innit. Sorry, channeling my inner Old Git there.
The only thing wrong with that signing was that it was about 4 years too late, which seemed a common thread in those Keane/Jewell wilderness years. Agreed it's a bit odd to have him in this list as he was here about 3 years. |
Scotland was decent though. Doesn't belong on this thread. |  |
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 21:49 - May 7 with 1105 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
A Marshall
Karic Fish Collins Peters
Le Pen Dos Santos Walters (second spell)
Finidi Batistuta Brekke Skard
EDIT: Mark Rivers and whoever the Norwich one who verbally agreed to sign and then changed his mind (Goss?) could probably replace someone in there too. [Post edited 7 May 2021 21:51]
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 22:05 - May 7 with 1089 views | hoppy |
Lee Bowyer
Paul Green
Just two that I had forgotten we’d had with us for a while. Do either of those make this squad? |  |
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 22:12 - May 7 with 1084 views | WeWereZombies |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 21:49 - May 7 by Nthsuffolkblue |
A Marshall
Karic Fish Collins Peters
Le Pen Dos Santos Walters (second spell)
Finidi Batistuta Brekke Skard
EDIT: Mark Rivers and whoever the Norwich one who verbally agreed to sign and then changed his mind (Goss?) could probably replace someone in there too. [Post edited 7 May 2021 21:51]
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Ian Crook is the Nodger you are probably thinking of. |  |
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 22:25 - May 7 with 1074 views | 26_Paz |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 17:42 - May 7 by OriginalMarkyP |
Adrian Paz. Could have been Batistuta, but we got Paz.
Looked a bit like the Night Stalker serial killer, however not very cold blooded in front of goal. |
And gave rise to the legend of the Paz man |  |
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 23:14 - May 7 with 1046 views | Matt_Netherlands |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 17:05 - May 7 by Swansea_Blue |
In terms of obscure (i.e. needed to look most of them up to jog my memory), we've had some crackers. The Jewell years being the best for unearthing unheard ofs who would go on to have a short and unprosperous time with us.
Devann Yao (I couldn't even tell you what position he played)
Shane O'Connor
Brian Murphy
Ryan Stevenson - I remembered him fairly well, but he wasn't around for long
Ibrahima Sonko
Jason Brown
Anthony Wordsworth
Aaron McLean
Freddie Veseli
Alex Henshall
Frazer Richardson
Jack Collison
Josh Yorwerth
Adam McDonnell - genuinely can't remember him, don't even recognise the name
Larsen Touré
Kevin Foley
Paul Digby
Mustapha Carayol
A few of those were loans, but all utterly forgettable. |
Cracking list that. Would’ve got higher marks from me if you’d remembered Polish Pete
A few other suggestions:
Paddy Kenny
Sylvain Ebanks Blake
Danny Higgingbottom
Nigel Reo Coker
Simon ‘Dorks’ Dawkins
Gianni Zuverloon
Moritz Voltz
Ian Miller - the guy we signed form Bury Town [Post edited 7 May 2021 23:19]
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 07:11 - May 8 with 978 views | stopmoaning |
Jason Scotland definitely should not be on that list! |  | | |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 07:58 - May 8 with 953 views | Churchman |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 23:14 - May 7 by Matt_Netherlands |
Cracking list that. Would’ve got higher marks from me if you’d remembered Polish Pete
A few other suggestions:
Paddy Kenny
Sylvain Ebanks Blake
Danny Higgingbottom
Nigel Reo Coker
Simon ‘Dorks’ Dawkins
Gianni Zuverloon
Moritz Voltz
Ian Miller - the guy we signed form Bury Town [Post edited 7 May 2021 23:19]
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Ahhh, Polish Pete. Described as a bit of a gamble when he was brought in. Nope, no gamble. He genuinely looked like the bloke from the Dog & Duck who’d won a prize to turn out for his local club.
When he came on, it was obvious in moments they’d have been better off bringing on Bluey. Hilarious.
An odd one for me was Chris Wood. 8 appearances, no goals. He’d clearly eaten his way here from Leicester and reminded me of a hippo relaxing after a good day. He waddled off after his loan spell and reappeared next season, fat suit off, fit and raring to go and promptly banged in goal after goal. For dirty Leeds. [Post edited 8 May 2021 8:11]
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 08:59 - May 8 with 923 views | Wickwar_Blue |
Jimmy Juan
Samasssi Abou
Earl Jean |  | | |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 09:09 - May 8 with 911 views | BudapestByBlimp |
Haven't seen any mention of the enigma that was Cheick Kourouma, I'm not sure if we ever "signed" him or was it a loan. I seem to remember it took months to complete as we were paying compensation to his previous clubs so I assume we must have signed him.
Another player that I still find it hard to believe signed for us was Lee Chapman, don't know why, but it just seems like a really weird, bad dream. |  | | |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 09:13 - May 8 with 906 views | bournemouthblue |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 16:54 - May 7 by J2BLUE |
Priskin gave us the highlight of the Evans era. |
It was a rare game where we played a system which suited him! [Post edited 8 May 2021 21:05]
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 09:13 - May 8 with 905 views | bournemouthblue |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 16:54 - May 7 by J2BLUE |
Priskin gave us the highlight of the Evans era. |
It was a rare game where we played a system which suited him! | |
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 09:16 - May 8 with 900 views | bournemouthblue |
Gio is surely up there as the most unlikely loan we have had?
6 months earlier he was playing for Barcelona!
And what a false dawn that was, at that stage it looked like Evans may really bring in some quality | |
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 09:17 - May 8 with 899 views | BryanPlug |
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 09:21 - May 8 with 896 views | Keno |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 09:09 - May 8 by BudapestByBlimp |
Haven't seen any mention of the enigma that was Cheick Kourouma, I'm not sure if we ever "signed" him or was it a loan. I seem to remember it took months to complete as we were paying compensation to his previous clubs so I assume we must have signed him.
Another player that I still find it hard to believe signed for us was Lee Chapman, don't know why, but it just seems like a really weird, bad dream. |
his contribution to Towns history should not be forgotten | |
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 09:48 - May 8 with 880 views | Churchman |
Giles ‘Cokey’ Coke. Seemed to be good at breathing, but there his talents ended. | | | |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 09:59 - May 8 with 872 views | solemio |
Wordsworth certainly wasn't a patch on Milton.
Pity we never signed Craig Shakespeare. | | | |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 10:19 - May 8 with 862 views | Keno |
| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 09:59 - May 8 by solemio |
Wordsworth certainly wasn't a patch on Milton.
Pity we never signed Craig Shakespeare. |
maybe we could try for a Poets 11?
it might give Lagos something to do? | |
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| Random 'Did we really sign him' 11 on 11:37 - May 8 with 828 views | itfctilidie |
Apologies if any of these have already been mentioned
Niklas Gudmunsson - I remember him heading (i think) a goal against Sheffield United in front of the North Stand - chants of we are going up, he then got subbed and we conceded - if my memory serves me well.
Gerry Creaney - Another striker we had on loan in the Endsliegh or it might have been the nationwide by then anyway i was young but i remember him to be pretty cack
Paulo Vernazza some midfielder from Arsenal |  | | |
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