| Remember when we signed Leon Best 15:44 - Jul 8 with 1115 views | FrimleyBlue |
ahhhh, twtd [Post edited 8 Jul 15:46]
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| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 16:02 - Jul 8 with 1043 views | BlueBadger |
God, it's getting on for 6 years since we were all looking forward to Alan Judge ripping up League One. |  |
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| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 16:29 - Jul 8 with 925 views | BasingstokeBlue |
And yet he still wasn't the best Best to wear the Town shirt:
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| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 16:33 - Jul 8 with 897 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 16:02 - Jul 8 by BlueBadger |
God, it's getting on for 6 years since we were all looking forward to Alan Judge ripping up League One. |
And my God, didn't he rip League One up? |  |
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| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 16:36 - Jul 8 with 880 views | mellowblue |
old glass-knees himself. |  | | |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 16:37 - Jul 8 with 876 views | Churchman |
Ahhh, those happy memories of Ebanks-Blake and ‘Duke’ Ellington. KFC and McDs profits must have gone through the roof.
The ultimate though was Conor Sammon. The Derby supporters were rolling in the aisles when we took him off their hands on loan. Then I watched him play. My dad growled ‘couldn’t hit a cows @rse with a banjo’. He wasn’t wrong. The checklist of desperate - he ticked every box.
My goodness we had some desperate signings amongst one or two good ones of Murphy, McGoldrick, Cresswell, Bart, DJ for his loan spell, Mings, Chambers, Smith, Berra. All solid Championship or a little better. But it was all downhill from there.
Back to Leon Best, he played in Southampton’s FA Youth Cup side and looked promising. By the time he ambled out for us 10 years ago he was utter cr@p. |  | | |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 16:42 - Jul 8 with 836 views | jasondozzell |
And then he told Mick his football was *"'# in the changing room during the Lincoln disaster.
Heady days. |  | | |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 16:57 - Jul 8 with 744 views | mellowblue |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 16:42 - Jul 8 by jasondozzell |
And then he told Mick his football was *"'# in the changing room during the Lincoln disaster.
Heady days. |
He wasn't wrong there !! | | | |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 17:01 - Jul 8 with 723 views | mellowblue |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 16:37 - Jul 8 by Churchman |
Ahhh, those happy memories of Ebanks-Blake and ‘Duke’ Ellington. KFC and McDs profits must have gone through the roof.
The ultimate though was Conor Sammon. The Derby supporters were rolling in the aisles when we took him off their hands on loan. Then I watched him play. My dad growled ‘couldn’t hit a cows @rse with a banjo’. He wasn’t wrong. The checklist of desperate - he ticked every box.
My goodness we had some desperate signings amongst one or two good ones of Murphy, McGoldrick, Cresswell, Bart, DJ for his loan spell, Mings, Chambers, Smith, Berra. All solid Championship or a little better. But it was all downhill from there.
Back to Leon Best, he played in Southampton’s FA Youth Cup side and looked promising. By the time he ambled out for us 10 years ago he was utter cr@p. |
To be fair to us, Best had had a good loan spell with Rotherham and rescued them from certain relegation under Warnock. Played as an out and out big number 9., wheres we wanted him to be more mobile, Murphy-like and that was not going to happen with his knees. | | | |
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| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 17:20 - Jul 8 with 676 views | Churchman |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 17:01 - Jul 8 by mellowblue |
To be fair to us, Best had had a good loan spell with Rotherham and rescued them from certain relegation under Warnock. Played as an out and out big number 9., wheres we wanted him to be more mobile, Murphy-like and that was not going to happen with his knees. |
4 goals in 16 appearances for them. Tbf I didn’t remember that.
I just remember him lumbering around for us. Slow, disinterested, no control, no threat. Nothing.
Poor Mick really was reduced to trying desperate punts. Some of which did work. | | | |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 17:26 - Jul 8 with 662 views | pablovien |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 16:42 - Jul 8 by jasondozzell |
And then he told Mick his football was *"'# in the changing room during the Lincoln disaster.
Heady days. |
The entire remainder of his career was:
Charlton Athletic, November 28 2017 - January 2018, 5 appearances (0) goals | | | |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 00:41 - Jul 9 with 417 views | TheBlueGnu |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 16:37 - Jul 8 by Churchman |
Ahhh, those happy memories of Ebanks-Blake and ‘Duke’ Ellington. KFC and McDs profits must have gone through the roof.
The ultimate though was Conor Sammon. The Derby supporters were rolling in the aisles when we took him off their hands on loan. Then I watched him play. My dad growled ‘couldn’t hit a cows @rse with a banjo’. He wasn’t wrong. The checklist of desperate - he ticked every box.
My goodness we had some desperate signings amongst one or two good ones of Murphy, McGoldrick, Cresswell, Bart, DJ for his loan spell, Mings, Chambers, Smith, Berra. All solid Championship or a little better. But it was all downhill from there.
Back to Leon Best, he played in Southampton’s FA Youth Cup side and looked promising. By the time he ambled out for us 10 years ago he was utter cr@p. |
Nigel Reo-Coker, Bradley Orr | |
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| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 01:23 - Jul 9 with 400 views | IPS_wich |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 16:37 - Jul 8 by Churchman |
Ahhh, those happy memories of Ebanks-Blake and ‘Duke’ Ellington. KFC and McDs profits must have gone through the roof.
The ultimate though was Conor Sammon. The Derby supporters were rolling in the aisles when we took him off their hands on loan. Then I watched him play. My dad growled ‘couldn’t hit a cows @rse with a banjo’. He wasn’t wrong. The checklist of desperate - he ticked every box.
My goodness we had some desperate signings amongst one or two good ones of Murphy, McGoldrick, Cresswell, Bart, DJ for his loan spell, Mings, Chambers, Smith, Berra. All solid Championship or a little better. But it was all downhill from there.
Back to Leon Best, he played in Southampton’s FA Youth Cup side and looked promising. By the time he ambled out for us 10 years ago he was utter cr@p. |
Whilst he was only here for a year, I always feel compelled to add Waghorn to the list of good signings. By a mile the best signing of the 2017-2020 era and his falling out with Hirst at the start of the 18/19 season was the final nail in our descent into League 1. | | | |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 07:19 - Jul 9 with 268 views | Churchman |
| Remember when we signed Leon Best on 01:23 - Jul 9 by IPS_wich |
Whilst he was only here for a year, I always feel compelled to add Waghorn to the list of good signings. By a mile the best signing of the 2017-2020 era and his falling out with Hirst at the start of the 18/19 season was the final nail in our descent into League 1. |
Agree with that. Thought Garner, who signed at the same time was decent too.
Giles Coke, Andy Drury, Wordsworth and truly plumbing those depths, Paul Taylor. The list goes on.
I had a look at the squad Keane inherited from Magilton and what it looked like the year before. Yes, there was the odd turkey like that animal Ben Thatcher, Dan Harding and couldn’t hit a barn door Sam Parkin, but the playing staff and team were much steadier during Jim’s time. He brought in some decent players too.
Looking back, Jim should have been given more of a chance and some money to see what he could do to enhance rather than rip up the team. Instead madman Keane and years of chaos followed. Jim is often forgotten as a manager, but with what he had he did ok, as did Joe Royle before him.
The lesson is that while many see no value in team ethic or growing a side (the FM25 and Fantasy Football influence?) I do. You only have to look at how much stronger last season’s team was in April compared to August. | | | |
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