Your club's worst signing?

**Sheridan** · 10/04/2009, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by fionnsci

Not a Drogheda fan but the Senagalese striker they had last year was a disappointment.

Thiam got a lot of stick because he was awkward-looking and foreign, but after he slow start he showed what he was capable of. With a decent run of games I reckon he could have taken the league by storm.

**LeixlipRed** · 10/04/2009, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by Sheridan

Pierre Ennis. God, he was shocking..

Ah Pierre, know him well. Played against him many, many times. An absolute **** of the highest order so was fantastic when he impressed in his stint at Dublin City

**SwanVsDalton** · 10/04/2009, 12:38 PM

Where to start? So many...the Fenlon period alone had half a dozen clunkers. Jamie Hughes, Lee Molyneaux, Craig Taggart, Michael McHugh, Robbie Hedderman, Luther Blissett jees there's loads.

But the overall winner has to be John Paul McBride. Nightmare from start to finish, couldn't kick a ball and didn't want to try.

**Weatherman** · 10/04/2009, 12:39 PM

Glen brien springs to mind along with gary smyth!! gary smyth actually tripped himself up one time when one on one with a keeper!!

**GlasnevinRed** · 10/04/2009, 12:44 PM

Liam Kearney was shocking for us aswell. And James Keddy last year.

**Celdrog** · 10/04/2009, 1:00 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Paul Doolin.

Predictable at least

I say our worst was Stuey Byrne due to his dressing room antics. Completely destabilised the team.

Mind you Pedro da Lima in the early 70s purely for on field hype.
Or Peter Barnes in the 80s. At least his kit never got dirty as he did bugger all

**Mr Maroon** · 10/04/2009, 1:01 PM

Jesper Jorgensen, Mark Leech, Dimitri Brinias... there's been a few!

**pineapple stu** · 10/04/2009, 1:04 PM

Originally Posted by Celdrog

Predictable at least

But youz've seen the light now at least.

Originally Posted by Mr Maroon

Mark Leech, Dimitri Brinias... there's been a few!

Makes me laugh when I think of the reaction I got at the time when I told yez they'd be rubbish.

**KR's Post** · 10/04/2009, 1:13 PM

Originally Posted by Weatherman

Glen brien springs to mind along with gary smyth!! gary smyth actually tripped himself up one time when one on one with a keeper!!

Spot on chap. Glen Brien, worst ever!

**Poor Student** · 10/04/2009, 1:16 PM

For me it was Paul Whitmarsh, a plus thirty year old English striker, signed by Pete Mahon from the LSL from Belgrove I think. He scored a winner on his debut against Shamorck Rovers in the League Cup but at all other times he was just so off the pace of the LOI Premier Division. He just wasn't up to the standard. He quickly faded back into the obscurity from whence he came.

**Krstic** · 10/04/2009, 1:16 PM

Originally Posted by SwanVsDalton

Where to start? So many...the Fenlon period alone had half a dozen clunkers. Jamie Hughes, Lee Molyneaux, Craig Taggart, Michael McHugh, Robbie Hedderman, Luther Blissett jees there's loads.

But the overall winner has to be John Paul McBride. Nightmare from start to finish, couldn't kick a ball and didn't want to try.

That's because he broke his leg during his one and only trial game did he not?

**ramblersnb1** · 10/04/2009, 1:17 PM

Bryan McCarthy times two

we signed the first from Cork City the season we got promoted was supposedly lethal in training yet couldn't finish a light brunch never mind a dinner during games and then last season the centre back from Bohs who had supposedly interested Portsmouth ya right was afraid of his life of a high ball.

**Dodge** · 10/04/2009, 1:24 PM

Originally Posted by Celdrog

Predictable at least

I say our worst was Stuey Byrne due to his dressing room antics. Completely destabilised the team.

In all fairness he was terrific in your league winning side. Also some here are just mentioning crap players, rather than players that came with a bit of hype and turned out to be crap

**Kildare Lad** · 10/04/2009, 1:29 PM

For us it could be Gareth Christie, came over from Celtic with a few underage caps and turned out to be completely useless and overweight. Scored a cracker of a free kick once but that was about the only thing he done worth mentioning.

**mrtndvn** · 10/04/2009, 1:33 PM

Anyone of Pat Fenlons signings could win it for Derry. A real genius in the transfer market that guy.

**PartySaint** · 10/04/2009, 1:34 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Michael Keane is up there too,

In fairness dodge keane wasnt a bad player he just never lost the weight, pity really he had potential

**Dodge** · 10/04/2009, 1:34 PM

Originally Posted by mrtndvn

Anyone of Pat Fenlons signings could win it for Derry. A real genius in the transfer market that guy.

yeah, probably only has 3/4 league titles as a manager now

**JC_GUFC** · 10/04/2009, 1:34 PM

Hard to know if he was any good or not but we were waiting months for Llewellyn Riley, the captain of Barbados to join.

I think he'd been signed in the summer but his first game was in Turner's Cross in October.

It was ****ing with rain and freezing cold. He pretty much stood it the same spot for the whole game and was taken off after an hour and never played again claiming he was homesick!

Ger Crossley - ex Celtic and had been called up to the Irish squad was also a disaster.