Who's the worst player that you've seen your club sign? I'm talking about a real disappointment here. Someone your team's manager waxed lyrical about, yet could hardly pull off a 5-yard pass.
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Who's the worst player that you've seen your club sign? I'm talking about a real disappointment here. Someone your team's manager waxed lyrical about, yet could hardly pull off a 5-yard pass.
Keith Dunne.
No worse than Elden de Getrouwe. We've had some stinkers.Quote:
Originally Posted by holidaysong
Well for that bit alone, It must "Nigerian U-21 Striker, We're just keeping him warm for Celtic" Choice Aisien..Quote:
Originally Posted by brianw82
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Originally Posted by Red&White Rover
He was a disaster, but he stilled scored a quality goal against Drogheda the season he was here :D.
Our worst would have to be someone Rob McDonald brought in, Kevin Julian maybe ?
Paul Doolin. Good when he played, but he was reponsible for so many bad signings that it seems only fair to sum them all up into him.
As a random example, I think Greg O'Dowd has a league winner's medal. I have no idea how.
Joe O'Cearuill
Irish international 7/8 months before we signed him. Ended up playing about 15 games last season de to various injuries as after 2/3 weeks it was obvious he wasn't first choice material. he did have one great game in Elfsborg though (at right back)
Michael Keane is up there too, and Gary McPhee might get a look in too as Eamon Collins raved so hard about him
Saw him a few times last season, thought he was very over-rated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
For me, theres only one Darren Jack..:(
From a good few seasons ago ...
Glen Fitzpatrick, Alan McNevin & Shane Harte spring to mind ... pure muck on the pitch but I was often assured that they were class in training :o
More recently...
The wonderfully goal-shy star striker ... Paul McTiernan
Can we add to that Darren Young, Colm Heffernan, the headless winger Gavin DoyleQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Really? Got back to playing CM01/02 when it was made available as a free download; McNevin's quality in that. So's David Ward though, among others.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
blasphemy!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ash
He really is. Irish caps and everything. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I'm sure he scores a few in training. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Rovers1
Weve signed a lot of bad players as has every club but the
Worst signing in recent years was Paul Brown,
because we actually paid a transfer fee for him.
He was absolutely rubbish.
Sean Connor was raving about him for months beforehand.
Too many to mention but a relevant and recent one was Kyle Moran. Absolute muck and he get's a game for Pats now :eek:
God, I don't know where to start. Sinisa Savic would have to be up there. Looked class in a trial game, we signed him on pretty big money and he was absolutely useless. Memorably spent one game in Tolka snogging the face off his girlfriend all game at the back of the stand. He also wanted crowds to be photoshopped into pictures of him in action for the Under 21s so he could put them on his official website.
Gary Beckett. Sums up last season- overpaid, injured 90% of the time and dung the rest.
Not a Drogheda fan but the Senagalese striker they had last year was a disappointment.
Pierre Ennis. God, he was shocking. As was Effin' Ekoku, but at least he had the excuse of being eight million years old.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by fionnsci
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 :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
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.
Glen brien springs to mind along with gary smyth!! gary smyth actually tripped himself up one time when one on one with a keeper!!
Liam Kearney was shocking for us aswell. And James Keddy last year.
:rolleyes:Predictable at least:DQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
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
Jesper Jorgensen, Mark Leech, Dimitri Brinias... there's been a few!
But youz've seen the light now at least. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Celdrog
Makes me laugh when I think of the reaction I got at the time when I told yez they'd be rubbish. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Maroon
Spot on chap. Glen Brien, worst ever!Quote:
Originally Posted by Weatherman
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.
That's because he broke his leg during his one and only trial game did he not?Quote:
Originally Posted by SwanVsDalton
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.
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 crapQuote:
Originally Posted by Celdrog
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.
Anyone of Pat Fenlons signings could win it for Derry. A real genius in the transfer market that guy.
In fairness dodge keane wasnt a bad player he just never lost the weight, pity really he had potentialQuote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
yeah, probably only has 3/4 league titles as a manager nowQuote:
Originally Posted by mrtndvn
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.
Kenny Clements - came over as a player-manager.....got settled in Limerick and everything....but was on his way back home very soon afterwards.
Ya and pretty soon it will be 3/4 clubs that he's ruined as well!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge