Pound for Pound Biggest Let Downs

McCartan or Reeves.....hmmmm Going with McCartan.

250k signing...Turns up like hes over weight...just never really got going. He was dreadful. Scored the odd decent goal but for me never good enough.

 

Isiah Rankin, Million pound wasted

 

We could break the internet with this....

 

Since it’s going on pound for pound he’s the winner with no competition, paying a mil for a player back then was a big deal unless it was a big club.

 

*close thread

 

Paul McLaren - signed from Tranmere - league above. He had topped the L1 assist table the season prior, so it was a bit of a coup for us in L2. We played Burnley in pre-season and one of their players hacked him down on at least 3 occasions - Paulinho was taking the piss out of the Burnley midfield. It was a friendly, but the referee had a word with their gaffer, Owen Coyle, who in so many words told him to take their reckless player off, otherwise, the next time he would see red - in a friendly, remember. The inevitable happened, Coyle had no choice and subbed their midfielder (Wade Elliot?) 25 minutes in after a thorough bumming by a player who shared their surname with a car manufacturer.

Anyhow, I digress, McLaren turned out to be a bloody crab - not once did he make a forward pass; fell injured and pissed off darn sarth.

 

Bruno Rodriguez
Aaron McLean
Chris Brandon
Ashley Ward
David Hopkin

Top 5

 

John McGinlay.

 

Surely Hopkin as a player and Manager, double f**kin bubble.

 

Jon Ford - defender I seem to remember
Robert Zabica - so called keeper
Shaun Murray - came during Richmond era
George kulscar - think thats how it's spelt
Willy Topp - the Chilean wonderkid
Colin Hoyle - the centre back showing his arse

 

I liked Murray.

 

Agree that both Kulcsar and Murray were alright.

From earlier times:

Ian Banks -- good against us, bad with us, 180,000
Tony Adcock -- another stricken by the VP curse, 190,000
Ian McCall -- forgettable, 200,000

We almost got our money back when moving Banks out. Lost 100,000+ each on the other two, though. Ouch.

RCB

 

Dan Petrescu.

 

Zabica came on a free, Shaun Murray was decent, Colin Hoyle would run through a brick wall for the shirt and we got excellent money from QPR for George Kulscar who was another free signing.

Willy Top I'll give you but the list probably needs more thought!

For me it's John McGinlay. Huge reputation and scored for fun at Bolton but once we'd paid a big fee and got him on the hallowed turf it was clear the bloke was regressing rapidly. Special mention to Tony Adcock too, huge letdown after the great start. After that debut goal I thought we'd signed the ginger Van Basten!

 

Rupp and Rahic.

Cost the club at least five years, moments away from the championship, a couple of additions to the squad and letting the manager get on with it and who knows.

Instead we’re pissing about in the bottom division, banging on doors, seeing who turns up, freeing our top scorer and bigging up Kurtis Guthrie in the T&A.

Those two have cost this club dearly.

 

John Mcginley
Jorge Cadette
Willy Topp

 

Parky leaving along with his backroom staff. Didn’t realise until after he left that he took the pride of the club with him too....