Most liked posts in thread: Pound for Pound Biggest Let Downs

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 McGinlay.

 

Isiah Rankin, Million pound wasted

 

We could break the internet with this....

 

Apparently we should be thanking Rupp for keeping us afloat in these difficult times...

 

He played every minute of the first season in the prem helping along O’Brien. And a big reason we survived

 

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!

 

Carbone??????????????? Loved the guy and not his fault he was signed on a ridiculous contract - fair play to him, he also helped the club out massively when we hit financial difficulties as a result of Richmond's madness.

 

Dan Petrescu.

 

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....

 

Absolutely spot on. Hands down, Rahic is (and hopefully never to be repeated again) the most expensive mistake this club will ever make. Given where we were both as a club, management and coaching staff, playing squad, culture and (dare I even say) business - he is the far and away leader.

Rupps million’s are only being hailed due to financing the mess that part put us in. I gave up thinking where we could have been a long long time ago.

 

Bobby Petta 1 good game when we on TV - poor the rest - another wasted his talents.

 

Fans are never the reason a club stutters or goes backwards, it seems to have become a nonsensical fact on here. Every fan wants to the the club progress, only those at the top can change it. Charlton and Newcastle have has protests for years, it’s not improved their situations one bit. The club should always be took to task and held accountable, but fans not moaning enough or calling players crap unless they carry you to promotion is not a reason we do crap. Our fans didn’t demand under Richmond yet he brought a period of success, absolutely nothing to do with fans standards.

 

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

 

I liked Murray.

 

No Maclean? I know Ward was bad, but no way as bad as Maclean, surely.

 

Bang on @Mike Hunt they fit the criteria to a tee :

Pound for pound, who have been the biggest let downs in City history?

 

There is a bit of a myth with Zabica though. He made his debut in a game away at Reading (which was the day before Princess Diana died for those who like random info). We won 3-0 and played very well, Zabica included. Unfortunately for him, only 500-600 City fans were there to see it.

On the Tuesday we beat Town away 2-1. Edinho and Blake scored. Again, Zabica has a steady game. 4,500 City fans saw it.

Zabica’s nightmare came on the Friday versus Sunderland. A long range Micky Gray shot squirmed through his hands. His confidence zapped immediately. We lost 0-4, though to be fair Sunderland scoring 4 at Valley Parade was the norm for years. Thats the only game anyone remembers.

At the time we also had Mark Prudhoe who had come with a decent reputation from his time at Stoke but looked small for a goalie. I thought he was shite. In the players bat after the Sunderland game a couple of the head stewards who I knew at the time were talking to him. As a Geordie he wasn’t happy we’d been hammered by the Makems, but in his words “at least I’ll be back in the team”. Not exactly supportive of a team mate. He’d been in a sulk at being dropped by Kamara.

not long after Gary Walsh appeared. Still my favourite City keeper.