| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! 11:10 - May 11 with 16450 views | numptydumpty |
Will start with a recent one. Sinclair Armstrong.
I thought in his first few games, I predicted Sinclair Armstrong had the potential to be a top top player and felt it was all within himself to achieve this. Definitely had hopes and probably like many to start with, he reminded me of Sir Les. Very wrong on that one.
Another recent player for me was Rob Dickie
I think at the start of one of his seasons, he banged in two or three twenty five yard goals, as well as being everywhere in defence. He has, for me been more successful than Sinclair, but seems his level is a decent but not outstanding championship central defender. He is going to have a tough time coming up, after his foul seems to have knocked Bristol out of the playoffs also.
Clearly Ronnie Edwards has shown brilliance and massive potential. Be interesting to see how he improves. It's never a given, but I doubt he will end up fitting into this particular category.
Anyone have others over the many years of following Rangers that spring to mind...
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| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 12:28 - May 13 with 1886 views | nick_hammersmith |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 11:17 - May 13 by DesertBoot |
Leroy Fer. Impressive for Norwich despite their relegation and I thought we had a real box to box goalscoring midfielder - which we did for a few months but soon petered out after the knee injury. |
His nickname was "The Bouncer"
I think this was meant to allude that he was hard or something?
Another absolute wet lettuce of a disappointment.
He had Nedum Onouha levels of aggression |  | | |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 14:37 - May 13 with 1765 views | Galileo |
Some very good nominations so far, Id like to add
Mick Fillery - looked a silky smooth midfielder whilst at Chelsea.
Alex McCarthy - possibly too early in his career, but I was impressed we managed to sign him after witnessing him have blinder at LR the previous season. |  | | |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 14:53 - May 13 with 1724 views | Esox_Lucius |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 10:26 - May 13 by Malintabuk |
I must have a thing about keepers. Mine span the eons of time
Ron Springett.... remember my uncle saying what a great keeper he was, and wow be great to have him back... watched him thought what was my uncle smoking
Gus Ceasar again though wow, we already have an England keeper, how good must this guy be... sadly disillusioned very quickly
Poor old Joe Lumley... that kick at Villa seemed to destroy him, which was a shame, but it still led to disappointment |
Julio disapproves of this post. XD |  |
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| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 15:15 - May 13 with 1683 views | Benny_the_Ball |
This thread could apply to any number of the overpaid mercenaries drafted in by Uncle Tone after promotion to the PL in 2011. Samba, Fabio, Park Ji-Sung, Bosingwa, Assou-Ekotto, Wright-Phillips, Ferdinand, Benayoun, etc. |  | | |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 15:41 - May 13 with 1642 views | QPunkR |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 15:15 - May 13 by Benny_the_Ball |
This thread could apply to any number of the overpaid mercenaries drafted in by Uncle Tone after promotion to the PL in 2011. Samba, Fabio, Park Ji-Sung, Bosingwa, Assou-Ekotto, Wright-Phillips, Ferdinand, Benayoun, etc. |
Which Ferdinand? Or did you mean plural? |  |
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| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 16:01 - May 13 with 1624 views | kensalriser |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 14:04 - May 12 by TheChef |
I thought he did do a decent job for us (and wasn't necessarily brilliant either). |
Hmmm. I'd say neither good nor bad but OK - which should be the definition of bang average.*
*Dull football cliche. What is 'bang' adding here? Average is middling or mediocre, yet bang average is typically used as a pejorative. If you want to say shit, choose one of the scores of suitable synonyms. |  |
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| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 16:12 - May 13 with 1595 views | daveB |
Steve Slade looked good in pre season 1996 but ended up doing nothing
Gregoru Goodridge another one, looked great against Oxford in the cup but never hit those heights again |  | | |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 16:36 - May 13 with 1559 views | QPunkR |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 16:12 - May 13 by daveB |
Steve Slade looked good in pre season 1996 but ended up doing nothing
Gregoru Goodridge another one, looked great against Oxford in the cup but never hit those heights again |
Apart from scoring from the corner flag at Hillsborough  | |
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| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 19:16 - May 13 with 1465 views | GroveR |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 14:53 - May 13 by Esox_Lucius |
Julio disapproves of this post. XD |
In fairness I'd rather have had the actual Gus Caesar we loaned from Arsenal in the 90s in goal over those two. He surely couldn't have been worse. |  | | |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 20:02 - May 13 with 1421 views | numptydumpty |
The Julio Cesar signing was the first time during that period that I actually thought "hang on a minute, this is mad"
We had the England goalkeeper. He had a couple of bad games and we signed the Brazil goalkeeper who also was their captain. First indications of the sh*t show for me. That whole scenario was completely chaotic and weird. | |
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| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 20:30 - May 13 with 1360 views | Malintabuk |
Auto correct at it's finest there... Julius might have been a better shout thinking about it 🤔 | | | |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 22:17 - May 13 with 1309 views | DesertBoot |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 12:28 - May 13 by nick_hammersmith |
His nickname was "The Bouncer"
I think this was meant to allude that he was hard or something?
Another absolute wet lettuce of a disappointment.
He had Nedum Onouha levels of aggression |
Must have been named after the dog in Neighbours |  |
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| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 22:20 - May 13 with 1300 views | Hugey |
Junior Hoilett (playoff final apart) |  | | |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 23:58 - May 13 with 1218 views | numptydumpty |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 22:20 - May 13 by Hugey |
Junior Hoilett (playoff final apart) |
On a,similar line of thought, Matt Phillips flattered to deceive.
Never quite got there for me. | |
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| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 08:57 - May 14 with 1100 views | BAWHoops |
Thought Shabazz was going to be great. Also bought into the Nick Ward hype.
Whoever said Scott Donnelly, I was all in on that one
Granero should've been brilliant, but obviously the team a complete mess |  |
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| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 08:58 - May 14 with 1095 views | lassel |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 15:41 - May 13 by QPunkR |
Which Ferdinand? Or did you mean plural? |
Can’t be Anton, he’s a member of ‘Forever R’s’ | | | |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 09:46 - May 14 with 1022 views | terryb |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 22:20 - May 13 by Hugey |
Junior Hoilett (playoff final apart) |
He's number one on my list! I thought we'd made the best signing in the Premier that summer with his signature! | | | |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 10:11 - May 14 with 994 views | nick_hammersmith |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 16:12 - May 13 by daveB |
Steve Slade looked good in pre season 1996 but ended up doing nothing
Gregoru Goodridge another one, looked great against Oxford in the cup but never hit those heights again |
I don't think Steve Slade was well liked by the other players.
I heard a story that he faked a theft of some jewellery/watch from the training ground in Twyford and tried to get the kit man in trouble. | | | |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 10:19 - May 14 with 985 views | CateLeBonR |
Not sure if they’ve been mentioned but I had high hopes for both the Chileans, Isla and Vargas. I think they were signed to play in our 3 at the back system which Redknapp quickly abandoned and they made very little impact. |  | | |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 10:31 - May 14 with 951 views | robith |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 22:20 - May 13 by Hugey |
Junior Hoilett (playoff final apart) |
And he even botched that |  | | |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 10:34 - May 14 with 947 views | robith |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 10:19 - May 14 by CateLeBonR |
Not sure if they’ve been mentioned but I had high hopes for both the Chileans, Isla and Vargas. I think they were signed to play in our 3 at the back system which Redknapp quickly abandoned and they made very little impact. |
Didn't an ex player say 352 was dropped cos Barton didn't want to play it and kept tanking the training sessions? | | | |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 11:06 - May 14 with 883 views | CateLeBonR |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 10:34 - May 14 by robith |
Didn't an ex player say 352 was dropped cos Barton didn't want to play it and kept tanking the training sessions? |
Where’s the ‘players that you thought would be a disaster and ended up being just that !!!’ thread? | | | |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 11:40 - May 14 with 835 views | Esox_Lucius |
Federico Machedo. 'nuff said. | |
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| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 16:10 - May 14 with 683 views | kensalriser |
| Players who you thought would be brilliant but ended up being bang average !!! on 11:06 - May 14 by CateLeBonR |
Where’s the ‘players that you thought would be a disaster and ended up being just that !!!’ thread? |
Barton's in a league on his own there: players you thought were cnts who turned out to be bigger cnts than you thought credible. | |
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