| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! 15:03 - May 13 with 3090 views | numptydumpty |
No sorry...
Can't think of any. !!!
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| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 15:05 - May 13 with 2185 views | Galileo |
Paul Furlong
Heider Helguson |  | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 15:21 - May 13 with 2135 views | nick_hammersmith |
At the time I was massively underwhelmed with the signings of
Shaun Derry
Clint Hill
I was convinced this was a backwards step *puts on tin hat*
Glad to be proved wrong |  | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 15:29 - May 13 with 2107 views | GaryBannister86 |
Trevor Francis
Super Ray
Thought they were both unbelievably past it. Was delighted to be completely wrong, spectacularly so in Ray's case. |  | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 15:33 - May 13 with 2093 views | MrSheen |
I’ve got one … Ray Wilkins. I’d swallowed all that Crab nonsense and obviously him getting sent off in Mexico 1986 was a turning point in English football. So when a Chelsea and Rangers has-been turns up for one last squeeze of the lemon like Ardiles, Brazil or Hodge, I wasn’t exactly thrilled.
Smitten from that first afternoon at Selhurst, what an artist! |  | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 15:41 - May 13 with 2063 views | bosh67 |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 15:05 - May 13 by Galileo |
Paul Furlong
Heider Helguson |
Great shout |  |
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| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 15:42 - May 13 with 2059 views | bosh67 |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 15:21 - May 13 by nick_hammersmith |
At the time I was massively underwhelmed with the signings of
Shaun Derry
Clint Hill
I was convinced this was a backwards step *puts on tin hat*
Glad to be proved wrong |
Me too. I thought, blimey, really? Shows what I know, which is sod all. | |
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| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 15:57 - May 13 with 2004 views | lightwaterhoop |
Les is the obvious one.Maybe Peter Crouch as well. [Post edited 13 May 15:59]
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| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 19:27 - May 13 with 1857 views | numptydumpty |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 15:29 - May 13 by GaryBannister86 |
Trevor Francis
Super Ray
Thought they were both unbelievably past it. Was delighted to be completely wrong, spectacularly so in Ray's case. |
Actually yes.
I actually expected Trevor Francis to be as good as he was.
But yes Wilkins I was peed off we signed him. Was it his first game away at Palace with Peter Reid too and we won three nil and could have been many more. I actually cheered when he got sent off in 86 world cup in Mexico but yes one of my all time heroes he ended up.
Another one, and he was only here for a handful of games was the black Andy Gray. Couple of bullet finishes at home to Man Utd
Paul Wright too. Only here for a short time also. but performed excellently. Never kicked on though. [Post edited 13 May 19:31]
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| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 19:34 - May 13 with 1831 views | aston_hoop |
I know subsequently he went to bang average, but I was not aware of Stefan Johansen's game when we first signed him and that loan was sublime. |  |
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| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 20:38 - May 13 with 1764 views | Toast_R |
Jamie Mackie |  | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 20:47 - May 13 with 1735 views | Hoopstar |
Half the title winning side really.
I remember being nonplussed at the signing of Gorkss - loved that bloke. Criminal how we treated him really. He was a better CB than Bruno Perone! |  | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 20:50 - May 13 with 1719 views | aston_hoop |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 20:47 - May 13 by Hoopstar |
Half the title winning side really.
I remember being nonplussed at the signing of Gorkss - loved that bloke. Criminal how we treated him really. He was a better CB than Bruno Perone! |
Bruno Perone is still playing local amateur football near me in Catalonia. Found his level | |
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| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 21:01 - May 13 with 1703 views | MrSheen |
Luke Freeman hadn’t made much of an impression before he joined us, but he was terrific. | | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 21:09 - May 13 with 1668 views | NLondonHoop |
The Bard |  | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 21:12 - May 13 with 1637 views | qpr_1968 |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 21:09 - May 13 by NLondonHoop |
The Bard |
was just about to put him up.....
superb player. | |
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| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 22:15 - May 13 with 1542 views | DesertBoot |
Ryan Nelson. Didn’t see a good player there at all but was superb and we were sorry when he left. |  |
| Wish I could be like David Watts |
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| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 22:50 - May 13 with 1481 views | HAYESBOY |
Martin Rowlands. Signed with a bad broken leg. Turned out to be one of my favourite players ever. |  |
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| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 22:52 - May 13 with 1477 views | MrSheen |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 22:50 - May 13 by HAYESBOY |
Martin Rowlands. Signed with a bad broken leg. Turned out to be one of my favourite players ever. |
Having seen him ripping up our left side for Brentford the season before, I had very high hopes for him. | | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 23:41 - May 13 with 1419 views | EN_Ranger |
Maybe a bit of a reach…but Matthew Rose and Nedum Onohua? Probably weren’t brilliant for us but both exceeded expectations | | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 00:10 - May 14 with 1379 views | CateLeBonR |
Ebz? |  | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 03:38 - May 14 with 1284 views | FDC |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 00:10 - May 14 by CateLeBonR |
Ebz? |
Deserves it's own thread imo |  | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 07:09 - May 14 with 1130 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
Andy Sinton and Darren Peacock. Both signed from lower league clubs, so as a 12/13yo I was completely not bothered.
Then saw Sinton score on his debut i think at home against Villa.
Peacock signed from Hereford as an emergency along with Andy Tilson. So again, thought little of it. | | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 07:32 - May 14 with 1091 views | GaryBannister86 |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 23:41 - May 13 by EN_Ranger |
Maybe a bit of a reach…but Matthew Rose and Nedum Onohua? Probably weren’t brilliant for us but both exceeded expectations |
"probably weren't brilliant" - for Matthew Rose, especially, you are bang on there. Wasn't it his appalling back pass that caused Chris Day to break his leg? Or something similar. I remember always being incredibly frustrated with him, on the odd occasion he wasn't injured. | | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 10:10 - May 14 with 948 views | Beestonranger |
Steve Palmer. Remember him as an average centre half for Watford, but he was great - more perhaps in organisation and captaincy than his actual play - in that Ollie squad in the early 2000s. | | | |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 10:20 - May 14 with 920 views | Juzzie |
| Players who thought would be bang average but ended up being brilliant !! on 19:27 - May 13 by numptydumpty |
Actually yes.
I actually expected Trevor Francis to be as good as he was.
But yes Wilkins I was peed off we signed him. Was it his first game away at Palace with Peter Reid too and we won three nil and could have been many more. I actually cheered when he got sent off in 86 world cup in Mexico but yes one of my all time heroes he ended up.
Another one, and he was only here for a handful of games was the black Andy Gray. Couple of bullet finishes at home to Man Utd
Paul Wright too. Only here for a short time also. but performed excellently. Never kicked on though. [Post edited 13 May 19:31]
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IIRC, that game at Palace and the home game v Chelsea the following week, which we also won handsomely 4-2, were the only two games Wilkins & Reid ever played together in (Reid left for Man City after) and in both games they absolutely tore Palace and Chelsea apart.
My brother was at both but I missed both as I was up at my Mum's, dammit. |  | | |
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