[Albion] Manager’s pet players over the years

Barham's tash said:

Discussing on Twitter (yes yes I know) about us fans always having a scapegoat to blame but it also made me think that through the years manager’s have always had their own teachers pet type players who no one could understand what they offered the team except them.

So perhaps we can start a thread of nominations for such players through the years. Only rule is you have to back up why you thought said players got in the team, can be as frivolous as possible with the rationale.

I’ll start:-

Peter Taylor and Danny Webb. Utter bobbins striker who was so bad. Actually makes me look back on Mark McCammon with wistful misty eyes.

Suspect he only played because he had compromising pictures or something.

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Barham's tash said:

Discussing on Twitter (yes yes I know) about us fans always having a scapegoat to blame but it also made me think that through the years manager’s have always had their own teachers pet type players who no one could understand what they offered the team except them.

So perhaps we can start a thread of nominations for such players through the years. Only rule is you have to back up why you thought said players got in the team, can be as frivolous as possible with the rationale.

I’ll start:-

Peter Taylor and Danny Webb. Utter bobbins striker who was so bad. Actually makes me look back on Mark McCammon with wistful misty eyes.

Suspect he only played because he had compromising pictures or something.

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Super Steve Earle said:

Mark McGhee and the incredibly rubbish Calamity Wayne 'I'm here for my distribution' Henderson. Unfortunately he basked on the ground in the glory of his parried saves while forwards scored from endless opportunities palmed, passed or dropped in to their opportunist paths.

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Barham's tash said:

Discussing on Twitter (yes yes I know) about us fans always having a scapegoat to blame but it also made me think that through the years manager’s have always had their own teachers pet type players who no one could understand what they offered the team except them.

So perhaps we can start a thread of nominations for such players through the years. Only rule is you have to back up why you thought said players got in the team, can be as frivolous as possible with the rationale.

I’ll start:-

Peter Taylor and Danny Webb. Utter bobbins striker who was so bad. Actually makes me look back on Mark McCammon with wistful misty eyes.

Suspect he only played because he had compromising pictures or something.

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Cowfold Seagull said:

Talking of Mark McCammon, was he not Mark McGhee's favourite bad boy? He Christened him as "The Beast" l seem to remember, and the rest, (although there was very little of it), is history as the saying goes.

Perhaps Adam Virgo was another one of McGhee's pet players too, although he was one hundred times the player that McCammon ever was. Made us a mint with is million pound transfer north of the border too, at a time when we really needed the money.

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hans kraay fan club said:

You can't use Peter Taylor as your example and chose Danny Webb as the player!

Peter Taylor signed Junior Lewis at about FIVE clubs. If Taylor had a pet player, surely it was him!

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Jeremiah said:

OK - i'll say it Dale Stephens and Chris Hughton

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Icy Gull said:

Barry Lloyd - Richard Tiltman
CH - Leon Best

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hans kraay fan club said:

You can't use Peter Taylor as your example and chose Danny Webb as the player!

Peter Taylor signed Junior Lewis at about FIVE clubs. If Taylor had a pet player, surely it was him!

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beorhthelm said:

McCammon was known as "trolley" as i recall, presumably for wayward direction. Sir Virgo was deployed as cunning tactical ruse of a defender upfront, who scored a wonder goal against Leicester... played him about everywhere except defence.

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