[Albion] Average Brighton signings that excited you at the time

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

I think some of the excitement stemmed from the huge 55k he cost us when we were absolutely potless.

Good point. See: Federico Turienzo

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[Psychobilly freakout]

Craig Mackail Smith.

Never has so much hope been pinned on one player, add to that we beat West Ham for his signature along with letting Murray go.

This has to be the winner.

 

[Grombleton]

Will Hoskins

I feel sorry for Hoskins. The games he played I thought he looked absolute class. Sadly he was a walking injury.

 

[big nuts]

Jamie Moralee

 

[jackalbion]

'Leroy Lita will gives us the goals needed to fire us to the premier league' - Me, 2013

 

[bobby baxter]

Frank Stapleton, big player who turned out to be well past his best.

 

[Albion Dan]

Alexis Nicolas. We were desperate for Championship quality at the time and he rolled in from Chelsea, looked good for a couple of games then just faded to nothing.

 

[timbha]

Ashley Neil - surely some talent would be in the genes
Graeme Smith - should've known
Jason Roberts - was ecstatic that we had signed him, turned out to be a rumour
Joe Kinnear - below average, useless
Frank Stapleton - big name, big disappointment
Russell Osman - ditto
plus, practically everyone we signed whilst at Gillingham except Culverhouse, Rod Thomas and Tony Brown

 

[butchy]

Danny Holla

'I met him in a club in old Amsterdam.....'

 

[albionalbino]

My earliest memories of unfulfilled promise were in the late 70's when we signed John Ruggierio, as he had a flare name.
Around the same time I thought we signed a couple of Peruvian players in the wake of the 78 World Cup which was highly exciting at the time but turned out to be not only disappointing but untrue.
I still get a wave of excitement when someone new signs.... usually followed by disappointment.

 

[Weststander]

Muzza returning.

Wayne Bridge joining on loan.

Mark Lawrenson signing from Preston, Jimmy Case from Liverpool.

 

[wigman]

Mickey Thomas for me.
I was excited when we signed him, but it was money well wasted.

 

[nwgull]

That I don’t remember but I do remember going into full NSC mode at the time and writing him off as absolute shite after a couple of games, as I saw nothing that made him look any better than we already had, and no I don’t think he played too often.

Like you I thought at 120 k, which was a massive fee for where we were, he’d stand out from our other midfielders. As it turns out no better than Valur Gislasson who came along a year or two later as a hyped up Arsenal star in the making.

That wasn't NSC mode; that was just realism. I'm guessing his last game was actually prior to the first ever incarnation of NSC, which was around January 1997. If anything, the venting of your (correct) opinion of his shithouseness would've been done via the email forum, or in real life to actual people!

 

[nwgull]

Muzza returning.

Wayne Bridge joining on loan.

Mark Lawrenson signing from Preston, Jimmy Case from Liverpool.

Tariq Lamptey from Chelsea for £3m

 

[Weststander]

Tariq Lamptey from Chelsea for £3m

Very pleased with that signing, but no one knew on that day that GP was about to make him our number one RB. Typically with the Albion, he'd have been down the pecking order being young.

Not rating MM, I was elated when GP played him almost straight away.

 

[Swansman]

Not a signing as such, but I was convinced for a week or so that we had the best player in the world playing for us after watching Abdul Razak against Ipswich.

Now playing in the second tier in Sweden.

I refuse to believe that this lazy wanker at any point reached the level of "average" over in England.

 

[Weststander]

Craig Mackail Smith.
Joe Kinnear
Richie Towel

and Percy Towell.

 

[Icy Gull]

I refuse to believe that this lazy wanker at any point reached the level of "average" over in England.

It was the best ever Albion debut I have ever seen. He really did look the business, we were pinching ourselves that we had loaned a player of such quality. AMAZING performance

 

[matt]

James Wilson

 

[Eggman]

Ashley Neil - surely some talent would be in the genes
Graeme Smith - should've known
Jason Roberts - was ecstatic that we had signed him, turned out to be a rumour
Joe Kinnear - below average, useless
Frank Stapleton - big name, big disappointment
Russell Osman - ditto
plus, practically everyone we signed whilst at Gillingham except Culverhouse, Rod Thomas and Tony Brown

Tony Browne?

RB? He was pretty decent. What happened to him. Can't find any history on the Google