Worst value for money Albion players

[Kinky Gerbil]

No contest, Paul Kitson

Free transfer, scored a couple of goals including the Winner at Reading (Forster scored for reading I think)

 

[Two Professors]

Teddy Maybank-load of wa*k Weakest Link
Leon Knight-load of sh1te
Glenda Murray-load of worry
.......?
come on you poets

 

[TonyBloomsPokerFace]

Teddy Maybank-load of wa*k Weakest Link
Leon Knight-load of sh1te
Glenda Murray-load of worry
.......?
come on you poets

saying that the peak of Leon Knight's career was winning the playoffs with Brighton, shame he behaved like such a git under McGhee...if he didnt have such an attitude...

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

My memory escapes me, but wasn't there a player that Slade signed in the preseason and then got rid of him six weeks later?

I guess that isn't really too much of a waste of money though.

it was completely the opposite of a waste of money seeing as we made a tidy profit on him!

 

[seagullwedgee]

I watched most games in the mid to late 70s and I have to say that Maybank and Sayer were both good players, didn't look out of place at all. Yes Wardy was banging in the goals, but it takes a team to get the ball up there.

I'll only have good memories of those teams and thos times, and whatever the youngsters of today may have heard, it would be completely wrong to refer to Maybank or Sayer as a waste of money, by a million miles.

 

[dougdeep]

Mickey Thomas made loads of money while he was here.

 

[jcdenton08]

Robbie Savage? Didn't he cost like 25 grand a game?

Jesus is that true??

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Dean Saunders, given the price we sold him for and what he was actually worth at the time.

 

[portlock seagull]

Sigh...why does this come up over and over again. He didn't cost £100,000 - he cost £60,000 - it could have risen to £100,000 if he'd made a certain number of appearances but it didn't.

Farrington's trouble was that he was plagued by injuries and seemed never to be fully fit but he scored four times in just over 30 appearances - not great but too much of a shocker for someone who was not fully fit and playing in the second tier of English football. It was a gamble that didn't come off but at £60k it wasn't an expensive gamble. Fashanu, for example, cost a lot more and had worst strike rate.

He was bargain of the month compared to the likes of Peake, Turienzo and my particular pet waste-of-money Micky Bloody Thomas.

Farrington was f***ing shit just for the record. Really, younger seagulls, he was that bad. Don't let anyone else tell you other wise. I was an eye-witness to this part of history. He was like a fart with no smell. Or noise e.g. completely pointless.

 

[portlock seagull]

Dean Saunders, given the price we sold him for and what he was actually worth at the time.

Wrong thread. Worst value for money not worst sale

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Farrington was often sub, not a good place to be as Barry Lloyd didn't believe in using subs (maybe a throw back to him being an unused sub in Fulhams '75 Cup Final team).

I used to watch from the enclosure infront of the west stand & I remember farrington stopping to autograph a programme for some young lads. "I used to play for Everton" he boasted. Prick.

 

[El Presidente]

I watched most games in the mid to late 70s and I have to say that Maybank and Sayer were both good players, didn't look out of place at all. Yes Wardy was banging in the goals, but it takes a team to get the ball up there.

I'll only have good memories of those teams and thos times, and whatever the youngsters of today may have heard, it would be completely wrong to refer to Maybank or Sayer as a waste of money, by a million miles.

Have to agree with that.

Does anyone remember the time we beat (I think) Sunderland 2-0 in the old first division? Wardy scored both goals, but Maybank hit the bar in the North Stand goal with an overhead bicycle kick that if it had gone in would have been the goal of the century.

 

[El Presidente]

Jesus is that true??

Nope

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

Mickey Thomas made loads of money while he was here.

Actually I think it was Wrexham where he made loads of money - but it wasn't real ...

 

[Gwylan]

Farrington was f***ing shit just for the record. Really, younger seagulls, he was that bad. Don't let anyone else tell you other wise. I was an eye-witness to this part of history. He was like a fart with no smell. Or noise e.g. completely pointless.

Well, I was an eye-witness as well and he really wasn't as bad as that. We've had a lot worse strikers playing for us - a lot, lot worse. As others have pointed out, when you've had Garry Nelson, Mike Small and John Byrne as your strike force, any new strikers are going to pale in comparison unless they're really good (and Farrington wasn't).

If you think Farrington was shit, I shudder to think what you think of Richard Tiltman or Simon Funnell or Phil Andrews or ... etc, etc

 

[fosters headband]

Mark Walton

 

[El Presidente]

Well, I was an eye-witness as well and he really wasn't as bad as that. We've had a lot worse strikers playing for us - a lot, lot worse. As others have pointed out, when you've had Garry Nelson, Mike Small and John Byrne as your strike force, any new strikers are going to pale in comparison unless they're really good (and Farrington wasn't).

If you think Farrington was shit, I shudder to think what you think of Richard Tiltman or Simon Funnell or Phil Andrews or ... etc, etc

I saw Richard Tiltman's greatest 10 minutes in an Albion shirt.

We were playing at Barnsley, 1-0 down, and he cracked a 25 yarder against the bar, then did the same but found the top corner with an absolute screamer.

We arose from our slumbers to hail our new hero, and he then proceeded to do f*** all for the rest of the match......actually, make that career.

 

[Icy Gull]

definately Peake. we paid quite a lot for him at a time when money was tight

Have we signed any players from Rochdale who haven't untimately disappointed?

 

[On the Left Wing]

Dirk Lehman

 

[New Carpet?]

I know it's a bit too early to pass judgement, but from what I've seen of Dickinson so far, he would be up there for me.

El Turi and Jason Peake are also good shouts, but what about Dave Cameron? The Army got a cracking deal there when we bought him out of their ranks.