| The new signing that disappointed you the most 07:17 - Jan 15 with 5502 views | Churchman |
This is not about the biggest waste of money or anything like that but about the player we brought in that you thought would be a perfect fit and really do it for us.
My nomination: Stuart Slater.
Looked a cracking little player at West Ham. Born in Sudbury, 23/24 years old, brought in for £750k by John Lyall from Celtic who knew a good footballer when he saw one. What was not to like? A steal.
Turned out to be a robbery. Basically, he wasn’t very good and his career dribbled away. |  | | |  |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 13:49 - Jan 15 with 704 views | solemio |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 09:56 - Jan 15 by DarkBrandon |
Baltacha is a vey good shout.
Highly thought of in Scotland I think. |
Sergei was a sweeper, but we didn't play with a sweeper system. |  | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 14:00 - Jan 15 with 673 views | BeachBlue |
Neil Woods. John Duncan signing.
Signed from Rangers, air kicked the ball on his debut. Looked miserable and lost most of the time, left us in Division 2 to join Grimsby in Division 4. Claimed it was a big move. |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 15:06 - Jan 15 with 607 views | ronnyd |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 12:47 - Jan 15 by itfcserbia |
Unless I missed someone, but - wow, not a single mention of Chopra? The biggest disappointment on and off the pitch |
Yes you have, see Guthrums post at 10.28.  | | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 15:30 - Jan 15 with 570 views | grow_our_own |
Not a signing, but biggest disappointment was Andre Dozzell. Loved his dad growing up, most skilful player of his era in a Town shirt. I hoped Andre would be like the second coming. Son of Doz. Turned out he had his dad's first touch and could pick a pass, but lacked his physicality, decision-making, and discipline (Andre was a card-magnet).
But there's nothing like seeing a kid make his debut, become established in the first team, and then progress on to be an England player. Saw it with Kieran Dyer and Darren Bent. One of the reasons I grew-up loving Ipswich so much. We had a conveyor belt of young, home-grown talent. Exciting to wonder: how good can this kid become? Hence my moniker: grow_our_own. Hope Cat 1 can start churning them out regularly again. [Post edited 15 Jan 15:34]
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 16:08 - Jan 15 with 521 views | hoppy |
David Healy - especially with his record of scoring for Northen Ireland - was excited we'd signed him on loan along with Daryl Murphy, only to end up disappointed. (Murphy worked out ok tho!)
(others such as Slater have already been mentioned, but Healy hasn't as far as I've seen). |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 16:34 - Jan 15 with 485 views | Vic |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 10:40 - Jan 15 by Len_Brennan |
Had a very bad injury to be fair, which kept him out of the biggest game of his career; deliberate too it was. Hard to come back after that. |
I don’t remember the injuries - but you’re probably right. I remember him as a perpetual sub and put it down to him not being quite good enough to dislodge those already here - which was disappointing for a record signing. Imagine paying £25m for some one now and finding they’re not any better than we already have!
Seems from this that opinions on him are mixed: https://www.facebook.com/group |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 17:27 - Jan 15 with 429 views | monty_radio |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 13:49 - Jan 15 by solemio |
Sergei was a sweeper, but we didn't play with a sweeper system. |
Too fancy an idea by half lad! So why did we sign him? | |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 17:32 - Jan 15 with 422 views | monty_radio |
I believe he held the Guinness keepy-uppy record at one time, though granted it's not a skill regularly called for in a match context. | |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 17:39 - Jan 15 with 418 views | monty_radio |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 15:30 - Jan 15 by grow_our_own |
Not a signing, but biggest disappointment was Andre Dozzell. Loved his dad growing up, most skilful player of his era in a Town shirt. I hoped Andre would be like the second coming. Son of Doz. Turned out he had his dad's first touch and could pick a pass, but lacked his physicality, decision-making, and discipline (Andre was a card-magnet).
But there's nothing like seeing a kid make his debut, become established in the first team, and then progress on to be an England player. Saw it with Kieran Dyer and Darren Bent. One of the reasons I grew-up loving Ipswich so much. We had a conveyor belt of young, home-grown talent. Exciting to wonder: how good can this kid become? Hence my moniker: grow_our_own. Hope Cat 1 can start churning them out regularly again. [Post edited 15 Jan 15:34]
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Like Andre, we have had a string of "our own" since the red-hot era of Burley, Wark, Beattie etc who seemed that they might fill their boots, but ultimately disappointed by comparison, even if they went on to carve out solid careers. I give you Mark Brennan, whom I thought the bees knees when he first appeared, Owen Garvan, Ian Westlake, Ian Cranson, Teddy Bishop - good players all of them, but not quite able to fulfill the hope and expectation that they first generated. | |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 17:45 - Jan 15 with 408 views | Blue_Heath |
Sylvan Ebanks Blake, not a single goal or assist from memory? | |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 17:47 - Jan 15 with 406 views | ScottCandage |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 08:59 - Jan 15 by davblue |
Never understood why he was heralded as the macedioan Gerrard and people bought into it. He was 26/27 playing in Turkish football and we got him for 600k! |
He got that nickname because when Macedonia played England, Sumulikowski put Gerrard in his pocket. And yes, Sumulikowski would be mine as well, because I watched that game. |  | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 17:52 - Jan 15 with 396 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 17:45 - Jan 15 by Blue_Heath |
Sylvan Ebanks Blake, not a single goal or assist from memory? |
Nigel Reo-Coker the same for me. Called us a 'massive club' IIRC and then refused to sign a contract extension just 12 weeks later. |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 17:54 - Jan 15 with 396 views | phillymark |
Sam Parkin. Thought he would score loads | | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 18:01 - Jan 15 with 389 views | MattinLondon |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 17:54 - Jan 15 by phillymark |
Sam Parkin. Thought he would score loads |
Sam Parkin annoyed me - well not him but how we played him.
He was a very technically gifted striker who was at his best with the ball at his feet but we played him as a target man. It was obvious at the time that we were misusing him but we carried on with that. |  | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 18:04 - Jan 15 with 381 views | MK1 |
Ulrich Le Pen |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 18:17 - Jan 15 with 373 views | chantryblueboy |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 18:32 - Jan 15 with 327 views | Vic |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 16:34 - Jan 15 by Vic |
I don’t remember the injuries - but you’re probably right. I remember him as a perpetual sub and put it down to him not being quite good enough to dislodge those already here - which was disappointing for a record signing. Imagine paying £25m for some one now and finding they’re not any better than we already have!
Seems from this that opinions on him are mixed: https://www.facebook.com/group |
Algy - which bit are you disagreeing with? | |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 18:45 - Jan 15 with 312 views | Churchman |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 12:35 - Jan 15 by BseaBlue |
Priskin and Martin are definitely up there for me but I'd say I was just as disappointed (If not more so) with Grant Leadbitter. We paid two and a half million quid for him and I really thought he was going to be the difference maker for us.
He was solid enough but I expected much more. |
Forgot about Leadbitter. Did he really cost £2.5m?? Deary me.
He was solid enough at getting booked but like you, I expected more than the ham and egg merchant he was. Undoubtedly a disappointment.
Another disappointment was Anthony Wordsworth. There was a lot of fuss at the time about taking him off Colchester after he’d done well for them. Aged around 24, a goalscoring midfielder was just what we needed thought I.
Shame it wasn’t him. 18 appearances, 2 goals, injuries, L1 was his level. | | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 18:51 - Jan 15 with 299 views | catch74 |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 18:45 - Jan 15 by Churchman |
Forgot about Leadbitter. Did he really cost £2.5m?? Deary me.
He was solid enough at getting booked but like you, I expected more than the ham and egg merchant he was. Undoubtedly a disappointment.
Another disappointment was Anthony Wordsworth. There was a lot of fuss at the time about taking him off Colchester after he’d done well for them. Aged around 24, a goalscoring midfielder was just what we needed thought I.
Shame it wasn’t him. 18 appearances, 2 goals, injuries, L1 was his level. |
I think we ‘fought off several championship clubs’ for the signing of Tom Adeyemi, think he was a decent footballer and would have been a great asset in the midfield at that time. 5 games in 2 years meant we didn’t really see enough to judge him sadly. Similar time to Emyr Huws whose injuries were the real disappointment, good footballer with some great moments for the club, all too few though. A fit, prime Huws in this side would work (said the same about Didzy on another thread.) |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 18:55 - Jan 15 with 294 views | TheBoyBlue |
Alan Judge.
Even after the injury I thought we had a great signing on our hands, especially at League 1 level. Thought a fresh start, big fish in a little pond and all that. | |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 19:02 - Jan 15 with 273 views | Churchman |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 18:51 - Jan 15 by catch74 |
I think we ‘fought off several championship clubs’ for the signing of Tom Adeyemi, think he was a decent footballer and would have been a great asset in the midfield at that time. 5 games in 2 years meant we didn’t really see enough to judge him sadly. Similar time to Emyr Huws whose injuries were the real disappointment, good footballer with some great moments for the club, all too few though. A fit, prime Huws in this side would work (said the same about Didzy on another thread.) |
The trouble with Huws was that he was made of glass. It was well known he was injury prone, so it was neither a surprise or a disappointment when he got injured.
The shame of it was that he was a very good player. But then I guess had he not fallen to bits every time there was a light breeze, he’d never have hobbled to us in the first place. We were at the height of ‘worth a punt’ potless days. | | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 19:09 - Jan 15 with 251 views | brazil1981 |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 09:22 - Jan 15 by tractorshark |
It’s with a heavy heart that I say Sergei Baltacha.
Probably the most imaginative signing in our history and I still think very fondly of him.
I remember the excitement of his debut v Stoke, playing out of position on a terrible pitch, scoring the opener just after half time and us winning 5-1.
Prompted me to buy a CCCP replica shirt which took 3 weeks to come from Europe and is now worth a tidy sum, except my mum donated it to a jumble sale.
But after that initial spark, he was always injured. I don’t think John Duncan ever played him in his rightful position and, although the class was clearly there, the body just kept breaking down.
Like I say, I still think of him as a hero but that’s my heart talking not my head.
Disappointed is the right word. If we’re talking flops, then Priskin, Parkin, Martin etc are still way above him. |
Yep Baltacha sprung to my mind! The club was at a bit of a low ebb at the time and with all the publicity it seemed an exciting signing. As you say was never played in correct position and struggled to have any impact! | | | |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 19:13 - Jan 15 with 248 views | Paramedic |
I suppose I was more disappointed for the new signing rather than by him. Ulrich Le Pen. |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 20:12 - Jan 15 with 197 views | GeoffSentence |
| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 16:08 - Jan 15 by hoppy |
David Healy - especially with his record of scoring for Northen Ireland - was excited we'd signed him on loan along with Daryl Murphy, only to end up disappointed. (Murphy worked out ok tho!)
(others such as Slater have already been mentioned, but Healy hasn't as far as I've seen). |
I was also going to say David Healey for exactly the same reason. He was deadly for Northrtn Ireland, I think he got the record for the number of goals scored in a qualifying for the Euros, also had good speels at Preston and Leeds. If I recall we had tried to sign him on a couple of occasions so when we finally did get him I was hoping for the international level assassin. So his 1 goal in 12 was exceedingly underwhelming. |  |
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| The new signing that disappointed you the most on 20:31 - Jan 15 with 171 views | SE1blue |
With such a good history of signing players from the Netherlands I am always disappointed with those that turn out not to be Dutch masters.
Marco Holster
Pim Balkenstein
Nabil Abidallah |  |
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