As it's quiet - a player poll (part deux)

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Money down the drain, Llewellyn:

Poll ended at Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:27 pm

Nobby Solano
0
No votes
Henri Camara
2
2%
Freddie Ljungberg
18
17%
Craig Bellamy
4
4%
Richard Wright
1
1%
Scott Parker
14
13%
Julien Faubert
1
1%
Matthew Upson
0
No votes
Kepa Blanco
8
7%
Lucas Neill
0
No votes
Nigel Quashie
19
17%
Calum Davenport
23
21%
Luis Boa Morte
14
13%
Kieron Dyer
5
5%
 
Total votes: 109

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As it's quiet - a player poll (part deux)

Post by Up the Junction »

And Curbishley's worst signing?
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Been a lot but I think taking into account wages and to a lesser extent transfer fee Its the crock from Le Arse
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Marky wrote:Been a lot but I think taking into account wages and to a lesser extent transfer fee Its the crock from Le Arse
Be fair ... Scotty Parker cost more than twice as much, has played even less, and is wasting just as much in wages.

A truly useless, piss-poor signing that only goes to prove that if Curbs was ever allowed to play his personal first-choice team ... it's be sh*t 8-)
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Post by James P »

Got to be Davenport surely?
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Post by prince_huggy »

Def Dyer. From what he's played anyway. But before he signed I was worried about him getting injured, as he is injury prone and hay as if by magic an injury!
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Post by joeyboy »

For the same reasons you might as well say Parker.
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Post by davids cross »

I don't think any of them have been rank bad signings....just my opinion.

Possibly Davenport if I had to vote.
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Post by roblo »

Quashie will win this poll hands down
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Countryboy wrote: Be fair ... Scotty Parker cost more than twice as much, has played even less, and is wasting just as much in wages.

A truly useless, piss-poor signing that only goes to prove that if Curbs was ever allowed to play his personal first-choice team ... it's be sh*t 8-)
Parker for me too...
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Post by Hambrosia Stu »

davids cross wrote:I don't think any of them have been rank bad signings....just my opinion.

Possibly Davenport if I had to vote.
Same here. You have to keep in mind the context in which they were signed.

The likes of Quashie and Davenport were signed when we were in a real scrap at the bottom of the table. To judge such signings with the current school of thought, that we're a top 10 side, and should have top 10 players, would be harsh imo

As for Parker, he was my first thought. But it's the same really with a few of them, Faubert, Dyer, Ljungberg....all to early really to say

I mean I've never really seen why we signed Parker. But in 2 months time he could have put his injury problems behind him and be the lynchpin of our midfield. I'd be mighty surprised, but you just never know!
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Post by kaybee15 »

roblo wrote:Quashie will win this poll hands down
And yet he shouldn't. Scott 'Ooooh me bones' Parker every time.
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Post by davids cross »

roblo wrote:Quashie will win this poll hands down
He's actually got quite a few supporters on this site to be fair.
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Post by Torquemada »

At least we are familiar with all the crocks that are there to come back, but Blanco.....wasn't aware he was with us half the time, didn't contribute to getting us out of the shít last year, bit of a waste of space really. Can't say that of the others.
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Post by MooreHurst »

Quashie - shocking signing, brings nothing to the team whatsoever, and what is worrying, is if he hadn't got injured against Spurs, Curbs could have carried on picking him.
Davenport also, understand we needed a CB at the time. But 3m and the reported wages on him is money down the drain on a player of that ability.
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Torquemada wrote:At least we are familiar with all the crocks that are there to come back, but Blanco.....wasn't aware he was with us half the time, didn't contribute to getting us out of the shít last year, bit of a waste of space really. Can't say that of the others.
What, not even someone who has failed to kick a ball for us yet?
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Post by I am law »

Without knowing a player's weekly wage, I am stuck between Ljunberg and Parker.

I rather expect that both will spend most of his respective contracts in the treatment room. Parker seems to me to be the more difficult to understand. Seems he can't jog onto the pitch without straining something or other.

Parker it is, then.
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Post by IIIronss »

b*llocks was it Quashie, im shocked that hes been voted for so much, he was £1.75m, thats half of Davenports price and 1/4 Parkers, who has played very litttle, and when he has played, hasnt looked great, like Dyer has.

Quashie bought fight and determination to the team and thats worth the money on its own, if the players had shown that in the first place we wouldnt have been in the mess.

People hate Quashie so much they decide he is a bigger waste of money then a £6m Faubert who we may not see play this year and most have decided he is class without ever watching him play.
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Post by rare as rockinghorse shat »

James P wrote:Got to be Davenport surely?
Is who I voted for.
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Post by EvilC »

Parker, comfortably.
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Post by mattjp »

I voted Davenport. £3m odd is a lot of money for someone who I don't really think is gonna play for us again. It's hard to judge the players who are injured really. Who knows if/when they'll get fit and how good they'll be then?

Quashie shouldn't be voted for. One of the few players who looked up for the fight around Jan/Feb last year.
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