| False Dawns 07:47 - May 3 with 10590 views | Sheffield_dale |
Scott Quigley. He was our saviour in the first few weeks. A perfect focal point that could play off. After that he was one of the most useless strikers I've ever seen at Dale, more concerned with arguing with oppo players, fans and officials. He's obviously been sent back all hush hush and scored an own goal for Stockport B.
Got me thinking, has there been any other players that started off really well and fell massively off the cliff?
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| False Dawns on 10:03 - May 3 with 7624 views | 100notout |
Paul Williams
On loan from Stockport in the 90’s scored a worldy and then we signed him. He was complete dogshit. Big time Charlie and I was glad to see the back of him | |
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| False Dawns on 10:36 - May 3 with 7555 views | Sandyman |
Lee Hodges. Came here from Scunthorpe with a great reputation but was only fit for the knackers yard. | | | |
| False Dawns on 12:37 - May 3 with 7339 views | dawlishdale |
Was going to say Paul Williams as well.. great hopes when signed, followed by a hopeless few games and then rumours of dubious injuries preventing him from being selected.
Also, recall John Seasman being excellent when on loan, and not so excellent once signed.
Edit: Mark Leonard. Barrow's pet. Useless player who we actually managed to sell, onlt to re-sign him soon after.
Les Lawrence: Came with a goalscoring reputation, but failed to live up to it despite looking the part,. We offloaded him to Burnley iirc. [Post edited 3 May 2023 12:43]
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| False Dawns on 12:43 - May 3 with 7321 views | 49thseason |
Bob Stokoe (2nd spell) 7 wins in 34
Jimmy Greenhoff 11 wins in 49
Danny Begara 8 wins in 34
Steve Eyre 6 wins in 27
John Coleman 14 wins in 52
Jim Bentley 7 wins in 35
Coleman isn't as bad as the others stats-wise but I thought he was just a horrible man!
Players... we have a long and distinguished record of signing forwards who turned out to be rather less than advertised...
Paul Tait
Morike Sako
Lewis Alessandra
Roland Bergkamp
Febian Brandy
Mark Carter
Zach Clough
Liam Dickinson
Anthony Elding
Tope Obadeyi
Jack Redshaw
Jon Shaw
Nathan Eccleston | | | |
| False Dawns on 13:06 - May 3 with 7246 views | dingdangblue |
Conrad Logan was superb in his first loan spell.
Didn't seem the same player when he came back - maybe due to 1 too many injuries and his size. | |
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| False Dawns on 13:14 - May 3 with 7233 views | SaxonDale |
Daniel Bogdanovic.
Another (very!) harsh one could be Tanser- was superb at centre back, looked ok at fullback but then Bunney came and secured that spot. He obviously seems to have had a decent career since. | | | |
| False Dawns on 13:19 - May 3 with 7225 views | 49thseason |
We maybe need another list... " the ones who got away" Tanser would fit that list nicely, as would Higginbottom, | | | |
| False Dawns on 13:27 - May 3 with 7207 views | SandyDrum |
Obadeyi scored a 93rd minute winner for Gloucester City on Saturday to send them to the National League North play offs!
First thing he's done of note in the past few years to be fair | |
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| False Dawns on 13:47 - May 3 with 7150 views | TomRAFC |
Niall Canavan, Terry Gornell, and Ben Muirhead all looked excellent on loan.
Ashley Grimes had the ability to be a goal machine at this level but never fulfilled his potential. | |
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| False Dawns on 14:08 - May 3 with 7084 views | dingdangblue |
I remember there being a bit of a buzz when we signed ex Brighton player Gary Dicker but he turned out to be very ordinary. | |
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| False Dawns on 14:35 - May 3 with 7033 views | SandyDrum |
Dicker’s performance in the 2-2 draw away at Chesterfield with the 2 last minute goals will always go down as one of the worst individual performances I’ve ever seen from a Dale player in my 24 years of supporting us. | |
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| False Dawns on 15:28 - May 3 with 6954 views | davidab2202 |
Might have been poor at Dale ,but still clocked up around 200 appearances after his short spell at Spotland.
i think he is now coaching at Brighton | | | |
| False Dawns on 15:54 - May 3 with 6888 views | jonahwhereru |
We had a young lad called McCourt, looked great but didn’t make it and drifted back to Ireland. I wonder what happened to him! | | | |
| False Dawns on 16:45 - May 3 with 6770 views | dingdangblue |
That was his last game for us - he joined Crawley later that week. Just looking into it a bit and it seems he was commuting from down south to train and play for us. No wonder he didn't do that well here. | |
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| False Dawns on 17:42 - May 3 with 6656 views | electricblue |
Clarke Keltie good for Darlo utter Sh1te for Dale..... | |
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| False Dawns on 17:49 - May 3 with 6632 views | EllDale |
You don't have to go that far back. Think of the January 2022 transfer window which ushered in Messrs Charman, Ball and Campbell.
If they'd been half as good as they were bigged up to be we'd be playing league football next season. | | | |
| False Dawns on 17:57 - May 3 with 6589 views | richfoad32 |
Ball I think scored a couple in his first few games for us and had some gushing that he was exactly what we needed in midfield and possibly even captain material. | | | |
| False Dawns on 18:27 - May 3 with 6480 views | bluevein64 |
I have rather (agree, Dogshite by the way) vague memories of "Big Willow" -
1) Burnley fan acquaintance informing me that he was absolutely "Dogshite" or very similar the day after we signed him.
2) He was courting or married to a girl who was the owner of one of his previous Clubs.
3) He missed a sitter (2 yards out of an open goal) in the last few minutes verses York city in the League Cup had he scored we'd have won - York drew Man Utd in the next round at Old Trafford and beat em 2 nowt .
As I said rather vague memories . | | | |
| False Dawns on 18:45 - May 3 with 6427 views | davidab2202 |
The slight hope I have of the 2 players mentioned who are still at Dale ,is that they had shown enough at the level we are going to be at in August to be signed in the hope and expectation that they could step up and be effective higher up the football chain.
The fact that sadly they were not able to do that doesn't mean that they will not be able to perform again in the NFL
Appreciate that there may well be other influences in play but should they be allowed to leave and then be more than adequate performers elsewhere next season would be a bit of a disappointment to say the least bearing in mind the money which we at this moment must feel was a total waste | | | |
| False Dawns on 22:22 - May 3 with 6196 views | 442Dale |
Bergara won 11 games before leaving for Stockport and his arrival was the first signs we’d started to turn a corner on the pitch. Dolan and Sutton then built on it. | |
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| False Dawns on 23:01 - May 3 with 6126 views | rickyprickles |
Isden Christie, a lot was expected of him but didn’t do much if I remember correctly | | | |
| False Dawns on 23:07 - May 3 with 6112 views | Brierls |
I’m not sure there was much expected of him?! He was a bad signing at the time. | | | |
| False Dawns on 23:45 - May 3 with 6068 views | Shun |
Bogdanovic immediately springs to mind for me too. He was excellent on his debut, to the point where people on here were genuinely talking about extending his loan or signing him permanently. Very ordinary after that. | | | |
| False Dawns on 23:51 - May 3 with 6067 views | Sandyman |
Aye, we can put Brett Ormerod in with him as well. | | | |
| False Dawns on 08:07 - May 4 with 5863 views | davidab2202 |
When "older "players are being lent out ,I think it is often because they have ceased to play a significant role at their parent club and it is in the hope that they perform well enough in a few games to get a permanent deal and get them off the payroll
Perhaps a case of "fooling some of the people ...........
Think that may have been the case for many of the players being mentioned in this thread | | | |
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