Which Albion signing surprised you the most?...

[gjh1971]

Mickey Thomas, but like Marshy it was for the opposite reasons.

That was a signing I remember so clearly and fondly from my childhood, because that was us buying someone from Manchester Utd! Woo hoo. And not one of their kids (Ritchie) coming in and doing nothing to stop my sobbing at the loss of Ward but a genuine Man Utd regular, who everyone knew, was coming to MY club.

Shame he turned out to be complete pants, and kept vanishing back to the valleys everytime we turned our backs.

We signed him from Everton

 

[The Uninvited Guest]

Justina Fashanu. Worse than we all thought he would be

 

[O Lads]

Darren Currie. Free transfer from Wycombe? The most gifter passer/crosser of the ball I have ever seen live (excluding Beckham!)

 

[Questions]

Steve Penny.................. Oh not another useless Irish kid I thought when we signed him.

 

[RM-Taylor]

Lloyd Owusu

 

[Jimbo26]

Mickey Thomas, but like Marshy it was for the opposite reasons.

That was a signing I remember so clearly and fondly from my childhood, because that was us buying someone from Manchester Utd! Woo hoo. And not one of their kids (Ritchie) coming in and doing nothing to stop my sobbing at the loss of Ward but a genuine Man Utd regular, who everyone knew, was coming to MY club.

Shame he turned out to be complete pants, and kept vanishing back to the valleys everytime we turned our backs.

We actually bought him from Everton

 

[kevtherev]

Dean Saunders,,best free transfer ever,altough chris cattlin once told me,he cost us the train fare from swansea.

 

[BensGrandad]

Dean Saunders,,best free transfer ever,

That honour goes to Peter O Sullivan from Man Utd. When we bought Brian Horton and paid £30k I remember thinking what the f..k are we buying him for but what a good buy he turned out to be.

 

[Horsham Gull]

Fourthed

not your favourite guy fat matt braders?

 

[Paxton Dazo]

Wayne Gray.

 

[clapham_gull]

Darren Currie for about 20 minues or so.

I saw him in a pre-season friendly possibly Stevenage ?

Overweight and rubbish, thought I'd seen the last of him. He then put in a sublime cross to Leon Knight (remember him) and my mind changed.

Not sure I've seen a better corner taker in an Albion shirt.

 

[northstandsteve]

Mark Lawrenson £100K and relatively unknown

 

[vulture]

garry nelson

 

[Worthai Seagull]

Brian Horton.... average to start with..became a legend!

 

[Ninja Elephant]

I always thought Lloyd Owusu was a waste of space....

Michel Kuipers aswell.. after his debut I thought he was a joke! And then Cartwright got injured and all of a sudden, Michel was amazing!

 

[DJ NOBO]

I was underwhelmed when we signed some 29yo nobody from a Greek club I had never heard off, but Mickey Small is one of my favourite Albion players of all time.
Was thinking the other day, whatever happened to my "Simply The Best" T-shirt. Anyone else have one of them?

 

[seagullpie]

Craig Davies this season 2009-2010 - mark my words

 

[SittingbourneSeagull]

Agree Gary Nelson, but also Paul Dikov on loan.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Junior Lewis had been slagged off by Leicester fans and I wasn't expecting much but I thought he made a major contribution to our success that season.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Dean Saunders,,best free transfer ever,altough chris cattlin once told me,he cost us the train fare from swansea.

Chris Cattlin told anyone who would listen that story in fact if you went down Kings Road now!!!!!!!!