greyseagull
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Jesus, when you look at that list you suddenly realise how bad it's become
Too many to choose from but plump for Obika
Al habsi?
The al Habsi signing was genuinely baffling at the time, utterly utterly pointless (although there were STILL some people on here at the time arguing that it "made sense").
I honestly don't even think I've seen Ledesma, has he played a home game ? If he has then I've not noticed, which tells its own story I suppose. Won a pen at Reading, but we went on to lose anyway, so zero contribution from him.
Gardner was part of the Axis of Feeble with JFC which helped drag us to the arse-end of the table, but he did at least pop up with a couple of goals, so I guess he made a contribution of sorts. Although massively outweighed by his overwhelming crapness for almost his entire spell.
Elliott Bennett was dreadfully disappointing, but he was at least trying.
Best though. Has to be Best, he just about edges it over Ledesma for me, having contributed the square route of FACK-all at any point in a game for us, ever. Nothing, absolutely nothing, not even nuisance value. We might as well have been playing with 10. Another "professional" happy to go through the motions of pretending to be a footballer and picking up x-grand a week for it. Another complete and utter waste of skin on our payroll.
Jesus. What a season.
Lovely turn of phrase there. By far the best thing on an otherwise depressing thread. Well played.
Lovely turn of phrase there. By far the best thing on an otherwise depressing thread. Well played.
thanks for hightlighting. I missed the original post. Bravo Easy.
Cheers gents, not even sure where I pulled that from.
And you make a good case for Gardner being the most useless Simster. I was primarily swayed by his two goals (the only goal v Wigan, and in the following game in a 1-1 with Blackburn). That's turned out to be a maHOOsive three points against a bottom-feeder and a valuable one against Rovers, so he has at least contributed in that sense. But in terms of week-in, week-out performances over those 17 games he truly was rancid, and could probably be partially blamed for dragging JFC down to his level this season.
Got quite a choice haven't we.
That is a very good point Easy. I was in a constant state of confused apoplexy when people glided straight past another moistly insipid performance from Gardner to berate JFC (who appeared to be played out of position to accommodate Gardner). It's impossible to overstate my dislike for Gardner as a player, nor would I attempt to try.