Any player we have signed and you thought 'Yeah' but turned out to be shite !!

[Franks Wild Years]

Maybank was outstanding really - and to be fair it wasn't his fault that he bore a high price tag, and that it was Mullery's big signing. Too coincidentally from Fulham as well, as it looks like we were used to call in a personal favour.
Then, Mullery stuck by his awful signing failure, when it was clear that he was not much good - and even to the point of putting our hottest ever player (£6,000 from Burton Albion) Peter Ward on the bench to get splinters in his arse watching a lumberer lumping his way gracelessly around the park.

So a poor signing, and worse - trading Ward down to the bench and ruining the squad totally into the process. Our football had taken a nose-dive for the sake of Mullery's old pal network.

There have been others since, but that one was the worst I witnessed.

I was pretty young when Maybank signed but I do remember my Dad and his mates in the East Terrace being excited at his signing.
I also remember even clearer him and his mates a few matches later swearing their heads off at Teddy's uselessness.
"Oi Tedski f*** off back to fancy Fulham you donkey" shouted with his strong Hungarian accent by my Dad and making everyone around us piss themselves laughing always stick in my mind.

 

[chickrun]

mickey thomas,alan young, mark farrington

 

[The Truth]

Paul Kitson- Injured

Savage- rubbish

Colim Kazim-Richards- Pain in the arse as a player and person.

Leon Knight- yes he did score a load of goals in his first season but half of them were from the penalty spot. Ended up being a very shit player in comparison to what we were hoping for.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Mark Farrington
I remember listening to an interview with him on the old Albion hot line - was it Brighton 8049 or something like that when he said "I'm a completely different player to Mike Small". You can say that again - Mike Small scored goals !

I remember that quote, and I remember thinking "f***, that's a shame. Because we need another Mike Small". I then went to watch Farrington's first game (for the reserves as he was on his way back from injury) and he was outshone by Rafael Meade. Farrington really was AWFUL

 

[Billy Mays]

Farrington was absolutely terrible. Jason Peake was dreadful but in my 30 years of watching the Albion no-one , and I do mean no-one , has come close to Ashley Neal for being utterly inept and without any footballing ability whatsoever.

 

[GNF on Tour]

Teddy Maybank

Maybank was FLAIR! Nearly as good as Malcolm Poskett.

 

[GNF on Tour]

Actually, this should be a no-brainer, as previously mentioned:

Farrington a clear winner in front of Graeme Smith with Kitson a close third.

 

[Skaville]

Jason Peake - I think we paid £125,000 for him, big money I believe in the Archer/Bellotti days and a fair bit of excitement around his signing. He was rubbish.

 

[scooter1]

A few people mentioned Mcleod and Hawkins. I think in both instances thats a bit harsh, both played ok, got injured, were rushed back, got re-injured and were never the same again. For me it has to be Savage(lazy big fish in a small pond), Thornton(?, little fella with blond hair last season, seemed out of his depth on a football pitch) or CKR who just came accross as plain lazy

 

[fleet]

Been far too many that were far too bad!

 

[folkestonesgull]

surely Turienzo was worse than Kitson? We splashed a load of cash on him and got nothing in return. Kitson was free and was injured rather than shite - at the end of the season he started to play well

 

[LABHA]

Mark farrington,what a tub of shit he was.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

I think the one that hurt the most was Barrett because he had so much potential. cant blame Kitson for his injuries but that was a great disappointment too.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Joe Corrigan?

Don't agree about Mickey Thomas. He became a legend the day he reduced Paul Hart to tears (and to the grass) by squeezing his jewels 20 years before Vinny Jones thought about it.

 

[Jim D]

I'd agree with many of the names above - Neal, Farrington and Turienzo especially - but I didn't think 'yeah' about any of them beforehand. The one that I definitely remember thinking 'that's a good signing and shows we're going in the right direction' was Livermore - Championship with Hull, promotion with Millwall and in a position that we needed someone in. What a disappointment.

 

[brightonfan100]

seb carole

 

[Bald Gull]

Gary O' Reilly second time around

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Maybank was about £250,000 over 30 years ago! Not sure who much that would be today!

About 10 years ago, Lawrenson's £900,000 was £15,000,000!!

 

[Austrian Gull]

Jason Dodd.

Always seemed a good pro for Southampton, we sign him and he's hardly ever fit.

 

[westy]

Where do you start?!