[Albion] Dahoud "In the end it just didn't work out"

[rebel51]

Willie young

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

Alan Biley. A real 'name' player in his day. Rubbish here.

Anyone who had to peg it out of Portsmouth for allegedly shagging Billy Gilbert’s missus was fine by me!

 

[Soton Seagull]

Joe Gatting. Had an equally underwhelming cricket career with Sussex as well.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Joe Gatting. Had an equally underwhelming cricket career with Sussex as well.

Yep. Unfortunately he had the cricketing skills of Steve and the footballing ability of Mike.

 

[drew]

Geoff Pitcher
Paul Kitson
Baz & Battipiedi
Ryan Harley
Stephen Dobbie
Aaron Hughes

Please to see our south american network has improved ten fold.

 

[drew]

Signing players from The Netherlands should always come with a health warning. Mark Farrington came from Feynoord. Locadia came to us from PSV. Then there was Danny Holla!

But,
Hans Kraay
Joel Veltman
JPVH
Ray Clarke (didn't play for long but had an assist for the goal that beat the European champions in their back yard).

 

[Pavilionaire]

I was thinking about that Reading Friday night game the other day randomly. Kitson scored a goal he scored a goal he scored a goal he scored a….

"He's coming on, he's coming on, he's coming...Kitson's coming on!" Then the goal. A story to be passed down through the generations.

 

[butchy]

Signing players from The Netherlands should always come with a health warning. Mark Farrington came from Feynoord. Locadia came to us from PSV. Then there was Danny Holla!

I met him in a club in old Amsterdam - I was having a smoke and he was drinking a can.......Danny Holla......oh Danny Holla

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

And referred to as the trolley by the rest of us

Then famously dissed the club on the post match footy phone in shorly before leaving, as Lenny will confirm.

 

[Sheebo]

"He's coming on, he's coming on, he's coming...Kitson's coming on!" Then the goal. A story to be passed down through the generations.

I forgot the first bit! But yes now you’ve said it! Footballs coming home was the tune - what a night that was - right in fro t of the away end 2 yards out wasn’t it…

 

[AstroSloth]

Denis Bergkamp and Virgil Van Dyke came from the Netherlands too. although not us us unfortunately, (although the latter nearly did).

My point is that the Netherlands produces some fantastic talent, may of them succeeding in the Premier League. Why is it we only seem to get the dross?

Jan Paul van Hecke isn't doing too badly

 

[Bry Nylon]

Yep. I found it odd when he and Locadia always got lumped in together as to my eye he had TONNES more natural talent than JL - he was however very lightweight, slow, and maybe a little too fragile for the demands of the Premier League.

I wasn't surprised to see him continue to do well once he left.

Was gutted when he left as it made the Englishman in New York chant redundant before it had even had a chance ffs

He's an Iranian
Ali's an Iranian
He's an Iranian near Whitehawk

 

[DJ NOBO]

Mark Farrington.

Mainly didn’t work out because he was crap.

 

[Mellotron]

Mark Farrington.

Mainly didn’t work out because he was crap.

He managed to blast a shot into my 6-year old face (bleeding nose, tears, the lot) when I was a nipper stood on a milk crate down the front of the ol' North Stand.

I wasn't standing particularly close to the goal.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

The 'other' Spanish Dave (Rodríguez).

 

[marlowe]

But they both had great hair - doesn't that count?

I'm not sure that would have been your assessment if you'd been a Pompey, Derby County or Cambridge Utd fan.

At least his hair styling sense had improved when he played for us if not his goal scoring abilities.

It depends where your priorities lie. Do you want a striker with great hair but is found wanting in front of goal, or do you want a striker with a shit haircut but who is a consistent goal scorer? I know its a difficult choice.

Looking at his stats and his various hairstyles it appears Pompey, Derby and Cambridge got the latter and we got the former.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Yep. Unfortunately he had the cricketing skills of Steve and the footballing ability of Mike.

That's a bit harsh. Steve Gatting was quite a actually pretty decent at cricket.

 

[Robinjakarta]

Joe Kinnear and Phil Beal. Joined at the same time I believe from Spurs. To say they were past their prime is an understatement,, and they didn't last long.

 

[portlock seagull]

Alan Biley. A real 'name' player in his day. Rubbish here.

Amazing curling effort from 25 yards against Carlisle as we romped to a 6-1 win at the goldstone. Nice sunny day too, so wasn’t all bad.!

 

[Commander]

Mark Farrington.

Mainly didn’t work out because he was crap.

Will always remember him getting booked for something and in the deathly silence of the West stand some frustrated voice shouting “Oh come on ref! You can’t book him for being crap!”

Comedy genius, will remember that forever.