[Albion] Players that just didn’t quite cut it.

[jharris]

Jamie Moralee, Kevin McLeod, Chris Birchall

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Mental call imo. Injuries aside, he was the best player I’ve seen in the stripes hands down!

Assume you must have been whooshed...
Otherwise agree that this is a truly mental opinion.

 

[The Wizard]

Craig Davies, showed flashes of being some at that level player but also had a stinking attitude.

Oh I think I got this one mixed up, you mean players we like personally but weren’t really good enough footballers for the level we were at? El-Abd when we went up to the championship would be one.

 

[James Bond's body double]

Micky Thomas

 

[jharris]

Justin Fashanu

 

[Mexican Seagull]

and one for the older generation Alan Duffy

 

[Seagull85]

Jimmy McNulty looked a class act prior to that horrible injury

 

[METALMICKY]

I guess it depends on how you define "not cutting it". If your talking about the greatest Albion players of all time or in terms of the footballing world as a whole, then maybe not. But in that moment in time, while playing for that Brighton team I would say Jeff Minton cut it. During a time when we were playing some awful football, he was regularly one of our better players if not the best.

Yes, I know what you are saying. He was pretty good amongst a lot of dross.

 

[Justice]

We didn’t even need CMS unfortunately Poyet’s ego did. Poyet must be the only manager ever to a actively want rid of his top scorer.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

David Gipp whose record in the reserves was akin to that of Wardy but never got to the Tony Cottee level to which he aspired.

 

[Wellesley]

Dale Stephens.( It's a jooooooke!)

Seriously though, I genuinely thought Rohan Ince was going to be a star.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

How can you have Dobbie on that list and not Will Hoskins.

Very good point, had completey forgotten about Hoskins. Very, very brief glimpses of real talent, cruelly ruined by injury.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Another vote for Chris O'Grady.

Smashing bloke , I really wanted him to break through.

Wrong time, wrong club unfortunately, but has made a fair career for himself in the lower divisions. All for northern clubs funnily enough, the one time he ventured south of the Watford Gap, it all went horribly wrong.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

John Sullivan - Sad story.

I liked him. What happened?

 

[Screaming J]

Franco Massimo. Didn't live up to his name, sadly.

 

[bobby baxter]

Glen Geard

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Vicente

Mental call imo. Injuries aside, he was the best player I’ve seen in the stripes hands down!

Well, he played 20-odd games over two seasons, scored a handful of goals, the team finished mid table, he was injured most of the time and he left under a cloud abusing the manager. It wasn't what I was hoping for when we signed him and was ultimately disappointing. He obviously could *cut it* in the championship though

 

[Bladders]

Will Hoskins, without the injuries he'd have been great for us

 

[Easy 10]

Rohan Ince looked a real prospect for a few games, but then rapidly went backwards. Not sure what happened there.

Darren Currie. Picked up as a free agent, played half a season and looked like he was going to be a great player for us till Ipswich caught on and nabbed him. At least we made £250k out of him.

David Livermore. Signed from Championship Hull (having cost them £500k), also played in the Championship and the FA Cup Final with Millwall. I had such high expectations of him when he rocked up at Withdean. 16 games later he was on loan at Luton, and ended up at Barnet.

 

[cuthbert]

Kevin Mc Garrigle