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Just received a text through saying that Iffy has signed him from Peterborough, I cant say Ive heard of him.
Does anybody else know anything about him?

He's old and slow and generally not what we need.

The only positive spin is he's "experienced"

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :(

i remember him as a bit pacey actually. he's 26 i think. stats look average. he's been flogged out on loan 8 times. 6 foot 2 though, should be useful in the air. i'm not jumping for joy though.

http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=9124
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_benjamin

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y98/trebblej82/tbenjcareer.jpg

Signed by leicester for over a million a few seasons ago, after a season or two was shipped out on loan, but never really seems to hit it off anywhere. Four different clubs last year, about 20 starts and less than 5 goals. Less than inspiring, to say the least.

But as Dave says, he is experienced... :roll:

So he can't get in League 2 Peterborough's side but is somehow gonna play in a higher division and save us from the drop?! Brilliant!  :shock:

Apparently he was going to join Colchester....

 http://www.bsad.org/gone/benjamin.html

Well written quite amusing, doesn't look good for us!

and he is black...not being racist but we got lots of darkies now..is iffy racist :shock:

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great Buisness still think were staying up?

One thing is for certain, Iffy has a plan and he's sticking to it.

Power and pace. Nothing pretty, entertaining, or clever. Could it save us? Who knows.

I asked if he had any positive attributes on londonroad.net



Oh well. Will reserve judgement until we have seen him a few times.

I thought Bournemouth was pretty entertaining.

i am disgusted by this transfer

True. Scrub 'entertaining' then. Replace with skillful.

hmmmmmm.

Not too sure about this one as the tradidional view is that big trev is a skilless donkey who carries about as much goalthreat as the aforementioned donkey.

However from memory, he is stronger than fallon, and quicker. Neither of them have any skill. Trev's goal record would suggest that Rory's finishing is better.

I'll give him a chance. He could help our hoofball tactics, or could just end up looking like a lower league Heskey.

:shake:

I am honestly lost for words...!

Are league 2 rejects the best we can hope for, really?

Parkin wasnt too bad for a league 2 reject was he VD? :-))(

....I thought we signed Parkin from Chelsea?

I cannot believe the 'i'll find a positive no matter what ' crew on here.

A giant guiness turd would be a better signing.

Sorry but if this is true then its a shocking signing!.

When listening to Talksport in the evening the host Adrian Durham is a Peterborough fan and on one show he spent the entire time saying how bad he is.  :?  he sad he was lazy and he had no finishing skills whatsoever.

Yes. all the lack of investment, low attendances, etc point to where we sadly belong.

And barring a miricle it won't be long before the league 2 rejects are back home...

We did, obviously. However we both know he spent the season before on loan at the cobblers (where he did fuck all) and never even got close to the chelsea 1st XI. in my eyes that makes him a "league 2 reject"

Fallon Goals/Game ratio = 0.22
Benjamin Goals/Game ratio = 0.21

I thought maybe substitute appearances would affect those ratios but apparently not. They appear to be very very similar statistically

Rory Fallon:40% of all appearances as a substitute
Benhamin: 38.5%

I cant believe that some people have given up on us staying up with 18 games left to play, or that this view is spreading. Its like a disease. I'm going to call it VD :D

I trust iffy. I think he's made some good signings recently and we just have to give them a chance. (don't remind me times running out bla de bla de bla)
Stop presumming benjamin is shit when you have not seen him play for us yet. When he's had a few games under his belt, then we can judge! along with the other loanees!
Iffy is trying everything he can  :D

sorry Piemonte I seem to have fucked up your post :o

I was trying to quote it,no idea what happened there.

Damn you Yeovil, i was forced to type that again :x

Feel free to quote it though, assuming your diseased body can handle that :wink:  :D

If he's any good how comes he cant get into the Peterborough side?. :-))(

Had a row with Barry Fry apparantly. they are also looking to reduce their wage bill.

Dont get me wrong, i'm not saying hes our saviour or owt, just that we should give him a chance.

You are joking right?

Terrible signing. My mood has gone from hope to despair, possibly bordering on resignation :(

You can't resign Village!  Not yet anyway.  Is the guy off nightmares name Tregard or something?  That program was ace.

Treguard from Knightmare, yeah :D

I'm not going to get all doom and gloom like VD, but it's not exactly an inspiring signing. I don't know, maybe VD and Yeovil have worn me down

Knightmare was ace.  8)

Im sorry but ive gone from being upbeat to nearly as depressed as DV. :( TREVOR FUCKING BENJAMIN ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!

keep the faith Village. I am working on a vaccine against this terrible condition called VD.

When I read your post Pie and look at your avatar, it makes me think you're evil.

I would rather have signed Floella Benjamin  :|

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/playschool/images/floella_200l.jpg

Are you SURE Sussex /?/?  :mrgreen:

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You pressed 'edit' instead of 'quote' you clown 8)

Any way, I think people are reacting to this in the correct way. Let's totally write him off before he has kicked a ball. In fact, let's roundly boo him tomorrow before the Walsall game. Let's run him out of town, we don't want him!!!

Who remembers the 'Rory Falldown' and 'Bambi on ice' comments from the Barnsley fans when we signed Fallon? He didn't do too badly did he?

And as for the "are league 2 rejects all we can get now?" response, well who the fuck else are we going to get?

I guess were pretty much in league two anyway at the moment.

I typed in his name in google and this came up.

http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/Disciplinary/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2003/04/46211.htm?WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublished But can't find out exactly what incident it is referring to.....anyone know?

 :thumbs:  :nod:

I'm going to boo, racially abuse, and chant "league 2 reject" at him as he warms up tomorrow night :wink:

and Lady, I AM evil :twisted:  :mrgreen:  (not as evil as STFC bird though)

Just because weve said that he's crap doesnt mean myself and the others wont give him a chance.












he's got 45 minutes  :mrgreen:

Come on guys, give the guy a chance............. if he's crap then he's crap but we need to see it first...

Am I the only one who think it's an alright signing?  We've probably got him dirt cheap and it's another body up front.  If he's parp he'll be a backup anyway.  We've got a rejuvenated Cureton and impressive-looking Peacock up front, with Benjamin to come in and fight for a place alongside the keen Holgate.

Walrus you'd think a turd on a stick was a good signing.

If on January 30th 2005 someone said to me that this time a year from now the Swindon Town strikeforce would be Jamie Cureton, Lee Peacock and Trevor Benjamin... I would have slit my wrists (metaphorically)

It's a funny old game.

 :?

They are similar...

Steve Jenkins was a "league 2 reject" from the same club. Hes done well for us this season.

not exactly an inspiring signing, i pray to god this isn't where fallon's wages have gone and we'll be bringing another player in before the deadline. in which case, they better hurry up :shock:

i suppose he's the sort of player we can bring on to try and change the game, flail around and barge into defenders. hooray!



on paper, peacock and cureton are a decent strikeforce so i have no idea what you're on about.

Sadly, the League will insist on us playing on grass, not paper .....

it'd be a waste of trees if we played on paper. johnny doyle wouldn't be happy  :-))(

Best post ever !!!  :D

NMH

I disliked Peacock and Cureton and have never rated Benjamin. Personal preference and not based on actual ability - with the exception of Benjamin.

I'm not saying they'll be rubbish for us.

fair enough. i used to hate roberts and when he signed i slagged him off to the extreme.

Give the lad a chance!  How long has he signed for?  Six months surely?  If he's crap we can put him in the same folder as Jon Stevenson and Lloyd Opara.  If he's half-decent, then we've gained something.  I imagine he'll cost fuck-all, and as Marie said, one League Two reject has done alright....  Jenkins is a quality signing, if not just for his homeless-like appearance.

As did I.

Is he?. :?

Given his gutsy performances and experience I think he is an asset to the squad.  We've certainly missed him when he's injured, and means we've actually got competition for the right-back slot...

Is this the same Jenkins who has been directly linked to 2 goals conceded in the last 2 games?

I'm a fan of Jenks usually, but i fear it maybe time to drop him.

Oi this is a thread about Trevor, leave Jenks out of this!   8)

I thought Jenkins did well for the first few weeks he was here since then he's been shite.

Piss off, rent boy. :wink:

I like Jenks, thought he was good when we 1st signed him. and i love him for looking like he sleeps in a bush.

but hes really not been very good this season

\ :D / Brilliant signing.  You'll all be eating your words when he bundles Heywood and the ball into the net in the penultimate game of the season to keep us up :nod:

Trevor will be an irrelevance if we keep playing 4-5-1 away, and keep chopping and changing the lineup win or lose.  We won't get enpugh points to stay up if this goes on IMO.

back to revor. hopefully he will be good of course. i dunno much about him.

:shrug:

i knew i should have changed that before i posted it, then i thought nah no point, no one will notice.

Cant believe we sign Trevor 'Fatty' Benjamin, We could have simply extended Mikolanda's loan deal, i'd pick 1 Mikolanda over 200 Benjamin's............ on other thoughts maybe thats because you wouldnt fit 200 Benjamins on a pitch though, anyway i think a player like Forests Gareth Taylor is much more of a sound investment

He's at Crewe on loan.

I don't know why Iffy's wasting his time on Benjamin. We should clearly be after Uluma Imsawami

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For starters werent Northampton in Divison 2 at the time with us but ended up getting relegated.

Parkin only got 4 goals in 40 games but you failed to mention the fact he was stuck out on the left wing for most of the season.

We signed him from Chelsea....that makes him a Chelsea rejects not a League 2 rejects

Also failed to mention his other loan spells where he did score goals for Oldham and Millwall

On the Jenks note.

He also wasnt a league two reject, because we signed him when the posh were in league one and he was starting games, he started and scored against us weeks before we signed him

However, he is now looking his age and he needs to be used sparingly

spot on with all your facts there DV

our last two signings have been albert and trevor  :advercool:

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ok im gonna reserve judgement until i have seen him play but some of the quotes from other boards dont look good!
From Posh Fans:
"you will be missed........like the net for most of the season!"

"YES!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOHOOO!!!!, SEE YA YOU USELESS BAG OF ****!!!!!BEST NEWS I HAVE HEARD ALL DAY!!"

"Trevor Benjamin is the only man to shamefully admit to making Ade Akinbyi look a prolific striker!"

"looked slow, lumbersome and can be summed up by being compared to an articulated lorry in terms of turning circle!"

 :shock:

I don't know whether everyone else on here is suffering from some strange form of collective amnesia, or if I've just been hallucinating all my visits to this site for the last week or so, but I can distinctly remember the threads surrounding the Fallon sale concluding that Peacock was probably the only replacement we'd get.

And a good percentage of you weren't unhappy with that.

Now we've signed some competition for him and suddenly it's a fucking disaster.

How did that happen?

I know MD might have got everybodies hopes up by saying there'd be some money available, but what did you think we'd get Ronaldo?

Incidently as far as listening to other fams is concerned, I didn't read or hear a good word about:

Fallon
Allison
Maskell
Mitchell

and a whole string of others before they got here.

Yep. Absolutely. Good first post!

He makes some good points....

Wayne Allison was ace. We would be in the premiership if he was still here  :cry:

tails get rid of ur Fallon shit

Yeah get fucking rid Tails.  :evil:

or we'll set PHIL!!! on you, he made mince-meat of the scummer...  :soapy tit wank:

Yeah the scummer hasnt returned since BIG PHIL!!! gave him abuse.

 Don't be harsh....Tails is OK

 FWIW a couple of days before deadline, when you're  deep in the dou dou is not the best time to be recruiting top players,  even if you've a sack of cash (Pompey anyone)

 Benjamin is a reasonable cheap punt....not much to lose really.

I know he is, i just dont like his sig.  :mrgreen:

It's not actually my first post.

But a new home PC and ISP, a work laptop that remembers my old username and password, and a piss poor memory has kind of meant I had to register again.

I haven't changed the username much, so it's not like I'm doing some wierd MHWG double identity thing.

I'll take a wild guess you're lumpimynci?

Is it pronounced Lumpy Mincey, bit of an odd username that! :?  :D

Ooops forgot about the sig.

 Something to do wityh Gorky's Zygotic Mynci...peut etre?

Ah right!

Où est la piscine?

(that's all I remember from French lessons) :D

Looks like Trev is available for tmrws game. I think he could be a good back up player.

I don't remember anyone saying that they were happy to let Fallon go with no replacement tbh :?

Other than the 'Cock of course

Centre forward type to bring on for the last 20 mins to cause chaos in the 18 yards box whilst Curo andd the cock pick up the loose balls.

he's different to what we have at the moment. better than holgate/any kid u want to mention.

can't see it as a bad move, we clearly don't want to play with our midfielders anyway so wimbledon here we come

Brilliant signing, well done Iffy, sign him on permantly before he does a Darius Henderson..

We are in a survival battle, if it means bringing on a battering ram so be it.  

Just watch him get fit, and rattle in ten goals.

Good player .. if fit .. as good as we cudve hoped for