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Top of the list must be David Peach. England ‘B’ captain, full back, signed from Southampton for £250,000 in the 70s!

What a total fucking waste he was.

Also that ginger bloke we got from Hull, never can remember his name - Roy something? - striker, awful shite.

Most of Di Canio's signings from the 4 corners of the globe.

Jamie Cureton
Lukas Magera

Jason Drysdale

Good shout. The second dreadful full back already.

Magera...he couldnt head for shit.

Mickey Hazard won more in the air!

Roy Greenwood?

Luke Rooney
Lukas Magera
Henrik Ojaama
Thomas Dossevi

Frank MCavennie,Brian Kilcline,Terry Gibson

Gareth Whalley came with a pretty big reputation and was mostly awful.

Gary Roberts
Chris Martin
Nathan Delfounseo
David Prutton
Tony Thorpe

Pericard
Ryan Harley

VINCENT PERICARD
Chris Martin

Thorpe, Cureton, Prutton, Dave,

I liked Dave

Suppose Beauchamp has to be on it!

No getting away from it.

Fabian Robert and Easyjet are another couple of duds.

Bob was excellent until he went all French on us.

Blair Sturrock?

Harsh. He was quite a good forward player, just not the striker we were expecting

Sturrock did a decent job.

And he's still playing in Canada.

Ok - Terry Fenwick

Got 6 goals in 50 games for us, and at least one hit him and went in that i saw

Darren Bullock was a liability.

A £400k liability. Can’t believe we paid that much for him. Good grief!

2 in 1 year 1981.

Colin Barrett ex man City and Nottm Forest defender, scored in the European Cup vs Liverpool for Forest in the early rounds just the season before, came to us and was a bit shit and very injured.

David Peach came roughly the same time from Southampton for a then club record fee of £150,000. At that time the world record fee was just £1m.

He was an ex England squad member and played for England U21s and England B side and a great penalty taker of note.

Was utterly shocking for us.

All these came with massive expectations and "bigging up" by management at the time.

Juan Cobian.
Jason Drysdale.
Jon Stephenson.
Sebastien Ruster.
Jamie Slabber (loan).
Shaun Close.
Lloyd Opara.
Trevor Benjamin (loan).
Petr Mikolanda (loan).
Gareth Whalley.
Jamie Cureton.
Claude Gnapka.
Moses Ashikodi.
Chris Blackburn.
Yink Casal.
Hamdi Razak.

My God the list is almost endless!

Albert Jarrett. Worst player ever to set foot on the County Ground.

Didn't Gorman spend half a million on Mark Robinson?
Thought he was pretty poor for that price tag..

Who was that Finish chap who had some international caps... (checks swindon-town-fc) Marko Tuomela!

He'd played alongside Sami Hyypiä! He wasn't quite as good.

£600k! another Town record at the time, he started badly but got better over time and turned out ok but never a £600k player in a million years.

Yea I was expecting better. Coincided with our double relegation after the prem season

Agreed. Don't feed the troll.
The Cureton shout seems right to me.

Also Keith Scott who I’d like to nominate.

We used to refer to Jason Drysdale as Jason Dogshit. I'm never really abusive to our players but made an exception for him, Steve McMahon and David Peach. I'm sire they were great human-beings though, except for McMahon.

I never had a problem with Scotty.

The irony has not been lost ...

He played in the away game at Bournemouth during the fuel strike, a game which we lost badly and, for such a big lad, he was really tentative.  I remember the home fans singing "what a waste of petrol" at us.  Don't think he played again.

I liked Dave, but in the grand scheme of things he was a shit signing. though I'm still not convinced he was out the team wholely for football reasons

Someone suggesting Blair Sturrock was shite is not in any way trolling.  Some of what you have posted about coronavirus certainly was though.

I thought Blair tried hard and got a fair bit of uncalled for abuse from some Town fans but take out the clubs where he was signed by his Dad out and he was pretty much a journeyman L2 and non-league forward with a terrible games/goals ratio.

Sturrock did the job we needed him to.

This thread should've ended when Cureton and Thorpe were mentioned. As a pair they were utter fucking gash for us

Perhaps my memory is failing me but I don't recall Sturrock junior being particularly revered during his stint at the club. I am pleased to read that he is now held in relatively high regard.

He got dog's abuse from some quarters. Unfairly I thought. Not the greatest of players, but a bit of a scape goat I reckon.

my memory is that he was 'alright' I suppose, when running into the channels anyway. Not so much in front of goal.

Tried his best, wasn't quite good enough.

hard to be bitter. definitely had no expectations when he arrived though

Certainly had a lot lot worse

It’s damning indictment that two of our most expensive signings, ever, were fullbacks.  Worse than that was their complete lack of ability to match those price tags.  Robinson was OK but Drysdale was awful, and both of them not what you’d be wanting to spend more than a million on combined.

Looking forward to the players that exceeded expectations thread

Jon Bostwick (loan) still shite

Robinson had been badly injured before we signed him and never got back to being the player he was beforehand. After he punched McGinley he said it was because he'd been tackled like that once before in his life, and it nearly ended his career.

We got 6-7 seasons out of Robbo and all but one of those was in the 2nd tier. Was more reliable than outstanding and followed Kerslake and Summerbee at right back.

Compared to other signings made at the time he seemed good value. Didn't we pay over £100K for Gary Elkins?

Beauchamp will always be on the list. The biggest regret about his signing is that Gorman backed out of signing Simon Barker from QPR when Beauchamp fell out of favour at West Ham.

Barker had done pre season with us and the type of midfielder we needed plus we let Adi Whitbread go who might have done OK a div lower after the Premier relegation season

1980 I think, not 81. Both signed using the money from our great cup runs that season. Peach was a disappointment, certainly, but stayed for a couple more seasons and wasn't that bad. Barrett was dreadfull though, as was evident immediately. I'd add Glenn Cockerill to those two, signed also during the 79/80 season as a replacement for Ray Mchale. He looked good in his first few games but never settled. Very disappointing because he was obviously a decent player, as he later demonstrated.

Based on nothing other than his name sounding like a really good footballers name, I was pretty excited about Milan Misun.

He might have been fantastic for us, who knows?

He is still playing in the Czech Republic, and still only 30! he must still have serious injury problems as he has only played under 150 games in his entire career.

Didn't realise he is only 30!

Anton 'lets blame everybody else Rodgers.

Great Free Kick taker....If only we could take players on and off like American football...

I liked him.

In May to December?

From recent times - Jonny Goddard.   Young player who scored shit loads of quality goals from midfield in the conference but even in league 2 looked poor.

Most of that team were shit mind.  Tough to pick one out!