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« on: Thursday, July 31, 2014, 22:18:01 » |
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I'm bored and the new season still isn't starting, so time for a trip down memory lane and particularly into the dark corners of forgetfulness.
Inspired by a few of those Facebook groups that occasionally post pictures of Timothee Atouba or just about anyone Harry Redknapp signed at Portsmouth, I thought I'd try and put together an XI of utterly forgettable Swindon Town players. Not the utterly shit (Heiselberg, Elkins) or the still quite shit, but memorable for the wrong reasons (Lanzano, Ashikodi) but the completely obscure, that you have to strain to remember ever existing and can't remember a single thing they did in a Town shirt.
Bonus points of course for those who played more than a few games on loan, and for those more recent who my memory hasn't yet had a chance to forget. My effort is pretty poor, largely from the last 15 or so years so plenty to build on. There are a lot of strong candidates from 2005/6 which was about the most forgettable season of all time.
GK Richard McKinney
DF Luke Garrard
DF Nicky Nicolau
DF Charlie Comyn-Platt
DF Patrick Noubisse
MF Paul McAreavey
MF Neale McDemott*
MF Colin Heath
MF Paul Edwards
FW Martin Williams
FW Hamdi Razak
* Neale McDermott actually did do one particularly memorable thing in scoring from a free kick against Bristol City, but I can't remember anything else he did so he's going in.
Any other names that will send me scuttling to Wikipedia or Swindon Town FC.co.uk to find out what I've forgotten? There must have been plenty...
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donkey
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He headed a football.
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« Reply #1 on: Thursday, July 31, 2014, 23:27:19 » |
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Petr Mikolanda, Neale Finn, Andy Lonegan.
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donkey tells the truth
I headed the ball. eeeeeeeeeeeeeee-aaaaaaaawwwwwww |
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« Reply #2 on: Thursday, July 31, 2014, 23:39:39 » |
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Sam Campagna
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Matchworn Shirts
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« Reply #3 on: Friday, August 1, 2014, 04:43:49 » |
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John Sutton, Lloyd Opera, Jon Stevenson, Jon Beswetherick
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I come from a land down-under
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OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR
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« Reply #4 on: Friday, August 1, 2014, 06:16:41 » |
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Adrian Bakali
Richard Greene
Curtis Fleming
John Buttigieg (Maltese international no less)
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Joseph McLaughlin
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« Reply #5 on: Friday, August 1, 2014, 07:56:28 » |
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GK: Steve Book
RB: Paul Mitchell
CB: Sam Collins
CB: Ben Martin
LB: Freddy Bessone
RW: Dave Bennett
CM: Steve Adams
CM: Eddie Howe
LW: Dean Hooper
FW: Ashley Grimes
FW: Chris Hamon
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« Reply #6 on: Friday, August 1, 2014, 08:00:42 » |
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CM: Eddie Howe
You mean the legend that is Bobby Howe, Shirley? |
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Even men with steel hearts love to see a dog on the pitch.
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Flashheart
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« Reply #7 on: Friday, August 1, 2014, 08:00:54 » |
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My obscure XI are so obscure that I don't remember them at all.
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Whoo Whoo!
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« Reply #8 on: Friday, August 1, 2014, 08:02:18 » |
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My obscure XI are so obscure that I don't remember them at all.
My obscure X1 are so obscure nobody has even heard of them, not even themselves. |
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I can't bear it 🙄
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« Reply #9 on: Friday, August 1, 2014, 08:06:10 » |
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You mean the legend that is Bobby Howe, Shirley?
Wasn't Eddie Howe the guy who spoke a bit on That's Football, back in the prem promotion year? Edit. No, it was Murray. |
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« Reply #10 on: Friday, August 1, 2014, 08:06:55 » |
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Surprised that no one's mentioned our favourite disappearing Czech yet.
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« Reply #11 on: Friday, August 1, 2014, 08:07:34 » |
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You mean the legend that is Bobby Howe, Shirley?
No, we signed Eddie Howe on loan in 2004!!! Didn't we?!? |
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Pondlife
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« Reply #12 on: Friday, August 1, 2014, 08:10:26 » |
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No, we signed Eddie Howe on loan in 2004!!!
Didn't we?!?
Yes, from Portsmouth I think. He'd been a legend at Bournemouth, but spent most of his time with us injured and retired soon afterwards. |
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Joseph McLaughlin
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« Reply #13 on: Friday, August 1, 2014, 08:12:20 » |
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Yep, signed on loan - never played.
Can't get much more obscure than that!
Knew I didn't imagine it...
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« Reply #14 on: Friday, August 1, 2014, 08:13:59 » |
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No, we signed Eddie Howe on loan in 2004!!!
Didn't we?!?
Yes, but he then got injured and never played for us. Andy King approached the Trust about using the Red Army Fund for Howe as he had been refused the funds by the board. We said yes, but once the board found out the Trust were going to get the credit for the signing they found the money themselves. He would have been the Red Army Funds first ever signing, and probably the last too given the probable effect of signing a crock who never kicked a ball! |
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