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Great to see him doing the biz for Bradford,was a top player for us....can you remember his gem of a strike at Old Trafford,can see Bradford winning that league.

 Thorne is one of the few ex players I hold in total contempt...his attitude when he decided he wanted out in 96/97 stank to the highest heaven....17 games of little to no effort, and a a couple of tap ins, whilst we plunged to a succession of humiliating defeats can never be forgiven.

 I prefer to recall him missing a complete open goal playing for Stoke a year or so later as bad as we were, we managed a win with a Mark Robinson strike :o

 Stoke went down.

That miss was incredible - one of the worst I've ever seen.

Nah, he wasnt. Underachieved massively at Swindon.

what he said.

i think he did score a hat trick though?

he was on a par with chris hay i think, decent at the start then just got progressively shit

Shit band.

:band: :toughguy:

As other posters have said he had a dreadful attitude during his last season and the pretence of
wanting to move back oop north.

My first and lasting impression of him,was the interview after the 1st leg League Cup semi final
win against Bolton.He fitted the stereotype of the thick footballer to a tee  :)

thick footballers are great!

 ;D

Well 27 goals in 76 appearances is shit i spose...funny how some fans remember the odd miss and the odd interview,i remember the hat trick v West Brom away and that goal at Old Trafford....i would swap him for some of the strikers weve had recently,in fact with the misses yesterday at Cheltenham....ile say no more.

I love him

  Thorne's goal ratio has always masked a certain inconsistency in his game.  It goes something like this.....he scores quite a lot of 2 and 3's often in games where the extra goals don't have significant value.

  A classic example as mentioned the WBA hat trick....no goals for the next 9 games, 7 of which were lost and we go down. He then scores 3 in the last 2 games after we've been relegated and they don't matter.

    So 6 goals in 12 games looks a tidy strike rate.....but isn't in reality much value.

Ex striker in goal scoring exploits.....(ala Sammy Parkin) where's the bandwagon to get him back ?

Here it is  :bandwagon:

You have to bear in mind it was probably that hat trick that helped convince the board they could flog Fjortoft(as if they even needed to rationalise it to themselves). 

After that he was either stuck up front on his own to be battered by division 2 centre backs, or he was partnered with Chris Hamon who's most notable achievement was to get himself released for self-medicating himself before the Pompey game.

  We just played 4-5-1....pretty decent 5...Ling, McMahon, Beauchamp, Gooden, Nijholt.

 According to Sky Sports year book we had Odin turning out at left back....HTF did we get relegated?

Are you Thor ?,  Loki  it up again.

We didn't, it was a myth.

eh whats this about?

he got caught wanking off or something?