Worst ever signing?

[Mark Pedlar]

Agreed Cobi.

Never ceased to amaze me how Adams either tried to bang square pegs into round holes OR refused to change the shape of the holes. It was like he acquired players without any thought about how, or if, they would fit into his system.

 

[Doyley43]

Swan for me, by a country mile

 

[Joe Totale]

Peter Swan is in his own separate domain of badness.

In second place I'd have Kenny Cooper, despite being a loan deal didn't we pay a huge fee for him as well as paying his big wages?
The kindest thing you could say about him was that he gave us all hope that we could still become international footballers.
He was symptomatic of the slide the club suffered from that led to nearly going bust.

 

[xmastree]

I thought it was Luggy who tried to sign Charlie Adam for £500,000. Holloway bought him for that amount at Blackpool.

You are right, it was.

 

[macleanie]

Ability wise, Luke Daley was awful. I would probably say the worst would have to be Kenny Cooper for me.

 

[Knibbsworth]

Surprised no one has mentioned Tafari Moore. Way out of his depth and ONE of the reasons we went down last season. Couldnt even take a throw in

Tafari Moore and Andre Blackman. I am not sure which out of the two had the worse positional sense.

 

[Winchelsea Green]

The Kemp era is fertile ground for this. There was a bloke called Spearing on the left side - had the positional sense of a headless chicken.
Taribo - obviously. He'd surely be in anyone's list who saw him that night at Barnet.
Someone turned up from Luton during a Sturrock promotion year, didn't fancy it when he got down to Plymouth apparently. Can't remember his name and only a loan - but deserves an honourable mention.

Mike

 

[Whelan11]

In my time of supporting, the worst debut has to go to Taribo West! I was so excited he signed for us at the time, what with him being one of my favourite players on CM 01/02 for years and years. I think the debut was at home to Hull, he was absolutely all over the place; he had no concept of positional awareness and also picked up a clumsy booking! It was a very sad trip home, given we lost 1-0 and my CM hero was a let down in real life!

 

[Quintrell Green]

I will give you a name around 1980 who was a waste of a wage having signed for Argyle and that was John Peachey, who made only 3 appearances, did not score as a striker, and left Argyle for non-league. Enough said really.

 

[Kentishgreen]

For me it’s Pedelty and Austin, makeweights in the Mariner transfer along with Bruce Bannister who was supposed to the new Paul Mariner. All three were uniquely crap and didn’t last for five minutes. Truly awful.

 

[James J]

Surprised no one has mentioned Tafari Moore. Way out of his depth and ONE of the reasons we went down last season. Couldnt even take a throw in

I didn’t think he was that bad. I just felt he was a young player who’s confidence took a knock as he made a few errors and some fans got on his back. He wasn’t ready for first team football at that time.

 

[Tom Cobbley]

Nicky Hammond

 

[Gary S]

For me it’s Pedelty and Austin, makeweights in the Mariner transfer along with Bruce Bannister who was supposed to the new Paul Mariner. All three were uniquely crap and didn’t last for five minutes. Truly awful.

I remember Pedelty as being a decent player who soon suffered a career-ending injury (or was possibly
already carrying it when he joined us). Austin was a carthorse, who probably seemed even worse to us
after 3 or 4 years of watching Mariner. What is certain is that we were truly shafted on that deal.

 

[Evilpilgrim]

Nicky Hammond

The man played like he'd never seen a football before. Couldn't keep bees.

 

[Balham Green]

Surprised no one has mentioned Tafari Moore. Way out of his depth and ONE of the reasons we went down last season. Couldnt even take a throw in

I didn’t think he was that bad. I just felt he was a young player who’s confidence took a knock as he made a few errors and some fans got on his back. He wasn’t ready for first team football at that time.

Nope. And never will be. Loaned out to Col. U and subbed in his only game. Says it all