I love a good nostalgic post this this one. Peter Thompson used to run em ragged, Liverpool must have had one almighty team to allow a talent like that to leave. In respect to the original best ever question, weve had a few, but one springs to mind and was a class above anything else we had at the time, his name? Dusan Nicolic, anyone remember him. Also what about Ferret? cant think of his name now but we did sign him from Spurs. Keep em coming.

 

i presume you mean neil mcnab

 

waste of money that lad

 

up there with cantello and clement

Mark Came before he broke his leg

 

Did he now? Ha ha, I can't possibly let that one slip What a rollercoaster day that must have been for him

Err.............Andy Walker.

 

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when do the dark days start/finish ?

 

For me the "Dark Days" started round about the 25th October 2007 and finished just over a week ago.

 

NB.... I've only been watching them since 1970.

David Lee, class act back then.

Err.............Andy Walker.

 

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David Lee, class act back then.

 

They both played in the glory days of 1992/93. To qualify for this thread you can't have played since the Phil Neal days imo.

Here's one that I bet not many will remember.

 

Back in the dark days of 81-82 season we had a guy on loan from Middlesbro' called Ian Bailey. Left back.

 

He stood out from the dross on offer at the time, so much so that it prompted a mini demo of "we want Bailey!" outside the ground after one particualr game. Needless to say we didn't get to sign him.

 

Any one else remember him?

Here's one that I bet not many will remember.

 

Back in the dark days of 81-82 season we had a guy on loan from Middlesbro' called Ian Bailey. Left back.

 

He stood out from the dross on offer at the time, so much so that it prompted a mini demo of "we want Bailey!" outside the ground after one particualr game. Needless to say we didn't get to sign him.

 

Any one else remember him?

 

cracking player

 

now, im not sure if we had him on loan twice

 

what i am sure of, is that later in his career, he was playing against us - for sheff weds - i think

 

he broke his leg

 

as he was carted off, plenty were booing him and singing songs about how he'd miss the big game they had coming up

 

fa cup semi, i think

 

 

as fer decent left backs on loan - martin pike

MartinPike - Great Shout

 

Didnt he either play against fulham or sign for fulham instead of us

Nobody has said David Burke he was a great left back!

MartinPike - Great Shout

 

Didnt he either play against fulham or sign for fulham instead of us

 

 

That is a great shout.

 

What season did he come to us and on loan from which club?

Brian Borrows for me, the lad was a million miles better than anyone else at the time & was quality in the top flight when he got there

That is a great shout.

 

What season did he come to us and on loan from which club?

 

89/90 on loan from sheffield utd?

Andy Dibble on loan was a good aquisition.

I was gutted we never signed Dibble.

 

But then Branagan came along

89/90 on loan from sheffield utd?

Phil Neal wouldn't sign cos SU put the price up by ?5k to ?65k ?

Puts the current compo claim for Coyle in perspective.

Mark Winstanley's 40 yarder in the Sherpa Van - happy days. Wrexham at home? We were going out until that point IIRC

 

Barry Cowdrill's couple of screamers were special. One got disallowed for offside. He hit the thing from about 35 yards and the linesman flagged for someone being offside. Swindon rings a bell.

 

Ian Stevens was always a favourite of mine, never could understand why Steve Elliott got picked in front of him.

 

And Trevor Morgan, forget the game - played in white but his shirt was red by the end.

Brian Burrows.....Excellent shout.

Steve Thompson.

 

World class. Could turn himself inside out that lad.

 

I'd go Tommo as well , a lot of good plyers on here but my vote would go to Tommo mainly due to length of service during the bad (good) times & his ability to stand out amoungst the crap on a regular basis.

ST - sent you a PM yesterday but now my messages link has disappeared.. .did u get it ? have u replied? if so where do i find it ?

 

Cheers.

Chris Fairclough

Chris Fairclough

 

fantastic player, didnt quite realise at the time how good he was... same with Taggart..

Chris Fairclough

Good shout but I wouldn't call his era the dark days!

Chris Fairclough

 

Jesus wept...Chris Fairclough & the bad old days in the same sentence?!

 

Good player though

 

Also looked extremely young for his age...so much so that his face was used as a "model" to promote the world cup in France in 98 in some form or other...

Simon Rudge!