leezyverpunk Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Diego Cervero. Definetly - Diego whooooa whooa, Diego whooooa whooa! what about Peter Lichfield and Russell Bromage - both came at the same time - class acts - NOT!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marhar Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 And to be totally fair he certainly haddnt shown any signs of being the major star he would turn out to be at that staged, he had promise but then so do alot of players.... he was good but at the time he probably didnt stand out from what we had... i saw him play for our reserves and he didn't look anything out of the ordinary, i'm no scout tho the players i used to rate at that level went nowhere, remember Ricky Evans? I thought he looked great, was one of my favourites in the reserves at that time, god knows where he ended up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted December 18, 2007 Author Share Posted December 18, 2007 Definetly - Diego whooooa whooa, Diego whooooa whooa! what about Peter Lichfield and Russell Bromage - both came at the same time - class acts - NOT!!!! Still have nightmares about Litchfield, he was usually pants whenever Bradford played here, but his performance v Chelsea in a 4-1 home defeat will live with me for a long time, he runs Andy Goram vs Cardiff a very close second for most inept goalkeeping performance from a Latics keeper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted December 18, 2007 Author Share Posted December 18, 2007 i saw him play for our reserves and he didn't look anything out of the ordinary, i'm no scout tho the players i used to rate at that level went nowhere, remember Ricky Evans? I thought he looked great, was one of my favourites in the reserves at that time, god knows where he ended up Ricky Evans....bloody hell thats a blast from the past! Wasn't he from the Beresford, Rickers, Allott, McNiven (s) crop, think he was a midfielder wasn't he? I remember going to a rainy, wind swept Boundary Park one Saturday afternoon in November '93 (it was international weekend prior to the San Marino away game that saw us ultimately fail to score the 47 goals we needed to qualify for USA '94) to watch us play Hull in the FA Youth Cup, we won 3-2 and young Evans I seem to remember had a stormer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marhar Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Ricky Evans....bloody hell thats a blast from the past! Wasn't he from the Beresford, Rickers, Allott, McNiven (s) crop, think he was a midfielder wasn't he? I remember going to a rainy, wind swept Boundary Park one Saturday afternoon in November '93 (it was international weekend prior to the San Marino away game that saw us ultimately fail to score the 47 goals we needed to qualify for USA '94) to watch us play Hull in the FA Youth Cup, we won 3-2 and young Evans I seem to remember had a stormer. yes he was from that bunch and he was a midfielder, quite skilful, could tackle and made good positive runs into the box. think he might have been mad as a hatter tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Agree with a lot on Prozac's list, but I think we ended up much better off for not getting Beckett. His best years were already behind him and it was time to move on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted December 18, 2007 Author Share Posted December 18, 2007 Agree with a lot on Prozac's list, but I think we ended up much better off for not getting Beckett. His best years were already behind him and it was time to move on. I think with Beckett I chose him more for sentimental reasons than for anything else. We had gone 10 years + without an out and out goalscorer and it was great for us to again have a finisher of sorts. His first goal for the club vs Luton said it all, he anticipated the mistake from the defender in putting his backpass short, intercepted it and buried the chance. We hadn't seen such opportunism from one of our strikers probbaly since Sean McCarthy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc0000 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 I think with Beckett I chose him more for sentimental reasons than for anything else. We had gone 10 years + without an out and out goalscorer and it was great for us to again have a finisher of sorts. His first goal for the club vs Luton said it all, he anticipated the mistake from the defender in putting his backpass short, intercepted it and buried the chance. We hadn't seen such opportunism from one of our strikers probbaly since Sean McCarthy! Very true... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeylandLatic Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 I'm fairly sure we had Anti Niemi on trial as well, quite a while back now though. Now that was a big mistake not going for him! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 I'm fairly sure we had Anti Niemi on trial as well, quite a while back now though. Now that was a big mistake not going for him! I was impressed with Giddings when we had him on loan this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeylandLatic Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 I was impressed with Giddings when we had him on loan this season. True, looked very committed and solid at left back. Would love us to keep Bertrand but it will never happen. He plays football the right way imo, looking to keep it on the ground and into feet. Always looking for one-twos and overlaps, he's really grown in his time with us. He has a great future, hopefully Chelsea will be good enough to let us have him for the rest of the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leezyverpunk Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Could've done with keeping that Ronaldinho chap - remember wotchin him playing for t'reserves against Cowdenbeath in a friendly, didnt show too muchg in that game only the 15 goals and 12 assists but can quite understand why why didnt bother - nae mind - think Taylor is better any road! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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