Guest _Ibbo_ Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 £2.5 Million ish on andy booth shows our complete lack of any sort of transfer strategy over those years. £2.5 Million !!!!!!!!!!!!! Good lad mind by all accounts, hes Huddersfield equivalent of hirsty. Does all the corporate areas etc before the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malek Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Wasn't it Pleat who took him? 'Nuf said Yep, he was their caretaker manager then. Guy was in love with Booth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesteel Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Was worth the money in his first season, didnt he get 10 goals? But his bad knees and back meant that he looked like he needed to be wheeled around the pitch as a heading machine. Having said that, in Div 1 he came down and looked pretty good. Then we sold him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodseats Owl Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 A bit like Douglas Bader,great in the air. Not so quick on his feet. UTO's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkfieldowl14 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 It would be a good race between him and Nuhiu 100m in an hour!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheriwozgod Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Dont know if my memory is playing tricks on me but did,nt we turn down a £2M offer for him from Forest about 12 months before he left for nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopePiusX Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 The decline of Andy Booth was complete in the League Cup tie at Stoke, when he blazed wide of an open goal from six yards and stood there for about an hour wondering if he'd ever kick a football properly again. It was horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramone Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Loved him. Honest player who worked his nuts off. Was over shadowed by a few of his team mates but you cant fault him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilKingIsAGod Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 As Waddle said to Rob Staton transfer figures dont really reflect anymore its how much you are willing to spend on wages. Yes he was £2.5m but was he really worth the £30k+ a week...which he stayed on in Division One? Never, but not his fault. I spoke to a Wednesday legend at end of last season that basically blamed Pleat for the downfall of us. "Pleat inherrited a very good team, which had another 2 or 3 years in it and just needed some improvements, but he changed too much too quickly." We went from Hirst Waddle Sheridan and Bright. To Humphreys Booth Trustful and Blinker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areNOTwhatTHEYseem Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 der...der...der der der der...BOOTH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owlZfan84 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 der...der...der der der der...BOOTH! Best. Song. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malek Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 As Waddle said to Rob Staton transfer figures dont really reflect anymore its how much you are willing to spend on wages. Yes he was £2.5m but was he really worth the £30k+ a week...which he stayed on in Division One? Never, but not his fault. I spoke to a Wednesday legend at end of last season that basically blamed Pleat for the downfall of us. "Pleat inherrited a very good team, which had another 2 or 3 years in it and just needed some improvements, but he changed too much too quickly." We went from Hirst Waddle Sheridan and Bright. To Humphreys Booth Trustful and Blinker No way those players had so much left in them. Their experience would have been valuable, but they were shadows of their former selves and needed replacing. Sale of Hirst to Southampton for 1.6 wan great deal for us. Most of players we replaced them with were nowhere near good enough, and that was the problem. But in all truth we werent prepared to pay monney needed to replace such class often gambling on cheaper players that rarely proved good enough. Btw. No way Booth was anywhere near 30k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 No way those players had so much left in them. Their experience would have been valuable, but they were shadows of their former selves and needed replacing. Sale of Hirst to Southampton for 1.6 wan great deal for us. Most of players we replaced them with were nowhere near good enough, and that was the problem. But in all truth we werent prepared to pay monney needed to replace such class often gambling on cheaper players that rarely proved good enough. Btw. No way Booth was anywhere near 30k. Probably right, none of Waddle, Hirst, Sheridan and Bright went on to do anything at the level we were at once we had moved them on, as you say the problem was that we replaced them with players who were not of the same standard. Didn't mind Booth and I think Carbone played well off him in the 96/97 season. Not worth the transfer fee and the wages we spent on him but he can't be blamed for that, no one would turn the money down if offered and he always gave as much as he possibly could do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richowl Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 der...der...der der der der...BOOTH! now inherited by Bus. lyrical genius. horrendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 The sad thing with Booth is that we never played to his strengths. On those rare occasions where players actually got to the byline and put crosses in he was unstoppable. The equaliser at Wolves on the first game out of the Prem and the hattrick against Bolton are great examples. Sadly we just lumped balls up to him in the hope he was actually Mark Bright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
since59owe Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Think he turned Liverpool down to sign for us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malek Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 He really did, though. Still have old Shoot magazine with an interview where he confirmed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ever the pessimist Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 To this day, AB's loan move to Spurs ranks as one the most bizarre transfers I have ever seen. He scored a cracking header about 5 minutes into his spurs debut against west ham..... .... But it was ruled out for offside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowOwl Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Shamefully the reason I supported the Owls (being from Reading). Will always have a bias towards him for the namesake reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesteel Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 30k a week? Not a chance. He was signed in 1997/98 and we couldn't even afford to offer Carbone that in 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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